Canadian Constitutional Documents

Constitution Act, 1871

(The British North America Act, 1871)

34 and 35 Victoria, c. 28

An Act respecting the establishment of Provinces in the Dominion of Canada

[29th June, 1871]

Whereas doubts have been entertained respecting the powers of the Parliament of Canada to

establish Provinces in territories admitted, or which may hereafter be admitted, into the Dominion of

Canada, and to provide for the representation of such Provinces in the said Parliament, and it is

expedient to remove such doubts, and to vest such powers in the said Parliament:

Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and

by the authority of the

same, as follows:--

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The British North America Act, 1871."

2. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time establish new Provinces in any territories forming

for the time being part of the Dominion of Canada, but not included in any Province thereof, and may,

at the time of such establishment, make provision for the constitution and administration of any such

Province, and for the passing of laws for the peace, order and good government of such province,

and for its representation in the said Parliament.

3. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time, with the consent of the Legislature of any Province

of the said Dominion, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of such Province, upon such terms

and conditions as may be agreed upon to by the said Legislature, and may, with the like consent,

make provision respecting the effect and operation of any such increase or diminution or alteration

of territory in relation to any Province affected thereby.

4. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time make provision for the administration, peace,

order and good government of any territory not for the time being included in any Province.

5. The following Acts passed by the said Parliament of Canada, and entitled respectively: "An Act

for the temporary government of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory when united with

Canada;" and "An Act to amend and continue the Act thirty-two and thirty-three Victoria, chapter

three, and to establish and provide for the government of the Province of Manitoba." shall be and

be deemed to have been valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever from the date at which they

respectively received the assent, in the Queen's name, of the Governor-General of the said Dominion

of Canada.

6. Except as provided for by the third section of this Act, it shall not be competent for the Parliament

of Canada to alter the provisions of the last mentioned Act of the said Parliament in so far as it relates

to the Province of Manitoba or any other Act hereafter establishing new Provinces in the said

Dominion, subject always to the right of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba to alter from

time to time the provisions of any law respecting the qualification of electors and members of the

Legislative Assembly, and to make laws respecting elections in said Province.

THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1871
(34 and 35 Victoria, c. 28)

AN ACT RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PROVINCES IN THE

DOMINION OF CANADA.

19th June, 1871

Whereas doubts have been entertained respecting the powers of the
Parliament of Canada to establish Provinces in territories admitted,
or which may hereafter be admitted, into the Dominion of Canada, and
to provide for the representation of such Provinces in the said
Parliament, and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to vest
such powers in the said Parliament:

Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:--

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The British North
America Act, 1871.

2. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time establish new
Provinces in any territories forming for the time being part of the
Dominion of Canada, but not included in any Province thereof, and may,
at the time of such establishment, make provision for the constitution
and administration of any such Province, and for the passing of laws
for the peace, order and good government of such province, and for its
representation in the said Parliament.

3. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time, with the
consent of the Legislature of any Province of the said Dominion,
increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of such Province,
upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon to by the said
Legislature, and may, with the like consent, make provision respecting
the effect and operation of any such increase or diminution or
alteration of territory in relation to any Province affected thereby.

4. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time make provision
for the administration, peace, order and good government of any
territory not for the time being included in any Province.

5. The following Acts passed by the said Parliament of Canada, and
entitled respectively:

"An Act for the temporary government of Rupert's Land and the
North-Western Territory when united with Canada;" and
"An Act to amend and continue the Act thirty-two and thirty-three
Victoria, chapter three, and to establish and provide for the
government of the Province of Manitoba."

shall be and be deemed to have been valid and effectual for all
purposes whatsoever from the date at which they respectively received
the assent, in the Queen's name, of the Governor-General of the said
Dominion of Canada.

6. Except as provided for by the third section of this Act, it
shall not be competent for the Parliament of Canada to alter the
provisions of the last mentioned Act of the said Parliament in so far
as it relates to the Province of Manitoba or any other Act hereafter
establishing new Provinces in the said Dominion, subject always to the
right of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba to alter from
time to tie the provisions of any law respecting the qualification of
electors and members of the Legislative Assembly, and to make laws
respecting elections in said Province.

British Columbia Terms of Union

(Order of Her Majesty in Council admitting British Columbia into the Union)

At the Court at Windsor, the 16th day of May, 1871

PRESENT

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty

His Royal Highness Prince ARTHUR

Lord Privy Seal

Earl Cowper

Earl of Kimberley

Lord Chamberlain

Mr. Secretary Cardwell

Mr. Ayrton

Whereas by the "Constitution Act, 1867" provision was made for the Union of the Provinces of

Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada, and it was

(amongst other things) enacted that it should be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on Addresses from the Houses of the Parliament

of Canada, and of the Legislature of the Colony of British Columbia, to admit that colony into the

said Union on such terms and conditions as should be in the Addresses expressed, and as the Queen

should think fit to approve, subject to the provisions of the said Act. And it was further enacted that

the provisions of any Order in Council in that behalf should have effect as if they had been enacted by

the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

And whereas by Addresses from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada and from the Legislative

Council of British Columbia respectively, of which Addresses copies are contained in the Schedule

to this Order annexed, Her Majesty was prayed, by and with the advice of Her most Honourable

Privy Council, under the one hundred and fortysixth section of the hereinbefore recited Act, to

admit British Columbia into the Dominion of Canada, on the terms and conditions set forth in the

said Addresses.

And whereas Her Majesty has thought fit to approve of the said terms and conditions. It is hereby

ordered and declared by Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, in pursuance

and exercise of the powers vested in Her Majesty by the said Act of Parliament, that from and after

the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventyone, the said Colony of British

Columbia shall be admitted into and become part of the Dominion of Canada, upon the terms and

conditions set forth in the hereinbefore recited Addresses. And, in accordance with the terms of the

said Addresses relating to the electoral districts in British Columbia, for which the first election of

members to serve in the House of Commons of the said Dominion shall take place, it is hereby further

ordered and declared that such electoral districts shall be as follows:--

the Lands and Works Office in the said colony on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand

eight hundred and sixty-nine, by the desire of the Governor, and purporting to be in accordance

with the provisions of the thirty-ninth clause of the "Mineral Ordinance, 1869," shall constitute

one district, to be designated ' 'New Westminster District," and return one member.

