<span>a white American of non-Hispanic descent, asdistinguished especially from an American ofMexican or Spanish descent.</span>2.(<span>sometimes lowercase</span><span>) an English-speakingperson in a place where English is not thelanguage of the <span>majority.</span></span>
While some went to the United Kingdom after the war, many took boats out of American cities and ended up in Halifax, now in Nova Scotia, before spreading out throughout what is today Canada.