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, who supported the British connection, colonialism, and a strong colonial governor.:326 They generally favoured assimilation of French-Canadians to British culture, laws, and the English language, and opposed democracy.