HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture 1: Canadian History Lecture Notes
13 Mar 2018
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Canadian confederation the charlottetown conference: confederation 1867, creation of the dominion of canada. (the state of canada) Political union of nova scotia, new brunswick, canada east (q) and canada. The financial hub of canada was montreal they want closer connection s tie themselves to the financial centre of canada. Ontario was motivated to join because their was a lot of political problems. French canadians and anglo british canadians that is not working. The political deadlock needs to be solved the union of the states might help. Canada is not a dependent state it is still tied to britian: canada remained very tied to britain. Economically (lots of trade going between the two countries) Politically (head of state remains the british monarch queen victoria, Governor general is the queens representative) those positions were much more important during this time. Legally (canada can(cid:1685)t control it(cid:1685)s own foreign affairs decisions all done through britian)
