EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Major Sites

The Atlantic Canada Portal Virtual Archives features themed digitized collections on Black Loyalists, Loyalist Women, and The Edward Winslow Letters (Please note this site is archived).
The Winslow Papers hosts an electronic version of the Papers of the Loyalist Winslow family, housed in UNB Libraries Archives & Special Collections.
Fort Havoc, digital documents and transcripts of material concerning the American Revolution and United Empire Loyalists (R. Wallace Hale).
The Loyalist Research Network a central location for academics working in the field.
New Brunswick Land Grant Database (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick), a searchable database of land grants covering the Loyalist settlement period.
Nova Scotia Archives, includes digital and indexed items relating to Loyalists: Township Records, the African Nova Scotian Diaspora, cemetery records, church records, poll taxes, etc.
The On-line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies provides reliable, high quality material on the Loyalists in the fields of military research, genealogy, and living history.
United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada
Ward Chipman Papers, Library and Archives Canada, digitized muster rolls of Loyalists and their families.
AmericanRevolution.ORG offers a variety of sources of information on the American Revolution and Loyalists.
Canadiana is a valuable digital preservation repository for historical Canadian documents including the collection "Early Canadiana Online".

“Black Loyalist” focuses on historical data about the African American loyalist refugees recorded in the Book of Negroes.
The Black Loyalists Digital Collections, explores the Black Loyalist experience in Canada.
Black Loyalist Heritage Society (Birchtown, Nova Scotia)
Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Museum.

Journal of the American Revolution Online Magazine.
“Canada in the Making” hosted by Early Canadiana Online, page entitled “Loyalists, the First Refugees (1775-1812).”
The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Centre offers a wealth of images of artifacts and art compiled from around the world, organized by subject.

“Fredericton’s Loyalists,” exhibit at the Fredericton Region Museum.
Loyalist House, National Historic Site, Saint John, New Brunswick; an example of Loyalist architecture and life.
UEL Heritage Centre and Park (Bath, Ontario)
Kings Landing Historical Settlement, outdoor "Living History Museum" which includes Loyalist habitations and artifacts from New Brunswick.

“The Junto” A Group Blog on Early American History.
“Borealia” A Group Blog on Early Canadian History.
Acadiensis Blogging the history of Atlantic Canada.
100 Hidden Histories Material history at the Kings County Museum, Hampton, New Brunswick.
TURN to a Historian offers historical analysis of "TURN: Washington’s Spies", a television drama about spies of the American Revolution.
Boston 1775 "History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in Massachusetts."
Age of Revolutions: A HistorioBLOG.
Morristown National Historical Park Museum & Library, New Jersey.
Unwritten Histories: The Unwritten Rules of History.
Isles Abroad: A Group Blog of British and Irish Global History.

Library and Archives Canada, help with general Loyalist and Loyalist genealogy research.
The Olive Tree Genealogy, Loyalist genealogy.
RootsWeb ,“The United Empire Loyalist,” useful for genealogists and those researching Loyalist family history.

Revised 2017