Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter I. The dominion of Canada

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650 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART LV as the Crown had parted with the valuable public lands. Finally financial pressure was effective, and the resolution arrived at was that the province should be advanced the money to buy back the lands up to an amount not exceeding $800,000, and that the interest on this sum at a rate of 5 per cent. should be deducted annually from a sum of $45,000 paid by the Dominion to the province in view of its absence of Crown lands. On these terms being arranged the necessary addresses required under s. 146 of the British North America Act were passed, and by an Order in Council of June 26 the new province became part of the Dominion, with all the full rights of an original province, on July 1, 1873. The final addition was made to the territories of Canada in 1880, when, in deference to the wishes of the Canadian Parliament as expressed in 1878, the Imperial Government procured the passing of an Order in Council of July 31, 1880, adding all the territories in North America other than Newfoundland and its dependencies to the Dominion of Canada, an Order in Council which, if not ex inatio valid, was ratified ex post facto by the Imperial Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895, passed to set at rest the long and fruitless discussions as to the power of the Crown to alter the boundary of a Colony by the prerogative alone, a power which had at any rate been as freely exercised as it was doubtfully valid. Newfoundland, which was represented at the conference of 1864, has never joined the Dominion, though there was discussion of union in 1895 during the financial crisis following the failure of the banks. The present state of feeling in the people of the Colony is dead against union, while the politicians on either side at each general election find no more damaging attack to make upon the opposite side than that they are secretly favouring confederation, and the movements of a prominent politician at that time are watched with the most rigorous scrutinv 2 t Cf. Canada House of Commons Debates, 1878, p. 2386. There were doubts as to the north and north-east boundaries of the Hudson’s Bay territories and Rupert’s Land. ¢ Cf. Canadian Annual Review, 1909, pp. 36-9, for the counter-accusations

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