Parti canadien

This article is about the 1806-1837 political party. For the later party of the same name, see Parti canadien (1942). For parties of Canada, see List of political parties in Canada.
Not to be confused with Canadian Party.
Canadian Party / Patriot Party
Founded1806 (1806)
Dissolved1837 (1837)
Succeeded byParti rouge
HeadquartersMontreal, Quebec, Canada
IdeologyLower Canada nationalism
Canadian reformism
Classical liberalism
ColoursGreen, white, red
Party flag
Patriote leader Louis-Joseph Papineau speaks to the crowd at the Assembly of the Six Counties.

The Parti canadien (French pronunciation: [paʁti kanadjɛ̃]) or Parti patriote (pronounced [paʁti patʁiɔt]) was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau.