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The Fathers of Confederation are the 36 people who attended at least one of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864 (23 attendees), the Quebec Conference of 1864 (33 attendees), and the London Conference of 1866 (16 attendees), preceding Canadian Confederation. Only eleven people attended all three conferences.
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The name "Fathers of Confederation" is given to those who attended the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864, and the London Conference of 1866, to establish the Canadian Confederation. There were 36 original Fathers of Confederation. [20] Queen Victoria, who supported and encouraged this process, is known as the Mother of Confederation.
The list of Founding Fathers is often expanded to include the signers of the Declaration of Independence and individuals who later approved the U.S. Constitution. [2] Some scholars regard all delegates to the Constitutional Convention as Founding Fathers whether they approved the Constitution or not.
The Road to Confederation: The Emergence of Canada, 1863-1867. Toronto: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-544921-1. Moore, Christopher (1997). 1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-6096-0. Morton, William Lewis (1964). The Critical Years: the Union of British North America, 1857-1873. Toronto ...
Thousands of living Americans with the names of the Founding Fathers. WhitePages recently revealed to AOL the most popular names in the United States that are shared with the founders. Robert ...
Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, [1] best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain leading to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed.
The main article for this page is Founding Fathers of the United States, a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States, and crafted a framework of government for the new nation.