Unit 2

Towards Confederation

Skill Builders Targets

Lesson 1

How did revolution in the Thirteen Colonies and the resulting Loyalist migration affect Britain’s North American colonies? 

  • discrimination
  • immigrants
  • liberator
  • personal identity
  • refugee
  • traitor
  • United Empire Loyalists

People who move to a new country to develop new lives for themselves are called immigrants.

People move to a different country for many reasons, such as education, employment, better living conditions, escape from poor living conditions where they lived, or wars.

Today, more than six million immigrants live and work in Canada.  Most Canadians are descendants of immigrants.

Why did new immigrants come to Canada from the Thirteen Colonies after Britain won the war in Quebec?

Who were these people and why did they choose to move to Canada?

These people were called the United Empire Loyalists.


Read

Read pages 122 and 123 of the textbook for an introduction to an emerging identity.