Talk:Rebellions of 1837–1838

WP:MilHist Assessment

A good start, with a good number of sections, and including a picture. Though it might be nice if the image caption said a little more about where it came from. Is it a painting? Who's it by? When was it painted? I recognize that the subject matter of this article is described in more length in a number of other articles, and as such this serves as basically a glorified, fleshed-out disambig page. Nevertheless, there must be more that can be said here. Flesh out the sections on the individual rebellions, and add more on the background (causes) and aftermath (effects) - those things which all the rebellions have in common, and which thread through the whole set of events thematically and historically. LordAmeth 02:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC) test —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.30.84.251 (talk) 21:23, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Execution for treason

Rebels were executed for treason, pure and simple. The rambling argument that "However, the rebels were not really convicted because their views aligned with the liberalism of the US, and thus caused some kind of offense to the Tory values of the Canadian colonies. Rather, as revealed in the ruling of Chief Justice Sir John Robinson, a Lockean justification was given for the prisoners' condemnation, and not a Burkean one: the Crown, as protector of the lives, liberty and prosperity of its subjects, could "legitimately demand allegiance to its authority" is pointless. There was no argument then or since that they were executed because their political views caused offense to Tories. To suggest that this was the obvious reason is bizarre. The justification of capital punishment for treason is likely not Burkean, but more pragmatic. Every state (used to) execute people for treason, whatever its politics or ideology.Royalcourtier (talk) 04:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

This article should be titled Rebellions of 1837-1838

Most sources do so. See http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rebellions-of-1837/

If no objections, I will move it and the title will be Rebellions of 1837-1838. Your thoughts @User:Charles lindberg and @User:Moxy?

Peter K Burian (talk) 21:40, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

• Agree as per above ref and Martin Brook Taylor; Doug Owram (1994). Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation. University of Toronto Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8020-6826-2.--Moxy (talk) 22:08, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Moxy I knew I could rely on you to find a good book to cite. Peter K Burian (talk) 22:14, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Vacillatory

The introduction talks about these rebellions, which were armed uprisings "motivated by frustrations with political reform," and that "a key shared goal was responsible government." Weren't these armed uprisings trying to oust the British and not much concerned with "reform" or "responsible government?" The article states that these moderate views came about after, not during. It also states that there is some idea of putting these rebellions in context with other anti-monarchial rebellions, the American is one named example. What serious approach would consider examination without context? -Inowen (NLFTE) 05:28, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

How's life?

This is a good article Trajan anntonnius (talk) 19:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)