The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

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

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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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THE UNION OF THE PROVINCES. 27 The honour of taking a decided step towards such a Initiative union belongs to the legislature of Nova Scotia. In 1861 a hy a resolution favourable to a union was passed by that legis- lature and transmitted to the Duke of Newcastle, then Colonial Secretary, who in turn forwarded it to the Governor- General and the Lieutenant-Governors of the provinces. The Lieutenant-Governors brought the subject before their re- spective legislatures; and the legislatures of the maritime provinces passed a resolution authorizing the respective Lieutenant-Governors to appoint delegates not exceeding five to confer with delegates of the other provinces “for the purpose of discussing the expediency of a union of the three provinces under one government and legislature.” Delegates were appointed and it was arranged that the conference should meet on the 1st September at Charlottetown. Before the Conference met a coalition government was formed in the Province of Canada pledged to a union of the provinces, and the Government at once asked for and obtained permission to send delegates to the Charlottetown Conference, who however were not authorized to consider the ques- don of a legislative union. The proposal to unite the mari- time provinces was deemed impracticable, but the delegates were unanimously of opinion that a union on a wider basis was possible and the Canadian delegates proposed that with the consent of the provinces a further conference should be held at Quebec. The proposal was adopted and the Con- ference ended. The Quebec Conference met on the 10th October. Twelve delegates were present from Canada, seven from New Bruns- wick, five from Nova Scotia, seven from Prince Edward’s Island and two from Newfoundland. The Conference sat for eighteen days and the result of its deliberations was the celebrated “Seventy-two” resolutions on which the Act of Union was afterwards based. Each delegation undertook to submit the resolutions to its own Charlotte- town Con- ference.

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