Before becoming part of the country of Canada, the Maritime Provinces were politically distinct from Canada East and West. At first the Maritime Provinces were against the idea of Confederation. They believe that what they had going for them was sufficient for their needs. Their economy of fishing was fed by the economy of the United States. This is because the United States had a trade economy which benefited the Maritime Provinces. Eventually the Maritime Provinces began to agree with the ideas of confederation. This was mainly after the

Canada West was the Ontario part of Canada. Here is where the loyalists and American settlers resided. Previous to the influx of British and American Settlers, when both Canada East and West had roughly an equal amount of people, Canada west was fine with equal parliamentary representation. However, afterwards, they started to get greedy and started to shoot for “Rep by Pop” in order to extinguish the French culture as much as they could. Canada West's trade in wheat, flour and timber had benefited substantially from the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States. Its possible abrogation (which did finally occur in 1866) made farmers and merchants in Canada West apprehensive. A proposed union of the British North American colonies was highly appeali

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