Editing Atlantic Canada (section)

=== Loyalist and British usage ===
[[File:RoseFortuneNovaScotiaArchievesandRecordsManagement.jpg|thumb|Rose Fortune, daughter of Fortune a free Negro, who immigrated to Nova Scotia as a child after the American Revolution.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=Nova Scotia |date=2020-04-20 |title=Nova Scotia Archives - African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition |url=https://archives.novascotia.ca/africanns/archives/?ID=30 |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=Nova Scotia Archives}}</ref>|220x220px]]After the conclusion of the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]] with the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] in 1783 many [[United Empire Loyalist|loyalists]] from the United States settled in the region.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last1=Reid |first1=John G. |last2=Bowen |first2=H.V. |last3=Mancke |first3=Elizabeth |date=2009 |title=Is There a "Canadian" Atlantic World? |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/084387140902100112 |journal=International Journal of Maritime History |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=263–295 |doi=10.1177/084387140902100112 |issn=0843-8714}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Lemer-Fleury |first=Alice |date=2018-12-31 |title=Colonial policies and propaganda: the making of British North America as an anti-republican refuge after the War of Independence (c. 1783–1815) |url=http://journals.openedition.org/eccs/1425 |journal=Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies |issue=85 |pages=29–48 |doi=10.4000/eccs.1425 |issn=0153-1700}}</ref> This influx of immigrants caused the [[partition of Nova Scotia]] creating New Brunswick.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gilroy |first=Marion |date=1933-12-01 |title=The Partition of Nova Scotia, 1784 |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/chr-014-04-02 |journal=Canadian Historical Review |language=en |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=375–391 |doi=10.3138/chr-014-04-02 |issn=0008-3755}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lennox |first=Jeffers |date=2015 |title=A Time and a Place: The Geography of British, French, and Aboriginal Interactions in Early Nova Scotia, 1726–44 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.72.3.0423 |journal=The William and Mary Quarterly |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=423–460 |doi=10.5309/willmaryquar.72.3.0423 |jstor=10.5309/willmaryquar.72.3.0423 |issn=0043-5597}}</ref> Additionally these immigrants changed the culture and character of the region which had historically been French towards more British styled communities.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Condon |first=Ann Gorman |date=1987-01-01 |title=Loyalist Style and the Culture of the Atlantic Seaboard |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/17300 |journal=Material Culture Review |language=en |issn=1927-9264}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Errington |first=Jane |date=2012 |title=Loyalists and Loyalism in the American Revolution and Beyond |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/acadiensis/2012-v41-n2-acad_41_2/acad41_2re01/ |journal=Acadiensis |language=en |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=164–174 |issn=0044-5851}}</ref> It also marked one of the first large waves of migration to the area that established a predominantly [[English Canadians|Anglo-Canadian]] population.<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mancke |first=Elizabeth |date=1997 |title=Another British America: A Canadian model for the early modern British Empire |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03086539708582991 |journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1–36 |doi=10.1080/03086539708582991 |issn=0308-6534}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bogdanowicz |first=Mateusz |date=2020-12-01 |title=Hope Restored: the United Empire Loyalist Settlement in British North America, 1775–1812 |url=https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/ep/article/view/6139 |journal=Echa Przeszłości |issue=XXI/1 |doi=10.31648/ep.6139 |issn=1509-9873|doi-access=free }}</ref> Some of the new settlers brought with them Black slaves.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Walker |first=James |date=1999 |title=Myth, History and Revisionism:: The Black Loyalists Revisited |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/acadiensis/1999-v29-n1-acadiensis_29_1/acad29_1for02/ |journal=Acadiensis |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=88–105 |issn=0044-5851}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Frost |first=Karolyn Smardz |title=2. Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia's Promised Land, 1759–1775 |date=2022-01-27 |pages=53–84 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781487529185-004/html |access-date=2024-10-05 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |language=en |doi=10.3138/9781487529185-004 |isbn=978-1-4875-2918-5}}</ref> Also 3,000 [[Black Loyalist|Black loyalists]] who were slaves during the war and who sided with the British were given freedom and evacuated with other Loyalists from New York to Nova Scotia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bohls |first=Elizabeth A. |date=2024 |title=John Marrant's Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/934202 |journal=Early American Literature |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=293–312 |doi=10.1353/eal.2024.a934202 |issn=1534-147X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lepore |first=Jill |date=2006-04-30 |title=Goodbye, Columbus |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/05/08/goodbye-columbus |access-date=2024-10-05 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> Most of the free Blacks settled at [[Birchtown]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grant |first=John N. |date=1973 |title=Black Immigrants into Nova Scotia, 1776-1815 |url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/2716777 |journal=The Journal of Negro History |language=en |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=253–270 |doi=10.2307/2716777 |jstor=2716777 |issn=0022-2992}}</ref> the most prominent Black township in [[North America]] at the time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=James W. St G. |title=The Black Loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; 1783 - 1870 |date=1999 |publisher=Univ. of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-7402-7 |edition=Repr |location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Hidden from History: Black Loyalists at Country Harbour, Nova Scotia |date=2013-09-13 |work=Moving On |pages=63–82 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315052090-9 |access-date=2024-10-05 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315052090-9 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |isbn=978-1-315-05209-0}}</ref>

The [[War of 1812]] significantly impacted the provinces of Atlantic Canada where they played crucial roles in naval operations, privateering,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kert |first=Faye Margaret |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21pxjkw |title=Prize and Prejudice: Privateering and Naval Prize in Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812 |date=2017-10-18 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-1-78694-923-3 |doi=10.2307/j.ctt21pxjkw|jstor=j.ctt21pxjkw }}</ref> and as strategic support bases for the British war effort against the United States.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stranack |first=Ian |title=The Andrew and the Onions: the story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795-1975 |date=1990 |publisher=Bermuda Maritime Museum Press |isbn=978-0-921560-03-6 |edition=2nd |location=Old Royal Navy Dockyard, Bermuda |language=en}}</ref>