History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Joseph Howe, Charlottetown Conference, Great Coalition
21 Jun 2012
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Legislative assembly in the province of canada. Political strife never went away: causes many deadlocks, upsets the people, radicals come to the floor again. Reform english appear, known as the clear grits (now known as the liberal party), led by george brown (owner and editor of the globe) New french reform radicals appear, known as parti rouge, led by antoine dorion. Now have 6 factions in the assembly with the same number of seats (42 for canada west and 42 for canada east: parti rouge was radical in the sense that it began to attack the. Didn"t want the church to have so much say on how the part of the province was run. Frightened other french canadians, going against their traditions: moderate french reformers, known as bleus, started to work with they tories (long time enemies) to go against the parti rouge.
