Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada’s Norfolk County, 1792–1851

A history of land ownership and the attempt to create a landed gentry in early Canada.

Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada’s Norfolk County, 1792–1851 is a comparative study of landholding among Loyalist and non-Loyalist settlers in Upper Canada.

Colin Read is professor emeritus of Huron University College, University of Western Ontario.

Colin Read is professor emeritus of Huron University College, University of Western Ontario.

"This book significantly contributes to our understanding of Upper Canadian society. Colin Read is the first to offer solid evidence confirming the widely held – but largely unproven – belief that the kind of elites Simcoe envisioned certainly did not endure in Norfolk by 1851, nor, Read suggests, did they persist elsewhere in the colony." Peter Baskerville, University of Victoria

"Colin Read’s book will re-energize Loyalist research and literature." Catharine Wilson, University of Guelph