Tag: Confederation

Mr. Mayor, Gentlemen, You have kindly congratulated me on the success of my mission to England, carried out with my ...

Gentlemen, You are too kind in welcoming me with such pomp, and I do not know how to express my ...

Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen, I feel somewhat embarrassed in attempting to give a dignified response to the toast made in honour ...

Friends and electors, I do not have to tell you how grateful I am for the honour you are doing ...

Gentlemen, I cannot tell you how honoured I am by this reception organized by the citizens of Saint-Hyacinthe, which, I ...

Mr. Mayor, General, and Gentlemen, I ask for a few moments of your attention, and I address this request more ...

Mr. Cartier, in seconding the last resolution submitted for adoption by the assembly, said he had to apologize for not ...

George-Étienne Cartier’s famous speech on Confederation articulated a new idea of Canadian political nationality—one capable of bridging the ethnic, religious ...

Mr. Brown then rose, evidently labouring under the deepest emotion, which for time almost choked his utterance.  He said – ...

Hon. GEORGE BROWN, who was received with loud cheers, said the resolution which had been placed in his hands was ...

BROWN moved that it be resolved – That on the 2nd February, 1859, the Hon. G.E. Cartier, the Hon. A.T. ...

Constitutional Difficulties Hon. Mr. Brown, on the following notice of motion being called – Resolved, That on the 2nd February, ...