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Title: The Fathers of Confederation
A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion

Author: A. H. U. Colquhoun

Release Date: September 13, 2009 [EBook #29972]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: The Fathers of Confederation. After a painting by
Robert Harris.]

THE FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION

A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion

by

A. H. U. COLQUHOUN

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1916

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

TO

COLONEL GEORGE T. DENISON

WHOSE LIFE-WORK IS PROOF THAT
LOYALTY TO THE EMPIRE IS
FIDELITY TO CANADA

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CONTENTS

Page

I. THE DAWN OF THE MOVEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. OBSTACLES TO UNION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
III. THE EVE OF CONFEDERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
IV. THE HOUR AND THE MEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
V. THE CHARLOTTETOWN CONFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
VI. THE QUEBEC CONFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
VII. THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
VIII. THE DEBATES OF 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
IX. ROCKS IN THE CHANNEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
X. 'THE BATTLE OF UNION' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
XI. THE FRAMING OF THE BILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
XII. THE FIRST DOMINION MINISTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
XIII. FROM SEA TO SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
XIV. THE WORK OF THE FATHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THE FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_