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Lord Dunham's report sugests establishment of a resposible goverment.
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Canada East and West were given and equal number of seats in the Assembly or Parliament. There were 2 main political groups. One was the Conservatives or Tories. The other was the Reform party or Clear Grits.
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The Assembly met in Kingston, Quebec City, Montreal, and Toronto.
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The Webster-Ashburton treaty ends the Aroostook War settling the Newbrunswick-Maine boarder dispute
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People in Toronto said the Montreal should not be chosen to be the capital city.
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William Lyon Mackenzie returns from excile in the U.S. because of the Act of Amnesty
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The maritimes are brought into the plan for responsible goverment.
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The maritimes become part of the House of Assembly
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The control of the colonial Poastal System is transfered to Canada
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He was one of the leaders of the Conservatives.
He decided to go to Queen Victoria to ask where the capitol should be. She said Ottawa. The Grits voted against them. Macdonald's government was defeated. -
It resigned and George Brown of the Grits became government. 2 days later, the Conservatives moved a vote of non-confidence. The Conservatives returned to power.
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Queen Vistoria names Ottawa the Capital of the province of Canada
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The government and the Opposition held about the same number of seats in the Assembly. So it became almost impossible to get any bills passed through the Assembly, or to make any new laws.
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The foundation and cornerstone is laid
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Before the population of Canada East was greater then Canada West. But by 1861 it was the other way around. The population of Canda West was greater than Canda East.
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Macdonald talked about retiring from politics, but the Conservatives begged him to saty and he agreed.
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Howe becomes the Premier of Nova Scotia
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George Brown suggested that the answer to political government was a coalition government. (Coalition= the joining of different political parties into one government in the time of an emergency.) Members of all parties agreed and the deadlock was broken.
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Orginaly the Charlottetown Conferance was to discuss the Maritimes. Instead the conferance took the first steps to confederation.
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Resolutions are passed which redraft the British North America Act during the London Conferance
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The Biritish North American colonies become the Dominion of Canada under the BNA Act
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British Columbia Joins Confederation on July 20, 1871
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Prince Edward Island joins Confederation
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Alexander MacKenzie becomes Canada's second priminister
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The Supreme Court is created
