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Date: 1867-02-21
By: Lord Carnarvon
Citation: Letter from Lord Carnarvon to John A. Macdonald re Protestant Minority in Lower Canada (28 February 1867), [MG26-A, Vol. 51, 20381-20382].
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L. Carnarvon
C.O.

28 Feb. 1867

Re Protestant
Minority of L.C.

My dear Sir,

I understand that the amendment which it is desired to introduce in committee in the Bill with regard to the Protestant minority in Lower Canada is a provision to the effect that such minority shall have the same relative representation

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always secured to them in the federal and local Legislatures as now. I conclude that this would be a grave infraction of the terms agreed to and embodied in the Bill.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely,

Carnarvon