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'1 ?THE‘ V canmnmrmtsrowui “GUARDIAN

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The following account of‘ the me is Oheriottetown Con- Ierenoe, 1864, is from "The Muri- times And Canada Before Con- iederation", by. Professor w.llia.m Menzies Whiteierw:

Bedore the deputation oi’ Can- adian executive councillors lelt Quebec i.hey.heid several impar- tant sessions to discuss, and come to an agreement upon, the sort or

union they would advocate at the inc

Charlottetown conference. The deputati - isted only of ex- ecutive councillors and they there- fore spoke with avunited voice. In ‘striking contrast was the situation - in the Maritime Provinces.‘ Not

only was there no previous under-

standing emo ese ' Provinces. ‘ but in each case the delegation was

both Eovernmentuend ' _ .» The lock or a. coalition govern-v

' made up or reprerentetlves for ‘ on

‘ ment to deal with ‘thisnimportantv C ‘ matter in my oi ‘ Provinces was a distinct element

the Maritime

of weakness in their position in content, to Oe.nede's united mm.

The ‘First neiegnto

The. titer; delegate from ‘the’ arrive at

— legislative eounl;:ilim':'hroughoiit the

01 be’

. nd th in- acquent Quebec E‘ ' e 3“

renee no

G -I continued to play ~a lone hand’, .

'.'rhe rest olrthe Nova Scot/an. delegation reached Charlottetown

‘ on the "Heather. E-ell" from Ernie’.

as belgt they _ noun

N. en ti:

Aggie 3'1’. . t ‘ Tb!!! were n ' '

lending, but omgde their w y

,1 on «the elf moon of

‘£1.16 Prince Edward Is

_ land Gov- ernmenit later Jurstifiou itself in the

- aeeminlziy d.9courteo

us neglect ‘ by

' e

iiciaiiy rnet Von ,,_,, mm W, a . could to the "Pavil-.

euae‘ settled down ‘ to 3 ieguiar rout-ine of sessions held 1mm ten until three. . ~

The procedure was tor the Cen- edinns to iormai ad sues, special phases of the larger scheme oi union.

At the close oieech address 5 lree and informal discussion took piece. consisting ior the mast part oi’ intez-rogatulon of the 5 cake: by delegates from the Merit e Prov-

es.

As t.l1e,Press was rigidly excluded:

lrom every session. only general the discussion became.

outlines 0 known, but this. along wlth_— the public addressee made both during

du uanttothme tth an znbseq a etlnga

‘. -gave I general idea as to both the ‘nature and

sequence of the’ views prepmted. On this first dxw of Guntexuioei sessions the main speech wen mode by partier, leader at Lower anodian conservatism. I-ill ohiet theme seemed to have yeah‘ the gene:-e.i’_aAivante.gea to be expected

u e no only I grea ex r

{gall-nvdthe 11:1-ger union. whimwmug territory b_u-t— also the various lemenin necessary to the mekinc oiv I :mig>hty nation.- agricuittma. and maritime ‘poja1i‘it‘lon._ With _Gortier'a well-known« iatence on the pre- servation of euehtial provincial rights for hip people. he might well have been exvected to disarm crltlclmn‘ by thexinritime _Province legates -who tested» the: —‘svb— 'o.l utonom

.- I I bythe emotion’ wperatate. Vcnrt-iar_ was owed in the niwxuoon by Geo ‘'Brown.‘ :3 ‘Upiier-Ownad-

insistent

resentpiu. more or less pat!

ulatlon. 8 commerc n1- end:

disouaeionc—the Dvobiem of fin-- noe. .

