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Société des Fils de la Liberté

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.