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Contents 1 Robert Goulay? 2 Mackenzie 3 Neutrality Act 4 Heavy Casualties

[edit] Robert Goulay?

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
• A discussion of his statistical work
• 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). -John R. Daily (03:46, 15 July 2004)

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.

-John R. Daily (04:40, 19 July 2004)

[edit] Mackenzie

I'm a new user, so sorry if this comment is bad form. I didn't want to change anything in the article- but it bugs me that it says that Mackenzie was arrested due to the Neutrality Act- an act, which according to the page it links to, is not put in place until some 100 years later.

The article on Mackenzie says that he was arrested due to the Caroline incident- which is explained in another article again.

I also expected this article to say something about the fact Mackenzie eventually returned to Canada and to politics as a part of his Reform party, which eventually formed part of the Liberal party... but that's just because I like looking at the big picture and putting things into perspective that way.

All of this information is already on wikipedia, it's just a matter of getting it organized. --Matthew Kelly 04:26, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality Act

As has been stated above, the Neutrality Act linked to cannot be the correct Act or Treaty in question, since it takes place 100 years later. Someone in the know, please come up with the correct information or wikilink.... Isoxyl 13:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heavy Casualties

The text "and inflicted heavy casualties upon them. In less than half an hour the confrontation was over" is a bit misleading considering what we today would consider "heavy casualties". I've seen other pages on the web state that the rebels only suffered "a number of dead and wounded" and that they fled after only a few minutes of battle. The "Confrontation at Montgomery's Tavern" page shows only 3 dead and 5 wounded in the Rebels, and 1 dead and 5 wounded in the Militia. CraigWyllie 03:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)