There is a strong Loyalist contingent along the Fundy shore of NB, extending from Saint Andrews as far east as St. Martin (including the "Loyalist City" of Saint John, although SJ became primarily Irish after the migrations related to the potato famine). I also am aware of loyalist settlement in and around the Summerside area on PEI.
It was interesting to see this quote from
someone123's earlier post:
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The term 'Bluenose,' used as a nickname for Nova Scotians, dates from at least the late eighteenth century.1 The first recorded use of the word was in 1785 by the Reverend Jacob Bailey, a Loyalist clergyman living in Annapolis Royal after the American Revolution. Writing to a friend that year, Bailey complained about the outcome of the recent elections, where the political lines had been clearly drawn throughout Nova Scotia between the newly-arrived Loyalists (Americans will know them as 'Tories') and the New England Planters—long-time residents since at least the 1760s. Bailey noted sourly that "The blue noses, to use a vulgar appellation...exerted themselves to the utmost of their power and cunning." In another letter the next year, Bailey continued his complaints by listing several regrettable aspects of life in Nova Scotia, one of them being "Violent contentions between the Loyalists and the old inhabitants called blue noses."
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When the loyalists arrived in SJ in 1785, they immediately came into conflict with the established elites in Halifax (ie - bluenosers), and these negative interactions (the Nova Scotians apparently felt the Loyalists to be rabble) strongly influenced the creation of NB as a separate (Loyalist) province.
Maybe if the Haligonians hadn't been such asses early on, there would only be one Maritime province...........
I guess even as far back as the 18th century Haligonians thought they were at the centre of the universe.
