Document Information Date: 1866-11-16 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The Confederation Remonstrance: A Second Letter by M.P.P.” Montreal Herald (16 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE CONFEDERATION REMONSTRANCE. A SECOND LETTER BY M. P. P. To the Right Hon. Lord Carnarvon, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c., &c.: MY LORD,—A remonstrance against the proposed Confederation of the British North American Provinces, signed by twenty members of our Colonial Legislature, addressed personally to you, has been published here. This remonstrance has been replied… Read more “The Confederation Remonstrance: A Second Letter by M.P.P.”, Montreal Herald (16 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-19 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “The School Question Settled” Montreal Herald (19 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). THE SCHOOL QUESTION SETTLED. [The following “Document” was found, “after the departure of the Delegate,” at Bonaventure Station. The signature was nearly illegible, all that could be made out being G. E. . . . . . . . , and some letters bearing a slight resemblance to M.P.P.:—] How happy could I be with either, Were t’other dear charmer away,— But ’tis… Read more “The School Question Settled”, Montreal Herald (19 November 1866) →
Document Information Date: 1866-11-20 By: Montreal Herald Citation: “Correspondence” Montreal Herald (20 November 1866). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the MONTREAL HERALD. SIR,—With all the admiration I feel for the gallant warfare you are waging, almost single handed, among the journals of the country against false principles and corrupt practices in the administration of our public affairs, I cannot conceal my regret that you do not more frequently refer to the debasing and deadening influence on the Press exerted by… Read more “Correspondence”, Montreal Herald (20 November 1866) →
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) →