The 1837 Rebellion in Lower Canada, as well as the 1838 Rebellion in Upper Canada, just don’t get enough notice. These rebellions are lost in the pile of other wars, including the 1885 Rebellion, the War of 1812, the Boer War and the wars of the...
Today, Canada is parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy but there was a time that might have not been the case. Today, we have a monarch and prime minister, but for a brief time, there was a Republic of Canada and we had a president...