page_title: Antoine-Aimé Dorion
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine-Aimé Dorion / Government
caption_attribution_description: Date: 1865 Photographer: Notman Reference code: P1289
context_page_description: Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion, PC was a French Canadian politician and jurist.
context_section_description: In 1858 Dorion served as Co-Premier of the Province of Canada with Clear Grit leader George Brown (Canadian politician) but the government fell within three days. From 1863 to 1864 Dorion again served as Co-Premier, this time with John Sandfield Macdonald as well as taking the position of Attorney-General, but refused to participate in the Great Coalition government formed in 1864 by Brown, John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier. Following the Quebec Conference of 1864 he denounced the proposed Canadian Confederation and led the opposition in Lower Canada to the project.
  He was also the leader of the Parti Rouge and thought the provinces would lose their power if Confederation was put into action. He disapproved that the colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island were uniting under a central government. Dorion expressed his rejection of confederation through a manifesto in 1864, multiple articles from 1865 to 1867, and his attendance of opposition meetings in Lower Canada.
caption: Dorion in 1865, collection of the Law Society of Upper Canada
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