Liberal-Conservative Party
Liberal-Conservative Party | |
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Founders | John A. Macdonald George-Étienne Cartier |
Founded | 1867 |
Dissolved | 1873 |
Preceded by | Parti bleu |
Merged into | Conservative Party of Canada (historical) |
Ideology | Conservatism |
Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
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The Liberal-Conservative Party (
History
The roots of the name are in the coalition of 1853 in which moderate
Prominent Liberal-Conservative
- Sir John A. Macdonald
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier
- Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
- John Carling
- Sir John Rose
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Joseph Howe
- Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
- John Henry Pope
- Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (Liberal-Conservative MP 1873–1896, ran as Conservative and defeated in 1908)
- Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
- Sir Sam Hughes
- Sir Hugh John Macdonald
- Archibald McLelan (Liberal-Conservative Senator, resigned and elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative after 1881)
- Joseph Godéric Blanchet(Liberal-Conservative from 1867 to 1875, Conservative 1875–1878, Liberal-Conservative 1878–1883)
- crossed the floorto join the Liberals in 1901)
The party resumed formally referring to itself as Liberal-Conservative from 1922[4] until 1938 when it officially became the National Conservative Party,[5] however, it was commonly referred to as the Conservative Party throughout this period.
Liberal Conservative Coalition
In the 1957 election, George Rolland, a watchmaker, sought election as a Liberal Conservative Coalition candidate in the Toronto riding of Eglinton. He placed last, winning only 252 votes, or 0.7% of the total. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties nominated candidates in the riding, so Rolland did not have the endorsement of either party.
Source: Parliament of Canada History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1867
See also
- Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)
- List of political parties in Canada
- Democratic-Republican Party
References
- ^ Donald Creighton, John A. Macdonald (2 vol 1955).
- ^ J. M. S. Careless, The Union of the Canadas 1841–1857, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967, pp. 192–197.
- ^ Joseph Wearing, "Finding our parties' roots" in Canadian Parties in Transition, 2nd ed., Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1996, pp. 19–20
- ^ "MEIGHEN, ARTHUR". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval.
- ^ "1938 CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP CONVENTION". CPAC. Cable Public Access Channel.
Further reading
- Creighton, Donald Grant. John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain. Vol. 2. (1955).
- English, John. The Decline of Politics: The Conservatives and the Party System, 1901-20 (1977)
- Gwyn, Richard J. Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times. 1867-1891. Volume Two (2011)
- Neatby, H. Blair, and John T. Saywell. "Chapleau and the Conservative Party in Quebec." Canadian Historical Review 37 (1956): 17. online
Primary sources
- J. H. Stewart Reid, et al., eds. A Source-book of Canadian History: Selected Documents and Personal Papers (1964). online pp 333–49