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Clear Grit Party - Clear Grits - Canadian History (546 words) |
 | The name "Clear Grit" was applied in 1849 to a group, or wing, of the Reform party which was dissatisfied with the moderate policies followed by the Baldwin-Lafontaine administration, and particularly with its failure to deal with the questions of the Clergy Reserves, judicial reform, and financial retrenchment. |
| The opposition of the Clear Grit group brought about in 1851 the resignation of Robert Baldwin, and in the reorganization of the government under Francis Hincks the division in the Reform party was partially healed. |
| The Clear Grits became supporters of George Brown, and were the nucleus of the Liberal party in Ontario in later times. |
| Clear Grits (155 words) |
| Clear Grits were Upper Canadian reformers with support concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's lack of radicalism. |
| The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions and free trade with the United States. |
| The Clear Grits were one of a long series of farmer based radical reform movements. |
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