Editing Durham Report (section)

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{{wikisource|History of the Insurrection in Canada in refutation of the report of Lord Durham}}In exile in France, [[Louis-Joseph Papineau]] published the ''Histoire de la résistance du Canada au gouvernement anglais'' (History of the resistance of Canada to the English government) in the French ''La Revue du Progrès'' in May 1839. In June, it appeared in Canada in [[Ludger Duvernay]]'s ''La Revue canadienne'' as ''Histoire de l'insurrection du Canada en réfutation du Rapport de Lord Durham'' (History of the insurrection of Canada in refutation of the Report of Lord Durham). Lord Durham believed that, to eliminate the possibility of rebellions, French Canadians had to adopt British-Canadian culture and the English language.

The assertion that the so-called "French" Canadians had no history and no culture and that the conflict was primarily that of two ethnic groups evidently outraged Papineau. It was pointed out that many of the Patriote leaders were of British or British Canadian origin, including among others [[Wolfred Nelson]], the hero of the [[Battle of Saint-Denis (1837)|Battle of Saint-Denis]]; [[Robert Nelson (insurrectionist)|Robert Nelson]], author of the [[Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada]], who would have become President of Lower Canada had the second insurrection succeeded; journalist [[Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan]]; and [[Thomas Storrow Brown]], general during the [[Battle of St-Charles]]. It was also pointed out that an uprising had occurred in Upper Canada where there was only one "race". According to Papineau and other Patriotes, the analysis of the economic situation of French Canadians was biased. Indeed, from 1791 to the rebellions, the elected representatives of Lower Canada had been demanding control over the budget of the colony.