IRISH HERITAGE & SIR GUY CARLETON
March is officially called Irish Heritage Month in Canada and it can observed that the Dorchester Proclamation , which gave United Empire Loyalists the postnominal UE, was named after a man from Ireland, Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester. Irish Heritage Month was proclaimed on 1 March 2022 by the Government of Canada as an opportunity to remember the impact of the Irish on Canada. It is estimated between 4 and 6 million Canadians are descendants of the 35 to 40 thousand refugees who settled in what became Canada after the American Revolution ended in the 1780s and who are known as United Empire Loyalists. For their loyalty to the British Crown, the Governor - in - Chief of British North America, Sir Guy Carleton, indicated on 9 November 1789, in the Dorchester Proclamation, that they should be given a mark of honour, the letters UE, representing Unity of Empire, after their surname. Sir Guy Carlton, 1st Baron Dorchester What was the...