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| 1838, Jan. 13 |
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| Mackenzie abandoned Navy Island and was arrested in the United States. | 1 |
| During the year 1838 the rebels, supported by American sympathizers (Hunters' Lodges), staged several invasions from the United States, but none of these assumed large proportions. | 2 |
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| May 29 |
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| Lord Durham arrived at Quebec as governor in chief of all the British North American provinces. His lenient treatment of the rebels led to disavowal by the home government. On Oct. 9 he resigned. | 3 |
| The Cree and Assiniboine Indians suffered much loss of life from a smallpox epidemic. | 4 |
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