DCHP-3

Union Nationale

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

1946
During the Quebec provincial election of the summer of 1944 the Union Nationale and Bloc Populaire had deluged the province with flysheets . . . .
1957
Union Nationale candidates won handily over Liberals in Compton, Chateauguay and Megantic.
1966
Opposition Leader Daniel Johnson of the Union Nationale calls it [an election] for April.