Editing Hunters' Lodges (section)

== Politics ==
The leadership of the Patriot movement appears to have belonged to the small [[Locofocos|Equal Rights Part]]y (known more popularly as the Locofocos).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bonthius|first=Andrew|title=The Patriot War of 1837–38: Locofocoism with a Gun?|journal=Labour/Le Travail|year=2003|volume=52|pages=9–43|doi=10.2307/25149383|jstor=25149383 |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/download/5308/6177|access-date=2018-02-20|archive-date=2016-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927013538/https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/download/5308/6177|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>  The small party emerged in 1836 in New York with a platform emphasizing radical republicanism, an end to the "moneyed aristocracy", and "[[Free Banking]]".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schrauwers |first=Albert |date=2017 |title=Tilting at Windmills: The Utopian Socialist Roots of the Patriot War, 1838-1839 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44820371 |journal=Labour / Le Travail |volume=79 |pages=53–80 |doi=10.1353/llt.2017.0002 |jstor=44820371 |issn=0700-3862 |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-date=2022-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420054922/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44820371 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The Republican Bank of Canada was formed on this basis. Dr [[Charles Duncombe (Upper Canada Rebellion)|Charles Duncombe]] was the author of ''Duncombe’s free banking: an essay on banking, currency, finance, exchanges, and political economy'' (Cleveland, Ohio, 1841); and ''Memorial to Congress upon the subject of Republican free banking'' (Cleveland, Ohio, 1841).