London Conference of 1866

The London Conference of December 1866, the latest round in a series of conferences that led the Canadian Confederation in 1867 to the founding of the state of the Dominion of Canada. Delegates from the province in Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were discussing with officials of the British government regulations for the known as the British North America Act law.

A key point was the agreement with the Roman Catholic bishops on education issues and safeguards to protect the different school system. One of the delegates was such arrangements in respect of refusal. It was agreed that, to perpetuate different school systems in Quebec and Ontario, but not in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.