Editing Family Compact (section)

==Etymology==
Thomas Dalton described the [[ruling class]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]] as "all one family compacted junto."<ref name="Sewell 48">{{Cite book |last=Sewell |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Dln_PbvYtUC |title=Mackenzie: A Political Biography |date=October 2002 |publisher=James Lorimer Limited, Publishers |isbn=978-1-55028-767-7 |location=Toronto |pages=48 |language=en}}</ref> The term ''Family Compact'' appeared in a letter written by [[Marshall Spring Bidwell]] to [[William Warren Baldwin]] in 1828. ''Family'' did not mean relations by marriage, but rather a close brotherhood. [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham|Lord Durham]] noted in 1839 "There is, in truth, very little of family connection among the persons thus united".<ref name="Compact-CanadianHistory">{{cite web |url=http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/FamilyCompact-CanadianHistory.htm |title=Compact-Canadian History |access-date=March 22, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Bourinot">{{cite book |first=Sir John G. |last=Bourinot |title=Canada under British Rule 1790—1900 |location=Toronto |publisher=Copp, Clark Company |date=1901}}</ref> The phrase was popularised by [[William Lyon Mackenzie]] in 1833 in its use to describe the elite in York.<ref name="Sewell 48" />