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Canadian Republic Hist. 
a "Republic" established by rebels in 1838.
- 1904 ... Nelson returned to Vermont [1838] after the collapse of his unfortunate invasion, covered with the ridicule he had richly earned by his proclamation of a Canadian Republic and his own election as president. . . .
- 1916 Durham took ship at Quebec on the first of November [1838]; and Dr. Robert Nelson was declared president of the Canadian Republic at Napierville on the fourth.
- 1926 He [W. L. Mackenzie] set up a so-called "Provisional Government" on Navy Island in the Niagara River above the Falls, under the flag of the Canadian Republic, with two stars, in imitation of those in the Stars and Stripes.
- 1904 ... Nelson returned to Vermont [1838] after the collapse of his unfortunate invasion, covered with the ridicule he had richly earned by his proclamation of a Canadian Republic and his own election as president. . . .