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Sons of Liberty Hist. 
an organization of republican-minded Lower-Canadian Reformers established at Montreal in August 1837 and outlawed in November of that year.
See also: Fils de la Liberté
- 1837 In Lower Canada, Divine Providence has blessed the arms of the Sons of Liberty--a whole people are there manfully struggling for that freedom without which property is but a phantom, and life scarce worth having. . . .
- 1841 The sons of liberty were shot, like dogs by martial law in the roads or reserved for a more cold blooded sacrifice.
- 1916 These might prove, as thought . . . one of the leaders of the "Sons of Liberty" in Lower Canada, so many Lexingtons, with a Saratoga and a Yorktown to follow.
- 1837 In Lower Canada, Divine Providence has blessed the arms of the Sons of Liberty--a whole people are there manfully struggling for that freedom without which property is but a phantom, and life scarce worth having. . . .