ST. PATRICK'S DAY & U.E. LOYALISTS
It is very fitting that members of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada should celebrate St. Patrick's Day. In a newspaper article of 18 March 1939 published in the Times Colonist at Victoria, British Columbia, it reported how descendants of the United Empire Loyalists held an enjoyable St. Patrick's Day social . Times Colonist article The Irish were one of the largest ethnic groups included in the United Empire Loyalists who settled in what became Canada. An example of this is the case of Digby, Nova Scotia where my research described in an article entitled The Irish Among the Loyalists who settled Digby, published in 2021 , determined: ...when the Town of Digby was first laid out after the arrival of the Loyalists in 1783 the largest number of lots assigned to persons not born in America did not go to English but to Irish. At the close of the American Revolution the Loyalists who were evacuated as refugees from New York by ship to Dig...