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the Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
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Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalition" government formed.
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North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
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Charlottetown Confederation, noted as the first step twords confederation.
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Confederate agents use Canada as a base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson Island in Lake Erie.
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Quebec Conference, identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act.
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St. Albans Raid
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Legislature approves messag to crown for union of British North America.
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The Legislature of the Province of canada passes a motion in favour of confederation.
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New Brunswick rejects a confederation scheme.
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Macdonald, Brown, Cartier, Galt appointed to negotiate Confederation in London.
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An admiralty letter to the Colonial Office required colonial warships to "wear a Union Jack in the usual place, and the White Ensign, with either the Arms of the Colony, or such other distinguishing mark as may be chosen by the Colony, and approved by the Colonial Office and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty". This regulation was mainly directed at Australia and not applicable to Canada, which had no Navy at that time.
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Proclamation of Ottawa as seat of government.
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Newfoundland general election, 1865
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A distinctive Blue Ensign for the province of Canada is authorized by the UK secretary of state for the colonies.
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Colonial Office Circular notifying revised Admiralty requirements for flags for colonial warships and for other colonial government vessels and requesting correct drawings of seals or badges to be adopted as distinguishing marks.
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The 1866 New Brunswick election
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Battle of Ridgeway, Fenians invade Canada, giving Irish republicans at home a greater advantage over the British back home.
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The Colonies of Vancouver Island and Colony of British Columbia are united, bearing the Mainland's name as the United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia but with the Island capital, Victoria, as the seat of government of the united colony.
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- London Conference, conference on resolutions discussed in 1864, to be added to the British North America Act.
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John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard.
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Queen Victoria gives royal assent to the British North America Act, 1867.
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The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united into the Dominion of Canada by the British North America Act.