The Anti-Confederation Party was led by Joseph Howe.

Almost three months later, in the election of September 18, 1867, the Anti-Confederation Party, won 18 out of 19 federal seats, and 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature.

The Anti-Confederation Party won 18 out of 19 federal Nova Scotia seats in September 1867, and in the Nova Scotia provincial election of 1868, 36 out of 38 seats in the legislature.

Other occasional secessionist movements have included anti-Confederation movements in 19th century Atlantic Canada ( see Anti-Confederation Party ), the North-West Rebellion of 1885, and various small separatism movements in Alberta particularly ( see Alberta separatism ) and Western Canada generally ( see, for example, Western Canada Concept ).

The party descended from both the Confederation Party and the Anti-Confederation Party whose members split into left wing and right wing groups following the creation of Canada as a country in 1867.

The Anti-Confederation Party, led by Joseph Howe, won the third largest number of seats overall, based solely on a majority of seats ( and votes ) in the province of Nova Scotia.

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Tilley returned to power the next year, however, with the defeat of the Anti-Confederation Party in the election.

The Anti-Confederation parties were accordingly opposed by the Confederation Party.

Political Cartoon attacking the Anti-Confederation Party

The Anti-Confederation Party was opposed by the Confederation Party of Charles Tupper.

There was also an Anti-Confederation Party in New Brunswick led by Albert J. Smith, whose coalition of Conservatives and Reformers won the 1865 election.

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In New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the Confederation parties became Conservative parties aligned with the federal Liberal-Conservative Party of Sir John A. Macdonald ( generally known simply as Conservatives ), while Anti-Confederation parties became Liberals.

The party split during the debate on Confederation, with Howe and most other Liberals forming an Anti-Confederation Party, while supporters of confederation joined Tory Charles Tupper's Confederation Party.

The Anti-Confederation Party took most of Nova Scotia's seats in the Canadian House of Commons in 1867, as well as forming the government of the new province under William Annand.

In the 1860s, he led the Anti-Confederation Party opposing the proposals by Sir Frederick Carter to join Canada.

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In the 1860s, both the Conservative and Liberal parties split over the issue of Canadian confederation, and were replaced by the Confederation Party and the Anti-Confederation Party.

The party was badly defeated by Charles Fox Bennett's Anti-Confederation Party.

However, the Conservatives were defeated on the Confederation issue in the November 1869 election by the Anti-Confederation Party led by Charles Fox Bennett.

In 1865 he won a seat in the colonial legislature as an Anti-Confederation Party MLA but lost his seat the next year.

When the government in Britain refused to allow Nova Scotia to secede, a majority of the Anti-Confederation MPs ( 11 of 18 ) moved to the Conservatives.

While most Nova Scotian remained supportive of the Anti-Confederation Campaign during this time period, Howe ran in Hants County bi-election of 1869 to get a mandate from the people to see if they wanted him to continue to support Nova Scotia's entry into Canada.

* Anti-Confederation Petition from Nova Scotia, June 1868

Fielding became leader of the Anti-Confederation Party ( Nova Scotia Liberal Party ).

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Anti-Confederation was the name used in what is now Atlantic Canada by several parties opposed to Canadian confederation.

Gray served as a delegate to the Charlottetown Conference only to return to New Brunswick to face growing hostility to the confederation project and lost his seat in the 1865 election that brought the Anti-Confederation Party to power.

With the debates over confederation in the 1860s, the party lines which had emerged blurred as Reformers split along pro and anti-Confederation lines, resulting in Confederation and Anti-Confederation Parties.

The goals of the Anti-Confederation Members of Parliament ( MPs ) were openly supported by five of the Liberal MPs of New Brunswick.

The Anti-Confederation MPs sat with the Liberal caucus.

The Confederation parties were accordingly opposed by Anti-Confederation parties in those three jurisdictions.

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