The earliest English colonists in the Americas were Seperatists and Puritans who were persecuted back in old Blighty. I ought to know. I am a Mayflower descendent and a descendent from the Winthrop fleet, so I am descended from the first settlers in New England and the founders of Boston.
Any Canadians that were worth a damn have probably already left the country. My Canadian ancestors left Canada during the 1880s. They only became Canadians in the first place because they were loyalists during the Revolutionary War and were deported to Nova Scotia in the aftermath. I have many patriot lines in my ancestry as well, so these royalist traitors don't matter so much to me.
It's the most valuable thing he could possibly do.