Bibliography of Resources Related to the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1838 and the Transportation of North American Political Prisoners to Van Diemen's Land, prepared by Dr. John C. Carter. [Editor’s Note: We thank Dr. Carter for generously sharing this material with TI Life. His research is appreciated. Also please see: John Carter’s Prisoners in Van Diemen’s Land, November 2009]
Aislabie, W.J. "Remarks on Transportation to Australia," The Colonial Magazine & East India Review (April, 1852), v. 22, # 4
Antal, Sandy & Kevin Shackelton. Duty Done Nobly (Windsor: Scottish Borderers Foundation, 2006)
"Attack on Point au Pelee Island, in Upper Canada, by Part of H.M. 32nd Regiment," United Service Journal (July, 1838), pt. 2
Bonthius, Andrew. "The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism With a Gun?," Labour/Le Travail (Fall, 2003), # 52
Boyce, Betsy Dewar. The Rebels of Hastings (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992)
Burn, David. Vindication of Van Diemen's Land (London: S.W. Southgate, 1840)
Brand, Ian. The Convict Probation System: Van Diemen's Land 1839-1854 (Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1990)
"Canada," Army and Navy Chronicle (November 29, 1838), v. 6, n.s.
"Canada: False Principals of Government the Cause of Its Sufferings," The Colonial Magazine & Commercial-Maritime Journal (January-April, 1840), # 1
"The Canadian Revolt: A Short Review of Its Causes, Progress and Probable Consequences," United Service Journal (June, 1838), # 115
Carter, John C. "Events in the Western District, 1838: The Other Rebellion," in 1837 Rebellion Remembered (Willowdale: Ontario Historical Society, 1988)
Carter, John C. "North American Political Prisoners in a Foreign Land: The Result of Rebellion," York Pioneer (2009), v. 104
Carter, John C. "One Way Ticket to a Penal Colony: North American Political Prisoners in Van Diemen's Land," Ontario History (Autumn, 2009), v.101
Carter, John C. "Rebellious Acts in the Western District of Upper Canada: Precursor to Transportation to Van Diemen's Land," Australasian Canadian Studies Journal (2004 & 2005), v. 22 & 23, # 1
Carter, John C. & Chris Raible. "Remembrances of the 1837 Rebellion: An Inventory of Known Prisoners' Boxes," The York Pioner (2006), v. 101
Carter-Edwards, Dennis. "The Rebellions of 1837/1838 and the Peterborough Region," Ontario History (Autumn, 2009), v. 101
Causer, Tim. "On British Felony the Sun Never Sets:Narratives of political prisoners in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land," Cultural and Social History (2008), v. 5, # 4
Cline, Bev. "The Unrelenting Wait," The Beaver (June-July, 2006)
Douglas, R. Alan. Uppermost Canada (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001)
Dunning, Thomas P. "The Adventures of Patriot Hunters: Danger, Memory, Place and Virtue at the Windmill," Canadian Review of American Studies (1999) v. 29, # 1
Dunning, Thomas P. "Convict Bodies in Van Diemen's Land: The North American Experiences," Australian Studies (1998), v. 13, # 1
Dunning, Thomas P. "The Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38: An Episode in Northern Borderland History," The Australasian Journal of American Studies (1995), v. 14, # 2
Dunning, Thomas P. "The Canadian Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 as a Borderland War," Ontario History (Autumn, 2009), v. 101
Duquemin, Colin. Niagara Rebels (St. Catharines: Norman Enterprises, 2001)
"Foreign News-Canada," Gentleman's Magazine (May, 1838), v. 9, n.s.
