What were the pros and cons of joining the Confederation of Canada in 1867?

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All the colonies which became involved in the Canadian Confederation in 1867 were initially part of New France and were once ruled by France. The British Empire’s first attempt at settlement in what would become Canada in 1867 was Nova Scotia, granted to Sir William Alexander under charter in 1621 by James VI. These claims overlapped the French claims to Acadia, and although the Scottish colony was short-lived and unsuccessful, the conflicting imperial interests of France and Great Britain lead to a long and bitter struggle for control. Present day mainland Nova Scotia was finally acquired by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht and the Acadian population was eventually expelled by the British in 1755. The British called Acadia Nova Scotia and it included present-day New Brunswick. The rest of New France was acquired by the British Empire by the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Most of New France became the Province of Quebec, In 1769, present-day Prince Edward Island, which had been a part of Acadia, was renamed “St John’s Island” and organized as a separate colony (it was renamed PEI in 1798 in honour of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn). Newfoundland, which would not join Confederation until 1949, had been an English colony as far back as 1610, and had also been subject of a French colonial enterprise.

In the wake of the American Revolution, approximately 60,000 United Empire Loyalists fled to British North America. The British created the separate colony of New Brunswick for loyalists who settled in the western part of Nova Scotia in 1784. While Nova Scotia (including New Brunswick) received slightly more than half, many of the Loyalists also settled in the Province of Quebec, which in 1791 was separated into a predominantly-English Upper Canada and a predominantly-French Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The War of 1812 and subsequent Treaty of 1818 established the 49th parallel as the border with the U.S.A. from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada.

Following the Rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham in his famous Report on the Affairs of British North America, recommended that Upper Canada and Lower Canada should be joined to form the Province of Canada and that the new province should have a responsible government. As a result of Durham’s report, the British Parliament passed the Act of Union 1840, and the Province of Canada was formed in 1841. The new province was divided into two parts: Canada West (the former Upper Canada) and Canada East (the former Lower Canada). Ministerial responsibility was finally granted by Governor General Lord Elgin in 1848, first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada. In the following years, the British would extend responsible government to Prince Edward Island (1851), New Brunswick (1854), and Newfoundland (1855).

The remainder of modern-day Canada was made up of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory (both of which were controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company and sold to Canada in 1870) and the Arctic Islands, which were under direct British control and became a part of Canada in 1880.

The area which constitutes modern-day British Columbia is the remnants of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia District and New Caledonia District following the Oregon Treaty. Prior to joining Canada in 1871, B.C. consisted of the separate Colony of British Columbia (formed in 1858, in an area where the Crown had previously granted a monopoly to the Hudson's Bay Company), and the Colony of Vancouver Island (formed in 1849) constituting a separate crown colony until it was united with the Colony of British Columbia in 1866.

[edit] Early projects

Hon. George-Étienne CartierThe idea of a legislative union of all British colonies in America goes back to at least 1754, when the Albany Congress was held, preceding the Continental Congress of 1774. At least twelve other projects followed. These, however, did not include the colonies that were located in the territory of present-day Canada.

The idea was revived in 1839 by Lord Durham in his Report on the Affairs of British North America.

Beginning in 1857, Joseph-Charles Taché proposed a federation in a series of 33 articles published in the Courrier du Canada[2].

In 1859, Alexander Tilloch Galt, George-Étienne Cartier and John Ross travelled to Great Britain to present the British Parliament with a project for confederation of the British colonies. The proposal was received by the London authorities with polite indifference.

By 1864, it was clear that continued governance of the Province of Canada under the terms of the 1840 Act of Union had become impracticable. Therefore, a Great Coalition of parties formed in order to reform the political system.[3]