Excerpt: ...next few years, steering the ship of Confederation through the perilous shoals of personal and sectional jealousies. Few had a harder or a more important task than Cartier's-reconciling Canada East to a project under which it would be swamped, in the proposed federal House, by the representatives of four or five English-speaking provinces. McDougall, a Canada West Reformer, shared with Brown the credit for awakening Canadians to the value of the Far West and to the need of including it in their plans of ...
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Excerpt: ...next few years, steering the ship of Confederation through the perilous shoals of personal and sectional jealousies. Few had a harder or a more important task than Cartier's-reconciling Canada East to a project under which it would be swamped, in the proposed federal House, by the representatives of four or five English-speaking provinces. McDougall, a Canada West Reformer, shared with Brown the credit for awakening Canadians to the value of the Far West and to the need of including it in their plans of expansion. D'Arcy McGee, more than any other, fired the imagination of the people with glowing pictures of the greatness and the limitless possibilities of the new nation. Charles Tupper, the head of a Nova Scotia Conservative Ministry which had overthrown the old tribune, Joseph Howe, had the hardest and seemingly most hopeless task of all; for his province appeared to be content with its separate existence and was inflamed against union by Howe's eloquent opposition; but to Tupper a hard fight was as the breath of his nostrils. In New Brunswick, Leonard Tilley, a man of less vigor but equal determination, led the struggle until Confederation was achieved. It was in June, 1864, that the leaders of the Parliament of Canada became convinced that federation was the only way out. A coalition Cabinet was formed, with Sir Etienne Tache as nominal Premier, and with Macdonald, Brown, Cartier, and Galt all included. An opening for discussing the wider federation was offered by a meeting which was to be held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, of delegates from the three Maritime Provinces to consider the formation of a local union. There, in September, 1864, went eight of the Canadian Ministers. Their proposals met with favor. A series of banquets brought the plans before the public, seemingly with good results. The conference was resumed a month later at Quebec. Here, in sixteen working days, delegates from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince...
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Fine in VG jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover in series-unform bright blue (not navy) cloth with elaborate gilt, white and black titles and figures to spine and front, gilt upper page edges, in pattern-matching grey and black card jacket, small 8vo. Vol. 49 of 50-volume edition of Chronicles of America. xi + 296pp. Index, bibliographical note, tissueprotected frontis and illustrations. 2 foldout maps (one in two sections). Fine/VG. Book is as new: very bright cloth and gilt; tight, square binding; clean, unmarked pages on mildly toned text and endpapers. The scarce jacket has lightly toned spine with no effect on titles; short nicks and closed tears to internally tape-reinforced spine ends and upper rear edge; 1/8" diameter hole to mid spine near front hinge; small label shadow lower rear panel near spine, central panels and figures clean and fine. Jacket in Brodart. A really beautiful volume.
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