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pre-Loyalist Hist.

• adj. of or pertaining to the period prior to the arrival of the Loyalists in Canada.

  See also: Pre-Loyalist  

  • 1896  Probably for Joel Bonny, a pre-loyalist settler in this region.
  • 1907  A number of districts, [including] the pre-Loyalist Barrington, were given an opportunity. . . .