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Loyalties and liberty under Governor Craig era in Lower Canada
Article recounts colonial oppression under Sir James Henry Craig, detailing priestly loyalty sermons, arrests of Notary Pierre Laforce and others, press and public suppression, and parliamentary maneuvers. It cites Quebec and Montreal districts 1810 events, Bedard imprisonment, and contested assembly actions amid broader imperial politics.
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Waaia
Quente
Quebec
King
George
James Henry Craig
Ranvoux
Ste. Anne
Lelievre
la Baie St. Paul
Pinet
Kamouraska
Three Rivers
Montreal
Monrac
Lower Canada
Pierre Laforce
Frs. Corbeil
Ste. Rose
Terrebonne
Corbeil
Pierre Papineau
Chambly
St. Johne
Lake of Two Mountains
Louis Trato
Messrs. Panet
Bedard
Desrivieres Beaubien
Varennes
J. Bie. Derocher
Joseph Turcotte
J. Drolet
St. Marc
Craig
Michel Constant
Church of Notre Dame de Quebec
Canada
Dalhousie, Gosford & Colborne
Court of King's Bench
J. A. Panet
House of Assembly
Pierre Bedard
Executive Department
Messrs
Bourdages
Debartzeh
J. Pepineau
D. B. Viger
Broneau
Lee
Bellet
Siot
L. J. Papineau
D. 2
Viger
Piariots
Legislative Council
John Molson
St. Lawrence
House Assembly