 | Edmund Burke - History - 1839 - 964 pages
...than party designations usually are, inasmuch as there is, in truth, very little of family connexion among the persons thus united. For a long time, this...means of its predominance in the legislative council ; anil it disposed of the large number of petty posts which are in the patronage of the Government... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 456 pages
...times accessions to its numbers, possessed almost all the highest public offices, by means of which it wielded all the powers of government. It maintained...posts which are in the patronage of the Government nil over the province. Successive governors, as they came in their turn, are said to have either submitted... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1883 - 656 pages
...advisers of the governer had in lodging permanent authority in the hands of a powerful party, ! ikeJ together not only by common party interests, but by...maintained influence in the legislature by means of its predommance in the legislative council ; and it disposed of the large number of petty posts which are... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 530 pages
...might be the objections of English settlers to the " family compact," a name given to a body of men who possessed almost all the highest public offices, by means of which, and of their influence in the Executive Council, they wielded all the powers of governmer1t, there could be... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - Methodism - 1904 - 364 pages
...British North America : " For a long time this body of men, receiving at times accessions to its members, possessed almost all the highest public offices, by...predominance in the Legislative Council, and it disposed of a large number of petty posts which are in the patronage of the Government all over the province. Successive... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - Canada - 1906 - 546 pages
...to each other by any other bonds than those of self-assertion and the desire for political power. ' For a long time this body of men, receiving at times...Council, it wielded all the powers of government, maintained influence in the Legislature, through its predominance in the Legislative Council, and disposed... | |
 | Benjamin Sulte, C. E. Fryer, Laurent-Olivier David - Québec (Province) - 1908 - 554 pages
...might be the objections of English settlers to the "family compact," a name given to a body of men who possessed almost all the highest public offices, by means of which, and of their influence in the executive council, they wielded all the powers of government, there could be... | |
 | Alfred Duclos DeCelles - Canada - 1912 - 796 pages
...extent, as in Upper Canada, which has long been entirely governed by a party commonly designated through the province as the ' Family Compact,' a name not...powers of government; it maintained influence in the legisla1 Ibid., pp. 48, 49. ture by means of its predominance in the legislative council; and it disposed... | |
 | Canada - 1911 - 966 pages
...extent, as in Upper Canada, which has long been entirely governed by a party commonly designated through the province as the ' Family Compact,' a name not...powers of government ; it maintained influence in the legisla1 Ibid., pp. 48, 49. ture by means of its predominance in the legislative council ; and it disposed... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - Canada - 1912 - 358 pages
...truth, very little of family connexion among the persons thus united. For a long time this body of znen, receiving at times accessions to its numbers, possessed...the powers of government ; it maintained influence inj the legislature by means of its predominance in the Legisla-J tive Council ; and it disposed of... | |
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For a long time this body of men, receiving at times accessions to its numbers, possessed almost all the highest public offices, by means of which, and of its influence in the Executive Council, it wielded all the powers of government; it maintained influence... 
