DCHP-3

Constitutional Society

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Hist.

a society of Tories organized in 1836-37 with the purpose of maintaining the British position in Lower Canada, then in ferment because of the Patriotes.

Quotations

1963
The English of the bureaucratic party [in Lower Canada] . . . had organized a Constitutional Society. . . .