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Canadian Party / Patriot Party | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1806 |
| Dissolved | 1837 |
| Succeeded by | Parti rouge |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Ideology | Lower Canada nationalism Canadian reformism Classical liberalism |
| Colours | Green, white, red |
| Party flag | |
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The Parti canadien (French pronunciation: [paʁti kanadjɛ̃]) or Parti patriote (pronounced [paʁti patʁiɔt]) was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau.