# Patriote movement > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patriote_movement > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patriote_movement.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriote_movement > Source revision: 1269513693 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Early 19th-century political movement in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Patriote movement" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2006) (Learn how and when to remove this message) [Flag](/source/Patriote_flag) used by the Patriotes between 1832 and 1838 Canadian patriot support pamphlet The **patriotes movement** was a political tendency that existed in [Lower Canada](/source/Lower_Canada) (present-day [Quebec](/source/Quebec)) from the turn of the 19th century to the [Patriote Rebellion](/source/Lower_Canada_Rebellion) of 1837 and 1838 and the subsequent [Act of Union of 1840](/source/Act_of_Union_1840). The partisan embodiment of the movement was the [Parti patriote](/source/Parti_patriote), which held many seats in the [Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Lower_Canada) (the elected lower house of the Lower Canadian parliament). The movement was at once a liberal and republican reaction against colonial control of the government of Lower Canada, and a more general nationalistic reaction against British presence and domination over what had previously been an exclusively French settler colony.[1] It was inspired by the [American Revolution](/source/American_Revolution), the [decolonization of the Americas](/source/Decolonization_of_the_Americas), as well as the political philosophy of [classical liberalism](/source/Classical_liberalism)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] and [republicanism](/source/Republicanism). Among its leading figures were [François Blanchet](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Blanchet_(physician)), [Pierre-Stanislas Bédard](/source/Pierre-Stanislas_B%C3%A9dard), [John Neilson](/source/John_Neilson_(Canadian_politician)), [Jean-Thomas Taschereau](/source/Jean-Thomas_Taschereau_(1778%E2%80%931832)), [James Stuart](/source/James_Stuart_(Lower_Canada_statesman)), [Louis Bourdages](/source/Louis_Bourdages), [Denis-Benjamin Viger](/source/Denis-Benjamin_Viger), [Daniel Tracey](/source/Daniel_Tracey), [Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan](/source/Edmund_Bailey_O'Callaghan), [Andrew Stuart](/source/Andrew_Stuart_(Canadian_politician)), [Wolfred Nelson](/source/Wolfred_Nelson), [Robert Nelson](/source/Robert_Nelson_(insurrectionist)), [Thomas Storrow Brown](/source/Thomas_Storrow_Brown), François Jalbert and [Louis-Joseph Papineau](/source/Louis-Joseph_Papineau). Its ideals were conveyed through the newspapers the *Montreal Vindicator*, *[Le Canadien](/source/Le_Canadien)*, and *[La Minerve](/source/La_Minerve)*. The patriotes demanded democratic reforms, such as an elected Legislative Council, as opposed to the contemporary council whose members were appointed for life by the British Crown.[2] The Parti patriote also sought to place control of the colony's budget in the hands of the elected assembly, thus supporting Lower Canada's position as semi-autonomous within the Empire.[3] In 1834, Louis-Joseph Papineau drafted the [Ninety-Two Resolutions](/source/Ninety-Two_Resolutions) to [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) to obtain these and other aims. The Resolutions were in great part denied by the Russell Resolutions, which resulted in a radicalization of the Patriotes and their moving closer to demands of outright [independence](/source/Independence) and a Lower Canada republic. Many of its followers ended up taking part in an armed insurrection known as the [Lower Canada Rebellion](/source/Lower_Canada_Rebellion), which was put down by the British army and its volunteer [militia](/source/Militia). ## See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Patriote movement](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Patriote_movement). - [Étienne Chartier](/source/%C3%89tienne_Chartier) - [Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada](/source/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Lower_Canada) - *[February 15, 1839](/source/February_15%2C_1839)* - [Québécois](/source/French-speaking_Quebecer) - [History of Quebec](/source/History_of_Quebec) - [Patriot War](/source/Patriot_War) - [Quebec independence movement](/source/Quebec_independence_movement) - [Société des Fils de la Liberté](/source/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_Fils_de_la_Libert%C3%A9) - [Timeline of Quebec history](/source/Timeline_of_Quebec_history) - [Upper Canada Rebellion](/source/Upper_Canada_Rebellion) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** D. G. Creighton, *The Struggle for Financial Control in Lower Canada* 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Elinor Kyte, *Redcoats and Patriotes, The Rebellions in Lower Canada*. Canadian War Museum publication, 1985, p. 6. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Kyte, p. 6. - Canada: A People's History, chapter 7 : Rebellion and Reform --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Patriote movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriote_movement) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriote_movement?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.