Family Compact
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The Family Compact was a small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada from the 1810s to the 1840s. It was the Upper Canadian equivalent of
John Robinson. Acknowledged leader of the Family Compact. Member of the Legislative Assembly and later the Legislative Council.
Bishop Strachan. Acknowledged Anglican leader in the Family Compact.
Æneas Shaw. Early member of the compact. Appointed to the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Upper Canada in 1794.
Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Lower Canada Tories
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Lower Canada Tories is a general name for individuals and parliamentary groups in Lower Canada, and later in the Province of Canada's division of Canada East, who supported the British connection, col
Family Compact
…and judicial power in Upper Canada (mostly analogous to today's Ontario) from the 1810s to the 1840s. It was the Upper Canadian equivalent of the Château Clique in Lower Canada. It was noted for its conservatism and opposition to democracy. The Family Compact emerged from the War of 1812 and collapsed in the…
James McGill, a leading member of the Château Clique