Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Chateau Clique

The Chateau Clique was a group of wealthy people much like the Family Compact but this was in Lower Canada. They were known by the name Parti bureaucrate which means British party or in the negative form Tory party. These people wanted to move into the English sense of things so they; replaced French civil law British Common Law, replaced the Roman Catholic church with the Anglican church. After the rebellion the upper and lower Canada's were inducted into a Province of Canada. Louis-Joseph Papineau was the leader of the reformist Patriot movement. And was a well known lawyer for his time of Lower Canada. Archibald Acheson, the second Earl of Gosford. He was a polition for the British and was the Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada and Governor of General to British North America.

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