The effects of the 1837-8 Rebellions when the Canada East and Canada West were still Upper and Lower Canada respectively ran deep, and in some regards, it seemed that some of the remaining underlying prejudices [read more]
Part of the reason why La Fontaine and his team were successful in obtaining responsible government in 1848 was due to the arrival of Lord Elgin the previous year. La Fontaine had resigned a few [read more]
Papineau’s return to Canada East and subsequent runs for politics did not go unnoticed and while his influence was no longer that of his glory days during the 1830s, he still had a reasonable amount [read more]
After being granted amnesty in 1845, Louis-Joseph Papineau returned to the Province of Canada but found it changed from the climate that he had left it in. After his flight to the United States in [read more]
The rebellions in Lower Canada came to its final, bloody end in 1838. With the defeat of the Patriotes in Odelltown, many Patriotes were imprisoned in Pied-du-Courant Prison in Montreal. John Colborne, the victor in [read more]
Lower Canada’s own Declaration of Independence was written by Robert Nelson, an ardent Anglophone Patriote. A look at the document makes it clear that it was modelled after the United States’ own Declaration of Independence, [read more]
Violence for the Patriotes had been mentioned as a possible solution by none other than Julie Papineau in her letter to her husband, but only if they were pushed to a point where peaceful options [read more]
Violence for the Patriotes had been mentioned as a possible solution by none other than Julie Papineau in her letter to her husband, but only if they were pushed to a point where peaceful options [read more]
The violence of the 1837 Rebellions did not come out of nowhere. Prior to the rebellions by force, there were rebellions through the law. In an attempt to get the British government to see things [read more]
Heritage Minutes, a history teacher’s favourite video series, can only go so far into detail in a couple of minutes. While it is not exactly Ezekiel’s Hart mere presence with Papineau that might have made [read more]
The views of the Patriotes on women and the right to vote seemed, in retrospect, contradictory when we look at their stance and the amount of support that women would give the party. In 1834, [read more]
Mention “Papineau”, and two things might come to mind depending on the context: the man or the metro station. However, contrary to popular belief, despite the influence of Louis Joseph Papineau to the advancement and [read more]
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