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Confederate
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a supporter of Confederation.
Quotations
1867
. . . the following persons were nominated for the "Commons" at Ottawa, Confederate, H. A. N. Kaulbach; Anti-Confederate, Edwd. McDonald, of Halifax.
1867
We believe . . . the Confederate members of the . . . House of Assembly might commit the Island to Confederation after the example of Nova Scotia.
1869
Where are the two hundred thousand dollars per annum that the Confederates say we are to receive from Canada.
1875
The Newfoundlanders have begun to see that Canada can do a great deal better without them than they can do without Canada, and that the Confederates were not so far wrong.
1958
I agree, as far as a Confederate can, the dastardly conspiracy was equal to anything Hitler or Stalin could think up.