STEPHEN DAVIDSON is the author of Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience: From 1775 to the Present, an illustrated book telling the story of Nova Scotias Black Loyalists and the Birchtown settlement. He is also the author of The Burdens of Loyalty, and a contributor to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. His research speciality is on the history of the Loyalists experience. Stephen lives in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.