Confedartion of Canada
Charlottetown Conference (First of three conferences)
What was this Confrenece about?
This conference was basically to agree or disagree to the idea of confederation of Canada. The Charlottetown conference was held in Charlottetown Prince
Agenda
In 1862 the province of Canada refused to pay part of the costs for the intercontinental railway, The Maritime provinces started to discuss colonizing in to a single unit to help attract financial investment.
Representatives For Nova Scotia
~Charles Tupper
~ Attorney General, William Alexander Henry
~Robert Barry Dickey
~ Liberal Leader, Adams George Archibald
Charles Tupper
Representatives for New Brunswick
~Reform Premier, Samuel Leonard Tilley
~ Attorney General John Mercer Johnson
~ Minister, William Henry Steeves
~Veteran Conservative, Edward Barron Chandler
~John Hamilton Gray
Samuel Leonard Tilley
Representatives For Prince Edward Island
~Conservative Premier John Hamilton Gray
~ William Henry Pope
~Edward Palmer
~ Liberals, George Coles and Andrew A. Macdonald
~ Three Delegates, Palmer, Coles and Macdonald
John Hamilton Gray
Terms agreed on
The Maritimers would accept Confederation if they got the railway connecting them to Canada West (Through the Province of Ontario). After another conference was held to work out the better points of confederation.
Quebec Conference
When was the Quebec Conference
The Quebec conference was held on October 10 to the 24th 1864, and lasted two weeks
Agenda
They wanted to unite and be a free country from Britain's power. Not only was the conference to unite the colonies but was also so that they could agree on terms and laws.
Representatives
Adams George Archibald and Charles Tupper from Nova Scotia.
George Cole was a liberal and William Henry Pope
John Hamilton Gray and Samuel Leonard Tilley from New Brunswick.
Atlantic Colonies, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia.
Terms Agreed upon
The delegates agreed that a new federal government will help fund and and help finish the construction of the Inter colonial Railway in Quebec city to the maritimes.
72 resolutions were agreed upon at this very conference, 50 of which John A. MacDonald had crafted.
The provincial government was now in control of schooling, municipalities, and language. Meanwhile the federal government controlled currency, international trade, and criminal laws.
London Conference
When was the London conference held.
December 4,1866 to and was the final in a series of conferences or debates that led to Canadian confederation in 1867.
Representatives
16 representatives from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick attended, including John A. Macdonald (conservative), George Étienne Cartier, Alexander Galt and George Brown (liberal).
John A Macdonald
George Étienne Cartier
George Brown
Agenda
The purpose of the meeting was to draft the British North America Act, and they also chose and approved the name Canada, Québec, and Ontario in this meeting.
Terms agreed on
~Nova Scotia and New Brunswick made some changes to the 72 resolutions (the Quebec conference)
~New Brunswick got assurances that a railway would be built
~The provincial government subsidies increased.
Signed by Queen Victoria on March 29, 1867. Then in 1867 New Brunswick,Nova Scotia and the province of Canada proclaimed the dominion of Canada with John A.
Final Result
The Damion of Canada was formed on July 1st, or better know as 'Canada Day'