Confederation

  1. Proper noun.  In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.
  2. Proper noun.  In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.
  3. Noun.  A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
  4. Noun.  The act of forming an alliance.

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