DCHP-3

Château Clique

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the name given to the governing class in Lower Canada after 1791, comprising the English officials and the French seigneurs and leaders who supported their policies.

See: Family Compact(def. 1)

Quotations

1915
It was on this occasion that William Ewart Gladstone, then a brilliant young Tory of twenty-seven years of age, stood up in the House and championed the cause of the Family Compact in Upper Canada and the Château clique in Lower Canada.
1963
The Family Compact and the Château Clique had never been more than small groups of officials and lawyers, together with a few business men.