From 1942, the party was known as the Progressive Conservatives, until 2003, when the national party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain.

An area within the region where both fiscal and social conservatism do coincide and where the federal Reform Party and Canadian Alliance have met success is in the central-western part of New Brunswick, in the St. John River valley north of Saint John and south of Grand Falls.

* 2003 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

After the merger of the PCs with the Canadian Alliance in 2003, there was debate as to whether the " Tory " appellation should survive at the federal level.

The Canadian Alliance (), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (), was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003.

In December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to disband and merge into the Conservative Party of Canada.

In 2000, following the second of the two United Alternative conventions, the party voted to dissolve in favour of a new party: the " Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance ", a declaration of policy and a new constitution.

One day later, the party changed its official name to the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, but was almost always called simply " the Canadian Alliance " or " the Alliance ".

The split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, Stephen Harper defeated Day at the subsequent Canadian Alliance leadership election.

During its short history, the Canadian Alliance never seriously entertained the prospect of forming provincial wings, or forging formal links with existing provincial parties.

On October 15, 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party ( under its new leader Peter MacKay ) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conservative Party of Canada.

The union was ratified on December 5, 2003, with 96 % support of the membership of the Canadian Alliance, and on December 6, 90. 04 % support of elected delegates in the PC Party.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

After bringing cookies to a wrap party for the show Of Mice and Men at the Old Globe Theatre, he spotted 16 year-old Genaro Samano Villanueva, who had broken into a Canadian couple's motor-home.

The Liberals won 190 seats — the most in Canadian history at the time, and still a record for the party.

Accordingly, St. Laurent resigned on 21 June 1957 — ending what is still the longest uninterrupted run in government for a party at the federal level in Canadian history.

** Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party

** Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta

** Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party

** Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario

Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician ( NDP ); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party, myocardial infarction

Thereafter in the 1990s, the PCs were a small party in the Canadian House of Commons, and could only exert legislative pressure on the government through their power in the Senate of Canada.

Most companies that harvest in Canadian forests are certified by an independent third party agency such as the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ), Sustainable Forests Initiative ( SFI ), or the Canadian Standards Association ( CSA ).

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

* Canadian politics is radically altered in the 1993 federal election with the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, ( a major political party in Canada since 1867 ) from being government to only 2 seats and the New Democratic Party collapsing from 44 seats to 9.

The Tetons, as well as the valley west of the Teton Range known today as Pierre's Hole, may have been named by French speaking Iroquois or French Canadian trappers that were part of Mackenzie's party.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

The Canadian Alliance's origins were in the Reform Party of Canada, which was founded in 1987 as a populist party supporting Western Canadian interests.

In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.

Initially, the Reform Party was motivated by the need for democratic reforms and by profound Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

Deborah Grey, the deputy leader of Reform, was chosen as the new party's interim leader, becoming the first female Leader of the Opposition in Canadian history.

* Kay won the 1985 Scales of Justice Award for best media treatment of a legal issue, Canadian Law Reform Commission, 1985, for Second Time Around.

It won majorities of the seats in Western Canada in repeated elections, but was unable to break through in Eastern Canada, though it became the official opposition from 1997 to 2003 ( Reform was renamed the Canadian Alliance in 2000 ).

Support for the Canadian Alliance and its predecessor the Reform Party of Canada derived principally from this group, and that support carried forward into the new Conservative Party of Canada.

The move to abolish corporal punishment in the Canadian penal system coincided with several reforms and a change from the Reform Institutions label to Corrections or Correctional.

In the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario, a group of citizens was randomly selected to create a Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform to investigate and recommend changes to the provinces ' electoral systems.

* Reform Party of Canada, a major political party in Canada from 1987 until 2000 when it became the Canadian Alliance

* Pre-Confederation Reform Party, Canadian political movement agitating for responsible government

The Reform Party of Canada () was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000.

Initially, the Reform Party was motivated by the need for democratic reforms and by profound Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

In 2000, following the second of the two United Alternative conventions, the party voted to dissolve in favour of a new party: the " Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance ", a declaration of policy and a new constitution.

When it became clear after a few days that the joke was not going to subside, the party's official name was quickly changed to the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, but was almost always called simply " the Canadian Alliance " or " the Alliance ".