Statistical manual

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1831009897

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222160

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Statistical manual

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: New York Real Estate Securities Exchange

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: 123 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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740 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV (47 Vict. c. 70 and amending Acts) incorporating the Manitoba Central Railway Company, and in 1887 the Act incorporat- ing the Rock Lake, Souris Valley, and Brandon Railway Co. (48 Vict. c. 45)! the Acts regarding the Emerson (50 Vict. ¢. 54) and Central Railways (c. 1), and the Acts incorporating the Winnipeg and Southern Railway Company (50 Vict. c. 2) and the Red River Valley Railway Company (50 Vict. c. 4). In 1883 the Acts passed by British Columbia to incorporate the Fraser River Company (46 Vict. c. 26) and to incorporate the New Westminster Southern Railway Company (46 Vict. ¢. 27) were also disallowed in furtherance of the same policy. Naturally Manitoba was up in arms after this wholesale disallowance of the Provincial Acts merely because of a sup- posed federal interest, and the relations of the two Govern- ments, which were destined in a few years to bring ruin on the Conservative party in the Dominion, assumed a serious aspect : the Dominion Government felt that it must attempt conciliation, and therefore arranged with the company to abandon the rights they had on consideration of certain further privileges conceded to them and ratified by an Act of Canada in 1888.2 The dispute between the two Govern- ments thus terminated, but it was to be renewed in the Courts, since in 1888 the Railway Commissioner of Manitoba, under the statute of 1888, which was no longer disallowed, commenced the construction of the Portage extension of the Red River Railway, and it became necessary to obtain the approval of the Railway Commission in Canada to secure the crossing by the new branch of the Pembina mountain branch of the Canadian Pacific line. The latter company at once intervened, and took the preliminary objection that the railway commissioner of the province had no authority to construct a line crossing the Pacific line, as the Act was illegal. It was argued by Mr. Blake for the company before the Supreme Court, that the Parliament of Canada had years before, by Acts, declared that a work crossing the Canadian ! ‘Canada Sess. Pap., 1882, No, 166’; 1886, No. 81 ; Provincial Legislation, 1867-95, pp. 862 seq., 1082, * Bee 51 Vict, ¢. 32; Canada House of Commons Debates, 1888, p. 1332,

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