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Law passed to encourage white royalists loyal to the British Crown to move north to what is now known as "Canada."

1790

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The Imperial Statute of 1790 encourages those moving north to bring “'negros' [sic], household furniture, utensils of husbandry, or cloathing [sic]” duty-free."