Political violence in Canada

rebellion

sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba

1885 resistance by the Métis and Cree peoples against Canada

insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December 1837

1837–1838 armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada (now Quebec) and the British colonial power of that province