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Date: 1864-08-08
By: Richard Graves Macdonnell
Citation: Despatch from Viscount Monck to Lieutenant Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell (8 August 1864) in Nova Scotia, Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Appendix No. 3—Union of the Colonies (1865).
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Government House, Quebec,
8th August, 1864.

SIR,—

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of 9th July, informing me that the meeting of the Delegates from the Governments of the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, to consider the propriety of a Union of these Provinces, had been fixed to take place at Charlottetown on September 1st.

I have the honor to inform you, the Honorable Messrs. MacDonald, Cartier, Brown, and Galt, have been appointed as a Deputation from the Government of Canada to attend the Conference, with a view to ascertain whether Canada might not be included in the proposed Union.

I have, &c.,
(Signed)          MONCK.

Lieut.-Governor Sir RICHAD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.