Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter I. The dominion of Canada

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$48 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART 1V surrender were arranged and the surrender of the charter was authorized by an Imperial Act of 1868.1 The agreement was that in addition to certain lands the company should receive £300,000 from the Government of Canada. Im- mediately on the arrangement of the negotiations the Canadian Parliament proceeded to make legislative pro- vision for the Government of the lands so acquired by a local Act? It was also intended to send Mr. McDougall as administrator, but he was not received by his proposed subjects, and it required the dispatch of an armed force to complete the surrender of the rebels? In the meantime the legal instruments for the entry of the lands of the company into the Dominion were completed, and a Canadian Act of 1870 made provision for the establishment of a new province with a legislature of two Chambers of the usual model. An Order in Council of June 23 under s. 146 of the British North America Act added the territories to the Dominion. Both the Acts for this purpose and that for the government of the territories were, however, of more than doubtful validity, and it was therefore found necessary by an Imperial Act of 1871 to ratify them and to lay down the important principles that Canada could erect new provinces out of the territories or other lands surrendered to it by the Crown, and that such provinces after their constitution would not be liable to have their constitutions altered by the Dominion Parliament. At the same time the Parliament of Canada was allowed to provide for the representation in the Parliament of the Dominion of the provinces which it should create from time to time, and also, with the consent of the provinces, to alter the boundaries of any of them and make the necessary alterations consequent on such changes of boundary. In 1871 the Province of British Columbia joined the federation on the understanding that the Dominion Government would 1 31 & 32 Vict. c. 105. ' 32 & 33 Vict. ¢. 3, and 33 Vict. ¢. 3; Imperial Act 34 & 35 Vict. c. 28. Pope, Life of Sir John Macdonald, ii. 49-55; Willison, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, i. 151 seq. McDougall is defended by Bryce, History of the Hudson's Bay Company, pp. 457-68.

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