Canada - Confederation Centenary, coats of arms - postcard 1967

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Confederation of Canada 1867-1967 
• Publisher: Plastichrome
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Canada 4c definitive
• Postmark(s): Windsor Montreal Exposition slogan
• Sent to:  Beckenham, Kent, England
• Notes / condition: a few marks

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Canadian Confederation (French: Confédération canadienne) was the process by which the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into one Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.^[1][2] Upon confederation, the old province of Canada was divided into Ontario and Quebec; along with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the new federation thus comprised four provinces.^[3] Over the years since Confederation, Canada has seen numerous territorial changes and expansions, resulting in the current union of ten provinces and three territories.^[4]

All the former colonies and territories that became involved in the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867, were initially part of New France, and were once ruled by France.^[11] Nova Scotia was granted in 1621 to Sir William Alexander under charter by James VI.^[11] This claim overlapped the French claims to Acadia, and although the Scottish colony of Nova Scotia was short-lived, for political reasons, the conflicting imperial interests of France and the 18th century Great Britain led to a long and bitter struggle for control. The British acquired present-day mainland Nova Scotia by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 and the Acadian population was expelled by the British in 1755. They called Acadia Nova Scotia, which included present-day New Brunswick.^[11] The rest of New France was acquired by the British by the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. From 1763 to 1791, most of New France became the Province of Quebec.^[11] However, in 1769 the present-day Prince Edward Island, which had been part of Acadia, was renamed "St John's Island" and organized as a separate colony.^[12] It was renamed "Prince Edward Island" in 1798 in honour of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.^[12]

The first English attempt at settlement had been in Newfoundland, which would not join the Confederation until 1949.^[13] The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol began to settle Newfoundland and Labrador at Cuper's Coveas far back as 1610, and Newfoundland had also been the subject of a French colonial enterprise.^[14]

In the wake of the American Revolution, an estimated 50,000 United Empire Loyalists fled to British North America.^[11] The British created the separate colony of New Brunswick in 1784 for the Loyalists who settled in the western part of Nova Scotia.^[15] While Nova Scotia (including New Brunswick) received slightly more than half of this influx, many Loyalists also settled in the Province of Quebec, which by the Constitutional Act of 1791 was separated into a predominantly English Upper Canada and a predominantly French Lower Canada.^[16] The War of 1812 and Treaty of 1818 established the 49th parallel as the border with the United States from the Great Lakesto the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada.^[17]