James Cockburn (1819-1883)

James Cockburn is one of the Fathers of Confederation. In 1864, he attended the Québec Conference, during which delegates negotiated the terms of Confederation, later defined in the British North America Act of 1867, which helped to build the constitutional foundations for a new country called the Dominion of Canada. After Confederation, Cockburn was the first Speaker of the House of Commons.

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