Chapter 11

Redefining British North America, 1783 - 1815

• Edward Winslow's Letters
  http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/en/winslow/index.php

  This University of New Brunswick site includes letters written to and from Massachusetts Loyalist Edward Winslow, who settled in New Brunswick after the American Revolution.

• Jay's Treaty
  http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/
  milestones/jaytreaty/

  This site begins with a description of the treaty, and allows access to an online readable reproduction of the treaty text.

• The Constitutional Act, 1791
  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/confederation/
  h18-2088-e.html

  This Library and Archives Canada site offers a description of the act and access to the text in both English and French.

• African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns

  An online exhibit developed by the Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management on African Nova Scotians. It focuses mainly on the period between the founding of Halifax in 1749 and the coming into force in 1834 of the act that abolished slavery in the British colonies.