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Bibliography: New Brunswick Loyalists

This is a short list of sources on New Brunswick Loyalists.

Bell, D. G. Early Loyalist Saint John: The Origin of New Brunswick Politics, 1783-1786. Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1983

Brown, Wallace. The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution. New York: Morrow, 1969

Condon, Ann Gorman. The Envy of the American States: The Loyalist Dream for New Brunswick. Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1984

Dallison, Robert L. The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick. The New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, Volume 2. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions and The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, 2003

MacDonald, M.A. Rebels and Royalists: The Lives and Material Culture of New Brunswick's Early Settlers, 1758-1783. Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1990

MacKinnon, Neil. This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791. Kingston: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1986

MacNutt, W.S. New Brunswick, A History: 1784-1867. Toronto: MacMillan, 1963

Walker, James W. St. G. The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. New York: Dalhousie Univ. Press, Holmes and Meier, 1976; reprint University of Toronto Press, 1992

Wright, Esther Clark. The Loyalists of New Brunswick. Fredericton, 1955

Bibliography of Sources on the Loyalists

For those wishing to explore other aspects of the Loyalist experience, this bibliography includes theses, books and articles on the general topic.