DCHP-3

Confederacy

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the joining in federal union, under the British North America Act, of the several provinces consituting the Dominion of Canada, inaugurated in 1867.

Quotations

1864
The Confederation conference has decided in reference to members of the Legislative Council to the new Confederacy, that they be selected from the members of the Legislative Councils of the several provinces instead of elected by the people.
1940
The British North America Act, which constituted the confederacy, gave her a system of government thoroughly English. . . .