"Caribou District" and "Lillooet District," as specified in the said public notice, shall constitute

one district, to be designated "Cariboo District," and return one member.

"Yale District" and "Kootenay District,'' as specified in the said public notice, shall constitute

one district, to be designated "Yale District," and return one member.

Those portions of Vancouver Island, known as "Victoria District," "Esquimalt District,"

and ''Metchosin District,'' as defined in the official maps of those districts which are in the

Land Office, Victoria, and are designated respectively, ''Victoria District Official Map,

1858," "Esquimalt District Official Map, 1858," and "Metchosin District Official Map,

A.D. 1858," shall constitute one district, to be designated ''Victoria District," and return

two members.

All the remainder of Vancouver Island, and all such islands adjacent thereto, as were

formerly dependencies of the late Colony of Vancouver Island District, shall constitute

one district. to be designated "Vancouver Island District," and return one Member.

And the Right Honourable Earl of Kimberley, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,

is to give the necessary directions therein accordingly.

(Signed) ARTHUR HELPS.

SCHEDULE

Address of the Senate of Canada

To the Queen's Excellent Majesty

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Senate of Canada in Parliament assembled,

humbly approach your Majesty for the purpose of representing:--

That by a despatch from the Governor of British Columbia, dated 23rd January, 1871, with

other papers laid before this House by message from his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, of the

27th February last, this House learns that the Legislative Council of that colony, in council assembled,

adopted, in January last, an Address representing to your Majesty that British Columbia was

prepared to enter into Union with the Dominion of Canada, upon the terms and conditions mentioned

in the said Address, which is as follows:--

To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Members of the Legislative Council of British

Columbia in council assembled, humbly approach your Majesty for the purpose of representing:--

That, during the last session of the late Legislative Council, the subject of the admission of the Colony

of British Columbia into the Union or Dominion of Canada was taken into consideration, and a

resolution on the subject was agreed to, embodying the terms upon which it was proposed that this

colony should enter the Union;

That after the close of the session, Delegates were sent by the Government of this Colony to

Canada to confer with the Government of the Dominion with respect to the admission or British

Columbia into the Union upon the terms proposed;

That after considerable discussion by the Delegates with the Members of the Government of the

Dominion of Canada, the terms and conditions hereinafter specified were adopted by a Committee

of the Privy Council of Canada, and were by them reported to the Governor-General for his approval;

That such terms were communicated to the Government of this Colony by the Governor-General

of Canada, in a despatch dated July 7th, 1870, and are as follows:--

1. Canada shall be liable for the debts and liabilities of British Columbia existing at the time

of the Union.

2. British Columbia not having incurred debts equal to those of the other Provinces now constituting

the Dominion, shall be entitled to receive, by half-yearly payments, in advance from the General

Government, interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum on the difference between the actual

amount of its indebtedness at the date of the Union, and the indebtedness per head of the

population of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (27.77 dollars), the population of British Columbia

being taken at 60,000.

3. The following sums shall be paid by Canada to British Columbia for the support of its

Government and Legislature, to wit, an annual subsidy of 35,000 dollars, and an annual grant equal

to 80 cents per head of the said population of 60,000, both half-yearly in advance, such grant of

80 cents per head to be augmented in proportion to the increase of population, as may be shown

by each subsequent decennial census, until the population amounts to 400,000, at which rate such

grant shall thereafter remain, it being understood that the first census be taken in the year 1881.

4. The Dominion will provide an efficient mail service, fortnightly, by steam communication between

Victoria and San Francisco, and twice a week between Victoria and Olympia; he vessels to be

adapted for the conveyance of freight and passengers

5. Canada will assume and defray the charges for the following services:--

G. Lighthouses, Buoys, and Beacons, Shipwrecked Crews, Quarantine and Marine Hospitals, including a Marine Hospital at Victoria;

H. The Geological Survey;

I. The Penitentiary;

And such further charges as may be incident to and connected with the services which by the

"British North America Act of 1867" appertain to the General Government, and as are or may

be allowed to the other Provinces.

6. Suitable pensions, such as shall be approved of by Her Majesty's Government, shall be

provided by the Government of the Dominion for those of Her Majesty's servants in the Colony

whose position and emoluments derived therefrom would be affected by political changes on the

admission of British Columbia into the Dominion of Canada.

7. It is agreed that the existing Customs tariff and Excise duties shall continue in force in British

Columbia until the railway from the Pacific coast and the system of railways in Canada are connected,

unless the Legislature of British Columbia should sooner decide to accept the Tariff and Excise Laws

of Canada. When Customs and Excise duties are, at the time of the union of British Columbia with

Canada, leviable on any goods, wares, or merchandizes in British Columbia, or in the other Provinces

of the Dominion, those goods, wares, and merchandizes may, from and after the Union, be imported

into British Columbia from the Provinces now composing the Dominion, or into either of those

Provinces from British Columbia, on proof of payment of the Customs or Excise duties leviable

thereon in the Province of exportation, and on payment of such further amount (if any) of Customs

or Excise duties as are leviable thereon in the Province of importation. This arrangement to have

no force or effect after the assimilation of the Tariff and Excise duties of British Columbia with those

of the Dominion.

8. British Columbia shall be entitled to be represented in the Senate by three members, and by six

members in the House of Commons. The representation to be increased under the provisions of the

"British North America Act, 1867"

9. The influence of the Dominion Government will be used to secure the continued maintenance of

the naval station at Esquimalt.

10. The provisions of the "British North America Act, 1867'' shall (except those parts thereof which

are in terms made, or by reasonable intendment may be held to be specially applicable to and only

affect one and not the whole of the Provinces now comprising the Dominion, and except so far as

the same may be varied by this Minute) be applicable to British Columbia in the same way and to

the like extent as they apply to the other Provinces of the Dominion, and as if the colony of British

Columbia had been one of the Provinces originally united by the said Act.

1l. The Government of the Dominion undertake to secure the commencement simultaneously, within

two years from the date of the Union, of the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the

Rocky Mountains, and from such point as may be selected, east of the Rocky Mountains, towards

the Pacific, to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada; and

further, to secure the completion of such railway within ten years from the date of the Union.

