Hope Restored by Robert L. Dallison

Hope Restored

The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick

Robert L. Dallison

Goose Lane Editions · Print & ebook · September 30, 2011

Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

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Who it’s for
Trace how British regiments helped keep Nova Scotia from joining the Revolution and founded New Brunswick.
Themes
American Revolution, Loyalist regiments, Founding of New Brunswick
Genres
Pre-Confederation Canada, Canadian Military History, Revolutionary America (1775-1800)

About this book

Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over the farms of the expelled Acadians. Between family ties and unrestrained privateering, there was much sympathy in Nova Scotia for the American Patriots.

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In Hope Restored, Robert Dallison tells the story of how the British raised two regiments and sent their members to the area that, as a result, became New Brunswick, thus overcoming the groundswell and fending off Patriot attacks. These soldiers had two jobs: to fight the Americans, and to settle the land as a bulwark against invasion. Spem reduxit (hope restored) became their motto and the motto of the province they founded. As well as telling the story of the Loyalist regiments, Hope Restored describes many Loyalist and Revolutionary War sites, some of which can be visited today. Among them are the Loyalist Encampment and Cemetery in Fredericton, Saint John's Fort Howe, and the MacDonald Farm Provincial Historic Park in Northumberland County. Hope Restored is the second book in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series published by Goose Lane Editions in collaboration with the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project. Written by historians and military personnel, the books in this series will explore subjects ranging from New Brunswick's pivotal role in the American Revolution to one veteran's account of caring for World War I cavalry horses. All of the volumes will be fully illustrated with modern and archival maps, photos, and works of art and are available at all bookstores in New Brunswick.

Loyalist Regiments

Trace how British regiments helped keep Nova Scotia from joining the Revolution and founded New Brunswick.

Come here for

  • The Loyalist regiments’ role in resisting Patriot attacks and settling the land
  • Descriptions of Revolutionary War sites, including Fort Howe

Expect

  • Accounts of Loyalist regiments and their two military and settlement duties
  • Descriptions of historic sites, some visitable today

Where it sits

Revolutionary America (1775-1800)75%
Canadian Military History52%
Pre-Confederation Canada50%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Pre-Confederation Canada
  • Canadian Military History
Authors
Robert L. Dallison
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Published
September 30, 2011
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
American Revolution · Loyalist regiments · Founding of New Brunswick
Reading lane
Pre-Confederation Canada