Company of Wire of Freedom

See also: Wire of freedom

The Société of Wire of Freedom is an organization Paramilitaire founded in August of 1837 with the Low-Canada by young partisans of the patriotic Parti become impatient vis-a-vis slowness the progress of the movement constitutional reform and member of Parliament. The organization holds its name of the American organization off Sons Liberty , founded by Samuel Adams during the American Révolution.

The Company of Wire of Freedom holds its first public assembly on September 5th and starts to recruit men to form militia. A public assembly will be held each Monday thereafter. The company publishes a proclamation on October 4th and adopts a national anthem for Canada.

The organization has two sections: civil, directed by Andre Ouimet, Louis-Joseph Papineau and Edmund Bailey O' Callaghan and another soldier, directed by Thomas Storrow Brown.

At the time of the appearance of Wire of freedom, several associations of loyal supporters were already in activity, of which the Doric Club. With the Parliament of Six-Counties, on October 23rd, crowd sanctions Wire of Freedom.

The company is disappeared little from time after its confrontation from with the Doric Club on November 6th.

The order of arrest emitted by the governor Gosford on October 16th names several members of the company of which Papineau, O' Callaghan, Brown and Ouimet. The Wire of freedom many with will be taken part in the armed conflict of 1837 and the two attempts at invasion of Low-Canada in 1838.

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Extracts from proclamation of Wire of Freedom

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