The
Parti canadien or
Parti patriote was a primarily francophone
political party in what is now
Quebec founded by members of the
liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including
François Blanchet,
Pierre-Stanislas Bédard,
John Neilson,
Jean-Thomas Taschereau,
James Stuart,
Louis Bourdages,
Denis-Benjamin Viger,
Daniel Tracey,
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan,
Andrew Stuart and
Louis-Joseph Papineau.