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Not Starting Too Hot
On the 31st of August, the Nova Scotian and New Brunswick representatives were met with a disappointing host in PEI. With no hotel reservation. On the first of September, all of the delegates from the Maritimes met at the Province House. They chose Premier Gray to be their chairman to review priorities of the three delegations. -
Marriage Banns
General session was hosted on board the SS Queen Victoria. A member of the public spoke from the Anglican Marriage ceremony "if anyone knew any reason why the provinces should not be united in matrimony, let him speak now or forever hold his peace. Everyone thought it was funny. It was taken as confirmation that the banns of a new Canada had been agreed. -
Genteel Canadians
George-Etienne Cartier was first one to speak. He advocated for the French Canadian autonomy while still reassuring that the Maritime representatives their control over their lands. George brown made it clear that Canada West wanted to run on it's own accord apart from everybody else. He also said if Confederation couldn't happen within a year, the Great Coalition would turn the Province of Canada into a two-headed Federation. The members the Maritimes at the conference faced a tough decision. -
"Yes?"
Sir Charles Tupper (who was the prime minister/premier of Nova Scotia) was reluctant in abandoning the Maritime Union. Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick) thought that the Maritimes would be on better off with Canadians if they came into Confederation as separate provinces. A discussion on the 7th of the month gave a unanimous vote where the majority was in favor of supporting federation of all provinces. -
Not Quite Finished
The decision made went above the general idea of Confederation. Many issues that came from the Charlottetown Conferences were solved later in Quebec Conferences. Many things regarding expansion and railways were also discussed here.