Republic of Canada | |||||||||
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| 1837–1838 | |||||||||
 Flag | |||||||||
 Republic of Canada in North America in 1837 | |||||||||
 Navy Island | |||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||
| Capital | Navy Island | ||||||||
| Common languages | English | ||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1837–1838 | William Lyon Mackenzie | ||||||||
| Historical era | Upper Canada Rebellion | ||||||||
• Republic declared | 17 December 1837 | ||||||||
• Republic collapses | 14 January[1] 1838 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Canada | ||||||||
The Republic of Canada was a government proclaimed by William Lyon Mackenzie on December 5, 1837.[2] The self-proclaimed government was established on Navy Island[3] in the Niagara River in the latter days of the Upper Canada Rebellion.
- ^ Kinchen, Oscar Arvle (1956). The rise and fall of the Patriot Hunters. New York, Bookman Associates.
- ^ Yates 1958, p. 123.
- ^ Insurance Institute of Toronto, p. 57.