$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.