DCHP-3

Ginger Group

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Obs.

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Quotations

1952
The Ginger Group. . . . The phrase was earlier used to denote a group of Conservative members, including W. F. Nickle, during the term of Union Government, 1917-21.
2 — Hist.

a number of progressives (six, later ten) in the House of Commons from 1924-1932, so called because of their spirited questioning of government policy and for their energetic championing of the interests of the farmer and of labor.

Quotations

1953
After the disintegration of the Progressives, the Alberta members, soon to become known as the "Ginger Group," had found themselves more and more thrown into association with Woodsworth and his Labour associate, or associates . . . and, as a rule, finding themselves members of the same minority in divisions.
1963
Two members of the "Ginger Group," as it was dubbed, were labour politicians. . . .