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United Empire Loyalists: Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth: Re The Queen And I Find Middle Ground July 22 : Ratna Omidvar was born in India, I was born in New Brunswick. But we both share a complicated relationship with Queen Elizabeth, according to Globe and Mail. I grew up in Whitney Pier, N.S., a steel town with an ethnically diverse population. Many of my friends today are Quebeckers, both from old French families and recent immigrants. To argue we owe allegiance to a British monarch makes little sense to my friends, past and present and The Queen and I My mother came from United Empire Loyalists; my fathers Scots Highlander ancestors, who came to Canada in 1790, had little to do with loyalty to the king. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.