United Empire Loyalist Canada Monument Porcelain Plate

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This is an early English made porcelain plate commemorating the Unity of the Empire with the United Empire Loyalist Monument at Hamilton Canada. Made by Wood & Sons of Burslem England and marked with GR III on front and back for King George III. Mint condition flow blue with great graphics of a colonial period founder and wife in hoop skirt with small boy and smaller girl. States "They Drew Lots for their Lands and with their Axes Cleared the Forest and with their Hoes Planted the Seed of Canada's Future Greatness." Measures 10 inches in diameter with no chips, cracks, or crazing. Back states that the plate was issued for the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada with more history and a crown. Fantastic rare vintage plate. United Empire Loyalist The name United Empire Loyalists is given to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. Some sought to recover fortunes (land and private property) lost under laws enacted by the Continental Congress as a way of financing the revolution. Most, however, are believed to have fled north to escape persecution and because they rejected the republican ideals of the American Revolution, which they regarded as anarchistic. These Loyalists settled in what was initially Quebec (including the Eastern Townships) and modern-day Ontario , w they received land grants of two hundred acres per person, and in Nova Scotia (including modern-day New Brunswick ). Their arrival marked the beginning of a predominantly English-speaking population in the future Canada west and east of the Quebec border. Origins and history During the American Revolution, a significant proportion of the population of New York , Pennsylvania , Virginia , North Carolina , Georgia , East Florida and other colonies was determined to remain loyal to the crown and desired to remain within the British Empire . The reasons were as varied as the people themselves, but the overriding principle was the traditional loyalty to the King. Loyalists began leaving at the end of the war whenever transport was available. An estimated 70,000 Loyalists, approximately 62,000 white and 8,000 black (representing about 3% of the total American population of which 20-30% supported the Crown during the American War for Independence), left the thirteen newly independent states: 46,000 to Canada; 7,000 to Britain and 17,000 to the Caribbean. Beginning in the mid-1780s and lasting until the end of the century, however, a small percentage chose to return from the Caribbean and Nova Scotia . Following the end of the Revolution and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Loyalist soldiers and civilians were evacuated from New York and resettled in other colonies of the British Empire, most notably in the future Canada . The two colonies of Nova Scotia (including modern-day New Brunswick ), received some 32,000 Loyalist refugees, and Quebec (including the Eastern Townships and modern-day Ontario ) received some 10,000 refugees. The arrival of the Loyalists led to the division in the war of independence 1783 into the provinces of Upper Canada in what is now Ontario and Lower Canada in what is now Quebec . The creation of Upper and Lower Canada allowed the Loyalists to live under English laws and institutions while the French-speaking population of Lower Canada could maintain French civil law and the Catholic religion. Realizing the importance of some type of recognition, on November 9, 1789, Lord Dorchester, the governor of Quebec and Governor General of British North America , declared "that it was his Wish to put the mark of Honour upon the Families who had add to the Unity of the Empire." As a result of Dorchester 's statement, the printed militia rolls carried the notation: Those Loyalists who have add to the Unity of the Empire, and joined the Royal Standard before the Treaty of Separation in the year 1783, and all their Childre... read more

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