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Men Who Negotiated Canadian Confederation

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Fathers of Confederation

Fathers of Confederation

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The term Fathers of Confederation usually refers to the representatives of the British North America colonies who attended one or more of three major Canadian confederation conferences - the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the Quebec Conference in 1864 and the London Conference in 1866. Canada in this context refers to what are now the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

  • Adams Archibald (Nova Scotia)
  • George Brown (Canada)
  • Alexander Campbell (Canada)
  • F B T Carter (Newfoundland)
  • George-Etienne Cartier (Canada)
  • Edward Barron Chandler (New Brunswick)
  • J C Chapais (Canada)
  • James Cockburn (Canada)
  • George Coles (PEI)
  • Robert Dickey (Nova Scotia)
  • Charles Fisher (New Brunswick)
  • Alexander Galt (Canada)
  • John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick)
  • John Hamilton Gray (PEI)
  • T H Haviland (PEI)
  • William Henry (Nova Scotia)
  • W P Howland (Canada)
  • John Johnson (New Brunswick)
  • Hector Langevin (Canada)
  • A A Macdonald (PEI)
  • John A Macdonald (Canada)
  • Jonathan McCully (Nova Scotia)
  • William McDougall (Canada)
  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Canada)
  • Peter Mitchell (New Brunswick)
  • Oliver Mowat (Canada)
  • Edward Palmer (PEI)
  • W H Pope (PEI)
  • John William Ritchie (Nova Scotia)
  • Ambrose Shea (Newfoundland)
  • William H Steeves (New Brunswick)
  • Sir Étienne-Pascal Taché (Canada)
  • Samuel Tilley (New Brunswick)
  • Charles Tupper (Nova Scotia)
  • Edward Whelan (PEI)
  • R D Wilmot (New Brunswick)

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