Party anti-confederation

The Parti anti-confederation was a name used by several political parties in the Années 1860 which were opposed to the Canadian Confédération in what today is the Seaboard provinces.

Nova Scotia

In Nova Scotia, the anti-confederated are carried out by Joseph Howe. They try to reconsider the decision of the colony to join the Canada, decision extremely in an original manner unpopular in the province. In 1867, the Party anti-confederation gains 36 of the 38 seats to the provincial legislature, and forms the government under William Annand. The Party anti-confederation was opposed by the Parti of the confederation of Charles Tupper.

At the federal level, at the time of the federal election of 1867, the Party anti-confederation gains 18 of the 19 Nova Scotian head offices to the House of Commons of Canada. However, the the United Kingdom refuses to make it possible Nova Scotia to make secession.

Howe was pragmatic, and it finally has suddenly accepted the confederation like an accomplished fact. It is quickly persuaded to join the cabinet John A. Macdonald, driving with the collapse of the movement anti-confederation.

Newfoundland

With Newfoundland, anti-confederated, carried out by the business man Charles Fox Bennett, demolish the government pro-confederation of the Prime Minister Frederick Carter in 1869, putting fine at the confederation like proposal valid for two generations. They are only 80 years after the victory of Bennett which Newfoundland joined finally the confederation as a Canadian province.

New Brunswick

There was also a Party anti-confederation with the New Brunswick carried out by Albert James Smith, whose coalition of conservatives and reformists gain the election of 1865. It however is roundly demolished in the election of 1866 by the Parti the confederation carried out by Peter Mitchell. The legislature resulting from this election approves the confederation with 38 votes against 1.

In the federal election of 1867, anti-confederated gain five of the 15 seats néo-brunswickois to the House of Commons of Canada.

Whereas in Nova Scotia and elsewhere, those which were opposed to the confederation was mainly liberals and the partisans was especially tories, in New Brunswick the debate scrambles the lines partisanes. The chief anti-confération Albert Smith and the chief pro-confederation Peter Mitchell were both conservatives, while one of the most important leaders of the forces pro-confederation, Samuel Leonard Tilley, was liberal. Tilley joined later the government of John A. Macdonald. The movements anti-confederation and pro-confederation consisted of a mixture of tories and reformists (liberal).

In 1870, the parties anti-confederation and pro-confederation had been dissouts and replaced by the old parties liberal and tory.

See too

Canadian Political parties

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