The patriote convicts : a study of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada and the transportation of some participants to New South Wales
| dc.contributor.author | Boissery, Beverley Dawn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-29T02:50:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-29T02:50:15Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1977 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1977 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-08-25T01:48:05Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The patriote convicts were transported from Lower Canada to New South Wales after their participation in the 1838 Rebellion. It is contended in this thesis that a prosopographical study, both literary and statistical, of these convicts - a limited but representative group - reveals the motivation of the rebels better than a demographical study of all participants. Many of those taking up arms in the parishes south of Montreal in November 1838 were motivated by a deeply felt sense of injustice. Some were angered by the savage suppression of their compatriots after the failure of the 1837 Rebellion. For others who saw the gradual breakdown of their habitant, traditional life (in Beauharnois particularly), the 1838 Rebellion should be more accurately termed a social riot. This study also brings to light many other aspects of the Rebellion period usually ignored in the standard texts. The prosopographical microscope reveals, for example, the political manipulation which lay behind the subsequent Courts Martial. The study of the patriote convicts' experiences and perceptions of life in New South Wales reveals a great deal about the convict period. Pain, which is an integral part of human life, has been a curiously ignored subject for social historians - particularly that felt by the convict settlers of early Australia. While it is well recognised that there was an excessive amount of flogging, for example, few have worried about the effects such brutality had on the lives and values of the convicts and the possible legacies to Australian identity from such men and women. The patriote convicts felt intense agony when forcibly dislocated from their loved families and country. This thesis documents that pain and the efforts made by the convicts from Lower Canada to remain unaffected by the brutality in early Sydney and it raises questions about the legacy of pain on the emerging Australian character. | en_AU |
| dc.format.extent | 1v. | |
| dc.identifier.other | b1177506 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/124869 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Penal colonies Great Britain | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Australia Exiles | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Canada History Rebellion, 1837-1838 | |
| dc.title | The patriote convicts : a study of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada and the transportation of some participants to New South Wales | en_AU |
| dc.type | Thesis (PhD) | en_AU |
| dcterms.valid | 1977 | en_AU |
| local.description.notes | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 1977. This thesis has been made available through exception 200AB to the Copyright Act. | en_AU |
| local.identifier.doi | 10.25911/5d62703ff0328 | |
| local.identifier.proquest | Yes | |
| local.mintdoi | mint | |
| local.type.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_AU |
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