Lower Canada Tories

  • Tories
  • Château Clique
  • Parti bureaucrate
  • "British" Tories
FoundedEarly 19th century
Dissolved1855 (approximate)
Succeeded byNone
Ideology
ColonyLower Canada, British North America

Lower Canada Tories is a general name for individuals and parliamentary groups in Lower Canada, and later in the Province of Canada's division of Canada East,[1] who supported the British connection, colonialism, and a strong colonial governor.[2]: 326  They generally favoured assimilation of French-Canadians to British culture, laws, and the English language, and opposed democracy.

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