Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada

Canadian Children's Literature
`Marianne Brandis provides evidence of her usual meticulous research in re-creating the lives of ordinary people.'

Book Description
Adam Wheeler is a fourteen year-old who arrives in Toronto in the autumn of 1837 after crossing from England on a filthy and crowded immigrant ship. He has emigrated in company with his uncle's family, but, once in Upper Canada, he quarrels with his uncle and sets out on his own. Adam finds work in a paper mill at the village of Todmorden on the banks of the Don River.

Adam soon learns that William Lyon Mackenzie is mounting a rebellion. When the uprising begins, he is drawn into the conflict both because his employer sends him to deliver paper to the rebel camp at Montgomery's Tavern, and also because his uncle joins Mackenzie's force.

Among those Adam befriends are two teenage girls, Cornelia and Charlotte de Grassi. These historical figures, aged thirteen and fourteen at the time, served as spies and messengers for the government side during Mackenzie's Rebellion.

Although this book is a work of fiction, it is solidly based on real history. The events of the 1837 Rebellion have been carefully researched and are presented as accurately as possible. Captain and Mrs de Grassi and their daughters, and several other characters, were real people and, improbable as it may seem, the girls' work as spies and messengers during the rebellion days is fully authenticated.

Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada

Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada,Marianne Brandis,Porcupine's Quill,0889841756,Children's 12-Up - Fiction - History,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12),Historical - General,History - General,Juvenile Nonfiction,Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)

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