Ultramontagne Ultramontane [< Cdn F] Hist.
n. in Quebec, from 1870 to 1900, a member of an extreme right wing of the Conservative Party, a militant group of French-speaking and Catholic Quebecois whose political aims embodied religion and nationalism.
See also: Ultra
- 1904  In this case the danger sprang from among the most advanced Conservatives of his following, those whom Protestants called Ultramontanes, and loyal Conservatives nicknamed Castors.
- 1963  Taschereau . . . had stood aside from the efforts of the Ultramontagnes to establish a Catholic political party in Canada.