Fbr ﬁll Alexander unit the Oenuilm Mlnistec ol Pinarme, had been held in reserve. on Monday he spche. Ills was impru- sive. 'l‘l1e_uc‘4r<¢.n-tea marvel-ed at

I leaned} 1 £3 equitable" vinciei‘ . a circus urepend

‘,1 - iy . , Even ., than who heard Till were ‘ incidenoeéortuadi

on under

V .v 1‘ H ‘A '. ﬂ.V,_:: _ 0 m llesentetiou i ' =-Coznpetedf With Co‘n’e- * "*"“*“~¥? ‘ '

' on «on'|*.'.l‘ueadoy.- - the sixth. at which several .Ogp- .'

atginna, an iurther‘/elabantion to E the pro

' rerence ;the iormil-discussion or this, 1 union scheme wu- . presented the Oumiien du- putetion. . -

'1‘ha.t evening the weight oint- tion-buildinz was sumo ently litt- ed Iron: the shoulders or the dc‘:- gmtes tonpermit

McGee. to . Dd. in Charlottetown and wave a lec- ture on Burnt.»

sceptical ~

“ On Wednesday. the seventh, the

Maritime Province delegate met a ne. had 11 Appointed tor the exclusive purpose of con- sidering a legislative union. or - Mu-ltime Provinucg, Arnie. at ug- ey had given ma :-

eiightest consideration. That. little. however, hadbeén auliicienttoocn-,‘ vince a proportion o! the dele- gation. including some or its lud- ing members

V _. t such I union‘ would be not only diulcnlt but ll'..’¥’°“""‘°-u.“h’.'.i“'° “:.°"f.‘.?°"..‘:.*"

seven ecu , . dame about the matter. ’

.v weaken‘ -, ' line. A lit 1w 3 15!!!!’ Ste resentatfon-' in the'oentral‘Upper Home than that ol’ either Upper, or Imveu-p ceneda; ‘

1?.’ I. X’-Iu_ui'g

nut in: uioti M ‘ °' “_”l:tive:diu4‘vm£ ' ‘I

185,1’-3-N.0I_I,

celiy ’uh1nii'noue, ' .,r]».-wl ; Island that“! be‘ lift’ eboli.sheo.~ ‘ho .

k Vse\{c;t‘1ty:fiv_I._e, year§'.ago. at which was conceived an

tiﬁtlée discuss on on '~ dis b

gﬁgn pf - . :1 '

‘ W"as'.ic0’nSumma'tcd'_§n .l86],'[o'f the great Dominion u ‘ i/tltoday, -The co'ulttry:;wa§, circumscribed

. 'fii|‘f,ﬂ.'!§i?)j','wi_th a. more 2,290 mi];-ﬂ‘, ‘

pointotvlem, H H of A stlbmluent .°°"‘ ~_ o£’,the, Great Lakt-ls~.and a transcontinental line was

ywinnipcg;wasdsettiernent of -a few humlrcd, lostl

started to outgrowth: trading post stage; Vancouver

‘tripin pre-roil\vay.d:iys across the plains was an a ‘ ‘

‘Such ‘were~fthe conditions when the Conf i "Fathers met atlcharlottetownp-in 1864.

4 faith-in.a Dominion‘stretching from sea to sea, ina _ united ‘.under the.British Crown containing within its‘

‘- the factors requisite to a’ end vcrile citizenship. p’

A V JUNEW3. A * Great Annive :

No single event in Canadu’s history was of such fa, 3 ing importance as the historic conference at Char.‘

of 'eont’e‘deruingVali_.the~.Provjnéés into the Dominion { a‘da'. ,“Praviqgnce being‘ their guide," they ind”; p

5.‘ ‘féwfoutwardl indications. when Con ‘

., .. inpop‘ area,.i '.resou.rce rlevelopmlrnt and_in commerce,. ' Central -Pro’v‘i,nc.es.._ ere was not-_a single mile of ‘ twenty miiesewéy; "Wa’ter transportation was ai’cha,ig., roads in the n'1odern:aense‘vvere unknow. Halifax 2 John, and‘, Montreal, 'were towns rather than.

mensities of, the'prairic. Regina was File 0’ Bones; atoon was not even planned; Calgary and Edmonton K’

five-ye‘ar-old infant. Thewat was a No Man's Izod, The Rocky Mountains rose up as-an almost unsur ...

[barrier between east and" west, and British Columbia ‘ remote to the restof Canada as it‘ it were in another

tixlent. i '

It required n equal .to their vision to prodlaim, as they did at than?

all the elements of ﬁower, all the essentials of pros

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pm!" ache] " Provin es to .lInioIi,‘,b”I$ ' ° ..o.'i.a.a irycd¢W""‘ L, W i ' ‘the oonierenec u_wl-kl‘ .,.

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