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Parti Rouge
Cdn French, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a radical political party of Lower Canada, founded about 1850 and first led by Louis Joseph Papineau, which was later to become the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party.
Quotations
1908
In the French Province this [radical] element was called "Le Parti Rouge."
1916
The "Clear Grit" party in Upper Canada was moving straight towards republicanism, and so was Papineau's Parti Rouge.
1924
Charles Joseph Laberge, one of the founders of the Parti Rouge, canvassed Canada East in favour of annexation.
1952
French Canadians First! Parti Rouge plank, withdrawn in 1850.