Today our family visited Charlottetown PEI. I learned about the history of Canada and how it became a country.
Charlottetown is a special place to be for Canada 150 because it is the birthplace of confederation.
In 1864, the English colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were planning to have a conference about Maritime unity.
The conference was to be held in Charlottetown because PEI did not want to come to a Maritime union conference because their colony was doing well because of ship building. 7000 people lived in Charlottetown in 1864.
The province of Canada (ontario) sent a group of people led by John A MacDonald to the Charlettown conference. Basically they crashed the party.
John A MacDonald convinced everyone at the Charlottetown conference in 1864 to agree to a single unified country.
Three important reasons that he gave the conference were:
- Be strong against USA (civil war, war 1812)
- Make the economy stronger
- A single British colony instead of many colonies
On July 1, 1867, 4 provinces signed an agreement to make Canada one unified country. The provinces were New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.
Prince Edward Island did not join immediately. PEI joined 6 years later, after Manitoba and British Columbia.
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