HREQ 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lower Canada, Intercolonial Railway, Great Coalition
3 Nov 2017
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Hreq 3125 lectures: the democratic element of the new state. Opponents of confederation, although in the minority in the house, and divided among themselves in their reasons for opposing the scheme of federal union, nonetheless made important speeches. They pointed out weaknesses in the project, and some of the points they made resonated in the politics of the dominion in coming decades. One of the most effective of the opponents was a. a. dorion, the member for. Hochelaga, who had once been a political ally of george brown. Dorion, himself in the past, had considered both rep by pop and federalism. In the winter of 1865, however, he aligned himself squarely against the confederation project. Dorion cited the example of the grand trunk railway and its ambitions over many years to build the intercolonial railway to link canada to the maritime provinces. Efforts to construct the rail line fell through, one after another, because the grand.
