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- Upper and Lower Canada became Canada and east and west Canada were given an equal number of seats
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2 main political groups group 1 Conservatives or Tories group 2 reform party Clear Grits (East Canada Parti Bleu and Parti Rouge)
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Planning on making a capital for Canada (*first capital of Canada was Kingston)
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Toronto didn’t want it to be din Montréal because of riots
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Quebec City wanted the capital to be in the eastern Canada
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Toronto or London would be too far west to suit the people of Kingston
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- Sir. A. Macdonald decided to discuss it with Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria choose Ottawa
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Few days later the conservatives said they wouldn’t support it
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- Then changed their mind and Ottawa was then the capital of the province of Canada
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The people thought it was unfair that people lived in Canada West, so Canada East protested.
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Population grew in Canada west the immigration brought a lot of English speaking people to Upper Canada
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Big fuss over general elections made John A Macdonald think twice about getting involved in politics
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Conservatives plead him to stay and succeeded
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there was always a fire between George Brown and Sir John A
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George Brown stepped up to compromise with John A to solve the problems of deadlock in Canada
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Then George Brown fixed the deadlock problem after his speech
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George Brown got the Grits to join him they had 2 plans (1st plan bring British colonies to form a union in North America, 2nd plan to make spilt Upper and Lower Canada again)
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the confederation plan began to form
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the confederation joined the provinces together
