~ RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART 1 
in view of union with Canada in 1871. full responsible 
government was set up in accordance with the desire of 
the Dominion and the Province alike.? 
The history of the remaining Canadian Provinces is 
peculiar. It was the aim of the Federal Government to 
secure the control of the vast lands which were included 
in the grants to the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the 
Imperial Government were anxious to assist them in this 
attempt. An Imperial Act of 18682 accordingly provided 
for the acceptance by the Crown of the surrender of the 
chartered company’s lands, privileges, and rights, and terms 
of surrender were arranged with the Canadian Govern- 
ment in the following year, while an Order in Council of 
June 30, 1870, declared that the North-west Territory and 
Rupert’s Land should form part of the Dominion of Canada. 
Provision was also made by Imperial legislation of 1871 
to make clear the right of the Canadian Parliament to 
establish new provinces in the Dominion, and to legislate in 
such manner as it thought fit for the government of parts of 
North America which were not included in any province of the 
Dominion. In virtue of the powers thus conferred Canadian 
legislation of 1870 established a new province in the shape 
of Manitoba, with a fully-developed Government consisting 
of a Lieutenant-Governor with a Council and an Assembly, 
the Government being conducted on the principles of 
responsible government. The rest of the territories remained 
for years under a Crown Colony form of administration, but 
in 1905 two new provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, 
were formed by Canadian Acts and granted responsible 
government. 
Newfoundland was long treated not as a Colony at all, 
but as a mere temporary place of resort for fishermen from 
England, and every attempt was made to discourage any- 
thing like permanent settlement. Thus, so far as law was 
enforced at all, it was administered by officers appointed in 
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t Canada Statutes, 1872, p. lxxxix, 
See 33 & 34 Vict. c. 66; Order in Council, August 9, 1870; Colonial 
Act, No. 147, 1871. 3 31 & 32 Vict. c. 105.