Rebellions of 1837–1838

Rebellions of 1837–1838
	Part of Atlantic Revolutions
	; The Battle of Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada
Date	7 December 1837 – 4 December 1838; (11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location	Canada
Result	Government victory; Patriote rebellion crushed by loyalist forces; Republic of Canada dismantled; Defeat of Hunters' Lodges; Unification of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada;
Belligerents
Lower Canada; Château Clique	Patriotes; Republic of Lower Canada
Upper Canada; Family Compact	Hunters' Lodges; Republic of Canada
Commanders and leaders
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton; Francis Bond Head; James FitzGibbon; George Gurnett; Henry Dundas; Allan MacNab; Charles Stephen Gore; George Augustus Wetherall	Louis Joseph Papineau; William Lyon Mackenzie; Thomas Storrow Brown; Jean-Olivier Chénier; Robert Nelson; Wolfred Nelson; Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski; Anthony Van Egmond; Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté; Charles Duncombe; Nils von Schoultz

The Rebellions of 1837–1838 (French: Rébellions de 1837), were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower and Upper Canada in 1837 and 1838. Both rebellions were motivated by frustrations with lack of political reform. A key shared goal was responsible government, which was eventually achieved in the incidents' aftermath. The rebellions led directly to Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America and to the Act of Union 1840 which partially reformed the British provinces into a unitary system and eventually led to the British North America Act, 1867, which created the contemporary Canadian federation and its government.

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