The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Extracts from Order in Council, dated 24 June, 1870 surrendering the North-West Territories of Canada. “It is hereby ordered and declared by Her Majesty by and with the advice of the Privy Council in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in Her Majesty by the said Acts of Parliament’ that from and after the 15th day of July, 1870, the said North- Western Territory shall be admitted into and become part of the Dominion of Canada upon the terms and conditions set forth in the first hereinbefore recited address® and that the Parliament of Canada shall have from the day aforesaid full power and authority to legislate for the future welfare and good government of the said Territory. And it is further ordered that without prejudice to any obligations arising from the aforesaid approved report, Rupert's Land shall from and after the said date be wdmitted into and become part of the Dominion of Canada.” The conditions contained in the Address from the Parliament of Canada regarding the North-West Territory were :— “That the Government and Parliament of Canada would provide that the legal rights of any corporation, company or in- dividual within the same should be respected and placed under the protection of courts of competent jurisdiction.” “That the claims of the Indian tribes to compensation for lands required for purposes of settlement should be considered and settled in conformity with the equitable principles that had uniformly governed the British Crown in its dealing with the aborigines.” The conditions relating to Rupert's Land were :— 1. “Canada to pay the Hudson’s Bay Company £300,000 when Rupert's Land is transferred to the Dominion.” 2. “The Company are to retain the posts they actually occupy in the North-West Territory and may within twelve months of I i.e. B.N. A, Act, 1867: Rupert's Land Act, 1868, 2 i.e, from the Canadian Parliament,

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