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BOOK - Niagara Rebels: The Niagara Frontier
in the Upper Canada Rebellion
1837- 1838
by: Colin K. Duquemin An essential read for everyone interested in early Ontario history in general, and in the Rebellion of 1837 in particular. Contents include:
.... On first taking up the book I groaned inwardly because I noticed a plethora of quotations within the text. Upon further reading, it became clear that the author, by a judicious selection of quotable material, had created a story with immediacy and poignancy. Most of the quotes were the actual words of prisoners and others associated with the events and the subsequent trials of the rebels. The book is a good read, particularly for those whose interest lies in the history of the beginnings of our Province. For others who delight in masonic history, the story of Samuel Chandler, whose sentence of death was commuted to transportation for life to Van Diemen’s Land. He subsequently escaped from the penal colony and made his way to North America. It is a fascinating tale of the harshness of life on a prison ship, of vermin and scurvy, of lack of food and of lashings for alleged or real disobedience. Also documented are the horrors of the chain gangs working on the docks at Hobarttown. Once again, the immediacy of emotion and the harshness of life were brought home to the reader by the first hand quotations. The reader will derive enjoyment from this account of the actual adventures of those intimately involved in the Niagara Rebellion.
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