Bibliography of the 1837–38 insurrections in Lower Canada

The following is an incomplete bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada in the English and French languages, by publication date and document type.

In English

Works Greenwood, Frank Murray. and Barry Wright, ed. (2002). Canadian State Trials. Volume 2: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839, Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 512 p. () (preview) Boissery, Beverly (1995). A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason Trials, and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion, Toronto: Dundurn Press, 367 p. () Greer, Allan (1993). The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 385 p. () (preview) Senior, Elinor Kyte (1985). Redcoats and Patriotes: The Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837-38, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 218 p. () Mann, Michael (1986). A Particular Duty: The Canadian Rebellions 1837-1839, Salisbury (Wiltshire): Michael Russel Publishing, 211 p. Buckner, Philip Alfred (1985). The Transition to Responsible Government: British Policy in British, North America, 1815-1850, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 358 p. Tiffany, Orrin Edward (1980). The Relations of the United States to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838, Toronto: Coles Pub., 147 p. Burroughs, Peter (1972). The Canadian Crisis and the British Colonial Policy, 1828-1849, Toronto: MacMillan, 118 p. Schull, Joseph (1971). Rebellion: the Rising in French Canada 1837, Toronto: Macmillan, 226 p. Ryerson, Stanley Bréhaut (1968). Unequal Union: Confederation and the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815-1873, Toronto : Progress Books, 477 p. Manning, Helen Taft (1962). The Revolt of French Canada, 1800-1835. A Chapter in the History of the British Commonwealth, Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 426 p. Kinchen, Oscar Arvle (1956). The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters, Toronto: Burns and Maceachern, 150 p. Morison, John Lyle (1919). British Supremacy and Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854, Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 369 p. Decelles, Alfred Duclos (1916). The "Patriotes" of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion, Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co., 140 p. [translated by Stewart Wallace] Bradshaw, Frederick (1903). Self-Government in Canada, and How it was Achieved: The Story of Lord Durham's Report, London: P.S.King, 414 p. (online)

Essays, thesis Sossoyan, Matthieu (1999). The Kahnawake Iroquois and the Lower-Canadian Rebellions, 1837-1838, Montréal: McGill University, (master thesis in anthropology) (online) Thorbum, Mark (1996). The 1838 1839 Courts Martial of Patriotes in Lower Canada: Were They Constitutional? University of British Columbia, 152 p. (master's thesis) Finnegan, Mary (1982). The Irish-French Alliance in Lower Canada, 1822-1835. Université Concordia, 73 p (master's thesis). Boissery, Beverly Dawn (1977). The Patriote Convicts: A Study of the 1838 Rebellion in Lower Canada and the Transportation of Some Participants to New South Wales, 2 volumes (doctoral thesis in Philosophy) Duncan, Stuart Mackay (1965). The Military suppression of the rebellions of 1837-38. University of Western Ontario, 166 p. (master's thesis) Gilley, C. T. (1943). The Constitutional Act of 1791, a Study of the Causes of the Canadian Revolution of 1837, University of Colorado (master's thesis) Knowles E. C. (1929). The English Philosophical Radicals and Lower Canada, 1800-1835, McGill University (master's thesis)

Official reports, correspondence, etc. Copies or extracts of correspondence relative to the affairs of British North America. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 11 February 1839, London, 1839, 400 p. First report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Losses Occasioned by the Troubles during the Years 1837 and 1838, and into the Damages Arising Therefrom, Montréal: printed by Lovell & Gibson, 1846, 49 p. Lambton, John George, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1839). The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Governor-General of British North America, London: Ridgways, Piccadilly, 423 p. (online) Ordinances passed in the first session of the Special Council for the Affairs of Lower Canada, Montreal, 1838, Montreal: Printed by Andrew H. Armour and Hew Ramsay, 1838, 80 p. Russell, John (1837). Resolutions intended to be proposed by Lord John Russell, in a committee of the whole house, relative to the affairs of Canada, London: House of Commons (online) Select Committee on the Affairs of Lower Canada. Lower Canada Copy of the Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee Appointed in the Year 1834 on the Affairs of Lower Canada, London: British House of Commons, 11 March 1837 Acheson, Archibald, Charles Edward Grey, George Gipps (1837). "Reports of Commissioners on Grievances Complained of in Lower Canada. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 20th February, 1837", in Parliamentary Papers, XXIV, 3-416. (online) Select Committee on the Affairs of Lower Canada (1834). Report from Select Committee on Lower Canada, London: British House of Commons, 29 p. House of Assembly of Lower Canada (1834). The Ninety-Two Resolutions, Quebec (online) Select Committee on the Civil Government of Canada (1828). Report from the Select Committee on the Civil Government of Canada, House of Commons, 377 p. (online) House of Assembly of Lower Canada. Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada (1793-1837), Quebec: John Neilson (online) Legislative Council of Lower Canada. Journals of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada (1802-1837), Quebec: John Neilson (online) Special Council of Lower Canada. Journals of the Special Council of Lower Canada, Montreal: A.H. Armour and H. Ramsay (online)

Public writings by Patriotes Brown, Thomas Storrow (1898). 1837, My Connection With It, Quebec: Raoul Renault, Publisher, 38 p.(online) Nelson, Robert (1838). Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, United States (online) Nelson, Robert (1838). Address to the people of Canada, United States (online) Papineau, Louis-Joseph and John Neilson (1823). Letter from L. J. Papineau and J. Neilson, Esqs., Addressed to His Majesty's Under Secretary of State on the Subject of the Proposed Union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, London: Printed by William Clowes, Northumberland-court, 81 p. (online)