And the Government of British Columbia agrees to convey to the Dominion Government, in trust,

to be appropriated in such manner as the Dominion Government may deem advisable in furtherance

of the construction of the said railway, a similar extent of public lands along the line of railway

throughout its entire length in British Columbia, not to exceed, however, twenty (20) miles on each

side of said line, as may be appropriated for the same purpose by the Dominion Government from

the public lands in the northwest territories and the Province of Manitoba. Provided that the quantity

of land which may be held under preemption right or by Crown grant within the limits of the tract of

land in British Columbia to be so conveyed to the Dominion Government shall be made good to the

Dominion from contiguous public lands; and provided further, that until the commencement, within

two years, as aforesaid, from the date of the union, of the construction of the said railway, the

Government of British Columbia shall not sell or alienate any further portions of the public lands of

British Columbia in any other way than under right of preemption, requiring actual residence of the

preemptor on the land claimed by him. In consideration of the land to be so conveyed in aid of the

construction of the said railway, the Dominion Government agree to pay to British Columbia from

the date of the Union, the sum of 100,000 dollars per annum, in half-yearly payments in advance.

12. The Dominion Government shall guarantee the interest for ten years from the date of the

completion of the works, at the rate of five per centum per annum, on such sum, not exceeding

£100.000 sterling, as may be required for the construction of a first class graving dock at Esquimalt.

13. The charge of the Indians, and the trusteeship and management of the lands reserved for their

use and benefit, shall be assumed by the Dominion Government and a policy as liberal as that hitherto

pursued by the British Columbia Government shall be continued by the Dominion Government after the

Union.

To carry out such policy, tracts of land of such extent as it has hitherto been the practice of the

British Columbia Government to appropriate for that purpose, shall from time to time be conveyed

by the Local Government to the Dominion Government in trust for the use and benefit of the Indians

on application of the Dominion Government; and in case of disagreement between the two

Governments respecting the quantity of such tracts of land to be so granted, the matter shall be

referred for the decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

14. The Constitution of the Executive Authority and Or the Legislature of British Columbia

shall, subject to the provisions of "The British North America Act, 1867", continue as existing

at the time of the Union until altered under the authority of the said Act, it being at the same time

understood that the Government of the Dominion will readily consent to the introduction of

responsible government when desired by the inhabitants of British Columbia, and it being likewise

understood that it is the intention of the Governor of British Columbia, under the authority of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, to amend the existing Constitution of the Legislature by

providing that a majority of its members shall be elective.

The Union shall take effect according to the foregoing terms and conditions on such day as

Her Majesty by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council may appoint

(on addresses from the Legislature of the Colony of British Columbia and of the Houses of

Parliament of Canada in the terms of the 146th section of "The British North America Act,

1867" and British Columbia may in its address specify the electoral districts for which the first

election of members to serve in the House of Commons shall take place.

That such terms have proved generally acceptable to the people of this Colony.

That this Council is, therefore, willing to enter into Union with the Dominion of Canada upon

such terms, and humbly submit that, under the circumstances, it is expedient that the admission

of this Colony into such Union, as aforesaid, should be affected at as early a date as may be

found practicable under the provisions of the 146th section of ''The British North America Act, 1867"

We, therefore, humbly pray that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased, by and with the advice

of Your Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, under the provisions of the 146th section of

''The British North America Act, 1867" to admit British Columbia into the Union or Dominion of

Canada, on the basis of the terms and conditions offered to this Colony by the Government of the

Dominion of Canada, hereinbefore set forth; and inasmuch as by the said terms British Columbia

is empowered in its address to specify the electoral districts for which the first election of members

to serve in the House of Commons shall take place, we humbly pray that such electoral districts

may be declared, under the Order in Council, to be as follows:--

That ''New Westminster District," and the "Coast District", as defined in a public notice issued

from the Lands and Works Office on the 15th day of December, 1869, by the desire of the

Governor, and purporting to be in accordance with the provisions of the 39th clause of the

"Mineral Ordinance,1869," shall constitute one district, to be designated "New Westminster

District," and return one member.

That ''Cariboo District," and "Lillooet District," as specified in the said public notice shall

constitute one district, to be designated "Cariboo District,'' and return one Member.

That ''Yale District," and "Kootenay District," as specified in the said public notice, shall

constitute one district, to be designated ''Yale District," and return one Member.

That those portions of Vancouver Island known as "Victoria District," ''Esquimalt District,''

and "Metchosin District," as defined in the official maps of those districts in the Land Office,

Victoria, and which maps are designated respectively, ''Victoria District Official Map, 1858,"

"Esquimalt District Official Map,1858," and ''Metchosin District Official Map. 1858." shall

constitute one district. to be designated ''Victoria District," and return two Members.

And that all the remainder of Vancouver Island, and all such islands adjacent thereto as were

formerly dependencies of the late colony of Vancouver Island District shall constitute one

district, to be designated "Vancouver Island District," and return one Member.

We further humbly represent, that the proposed terms and conditions of Union of British

Columbia with Canada, as stated in the said Address, are in conformity with those preliminarily

agreed upon between delegates from British Columbia and the Members of the Government of

the Dominion of Canada, and embodied in a Report of a Committee of the Privy Council.

approved by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. on the 1st July, 1870, which approved Report is as follows:--

Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the 1st of July, 1870.

The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a Despatch, dated the 7th May,

1870, from the Governor of British Columbia, together with certain resolutions submitted by the

Government of that colony to the Legislative Council thereof--both hereunto annexed--on the

subject of the proposed union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada; and after

several interviews between them and the Honourable Messrs. Trutch, Helmcken, and Carrall,

the Delegates from British Columbia. and full discussion with them of the various questions

connected with that important subject, the Committee now respectfully submit for your

Excellency's approval the following terms and conditions to form the basis of a political union

between British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada

[Here follow the terms of Union as stated supra, in the Address of the Legislative

Council of British Columbia]

(Certified) WM. H. LEE,
Clerk Privy Council.

We further humbly represent that we concur in the terms and conditions of Union set forth in the

said Address, and approved Report of the Committee of the Privy Council above mentioned;

and most respectfully pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased, by and with the advice

of your Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, under the 146th clause of ''The British North

America Act, 1867'' to unite British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada, on the terms and

conditions above set forth.

The Senate, Wednesday, April 5, 1871.

(Signed) JOSEPH CAUCHON, Speaker.

