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VOYAGEUR CLASSICS

BOOKS THAT EXPLORE CANADA

Michael Gnarowski Series Editor

The Dundurn Group presents the Voyageur Classics series, building on the tradition of exploration and rediscovery and bringing forward time-tested writing about the Canadian experience in all its varieties.

This series of original or translated works in the fields of literature, history, politics, and biography has been gathered to enrich and illuminate our understanding of a multi-faceted Canada. Through straightforward, knowledgeable, and reader-friendly introductions the Voyageur Classics series provides context and accessibility while breathing new life into these timeless Canadian masterpieces.

The Voyageur Classics series was designed with the widest possible readership in mind and sees a place for itself with the interested reader as well as in the classroom. Physically attractive and reset in a contemporary format, these books aim at an enlivened and updated sense of Canadas written heritage.

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THE FIREBRAND

WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE AND THE
REBELLION IN UPPER CANADA

WILLIAM KILBOURN

INTRODUCTION BY RONALD STAGG

D UNDURN P RESS
T ORONTO

Copyright Elizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie, 2008
Originally published by Clarke, Irwin in 1956

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

Editor: Michael Carroll
Copy-editor: Shannon Whibbs
Design: Erin Mallory
Printer: Marquis

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Kilbourn, William, 1926-1995.

The firebrand : William Lyon Mackenzie and the rebellion in Upper Canada / William Kilbourn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55002-800-3

1. Mackenzie, William Lyon, 1795-1861. 2. Canada--Politics and government--1791-1841. 3. Canada--History--Rebellion, 1837-1838. 4. Politicians--Canada--Biography. I. Title.

FC451.M33K45 2008 971.038092 C2008-900697-6

1 2 3 4 5 12 11 10 09 08

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

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Printed and bound in Canada.
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For my father

CONTENTS

GENERAL

INTRODUCTION

BY RONALD STAGG

For what will a public figure be remembered? For women and men who excel in one field, the answer is probably easy. For those who stand out in multiple fields, the answer is not as clear. William Morley Kilbourn (19261995), historian/author, teacher/academic administrator, civic activist/civic politician, supporter of the arts, falls into the latter category. The annual William Kilbourn Lecture, which celebrates his love for his native city, and the William Kilbourn Award, which recognizes his devotion to the arts in Toronto will keep his name in public view, but these two, and the brief biography of Kilbourn that accompanies them, give only a general sense of his accomplishments. It is his writings that provide a real sense of both his passion and his ability. None is more effective at this task than his first major work, The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada.

William Bill Kilbourn was a child of privilege descended from an industrialist family. He attended the best schools: Upper Canada College; Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where he studied history; Oxford; and Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. in history. Well connected in the Liberal Party, he also numbered among his friends in later life many in the cultural elite in Toronto society. In spite of all this, or perhaps in combination with all this, since his was a complex character, he remained his whole adult life a populist and a believer in government for the people. He was a passionate nationalist, more pro-Canadian than anti-anything. His home in the affluent South Rosedale area of Toronto was a centre for intellectual and artistic debate, both within his family and among the political and artistic figures who dropped by. Equally welcome, in later years, were students and reform-minded individuals of all political persuasions who embraced the same vision of society that Kilbourn held so passionately.

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