Document Information Date: 1866-09-14 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Attorney-General in the Confessional” Montreal Herald (14 September 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL IN THE CONFESSIONAL. (From the Globe.) The complaint was that when the Canadian Parliament did meet—the Government were not prepared with their measure for the completion of Confederation. Let us see how Mr. Macdonald attempts to meet this. He goes on to say :— “When Parliament did meet, the Government found there was not only a perfunctory necessity to carry… Read more “The Attorney-General in the Confessional”, Montreal Herald (14 September 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-10-10 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Confederation” Montreal Herald (10 October 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CONFEDERATION.—Our readers will no doubt remember that some time since the Legislatures of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia sent delegates to England for the purpose of arranging with delegates from Canada, and the Imperial Government, the terms of the act which was to put in force the new constitution to be foisted upon the people of these Provinces. The Legislatures we have named were by no… Read more “Confederation”, Montreal Herald (10 October 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-01 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Correspondence: Confederation” Montreal Herald (1 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CORRESPONDENCE. CONFEDERATION. To the Editor of the MONTREAL HERALD. Mr. Editor,—The Confederation farce appears to lose spirit in the last act. The English people are getting their eyes opened by degrees. If they only knew, as we know, that it was a sham and a dodge got up to hold Ministers in office for another spell, thus enabling them to draw salary for another quarter… Read more “Correspondence: Confederation”, Montreal Herald (1 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-16 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “What Confederation Means” Montreal Herald (16 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). WHAT CONFEDERATION MEANS.—For those who believe that Confederation means a drawing closer of the bonds between Canada and the mother country, the following antithesis, forming the last words of an article in the Times on the subject of the Quebec fire, will perhaps be instructive. To the writer of that article Confederation evidently means the independence of the Colonies, or, as others put it,… Read more “What Confederation Means”, Montreal Herald (16 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-06 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Signatures to the Remonstrance against Confederation” Montreal Herald (6 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE SIGNATURES TO THE REMONSTRANCE AGAINST CONFEDERATION.—One of our Ministerial contemporaries has expressed a desire to know why Mr. Joly did not sign the remonstrance against the hasty carrying of the Confederation scheme through the Imperial Parliament. We are glad to be able to inform our contemporary that the reason why Mr. Joly did not sign was merely that the… Read more “The Signatures to the Remonstrance against Confederation”, Montreal Herald (6 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-09 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The School Question” True Witness (9 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE SCHOOL QUESTION.—A public banquet was given to Mr. Cartier by his friends in Montreal, on Tuesday last week. In returning thanks for the honor done him by the enthusiastic drinking of his health, Mr. Cartier made the following important announcement. We copy from a report in the Montreal Herald:— “On the School Question for Lower Canada, as now under consideration, he said: I will… Read more “The School Question”, True Witness (9 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-09 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Protestants and the School Law” Montreal Herald (9 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE PROTESTANTS AND THE SCHOOL LAW.—When one of our Ministerial contemporaries gave out a few days ago that Mr. Galt had accepted the place of a delegate to England, in order to protect the educational interests of his “countrymen and co-religionists,” we had no hesitation in saying that the statement involved another fraud. It is plain that Mr. Galt could do… Read more “The Protestants and the School Law”, Montreal Herald (9 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-10 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Something Which We Should Like to Know” Montreal Herald (10 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). SOMETHING WHICH WE SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW.—On Saturday last—a week ago to-day—our conservative contemporary the Gazette informed us that he had in hand a scathing criticism upon the modest remonstrance of the Lower Canadian Parliamentary minority against the attempts now being made to have Confederation enacted by the Imperial Parliament, without the previous consent of the people of Canada, given… Read more “Something Which We Should Like to Know”, Montreal Herald (10 November 1866) →