clear-grit

Updated: August 18, 2026

There were those among the Canadian Radicals who were as bad friends to Britain as they were good friends to the United States, but the Clear-Grit party up to confederation was true to Britain, largely because their leader, after 1850, was George Brown, and because Brown was the loyalest Scot in Canada. Brown was in a sense the most remarkable figure of the time in his province.

J. L. (John Lyle) Morison - British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854