1827: Popular Revolution; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island declare loyalty to the Guelphs

1832: Cape Breton Island secedes, becomes a colony under the authority of Parliament

1834: Prince Edward Island secedes, becomes a colony under the authority of Parliament

-outbreak of Popular Revolution (Heads of British Isles > Acting Lord President of the Privy Council)

-new government sends commission to BNA

-Upper and Lower Canada go for the revolution

-but Maritimes too Loyalist for that

-Halifax keeps a sizeable Loyalist navy section

-following end of Convention Parliament it continues

-in 1832 to keep port near St. Lawrence, an Act of Parliament declares Cape Breton Island a separate colony

-with longstanding resent over Cape Breton's amalgamation into NS, this sees widespread support

-to avoid battle Loyalist army flees

-following Orange Riots of 1834 (Heads of British Isles > 1834-1837 Samuel Whitbread (Radical)), Nova Scotia's loyalism suddenly very suspect

-causes attacks on merchant shipping

-Westminster issues Act constituting Prince Edward Island as a separate colony with tenant right

-causes rebellion, it too goes for the revolutionary regime

-ends with Kempt resigning after mass chaos

-1838: Treaty of Boston; Nova Scotia and New Brunswick consolidated into a formally independent monarchy

-negotiates with Heads of British Isles > 1837-1839 Lord John Russell (Moderate Whig - Huskissonite Tory coalition) administration

-establishes independent kingdom under lesser scion of Guelph family

-Source

-establishes trade links with Hanover (under his uncle Heads of British Isles > 1833-1851 "Ernest I")

-despite this grows to be very linked with the British system

-ships to and from Ernestshaven become very common

-with outbreak of French Wars > Third French War (1847-1854) links with British system grow even further

-postwar

1863: Monarchy abolished in the wake of a financial default; Nova Scotia made a British colony

-financial crisis thanks to railroads, other boom

-defaults

-to rebuild, its legislature negotiates offer of becoming a pseudo-dependency

1878: Charter granting full autonomy introduced