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In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were extraordinary individuals who had been caught up within the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebel. Even if they were all civilians, that they had been tried by court martial. Convicted of treason, their properties forfeited to the crown, they paid a heavy price for rebel. And as convicts in Australia, they were thought to be the lowest of a bad lot. Right through their years there, alternatively, they earned the distinction of Sydney’s citizens.