Document Information Date: 1864-10-10 By: New York Times Citation: “From Canada. The Proposed Confederation of British North America, its Advantages and Difficulties”, New York Times (10 October 1864). Other formats: FROM CANADA — The Proposed Confederation of British North America, its Advantages and Difficulties – The Assembling of a Conference at Quebec – Proposed Guaranteed Independence of the Confederacy, &c., &c. Correspondence of the New-York Times. MONTREAL, Monday, Oct. 3, 1864. It is singular that, at the very time when your plotters are endeavoring to compass a separation of States,… Read more “From Canada. The Proposed Confederation of British North America…” New York Times (10 October 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-10-08 By: Chicago Tribune Citation: “The Proposed Confederation of the British Provinces”, Chicago Tribune (8 October 1864). Other formats: The Proposed Confederation of the British Provinces MONTREAL, Sept. 26, 1864. The delegates who went form the Canadas to join in the conference which took place at Charlottetown, on the 1st of September have returned. Those from the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island met at that pace to consider the propriety of a union among themselves under one government and legislature, and the… Read more “The Proposed Confederation of the British Provinces” Chicago Tribune (8 October 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-10-07 By: Edward Whelan, The Examiner (Charlottetown), Quebec Conference Citation: Edward Whelan, The Examiner (10 October 1864). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). 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). THE EXAMINER Charlottetown, October 10, 1864. To The Readers of The Examiner Dear Friends— Being on my way to Canada to co-operate with my friends,… Read more Edward Whelan, [The Quebec Conference], The Examiner (7 October 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-10-04 By: The Globe Citation: “The Great Confederation”, The Globe [Toronto] (4 October 1864). Other formats: THE GREAT CONFEDERATION The Convention which meets on Monday next at Quebec, will be unquestionably the most important meeting which has ever taken place in British America. It is confidently anticipated that before the conference closes, a scheme will be adopted for the confederation of all the Provinces of British America, which will be submitted to the legislature of each colony at its next session, by the administration thereof, and after… Read more “The Great Confederation”, The Globe (4 October 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-09-28 By: New York Times Citation: “The Confederation of British America”, New York Times (28 September 1864). Other formats: The Confederation of British America. The preliminary conference of the delegates appointed to discuss the question of a Federative Union of the provinces, have closed. Meetings of a more or less formal character have been held at the capital town of the three Maritime Colonies, and the leading delegates who have been entertained at a public banquet in Halifax have partially broken the seal of silence heretofore imposed… Read more “The Confederation of British America” New York Times (28 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-09-26 By: The Quebec Gazette, Halifax British Colonist Citation: “Union of the Colonies. The Dinner at Halifax. Full Report of Speeches,” Quebec Gazette (26 September 1864). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). UNION OF THE COLONIES. THE DINNER AT HALIFAX. FULL REPORT OF SPEECHES BY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR—THE ADMIRAL—HON. MR. CARTIER—HON. MR. BROWN—HON. MR. TILLEY—HON. COL. GRAY—HON. MR. GALT—HON. JOHN A. MACDONALD—HON. MR. McGEE. &c. (From the Halifax British Colonist.) […] SPEECH OF JOHN A. MACDONALD Hon. J.A. Macdonald then rose amid loud… Read more “Union of the Colonies. The Dinner at Halifax. Full Report of Speeches,” The Quebec Gazette (26 September 1864). →
Document Information Date: 1864-09-26 By: Daily British Whig (Kingston) Citation: “Federation of the Provinces, Speech of the Hon. J.A. Macdonald at the Halifax Dinner,” The Daily British Whig [Kingston] (26 September 1864). Other formats: Not yet available. The Daily British Whig Opifer per Orbem Dicor MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 26, 1864 LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. G. W. L., Belleville. FEDERATION OF THE PROVINCES SPEECH OF THE HON. J. A. MACDONALD AT THE HALIFAX DINNER. The question of Colonial Union is one of such magnitude that it dwarfs every other question on this… Read more “Federation of the Provinces, Speech of the Hon. J.A. Macdonald at the Halifax Dinner,” The Daily British Whig (26 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1865-09-21 By: The Charleston Mercury [From the New York Tribune] Citation: “British American Confederation”, The Charleston Mercury (21 September 1864). Other formats: BRITISH AMERICAN CONFEDERATION. [From the New York Tribune.] The first conference of delegates from the eastern provinces of British America—Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward’s Island—met on the 1st of September at Charlottetown Prince Edward’s Island. Originally, this meeting had been convoked for the purpose of deliberating on the expediency of uniting, under one Government, and one Legislature, the local Maritime provinces—Nova Scotia,… Read more “British American Confederation”, The Charleston Mercury (21 September 1864) →