Loyalist

1. noun, any of the colonists of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause, many of whom afterwards migrated to Canada; (Cdn.) a descendant of such a person (COD); also Empire Loyalist and British Loyalist as below; 2. attributive

1.
“After 1775, the Loyalists were getting hard done by, and they were getting their barns burnt and their stock stolen and then they’re rode out of town on rails and tarred and feathered and so on.”

“That was right after the close of the American Revolution, and Major John Ross, the British major, was in Kingston tasked with the job of setting up a settlement, building mills and houses for the Loyalists to settle this area.”

“They were harassed, yeah. Like a lot of the Loyalists were being tarred and feathered back in those days.”

“As a matter of fact, we’re Empire Loyalists in a way, but we never claimed that.”

“Barnhardt Island was named after some British Loyalists who were granted the island, and then they gave it to the Americans to keep Wolfe Island.”

“When the Loyalists or members of the Loyalist regiments were settled, they did them in a particular order … and so they settled the Scottish Catholics next to the French Catholics.”

2.
“It was probably their Loyalist background to a large extent.”

“It was a Loyalist farm, eh.”

“That’s how many families are linked together, and the Loyalist trek northwards, and it’s just fascinating.”

also Loyalist regiments as above