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Young Canada Hist.

• a political party formed in the early 1850's by young Canadians who had had enough of the bickering that was characteristic within the old-line parties and who wanted to advance the concept of Canadian nationhood as opposed to the then active movement toward annexation to the United States.

  See also: Young Canada party  

  • 1849  There did not appear to be many French Canadians present, and those of them who took an active part, were gentlemen of "young Canada."
  • 1920  D'Arcy McGee . . . by his fervent appeals to the younger generation of Canadians . . . gathered about him a rising nationalist school, a party of Young Canada.
  • 1963  McDougall was something of a mentor to them, and his Young Canada was soon to be outshone by their Canada First.