Home Search Subjects Locations History Comments Links About Me The Loyalists In Upper Canada Another City of Toronto Plaque Location The City of Toronto On the wall on the second floor of the Ontario Legislature, Queen's Park Plaque Photographer Alan L Brown More Information Public Library Posted March 15, 2004 Text from the Loyalists In Upper Canada Plaque When United Empire Loyalists who had "adhered to the Crown" during the American Revolution and, in most cases, served in volunteer regiments, came to settle in this province in the 1780's, the region was largely uninhabited. These Loyalists, all of whom had suffered persecution and confiscation of property, were granted land in the vicinity of the Bay of Quinte and the Upper St. Lawrence, Niagara and Detroit Rivers. They laid the foundations of a new province. It was largely because of their presence that a form of self-government, based upon British law and institutions, was established in Upper Canada when the province was created in 1791. By then the Loyalists numbered about 10,000.