HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Kewatinook
16 Jan 2014
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John a macdonald, sees nova scotia as a potential problem for his grand expansionist plans and starts sucking up to howe: offers him a position in his cabinet and greater political power in nova scotia, only if howe stops being a strong supporter of the anti confederate league, howe agrees, and for a time destroys the anti confederate league. The anti confederate sentiment arises again in the 1880"s: time of harsh economics in nova scotia, financially the province asks the federal government for assistance, macdonald denies this request, because he is more concerned with expansion in the west and building the. Fielding (new liberal premier of nova scotia: also an anti confederate, proposes a resolution in nova scotia legislature: allowing nova scotia to become their own country, appeals to new brunswick and pei to do the same, new brunswick and pei don"t want to lose financial support from the federal government.
