List of Loyalist Settlements in Present-day Canada
18th-century names are listed first, alongside their present-day equivalents.
- Antigonish, Nova Scotia
- Beamsville, Ontario
- Myer's Creek → Belleville, Ontario
- Buell's Bay → Brockville, Ontario
- Butlersbury → Newark → Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
- Cataraqui → Kingston, Ontario
- Clifton → Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Country Harbour, Nova Scotia
- Cobourg, Ontario
- Colchester → village now within Essex, Ontario
- Cornwall, Ontario
- Digby, Nova Scotia
- Doaktown, New Brunswick
- Eastern Townships, Quebec
- Effingham, Ontario
- Grimsby, Ontario
- Douglas Township → Kennetcook, Nova Scotia
- Lincoln, Ontario
- Ernestown Township -> Loyalist, Ontario
- Merrittsville → Welland, Ontario
- Gravelly Bay → Port Colborne
- Port Roseway → Shelburne, Nova Scotia
- Prescott, Ontario
- Prince Edward County, Ontario
- Rawdon, Nova Scotia
- Saint John, New Brunswick
- Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia
- Shelburne, Nova Scotia
- Six Nations and Brantford, Ontario
- St. Andrews by-the-Sea → St. Andrews, New Brunswick
- St. Anne's Point → Fredericton, New Brunswick
- Summerville, Nova Scotia
- The Twelve → Shipman's Corners → St. Catharines, Ontario
- Turkey Point → Norfolk, Ontario
- Sandwich → Windsor, Ontario
- Wainfleet, Ontario
- York → Toronto
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