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n.
in Lower Canada, a supporter, whether French Canadian or English, of the English party, against which Papineau and his Reformers were ranged in the 1830's, a situation that led to the Rebellion of 1837-8.
Quotations
1833
The angry terms which they use in designating each other, are proofs of this feeling Aristocrats, Democrats . . . Bureaucrats . . . Natives. . . .
1870
Samuel Varny was suspected of being a bureaucrat.
1963
Papineau and his radicals were striking at the English bureaucrats. . . .