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	Quebec Conference, 1864 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quebec Conference was the second meeting held in 1864 to discuss Canadian Confederation.
		In the month between the conferences, the ideas presented at Charlottetown were drafted in the Seventy-Two Resolutions, specific goals to be achieved in the creation of a new country.
		The major source of conflict at the conference was between those who favoured a strong central government, such as John A. Macdonald, and those who favoured stronger provincial rights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_Conference,_1864 (405 words)

	Quebec Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quebec Conference refers to one of several different meetings by the same name that were held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
		The Quebec Conference of 1864 was the second conference to discuss Canada's confederation, which was finally accomplished three years later.
		The Quebec Conference of 1943 and 1944 were top-level meetings between the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom to plan strategy in World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_Conference (171 words)

	Quebec Conference - Canadian History
		Quebec city on October 10, 1864, to discuss a plan for a federal union of the British North American provinces.
		It was attended by thirty-three delegates, later known as the "Fathers of Confederation," representing Canada, the three Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and the colony of Newfoundland.
		The conference at Quebec was notable for its brevity.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/QuebecConference-CanadianHistory.htm (1049 words)

	Quebec Conference Resolutions, 1864: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		The communications with the North-Western Territory, and the improvements required for the development of the Trade of the Great West with the seaboard, are regarded by this Conference as subjects of the highest importance to the Federated Provinces....
		The sanction of the Imperial and Local Governments shall be sought for the Union of the Provinces on the principles adopted by the Conference.
		The proceedings of the Conference shall be authenticated by the signatures of the Delegates, and submitted by each Delegation to its own Government, and the Chairman is authorised to submit a copy to the Governor General, for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /law/resolutions.html (1301 words)

	The Quebec Conference - Canadian Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the enthusiastic reception given to the delegates from the Province of Canada at the Charlottetown Conference in September 1864, John A. Macdonald asked Governor Monck to invite representatives from the three Maritime colonies and Newfoundland to meet with the United Canada delegates in Québec in October 1864.
		The Québec Conference took place from October 10 to 27, 1864, in a magnificent building that stood where the Château Frontenac is today.
		Following this conference, the delegates from the colonies drafted a text known as the 72 Resolutions, or the Québec Resolutions.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2080-e.html (437 words)

	Prince Edward Island - Canadian Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Coles, a former premier and veteran of the fight for responsible government, was leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council.
		The Charlottetown Conference is remembered for its parties, elegant dinners and excursions on the island, all held for the visitors from the mainland.
		In December 1864, Whelan wrote that the Island was "dead set against Union in all shapes and forms." In May 1866 the provincial legislature passed the "No Terms" resolution, under the leadership of a new Conservative, anti-Confederation premier, James Pope.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2200-e.html (1782 words)

	The London Conference - Canadian Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The conference was much smaller than those at Charlottetown or Québec had been, consisting of sixteen members in all (from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada).
		In addition to drafting the British North America Act, the Conference had to cope with the presence of an anti-union delegation from Nova Scotia, led by Joseph Howe, which was bent on overturning any union agreement.
		The major social event of the conference, however, was probably the marriage of John A. Macdonald and Agnes Bernard on February 16, 1867.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2085-e.html (686 words)

	Québec - Canadian Heritage Gallery
		Quebec Captured The English capture of Quebec, 1629, as published in Holland in 1698, a temporary transfer of power.
		Quebec Attack The unsuccessful attack on Quebec by General Montgomery, December 31, 1775.
		Quebec City A view of Quebec city and its ramparts, including a few burned-out houses in the foreground, after the American attack in 1775.
	www.canadianheritage.org /galleries/places5000.htm (293 words)

	The Quebec Conference, October 1864: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		The Quebec Conference, October 1864: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		The Quebec Conference, which continued the discussions at Charlottetown, began on 10 October and lasted two weeks.
		Overall, the Quebec resolutions, which envisaged a strong federal government and relatively weak provincial governments, reflected the dominant role played by the Canadian delegates.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /law/quebec.html (642 words)

