Liberal-conservative coalition of 1854 1047947 190576348 2008-02-11T07:59:57Z Giraffedata 105732 fix "comprised of" In [[Canadian history]] during the 1850's and 1860's, many of the political parties were results of the British attitudes toward British North America. The paradoxically named liberal-conservative coalition of 1854 was formed as a peculiar relationship between several political groups at the time. The Coalition comprises three main groups, the [[Tories]], [[Parti bleu|French Bleus]], and [[Reform Party (pre-Confederation)|Hinckesite Reformers]] of Canada West. The groups were previously against each other. However, they joined together in all of their best interests, in order to secularize the [[clergy reserves]], and do away with the [[Seigneurial system of New France|seigneurial system]] in [[Lower Canada]], which had now been outgrown, and was unpopular among the French Canadians. The French Bleus, which had held a minority in the Assembly up until this point, was now able to hold a majority and was for that reason strongly against [[representation by population]] as it would place them once again into the minority. The opposition to the Coalition was largely the [[Clear Grits]] (who, led by George Brown. once blatantly against the Clear Grits, came together and reshaped them also to oppose the 'French-Catholic domination'). [[A.A. Dorion]], leader of the [[Parti Rouge]] in Canada East, also tried to establish an alliance with the Clear Grits, similar to the Liberal-Conservative Coalition of 1854. A Brown-Dorion government was even formed in 1858 but only lasted two days as the relationship between these two parties simply did not function as well. {{canada-hist-stub}} [[Category:Political history of Canada]] [[Category:Province of Canada]]