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The Progressive Party of Canada, formally the National Progressive Party, was a federal-level political party in Canada in the 1920s until 1930. It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces, and it spawned the Progressive Party of Saskatchewan, and the Progressive Party of Manitoba, which formed the government of that province.
This is a list of leaders of the Conservative Party of Canada (historical) (1867–1942), Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–2003), and Conservative Party of Canada (2003–present) ("the Tory parties"), and of prime ministers of Canada after Confederation who were members of those parties.
The Progressive Canadian Party (PC Party) (French: Parti progressiste canadien) was a minor centre-right federal political party in Canada. It was registered with Elections Canada , the government's election agency, on March 29, 2004.
The party adopted the "Progressive Conservative" name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a long-time leader of that province's Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the federal Conservatives on condition that the party add Progressive to its name.
The party had its roots in the Great Coalition of 1864 that paved the way for Canadian confederation and was known under various names but was generally referred to unofficially as the Tories or "Conservative Party". In 1942, Liberal-Progressive Premier of Manitoba John Bracken became leader of the party, on the condition the party be named the ...
Robert Laxer – Labor-Progressive Party organizer in the 1950s, left in 1956 and subsequently joined the New Democratic Party becoming a leader of The Waffle tendency. A. A. MacLeod – Labor-Progressive MPP in the Ontario legislature in the 1940s and 1950s. Subsequently, became an advisor to the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
Progressive Conservative Party (1942–2003) The second (and current) Conservative Party of Canada was a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party. Progressive Party and United Farmers. Some candidates for the Progressive Party of Canada used United Farmer designations: Farmer (1925 & 1930), United Farmers of Canada,
Party Incumbency First mandate began Current mandate began Renewal of Mandate Parlia-ment Federation – Prime Minister of Canada; Justin Trudeau [1] Canada: 23rd: Liberal Party of Canada: 9 years, 88 days 2015 election: 2021 election: 2025 election: 44th: Provinces – Provincial premiers; Doug Ford [2] Ontario: 26th: Progressive Conservative ...