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Confederation
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
1825
[By an article in the Canadian Spectator . . . a confederation of all the British provinces is mentioned as the substitute which the English government have in contemplation.]
1863
From Halifax to Huron the question of the Confederation to the British North American provinces is being discussed.
1869
Confederation was rather the work of the politicians than of the people.
1964
As for the western provinces, we know that they only came into being after Confederation.