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Gourlayism
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the principles and policy of Robert Gourlay, 1778-1863, an outspoken Scot who publicly opposed the oligarchy in Upper Canada in 1818, being imprisoned and deported for his pains. Hence Gourlayite.
Quotations
1819
Is then this modern "Lettre de Cachet," this Anti-British persecution intended as the sovereign panacea against Gourlayism?
1824
We are not disappointed land-speculators; and as we were not in Canada when Mr. Gourlay's convention took place, we are, of course, not Gourlayites.