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) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-01 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Correspondence: Confederation” Montreal Herald (1 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CORRESPONDENCE. CONFEDERATION. To the Editor of the MONTREAL HERALD. Mr. Editor,—The Confederation farce appears to lose spirit in the last act. The English people are getting their eyes opened by degrees. If they only knew, as we know, that it was a sham and a dodge got up to hold Ministers in office for another spell, thus enabling them to draw salary for another quarter… Read more “Correspondence: Confederation”, Montreal Herald (1 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-03 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Reasons for Confederation” Montreal Herald (3 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). REASONS FOR CONFEDERATION.—We yesterday endeavoured to show the futility of some of the after dinner arguments for Confederation, which have been recently delivered in this city and at Hamilton. We had not, however, space to notice, among the other assertions made and not proved, that this wonderful scheme would strengthen the tie which binds us to the Mother Country. We can reply that this… Read more “Reasons for Confederation”, Montreal Herald (3 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-22 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The “Globe” on the School Laws” Montreal Herald (22 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE “GLOBE” ON THE SCHOOL LAWS.—The Globe writing on the changes which it is said are to be made in the Quebec constitution on the subject of the School Laws, talks the following nonsense:— “It is with this plot—this outrageous violation of the compact agreed upon at Quebec—that we in Upper Canada are chiefly concerned. It is in that part of… Read more “The “Globe” on the School Laws”, Montreal Herald (22 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-12-07 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Foretastes of a Happy Union Under Confederation (From the Morning Telegraph, St. John N. B.)” Montreal Herald (7 December 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). FORETASTES OF A HAPPY UNION UNDER CONFEDERATION. (From the Morning Telegraph, St. John N. B.) The Delegates in London will do well if they let the Education question, about which so much talk is being made in Canada, severely alone. We can hardly think, indeed, that changes of any great importance in… Read more “Foretastes of a Happy Union Under Confederation (From the Morning Telegraph, St. John N. B.)”, Montreal Herald (7 December 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-12-18 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Mr. Howland was Sea Sick on the Voyage” Montreal Herald (18 December 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). “MR. HOWLAND WAS SEA SICK ON THE VOYAGE.” General Press Despatch. Tell the glad news, the delegates at last, Have reached Britannia’s shores, escaped the blast. John A. in peace has sipped his usual tipple, As if the swelling waves were but a ripple, And Cartier, heir of old Jacques Cartier’s pluck, With midriff undisturbed, thinks he’s in luck.… Read more “Mr. Howland was Sea Sick on the Voyage”, Montreal Herald (18 December 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-12-20 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Confederation in London” Montreal Herald (20 December 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CONFEDERATION IN LONDON.—Every morning we hear something of the success of the project, which is being nursed by the delegates now in London. There are several minor and collateral points upon which the various “organs” somewhat differ, especially as to the time which our friends in England are to occupy in hatching the “new nation”; but all agree that the thing is going on… Read more “Confederation in London”, Montreal Herald (20 December 1866) →
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