Forster. John. "Notes of a Residence in Van Diemen's Land, in 1842-42," Simmond's Colonial Magazine (January, 1844), v. 1, # 1, (May, 1844), v. 3, # 1, & (September, 1844), v. 3, # 2
Fry, Alfred A. Report of the Case of the Canadian Prisoners (London: A. Maxwell, 1839)
Fryer, Mary Beacock. Volunteers, Redcoats, Raiders and Rebels (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1987)
Garcia, Robert W. "British Efforts to Secure Kingston from Rebellion in the Winter of 1837-1838," Ontario History (Autumn, 2009), v. 101
Gates, William. Recollections of Life in Van Dieman's Land (Lockport, N.Y.: D.S. Crandall, 1850)
Gore, Montagu. Observations on the Disturbances in Canada (London: Saunders & Otley, 1838)
Graves, Donald E. Guns Across the River (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2001)
Greenwood, W./ Murray & Barry Wright (eds.). Canadian State Trials (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), v. 2
Guillet, Edwin C. The Lives and Times of the Patriots (Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 1938)
Gunn, Thomas. "Convicts to Bermuda: A Reassessment of Earl Durham's 1838 Bermdan Ordinance," Australasian Canadian Studies Journal (2007), v. 25, # 2
Heustis, Daniel. A Narrative of the Adventures and sufferings of Captain Daniel Heustis (Booston: Redding & Co., 1848)
"Invasions of Upper Canada from the United States-Battle of Point au Pele," The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal (1841), v. 4, # 15
Jackson, J.A. "The Regeneration of Van Diemen's Land," Simmond's Colonial Magazine (January, 1848), v. 13, # 49
Kerr, James S. Design for Convicts: An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era (Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1984)
Kerr, James S. Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Sydney: National Trust of Australia, 1988)
Landon, Fred. An Exile From Canada to Van Diemen's Land (Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1960)
Landon, Fred. "The Exiles of 1838 From Canada to Van Dieman's Land," Transactions of the London & Middlesex Historical Society (1927), pt. 2
Laugeson, Amanda. Convict Words (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Lyon, Caleb (ed.). Narrative and Recollections of Van Dieman's Land During Three Years Captivity of Stephen Wright (New York: New World Press, 1844)
Macdonnell, John (ed.). Report of State Trials (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1891), n.s., v. 3
MacFie, Peter. Dobbers and Cobbers (Dulcot: P. MacFie, 2002)
Mackey, Frank. "Bound for Australia," Horizon Canada (October, 1986), v. 7, # 84
Mann, Michael. A Particular Duty (Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1986)
Marsh, Robert. Seven Years of My Life, or a Narrative of a Patriot Exile (Buffalo: Faxon & Stevens, 1847)
Meredith, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania, or Nine Years in Australia (New York: Bruce & Brother, 1853)
Miller, Linus. Notes of An Exile in Van Dieman's Land (Fredonia, N.Y.: W. McKinstry, 1846)
Murchison, Barbara C. "Riches to Rags to Rebellion: A Case of James Aitchison, Sometime Resident of Scotland, Upper Canada and Van Diemen's Land," British Journal of Canadian Studies (1989), v. 4, # 2
Pocock, Zachary P. Transportation and Convict Discipline Considered (London: Simmonds & Co., 1847)
Pybus, Cassandra & Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. American Citizens, British Slaves (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 2002)
Raible, Chris (ed.), "Bibliography of Published Works Relating to the Upper Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838," Ontario History (Autumn, 2009), v. 101
Raible, Chris. "Two Years in Van Diemen's Land:The personal experiences of a transported Canadian rebel ," York Pioneer (2005), v. 100
"Rebellion in Upper Canada and Invasion of the Americans," The Colonial Magazine & Commercial-Maritime Journal (1840), v. 2, # 8
Russell-Green, Crosby. "Enjoyment or Terror-An Archaeological Survey of a Convict Station in Tasmania," B.A. Thesis, University of New England (2003)
Sexton, Robert. HMS Buffalo (Adelaide: Australasian Maritime Historical Society, 1984)
Scott, Stuart D. "A Frontier Spirit: The Life of James Gemmell," Australasian Canadian Studies Journal (2007) v. 25, # 2
Scott, Stuart D. To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation (New York: iUniverse Inc., 2004)
"A Sketch of the Canadas," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (February, 1838), v. 43, # 268
Snow, Samuel. The Exiles' Return or Narrative of Samuel Snow (Cleveland: Smead & Cowles, 1846)
Syme, James. Nine Years in Van Diemen's Land (Dundee: self published, 1848)
Thompson, John. "No Ordinary Convicts, " The Sunday Tasmanian (December 31, 1995)
Thompson, John. "The North American Patriot Prisoners at Probation Stations in Van Diemen's Land," Australasian Canadian Studies Journal (2007), v. 25, # 2
Thompson, John. Probation in Paradise (Hobart; self published, 2007)
Wait, Benjamin. Letters from Van Diemen's Land (Buffalo: A.W. Wilgus, 1843)
White, Charles. Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Bathurst: C. & G.S. White, 1889)
Williams, Brad. "The archaeological potential of colonial prison hulks: the Tasmanian case study," Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (2005), v. 29
By Dr. John C. Carter.
