But others were not so lucky. Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews were hanged in front of the Toronto jail four months later. The rebellion in Upper Canada lasted less than a week.

All eyes were now turned to Lower Canada. The battle of Saint-Denis was only the first in a series of bloody confrontations. Rebellion would spread all the way to Upper Canada. Hundreds of men ...

Two, Dec. 7 marks the 181st anniversary of when the original house, built by prosperous land surveyor David Gibson, was burned down in the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion by government soldiers because ...