The men who attended these conferences were called the "Fathers of Confederation". Following is a list of these "Fathers": Edward B. Chandler, Charles Fisher, John Hamilton Gray, John M. Johnson, Peter Mitchell, William H. Steeves, Samuel L. Tilley, Robert D. Wilmot, Frederick B. T. Carter, Ambrose Shea, Adams G. Archibald, Robert B. Dickey, William A. Henry, Jonathan McCully, John W. Ritchie, Charles Tupper, George Coles, John H. Gray, Thomas H. Haviland, Andrew A. Macdonald, Edward Palmer, William H. Pope, Edward Whelan, George Brown, Alexander Campbell, George-Etienne Cartier, Jean-Charles Chapais, James Cockburn, Alexander T. Galt, William P. Howland, Hector-Louis Langevin, John A. Macdonald, William McDougall, Thomas McGee, Oliver Mowat and Etienne-Paschal Tache.