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The Neoclassical landmark declared a National Historic Site in 1979 is also the home of the most infamous slavery case in Canadian history

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,” reads a stirring monument to the loyalists in Hamilton, Ont. We apologize, but this video has faile...