Chapter I: Front Matter

[Frontispiece: Advance of the British troops on the village of St. Denis, 1837. From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.]

THE

'PATRIOTES' OF '37

A Chronicle of the Lower
Canadian Rebellion

BY

ALFRED D. DECELLES

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1916

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

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PREFATORY NOTE

The manuscript for this little book, written by me in French, was handed over for translation to Mr Stewart Wallace. The result as here presented is therefore a joint product. Mr Wallace, himself a writer of ability and a student of Canadian history, naturally made a very free translation of my work and introduced some ideas of his own. He insists, however, that the work is mine; and, with this acknowledgment of his part in it, I can do no less than acquiesce, at the same time expressing my pleasure at having had as collaborator a young writer of such good insight. And it is surely appropriate that an English Canadian and a French Canadian should join in a narrative of the political war between the two races which forms the subject of this book.

A. D. DECELLES.

OTTAWA, 1915.

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CONTENTS

Page

I. CANADIANS, OLD AND NEW . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE RIGHTS OF THE DEFEATED . . . . . . . . . . 7
III. 'THE REIGN OF TERROR' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
IV. THE RISE OF PAPINEAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
V. THE NINETY-TWO RESOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . 33
VI. THE ROYAL COMMISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
VII. THE RUSSELL RESOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
VIII. THE DOGS OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
IX. _FORCE MAJEURE_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
X. THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER . . . . . . . . . . 104
XI. THE SECOND REBELLION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
XII. A POSTSCRIPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

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ILLUSTRATIONS

ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH TROOPS ON
THE VILLAGE OF ST DENIS, 1837 . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.

SIR JAMES CRAIG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Facing page_ 16
From a portrait in the Dominion Archives.

LOUIS JOSEPH PAPINEAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 22
After a lithograph by Maurin, Paris.

WOLFRED NELSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 60
From a print in the Château de Ramezay.

SOUTH-WESTERN LOWER CANADA, 1837 . . . . . . . . . . " " 69
Map by Bartholomew.

DENIS BENJAMIN VIGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 128
From a print in M'Gill University Library.

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