	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick - Legislative Tradition Part 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gray was a delegate to the pre-Confederation conferences in Charlottetown and Quebec.
		He was a delegate to the Quebec conference in 1864 and the London conference in 1866.
		A delegate to the pre-Confederation conferences at Charlottetown and Quebec, Steeves was appointed to the Senate after Confederation.
	www.gnb.ca /legis/publications/tradition/legtrad9-e.asp (656 words)

	Canada: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Quebec, having freed itself from traditionalism by the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, began lobbying for its own partial or complete independence from canada.
		Referendums in Quebec in 1980 and 1995 saw 59.6% and 50.6% of voters reject proposals for sovereignty-association.
		The provinces are Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
	winelib.com /wiki/Canada (3537 words)

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		Throughout the late 1960s the future of Quebec's linguistic composition became a central preoccupation of demographic studies in Quebec, and the significant demographic trends were widely debated in the letters and opinion columns of Le Devoir.
		In all provinces outside Quebec (excepting Ontario and New Brunswick), demographic factors such as transmission of language from one generation to the next, retention of mother tongue throughout the individual's lifetime, marriage outside one's community, birth rates and migration all erode the language minority by assimilation.
		Almost half of the francophones outside Quebec live in Ontario and are concentrated primarily in the eastern and northeastern regions of the province.
	www.uottawa.ca /constitutional-law/language1.html (16688 words)

	CANADA DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The most concrete BNA steps on the path to Confederation were the Charlottetown Conference and the Quebec Conference of 1864.
		At the secret conference (all reports were banned) the prospect of Maritime union was dropped and in its place a scheme for a broader union was born.
		At the Charlottetown Conference earlier in the year, the delegates from the three Maritime provinces and Canada had resolved upon a scheme for the confederation of BNA.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lakes/9809/CanadaDay.html (666 words)

	Conference North articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Westminster Conference WESTMINSTER CONFERENCE [Westminster Conference] 1866-67, held in London to settle the plan for confederation of the Canadian provinces.
		The resolutions on confederation that had been framed at the Quebec Conference (1864) were the basis for those promulgated at the Westminster Conference and
		Bandung Conference BANDUNG CONFERENCE [Bandung Conference] meeting of representatives of 29 African and Asian nations, held at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Conference+North (463 words)

	Road to Canadian Confederation quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Who served as the host at the Quebec Conference of 1864 when the 72 resolutions which formed the basis of Confederation were passed?
		Although not present at the Charlottetown Conference, this colony's representatives did attend the Quebec Conference.
		John A. Macdonald favoured a legislative union without provinces at the Quebec Conference of 1864 but compromised by accepting a federal state with broad central powers.
	funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=184179&... (327 words)

	Canadian Portaits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This print depicts the delegation to the Quebec Conference of 1864 where the Seventy-two Resolutions that served as the basis for Confederation in 1867 were drawn up.
		While it is an interesting and important memento of the historic conference which brought together political representatives from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), the print's inscription bears two misleading bits of information.
		The date of the conference is erroneously given as 1866 and one of the delegates is misindentified in the legend.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /portraits/docs/gov/ec126573.htm (170 words)

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		Toronto Ontario - Rex Woods starts project to duplicate Robert Harris painting of the Quebec Conference of 1864, that was burned during the fire of 1917; to be presented to Canada by Confederation Life.
		Quebec Quebec - Henri de Chastelard de Salières arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment, 100 officers and 1,000 men; begins forts at Sorel, St-Louis, Ste-Thérèse, Ste-Anne and St-Jean.
		Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment to do battle with the Iroquois.
	www1.sympatico.ca /news/otd/otd.98.06.30.html (1200 words)

	CONFEDERATION
		The Resolutions of the Quebec Conference of 1864 on the subject of Confederation of the British North American Colonies.
		Newfoundland attended this Conference, and was represented by Frederick B.T. Carter and Ambrose Shea.
		The Resolutions of the London Conference of 1866 on the subject of Confederation of the British North American Colonies.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/3330/constitution/conf.htm (613 words)

	The Prime Ministers of Canada - John A. Macdonald Biography
		Originally intended as a meeting to discuss Maritime union, the Charlottetown Conference of September 1864 became the beginning of the road towards Confederation, the union of all of the colonies of British North America.
		Following the Charlottetown Conference of September 1864, the Québec Conference was held in October, at which a plan for the union of British North America was agreed upon.
		Almost as the Québec Conference is meeting, when Sherman marches his troops through Georgia that it begins to look as if maybe the North might win.
	www.primeministers.ca /macdonald/bio_3.php?context=b (500 words)

