Document Information Date: 1864-10-11 By: Edward Whelan, The Examiner (Charlottetown), Quebec Conference Citation: Edward Whelan, “The Inter-Colonial Conference in Canada,”The Examiner (17 October 1864) and Edward Whelan, “The Inter-Colonial Conference in Canada,”The Examiner (24 October 1864). Other formats: Click here to view the original documents (PDF), HERE and HERE. Note: Any endnotes come from our recent publication, Charles Dumais, The Quebec Resolutions: Including Several Never-Published Preliminary Drafts by George Brown and John A. Macdonald & a Collection of all Previously-Published Primary Documents Relating to the Conference, Second Edition (Calgary: Canadian… Read more Edward Whelan, [Quebec Conference] (11 October 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1865 By: Arthur H. Gordon Citation: Senate of Canada, Report Pursuant to Resolution of the Senate to the Honourable the Speaker by the Parliamentary Counsel relating to the Enactment of the British North America Act, 1867, any Lack of Consonance between its Terms and Judicial Construction of them and Cognate Matters, by William F. O’Connor (Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude, I.S.O., 1939), Annex 2, pp. 84-86. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Fredericton, 22nd September 1864. Sir,—In my Despatch of 12th instant, I stated that… Read more Despatch from Lieutenant Governor Arthur H. Gordon to the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Division of Powers] (22 September 1864) →
Document Information Date: 1858-11-19 By: James Douglas Citation: Governor James Douglas, Proclamation, 19 November 1858. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). V. R. PROCLAMATION By His Excellency JAMES DOUGLAS, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty’s Colony of British Columbia and its Dependencies. PROCLAMATION, having the Force of Law to declare that English Law is in force in British Columbia. WHEREAS, by an Act of Parliament passed in the Session held in the 21st and 22nd years of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, it was enacted that the… Read more Governor James Douglas, Proclamation [English law in force in British Columbia], 19 November 1858 →
Document Information Date: 1858-11-09 By: UK (Colonial Office) Citation: UK, Colonial Office, Question of Federation of the British Provinces in America (London: Foreign Office, 1858). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). CONFIDENTIAL. Question of Federation of the British Provinces in America. PRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE. NOVEMBER 9, 1858. CONFIDENTIAL. QUESTION OF FEDERATION OF THE BRITISH PROVINCES IN AMERICA. Colonial Office, November 1858. [424] Question of Federation of the British Provinces in America. No. 1. EXTRACT from Sir Edmund Head’s SPEECH on Opening the Legislature. I… Read more UK, Colonial Office, Question of Federation of the British Provinces in America (1858) →
Document Information Date: 1858-08-02 By: UK (Parliament) Citation: An Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia, UK, 1858, c xcix. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). ANNO VICESIMO PRIMO & VICESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIAE REGINAE. C A P . XCIX. An Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia. [2d August 1858.] WHEREAS divers of Her Majesty’s Subjects and others have, by the Licence and Consent of Her Majesty, resorted to and settled on certain wild and unoccupied Territories on the North-west Coast of… Read more An Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia, UK, 1858 →
Document Information Date: 1852-06-30 By: United Kingdom (Parliament) Citation: An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand, UK, 1852, c 72. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand. Whereas, by an Act of the Session holden in the third and fourth year of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-two, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent, to be from time to time issued under… Read more New Zealand Constitution Act, UK, 1852 →
Document Information Date: 1850-05-31 By: UK (House of Lords) Citation: UK, HL, “Australian Colonies Government Bill“, vol 111 (1850), cols 497-528. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (Hansard UK — External Site). AUSTRALIAN COLONIES GOVERNMENT BILL. HL Deb 31 May 1850 vol 111 cc497-528 497 Order of the Day for the Second Reading read. EARL GREY hoped he might be now allowed to call their Lordships’ attention to the very great importance of the measure, to the second reading of which he had to ask their Lordships’… Read more UK, HL, “Australian Colonies Government Bill”, vol 111 (1850), cols 497-528 (31 May 1850) →
Document Information Date: 1843-08-07 By: UK (House of Lords) Citation: UK, HL, “Intercourse with China“, vol 71 (1843), cols 316-7. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (Hansard UK — External Site). INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA. HL Deb 07 August 1843 vol 71 cc316-7 316 The Earl of Aberdeen moved the second reading of the Intercourse with China Bill. Her Majesty had been pleased, by her royal prerogative, to establish a Governor and Legislative Council at Hongkong, in China, and it was proposed by this bill to give to… Read more UK, HL, “Intercourse with China”, vol 71 (1843), cols 316-7 (7 August 1843) →