Document Information Date: 1864-07-27 By: The Globe Citation: “The Two Federations”, The Globe [Toronto] (27 July 1864). Other formats: THE TWO FEDERATIONS There is with some persons a vast difference between the two federations spoken of in the Ministerial agreement of last month. One, they tell us, is a vast affair, calculated to give us national importance at once. The other is, to their eyes, only a petty municipal scheme, unworthy of consideration by the side of the grand proposition. They go into ectacies at the idea of a federation… Read more “The Two Federations,” The Globe (27 July 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-26 By: Montreal Gazette Citation: “Conference of the Colonies,” Montreal Gazette (26 July 1864) Other formats: CONFERENCE OF THE COLONIES We understand the Conference of the colonies is fixed to take place at Charlottetown, Prince Edward’s Island, on Thursday, the 1st of September next.
Document Information Date: 1864-07-25 By: George Dundas Citation: Despatch from J. Cole to Lieutenant Governor George Dundas (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). FREDERICTON, N. B., 25th July, 1864. SIR; I have the honor to inform your Excellency, that this Government are prepared to nominate Delegates to attend the Conference on the subject of the Union of the Maritime Provinces, and that they are willing to accede to… Read more Despatch from J. Cole to Lieutenant Governor George Dundas (25 July 1864) →
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: 1864-07-22 By: True Witness Citation: “No title”, True Witness (22 July, 1864) Other formats: TBA L’Ordre, of the 13th instant, asks us how it is, that the TRUE WITNESS, whilst professing repugnance to the Coalition betwixt Messrs. Brown and Cartier, and declaring its hostility to Confederation, nevertheless, in its issue of the 8th instant, says that—if the measures or acts of the Coalition Cabinet are good, it will offer the members of that Cabinet no opposition?—Our reply shall be short, and we trust satisfactory. We speak and act… Read more “No title”, True Witness (22 July, 1864) [2] →
Document Information Date: 1864-07-22 By: True Witness Citation: “No title”, True Witness (22 July, 1864) Other formats: TBA Acting under instructions from our superiors, we addressed, in our issue of the 8th instant, a question to the Toronto Freeman, wherein the latter was requested to indicate the source from whence he had derived his information relative to the feelings of the Catholic Hierarchy and Clergy of Lower Canada, with respect to the contemplated changes in the constitution of these Provinces. In the Freeman of the 14th inst., we find the following… Read more “No title”, True Witness (22 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) →