The Ninety-Two Resolutions

February 14, 2017

Louis-Joseph Papineau, Patriote leader, Robert Auchmuty Sproule. Library and Archives Canada, e010966524

1834

During the late 1820s and early 1830s, politics in Lower Canada had become split between two parties: the Conservative or British Party and the Canadien or Parti Patriote. The Parti Patriote sought out reforms that would allow its members and other French Canadians in the liberal professions better access to government positions and power. The Ninety-Two Resolutions were an expression of the Patriotes’ complaints, with requests for constitutional reform and threats of rebellion if their demands were not met. This lengthy manifesto was passed by the legislative assembly, becoming an election issue that year and a factor in the 1837–1838 Lower Canada Rebellion.

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