Document Information Date: 1864-07-25 By: George Dundas Citation: Despatch from Lieutenant Governor George Dundas to Right Hon. Viscount Monck (25 July 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). GOVERNMENT HOUSE, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, 25th July, 1864. MY LORD; I have the honor to acknowledge Your Lordship’s Despatch of the 30th ultimo, informing me that it is the wish of the Canadian Government to send a Delegation to attend the Conference, which… Read more Despatch from Lieutenant Governor George Dundas to Right Hon. Viscount Monck (25 July 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-23 By: Edward Cardwell Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (23 July 1864) in Journal of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Brunswick (1865). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Downing Street, 23rd July, 1864. SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you for your information, a copy of a Despatch from Lord Lyons, on the subject of an Act passed by the United States Congress “to regulate the Foreign Coasting Trade on the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwestern frontiers of… Read more Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (23 July 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-20 By: The Montreal Herald Citation: “Plan of Confederation”, The Montreal Herald (20 July, 1864) Other formats: TBA PLAN OF CONFEDERATION. (From the Nord of Ste. Scholastique.) We are unfavorable to a Canadian federation inasmuch as it must inflict injury on the integrity of the Lower Canadian land. Has it not been, indeed, declared that this confederation is to consist of three States, viz: West, exclusively English, central, half English and half French; and Eastern nearly wholly French? We have only to indicate such a system in order… Read more “Plan of Confederation”, The Montreal Herald (20 July, 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-20 By: The Globe Citation: “The New Constitutional Movements”, The Globe [Toronto] (20 July 1864). Other formats: The New Constitutional Movements. ———— MEETINGS IN LAMBTON COUNTY ———— THE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED ———— We find by the Sarnia Observer of Friday last, that Mr. Alex Mackenzie, M P.P, is engaged in holding a series of meetings throughout his constituency for the purpose of explaining his position with reference to the recent political changes. The Observer reports the proceedings at the first of these meetings, held… Read more “The New Constitutional Movements” The Globe (20 July 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-18 By: Richard Graves Macdonnell Citation: Despatch from Lieutenant Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell to Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (18 July 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). Colonial Schooner “Daring,” St. Mary’s River, N.S., 18th July, 1864. SIR,— I have the honor to report that on the 9th inst. I received from Lord Monck a Despatch, dated the 30th June, inquiring… Read more Despatch from Lieutenant Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell to Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (18 July 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-18 By: The Montreal Herald Citation: “Federation”, The Montreal Herald (18 July, 1864) Other formats: TBA FEDERATION. —In dealing with this question, whether we use the word to signify the union, under one league, of all the British North American Colonies, or the relaxation of the present tie which unites the two ancient Canadian Provinces in one, we must from the first admit that the scheme does not want for authority. We all know why Canada was constituted in two Provinces, and how that form of political existence… Read more “Federation”, The Montreal Herald (18 July, 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-16 By: The Economist Citation: “The New Programme of the Canadian Ministry,” The Economist (16 July 1864). Other formats: Not yet available. THE NEW PROGRAMME OF THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. THE latest intelligence from Canada is the most important which has reached us for some years, but it requires some explanation. Ever since the concession of responsible Government, the Parliament of the colony has been hampered by a difficulty which is occasionally felt in Great Britain, though in a very minor degree. The colony consists, for Parliamentary purposes,… Read more “The New Programme of the Canadian Ministry,” The Economist (16 July 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-15 By: The Globe Citation: “Misapprehension”, The Globe [Toronto] (15 July 1864). Other formats: A MISAPPREHENSION. — A contemporary misunderstands our arguments in reference to the contest in North Ontario, when it represents us as denying the right of any one to oppose the present Administration. We have never been guilty of any such absurdity/ We have, it is true argued that under all the circumstances, [text cut off] Government formed for the sole object of styling the sectional difficulties of the country has very great claims… Read more “A Misapprehension”, The Globe (15 July 1864) →