Notes on the Quebec Conference, 1864

UR knowledge of the proceedings at the Conference on the confederation of the British North American provinces, held at Quebec in October, 1804, is far from satisfactory.The sittings were held behind closed doors, and little except the official Report of Resolutions adopted was made public at the time.Sir Joseph Pope found among the papers of Sir John Macdonald a mass of documents relating to the Conference, including printed draft Minutes of Proceedings, up to October 20; the original rough minutes in the handwriting of the Executive Secretary, Lieut.-Col.Hewitt Bernard; Col. Bernard's notes of speeches and other proceedings; the original texts of motions and amendments; and many other memoranda.From these he published, in his Confederation Documents, the "Minutes of Proceedings" and the "Discussions", which together form our chief source of information as to what happened in the Conference.They are, however, obviously incomplete.The Minutes are quite meagre, and, towards the end of the Conference, are in places entirely wanting.The "Discussions ", based on the long-hand notes of Col. Bernard, are necessarily fragmentary.Any further evidence is, therefore, of peculiar importance.The following document is an account of the proceedings by the Hon. A. A

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