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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Title:: Chapter II. Constitutional history of the provinces

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ONTARIO AND QUEBEC. 15 Council’ dated the 16th May 1871, and Prince Edward's Island was admitted as from the Ist J uly 1878 by an Order in Council! dated the 26th July 1873. In 1876 the District of Keewatin was carved out of the North West Territories, and received a special form of government under the direc- tion of the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. By the British North American Act 1867 provision was made for the admission of Newfoundland, but it still remains a separate colony, though there is at present a movement in progress in the island in favour of Union. The following brief outline of the Constitutional history of the various Provinces may prove useful to the student. I. ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, After the conquest of Canada and its cession to England Constitu- by the capitulations of Montreal in 1760, confirmed by the gon fils treaty of the 10th Feb. 1763, the Crown by Letters patent °f Quebec. constituted the Province of Quebec. General Murray was appointed Governor, and he was ordered to execute his office according to his commission and the accompanying instruc- tions and such other instructions as he should receive, and according to all laws made with the advice and consent of the Council and Assembly. Power was given to him, with the consent of the Council and as soon as the circumstances would permit, to call an assembly of the free-holders and planters, and until this was done the Governor and Council were invested with “authority to make such rules and regu- lations as should appear to be necessary for the peace, order and good government of the Province.” The Instructions required members of the proposed No as. assembly to take in addition to the oaths of allegiance and sembly Supremacy a declaration against transubstantiation, but the French population who were Catholics refused to take such 1 See Appendix,

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