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Fils de la Liberté

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an organization of republican-minded Lower-Canadian Reformers established at Montreal in August 1837 and outlawed in November of that year.

See: Sons of Liberty

Quotations

1837

A fracas occurred at Montreal, on the 6th November, between the young men styling themselves "Sons of Liberty," (les fils de la liberte) and the Constitutionalists.

1904

Combat broke out in the streets on the seventh of the month between the Constitutionals of the Doric Club and the Fils de la Liberté, followed by the sacking of the office of the Vindicator, and an attack on the residence of Papineau.

1963

Then, when fighting between the Doric Club and the Fils de la Liberté began, the government decided to arrest the leaders of the Fils.