William Lyon Mackenzie
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William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify the establishment of Upper Canada.
Mackenzie c. 1851–61
A portrait of Isabel Mackenzie (née Baxter), Mackenzie's wife, painted in 1850
John George Howard's painting of the third Parliament Building in York, built between 1829 and 1832 at Front Street
Emanuel Hahn's "Mackenzie Panels" (1938) in the garden of Mackenzie House in Toronto. The panels are dedicated to Reformers who argued for responsible government in Upper Canada.
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