Parti rouge

Parti rouge
Founded	1847 (1847)
Dissolved	July 1, 1867 (1867-07-01)
Preceded by	Elections

The Parti rouge (French for "Red Party", or

of the 1830s.

The Red Party did not experience electoral success in the same manner as the

at the provincial level.

History

The party was a successor to the

of land ownership, although Papineau was himself a seigneur and a vocal defender of the traditional system, which he wanted reformed, not abolished.

The elected rouges typically allied with the Clear Grits in the legislature of the Province of Canada. The party primarily sat in opposition to the Liberal-Conservative-Bleu government that governed the province for most of the period between the fall of the reform movement and confederation. However, the rouges did form government with the Clear Grits once, after the fall of the Macdonald-Cartier ministry on a vote of non-confidence.^[4] This resulted in the shortest-lived government in Canadian history, falling four days after it was called by the Governor-General. After Confederation, its more moderate members (notably including Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who would become Canada's first francophone Prime Minister) formed what became the Liberal Party of Canada in conjunction with their Upper Canadian Clear Grit allies.

Ideology

The Parti rouge opposed the union of

.

Manifestos

The Red Party published the following manifestos:

• Manifeste du Comité constitutionnel de la réforme et du progrès, 1847 (online)
• Manifeste du Club national démocratique, 1849 (online)

See also

• Canada
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Institut canadien de Montréal
• Liberal democracy
• Liberalism
• Liberalism in Canada
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Parti canadien - political party in Lower Canada, with similar ideological positions
• Politics of Quebec

References

Additional references

• "Parti rouge", in The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Foundation, 2008
• Claude Bélanger, "Parti Rouge", in The Quebec History Encyclopedia, 2006
• "The parti rouge", in Canadian Confederation, Library and Archives Canada, December 14, 2001, updated July 16, 2012

Additional French-language information sources

• Lamonde, Yvan (2000). Histoire sociale des idées au Québec, 1760-1896, Montréal:
  ISBN 2-7621-2104-3 (online
  )
• Lamonde, Yvan (1994). Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, 1818-1895: un seigneur libéral et anticlérical, Saint-Laurent: Fides, 369 p.
  ISBN 2-7621-1736-4
• Lamonde, Yvan (1990). Gens de parole: conférences publiques, essais et débats à l'Institut canadien de Montréal, 1845-1871, Montréal: Boréal, 176 p.
  ISBN 2-89052-369-1
• de Lagrave, Jean-Paul (1976). Le combat des idées au Québec-Uni, 1840-1867, Montréal: Editions de Lagrave, 150 p.
• Bernard, Jean-Paul (1971). Les Rouges ; libéralisme, nationalisme et anticléricalisme au milieu du XIXe siècle, Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 394 p.
  ISBN 0-7770-0028-8
• Dumont, Fernand, Montminy, Jean-Paul, and Hamelin, Jean ed. (1971). Idéologies au Canada français, 1850-1900, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 327 p.