Complete list of the 108 Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 in 1838-1839. The trials occurred between December 6 1838 and 1st of May 1839, following the suspension of habeas corpus

Habeas corpus

is a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to his aid. Habeas corpus originated in the English legal system, but it is now available in many nations...

on November 8, 1838. Nine of the persons in custody were acquitted, and 99 sentenced to death. 12 patriots were hanged in public between December 1838 and February 1839. 58 of the 99 who were initially condemned to death saw their sentence commuted into deportation to Australia on September 27, 1839. (Pardoned in 1843, they returned home in 1845.) 29 were freed under bail or condition.

Saint-Clément

• Michel Alary - carpenter
• Désiré Bourbonnais - blacksmith
• Jacques Goyette - farmer and stone man
• Joseph Goyette - carpenter
• André Papineau dit Montigny - blacksmith
• François-Xavier Prévost - merchant and innkeeper
• Toussaint Rochon - teamster and painter
• Basile Roy - farmer
• Charles Roy dit Lapensée père - farmer
• Joseph Roy dit Lapensée, son of Louis - day labourer

L'Acadie

• Théodore Béchard - owner
• Antoine Coupal dit Lareine - farmer
• Etienne Langlois - farmer

Sainte-Martine

• Charles Bergevin dit Langevin, père - farmer
• Constant Buisson - blacksmith and bailiff
  Bailiff
  A bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed...
  
  
• Ignace-Gabriel Chevrefils - farmer
• Joseph Dumouchel, - farmer - brother of Louis
• Louis Dumouchel - innkeeper and cultivator
• Jean Laberge - farmer and carpenter
  Carpenter
  A carpenter is a skilled craftsperson who works with timber to construct, install and maintain buildings, furniture, and other objects. The work, known as carpentry, may involve manual labor and work outdoors....
  
  
• François-Xavier Touchette - farmer and blacksmith
  Blacksmith
  A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal; that is, by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut...
  
  
• Louis Turcot - farmer

Napierville

• François Bigonesse dit Beaucaire - owner
• Louis Defaillette - farmer
• Jacques-David Hébert - farmer
• Joseph-Jacques Hébert - farmer
• Charles Huot - notary
• Pierre Lavoie - farmer
• David-Drossin Leblanc - farmer
• Hubert Drossin-Leblanc - farmer
• Joseph Marceau dit Petit-Jacques - farmer and cloth weaver
• Gabriel-Achille Morin - merchant (son of Pierre-Hector)
• Pierre-Hector Morin - ship captain
• Joseph Paré - farmer

Terrebonne

• Charles-Guillaume Bouc - clerk
• Edouard-Pascal Rochon - teamster and painter

Saint-Césaire

• Louis Bourdon - farmer and merchant
• Jean-Baptiste Bousquet - farmer and grain miller
• François Guertin - carpenter

Châteauguay

• Louis-Guérin Dussault - merchant and baker
• Joseph Guimond - farmer and carpenter
• François-Maurice Lepailleur - painter
• Samuel Newcomb - Médecin
• Jean-Louis Thibert - farmer
• Jean-Marie Thibert - farmer
• Jean-Baptiste Trudelle - farmer and carpenter

The 26 released under bail

• François Camyré
• Antoine Charbonneau
• Joseph Cousineau
• David Demers
• Paul Gravelle
• Louis Heneault
• Louis Julien
• Joseph L'Écuyer
• Michel Longtin dit Jérôme, son
• Léon Leclaire
• Charles Mondat
• Clovis Patenaude
• Charles Rapin
• Antoine Roussin, alias Joseph
• Joseph Roy
• François St-Louis
• Thomas Surprenant, dit Lafontaine
• François Surprenant
• François Trepanier, son
• Édouard Tremblay
• Phillippe Tremblay
• François Vallé
  François Vallé
  François Vallé was a French Canadian who immigrated to Upper Louisiana of New France sometime in the early 1740s. Beginning as a laborer of no means, he engaged in agriculture, lead mining, and trade with Indians and became the richest man in Upper Louisiana.- References :...
  
  
• Bennoni Verdon
• Joseph Wattier dit Lanoie

The 12 hanged

• December 21, 1838
  • Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal
    Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal
    Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada. He was the first person executed for taking part in the Lower Canada Rebellion....
    
    , lawyer and Member of Parliament
  • Joseph Duquet
    Joseph Duquet
    Joseph Duquet was a notary in Lower Canada. He was executed for his part in the Lower Canada Rebellion....
    
    , notary

• January 18, 1839
  • Pierre-Théophile Decoigne, hotelman and notary
  • François-Xavier Hamelin, farmer
  • Joseph-Jacques Robert, farmer
  • Ambroise Sanguinet, farmer
  • Charles Sanguinet, farmer

• February 15, 1839
  • Amable Daunais, fermier
  • François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier
    François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier
    François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier , also known under various shorter names as François-Marie-Thomas de Lorimier, Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier or Chevalier de Lorimier, was a notary who fought as a Patriote and Frère chasseur for the independence of Lower Canada in the Lower Canada...
    
    , notary
  • Charles Hindelang
    Charles Hindelang
    Charles Hindelang was a French-born military man who fought for the independence of Lower Canada . For these actions, he was hanged by the British authorities...
    
    , merchant and military officer
  • Pierre-Rémi Narbonne, painter and bailiff
  • François Nicolas, teacher

The nine acquitted

• Jean-Baptiste Dozois, father
• Antoine Doré
• Louis Lesiege, aka Lesage
• Louis Lemelin
• Joseph Longtin
• James Perrigo
• Jacques Robert
• Édouard Therien
• Isidore Tremblay

The three freed on condition

• Jean-Baptiste-Henri Brien (remain at a distance of 600 miles from the province)
• Antoine Côté (remain within the province)
• Guillaume Lévesque (leave the province)