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Title: The 'Patriotes' of '37
A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion

Author: Alfred D. Decelles

Release Date: September 13, 2009 [EBook #29973]

Language: English

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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_

{vii}

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.

{ix}

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_ . . . . .