The sun., 1893-06-07
YANKEE ooLoNIsrs IN CANADA.
Their Iufuencs In Poiitics-Nvhoiosnle, ,Ex-
odus Of Their Descendants.

United states is going on In tho localities
, originally settled by emiRrants from the
United States. Everybody knows that a large
, number OF Tories or United Empire loyalists
left the thirteen colonies during or imme-
diately after the war OF Independence, and
took up their abode In this part Of Canada and
In Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Others
who wero not Tories came over to get the
benefit OF tho FREQ land grants. 10 escupe the
turmoil and confusion caused 10y the war, or,
having como to grief In business. to start life
nircsh in newer country. Tho loyallsts wero
treated with special favor by tho military
governors who represented the British crown
Ilthey had selvcd a. offcers In the British
armies they received great tracts OF land
civil Offices. and pensions. II privates or
nero civilians. thoy got 200 acres EACH with
secd. implements. and portable Grlst mills.
Their names wero recorded In roll. Ito tho
end" as tho statute said, that they and their
posterity might be Disseminated from all
other scttlcrs." Their sons and daughters
were nso onttlcd TO 300 acres iree OF cost. On
the other hand tho settler who had left the
United States for one or other Of tho moro
prosaic reasons Just mentioned or who had
como from the United Kingdom, had to pay
for tho survey and patent charges Of his free
grant a sum ranging from $50 to $50. The
| LoyAlists turned out bauly. They monopolized
the offices md supported the governors. who
wore little tyrants in their way. In corrupt and
| oppressive measures. 1t took a rebel
lion. that Of 1897 to get rid OF the!r regime
The other American settlers. known as
| Yankees" were Liberals or Reformers in
| politics and did much for the material and
| intellectual development OF the colony.
The districts whore the Loyalists and Yam
| KEGS settled are now pouring the flower OF
! their population across the line. The young
| mon and women seem 10 be filed with an In
stinctive longing to return to the old home. A
| few weeks ago a Methodist minister In Nova
| Scotia preached on this strange phenomenon,
us he called it. Ic took for his text the pas
sage In tho Old Testament where the prophet
having been Hospitality entertained By the
Shunamlte woman, asks her what there 10
that he shall do for her. " Shall speak for
thoe to the King or to the captain OF the
host p and gets the answer: Il dwell among
mine own people,"
The Yankees. as distinguished from the 10y
alists. have had no chronicle or historian like
Sabine. They had hard time OF 1t for many
years. The Governors appointed by the King
OF England selected their Cabinets from q few
Loyalist families: the Legislative Council was
composed OF life nominees OF the King and
Governor: the Assembly was packed with
Postmasters. customs officers. and other de-
pendents drawn from the Loyalist ranks.
and did not enjoy the power Of the purse or
any OF the modern prerogatives OF the popular |
Chamber. State Church. the Church OF
England. was endowed with 2,5oU.O0O acres Of |
land. Primogeniture had also been trans
themselves to abolish thess and Eindred
abuses, and were. Of course. regarded rs |
FROM the sh United States was vi Us as
Outraged The Sedition not and tho act re-
ais to scs 81 % to de-
Tut OF the right to hold property for seven
he was driven mad. was the deaiiiest thrust
ever. ever made by folly at the prosperity of. Upper
was was duo to the Yankees" Tie tioverners rner
even went the length of applying those acts to
by way OF the, United states as i contact twin WITH
AmericHn soil had necessarily impaired their
The Bidweils, father and son, were the FORE
most Yankees in these .parts. harnabas Bid
and had sat Ia Congress. lie ned In isi6 from
a., charge OF malyersation 6rou ght by his pollt-
where he taught school Tor a % Wills and iW1; was
H;t elected to the provincial LEGISLATURE. He was
alien, and. in, order to keep him out peri perma. Ia
nshmtIy hn b an act was passed pro3igitins any one
Gnltsd states or held "ce thefe from 70 ofrer
ing gs,I himseit ne for election HIS son Marshall
SprinGf bidwel dwell was returned however and
Through his efforts primogeniture was abol-
ished. aud he was instru n entail in removing
until 1881. were not allowed to celebrate
marriages ma or acquire church property. Ho
England, for a ;Jud seship, but the rebellion Of Of
1877 broke out, whereupon he was threatened
Head and fed to Albany lie joined ned's the HSn Ne%
York York bar and won distinction, At his death in
@ by tSe EoP %iia%
NJ; Eivarts. Judge 'NeilsSn Of Brooklyn, q Ca
Preparations, When Lyon Mackonzie's farm arm
gave a legal opinion that they would be Within
their rights in practising at the target. A let
Msr Sad Is BdSs In s
hlH LEANED aa aS9pt n the protested revo,
Another, Yankee who suffered was Robert
handsl M virginia9 by birth. and near rela:
that he left the United States as a Loyalist; II
80 ne soon Joined the regular cause he
what W o"I D0FSn fop
tors. hotel keepers. and peddiers The YANKEES
River to part in the RouTh of efe Jliy see
brationsS and special attention was paid to Z
the war OF Independence were still Lleeding.
!hs HS. SSes de- sqs s ,s
eeUerythnE e Ame,rcan Az fnd was in tho habit Of
he couI,i infict upon New YORK state ~ Td ieadn
Men like Butler Of Buffers hangers who lived q
at ease on pensions and slnecures bestowed !
make the Yankes settlers unoomfortable .
Every ycnr Butt ler, who. besides grant ofiand.
had pension and ofilce worth E7OO per an q
nun, celebrated tho massacre OF Wyoming b
and drank confusion to tho republic. II is
Yapke"s were lsloyal 70 British supremacy. 9
and lost no opportunity Of poisoning tho
minds Of thcr .neishbors. There was much =
70 excnse he taunt that they should honor y
the hing or honor the colony ty getting out t
| have visited several Of Tho old Yauk ee set IL
Elements this sl"ing. In Markham township. I
county OF York, twenty ul'.ca from Toronto. {.
there are n consideray yle number o! Pennsyl-
yan!a Dutch paoile whose ancestors cnme
hero botweecn 1880 and l7ao They are Men; n
h2MieS o are 12t 2. ana I Gwarthy dIah and
lens. Mixed With them is 4 body Of Germans. ii
IloGds with flaSen, hair ant boards. who are :,
i.utherans in religion, whose forefat hers !,