The Upper Canada Tories were formed from the elements of the Family Compact after the War of 1812. The movement was an early political party and merely a group of like-minded conservative elite in the early days of Canada.
The Tories would later form an alliance with the Parti bleu in Lower Canada after the Union of 1841; they would finally merge as a single political party, the Conservative Party of Canada, after 1867.
List of political figures with ties to the Tories
- Henry Sherwood - Mayor of Toronto, MLA in the Parliament of Upper Canada and later Premier of Canada West
- William Henry Draper - MLA in the Parliament of Upper Canada and later Premier of Canada West
- Henry John Boulton - Solicitor General and Attorney General of Upper Canada
- Archibald Macdonald - MLA
- Archibald McLean - MLA, Speaker and jurist
- Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
- Levius Peters Sherwood
- George Strange Boulton
- William Allan
- Augustus Warren Baldwin
- George Monro
- John Alexander Macdonald
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