HOW WAS CONFEDERATION ACHIEVED?

In September 1864, representatives from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick were planning to meet to discuss a Maritime union. When news of this meeting reached the Province of Canada, John A. Macdonald and other pro-Confederation leaders asked to attend. The conference was held in this town of Prince Edward Island.

• Montreal

• Vancouver

• Charlottetown

• Toronto

A second conference was held in October 1864 in this city . Representatives from Canada West, Canada East, and the Atlantic colonies discussed and debated the needs and wants of the colonies.

• Québec City

• Montreal

• Toronto

• Vancouver

With the list of resolutions drafted, the Fathers of Confederation representing Canada West, Canada East, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia travelled to England to write the British North America Act. This legislation would officially end their status as individual British colonies. They would be joined together as a united, partially self-governing country by an act of British Parliament. The Conference, took place in this city between December 1866 and March 1867

• Québec City

• Montreal

• Toronto

• London

July 1, 1867, became known as this. People gathered to hear the reading of Queen Victoria’s proclamation. In it, she declared that the Province of Canada (now split into two provinces, Ontario and Québec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were officially united in the Dominion of Canada.

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He was appointed prime minister on July 1, 1867, and was elected to the position a month later. Queen Victoria also knighted him for his role in forming the new dominion.

• Timothy Stanley

• Dusan Kadlec

• John A. Macdonald

• George Brown

They wanted access to new trade partners in British North America. For this, they needed a railway to move their goods. Prince Edward Island wanted a ferry system to have better access to the mainland. It also wanted a solution to the land ownership issue so tenants could buy their own land.

• The Maritimes

• French Canadians

• Irish

• West Provinces

They wanted a very strong central government. He drafted the majority of the resolutions (decisions) reached during the Québec Conference.

• Canada East

• Canada West

• New Caledonia

• Ontario

In these provinces, Queen Victoria’s proclamation met with protests. Many people believed Confederation was pushed on them due to their lack of voting rights

• Quebec and Ontario

• British Columbia and Alberta

• Quebec and Manitoba

• Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

"This new Dominion of ours came noisily into existence on the 1st, and the very newspapers look hot and tired, with the weight of Announcements and Cabinet lists. Here—in this house—the atmosphere is so awfully political that sometimes I think the very flies hold Parliaments on the Kitchen Tablecloths.” was a quote by...

• Agnes Macdonald

• Timothy Stanley

• George Brown

• Carmen Nielson

He was known as the "Father of Confederation".

• Agnes Macdonald

• Timothy Stanley

• George Brown

• Carmen Nielson