Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 5 under the royal prerogative to create a legislature in a settled Colony : before that date, from 1713 the Government had been administered and legislation carried by a Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, with the aid of a Council which was at once a legislative and an executive body, but the creation of an Assembly followed upon the realization of the fact by the Imperial Government, on the advice of the law officers, that the legislative power of the Crown in the Province could probably not legally be exercised unless an Assembly was summoned. The island of Prince Edward, once part of the Province of Nova Scotia, was given a Separate Lieutenant-Governor and a Council with executive and legislative functions in 1769, and for the same reasons as in the case of Nova Scotia itself an Assembly was called into being and met in 1773.1 In 1784 the Province of New Brunswick was created with a Council which, as usual, united legislative and executive functions and an Assembly. In both these cases the authority upon which the constitution was based was the power of the Crown to summon miniature Parliaments in the Colonies. Responsible government in all three followed the creation of it in Canada, and was fully established in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1848 and in Prince Edward Island in 1850-1. In the case of the territories which now constitute the Province of British Columbia, and which were long in the hands of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Vancouver Island Was created as a Crown Colony with a nominee legislature in the year 1849, but in 1856 an Assembly was called, despite the insignificant population of the island. In 18583 the territory on the mainland known as New Caledonia was made into a Crown Colony, in consequence of the influx of inhabitants thither as a result of the discoveries of gold. In 18664 the mainland and the island were united under the single title of British Columbia, and a legislature of the usual non-representative type was created. But, * Houston, op. cit. p- 21; Canada Sess. Pap., 1883, No. 70, p. 47. * Houston, op. cit., Pp. 22; Canada Sess. Pap., 1883, No. 70, p. 2. ' 21 & 22 Viet, ¢. 99. 4 299 & 30 Vict. c. 67.

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