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Rebellion of Upper Canada 1837! By Sean, Shae-Lee and Jerrid​​

The Rebellion of Upper Canada 1837... What a cool history project! If you're Canadian have you ever wondered where our history of our great democracy came from? Well if you want to find out you might want to stay! But if you would rather surf the net be my guest it's your loss of this great Canadian event in history. So... let’s get to it!

First off, you need to know what the Rebellion of Upper Canada actually is! William Lynn Mackenzie, Toronto's first mayor, was inspired about the Rebellion of Lower Canada and decided to start Upper Canada's rebellion. Assisted by, Commander Gorge Browne and Commander Hennery Dunbas, and Commander Allan MacNabb, and, Commander James Fitzgibbon. On October 2, 1837, he rallied up about seven hundred men. On December 5, 1837, Mackenzie and his men marched through Young Street in York (Toronto) and lead a disorganized attack on an armory. This was the only important battle of the rebellions. After the British soldiers fought them off, Mackenzie and his men fell apart. Many of Mackenzie's men were injured, wounded, killed or hanged after the battle. On October 7, 1837, Mackenzie fled to the states, he was a wanted man.

**Canada was made into a counrty by two things Lord Durham's Report and the Act of Union. Lord Durham wanted to unite Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the united Province of Canada. He also wanted Canadian to have more indepedance and leaders by election. Durham was predutice againts the French ignoring there hopes of the French living in Canada of wanting more in freedom to govern themselves. Since Durham was predutice, he felt the French colonists should not have many rights. Through this report the act of union came into effect. It created one province and both lower and upper Canada became the United province of Canada. When this happened English became the only offical language to Canada. Canadians were not pleased about the new laws.**



Throughout the five days this rebellion lasted, it had a huge impact on Canadian identity. Through this rebellion it eventually gave Canadian’s freedom to govern themselves, making us one step closer to the Canadian democracy and freedom we have today!

**Questions:

1. Name one of the people who you thought was the most significant to the rebellion of Upper Canada and why? 2. How did the British giving Canada more freedom help us with the democracy we have today? And why do you think that? 3. Why do you think the rebels had a long lasting impact on Britian? 4. In your opinion, who do think was fighting for the right reasons in this rebellion? 5. Why do you think the Canadians thought that the colonies would take care of them?**


 * Sources of info: **[|**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Union_1840**]**, **[|**http://www.histori.ca/voices/page.do?subclassName=CloseUp&pageID=285**]**, Our Canada text pages 218-221 and Voices and Visions pages 140-142. **