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6. Southern Ontario was largely settled by loyalists.

Tue Mar 7, 2017, 07:28 PM

Mar 2017

Many of the 1/3 left for what is now Eastern Canada...Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.

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About 40% to 50% of the people at the time supported the American Revolution [View all] edhopper Mar 2017 OP

Thank you for the history lesson. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2017 #1

Respectfully, how is that calculated? PJMcK Mar 2017 #2

one place I read edhopper Mar 2017 #10

Southern Ontario was largely settled by loyalists. roamer65 Mar 2017 #6

If DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #7

And slavery would have ended edhopper Mar 2017 #12

That's the problem with counterfactuals. You change one fact, you change em all. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #13

True that /nt edhopper Mar 2017 #15

I believe we get past him. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #17

A second war with Britain would have happened around 1833 or so. roamer65 Mar 2017 #18

My reading is that edhopper Mar 2017 #9

What do you think George Washington would make of Thump? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #11

Everything edhopper Mar 2017 #14

What does support mean? HoneyBadger Mar 2017 #4

No, I didn't say fight for edhopper Mar 2017 #8

One thing about the British is that they had Turbineguy Mar 2017 #5