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Early in 1849, the reformist prime minister Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1807-1864), would cite the reports of the 1846 commissions to support a law aimed at broadening the compensation offered to inhabitants of Lower Canada who had suffered during the repression. The Tories were bitterly opposed to this project, which they maintained rewarded the rebels. The adoption of the law would lead to the fire that devastated the Parliament of United Canada, located in Montreal’s St. Anne Market, which was started by rioters on April 25, 1849.
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Rebellion Losses, U.C.
Date
March 19, 1849
Dimensions1 textual record ; 34.1 x 23.2 cm
Origin
Montréal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Object NumberS001/C4.1,1.1.2
DivisionArchives - Textual Archives
CollectionStewart
Scope and ContentPrinted document issued on March 19, 1849 by the office of the provincial secretary of United Canada, James Leslie, in response to a request for information made on March 8 by the Legislative Assembly. It contains the appendices of the reports from the various regional commissions charged in 1846 with identifying the claims of inhabitants of the former Upper Canada whose property was damaged during the rebellion of 1837. It includes the claimants’ names, the nature of their claim and the compensation awarded. A number of laws granting compensation would be adopted as a result of these claims. Early in 1849, the reformist prime minister Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1807-1864), would cite the reports of the 1846 commissions to support a law aimed at broadening the compensation offered to inhabitants of Lower Canada who had suffered during the repression. The Tories were bitterly opposed to this project, which they maintained rewarded the rebels. The adoption of the law would lead to the fire that devastated the Parliament of United Canada, located in Montreal’s St. Anne Market, which was started by rioters on April 25, 1849.
NotesSource of title: based on the title of the document.
Immediate source of acquisition: purchased from W. P. Wolfe on October 8, 1975.
Language of the document: the document is in English.
Immediate source of acquisition: purchased from W. P. Wolfe on October 8, 1975.
Language of the document: the document is in English.
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The Appendix to the First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Losses occasioned by the Troubles in Canada, during the Years 1837 and 1838
June 6, 1849
S001/C4.1,1.1.1
Report on the movements of the various councillors sitting on the Royal Councils
November 26, 1719 - December 1, 1720
S001/A2.1,4.1
Report of the returning officer on the Northumberland county election to Assembly of Lower Canada
August 20, 1824
S001/C3.1,2.1
Opinion of Parliament of Paris lawyers for Jeffery Amherst regarding the management of the Jesuits’ assets
September 17, 1788
S001/C2.4,3.2
Information for the Officers of the Navy and Army, Proprietors of Land in the Island St. John's in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and for the other now remaining Proprietors thereof
[1782?]
S001/C2.4,3.1
Report made to the National Assembly on behalf of the pensions committee with regard to the aid granted to Acadians and Canadians
1791
S001/A2.3,6.3
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