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Ultramontagne

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n.

in Quebec, from 1870 to 1900, a member of an extreme right wing of the Conservative Party, a militant group of French-speaking and Catholic Quebecois whose political aims embodied religion and nationalism.

See: Ultra

Quotations

1904
In this case the danger sprang from among the most advanced Conservatives of his following, those whom Protestants called Ultramontanes, and loyal Conservatives nicknamed Castors.
1963
Taschereau . . . had stood aside from the efforts of the Ultramontagnes to establish a Catholic political party in Canada.