The Rebellion in Lower Canada

The Patriotes wrote a list, addressing the British government, that has the complaints for the government to think of.
Two years later, instead of meeting the complaints and improving the colony, they increased the power of the governor!
Of course, the Patriotes were not happy about this, and prepared to fight.

The government started arresting certain people who had a possibility to be a rebel (or thinking about rebellion), in order to keep the government safe from rebellions. Caused by this, a skirmish broke out between a group of Patriotes and the British Troop with a victory towards the rebels.

The Patriotes and the British troops fought many other minor battles.
At this time, the British troops were able to defeat the Patriotes fairly easily, mainly since the Patriotes were not trained to fight in battles, and they owned little weapons.
Louis-Joseph Papineau went to hide, but in contrast, the rebels were prepared to fight.
The second rebellion ended as a defeat by the British troop, resulted by the lack of people to fight in the battle.

Approximately 800 Patriotes were jailed, albeit the majority of them were eventually released. In the end, 12 "criminals" were hanged (killed) and 58 were sent to prison colonies, such as Australia and Bermuda. The houses of the Patriotes' supporters were destroyed.

Although the rebellion ended as a fail, this act caused a great effect in the future.
A man called Lord Durham was sent to the colonies by the British government to give suggestions of what to do by investigating the current situation.
Lord Durham stayed in the colonies for five months and wrote a long report about it. To make the long report short,
1) Join Upper and Lower Canada into one colony: Providence of Canada.
2) Give the Providence of Canada responsible government.
The government responded by making the first request true in 1841, but the Providence of Canada did not receive responsible government. Although, this idea was not trashed, and would change the Providence of Canada in the future.