Revolution, what is it? Well according to Crane Brintons theory, it is an negative phenomenon that can be compared to a disease. This is because it is said to have stages that are similar to the attributes of someone coming down with a cold or fever, and can be cured in a similar way to that of a sickness. In his theory, he stated that all revolutions have somewhat similar stages. The first one being the incubation stage where symptoms are shown, like common a financial crisis and a sense of injustice or abuse from the government. As well as an incompetent ruler, a shift in alliances, a division between social classes, and a military victory. Then there is the second stage, the moderate stage. In the moderate stage, led by a moderate leader who tries to use compromise instead of violence. In the moderate stage there are usually more protests and violence, but only on a small scale. The third stage is where the violence drastically increases, they usually end up killing the former leader, the radicals take over control from the government, and with their new leader in charge and their armies stronger than ever, they go to war. The very last stage is the recovery stage. In this stage, the violence lessens, the radicals are no longer in power, things start to return to normal, and it ends in ether peace or war.

Now that you know about Crane Brintons theory of revolution, you can better understand my inquiry question regarding that theory. My question was why didn’t Canada ever have a revolution? I came up with this question when I was thinking about all of the countries that had revolutions and how most of them ended up going to war. So I thought to myself, canadiens fought in the war, but I have never heard of a revolution taking place in Canada. Well it turns out I was wrong, there was a revolution in Canada, maybe not on that is very well known, but it did in fact happen.

In 1837, with the rebellion of both upper and lower Canada. This could be considered part of the first stage of Brinton’s theory, the incubation stage. This is because they started to want a new and better government, which could be considered to be like the beginning symptoms of a cold. The third stage would’ve been years later when the colonial oligarchy fell and the new order was that each state would be self governed. The fourth and final stage would’ve taken place in Quebec 1864, when the proposal for a general government was denied and things ended in peace and started to somewhat normalize like getting over a cold.

In conclusion, the answer to my question of why wasn’t there a revolution was to the contrary of what I had thought it would be, because there was in fact a revolution in Canada. Some of the sights that I used to research this topic are as listed below:

https://janetajzenstat.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/canadas-revolution/
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rebellion-in-upper-canada/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/dowson/leaflets/comingCANrev.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_identity
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/before-1800/was-the-american-revolution-a-revolution/crane-brintons-theory-of-revolution.php