<P> In Canada, land was sometimes allotted according to what regiment Loyalists had fought in . Thus, the King's Royal Regiment of New York, Butler's Rangers, Jessup's Corps, the King's Rangers and Joseph Brant's Iroquois got land in what is now Ontario; part of de Lancey's brigade, the Pennsylvania Loyalists, the King's American Dragoons, the New Jersey Volunteers, the Royal Fencible Americans, the Orange Rangers and others were given land in what is now New Brunswick . Other Loyalists settled in Nova Scotia and Quebec . </P> <P> The defeated Tories of the Revolution became the United Empire Loyalists of Canada, the first large - scale group of English - speaking immigrants to many parts of that country, and one which did much to shape Canadian institutions and the Canadian character . </P> <P> Loyalists became leaders in the new English - speaking Canadian colonies . John Graves Simcoe, commander of the Queen's Rangers, became the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (Ontario), and the city of Brantford, Ontario is named for the Loyalist Indian leader Joseph Brant . There is a bust of John Butler of Butler's Rangers at the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa . </P> <P> The pro-Loyalist tradition in Canada has been summed up by an American historian: "Many Canadians believe that their nation's traditional devotion to law and civility, the very essence of being a Canadian, traces back to being loyal, as in Loyalist ." This Canadian self - image is reflected in the British North America Act, (1867), the founding Canadian constitutional document, which defines the aims of the new Dominion as "peace, order and good government"--contrast with "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ." </P>

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