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Sons of Liberty

Hist.
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.

Quotations

1837
In Lower Canada, Divine Providence has blessed the arms of the Sons of Liberty--a whole people are there manfully struggling for that freedom without which property is but a phantom, and life scarce worth having. . . .
1841
The sons of liberty were shot, like dogs by martial law in the roads or reserved for a more cold blooded sacrifice.
1916
These might prove, as thought . . . one of the leaders of the "Sons of Liberty" in Lower Canada, so many Lexingtons, with a Saratoga and a Yorktown to follow.