Editing Family Compact (section)

== Opposition ==

===Reform movement===
{{main|Reform movement (Upper Canada)|William Lyon Mackenzie}}
The Family Compact was one of many, distinguished primarily by its access to the offices of state. Other compact groups, such as the [[William Warren Baldwin|Baldwin-Russell-Sullivan]] family, in fact, shared many of the same values. The primary opposition to the Family Compact and these loyalist ideals came from the reform movement led by [[William Lyon Mackenzie]]. His ability to agitate through his newspaper ''The [[Colonial Advocate]]'' and petitioning was effective. Speeches and petitions led directly to the redress of grievances in Upper Canada that otherwise had no means of redress.<ref name="Seeds of Rebellion">{{cite web |url=http://canadachannel.ca/HCO/index.php/1._Background_of_Discontent |title=History of Canada Online |access-date=March 25, 2011}}</ref>

Mackenzie's frustration with Compact control of the government was a catalyst for the failed [[Upper Canada Rebellion]] of 1837. Their hold on the government was reduced with the creation of the united [[Province of Canada]] and later the installation of the system of [[Responsible Government]] in Canada.

===Colborne Clique===
The Colborne Clique, named for [[John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton]], was a federation united by geography in [[Goderich, Ontario|Goderich]], Scottish heritage, time of immigration to Upper Canada, and an association with the Dunlop brothers [[William "Tiger" Dunlop]] and [[Robert Graham Dunlop]]. Although their prime animosity was towards the [[Canada Company]], the Canada Company and the Family Compact were seen as one and the same thing causing the Colbornites to align themselves firmly against the Family Compact.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Robina Macfarlane |last1=Lizars |first2=Kathleen Macfarlane |last2=Lizars |title=In the Days of the Canada Company: The Story of the Settlement of the Huron Tract and a view of the Social Life of the Period, 1825—1850 |location=Toronto |publisher=William Briggs |date=1896 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadacompany00lizauoft}}</ref>

Members:
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* [[John Galt (novelist)|John Galt Jr.]]<ref name="Sons">{{cite web |url=https://www.guelphhistoricalsociety.ca/archives/historic-guelph/volume-3/john-galt-s-sons |title=John Galt's Sons |website=Guelph Historical Society}}</ref>
* [[William Tiger Dunlop]]
* [[Robert Graham Dunlop]]
* [[Henry Hyndman]]
* [[Anthony Van Egmond]]
* [[William Dickson (Upper Canada)|William Dickson]]
* John Longworth
* David Clark
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