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English party Hist. 
in Lower Canada, a group of influential bureaucrats and merchants who sought to keep the British connection strong and, in so doing, to keep the English element dominant in British North America.
See also: British party
- 1806 (1809) If Upper and Lower Canada had had but one house of assembly, the English party would have always kept the majority.
- 1904 On one occasion . . . Colonel Gugy, a Swiss by origin, and a tool of the English party, declared in the House at Quebec, that he preferred to see in office a ministry composed of citizens born in the country.
- 1963 The English party therefore went to work quietly in London to use the problem of the division of customs duties to bring about a union of the provinces.
- 1806 (1809) If Upper and Lower Canada had had but one house of assembly, the English party would have always kept the majority.