Document Information Date: 1864-11-11 By: The Scotsman [From the Toronto Leader] Citation: “Canada. The Confederation Congress” , The Scotsman (11 November 1864). Other formats: Foreign News — CANADA. The Confederation Congress The Toronto Leader publishes the following reports of the sittings of the Confederation Congress o the 24th and 25th ult :- Quebec, October 24. – The Conference to-day was engaged in the division of powers between the local and general governments; which should possess powers not specially assigned to the other. It had been generally thought that this reordinance… Read more “Canada. The Confederation Congress” The Scotsman (11 November 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-11-10 By: The Globe Citation: “Mr. Dorion’s Address”, The Globe [Toronto] (10 November 1864). Other formats: Mr. DORION’S ADDRESS. We give elsewhere to-day an address by the Hon. A. A. Dorion to his constituents, wherein he declares himself opposed to the proposed Confederation of British North America. We regret exceedingly that Mr. Dorion has felt called upon formally to take ground against the Confederation scheme. No exception can be taken to his language. He states the leading features of the policy matured by the Quebec Conference very… Read more “Mr. Dorion’s Address”, The Globe (10 November 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-11-10 By: The Globe, St. John Weekly Telegraph Citation: “The Troubles of the Confederation”, The Globe [Toronto] (10 November 1864). Other formats: THE TROUBLES OF THE CONFEDERATES. (From the St. John Weekly Telegraph.) We refer now neither to the “bogus” Confederates nor the blood thirsty Confederates, but to the Colonial Confederates composing the late Quebec Conference. Mr. Whelan’s letters to the Examiner allow us just a short peep behind the scenes, and from these glimpses we learn that the proceedings of the Convention have been — anything… Read more “The Troubles of the Confederates”, The Globe [from the St. John Weekly Telegraph] (10 November 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-11-09 By: New York Times Citation: “The British American Confederation” , New York Times (9 November 1864). Other formats: The British American Confederation.–In a speech delivered at Toronto, on Thursday last, Hon. George Brown, one of the leading members of the Canadian Government, gave a semi-official outline of the scheme of federal union adopted by the Quebec Conference. It differs in no essential particular from the programme which our special correspondent was in a position to furnish several weeks ago. Mr. Brown, indeed, says that the outline… Read more “The British American Confederation” New York Times (9 November 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-11-07 By: The Globe Citation: “Speech of Attorney General Henry at Ottawa”, The Globe [Toronto] (7 November 1864). Other formats: Speech of Attorney General Henry, At Ottawa — The following is an extended report of the speech delivered at Ottawa in reply to the toast of “the delegates” by Attorney General Henry, which has been supplied by our reported, who was obliged to curtail it to ensure transmission by telegraph form that city. Attorney General Henry of Nova Scotia, replied on behalf of that Province and said… Read more “Speech of Attorney General Henry at Ottawa”, The Globe (7 November 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-11-06 By: New York Times Citation: “The Intercolonial Union”, New York Times (6 November 1864). Other formats: THE INTERCOLONIAL UNION. Monarchical Institutions to be the Basis of the New Scheme—The Name of the New Country to be Decided by Queen Victoria—Dinners, Balls, &c. MONTREAL, Monday, Oct. 31, 1864. Disappointment has befallen those who expected that the seal of secrecy which has hitherto been imposed upon the mouths of the delegates from the several provinces to the Quebec Conference would be broken at the Montreal banquet in their… Read more “The Intercolonial Union” New York Times (6 November 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-10-29 By: The Examiner (Charlottetown) Citation: “Report of the Quebec Conference on the Question of Colonial Union,” The Examiner (14 November 1864).[1] Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Notes: Endnotes are from Charles Dumais, The Quebec Resolutions: Including Several Never-Published Preliminary Drafts by George Brown and John A. Macdonald & a Collection of all Previously-Published Primary Documents Relating to the Conference, Second Edition (Calgary: Canadian Constitution Foundation, 2025). Report of the Quebec Conference on the Question of Colonial Union. The best interests and… Read more Hon. Edward Whelan’s (PEI) Draft of Quebec Resolutions, as Corrected in Montreal (29 October 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-10-29 By: New York Times Citation: “The Canadian Federation”, New York Times (29 October 1864). Other formats: THE CANADIAN FEDERATION. Further Details of the Plan Adopted—The Federal Government, the Judiciary, the Finances, &c. MONTREAL. Tuesday. Oct. 25, 1864. It has much amused me to read the remarks of the Quebec papers. They have been abusing the Telegraph Company and the Canadian Ministry, for the imaginary sin of giving the New-York press information as to the proceedings of the conference — the said information being the dispatches I… Read more “The Canadian Federation” New York Times (29 October 1864) →