n. a follower of Louis-Joseph Papineau and a supporter of the Ninety-two Resolutions which set forth the political grievances of the rebels in Lower Canada.
1904  During Papineau's struggle his friends assumed the name of Patriotes and their opponents were called Bureaucrats.
1915  The Declaration . . . proclaimed the duty of every Upper-Canadian Reformer to co-operate heartily with Papineau and his French-Canadian patriotes.
1963  The result was to create distrust of Gosford's intentions among the now excitable Patriotes, as the followers of Papineau were beginning to be called.