	Quebec Resolutions of 1864 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In consideration of the transfer to the General Parliament of the powers of taxation, an annual grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to 80 cents per head of the population, as established by the census of 1861, the population of Newfoundland being estimated at 130,000.
		The sanction of the Imperial and Local Parliaments shall be sought for the Union of the Provinces, on the principles adopted by the Conference.
		The proceedings of the Conference shall be authenticated by the signatures of the Delegates, and submitted by each Delegation to its own Government, and the Chairman is authorized to submit a copy to the Governor General for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
	www.solon.org /Constitutions/Canada/English/Misc/qr_1864.html (2581 words)

	Past Lieutenant Governors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He held the Governorship of both Gambia in 1847 and South Australia from 1855 to 1862, later being knighted in 1856.
		Macdonnell came to Nova Scotia in 1864 with instructions to force a Maritime union.
		He opposed the downgrading of Lieutenant Governors at the Quebec Conference in 1864.
	lt.gov.ns.ca /inner/frames/honourable/content/past/MacDonnell.htm (107 words)

	History of BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is the subject of a conference planned for the autumn of 1864.
		Arranging a conference to discuss it, at Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island in September 1864, they invite representatives from the province of Canada.
		The conference is transferred in October to Quebec.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=800&HistoryID=aa80 (2373 words)

	Facts about edward heath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shortly before the election was called, his shadow cabinet had issued a policy document from a conference at the Selsdon Park Hotel which appeared surprisingly rightwing.
		He continued to be seen as a figure head by some on the left of the party up to the time of the 1981 Conservative Party conference.
		Heath continued to serve as a backbench MP for the Kent constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup until retiring from Parliament at the 2001 general election, by which time he was the longest-serving member and "Father of the House".
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/edward_heath.html (1094 words)

	Welcome to Founders' Hall -- History of Confederation
		The Charlottetown Conference was the first time that representatives from Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada had ever met together to discuss common interests.
		The Charlottetown Conference brought together 4 colonies, 23 enterprising men for 7 days for 1 meeting in Charlottetown in September 1864.
		The Dominion of Canada was born with four provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec.
	www.foundershall.ca /confed (770 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		As opposition leader in the Legislative Council, he was named one of the five Island delegates to the Charlottetown conference in September 1864.
		When the talks resumed in Quebec City the following month, he was among the seven representatives sent from the Island, and his rough notes of the meeting constitute one of the major sources for reconstructing the give and take of the discussions.
		By the time the Quebec conference adjourned, he had made up his mind about federal union as well.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41669&query=macdonald (2131 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These portions of Macdonald's speech during the Confederation debates are exceptionally important in that they give us the clearest picture of the motives underlying our federal system as outlined in the British North America Act.
		At the time of Confederation, the Province of Canada was divided into two separate provinces, Ontario and Quebec.
		The boundaries of Quebec are extended northward to the Eastmain River.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/confederation/confederation.html (870 words)

	Welcome to Founders' Hall -- The Quebec Conference
		There were three conferences held leading to creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867.
		The first was in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in September 1864, the second was in Québec in October 1864, and the third was in London, England in December 1866.
		After the Charlottetown Conference, John A. Macdonald asked Governor Monck to invite representatives from the three Maritime colonies (Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick) and Newfoundland to meet with the United Canada delegates in Québec in October 1864.
	www.foundershall.ca /quebec (205 words)

	Unique Facts about Canada: Canadian Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canada and the other British dominions achieved full legislative sovereignty with the passage of the Statute of Westminster 1931, but prior to the Canada Act 1982 the British North America Acts were excluded from the operation of the Statute of Westminster and could only be amended by the British Parliament.
		British North American politicians held the Charlottetown Conference and Quebec Conference, 1864 to work out the details of a federal union.
		On July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, three colonies of British North America (the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) became a federation styled the Dominion of Canada.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /canadaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Canada6.htm (664 words)

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