DCHP-3

English party

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Lower Canada, a group of influential bureaucrats and merchants who sought to keep the British connection strong and, in so doing, to keep the English element dominant in British North America.

Quotations

1806
If Upper and Lower Canada had had but one house of assembly, the English party would have always kept the majority.
1904
On one occasion . . . Colonel Gugy, a Swiss by origin, and a tool of the English party, declared in the House at Quebec, that he preferred to see in office a ministry composed of citizens born in the country.
1963
The English party therefore went to work quietly in London to use the problem of the division of customs duties to bring about a union of the provinces.