Hi Len I have one word for this and it is ,"Wow", there is so much information here and the stories go so far with just a little research on line. I did not know that there was a list or an accounting of the rebels. The names and the rebellions are glossed over in Canada and little talked about. The influx of new settlers mostly Scottish or Irish into Quebec very much was seen as an invasion of sorts and did much to exasperate the existing problems. My own family from Tyrone probably unwittingly ( I hope) added to that problem. They very likely believed they were moving to a new settlement of Scotch/Irish Presbyterians in Canada and would escape the famines, prejudices and violence they faced in Tyrone. I see a number of histories for the 1840 Canadian prisoners on line from Australian source. Thank you so much for this information. I will have days of reading...
Cheers Ron McCoy On 2019-01-26 9:08 p.m., Len Swindley via CoTyroneList wrote: Hello Listers, Rather recently, Ron McCoy referred to Canadian Exiles transported to the Australian colonies 1839-40; the two websites contained in this posting may be interesting to researchers There is a Fact Sheet http://www.guertin.info/patriots.pdf and a List of Canadian transportees despatched to the Australian colonies via the HMS Buffalo 1839-40 comprising French Canadians from Lower Canada and American Patriots who had crossed the border http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/canadian.html The Americans disembarked at Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) and the French Canadians from Lower Canada were sent to Sydney, New South Wales Trust this is interest to CTI researchers in Canada Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ (_internal_name)s
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