CHAP. 1) THE DOMINION OF CANADA 651 
The Dominion now contains two further provinces, for 
in 1905 its power was used to carve out from its territories 
Alberta and Saskatchewan with full provincial rights subject 
to certain minor modifications : there had been since 1897 
modified provincial rights in the territories now erected 
into provinces, but the real provincial status dates only 
from 1905 (4 & 5 Edw. VII, cc. 3 and 42). Besides the nine 
Provincial Governments there is the Government of the 
Yukon, which is midway between the provincial status 
and the status of the Government of the North-Western 
territories. 
§ 2. THE PROVINCES AND THE DOMINION 
The Dominion is a self-governing Colony in the technical 
sense of the term, and the provinces are only parts of such 
a Colony, and therefore as entities in the colonial system 
the provinces disappeared entirely with the creation of the 
Federation. Nothing marks more clearly the position of the 
Provinces than that the executive head of the province, 
the Lieutenant-Governor, is appointed by and paid by the 
Dominion Government, and the legislative enactments of 
the Provincial Legislatures are subject to disallowance by 
the Dominion Government. Moreover, the Provincial 
Government receives no recognition from the Imperial 
Government ; the Agents-General of the provinces in 
London receive none of the official status accorded to the 
Agents-General of the Australian states even after federa- 
tion and to the High Commissioner of Canada; while the 
title * Honourable ’ is restricted to Executive Councillors 
while such, and to the President of the Council and Speaker 
of the Assembly while in office. Then, again, for all purposes 
of law the Governor-General of Canada is, in virtue of the 
I nlerpretation Act, 1889, the Governor of a Colony, and no 
function of a Governor under an Imperial Act falls upon 
a Lieutenant-Governor in a Canadian province. On the 
o intention to federate urged by Sir R. Bond's and Sir E. Morris’s supporters. 
ony doubted locally if a change of position would be beneficial, and as 
Py N as the Colony is prosperous federation is not probable. See also 
wse, History of Newfoundland, pp. 494. 495.