As much as any other site in the nineteenth century, Francophone Lower Canada saw immense waves of popular petitioning, with petitions against British colonial administration attracting tens of thousands of signatures in the 1820s. The petition against Governor Dalhousie of 1827–28 attracted more than 87,000 names, making it one of the largest mass petitions of the Atlantic world on a per-capita scale for its time. We draw upon new archival evidence that shows the force of local organization in the petition mobilization, and combine this with statistical analyses of a new sample of 1,864 names from the anti-Dalhousie signatory list. We conclude that the Lower Canadian petitioning surge stemmed from emergent linguistic nationalism, expectations of parliamentary democracy, and the mobilization and alliance-building efforts of Patriote leaders in the French-Canadian republican movement. As elsewhere in the nineteenth-century Atlantic, the anti-Dalhousie effort shows social movements harnessing petitions to recruit, mobilize, and build cross-cultural alliances.

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L'éruption patriote：对达尔豪西的反抗和十九世纪法属加拿大的请愿爆炸

与 19 世纪的任何其他网站一样，讲法语的下加拿大地区看到了巨大的民众请愿浪潮，反对英国殖民政府的请愿书在 1820 年代吸引了数以万计的签名。1827-28 年间针对达尔豪西州长的请愿书吸引了 87,000 多个名字，使其成为当时大西洋世界人均规模最大的大规模请愿书之一。我们利用新的档案证据表明地方组织在请愿动员中的力量，并将其与来自反达尔豪西签名名单的 1,864 个新样本的统计分析相结合。我们的结论是，下加拿大的请愿激增源于新兴的语言民族主义、对议会民主的期望、以及爱国者领导人在法加共和运动中的动员和建立联盟的努力。与 19 世纪大西洋的其他地方一样，反达尔豪西的努力表明社会运动利用请愿来招募、动员和建立跨文化联盟。