How the Conservative Party of Canada Came to Add ‘Progressive’ to Its Name in 1942

Published on April 12, 2024

Commentary Why did Canada’s national Conservative Party once have the paradoxical name of “Progressive Conservative,” as do most provincial Tory parties to this day? The short answer is: Western farmers. A longer answer is: the old Progressive Party and a political outsider named John Bracken, plus a certain serial Conservative misfortune at the ballot box. In the early 1940s the Tories were officially called the Liberal-Conservative Party, a name inherited on and off from the early 1850s. John Bracken insisted on the name change in 1942 as a condition for agreeing to serve as the national Conservative leader, which he did from 1943 to 1948. Before that he had served as the premier of Manitoba since 1922, when the Progressive Party of Manitoba had won a surprise election victory without even having a leader in place....

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