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1 John George Bourinot, The Federal Constitution of Canada 131 (1890)

handle is hein.cow/canctif0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 131 THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF CANADA. THE British North America Act,(a) which received the assent of the Queen on the 29th of March, 1867, and came into force by royal proclamation on the 1st of July in the same year, gave a constitutional existence to the dominion of Canada, which, at that time, comprised only the four provinces of Quebec and Ontario-previously known as Upper and Lower Canada-and Nova Scotia and New Brunswikk. In the course of the succeeding six years, the pro- vinces of British Columbia (b) and Prince Edward Island (c) were added to the Union, and a new province, under the name of Manitoba,(d) carved out of the North-West Territory. This vast North-West Territory was, after the purchase of the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land, formally transferred to the Dominion by an imperial order in Council, on the 15th of July, 1870, and it is now divided into five provisional districts for the pur- poses of government, known as Keewatin, Assiniboia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Athabasca. (c) Previous to the passage of the British North America Act, all these provinces (with the exception of Manitoba- which, as just stated, was a subsequent creation-and the old (a) Imp. Stat., 30 & 31 Vict. c. 3. (b) Can. Stat., 1873, p. ix. (c) Ibid. 1872, p. xxxiv. (d) Ibid. 33 Vict. c. 3. (e) See Imp. Stat., 31 & 32 Vict. c. 105 ; Ibid. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 28; Imp. Orders in Council, 1870, 1880 (Can. Stat., 1872 and 1881) ; Bourinot's Manual of the Constitutional History of Cmnada, pp. 58-60, 105.

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