Talk:Upper Canada Rebellion
From Academic Kids
I'm not confident enough about this at the moment to edit the page, but I believe the information on "Robert Goulay"(sp) to be incorrect.
The following links lead me to believe that a "Robert Gourlay" of Scotland was expelled from Canada in 1819 (not 1804):
- A brief bio from SceneandHeard.ca (http://www.sceneandheard.ca/article.php?id=280&morgue=1)
- A discussion of his statistical work (http://pages.infinit.net/prevost/robert_gourlay.htm)
- English translation of the above: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://pages.infinit.net/prevost/robert_gourlay.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522robert%2Bgourlay%2522%2Bscotland%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
Note also a biography of Mr. Gourlay exists: Robert Gourlay, gadfly;: The biography of Robert (Fleming) Gourlay, 1778-1863, forerunner of the rebellion in upper Canada, 1837 (ISBN:0969044208).
Since no one has leapt to the defense of the information, I'm pulling it. Original text:
As far back as 1804, a Scottish pollster named Robert Goulay became a political martyr when the British government expelled him from the colony, for fear that he was stirring up Republican sentiment over the issue of Crown reserves.
