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Castor
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Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a faction of Quebec Conservatives of the period 1882-1900.
Quotations
1904
In this case the danger sprang from among the most advanced Conservatives of his following, those whom Protestants called Ultramontaines, and loyal Conservatives nicknamed Castors.
1963
As a result, Bourassa's nationalism became ever more a defensive, Quebec nationalisme, resembling that of the Castors which preceded it. . . .