The Quebec Conference of 1864, ca. 1871-1872

Publisher: Roberts and Company

Medium: lithograph with tint stone
Dimensions: 62.8 * 86 cm (sheet)

This print depicts the delegation to the Quebec Conference of 1864 where the Seventy-two Resolutions that served as the basis for Confederation in 1867 were drawn up. While it is an interesting and important memento of the historic conference which brought together political representatives from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), the print's inscription bears two misleading bits of information. The date of the conference is erroneously given as 1866 and one of the delegates is misindentified in the legend. Despite these mistakes, the accuracy of the portraits, which are all based on individual photographs, are reliable and include a few delegates who are absent from group photographs of the event. This assemblage of portraits, each in its own oval frame, is arranged around the central portrait of Viscount Monck, governor general of British North America, 1861-1867 and then of Canada, 1867-1868. For a complete list of names, see the index.

National Archives of Canada, negative no. C - 126573