HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maypole, Donald Creighton, Flq Manifesto
Document Summary
Conservative and reform traditions in upper canada: interpreting the 1837 rebellion. Autumn of 1837, declaration of independence, intimidated appointed british people to surrender their posts. Attack on st charles, 25 november 1837, rebels defeated by british. Battle of st eustache, 14 december, captured by british, 100 rebels killed. December 5, rebels march down yonge street, government supporters open fire on. Duncombe rebellion, brantford, led by charles duncombe the rebels. 1838, number of raids across the border by american patriot sympathizers, battle of the windmill in prescott. Lower canada, 2nd uprising in november 1838, full year after the first one, within a week the rebellion had been put down by volunteer force. Lower canada, 325 casualties, all but 27 were rebels. In upper canada, rebellions erupted from an opposition to the government, which were people appointed to abuse their authority. In lower canada, the rebellions forced the issue of government.
