Imperial Federation

Advocated by Thomas Pownall, governor of Ma achusetts Bay, in 1764. He proposed a scheme by which "Great Britain may be no more considered as the Kingdom of this Isle alone, with many appendages of provinces, colonies, settlements, and other extraneous parts, but as a grand marine dominion, consisting of our po e ions in the Atlantic and in America united into one Empire." Subsequently proposed by Joseph Howe, in 1855, and again in 1863; also by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and other Canadian statesmen and writers. Index : B Elgin's conception of, 33; advocated by Edward Blake, 240. H Joseph Howe a pioneer in the movement for, 174. Bib. : Denison, Struggle for Imperial Unity ; Macphail, E ays in Politics ; Bra ey, Imperial Federation and Colonization ; Ewart, Kingdom of Canada , Imperial Federation , etc.; Parkin, Imperial Federation ; Young, A Pioneer of Imperial Federation in Canada ; Milner, Speeches in Canada ; The Empire and the Century ; Argyll, Imperial Federation .