The close of the Revolutionary War brought a large increase of population to Canada. Many of the Americans remained loyal to England during the struggle for independence, and when the war was over, these people found themselves looked up on with dislike and suspicion by their republican neighbors. So harsh was the treatment they received that the British Parliament took pity upon them, and voted them a large sum of money in consideration of the losses they had borne by remaining loyal to the British Crown. Besides this grant of money they were given large and valuable tracts of land. It is said that over twenty-five thousand left the United States in 1784, and settled in the British Colonies and of these ten thousand came to Upper Canada, many settling in the Niagara District.
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"...military service, which had bred in them a dislike for the toil and privations of pioneer life. This made it easy for the real settlers, who immigrated to this part of Ontario from Pennsylvania, to buy land cheap, When in the year 1799 a prospecting party of "Pennsylvania Dutch" visited the Niagara District, they could buy land along the Indian trail (now the stone road) for one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50). The year following a large number followed this party, among them the names, Albright, Kratz, High, Moycr, Honsbcrger, Grobb, Cross, Houscr, Wismer, Fry, Fretz, Nash and others appear quite prominent."
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