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Date: 1867-07-01
By: Victoria
Citation: Victoria R, Proclamation, 1 July 1867, reprinted in The Canada Gazette, No. 1, Vol. I.
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No. 1. VOL. I.

The Canada Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

OTTAWA, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1867.

CANADA.

By the QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION

For uniting the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick, into one Dominion, under the name
of CANADA.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament, passed on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Our reign, intituled : “An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the Government thereof and for purposes connected therewith,” after divers recitals, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, to declare, by Proclamation, that on and after a day therein appointed, not being more than six months after the passing of this Act, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, shall form and be One Dominion under that Name accordingly;” and it is thereby further enacted that Such Persons shall be first summoned to the Senate as the Queen by warrant, under Her Majesty’s Royal Sign Manual, thinks fit to approve, and their names shall be inserted in the Queen’s Proclamation of Union;” We, therefore by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, and We do ordain, declare and command that on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the name of Canada:

And We do further ordain and declare that the person whose names are herein inserted and set forth are the persons of whom We have by Warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual thought fit to approve as the persons who shall be summoned to the Senate of Canada:

For the Province of Ontario.

John Hamilton.
Roderick Matheson.
John Ross.
Samuel Mills.
Benjamin Seymour.
Walter Hamilton Dickson.
James Shaw.
Adam Johnston Ferguson Blair,
Alexander Campbell.
David Christie.
James Cox Aikins.
David Reesor.
Elijah Leonard.
William MacMaster.
Asa Allworth Burnham.
John Simpson.
James Skead.
David Lewis Macpherson.
George Crawford.
Donald Macdonald.
Oliver Blake.
Billa Flint.
Walter McCrea.
George William Allan.

For the Province of Quebec.

James Leslie.
Asa Belknap Foster.
Joseph Noel Bossé.
Louis A. Olivier.
Jacques Olivier Bureau.
Charles Malhiot.
Louis Renaud.
Luc Letellier de St. Just.
Ulric Joseph Tessier.
John Hamilton.
Charles Cormier.
Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay
David Edward Price.
Elzear H.J. Duchesnay.
Leandre Dumouchel.
Louis Lacoste.
Joseph F. Arnand.
Charles Wilson.
William Henry Chaffers.
Jean Baptiste Guévremont.
James Ferrier.
Sir Narcisse Fortunat Belleau, Knight
Thomas Ryan.
John Sewell Sanborn

For the Province of Nova Scotia

Edward Kenny.
Jonathan McCully.
Thomas D. Archibald.
Robert B. Dickey.
John H. Anderson.
John Holmes.
John W. Ritchie.
Benjamin Wier.
John Locke.
Caleb R. Bill.
John Bourinot.
William Miller.

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For the Province of New Brunswick.

Amos Edwin Botsford.
Edward Barron Chandler.
John Robertson.
Robert Leonard Hazen.
William Hunter Odell.
David Wark.
William Henry Steeves.
William Todd.
John Ferguson.
Robert Duncan Wilmot.
Abner Reid McClelan.
Peter Mitchell.

Given at Our Court, at Windsor Castle, this twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in the thirtieth year of Our reign.

GOD save the QUEEN.

CANADA.

By His Excellency the Right Honourable CHARLES STANLEY VISCOUNT MONCK, Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Governor General of Canada, &c., &c., &c.

TO all whom these presents shall come—GREETING:

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS Her Majesty the Queen, by Her Letters Patent, under the Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, on the First day of June, in the Thirtieth year of Her Reign, hath been graciously pleased to constitute and appoint me to be Governor General of Canada, with all and every the powers and authorities in the said Letters Patent contained, and which belong to the said office; Now Know Ye, and I have therefore, with the advice of The Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, thought fit to issue this Proclamation to make known, and I do herey make known Her Majesty’s said appointment; Of all which Her Majesty’s loving subjects, and all others whom it may concern, are to take notice thereof and govern themselves accordingly.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at OTTAWA, this FIRST day of JULY, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty’s Reign.

MONCK.

By Command,
JOHN A. MACDONALD.

OTTAWA:—Printed by MALCOLM CAMERON, Printer to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty.