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Moved there after the Revolution? They were expelled, and their properties seized (some ended up on British islands as well). We had no use for monarchists after the Revolution.

If you see the forts on the Canadian side of the border (mostly museums today), it is hard to believe they viewed it as a victory.

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Moved there after the Revolution? They were expelled, and their properties seized (some ended up on British islands as well). We had no use for monarchists after the Revolution.

We ? I did not think anyone here was that old.

When their cause was defeated, about 15% of the Loyalists (65,000–70,000 people) fled to other parts of the British Empire, to Britain itself, or to British North America (now Canada). The southern colonists moved mostly to Florida, which had remained loyal to the Crown, and to British Caribbean possessions, often bringing along their slaves. Northern Loyalists largely migrated to Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. They called themselves United Empire Loyalists. Most were compensated with Canadian land or British cash distributed through formal claims procedures. Exiled Loyalists received £3 million or about 37% of their losses from the British government. Loyalists who stayed in the U.S. were generally able to retain their property and become American citizens.[2]

Historians have estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the 2 million whites in the colonies in 1775 were Loyalists, or about 300-400,000 men, women and children.[3]