Document Information Date: 1865-02-09 By: Province of Canada (Parliament) Citation: Province of Canada, Parliament, Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British North America Provinces, 8th Parl, 3rd Sess, 1865 at 125-148. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Click here to view the rest of the Confederation Debates. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. THURSDAY, February 9, 1865. The order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on the proposed Address to Her Majesty, on the subject of the Confederation of the British North American Provinces… Read more Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British North America Provinces, 8th Parl, 3rd Sess, (9 February 1865) →
Document Information Date: 1864-10-21 By: The New York Times Citation: “The Canadian Conference”, The New York Times (22 October 1864). Other formats: The Canadian Conference. Quebec, Friday. Oct. 21. It is reported that the conference has agreed upon the constitution of the lower house on a basis of representation, according to population, the total number of members to be 194. The conference is now discussing the power of the General Government.
Document Information Date: 1864 By: Bernard Hewitt Citation: Secretary Bernard Hewitt’s Minutes of the Proceedings at Quebec (1864) in Joseph Pope, Confederation Being a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Documents Bearing On the British North America Act (Toronto: Carswell Co. Ltd., 1895) at 1-38. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Minutes of The Proceedings of The Quebec Conference, October 1864. Conference Chamber, Parliament House, Monday, 10th October 1864. The following gentlemen assembled at the Conference Chamber in the Parliament House, Quebec, on Monday, the tenth day of… Read more Secretary Bernard Hewitt’s Minutes of the Proceedings at Quebec (1864) →
Document Information Date: 1854-10-25 By: Province of Canada (Parliament), The Globe Citation: The Globe (6 November 1854). Other formats: [illegible] a select Committee [illegible] and report as to the [illegible] removal of the Postmaster General [illegible] appointment of Postmaster General [illegible] other places in the [illegible] the recent Parliamentary [illegible] or immediately there [illegible] and report upon the [illegible] with the issuing of a [illegible] Peace for the County of Kent in [illegible] a vote of this House had been [illegible] to the Administration, and a [illegible] had been ordered;… Read more Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Ministerial Explanations (25 October 1854) →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). Debate of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada TUESDAY, 31 MAY 1853. (903) ORDERED, That the Bill to make more ample provision for the incorporation of the Town of St. Hyacinthe, and to extend its limits, as reported from the Standing Committee on Miscellaneous Private Bills, be committed to a Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow, and be then the second Order of the day. Ordered, That the Bill to vest in John Carling and others, a certain portion of Church… Read more Debate of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada (May 31, 1853) →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). Debate of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada FRIDAY, 13 MAY 1853. (850) MR. SPEAKER acquainted the House, That, yesterday, he received from the Commissioner appointed for the examination of witnesses on the trial of the Petition complaining of an undue Election and Return for the County of Prince Edward, a copy of the Minutes of his proceedings under the said Commission. Mr. Speaker further acquainted the House, That he had, this day, issued his Warrant for the re-assembling of the Select… Read more Debate of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada (May 13, 1853) →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 1852. (318) THE Clerk laid before the House,–Minutes of the Proceedings of the General Committee of Elections, pursuant to the 41st Section of “The Election Petitions Act of 1851.” Ordered, That the said Minutes do lie upon the table. The following Petitions were severally brought up, and laid on the table:– By Mr. Smith of Durham,–The Petition of Paul Robins and others, Bible Christians, of Darlington; and the Petition of the Municipality of the Township of Manvers. By Mr.… Read more Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada — Volume XI — Part II →
Document Information Date: 1852-04-03 By: The Globe Citation: “An Elective Legislative Council,” The Globe (3 April 1852). Other formats: AN ELECTIVE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The proposed alteration in the construction of the second branch of our Legislature, has attracted some attention from the press, but has not received that close examination which we anticipated. A number of our cotemporaries seem determined for the change, right or wrong; and two or three of them, we observe, attack the Globe bitterly for opposing the movement—though they make no attempt to meet our objections.… Read more “An Elective Legislative Council,” The Globe (3 April 1852) →