You missed my point. I&#x27;m not talking about the loyalists who moved. I&#x27;m talking about the people who stayed. The settlement along the great lakes was already here before the American revolution, both in English&#x2F;French settlements, and the natives who were here in high concentrations before that.<p>Modern day settlement along the border reflects a continuation of patterns that were already here.<p>Though Toronto being a huge population centre instead of Hamilton or Niagara area apparently has to do with the need to be some distance from the border with the expansionist militaristic 19th century Americans.