DCHP-3

Conservative Party

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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formerly, the official name for one of the political groups in Canada, later used informally for the Liberal-Conservative Party and nowadays for the Progressive Conservative Party.

Quotations

1852
The colored people were in former times, generally supposed to vote with the Conservative party, from a belief, unfounded it is true, that the Reformers were disposed towards Annexation.
1963
"It's a queer campaign," key figures in the Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic Parties have commented in almost identical terms in the north.