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.

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] 82
X. [THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER] 104
XI. [THE SECOND REBELLION] 117
XII. [A POSTSCRIPT] 128
[BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE] 134
[INDEX] 136

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH TROOPS ON THE VILLAGE
OF ST DENIS, 1837]
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys. 		Frontispiece
[ SIR JAMES CRAIG]
From a portrait in the Dominion Archives. 		Facing page 16
[ LOUIS JOSEPH PAPINEAU]
After a lithograph by Maurin, Paris. 		" " 22
[ WOLFRED NELSON]
From a print in the Château de Ramezay. 		" " 60
[ SOUTH-WESTERN LOWER CANADA, 1837]
Map by Bartholomew. 		" " 69
[ DENIS BENJAMIN VIGER]
From a print in M'Gill University Library. 		" " 128