Waterfront trail cuts through United Empire Loyalist land (Montreal Gazette)

From The Montreal Gazette via canada.com:

By DAVID YATES

The United Empire Loyalists are a wave of migrants of European descent who arrived from the newly independent United States more than 200 years ago because they wanted to remain loyal to the British crown.

Their history is very much in evidence during a seven-day cycling trip along Ontario's Waterfront Trail in mid-May from Niagara-on-the Lake to Rivière Beaudette on the Quebec border - a distance of almost 730 kilometres.

The Loyalists settled the shores of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, exerting a profound influence on the social, political and business life of Ontario for more than two centuries and playing a major role in the development of Canada. Evidence of the Loyalists is everywhere - Loyalist College, Loyalist Parkway, Loyalist Township and even Loyalist Motel.

Today it is known as grape country.

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