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Land of a Thousand Sorrows
The Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837 and 1838 left manylegacies. Few accounts of those who took part record the plight of thePatriotes who for their actions were exiled to penal colonies inAustralia. One of these was Francois-Maurice Lepailleur, a baliff fromChateauguay. Condemned to death by a court-martial of dubious legality,his sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and he sailedwith 57 other Patriotes for New South Wales in September 1839. Morethan five years were to pass before they left the "Land of aThousand Sorrows" for home. Written secretly at Longbottom prison, Lepailleur's day-to-dayjournal is a unique document. As a camp sentry he observed conditionsboth ...
A Deep Sense of Wrong
Shows the degradation of prison life and the triumph of the human spirit over overwhelming odds.
