Document Information Date: 1866-09-02 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Confederation in England and the Reported Abandonment of the Quebec Constitution” Montreal Herald (2 September 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CONFEDERATION IN ENGLAND AND THE REPORTED ABANDONMENT OF THE QUEBEC CONSTITUTION.—We on Saturday copied from our American exchanges an extract from an article on this subject, taken from the London Times, which seemed to show that the progress of Confederation in England was not quite so smooth and rapid as some persons in Canada would gladly… Read more “Confederation in England and the Reported Abandonment of the Quebec Constitution”, Montreal Herald (2 September 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-09-14 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Attorney-General in the Confessional” Montreal Herald (14 September 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL IN THE CONFESSIONAL. (From the Globe.) The complaint was that when the Canadian Parliament did meet—the Government were not prepared with their measure for the completion of Confederation. Let us see how Mr. Macdonald attempts to meet this. He goes on to say :— “When Parliament did meet, the Government found there was not only a perfunctory necessity to carry… Read more “The Attorney-General in the Confessional”, Montreal Herald (14 September 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-10-08 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Confederation Delegation” Montreal Herald (8 October 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE CONFEDERATE DELEGATION.—Rumours begin to circulate that the delegates in the interest of Confederation are about to leave for Britain. No date is given for that event to take place, and the Gazette, through whose telegrams it is given to the public, wisely dreading another hoax, declines to say on what authority it gives the report, and does not vouch for its correctness. Possibly… Read more “The Confederation Delegation”, Montreal Herald (8 October 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-10-24 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Confederation and the Rights of the Legislatures and the People” Montreal Herald (24 October 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CONFEDERATION AND THE RIGHTS OF THE LEGISLATURES AND THE PEOPLE. We have been requested by the writer to publish this letter, it having been rejected except on conditions which were not agreeable to the author:— To the Editor of the Montreal Gazette: SIR,—I notice that in your editorial of the 13th instant, respecting Confederation, you ask: “Can… Read more “Confederation and the Rights of the Legislatures and the People”, Montreal Herald (24 October 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-10-25 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Mr. Galt Turns up Again” Montreal Herald (25 October 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). MR. GALT TURNS UP AGAIN.—When the Confederation scheme was first broached, that portion of the English-speaking, especially the Protestant population of Lower Canada, who possessed intelligence enough to observe the shadows of coming events, felt that its success would be the complete annihilation of even such small share of political influence as they at present possess. Accordingly it was understood that their… Read more “Mr. Galt Turns up Again”, Montreal Herald (25 October 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-10-26 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Delegations to England” Montreal Herald (26 October 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE DELEGATIONS TO ENGLAND.—It seems that there is not to be only one protect of special interests with the delegates from these Provinces who are about to proceed to England to urge the Imperial Government to destroy the British Constitution in British North America, and give us instead one that is based like the American Constitution, on a written and inflexible fundamental law,… Read more “The Delegations to England”, Montreal Herald (26 October 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-10-29 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Reasons in Favour of Confederation Promises Connected Therewith” Montreal Herald (29 October 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). HOW ASSENT TO CONFEDERATION IS TO BE BOUGHT.—The manner in which it is proposed to secure the passage of the measure, in spite of the deliberate opposition of the People concerned by a purchase of their votes, is exhibited by a piece of news which has just reached us from Prince Edward’s Island. It appears in a paper which,… Read more “Reasons in Favour of Confederation Promises Connected Therewith”, Montreal Herald (29 October 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-01 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Reasons in Favour of Confederation Promises Connected Therewith” Montreal Herald (1 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). REASONS IN FAVOUR OF CONFEDERATION—PROMISES CONNECTED THEREWITH.—Perhaps dinners are not precisely the places where people go to acquire knowledge. Nevertheless at a dinner given as a political demonstration, and where the leading politicians of a country profess to be about to consummate a great constitutional change in the position of the country they represent, we may fairly expect to… Read more “Reasons in Favour of Confederation Promises Connected Therewith”, Montreal Herald (1 November 1866) →