CHAP, 1] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 715
Parliament to provide for the liquidation of all building
societies in Quebec, whether solvent or not, is beyond the
competence of the Dominion Parliament.!
(1) Navigation
It is within the powers of the Provincial Legislature to
incorporate companies for navigation purposes within a
single province, though the exclusive right is negatived by
the later decision of the Privy Council in the Colonial Building
and Investment Association v. Attorney-General of Quebec?
But though a Provincial Legislature may incorporate a boom
company, it cannot authorize it to obstruct the navigation
of a tidal and navigable river4 On the other hand, the
legislature may exercise municipal and police control on
navigable waters, and the municipality of St. John’s was
held entitled to have its boundaries extended to the middle
of a navigable river, and to tax the property added to its
boundaries, while municipalities can be authorized to impose
an annual tax on ferrymen or steamboat ferries,® and a
water lot granted by a legislature is valid even when it
extends into deep water, subject to its not interfering with
navigation.” The subject has frequently formed the topic
of comment by Ministers of Justice on Provincial Acts .® and
' MoClanaghan v. St. Anne's Mutual Building Society, 24 L. C. J. 162;
2 Cart. 237. For cases on the power, see Coté v. Watson, 3 Q. L. R. 157;
2 Cart. 343; Kinney v. Dudman, 2 R. & C. 19; Peck v. Shields, 3 Cart.
266 5 Shoolbred v. Clarke, 6 0. A. R. 639; 178. C. R. 265; Allen v. Hanson,
18 8. C. R. 667; Quirt v. Reg., 198. C. R. 510; 170. R. 618; 170. A. R.
452; Merchants’ Bank of Halifax v. Gillespie, 10 8. C. R. 312: Quick and
Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, pp. 586-93.
* Macdougall v. Union Navigation Co., (1891) 21 L. C. J. 38; 2 Cart. 228.
Ct. Lefroy, op. cit., pp. 640-6 ; Dinner et al. v. Humberstone. 26 8. C. R. 252.
* 9 App. Cas. 157.
* Queddy River Driving Boom Co. v. Davidson, 10 8. C. R. 222; 3 Cart.
243, overruling McMillan v. South-west Boom Co., 12. & B. 715.
8 Central Vermont Railway v. St. John's, 14 8. C. R. 288; 4 Cart. 326.
> Longewil Navigation Co. v. City of Montreal, 15S. C. R. 566; 4 Cart. 370.
" Normand v. St. Lawrence N avigation Co., 5 Q. L, R. 215: 2 Cart, 231.
* CL. Provincial Legislation. 1867-95, pn. 558.
