Over a period of two years twenty thousand loyalist settlers moved to Nova Scotia, many of “whom have a natural desire for own separate identity” . A simplistic and traditional view of the United Empire Loyalists is that they were self sacrificing people who chose to remain faithful to their British heritage rather than become tainted by the new faith of Republicanism. A closer look reveals that their rejection of the new nation forms the roots …showed first 75 words of 1388 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1388 total…can be said that the loyalists brought development to the many regions. The loyalists contributed to the growing interest in politics, the increased use of the abundance of natural resources and also a continued loyalty to the British. Loyalty to mother England was still necessary as the loyalists had merely created the foundations of what still had to develop into the independent Canada, but it was not as much “the roughest land I ever saw” .