DCHP-3

Castor

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Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the 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. . . .