Question

How did John. a macdonald persuade P.e.i, Manitoba and B.c to join in confederation? I need this written in a paragraph.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

and i need like each province in a seperate paragraph

Answer 3

I'm not entirely sure about Manitoba joining Confederation (in fact I believe Louis Riel, the Metis leader, rather than MacDonald had the strongest force in bringing MB into Canada). As for BC and PEI...

BC: If you were to look at a map of Canada in 1867, you would see it was distinctively a modern day Eastern Canada phenomenon, really just consisting of southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The colony of British Columbia was all the way across the continent on the Pacific Ocean. The Fathers of Confederation had always dreamed of expanding Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific (hence our country's motto: "From sea to shining sea". In order to add this western territory to Canada, the Canadian government led by John A. Macdonald promised to British Columbia the construction of a transcontinental railway, connecting British Columbia to the markets and the rest of the country in the East. Rail was key to linking this vast country of ours together, and therefore with the promise of a transcontinental rail, BC joined Confederation in 1871.

PEI: While the site of the original Charlottetown Conference where Fathers of Confederation met to discuss the future nation of Canada, PEI did not join Confederation immediately. A crown colony of Great Britain, PEI was in huge debt by the early 1870s, and Great Britain simply did not want to retain PEI as a colony any longer. Canada offered to absorb PEI's debt, and after consent from UK, PEI joined Confederation in 1873.