U.E. Loyalist History

As a young boy I was familiar with the story told by my mom of our ancestor James Humphrey who served as a Private with Jessup's Rangers in the American Revolution. However, that was in the distant past.  My dad's parents and his relatives in Canada came from Ireland and they were people I had met.   Consequently, this had a greater impact on me and how I thought of myself.   I learned I had grandparents called Ulster - Scots.  This referred to the fact they were born in Ulster, one of the four provinces of Ireland, along with Connacht, Leinster, and Munster, and were descended from persons who originally lived in Scotland.      My second book which I authored, entitled   Canada's Ulster - Scots  , includes a chapter on well known United Empire Loyalist, Bishop   Charles Inglis  (1734 - 1816).   He was born in County Donegal in Ulster and an Ulster - Scot.  As explained by James Barclay Woodburn in...

Do you have a United Empire Loyalist cultural origin?  Statistics Canada defines cultural origin as the ethnic, ancestral, or societal background and heritage from which a person's family or heritage descends. In the 2021 Census of Canada carried out as a national census by Statistics Canada, United Empire Loyalist was added as a distinct category for ethnic or cultural origin.  Prior to that, in censuses dating back to 1871, they tracked broad origins like English, French, Irish or Scottish . The 2021 Census included United Empire Loyalist as one of the specific ethnic or cultural choices on its 25% long form questionnaire. It was sent to a randam sample of 25% of private households across Canada.  United Empire Loyalist Monument in Hamilton, Ontario  on old postcard The 2021 Census profile showed, as it appears below, that 10,015 residents identified with the specific cultural heritage of United Empire Loyalist . People could report up to six different ethnic or...