My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump

My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump

On May 4, 1783, my ancestor William Fraser landed in Shelburne after a nine-day sail from New York City, part of a fleet of thirty ships carrying about 3,000 desperate Loyalists to Nova Scotia. Fraser, born in Scotland, worked in the engineering department in New York, but he, his four brothers, and their families had to flee revolutionary mobs that were confiscating property and tarring and feathering the war’s losers. Shelburne was overcrowded…