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Only the promise of a transcontinental railway brought Nova Scotia immediately into the Confederation, with British Columbia joining in 1871, and Prince Edward Island in 1873.
The Constitution grew out of a convention held in 1787 by a cabal of elite politicians, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who decided that the nation's founding document, the Articles of Confederation, was too weak to hold the . But many citizens eyed the Constitutional Convention of 1787 warily, worrying that a strengthened federal authority would metamorphose into precisely the sort of tyranny they had just toppled.
Next door stands the modern Confederation Centre of the Arts opened in 1964 to commemorate the Confederation Conference’s centenary.
For a few years in the 1840s, its location made Kingston capital of pre-Confederation Canada, and the sturdy, pillared City Hall with its lofty dome pays due homage to an illustrious past.
Confederation Chamber has been preserved with the names of the august delegates, a very dignified setting for an affair that was in fact characterized by somewhat extravagant wining and dining.
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