ONTARIO AND QUEBEC. 
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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,