HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arthur Hamilton, The Canadas, Samuel Leonard Tilley
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By 1840- 6 bna colonies: no more upper canada, nova scotia, newfoundland, new brunswick, pei, united colony of canada, red river. By1865- when they are debating there were 8- 2 more added- vancouver island and british. Key points: maritime union, rep by pop, george brown, double majority, federal principle, 1867 british north america act, peace, order, and good government. Maritime union political union among the political leadership of these colonies: lt. Gordon recognized potenetial for conflict with britain etc as it was in the us. Tis confirmed that brt was supporting the southern confederacy. This was a problems for the bna colonies- because it was the closest version of brt to the us- therefore they can take their anger out on bna colonies by invading and conquering them. Motivation to unify the colonies to merge and coordinate their resources and other benefits, even finance intercolonial railway to the colonies to facilitate commerce etc.
