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Charles Dumais, The Quebec Resolutions: Including Several Never-Published Preliminary Drafts by George Brown and John A Macdonald and a Collection of All Previously-Published Primary Documents Relating to the Conference, October 10, 1864 – October 29, 1864, Second Edition (Calgary: Canadian Constitution Foundation, 2025).

Materials from the John A. Macdonald Papers at Library and Archives Canada (MG26 A) 

(I.) first working draft (26 October 1864)
(II.) second working draft (26-27 October 1864)
(III.) third working draft (27 October 1864)
(IV.) fourth working draft (27 October 1864)
(V.)  The Quebec Resolutions, as adopted in the legislature of the Province of Canada (14 March 1865)

Materials from the George Brown Papers at Library and Archives Canada (MG 24 B 40) 

working notes (10-11 October 1864)
notes on the distribution of powers (12 October 1864)
notes on the distribution of powers with revisions (12 October 1864)
amended distribution of powers (“general legislature”) (21 October 1864)
principles of debts and assets (22 October 1864)
notes on finances (22 October 1864)*
amended distribution of powers (“local legislature”) (24 October 1864)
resolutions on Indians, ferries, etc. (25-26 October 1864)
notes on debts and assets (26 October)*

*Not part of book. 

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