Until this great work is completed, our dominion is little more than a geographical expression - Sir John A. Macdonald

Travel through the eras of  history and the development of the various nations that make up Canada today.

It has been said...that we only come now seeking union with these provinces to escape from our sectional difficulties at home... the existing coalition was formed expressly for the purpose of settling justly and permanently the constitutional relations between Upper and Lower Canada... We are pledged as a government to place before parliament at its next session a bill giving effect to the conditions of our conquest...You will therefore clearly perceive that we have not come here to seek relief from our trouble, - for the remedy of our grievances is already agreed upon, and come what may the larger scheme now before us, our smaller scheme will certainly be accomplished. Our sole object in coming here is to say to you: 'We are about to amend our constitution; and before finally doing so, we invite you to enter with us frankly and earnestly into the inquiry whether it would not be for the advantage of all of the British American Colonies to be embraced under one political system. Let us look the whole question steadily in the face; if we find it advantageous let us act upon it; but if not, let the whole thing drop....

Speech delivered by George Brown at a Banquet in Halifax on September 12, 1864