Patriotes
(Louis Joseph Papineau era) Name assumed by popular party in Lower
Canada--particularly the followers of Papineau, 40, 68; Neilson checks
the more violent among them, 46; vacillation of Quebec wing of party,
68; their press publish violent articles, 86; prepare Ninety-Two
Resolutions, 85-97; Gugy belittles their cause, 103; influenced by
American Revolution, 121; advocate smuggling, 122; boycott English
goods, 122; the St. Charles meeting, 125; under Nelson and Brown at St.
Denis and St. Charles, 128; they kill Lieutenant Weir, 134; crushed at
St. Eustache, 137; in the Montreal election, 1834, 144. =Bib.=:
Christie, History of Lower Canada.