The Progressive Association was a political party in

British Guiana British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...

History

The party was established in 1887 by

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, who led it until his death in 1908.Nigel David Westmaas (2006) ''A Mirror of Social and Political Ferment: The Newspaper Press of Guyana, 1839-1899'', ProQuest, p129 It later absorbed the Portuguese-founded Reform Association. In the 1897 general elections the party supported several candidates, including Dargan and

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; almost all of them were elected.Political changes (1891-1917)
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References

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