Loyalist timeline

By deolj3ssica

  • The revolution starts

    Those in the American colonies rejected British authority from taxing them.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Patriots destroyed the taxed tea by pouring it into the Boston harbour.

  • Loyalists came to Canada

    About 90,000 fled, and half of them went to Canada.

  • Name change

    Lord Dorchester allowed Loyalists to add UE to their name, "alluding to their great principle, the Unity of Empire." .