Address of the Commons of Canada

To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Canadian Parliament

assembled, humbly approach your Majesty for the purpose of representing:--

[The balance of the Address is identical inform with the Address of the Senate and is

omitted for that reason.]

JAMES COCKBURN, Speaker.

House of Commons,

Saturday, 1st April, 1871.

Address of the Legislative Council of British Columbia

To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Members of the Legislative Council of

British Columbia in Council assembled, humbly approach your Majesty for the purpose of

representing:--

[The balance of the Address is set forth at length in the Address of the Senate.]

(Signed) PHILIP J. HANKIN, Speaker.

Parliament of Canada Act, 1875

38-39 Victoria, c. 38 (U.K.)

An Act to remove certain doubts with respect to the powers of the Parliament of Canada

under section eighteen of the Constitution Act, 1867

[19th July, 1875]

Whereas by section eighteen of the Constitution Act, 1867, it is provided as follows:

"The privileges, immunities, and powers to be held, enjoyed. and exercised by the Senate

and by the House of Commons, and by the Members thereof respectively, shall be such

as are from time to time defined by Act of the Parliament of Canada. but so that the same

shall never exceed those at the passing of this Act held, enjoyed, and exercised by the

Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

and by the Members thereof:"

And whereas doubts have arisen with regard to the power of defining by an Act of the

Parliament of Canada, in pursuance of the said section. the said privileges, powers,

or immunities: and it is expedient to remove such doubts:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice

and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Section eighteen of the Constitution Act, is hereby repealed, without prejudice to Anything

done under that section, and the following section shall be substituted for the section so repealed.

"The privileges, immunities, and powers to be held. enjoyed, and exercised by the Senate and

by the House of Commons, and by the members thereof respectively, shall be such as are from

time to time defined by Act of the Parliament of Canada, but so that any Act of the Parliament

of Canada defining such privileges, immunities, and powers shall not confer any privileges,

immunities, or powers exceeding those at the passing of such Act held, enjoyed, and

exercised by the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain

and Ireland, and by the members thereof."

2. The Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of Her present

Majesty. chapter twenty-four, intituled "An Act to provide for oaths to witnesses being administered

in certain cases for the purposes of either House of Parliament.-" shall be deemed to be valid,

and to have been valid as from the date at which the royal assent was given thereto by the

Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada.

3. This Act may be cited as the Parliament of Canada Act, 1875.

Adjacent Territories Order (July 31.1880)

(ORDER OF HER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL ADMITTING ALL BRITISH

TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA AND ISLANDS

ADJACENT THERETO INTO THE UNION)

At the Court at Osborne House. Isle of Wight, the 31st day of July, 1880

PRESENT

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty

Lord President

Lord Steward

Lord Chamberlain

Whereas it is expedient that all British Territories and Possessions in North America,

and the islands adjacent to such Territories and Possessions which are not already

included in the Dominion of Canada,

should (with the exception of the Colony of Newfoundland and its dependencies)

be annexed to and form part of the said Dominion.

And whereas, the Senate and Commons of Canada in Parliament assembled, have in

and by an Address, dated the 3rd day of May, 1878, represented to Her Majesty

"That it is desirable that the Parliament of Canada, on the transfer of the before-mentioned

Territories being completed, should have authority

to legislate for their future welfare and good government, and the power to make all

needful rules and regulations

respecting them, the same as in the case of the other territories (of the Dominion);

and that the Parliament of Canada expressed its Willingness to assume the duties and

obligations consequent thereon:"

And whereas, Her Majesty is graciously pleased to accede to the desire expressed in

and by the said address: Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered and declared by Her Majesty,

by And with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, as follows:-

From and after the first day of September, 1880, all British Territories and Possessions

in North America, not already included within the Dominion of Canada, and all Islands

adjacent to and of such Territories or Possessions, shall (with the exception of the Colony

of Newfoundland and its dependencies) become and be annexed to and form part of the

said Dominion of Canada; and become and be subject to the

laws for the time being in force in the said Dominion, in so far as such laws may be applicable thereto.

C.L. PEEL

The Constitution Act, 1886

(The British North America Act, 1886)

49 and 50 Victoria, c. 35

An Act respecting the Representation in the Parliament of Canada of Territories which for the time being form part of the Dominion of Canada, but are not included in any Province.

[25th June, 1886]

Whereas it is expedient to empower the Parliament of Canada to provide for the representation in the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, or either of them, of any territory which for the time being forms part of the Dominion of Canada, but is not included in any Province:

Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time make provision for the representation in the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, or in either of them, of any territories which for the time being form part of the Dominion of Canada, but are not included in any Province thereof.

2. Any Act passed by the Parliament of Canada before the passing of this Act for the purpose mentioned in this Act, shall, if not disallowed by the Queen, be, and shall be deemed to have been, valid and effectual from the date at which it received the assent, in Her Majesty's name, of the Governor-General of Canada.

It is hereby declared that any Act passed by the Parliament of Canada, whether before or after the passing of this Act, for the purposes mentioned in this Act, or in The British North America Act, 1871, has effect, notwithstanding anything in The British North America Act, 1867, and the number of Senators or the number of Members of the House of Commons specified in the last-mentioned Act is increased by the number of Senators or of members, as the case may be, provided by any such Act of the Parliament of Canada for the representation of any provinces or territories in Canada.

3. This Act, and The British North America Act, 1867, and The British North America Act, 1871, shall be construed together, and may be cited together as The British North America Acts, 1867 to 1886.

3. This Act may be cited as The Constitution Act, 1886.

Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889

52-53 Victoria, c. 28 (U.K.)

An Act to declare the Boundaries of the Province of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada .

[12th August 1889.]

WHEREAS the Senate and Commons of Canada in Parliament assembled have presented to

Her Majesty the Queen the address set forth in the schedule to this Act respecting the boundaries

of the province of Ontario:

And whereas the Government of the province of Ontario have assented to the boundaries

mentioned in that Address:

And whereas such boundaries so far as the province of Ontario adjoins the province of Quebec are

identical with those fixed by the proclamation of the Governor-General issued in November,

one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, which have ever since existed:

And whereas such boundaries, so far as the province of Ontario adjoins the province of Manitoba,

are identical with those found to be the correct boundaries by a report of the Judicial Committee

of the Privy Council, which Her Majesty the Queen in Council, on the eleventh day of August one

thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, ordered to be carried into execution:

And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of the province of Ontario should be declared

by authority of Parliament in accordance with the said address:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent

of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by

the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889.

