The Loyalists and Constitutional Act of 1791

Hello this is Rebecca Nokatomi blogging live about the loyalists and the Constitutional Act of 1791. Loyalists (people kicked out of their houses by the patriots) settled wherever they could really find land. Immigrants moved to areas to the west of the Bay of Fundy, in Nova Scotia. All the loyalists outnumbered the actual population very quickly. Loyalists argued that Halifax’s government was too far away too help them with what they needed. A royal charter in 1784 created New Brunswick as a colony. Another place that became its own colony was Cape Breton Island. Loyalists that were settling in Quebec tended to move to the west of Montreal. They went to such places as Kingston, Cornwall, Morrisburg, and farther west, in the Niagara region. Loyalists that moved there thought, (I don’t know why) but they thought they should have the same rights as British Citizens. In 1785, the loyalists sent a petition to the king of England stating that they have always been British subjects and wish to have the same rights as the British. The British then created the Constitutional Act of 1791. It was modelled after the system that had been put in place to created New Brunswick and Cape Breton in 1784. This is Rebecca Nokatomi blogging live about the loyalists and Constitutional Act of 1791.