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Wolfred Nelson, the Glossary

Wolfred Nelson (10 July 1791 – 17 June 1863) was the mayor of Montreal, Quebec, from 1854 to 1856.^[1]

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Canadian exiles
Canadian republicans
Lower Canada Rebellion people
Mayors of Montreal
Quebec revolutionaries
Quebec sovereigntists

American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Assembly of the Six Counties

The Assembly of the Six Counties (Assemblée des six-comtés) was an assembly of Patriote leaders and approximately 6,000 followers held in Saint-Charles, Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) on October 23 and October 24, 1837, despite the June 15 Proclamation of the government forbidding public assemblies.

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Battle of Saint-Denis (1837)

The Battle of Saint-Denis was fought on November 23, 1837, between British colonial authorities under Lieutenant-Colonel Gore and Patriote rebels in Lower Canada as part of the Lower Canada Rebellion.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Charles Wilson (Quebec politician)

Charles Wilson (April 1808 – May 4, 1877) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Wolfred Nelson and Charles Wilson (Quebec politician) are mayors of Montreal.

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Colonial history of the United States

The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War.

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Distillation

Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.

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Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May 1880) was an Irish doctor, historian and journalist. Wolfred Nelson and Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan are members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.

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Frères chasseurs

The Frères chasseurs (French for "Hunter Brothers") were a paramilitary organization that fought in the Patriote Rebellion on the Patriote side, seeking to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, an independent and democratic republic.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Henry Starnes

Henry Starnes (October 13, 1815 – March 3, 1896) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. Wolfred Nelson and Henry Starnes are mayors of Montreal and members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East.

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Le Devoir

("Duty") is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada.

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Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. Wolfred Nelson and Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada are members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.

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Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the Parliament of the Province of Canada.

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Louis-Joseph Papineau

Louis-Joseph Papineau (October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. Wolfred Nelson and Louis-Joseph Papineau are Canadian republicans, lower Canada Rebellion people, members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East.

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Lower Canada

The Province of Lower Canada (province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841).

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Lower Canada Rebellion

The Lower Canada Rebellion (rébellion du Bas-Canada), commonly referred to as the Patriots' Rebellion (Rébellion des patriotes) in French, is the name given to the armed conflict in 1837–38 between rebels and the colonial government of Lower Canada (now southern Quebec).

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Mayor of Montreal

The mayor of Montreal is head of the executive branch of the Montreal City Council. Wolfred Nelson and mayor of Montreal are mayors of Montreal.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Newsham, Richmondshire

Newsham is a village and civil parish in the former Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Parti canadien

The or was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Patriote movement

The patriotes movement was a political movement that existed in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) from the turn of the 19th century to the Patriote Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 and the subsequent Act of Union of 1840.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Politician

A politician is a person who has political power in the government of a state, a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government.

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Province of Canada

The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867.

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Republicanism

Republicanism is a Western political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.

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Resisting arrest

Resisting arrest, or simply resisting, is an illegal act of a suspected criminal either fleeing, threatening, assaulting, or providing a fake ID to a police officer during arrest.

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Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution.

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Richelieu River

The Richelieu River is a river of Quebec, Canada, and a major right-bank tributary of the St. Lawrence River.

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Rights of Man

Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

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Robert Nelson (insurrectionist)

Robert Nelson (August 8, 1794 – March 1, 1873) was an Anglo-Quebecer physician and a leading figure in the Lower Canada Rebellion in 19th century Quebec (Lower Canada). Wolfred Nelson and Robert Nelson (insurrectionist) are Canadian people of American descent, Canadian republicans, lower Canada Rebellion people, members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Quebec revolutionaries and Quebec sovereigntists.

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Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu

Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu.

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Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu is a municipality in the southwestern part of Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu.

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Sorel-Tracy

Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Champlain Valley.

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Théophile Hamel

Théophile-Abraham Hamel (8 November 1817 – 23 December 1870) was a Canadian artist who painted mainly portraits and religious images in 19th-century Quebec.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfred_Nelson

Wolfred Nelson, the Glossary

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See also

Canadian exiles

Canadian republicans

Lower Canada Rebellion people

Mayors of Montreal

Quebec revolutionaries

Quebec sovereigntists

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