Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Société des Fils de la Liberté\ was a Quebec, Canada paramilitary organization founded in August of 1837 by patriots outside the Parti Patriote. It held its first public assembly on September 5. At the Assemblée des Six-Comtés, on October 23, the patriot movement officially approves the Fils de la Liberté. The organization had two sections: a civil one, lead by Louis-Joseph Papineau and Edmund-Bailey O'Callaghan and a military one, lead by Thomas Storrow Brown. The organization published a manifesto and chose a national anthem. The organisation disapeared a little after the confrontation with the Doric Club on Novemver 6, following the order to arrest the leaders of the association including Papineau, O'Callaghan, Brown and Ouimet, on November 16. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.