Question

Briefly describe the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences. Who attended? What was accomplished?

Answer 1

Maritime Union and the Charlottetown and Québec Conferences
Maritime Union was a popular idea with the New Brunswick governor, Arthur Gordon Hamilton, for the same reasons that Britain favoured a union of all the British North American colonies. In 1864, there were suggestions for a conference including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. The idea interested Canadian politicians, and in September, 1864, they joined the Charlottetown Conference.

This conference was such a success that the Québec Conference followed it a month later. The Seventy-Two Resolutions drafted at the end of the conference formed the nucleus for the future Constitution of Canada. The resolutions:

Proposed limited central government balanced by provincial power.
Rejected the strict application of "rep by pop."
Called for a two-chamber parliament, including a senate and a house of commons.