Family Compact
Bishop Strachan- Upper Canada
- Wealthy, Anglican, conservative elite.
- An exclusive closed oligarchy of landowners, administrators, churchmen and businessmen who monopolized public office and controlled the economy of Upper Canada in the 1820s and 1830s.
- The most important and influential member was Bishop John Strachan.
- The members of the Family Compact made a great deal of money on land speculation, and canal building.
- They used their influence to get the government to financially support the building of canals.
- Fiercest opponent of the Family Compact was William Lyon Mackenzie.
Chateau Clique
- Lower Canada
- Group of wealthy families, mostly British aristocracy or French Canadian seigneurs
- This included John Molson, founder of Molson’s Brewery and James McGill founder of McGill University
- Known on the electoral scene as Parti Bureaucrate or Bureaucratic Party
- Generally they wanted the French Canadian majority to assimilate into British culture
- This included abolition of the seigneurial system, replacing French civil law with British common law, and replacing the Catholic Church with the Anglican Church.
- Fiercest opponent of the Chateau Clique was Louis-Joseph Papineau.
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