Liberal-Conservative Party

Liberal Conservative Party ( engl. Liberal - Conservative Party, French Parti libéral - conservateur ) was the formal name of the first Conservative Party of Canada until 1873. During the following years many conservatives as a candidate under this name. By 1911, occurred in the lower house elections to both "conservative " and " liberal-conservative " candidate. Here, however, it was merely two different names for the same party. Candidates of these groups as candidates usually not against each other but in different constituencies. It was also quite common that a candidate presented himself as a Conservative in an election at the next but as Liberal -Conservative.

The roots of this name goes back to the Grand Coalition ( " grand coalition " ) of 1864 in the province of Canada, as conservatives and reformers united to promote the establishment of the Canadian Confederation, which took place three years later. Thus, the Liberal - Conservatives were generally liberals who joined before or shortly after the founding of the Canadian state of the conservative faction of the first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Sam Hughes, who was discharged in 1916 from the Cabinet, was officially the last Liberal - Conservative.

Prominent Liberal - Conservative

• John Macdonald ( Canada's first Prime Minister )
• George -Étienne Cartier (Prime Minister of the former Province of Canada )
• Joseph Howe (Prime Minister and Vice- Governor of the province of Nova Scotia )
• Samuel Leonard Tilley (Prime Minister and Vice- Governor of the Province of New Brunswick )
• John Abbott (Prime Minister of Canada )
• John Thompson (Prime Minister of Canada )
• Hugh John Macdonald ( Prime Minister of the Province of Manitoba )