Nase Novine, August 24, 1977

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— Urednistvo — Wellandport 1963.
The making of Confederation
By J.F. White
The year of Confederation,
1867, represents a dividing point in
Canadian history. Before that date,
Canada, as we know it today, was
split up into a group of separate,
uncoordinated colonies, each po-sessi- ng
some degree of self-governme- nt,
but resembling, in many
respects, a family of children,
dependent upon the mother
country. The maritime colonies,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prin-ce
Island, and Newfound-land,
which (with the exception of
Newfoundland) became Canadian
provinces at Confederation, or a
few years later, were almost com-pletely
isolated from Quebec and
Ontario. British Columbia was so
far removed from any direct co--operat- ion
with the East that she
might well have been situated in a
different world. The Prairie provin-ces,
with the exception of a few
frontier settlements in Manitoba,
was unoccupied virgin soil, and
the few thousands of pioneers in
Manitoba lived an uneasy, insecu-re
existence, under the semi-feud- al
government of a private corpora-tion,
the Hudson's Bay Company.
The population of Canada, in
1871, the nearest census year to
Confederation, is estimated at 3
millions, 700 thousands — in
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round figures — and of these,
more than three-quarte- rs of the
people lived in Ontario and Quebec
(in thousands, Quebec 1,191, On-tario
1,620) Economic conditions
in central Canada had reached a
stage where there were great po-ssibili- tes
for expansion of manu-facture
and trade, but as the only
outlet was the St. Lawrence, and
this river was closed by ice during
the winter months, it was essential
that alternate routes should be
opened to the outer world. Lack of
transportation facilities was hol-ding
back the development of half
a continent, and it was imperative
that ice-fre- e ports should be availa-ble,
both in the east and in the
west.
It is easy to understand why
most of the pressure for union of
the colonies should come from On-tario
and Quebec. Not only did
three out of four Canadians live in
this area, but it was particularly
this section where the potential
growth of industry was hampered
and held back by existing conditi-ons.
The only solution was the
construction of railways which
would extend to ports on both the
Atlantic and Pacific, and in an
undeveloped, thinly populated co-untry
this could only be accom
plished by the united efforts of all
the North American colonies.
The people of the Maritimes
were rather hesitant in agreeing to
such a bold undertaking, and many
groups were, for a long time,
uncopromising in their opposition.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
were relatively prosperous, at the
time; they had developed a self--contain- ed
economy, they had free
access to the sea lanes during the
entire year, and, from their point of
view they had little to gain and
much to risk, in linking up their
fortunes with those of the other
colonies. Particularly in the case of
Nova Scotia it must be said that
this province came into Confedera-tion
against the wishes of the great
majority of its inhabitants. In a
provincial election which followed
the union, every candidate that
was elected, with one exception,
was opposed to Confederation,
and was in favour of a repeal. But
once the British North America Act
had been passed by the British
parlament, both the Home Office
and the central provinces were
united in opposing any proposal
for secession on the part of any of
the provinces.
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НЕИИЖДјЖВННвВЈВ
U petak 24. juna u 4 sata
ujutru eksplodirale su tri
bombe u kuci Johna Bado-vinc- a,
glavnog predsjednika
Hrvatske Bratske Zajednice
u Pittsburghu. Kuca je znat-n- o
ostecena. Badovinac i
njegova supruga nisu povre-de- ni
jer su se nalazili u St.
Louisu, na omladinskom ta-mburas- kom festivalu HBZ.
Ovo je drugi teroristicki
napad na Badovinca i pred-stavl- ja
dio ustaske kampa-nj- e
za osvajanje Hrvatske
Bratske Zajednice i pretva-ranj- e
u orude njihove izdaj-nick- e
politike; Badovinac je
trebao biti ubijen u martu
1975. godine, ali su unaj-mljen- e
ubice slucajno dopa-l- e
u ruke policije.
Opsirniji izvjestaj o ovom
dogadaju donijet cemo u
iducem broju.
John Badovinac
Ubijen DragiSa
Ka§ikovi6
Kako javlja agencfja UPI, u Chi-cag- u
je ubijen DragiSa KaSikovic,
urednik ekstremistifikog lista "Slo-boda- ",
kojega izdaje Srpska narod-n- a
odbrana. KaSikovic je naden
mrtav u uredu Obrane, zajedno sa
9-godiS-njom
Ivankom Milosevic,
kcerkom Dragico Milosevic, s
kojom je zivio.
Drugih detalja o ubojstvu nema.
KaSikovic je svojevremeno bio
uhapSen pod sumnjom da je sudje-lova-o
u bombaSkim napadima na
jugoslavenska predstavniStva u
Sjed. Drzavama, ali navodno to nije
bilo moguce dokazati, pa je puSten
na slobodu.
NAPADACI NA MISIJU SFRJ
UNEWYORKU
Za napad na misiju Jugo-slavij- e
pri Ujedinjenim Naci-jam- a
u New Yorku uhapSeni
su Marijan Buconjic iz New
Yorka, Vlado Dizdar iz Chl-cag- a
i Jozo Brekalo iz St.
Louisa.
Prilikom napada teSko je
ranjen domar misije Rado-mi- r
Medic.