Lower Canada Rebellion

Lower Canada Rebellions
Part of the Rebellions of 1837–1838

The Battle of Saint-Eustache
Date6 November 1837 — 10 November 1838
Location
Lower Canada (present-day Quebec)
Result Rebellion suppressed
Territorial
changes
Unification of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada
Belligerents
Patriotes
Commanders and leaders
Strength
  • 1,380 regulars, rising to 10,000 by mid-1838
  • 33,000 Canadian militia
  • ≈4,100 Patriotes
  • 25,000 sympathizer militia[1]
Casualties and losses
  • 73–130 dead
  • 1,600 wounded or captured
  • 29 executed for treason
  • 58 deported to Australia

The Lower Canada Rebellion (French: rébellion du Bas-Canada), commonly referred to as the Patriots' Rebellion (Rébellion des patriotes) in French, is the name given to the armed conflict in 1837–38 between rebels and the colonial government of Lower Canada (now southern Quebec). Together with the simultaneous rebellion in the neighbouring colony of Upper Canada (now southern Ontario), it formed the Rebellions of 1837–38 (rébellions de 1837–38).

As a result of the rebellions, the Province of Canada was created from the former Lower Canada and Upper Canada.