source: The Examiner
date: Charlottetown, September 12, 1864

The Ball and Banquet given at the Provincial Building, on Thursday evening last, in honour of the Intercolonial Delegates, assembled here to deliberate on the question of a Union of the Colonies, was, we believe, the most brilliant Fete that has ever occurred in Charlottetown. No exertion was spared to make it so; and the expense was regulated by a judicious but not parsiminous spirit...