Graves Simcoe News Today

Riverdale is a large area of Toronto, encompassing many smaller communities, just east of the DVP. Technically, it stretches from the Danforth to L...

Article content They came in great, dusty columns trudging north; the persecuted refugees of a new country founded on freedom and liberty. These were the United Empire Loyalists; the thousands of men, women and children loyal to the Crown who were forced into Canada by the victory of rebel forces in the American War of Independence. “Neither confiscation of their property, the pitiless persecution of their kinsmen in revolt, nor the galling chains of imprisonment could break their spirits,”...