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: 1864-09-23 By: Viscount Monck, Province of Canada (Parliament) Citation: Despatch from Viscount Monck to Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (23 September 1864) in Journals of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 3rd Sess, 1865 at 36-48. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). (Copy, No. 135.) Quebec, 23rd September, 1864 SIR,—Referring to my Despatches, No. 124, of August 26th, and No, 129, of September 1st, I have the honor to transmit a copy of an approved Minute of the Executive Council… Read more Despatch from Viscount Monck to Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (23 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-09-23 By: Lord Monck Citation: Despatch from Lord Monck to Sir Richard Graves Macdonell (23 September 1864) in Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Appendix No. 3—Union of the Colonies (1865). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Quebec, 23rd September, 1864. SIR,— I have the honor to transmit a copy of an approved Minute of the Executive Council of Canada respecting the proposal to hold a Conference of Delegates from the Colonies of Nova Scotia,… Read more Despatch from Lord Monck to Sir Richard Graves Macdonell (23 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-09-23 By: Viscount Monck Citation: Despatch from Viscount Monck to Lieutenant Governor George Dundas (23 September 1864) in Journal of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island (1865), Appendix E. (1865). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). QUEBEC, 23rd September, 1864. SIR; I have the honor to transmit a copy of an approved minute of the Executive Council of Canada, respecting the proposal to hold a Conference of Delegates from the Colonics of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland… Read more Despatch from Viscount Monck to Lieutenant Governor George Dundas (23 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1865 By: Arthur H. Gordon Citation: Senate of Canada, Report Pursuant to Resolution of the Senate to the Honourable the Speaker by the Parliamentary Counsel relating to the Enactment of the British North America Act, 1867, any Lack of Consonance between its Terms and Judicial Construction of them and Cognate Matters, by William F. O’Connor (Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude, I.S.O., 1939), Annex 2, pp. 84-86. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Fredericton, 22nd September 1864. Sir,—In my Despatch of 12th instant, I stated that… Read more Despatch from Lieutenant Governor Arthur H. Gordon to the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Division of Powers] (22 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-09-21 By: Edward Cardwell Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell (21 September 1864) in Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Appendix No. 3—Union of the Colonies (1865). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Downing Street, 21st September, 1864. SIR,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 13, of the 31st of August, reporting the names of the gentlemen whom you had appointed to represent… Read more Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell (21 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) →