François Deschamps is a historian who has
specialized in the history of the revolts of 1837-38 in Lower
Canada (now Quebec) and particularly the role of the ultra-Tory
Montreal Herald. Author of La "rébellion de 1837" à travers le
prisme du Montreal Herald: La refondation par les armes des
institutions politiques, François Deschamps received the Fondation
Jean-Charles Bonenfant Award for his 2011 Master's thesis.
Adam Thom (1802-1890) was born in Scotland and
immigrated to Montreal in 1832. Appointed editor of the Montreal
Herald in January 1835, he led the journalistic assault on the vast
French Canadian majority and on the "conciliatory" British
government policy towards the French-speaking majority leading up
to the rebellions of 1837-1838. Under the pseudonym of "Camillus,"
he wrote the Anti-Gallic Letters to Governor General Lord Gosford
published in book form in 1836. Thom helped draft the Durham Report
of 1839. A lawyer, Thom was appointed to a judicial position in Red
River (now Manitoba) in 1839 where he came into conflict with the
French-speaking Métis, including Louis Riel, sr. He returned
permanently to the UK in 1854.
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