=Imperial Conference.= Held in London, 1887. Canada was represented by Sir Alexander Campbell and Sandford Fleming. Among the questions discussed were those of inter-Imperial defence and trade, the Pacific cable, etc. Another conference was held in Ottawa in 1894 (_see_ Colonial Conference, 1894); and another in London in June, 1896, Canada being represented by Sir Mackenzie Bowell and Sandford Fleming. At an adjourned meeting in October, 1896, Sir Donald Smith and Hon. A.G. Jones represented the Dominion, Mr. Fleming being present in an advisory capacity. On the occasion of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, 1897, another conference was held in London, Joseph Chamberlain presiding, and the self-governing colonies being represented by their premiers. Again, in 1902, the colonial premiers met in London, under the presidency of Joseph Chamberlain. The London Conference of 1907, presided over by Lord Elgin, discussed various Imperial questions, but was chiefly memorable because of the decision to hold similar meetings every four years, and to provide a permanent bureau at London devoted specifically to the interests of the Empire. =Imperial Federation.= Advocated by Thomas Pownall, governor of Massachusetts Bay, in 1764. He proposed a scheme by which "Great Britain may be no more considered as the Kingdom of this Isle alone, with many appendages of provinces, colonies, settlements, and other extraneous parts, but as a grand marine dominion, consisting of our possessions in the Atlantic and in America united into one Empire." Subsequently proposed by Joseph Howe, in 1855, and again in 1863; also by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and other Canadian statesmen and writers. =Index=: =B= Elgin's conception of, 33; advocated by Edward Blake, 240. =H= Joseph Howe a pioneer in the movement for, 174. =Bib.=: Denison, _Struggle for Imperial Unity_; Macphail, _Essays in Politics_; Brassey, _Imperial Federation and Colonization_; Ewart, _Kingdom of Canada_, _Imperial Federation_, etc.; Parkin, _Imperial Federation_; Young, _A Pioneer of Imperial Federation in Canada_; Milner, _Speeches in Canada_; _The Empire and the Century_; Argyll, _Imperial Federation_. =Imperial Federation League.= Formed in Canada at a meeting in Montreal, in May, 1885. A conference to the same end had been held in London, in July, 1884. The league in Canada changed its name, in 1896, to the British Empire League in Canada, at the suggestion of Sir Charles Tupper. _See_ Denison. =Incarnation, Marie de L'.= _See_ Marie de L'Incarnation. =Inches, Dr.= =T= Attends Sir Leonard Tilley in his last illness, 145.