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Loyalist Refuge

July 2024
1min read


When their side lost the Revolution, New Englanders who had backed Great Britain dismantled their houses, loaded them into schooners, and sailed north to New Brunswick, where George HI still ruled. There they established the town of St. Andrews. It flourishes.

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