Upper Canada Tories
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Tories | |
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| Leader | John A. Macdonald (last) |
| Founded | Early 19th century |
| Dissolved | 1867 |
| Succeeded by | Conservative Party of Ontario |
| Headquarters | York, Upper Canada (until 1834) Toronto, Canada West (after 1834) |
| Ideology | Conservatism Toryism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
The Upper Canada Tories were formed from the elements of the Family Compact after the War of 1812. The movement was an early political party and merely a group of like-minded conservative elite in the early days of Canada.
The Tories would later form an alliance with the Parti bleu in Lower Canada after the Union of 1841 and finally merge as a single political party, the Conservative Party of Canada, after 1867.
List of political figures with ties to the Tories
- Henry Sherwood - Mayor of Toronto, MLA in the Parliament of Upper Canada and later Premier of Canada West
- William Henry Draper - MLA in the Parliament of Upper Canada and later Premier of Canada West
- Henry John Boulton - Solicitor General and Attorney General of Upper Canada
- Archibald Macdonald - MLA
- Archibald McLean - MLA, Speaker and jurist
- Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
- Levius Peters Sherwood
- George Strange Boulton
- William Allan
- Augustus Warren Baldwin
- George Monro
- John Alexander Macdonald
References
- ^ Passfield, Robert W. (2018). The Upper Canadian Anglican Tory Mind : a cultural fragment. Rock's Mills Press. ISBN 1-77244-137-6. OCLC 1066191131.
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