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Gourlayism Hist. 
n. the principles and policy of Robert Gourlay, 1778-1863, an outspoken Scot who publicly opposed the oligarchy in Upper Canada in 1818, being imprisoned and deported for his pains. Hence Gourlayite.
- 1819 Is then this modern "Lettre de Cachet," this Anti-British persecution intended as the sovereign panacea against Gourlayism?
- 1824 We are not disappointed land-speculators; and as we were not in Canada when Mr. Gourlay's convention took place, we are, of course, not Gourlayites.
- 1819 Is then this modern "Lettre de Cachet," this Anti-British persecution intended as the sovereign panacea against Gourlayism?