The Growth of the Nation.

CHAPTER I.
THE RED RIVER' REBELLION.

The   The first Dominion parliament was opened

Dominion at Ottawa on November 6th, 1867. Sir Parliament. John Macdonald was supported by a strong majority, and set to work at once to make certain needed

changes in the laws concerning the government officials, the import duties, the post office, and many other matters. Resolutions were also passed asking the British gov

ernment to add to the Dominion i

the great regions in the north and

west, then ruled by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Nova Scotia Meanwhile, Nova Dissatisfied. Scotia w a s exceed-

ingly anxious to withdraw from Confederation. Of her nineteen

members in the Dominion House of Commons, Dr. Tupper was the only unionist; and one of the first acts. of the provincial assembly was to send Joseph Howe and three other gentlemen to England with a petition for the repeal of the union so far as Nova Scotia was concerned. The request was refused, but shortly afterwards a larger yearly allowance for provincial expenses was promised to Nova Scotia. This did much to satisfy the people, and early in 1869 Joseph Howe became a member of the Dominion ministry. Four years later he was appointed

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SIR CHARLES TUPPER.