Some went to England only to find melancholy disillusion of hope that a grateful motherland would understand and reward their sacrifices.

Large numbers found their way to Nova Scotia and to Canada, north of the Great Lakes, and there played a part in laying the foundation of the Dominion of today.

The city of Toronto with a population of half a million is rooted in the Loyalist traditions of its Tory founders.

Simcoe, the first Governor of Upper Canada, who made Toronto his capital, was one of the most enterprising of the officers who served with Cornwallis in the South and surrendered with him at Yorktown.
The State of New York acquired from the forfeited lands of Loyalists a sum approaching four million dollars, a great amount in those days.
Other States profited in a similar way.

Every Loyalist whose property was seized had a direct and personal grievance.