Click here to view the original document (PDF). The HTML Text Below Has Not Yet Been Edited This document has not yet been edited for mistakes. Help us out by correcting the text and mailing it as a text file to pd@theccf.ca. Your help will make PrimaryDocuments.ca the most complete word-searchable electronic repository of documents relating to the Canadian constitution. For more information consult our Be a Contributor page. [show_more more=”Read the unedited text” less=”Read less” align=”center”] 1 BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT AND AMENDMENTS (TOGETHER WITH PRE~CONFEDERATION STA- TUTES AND DOCUMENTS, A SHORT HISTORICAL… Read more British North America Acts and Amendments 1867-1948 →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). WINNIPEG FREE PRESS PAMPHLET No. 15 BILL OF RIGHTS FOR CANADA BY BRUCE HUTCHISON Associate Editor WINNPEG FREE PRESS The following articles appeared on the editorial pages of the Winnipeg Free Press, May 30 to June 3, 1947. PARLIAMENTS ALARM FOR the first time in its history the Parliament of Canada is seriously concerned about the most basic principle of democratic gov- ernment—the freedom of every citi- zen. In forming a committee of the House of Commons and the Senate to consider… Read more Bill of Rights for Canada (Winnipeg Free Press Pamphlet No. 15) →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). “The Constitutional Issue Arising from Abdication” by F.R. SCOTT FROM the constitutional point of view, the issues raised by King Edward’s abdication are of the greatest importance. They have brought into sharp relief the constitutional nature of the British monarchy, and in so far as their settlement require action by Dominion Parliaments they show the extent to which the British Commonwealth has evolved in the direction of a purely personal union of states. The title to the Crown descends in the manner… Read more The Constitutional Issue Arising From Abdication →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). MINUTES OF A MEETING OF A GROUP ON CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS HELD AT THE HOME OF F.R. SCOTT, ON TUESDAY, MARCH 17TH, 1936 AT 8.15 P.M. Present:- A.S. Bruneau G.S. Challies Monteath Douglas P.S. Fisher Francis Hankin F.R. Scott T. Sheard Speakers: Messrs. Sheard and Douglas. Subject: Agenda. Sheard in opening stated that he would treat the present situation of the Canadian public debts and that Douglas would amplify his remarks and suggest a remedy or remedies for the situation. In 1929… Read more Minutes of a meeting of a group of Canadian Problems held at the home of F.R. Scott, on Tuesday, March 17th, 1936 at 8: 15 P.M →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). MINUTES OF A GROUP OF CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS HELD AT THE HOME OF P.S. FISHER ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3RD, 1936, AT 8.15 P.M. Present: John Bird A.S. Bruneau G.S. Challies Brooke Claxton Monteath Douglas P.S. Fisher Francis Hankin Ross Macdonald H.E. McCrudden F.R. Scott T. Sheard Speakers: F. Hankin and F.R. Scott Subject: Agenda 11 (a) “Regulatory necessities, social legislation”. Hankin dealth with first part of subject – “Regulatory necessities”. The clamour for the regulation of business has in recent years attracted… Read more Minutes of a group of Canadian Constitutional Problems held at the home of P.S.Fisher on Tuesday, March 3rd, 1936, at 8:15 P.M →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). MINUTES OF A MEETING OF A GROUP ON CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS, HELD AT THE HOME OF T.H. SHEARD, on TUESDAY, February 11, 1936, at 8.15 p.m. Present: John Bird A.S. Bruneau G.S. Challies Brooke Claxton Monteath Douglas P.S. Fisher H.N. McCrudden F.R. Scott T.H. Sheard In introducing the discussion Brooke Claxton said that the only statute bearing on this question is the War Measures Act R.B.C. Ch. 206 sec. 2, enacted first in 1914. This gives the Governor General in Council wide… Read more Minutes of a Meeting of a group of Canadian Constitutional Problems, held at the Home of T.H Sheard on Tuesday, February 11, 1936 at 8:15 p.m →
Document Information Date: 1935 By: Arthur Doughty & Norah Story Citation: Arthur Doughty & Norah Story, Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1819-1828 (Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude, 1935). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Why Is There No Text? This document has not yet been transcribed. Help us out by transcribing the PDF into a text file and emailing it to pd@theccf.ca. Your help will make PrimaryDocuments.ca the most complete word-searchable electronic repository of documents relating to the Canadian constitution. For more information consult our Be… Read more Arthur Doughty & Norah Story, Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1819-1828 (1935) →
Document Information Date: 1905-02-28 By: Canada (Parliament) Citation: Canada, House of Commons Debates, 10th Parl, 1st Sess, 1905 at 1788. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). 1788 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AUTONOMY BILL. Mr. SPROULE. I desire to ask the right hon. the First Minister if any special instructions have been given regarding the number of Autonomy Bills to be printed? We received one each this morning, and were informed that we could not get any more. It is very desirable that a large number should be printed,… Read more Canada, House of Commons Debates, “Northwest Territories Autonomy Bill”, 10th Parl, 1st Sess (28 February 1905) →