Advance of the British troops on the village of St. Denis, 1837.
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.

THE

'PATRIOTES' OF '37

A Chronicle of the Lower
Canadian Rebellion

BY

ALFRED D. DECELLES

TORONTO
GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY
1916

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention

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PREFATORY NOTE

The manuscript for this little book, written by me in French, washanded over for translation to Mr Stewart Wallace. The result as herepresented is therefore a joint product. Mr Wallace, himself a writerof ability and a student of Canadian history, naturally made a veryfree translation of my work and introduced some ideas of his own. Heinsists, however, that the work is mine; and, with this acknowledgmentof his part in it, I can do no less than acquiesce, at the same timeexpressing my pleasure at having had as collaborator a young writer ofsuch good insight. And it is surely appropriate that an EnglishCanadian and a French Canadian should join in a narrative of thepolitical war between the two races which forms the subject of thisbook.

A. D. DECELLES.

OTTAWA, 1915.

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