Lester the Loyalist: A Romance of the Founding of Canada is a historical fiction novel written by British author Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen and first published in 1890. The novel is set in the late 18th century during the American Revolutionary War and tells the story of Lester, a young man who is torn between his loyalty to the British Crown and his love for a young American woman named Edith. As the war rages on, Lester finds himself caught...