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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada


  • [In 1942 the Conservative Party of Canada was renamed the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In December 2003, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada merged with the Canadian Alliance party to form a new Conservative Party of Canada.]

  • URI(s)

  • Variants

    • Conservative Party (Canada)
    • Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada
    • PC (Progressive Conservative Party of Canada)
    • Progressive Conservative Party (Canada)

  • Additional Information

    • Descriptor

        Political parties--Canada

    • Associated Locale

        Canada

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Associated Language

        French

  • Additional Related Forms

  • Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • Sources

    • found: Mulroney, B. Where I stand, 1983:p. 3 (Progressive Conservative Party of Canada)
    • found: NLC 2/81(AACR 2: Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; name changed 1942 from Conservative Party of Canada)
    • found: Granatstein, J.L. Sacred trust? 1986:CIP t.p. (Conservative Party)
    • found: Encyc. Brit.(Progressive Conservative Party; after political crisis of 1854, Tories, other conservatives, and moderate liberals formed the Liberal-Conservative Party [no publs. in LC]; after 1896 it was called the Conservative Party; from 1917 to 1921 it was called the Unionist Party [no publs. in LC]; in 1942 it was renamed the Progressive Conservative Party)
    • found: Flanagan, T. Harper's team, 2007:p. 3 (the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party merged to form the Conservative Party of Canada, approved in Dec. 2003)
    • found: Conservative Party of Canada Web site, viewed Oct. 25, 2007:history page (the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada announced agreement in principle on Oct. 16, 2003 to merge to form the Conservative Party of Canada; the merger was ratified in Dec. 2003)
    • found: LAC internal file, September 11, 2020(access point: Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; variants: PC; Progressive Conservative Party (Canada); Conservative Party of Canada; Canadian Alliance; Progressive Canadian Party; Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada; a dissident faction in the former Progressive Conservative Party became known as the Progressive Canadian Party in 2004)
    • found: Wkipedia, viewed on September 11, 2020(Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC); French: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada; was a federal political party in Canada; in 2003, the party membership voted to dissolve the party and merge with the Canadian Alliance to form the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada

  • General Notes

    • [In 1942 the Conservative Party of Canada was renamed the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In December 2003, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada merged with the Canadian Alliance party to form a new Conservative Party of Canada.]

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  • Scheme Membership(s)

  • Collection Membership(s)

  • Change Notes

    • 1983-12-29: new
    • 2020-09-12: revised

  • Alternate Formats