13 Facts About Canadian Confederation

1.

Several factors influenced Canadian Confederation, both caused from internal sources and pressures from external sources.

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In Waite's view, Canadian Confederation was driven by pragmatic brokerage politics and competing interest groups.

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3.

Many Canadian Confederation historians have adopted McKay's liberal order framework as a paradigm for understanding Canadian Confederation history.

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4.

Canadian Confederation argues that in the four original Canadian provinces, the politics of taxation were a central issue in the debate about Confederation.

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5.

Smith argued Canadian Confederation was supported by many colonists who were sympathetic to a relatively interventionist, or statist, approach to capitalist development.

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6.

The struggle over Canadian Confederation involved a battle between a staunch individualist economic philosophy and a comparatively collectivist view of the state's proper role in the economy.

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7.

Canadian Confederation's argued that the union of the British North American colonies was motivated by a desire to protect individual rights, especially the rights to life, liberty, and property.

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8.

Canadian Confederation's contends the Fathers of Confederation were motivated by the values of the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Canadian Confederation's argues their intellectual debts to Locke are most evident when one looks at the 1865 debates in the Province of Canada's legislature on whether or not union with the other British North American colonies would be desirable.

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10.

Canadian Confederation is never looked up to by the whole people as the head and front of the nation.

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11.

The government was vocally against Canadian Confederation, contending it was no more than the annexation of the province to the pre-existing province of Canada.

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12.

Original Fathers of Canadian Confederation are those delegates who attended any of the conferences held at Charlottetown and Quebec in 1864, or in London, United Kingdom, in 1866, leading to Canadian Confederation.

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13.

The Canadian Confederation government sought to regulate this migration and tax gold findings, whether American or Canadian Confederation.

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