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Confederation Party was a term for the parties supporting Canadian confederation in the British colonies of New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the 1860s when politics became polarised between supporters and opponents of Confederation. The Confederation parties were accordingly opposed by Anti-Confederation parties in those three jurisdictions. A conference was held on September 1 1864 in Charlottetown when the Province of Canada became interested in it. Sir John A.