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| - The C.O.I. was first established in 1926, after the nations of Wessex, Daawinaki and Lakemark united together as the Manitoulin Confederation. George Templin, leader of Wessex, was voted Premier of the M.C. Over the years, the other nations of Little Current, Mashkosi, Minising, Odaawa, and Temikahah joined the Confederation. The country was re-established on September 4, 1936, as the Confederation of Orbin Isles, or C.O.I., and the neighboring American Drummond Island was purchased from the United States and ceded to Orb, bringing the total province count up to eleven.
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| - The C.O.I. was first established in 1926, after the nations of Wessex, Daawinaki and Lakemark united together as the Manitoulin Confederation. George Templin, leader of Wessex, was voted Premier of the M.C. Over the years, the other nations of Little Current, Mashkosi, Minising, Odaawa, and Temikahah joined the Confederation. The last holdout, however, was Great Duck Island, which finally joined in 1936, but only on the conditions that the name be changed to remove the word "Manitoulin" and that each nation-become-province be allowed to keep their parliament and original shapes (the original plan was to redistribute the land in order to create more cohesive and contiguous provinces as well as to ensure that each province had at least one economically prosperous city or viable natural resource. The country was re-established on September 4, 1936, as the Confederation of Orbin Isles, or C.O.I., and the neighboring American Drummond Island was purchased from the United States and ceded to Orb, bringing the total province count up to eleven.
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