The story of the Lower Canada rebellion is told in detail in some of the general histories of Canada. William Kingsford, History of Canada (1887-94), is somewhat inaccurate and shows a strong bias against the Patriotes, but his narrative of the rebellion is full and interesting. F. X. Garneau, Histoire du Canada (1845-52), presents the history of the period, from the French-Canadian point of view, with sympathy and power. A work which holds the scales very evenly is Robert Christie, A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada (1848-55). Christie played a not inconspicuous part in the pre-rebellion politics, and his volumes contain a great deal of original material of first-rate importance.
Of special studies of the rebellion there are a number worthy of mention. L. O. David, Les Patriotes de 1837-38, is valuable for its complete biographies of the leaders in the movement. L. N. Carrier, Les Événements de 1837-38 (1877), is a sketch of the rebellion written by the son of one of the Patriotes. Globensky, La Rébellion de 1837 à Saint-Eustache (1883), written by the son of an officer in the loyalist militia, contains some original materials of value. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Lithographic Views of Military Operations in Canada under Sir John Colborne, O.C.B., etc. (1840), apart from the value of the illustrations, is interesting on account of the introduction, in which the author, a British army officer who served in Canada throughout the rebellion, describes the course of the military operations. The political aspect of the rebellion, from the Tory point of view, is dealt with in T. C. Haliburton, The Bubbles of Canada (1839). For a penetrating analysis of the situation which led to the rebellion see Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America.
A few biographies may be consulted with advantage. N. E. Dionne, Pierre Bédard et ses fils (1909), throws light on the earlier period; as does also Ernest Cruikshank, The Administration of Sir James Craig (Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3rd series, vol. ii). See also A. D. DeCelles, Papineau (1904), in the 'Makers of Canada' series; and Stuart J. Reid, Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham (1906).
The parish histories, in which the province of Quebec abounds, will be found to yield much information of a local nature with regard to the rebellion; and the same may be said of the publications of local historical societies, such as that of Missisquoi county.
An original document of primary importance is the Report of the state trials before a general court-martial held at Montreal in 1838-39; exhibiting a complete history of the late rebellion in Lower Canada (1839).
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Assembly, the language question in the, [8-12]; racial conflict over form of taxation, [13-14]; the struggle with Executive for full control of revenue leads to deadlock, [22-5], [27], [29-30], [53-4], [57]; seeks redress in Imperial parliament, [28-32]; the Ninety-Two Resolutions, [38-42]; the grievance commission, [45-6], [52], [55-6]; the Russell Resolutions, [57-61]. See Lower Canada.