The Lives and Times of the Patriots : : An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838 and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842 / / Edwin Guillet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Guillet, Edwin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; hts throughout

The Lives and Times of the Patriots was first published in 1938, the centennial of the Upper Canadian Rebellion and the subsequent Patriot raids over the border from the United States. The Canadian part of the agitation for constitutional and social reform, long a subject of controversy and bitterness, is now generally considered to be, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier put it, a fight "for constitutional rights, not against the British Crown"; but very little in the American movement, allegedly in sympathy, can be justified, its aims and conduct being no better than—and often interior to—the Fenian Raids of some thirty years later. The story of the events and their consequences is unfolded from a wide coverage of source materials, and described from both Tory and Reform, Loyalist and Patriot point of view. Exciting trails and escapes from jails and forts follow one another in quick succession, and the lives and experiences of participants are traced around the world to the prison colony of Van Diemen's Land and home again, as diaries, letters, and narratives tell their story, supplemented and verified by official documents, contemporary newspapers, obituary notices, and tombstone inscriptions. Rare illustrations complement this careful account of what must be taken to be, with all its deficiencies, a notable episode in the history of human freedom.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD, 1963 -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHAPTER I. WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE AND THE AGITATION FOR REFORM -- CHAPTER II. THE SIEGE OF TORONTO -- CHAPTER III. THE REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF MACKENZIE -- CHAPTER IV. WITH THE NEWCASTLE DISTRICT MILITIA -- CHAPTER V. CHARLES DUNCOMBE AND THE CONCENTRATION AT SCOTLAND -- CHAPTER VI. AMONG THE REFUGEES -- CHAPTER VII. NAVY ISLAND AND THE CAROLINE -- CHAPTER VIII . THE SCHOONER ANNE AND BOIS BLANC ISLAND -- CHAPTER IX. DONALD McLEOD AND FIGHTING ISLAND -- CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF PELEE ISLAND -- CHAPTER XI. THE SHORT HILLS AND ST. CLAIR RAIDS -- CHAPTER XII. JOHN MONTGOMERY AND THE JAIL DELIVERY FROM FORT HENRY -- CHAPTER XIII. EDWARD THELLER AND THE CELEBRATED ESCAPE FROM THE CITADEL OF QUEBEC -- CHAPTER XIV. THE BATTLE OF THE WINDMILL -- CHAPTER XV. THE BATTLE OF WINDSOR -- CHAPTER XVI. BILL JOHNSTON AND THE BURNING OF THE SIR ROBERT PEEL -- CHAPTER XVII. BEN LETT AND THE COBOURG CONSPIRACY -- CHAPTER XVIII. THE UNITED STATES AND THE PATRIOT WAR -- CHAPTER XIX. JAILS AND CONVICT-SHIPS -- CHAPTER XX. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND -- CHAPTER XXI. THE EXILES' RETURN -- APPENDIX OF SELECT DOCUMENTS AND COLLATION OF DATA RELATIVE TO THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT -- INDEX -- CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PAPERBOOKS