DCHP-3

National Union (Party)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Quebec, a provincial political party, long under the leadership of Maurice Duplessis, 1890-1959, and identified with conservative French-Canadian nationalism.

Quotations

1940
The Liberal party which had enjoyed thirty-nine years of unbroken rule left office amid the odor of scandal and was succeeded by the overwhelmingly Conservative "National Union party" under the premiership of Maurice Duplessis.
1962
A writer has told of "telegraphing" 20 votes in Montreal . . . on behalf of a National Union candidate.