Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

Collection:: Economics Books

~ 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 £} y 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.

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