Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn't concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffness and polish time creates.
Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn't concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffness and polish time creates.
Anne McDonald is an award-winning author. Her novel To the Edge of the Sea won the Saskatchewan First Book Award. Her play Lullabies and Cautions was recently showcased at the 2016 Spring Festival of New Plays. Her work has appeared in literary journals, Canada's History, and on CBC Radio. Anne teaches theatre and creative writing. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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* Foreword by Christopher Moore * Preface * One Miss Confederation, Mercy Anne Coles * Two Charlottetown: The Circus, Champagne, and Union * Three The Journey Begins: The Lure of Travel, the New - and Leonard Tilley * Four From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: the "Failed," the Grand Success, or the Drunken Fiasco of the Government Ball * Five Diphtheria * Six The Temptation of John A. Macdonald * Seven What She Said -- A Woman's Point of View * Eight Montreal Sightseeing and the "Eighth Wonder of the World" * Nine Ottawa the Unseemly * Ten Sightseeing in Toronto, 1864 Style * Eleven Niagara Falls * Twelve Family and Travel * Thirteen Going Home * Fourteen Confederation Suitors * Fifteen Daughters and Fathers * Conclusion * Acknowledgements * Appendix "Reminiscences of Confederation Days: Extracts from a Diary Kept by Miss Mercy A. Coles When She Accompanied Her Father, the Late Hon. George Coles, to the Confederation Conferences at Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa in 1864." * Notes on Sources * Notes * Bibliography * Image Credits * Index
* Foreword by Christopher Moore * Preface * One Miss Confederation, Mercy Anne Coles * Two Charlottetown: The Circus, Champagne, and Union * Three The Journey Begins: The Lure of Travel, the New - and Leonard Tilley * Four From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: the "Failed," the Grand Success, or the Drunken Fiasco of the Government Ball * Five Diphtheria * Six The Temptation of John A. Macdonald * Seven What She Said -- A Woman's Point of View * Eight Montreal Sightseeing and the "Eighth Wonder of the World" * Nine Ottawa the Unseemly * Ten Sightseeing in Toronto, 1864 Style * Eleven Niagara Falls * Twelve Family and Travel * Thirteen Going Home * Fourteen Confederation Suitors * Fifteen Daughters and Fathers * Conclusion * Acknowledgements * Appendix "Reminiscences of Confederation Days: Extracts from a Diary Kept by Miss Mercy A. Coles When She Accompanied Her Father, the Late Hon. George Coles, to the Confederation Conferences at Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa in 1864." * Notes on Sources * Notes * Bibliography * Image Credits * Index
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