DCHP-2
Patriote patriote Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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.
See also: Ninety-two Resolutions Patriot (def. 2)
- 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.
- 1904 During Papineau's struggle his friends assumed the name of Patriotes and their opponents were called Bureaucrats.