United Empire Loyalist
（重定向自United Empire Loyalists）
![Present-day monument by Sydney March to the United Empire Loyalists in Hamilton, Ontario](/Images/godic/202502/18/United_Empire_Loyalist_statue_and_plaque_in_Hamilton,_Ontario0911.jpg")
![The Loyalist banner resembles the 18th-century Union Flag.](/Images/godic/202502/18/Flag_of_the_United_Empire_Loyalists.svg0911.png")
![The Coming of the Loyalists, painting by Henry Sandham showing a romanticised view of the Loyalists' arrival in New Brunswick](/Images/godic/202502/18/Henry_Sandham_-_The_Coming_of_the_Loyalists0911.jpg")
![A Black Loyalist wood cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia in 1788.](/Images/godic/202502/18/AricanNovaScotianByCaptain_William_Booth17880912.png")
United Empire Loyalists (or 'Loyalists') is an honorific given in 1789 by Lord Dorchester, the governor of Quebec and Governor-general of British North America, to American Loyalists who resettled in British North America during or after the American Revolution. They settled in what was initially Quebec (including the Eastern Townships) and modern-day Ontario, where they received land grants of 200 acres (81 ha) per person, and in Nova Scotia (including present-day New Brunswick). Their arrival marked the beginning of a predominantly English-speaking population in the future Canada west and east of the modern Quebec border.