‘Noble Chain of Provinces’: More ‘Fathers’ of Confederation

‘Noble Chain of Provinces’: More ‘Fathers’ of Confederation

Commentary Roman Catholic bishops supported Confederation in the hope that a strong central government would protect Catholic minorities in Protestant-dominated Ontario and the Maritimes, two-thirds of the new Dominion. On the flip side, Protestant minority educators in Quebec looked to the same constitutional provisions to protect them. Archbishop Connolly urged Charles Tupper, premier of Nova Scotia and a delegate to the Union conferences, to …