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post-Loyalist
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an American settler who moved into Canada (1790-1800) after the influx of the true refugees, the motive usually being to take advantage of the Crown lands being opened for settlement.
Quotations
1948
The Americans thought . . . the Loyalists would have had time to regret their previous decision and the great flood of "post-Loyalists" who had followed them to British North America looking for new land and opportunities would be ripe for revolt.
1957
During the next thirty years [1795-1825] . . . increasing numbers of post-Loyalist settlers [came] into Upper Canada, where they settled along the shores of Lakes Erie and Lake Ontario.