Equal Rights Association
Formed in Toronto, in 1889, to secure the
disallowance of the Jesuits' Estates Act, and generally to oppose what
was described as the "political encroachments of ultramontanism." Among
the principal founders were D'Alton McCarthy, William E. O'Brien, and
Clarke Wallace. =Index=: (Sir John A Macdonald era) Grew out of agitation over Jesuits'
Estates question, 289.