Editing Canadian Confederation (section)

===Fathers of Confederation===
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[[File:The Founders of Confederation of the Dominion of Canada (HS85-10-32966).jpg|thumb|The Fathers of Confederation]]

The original Fathers of Confederation are those delegates who attended any of the conferences held at Charlottetown and Quebec in 1864 or in London, United Kingdom, in 1866, leading to Confederation.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jpXFH_ZhY8C&pg=PA7| last1=Malcolmson| first1=Patrick| last2=Myers| first2=Richard| title=The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada| page=7| date=August 15, 2009| publisher=University of Toronto Press| isbn=978-1-4426-0047-8}}</ref> There were 36 original Fathers of Confederation; [[Hewitt Bernard]], who was the recording secretary at the [[Charlottetown Conference]], is considered by some to be among them.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/conventionalmand0000harr| last1=Harrison| first1=Robert Alexander| last2=Oliver| first2=Peter| author3=Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History| title=The conventional man: the diaries of Ontario Chief Justice Robert A. Harrison, 1856–1878| url-access=registration| page=627| date=October 1, 2003| publisher=University of Toronto Press| isbn=978-0-8020-8842-0}}</ref>

The individuals who brought the other provinces into Confederation after 1867 are also referred to as ''Fathers of Confederation''. In this way, [[Amor De Cosmos]], who was instrumental both in bringing democracy to British Columbia and in bringing the province into Confederation, is considered to be a Father of Confederation.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1sSWIvvW0mIC&pg=PA44| last=Stanford| first=Frances| title=Canada's Confederation| page=44| year=2002| publisher=S&S Learning Materials| isbn=978-1-55035-708-0}}</ref> As well, [[Joey Smallwood]] referred to himself as "the Last Father of Confederation" because he helped lead [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] into the union in 1949.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4f_dQFXQpVkC&pg=PA168| last=McCreery| first=Christopher| title=The Order of Canada: its origins, history, and development| page=168| year=2005| publisher=University of Toronto Press| isbn=978-0-8020-3940-8}}</ref>