DCHP-3

Young Canada

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a political party formed in the early 1850's by young Canadians who had had enough of the bickering that was characteristic within the old-line parties and who wanted to advance the concept of Canadian nationhood as opposed to the then active movement toward annexation to the United States.

Quotations

1849
There did not appear to be many French Canadians present, and those of them who took an active part, were gentlemen of "young Canada."
1920
D'Arcy McGee . . . by his fervent appeals to the younger generation of Canadians . . . gathered about him a rising nationalist school, a party of Young Canada.
1963
McDougall was something of a mentor to them, and his Young Canada was soon to be outshone by their Canada First.