Family Compact

It steers a medium course between the _extrême droit_ of the so-called Family Compact, and the

Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819

"The House of Lords, the Family Compact, the Manufacturers 'Association and the junkers and militarists of Germany are each and all examples of group government."

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

The political exclusiveness of the Family Compact did not rouse resentment half as deep as did their religious, or at least denominational, pretensions.

The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909

Governors; and the Governors chose their own junta of advisers; and all the abuses of the Family Compact arose, which led to the Rebellion of '37 under William Lyon MacKenzie in Ontario and Louis Papineau in Quebec.

The Canadian Commonwealth 1903

The old official Family Compact party -- they who entrenched themselves behind the prerogative of the

Wilmot and Tilley James Hannay 1876

The members of the Family Compact, with very few exceptions, were members of the Church of England, which, owing to the before-mentioned provisions in the Constitutional Act, they regarded as the State Church of Upper Canada, established by law, and entitled to the special veneration of the inhabitants.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

Conservatives, that even Family Compact domination was preferable to the ascendency of such men as Mackenzie.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

This was the Family Compact -- a phrase which is in everybody's mouth, but the significance whereof, I venture to think, is in general but imperfectly understood.

The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864

He argues that this period has been largely devoid of visionary thinking, and marked by the predominance of the Family Compact model of colonial attitudes to Canada, with leaders fearful of bold initiatives and subservient to their new colonial American masters.

Pample the Moose 2009

War is held to break all previous treaties; and by failing to require the renewal of the treaties of 1713, 1763, and 1783, it was now open to Spain and France to cement, albeit in a new form, that Family Compact which it had long been the aim of British diplomacy to dissolve: the failure to renew those earlier treaties rendered it possible for the Court of Madrid to alienate any of its colonies to France, as at that very time was being arranged with respect to Louisiana.

The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898