. The New England magazine . PAINTING Sugar Tongs, Spoons, and Wedding POSSESSION OF MISS ALLEX, FREDERICTON. can fail to perceive that a serious mistakewas made during the war, and at its close,in the treatment of those who differed inopinion from the majority. While thewar lasted, very severe measures weretaken against those who refused to ad-here to the cause of the Congress of theUnited Colonies ; andafter the war ended,the bitterness whichhad existed was inten-sified by continuingupon the statute book,acts of confiscation andbanishment against theLoyalists, which com-pelled them t
. The New England magazine . PAINTING Sugar Tongs, Spoons, and Wedding POSSESSION OF MISS ALLEX, FREDERICTON. can fail to perceive that a serious mistakewas made during the war, and at its close,in the treatment of those who differed inopinion from the majority. While thewar lasted, very severe measures weretaken against those who refused to ad-here to the cause of the Congress of theUnited Colonies ; andafter the war ended,the bitterness whichhad existed was inten-sified by continuingupon the statute book,acts of confiscation andbanishment against theLoyalists, which com-pelled them to leavetheir homes and coun-try behind them, andseek shelter in the ter-ritory remaining underthe British flag. It was in this waythat Nova Scotia, whichnow forms the prov-inces of Nova _Scotiaand New Brunswick,received the largestpart of its was in the same manner that westernCanada came into prominence as a Britishcolony ; and even the province of Quebecwas indebted to no small extent to theLoyalists for addi
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