Private letters, journals by Patriotes Greenwood, Frank Murray (1980). Land of a Thousand Sorrows. The Australian Prison Journal 1840-1842, of the Exiled Canadien Patriote, François-Maurice Lepailleur, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 174 p. () [Translated and edited by F. Murray Greenwood] Mackaness, Georges (1949). François-Xavier Prieur. Notes of a Convict of 1838, Sydney: D.S. Ford, 142 p. [Translated and annotated by Georges Mackaness] Mackaness, Georges (1944). Léandre Ducharme. Journal of a Political Exile in Australia, Sydney: D.S. Ford Printer, 79 p. ()

Foreign coverage of the events "The Canada Question", in The United States Democratic Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, January 1838, pp. 205–220 (online) "History of the Recent Insurrection in the Canadas - Part First", in The United States Democratic Review, Volume 4, Issue 3, March–June 1838, pp. 73–87 (online) "History of the Recent Insurrection in the Canadas - Part Second", in The United States Democratic Review, Volume 4, Issue 3, March–June 1838, pp. 87–104 (online) "The Execution in Canada", in The United States Democratic Review, Volume 5, Issue 15, March 1839, pp. 343–344 (online)

Public writings by British Radicals Roebuck, John Arthur (1835). Remarks on the Proposed Union of the Canadas, published in the year 1822, Quebec, 12 p. Roebuck, John Arthur (1834). Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th April, 1834, on Mr. Roebuck's Motion for "a Select Committee to inquire the means of remedying the evils which exist in the form of the governments now existing in Upper and Lower Canada.", 26 p. Roebuck, John Arthur (1835). The Canadas and Their Grievances, 32 p. Roebuck, John Arthur (1836). Existing Difficulties in the Government of the Canadas, London: Printed by C. and W. Reynell, 68 p. (online) Roebuck, John Arthur et al. The Canadian Portfolio, London: Charles Fox, 1838, (5 issues) Roebuck, John Arthur (1849). The Colonies of England: A Plan for the Government of Portion of Our Colonial Possessions, 248 p. (online) Mill, John Stuart. "Radical Party and Canada: Lord Durham and the Canadians", in London and Westminster Review, VI & XXVIII, 502-33., January 1838 (online) Brougham, Henry (1837). Dissentient opinion of Lord Brougham on John Russell's Ten Resolutions, (online) Hume, Joseph (1834). The Celebrated letter of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., to William Lyon Mackenzie, Esq., mayor of Toronto, declaratory of a design to "Free these Provinces from the baneful Domination of the Mother Country!", Toronto: G.P. Bull, 64 p. Chapman, Henry Samuel (1835). Petition from Lower Canada, with Explanatory Remarks, London: Printed by William Clowes, 40 p. (online) Chapman, Henry Samuel (1838). An Impartial and Authentic Account of the Civil War in the Canadas [...], J. Saunders, Jr, 2 volumes (online) Lovett, William (1837). The Address of the London Working Men's Association to the People of Canada, England (online) Bentham, Jeremy. Canada: Emancipate Your Colonies! An Unpublished Argument, London: Effingham Wilson, 1838Was first published as a pamphlet in the book "Emancipate your colonies" by Jeremy Bentham, addressed to the French National Convention in 1793.

Public writings by Constitutionals Montreal Constitutional Association (1837). Address of the Constitutional Association of the City of Montreal to the Inhabitants of the Sister Colonies, Montreal (online) Robertson, William and J. Guthrie Scott (1836). Address of the Constitutional Association of Montreal to the Inhabitants of British America, Montreal (online) Thom, Adam (1836). Anti-Gallic Letters: Addressed to His Excellency, the Earl of Gosford, Governor-in-Chief of the Canadas, Montréal: The Herald Office, 226 p. (online) Thom, Adam (1835). Remarks on the Petition of the Convention, and on the Petition of the Constitutionalists, Montréal: The Herald Office, 191 p. (online)

Biographies Verney, Jack (1994). O'Callaghan. The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel, Montréal: McGill-Queen's Press, 350 p. () (preview) Ajzenstat, Janet (1988). The Political Thought of Lord Durham, Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 160 p. () (preview)

Trials Borthwick, John Douglas (1866). History of the Montreal prison from A.D. 1784 to A.D. 1886 : containing a complete record of the Troubles of 1837-1838, burning of the Parliament buildings in 1849, the St. Alban's raiders, 1864, the two Fenian raids of 1866 and 1870 [...], Montreal: A. Periard, bookseller, publisher and importer, 269 p. (online) Cherrier, André-Romuald (1839). Trial of Joseph N. Cardinal, and others, to which are added, the argumentative petition in favour of the prisoners, and several other precious documents, &c. &c. &c., Montreal: John Lovell, Printer, 141 p. Colborne, John (1839). Report of the State Trials, Before a General Court Martial Held at Montreal in 1838-9: Exhibiting a Complete History of the Late Rebellion in Lower Canada, Montreal: Armour and Ramsay, (online: volume 1, volume 2)

Fiction Morgan, Jan Henry (1992). Welcome Niall O'Donell, Immigrant! (A Chronicle of Lower Canada: Book One), Ottawa: Chantecler Press. Morgan, Jan Henry (1993). A Dangerous Direction (A Chronicle of Lower Canada: Book Two), Ottawa: Chantecler Press. Morgan, Jan Henry (1995). A Damned Rebellion! (A Chronicle of Lower Canada: Book Three), Ottawa: Chantecler Press. Soderstrom, Mary (1998). The Words on the Wall: Robert Nelson & the Rebellion of 1837, Ottawa: Oberon Press, 230 p. ()