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Château Clique Hist. 
the name given to the governing class in Lower Canada after 1791, comprising the English officials and the French seigneurs and leaders who supported their policies.
See also: Family Compact (def. 1)
- 1915 It was on this occasion that William Ewart Gladstone, then a brilliant young Tory of twenty-seven years of age, stood up in the House and championed the cause of the Family Compact in Upper Canada and the Château clique in Lower Canada.
- 1963 The Family Compact and the Château Clique had never been more than small groups of officials and lawyers, together with a few business men.
- 1915 It was on this occasion that William Ewart Gladstone, then a brilliant young Tory of twenty-seven years of age, stood up in the House and championed the cause of the Family Compact in Upper Canada and the Château clique in Lower Canada.