Loyal supporters

Are loyal supporters , those which testify to the Loyauté to their sovereigns or the modes and the institutions established in their remainder faithful vis-a-vis the Rébellion.

With the Canada

Loyaliste was the name given to the colonists dedicating honesty with the British crown according to the Déclaration of independence of the United States in 1776 and the victory of the colonists lasting the Guerre of independence of the United States in 1783. They preferred to be exiled in the colonies located at the north rather than living in the the independent United States.

They generally avoided going in the French-speaking and catholic areas and rather chose to be established in the west of the Rivière of Outaouais (today the Ontario). However several of them were fixed in the future Quebec, in the areas of the Estrie (so named “ Cantons of Est ”) and of the Gaspésie; others went to the New Brunswick, “colony loyal supporter” created in 1784 by the the United Kingdom starting from the northern part of Nova Scotia, and in Nova Scotia even.

Their arrival and their distribution in the colony involved, by the constitutional Acte of 1791, the scission of the Province off Quebec in a anglophone High-Canada populated loyal supporters, and a French-speaking Low-Canada in the east of the Rivière of Outaouais.

In France

The loyal supporter term was used in France during the Second world war to describe the vichists refusing to then adopt the Général de Gaulle in faction against the chief of the French State, mode collaborationnist of Philippe Pétain substituent with the French Republic and whose capital was Vichy. Later, it found echo during the wars of independence related to the decolonization. During the War of Indo-China then the War of Algeria, were qualified “loyal supporters” the Indigène S which supported the Status quo fastening with the French Republic against the movements independists qualifying them in return of “Fantoche S”.

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