A Letter to her Majesty the British Queen: With Letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg and Sir George Arthur

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Albany, Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1841, Hard Cover

First edition. Hard cover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 167pp [3]. New York imprint concerning the Canadian Rebellion, noted for it's index of captive patriots imprisoned at Van Dieman's Land. Foxed endpapers showing dampstain which extends to adjoining pages. Foxing to page edges. Good.

The Rebellions of 1837–1838 (French: Les rébellions de 1837) were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower and Upper Canada in 1837 and 1838. Both rebellions were motivated by frustrations with political reform. A key shared goal was responsible government, which was eventually achieved in the incidents' aftermath. The rebellions led directly to Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America and to The British North America Act, 1840 which partially reformed the British provinces into a unitary system and eventually led to the British North America Act, 1867 which created Canada and its government. - wikipedia.

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