2. It is hereby declared that the westerly, northerly, and easterly boundaries of the province of

Ontario are those described in the address set forth in the schedule to this Act.

SCHEDULE.

ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN FROM THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF COMMONS

OF CANADA.

WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Senate and Commons of Canada.

in Parliament assembled, humbly approach Your Majesty with the request that Your Majesty may

be graciously pleased to cause a measure to be submitted to the Parliament of the United Kingdom,

declaring and providing the following to be the westerly, northerly, and easterly boundaries of the

province of Ontario, that is to say:--

Commencing at the point where the international boundary between the United States of

America and Canada strikes the western shores of Lake Superior, thence westerly along the

said boundary to the north-west angle of the Lake of the Woods, thence along a line drawn

due north until it strikes the middle line of the course of the river discharging the waters of the

lake called Lake Seul or the Lonely Lake, whether above or below its confluence with the

stream flowing from the Lake of the Woods towards Lake Winnipeg, and thence proceeding

eastward from the point at which the beforementioned line strikes the middle line of the course

of the river last aforesaid, along the middle line of the course of the same river (whether called

by the name of the English River or, as to the part below the confluence, by the name of the

River Winnipeg) up to Lake Seul or the Lonely Lake, and thence along the middle line of Lake

Seul or Lonely Lake to the head of that lake, and thence by a straight line to the near west point

of the middle line of the waters of Lake St. Joseph, and thence along that middle line until it

reaches the foot or outlet of that lake, and thence along the middle line of the river by which the

waters of Lake St. Joseph discharge themselves to the shore of the part of Hudson's Bay

commonly known as James' Bay and thence south-easterly following upon the said shore to a

point where a line drawn due north from the head of Lake Temiscamingue would strike it, and

thence due south along the said line to the head of the said lake. and thence through the middle

channel of the said lake into the Ottawa River, and thence descending along the middle of the main

channel of the said river to the intersection by the prolongation of the western limits of the Seigneurie

of Rigaud, such mid-channel being as indicated on a map of the Ottawa Ship Canal Survey made

by Walter Shanly, C.E., and approved by Order of the Governor-General in Council, dated the

twenty-first July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six; and thence southerly, following the

said westerly boundary of the Seigneurie of Rigaud to the south-west angle of the said Seigneurie,

and then southerly along the western boundary of the augmentation of the township of Newton

to the northwest angle of the Seigneurie of Longueuil, and thence south-easterly along the

south-western boundary of said Seigneurie of New Longueuil to a stone boundary on the north

bank of the Lake St. Francis, at the cove west of Point au Baudet, such line from the Ottawa

River to Lake St. Francis being as indicated on a plan of the line of boundary between Upper

and Lower Canada. made in accordance with the Act 23 Victoria, chapter 21, and approved by

order of the Governor-General in Council, dated the 16th of March 1861.

Statute Law Revision Act, 1893

56-57 Victoria, c. 14 (U.K.)

[Note: Only parts affecting the Constitution Acts are reproduced here.]

An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing Enactments

which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary

[19th June 1893]

Whereas it is expedient that certain enactments, which may be regarded as spent, or have

ceased to be inforce otherwise than by express specific repeal by Parliament, or have, by

lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,

and by the authority of the same,

as follows:

1. The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, subject to the

provisions of this Act and subject to the exceptions and qualifications in the schedule mentioned;

and every part of a title, preamble, or recital specified after the words "in part, namely,

" in connexion with an Act mentioned in the said schedule may be omitted from any revised edition

of the statutes published by authority after the passing

of this Act, and there may be added in the said edition such brief statement of the Acts,

officers, persons, and things mentioned in the title, preamble, or recital, as may in consequence

of such omission appear necessary:

4. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1893.

SCHEDULE

Reign and					Title
Chapter			


			
Constitution Act, 1867.
30 & 31 Victoria		In part; namely,	
c. 3			        From "Be it therefore" to "same as follows."				 
Section two.				
Section four to "provisions" where it last occurs .				
Section twenty-five.				
Sections forty-two and forty-three.				
Section fifty-one. from "of the census" to "seventy-one and" and the word

'subsequent ."				
Section eighty-one.				
Section eighty-eight, from "and the House" to the end of the section.				
Sections eighty-nine and one hundred and twenty-seven.				
Section one hundred and forty-five.				
Repealed as to all Her Majesty's Dominions.

The Yukon Territory Act, 1898

61 Victoria, c. 6 (Canada)

An Act to provide for the Government of the Yukon District

[Assented to 13th June, 1898]

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada

enacts as follows:--

1. This Act may be cited as The Yukon Territory Act.

2. The Yukon Judicial District, as constituted by the proclamation of the Governor in Council bearing

date the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, and contained in the

schedule to this Act, is hereby constituted and declared to be a separate territory under the name

of the Yukon Territory, and the same shall no longer form part of the Northwest Territories.

3. The Governor in Council may, by instrument under the Great Seal, appoint for the Yukon

Territory a chief executive officer to be styled and known as the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory.

4. The Commissioner shall administer the government of the territory under instructions from time

to time given him by the Governor in Council or the Minister of the Interior.

5. (1) The Governor in Council by warrant under his privy seal may constitute and appoint such

and so many persons from time to time not exceeding in the whole six persons, as may be deemed

desirable to be a Council to aid the Commissioner in the administration of the territory, and such

persons so appointed to the Council shall before entering upon the duties of their offices take

and subscribe before the Commissioner such oaths of allegiance and office as the Governor in

Council may prescribe.

(2) The majority of the Council including the Commissioner shall form a quorum.

(3) Each judge of the court shall be ex officio a member of the Council, but the total number of members

of the Council, including the judges, shall not exceed six.

6. The Commissioner in Council shall have the same powers to make ordinances for the government

of the territory as are at the date of this Act possessed by the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest

Territories, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly thereof to make

ordinances for the government of the Northwest Territories except as such powers may be limited

by order of the Governor in Council.

7. A copy of every such ordinance made by the Commissioner in Council shall be despatched by

mail to the Governor in Council within ten days after the passing thereof, and shall be laid before

both Houses of Parliament as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, and any such ordinance may

be disallowed by the Governor in Council at any time within two years after its passage.

8. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Governor in Council may make ordinances for the

peace, order and good government of the territory and of Her Majesty's subjects and others

therein, but no ordinance made by the Governor in Council or the Commissioner in Council shall,

hundred dollars, or

(b) alter or repeal the punishment provided in any Act of the Parliament of Canada in

force in the territory for any offence, or

Provided that this section shall not apply to any law extending or applying or declared

applicable to the territory by any Act of the Parliament of Canada.

9. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the laws relating to civil and criminal matters and the

ordinances as the same exist in the Northwest Territories at the time of the passing of this Act,

shall be and remain in force in the said Yukon Territory in so far as the same are applicable thereto

until amended or repealed by the Parliament of Canada or by any ordinance of the Governor in

Council or the Commissioner in Council made under the provisions of this Act.

10. (1) There is hereby constituted and appointed a superior court of record in and for the said

territory, which shall be called the Territorial Court.

The said court shall consist of one or more judges, who shall be appointed by the Governor in

Council by letters patent under the Great Seal.

(2) Any person may be appointed judge of the court who is or has been a judge of a superior or

a county court of any province of Canada or of the Northwest Territories, or a barrister or

advocate of at least ten years' standing at the bar of any such province or of the Northwest Territories.

(3) A judge of the court shall not hold any other office or emolument under the Government of

Canada, or of any province of Canada or of the said territory, but this provision shall not prevent

a judge from being eligible for appointment as a member of the Council of the said territory.

11. The law governing the residence, tenure of office, oath of office, rights and privileges of the

judge or judges of the court, and the power, authority and jurisdiction of the court shall be the

same, mutatis mutandis, as the law governing the residence, tenure of office, oath of office, rights

and privileges of the judges, and the power, authority and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of

the Northwest Territories, except as the same are expressly varied in this Act.

12. Sittings of the court presided over by a judge or judges shall be held at such times

and places as the Governor in Council or the Commissioner in Council shall appoint.

13. The Governor in Council may appoint such officers of the court as may be deemed necessary,

and may define and specify the duties and emoluments of the officers so appointed

14. The judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories assigned to the Yukon

Judicial District at the time this Act comes into force, and the officers of that court for the said

district, shall be the judge and officers of the Territorial Court until otherwise provided, but the

said judge may at his option, at any time within twelve months after this Act comes into force,

resume his office as one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, his

transfer to that court being in such case made by Order of the Governor in Council,

15. The procedure in criminal cases in the Territorial Court shall, subject to the provisions of

any Act of the Parliament of Canada, conform as nearly as possible to the procedure existing in

like cases in the Northwest Territories at the time of the passing of this Act.

16. While in the said Yukon Territory the Commissioner of the territory, each member of the Council

thereof, every judge of the court, and every commissioned officer of the Northwest Mounted Police,

shall ex officio have, possess and exercise all the powers of a justice of the peace, or of two justices

of the peace, under any laws or ordinances, civil or criminal, in force in the said territory, and the

Governor in Council may, by commission, appoint such other persons justices of the peace or

police commissioners, having each the authority of two justices of the peace within the said territory,

as may be deemed desirable.

17. No person shall be summoned or sworn as a juryman on any trial in the Territorial Court

unless he is a British subject.

18. (1) Every lockup, guardroom, guardhouse or place of confinement provided by or for or

under the direction of the Northwest Mounted Police Force, or the regular military force, or a

municipal body, or by the Commissioner or Commissioner in Council of the territory, shall be a

penitentiary, jail, and place of confinement for all persons sentenced to imprisonment in the territory,

and the Commissioner of the territory shall direct in which such penitentiary, jail or place of

confinement any person sentenced to imprisonment shall be imprisoned.

(2) The Governor in Council shall have power to make rules and regulations respecting

the management, discipline and policy of every penitentiary, jail or place of confinement used

as such in the territory.

19. All persons possessing the powers of two justices of the peace in the territory shall also be

coroners in and for the said territory.

20. The Governor in Council may appoint such officers as are necessary for the due administration

of justice in the territory, may fix the fees or emoluments of such officers and may fix the fees or

emoluments of coroners, justices of the peace, jurors, witnesses and other persons attending or

performing duties in relation to the administration of criminal justice, and provide the manner in

which such fees and emoluments shall be paid.

21. In case of the death of the Commissioner the senior member of the Council shall act as

Commissioner until a successor is appointed.

SCHEDULE

ABERDEEN

[L.S.]

CANADA

VICTORIA by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. QUEEN,

Defender of the Faith, &c., &c. &c.

To all to whom these presents shall come or whom the same may in anywise concern.--GREETING:

A PROCLAMATION

F.L. NEWCOMBE. Deputy of the Minister of Justice, Canada.

WHEREAS it is in and b! the Revised Statutes, chapter 50, and intituled "An Act respecting

the Northwest Territories" in effect enacted, that the Governor in Council may at any time by

Proclamation divide the Territories into judicial districts, and give to each such district an

appropriate name, and in like manner from time to time, alter the limits and extent of such districts.

and whereas by an Order of Our Governor in Council, bearing date the 16th day of August

A.D. 1897, the establishment of a judicial district in the said Territories was authorized, to be

known as the Yukon Judicial District, and to be bounded as hereinafter mentioned:

Now Know Ye that We do hereby and by virtue of the authority vested in Us by the said Act,

and the said Order in Council respectively establish and set apart a judicial district in the

Northwest Territories to be named and known as the "Yukon Judicial District,' the boundaries

of such judicial district to be as follows:--

Beginning at the intersection of the 141st meridian of west longitude from Greenwich with a point

on the coast of the Arctic Sea which is approximate north latitude, 69° 39", and named on the

Admiralty charts "Demarcation Point;" thence due south. on said meridian (which is also

the boundary line between Canada and Alaska) for a distance of about 650 miles, to a point

in latitude about 60° 10' north, at which it will intersect the disputed boundary between

Canada and the United States on the North Pacific coast; thence in an easterly direction,

along the said undetermined boundary, for a distance of about 55 miles (in a straight line) to

its intersection with the 60th parallel of north latitude; thence due east along the parallel of

latitude (which is also the north boundary of British Columbia) for a distance of about 550

miles, to the Liard River, in approximate longitude 123° 30" west; thence northerly along the

middle line of said river, for a distance of about 10 miles till opposite the highest part of the

range of mountains which abuts upon the river near the mouth of Black River; thence to follow

the summit of said range in a northwesterly direction to the southernmost source of the Peel River;

thence to follow northward the summit of the main range of mountains which runs approximately

parallel to Peel River, on the west, as far as the intersection of the said range with the 136th meridian;

thereafter to run due north to the Arctic Ocean, or to the westernmost channel of the Mackenzie

Delta, and along that channel to the Arctic Ocean; thence northwesterly following the windings

of the Arctic Coast (termination of the mainland of the Continent), including Herschel Island, and

all other islands which may be situated within three (3) geographical miles, to the place of beginning.

