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Upper Canada Tories

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Founded
  
Early 19th century

Dissolved
  
1867

Leader
  
John A. Macdonald (last)

Succeeded by
  
Conservative Party of Ontario

Headquarters
  
York, Upper Canada (until 1834) Toronto, Canada West (after 1834)

Ideology
  
Conservatism Monarchism Loyalism Toryism

The Tory movement in Upper Canada was formed from the elements of the Family Compact following the War of 1812. It was an early political party, 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, Conservatives, 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
  • Marshall Spring Bidwell
  • Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
  • Levius Peters Sherwood
  • George Strange Boulton
  • William Allan
  • Augustus Warren Baldwin
  • George Monro
  • John Alexander Macdonald

    • References

    Upper Canada Tories Wikipedia
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