8 THE STORY OF THE U.F.O. 



carried away, they followed the long trail, 

 homeless, friendless, hungry and weary. 

 Frequently they had to beg their bread or 

 accept food from the Indians." 



Nor were their troubles over when they 

 reached Canada, for while "every man received 

 free of charge a grant of two hundred acres, with 

 a like estate reserved for each child the Loyalists 

 during early years lived very hard lives, and 

 frequently went to bed at night without knowing 

 where they would find the next day's food. 

 But they bore stout hearts and strong hands, 

 and they persevered, hoping on, and working 

 always." 



While the loyalists were the earliest settlers 

 to come to Ontario in large numbers, they were 

 by no means the only pioneers. It is perhaps 

 not unfair to say that by far the greater part 

 of the heavy toil-some work of opening up the 

 country was done by those who came still 

 later, and without government assistance 

 pushed farther back into the bush. Thrown 

 entirely upon their own resources, almost 

 destitute of means, they braved the loneliness 

 of the "back- woods" and the peril of wild 

 beasts, to make a home where freedom might 

 dwell. Such were the men and women who 

 cleared the land and made it ours; theirs was 

 the hard lot, ours the reward. 



