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Grit Party

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Hist.

a liberal reform party in Upper Canada, beginning as a faction of the Reform party in the late 1840's and fielding candidates in the elections of the 1850's and ultimately merging with the Liberal Party, which is still known informally as the Grits.

Quotations

1884
The Grit party, who have been politically on the tramp for some time, have come to a fork in the road.
1909
Most of the "old Grit party" do not believe in a second term and think it should be discontinued.