Document Information Date: 1866-11-21 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Offer to Prince Edward Island” Montreal Herald (21 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE OFFER TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.—We print to-day some correspondence showing the present position of this subject. When we read the first part of the minute of the Canadian Executive Council, we confess to having felt the satisfaction of believing that, for once at all events, our Government were disposed to act uprightly and with an eye to the interests which… Read more “The Offer to Prince Edward Island”, Montreal Herald (21 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-22 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The “Globe” on the School Laws” Montreal Herald (22 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE “GLOBE” ON THE SCHOOL LAWS.—The Globe writing on the changes which it is said are to be made in the Quebec constitution on the subject of the School Laws, talks the following nonsense:— “It is with this plot—this outrageous violation of the compact agreed upon at Quebec—that we in Upper Canada are chiefly concerned. It is in that part of… Read more “The “Globe” on the School Laws”, Montreal Herald (22 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-24 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Position of the Country and the Government of the Country” Montreal Herald (24 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE POSITION OF THE COUNTRY AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTRY.—We do not attach very much importance to the oracular statements of the Government organs, for one reason, because they contradict themselves only a little less often than they contradict one another, as we have seen in the stories which have been circulated by them with… Read more “The Position of the Country and the Government of the Country”, Montreal Herald (24 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-27 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The M.P.P. (From the St. Thomas Despatch)” Montreal Herald (27 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE M. P. P. (From the St. Thomas Despatch) The Montreal Herald has published two letters signed M. P. P., addressed to Lord Carnarvon and intended as an answer to the Remonstrance of certain Lower Canada M. P. P.’s opposed to the Confederation of the British North American Provinces. With the help of the Herald we do not think we… Read more “The M.P.P. (From the St. Thomas Despatch)”, Montreal Herald (27 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-29 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Small Reasons for Great Changes” Montreal Herald (29 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). SMALL REASONS FOR GREAT CHANGES.—The Globe is becoming less hopeful as to the advantages of Confederation. In an article in answer to the second article in the Daily News, it says: We do not know that any rational Unionist has ever contended that Confederation would make these Provinces a great military power. The people of the Provinces to be united are all… Read more “Small Reasons for Great Changes”, Montreal Herald (29 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-12-07 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Value of the Canadian Authorities by whom Confederation is recommended in England” Montreal Herald (7 December 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE VALUE OF THE CANADIAN AUTHORITIES BY WHOM CONFEDERATION IS RECOMMENDED IN ENGLAND.—We have delayed but not forgotten to fulfil the pledge which we gave sometime ago, to show that several of our Canadian authorities, self styled statesmen, have heretofore been precisely of the same opinion as the writer in the London Daily News,… Read more “The Value of the Canadian Authorities by whom Confederation is recommended in England”, Montreal Herald (7 December 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-12-07 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Foretastes of a Happy Union Under Confederation (From the Morning Telegraph, St. John N. B.)” Montreal Herald (7 December 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). FORETASTES OF A HAPPY UNION UNDER CONFEDERATION. (From the Morning Telegraph, St. John N. B.) The Delegates in London will do well if they let the Education question, about which so much talk is being made in Canada, severely alone. We can hardly think, indeed, that changes of any great importance in… Read more “Foretastes of a Happy Union Under Confederation (From the Morning Telegraph, St. John N. B.)”, Montreal Herald (7 December 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1868 By: Martin I. Wilkins Citation: Speeches delivered by Hon. Martin I. Wilkins, (attorney general) in the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, session 1868, on resolutions relative to repeal of the “British North America Act, 1867”, at Canadiana. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). [Page 1] SPEECHES DELIVERED BY HON. MARTIN I. WILKINS, (ATTORNEY GENERAL,) IN THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF NOVA SCOTIA, SESSION 1868, ON RESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO REPEAL OF THE “BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867.” HALIFAX, N.S. PRINTED AT THE… Read more Speeches delivered by Hon. Martin I. Wilkins, (attorney general) in the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, session 1868, on resolutions relative to repeal of the “British North America Act, 1867” →