Provided, that in respect to that part of the line, between the Liard River and the southernmost

source of the Peel River, the summit to be followed is the watershed summit separating streams

entering the Liard River below Black River, or flowing directly into the Mackenzie further north,

from streams flowing westward either to the Yukon or to upper branches of the Liard River.

Provided, that in respect to the part of the boundary described as following northward the

main range of mountains on the west side of Peel River, the line shall run along the watershed

between streams flowing eastwardly to the Peel River, and those flowing westwardly to branches

of the Yukon, Porcupine, etc., except where such watershed shall be more than 20 miles distant

from the main stream of the Peel. when the highest range within that distance shall be the boundary.

Of all which Our loving subjects and all others whom these presents may concern, are hereby

required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal

of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Our Right Trusty and Right WellBeloved Cousin and

Councillor the Right Honourable Sir JOHN CAMPBEI L HAMILTONGORDON, Earl of

Aberdeen; Viscount Formartine, Baron Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, in the Peerage of

Scotland; Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United

Kingdom; Baronet of Nova Scotia; Knight Grand Cross of Our most Distinguished Order

of Saint Michael and Saint George, etc., etc.. Governor General of Canada.

At Our Government House, in Our City of Ottawa, in Our said Dominion, this sixteenth day of

August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, and in the sixtyfirst

year of our Reign.

By Command,

JOSEPH POPE,

UnderSecretary of State

Alberta Act

(THE ALBERTA ACT)

4-5 Edward VII, c. 3 (Canada)

An Act to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Alberta

[Assented to 20th July, 1905]

Whereas in and by the Constitution Act 1871, being chapter 28 of the Acts of the Parliament of the

United Kingdom passed in the session thereof held in the 34th and 35th years of the reign of her late

Majesty Queen Victoria, it is enacted that the Parliament of Canada may from time to time establish

new provinces in any territories forming for the time being part of the Dominion of Canada, but not

included in any province thereof, and may, at the time of such establishment, make provision for the

constitution and administration of any such province, and for the passing of laws for the peace, order

and good government of such province and for its representation in the said Parliament of Canada;

And whereas it is expedient to establish as a province the territory hereinafter described, and to make

provision for the government thereof and the representation thereof in the Parliament of Canada;

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of

Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as the Alberta Act.

2. The territory comprised within the following boundaries, that is to say, - commencing at the

intersection of the international boundary dividing Canada from the United States of America by

the fourth meridian in the system of Dominion lands surveys; thence westerly along the said

international boundary to the eastern boundary of British Columbia; thence northerly along the

said province of British Columbia to the north-east corner of the said province; then easterly along

the parallel of the sixtieth degree of north latitude to the fourth meridian in the said system of

Dominion lands surveys as the same may be hereafter defined in accordance with the said

system; thence southerly along the said fourth meridian to the point of commencement, - is hereby

established as a province of the Dominion of Canada, to be called and known as the province of Alberta.

3. The provisions of the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1886 shall apply to the province of Alberta

in the same way and to the like extent as they apply to the provinces heretofore comprised in the

Dominion, as if the said province of Alberta had been one of the provinces originally united,

except in so far as varied by this Act and except such provisions as are in terms made, or by

reasonable intendment may be held to be, specially applicable to or only to affect one or more

and not the whole of the said provinces.

4. The said province shall be represented in the Senate of Canada by four members: Provided that such

representation may, after the completion of the next decennial census, be from time to time increased to

six by the Parliament of Canada.

5. The said province and the province of Saskatchewan shall, until the termination of the Parliament

of Canada existing at the time of the first readjustment hereinafter provided for, continue to be

represented in the House of Commons as provided by chapter 60 of the statutes of 1903, each of

the electoral districts defined in that part of the schedule to the said Act which relates to the

North-west Territories, whether such district is wholly in one of the said provinces, or partly in one

and partly in the other of them, being represented by one member.

6. (1) Upon the completion of the next quinquennial census for the said province, the representation

thereof shall forthwith be readjusted by the Parliament of Canada in such manner that there shall

be assigned to the said province such a number of members as will bear the same proportion to the

number of its population ascertained at such quinquennial census as the number sixty-five bears to

the number of the population of Quebec as ascertained at the then last decennial census; and in the

computation of the number of members for the said province a fractional part not exceeding

one-half of the whole number requisite for entitling the province to a member shall be disregarded,

and a fractional part exceeding one-half of that number shall be deemed equivalent to the whole

number, and such readjustment shall take effect upon the termination of the Parliament then existing.

(2) The representation of the said province shall thereafter be readjusted from time to time according

to the provisions of section 51 of the Constitution Act 1867.

7. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, the qualifications of voters for the election of

members of the House of Commons and the proceedings at and in connection with elections of

such members shall, mutatis mutandis, be those prescribed by law at the time this Act comes into

force with respect to such elections in the North-west Territories.

8. The Executive Council of the said province shall be composed of such persons, under such designations,

as the Lieutenant Governor from time to time thinks fit.

9. Unless and until the Lieutenant Governor in Council of the said province otherwise directs, by

proclamation under the Great Seal, the seat of government of the said province shall be at Edmonton.

10. All powers, authorities and functions which under any law were before the coming into force

of this Act vested in or exercisable by the Lieutenant Governor of the North-west Territories, with

the advice, or with the advice and consent, of the Executive Council thereof, or in conjunction with

that Council or with any member or members thereof, or by the said Lieutenant Governor individually,

shall, so far as they are capable of being exercised after the coming into force of this Act in relation

to the government of the said province, be vested in and shall or may be exercised by the Lieutenant

Governor of the said province, with the advice or with the advice and consent of, or in conjunction

with, the Executive Council of the said province or any member or members thereof, or by the

Lieutenant Governor individually, as the case requires, subject nevertheless to be abolished or

altered by the Legislature of the said province.

11. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall, as soon as may be after this Act comes into force,

adopt and provide a Great Seal of the said province, and may, from time to time, change such seal.

12. There shall be a Legislature for the said province consisting of the Lieutenant Governor and one

House, to be styled the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

13. Until the said Legislature otherwise provides, the Legislative Assembly shall be composed of

twenty-five members, to be elected to represent the electoral divisions defined in the schedule to

this Act.

14. Until the said Legislature otherwise determines, all the provisions of the law with regard to the

constitution of the Legislative Assembly of the North-west Territories and the election of members

thereof shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the Legislative Assembly of the said province and the

election of members thereof respectively.

15. The writs for the election of the members of the first Legislative Assembly of the said province

shall be issued by the Lieutenant Governor and made returnable within six months after this Act comes

into force.

16. (1) All laws and all orders and regulations made thereunder, so far as they are not inconsistent

with anything contained in this Act, or as to which this Act contains no provision intended as a

substitute therefor, and all courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and all commissions, powers,

authorities and functions, and all officers and functionaries, judicial, administrative and ministerial,

existing immediately before the coming into force of this Act in the territory hereby established as

the province of Alberta, shall continue in the said province as if this Act and the Saskatchewan Act

had not been passed; subject, nevertheless, except with respect to such as are enacted by or existing

under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great

Britain and Ireland, to be repealed, abolished or altered by the Parliament of Canada, or by the

Legislature of the said province, according to the authority of the Parliament or of the said Legislature:

Provided that all powers, authorities and functions which under any law, order or regulation were,

before the coming into force of this Act, vested in or exercisable by any public officer or functionary

of the North-west Territories shall be vested in and exercisable in and for the said province by like

public officers and functionaries of the said province when appointed by competent authority.

(2) The Legislature of the province may, for all purposes affecting or extending to the said province,

abolish the Supreme Court of the North-west Territories, and the offices, both judicial and ministerial,

thereof, and the jurisdiction, powers and authority belonging or incident to the said court: Provided that,

if upon such abolition the Legislature constitutes a superior court of criminal jurisdiction, the procedure

in criminal matters then obtaining in respect of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories shall,

until otherwise provided by competent authority, continue to apply to such superior court and that

the Governor in Council may at any time and from time to time declare all or any part of such procedure

to be inapplicable to such superior court.

(3) All societies or associations incorporated by or under the authority of the Legislature of the

North-west Territories existing at the time of the coming into force of this Act which include within

their objects the regulation of the practice of, or the right to practise, any profession or trade in the

North-west Territories, such as the legal or the medical profession, dentistry, pharmaceutical

chemistry and the like, shall continue, subject, however, to be dissolved and abolished by order

of the Governor in Council, and each of such societies shall have power to arrange for and effect

the payment of its debts and liabilities, and the division, disposition or transfer of its property.

(4) Every joint-stock company lawfully incorporated by or under the authority of any ordinance of the

North-west Territories shall be subject to the legislative authority of the province of Alberta if -

of this Act situate in the province of Alberta; and

(b) the powers and objects of such company are such as might be conferred by the Legislature

of the said province and not expressly authorized to be executed in any part of the North-west

Territories beyond the limits of the said province.

17. Section 93 of the Constitution Act 1867 shall apply to the said province, with the substitution

for paragraph (1) of the said section 93, of the following paragraph:-

"(1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to separate

schools which any class of persons have at the date of the passing of this Act, under the terms

of chapters 29 and 30 of the Ordinances of the North-west Territories, passed in the year 1901,

or with respect to religious instruction in any public or separate school as provided for in the said

ordinances."

(2) In the appropriation by the Legislature or distribution by the Government of the province of

any moneys for the support of schools organized and carried on in accordance with the said chapter

29, or any Act passed in amendment be no discrimination against schools of any class described

in the said chapter 29.

(3) Where the expression "by law" is employed in paragraph (3) of the said section 93, it shall be

held to mean the law as set out in the said chapters 29 and 30; and where the expression "at the

Union" is employed, in the said paragraph (3), it shall be held to mean the date at which this Act

comes into force.

18. The following amounts shall be allowed as an annual subsidy to the province of Alberta, and

shall be paid by the Government of Canada, by half-yearly installments in advance, to the said

province, that is to say: -

(b) on an estimated population of two hundred and fifty thousand, at eighty cents per head,

two hundred thousand dollars, subject to be increased as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: -

a census of the said province shall be taken in every fifth year reckoning from the general census

of one thousand nine hundred and one, and an approximate estimate of the population shall be

made at equal intervals of time between each quinquennial and decennial census; and

whenever the population, by any such census or estimate, exceeds two hundred and fifty

thousand, which shall be the minimum on which the said allowance shall be calculated,

the amount of the said allowance shall be increased accordingly, and so on until the population

has reached eight hundred thousand souls.

19. Inasmuch as the said province is not in debt, it shall be entitled to be paid and to receive

from the Government of Canada, by half-yearly payments in advance, an annual sum of four

hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the equivalent of interest

at the rate of five per cent per annum on the sum of eight million one hundred and seven thousand

five hundred dollars.

20. (1) Inasmuch as the said province will not have the public land as a source of revenue, there

shall be paid by Canada to the province by half-yearly payments, in advance, an annual sum

based upon the population of the province as from time to time ascertained by the quinquennial

census thereof, as follows: -

The population of the said province being assumed to be at present two hundred and fifty thousand,

the sum payable until such population reaches four hundred thousand, shall be three hundred and

seventy-five thousand dollars;

Thereafter, until such population reaches eight hundred thousand, the sum payable shall be five

hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

Thereafter, until such population reaches one million two hundred thousand, the sum payable

shall be seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

And thereafter the sum payable shall be one million one hundred and twenty-five

thousand dollars.

(2) As an additional allowance in lieu of public lands, there shall be paid by Canada to the province

annually by half-yearly payments, in advance, for five years from the time this Act comes into force,

to provide for the construction of necessary public buildings, the sum of ninety-three thousand seven

hundred and fifty dollars.

21. All Crown lands, mines and minerals and royalties incident thereto, and the interest of the

Crown in the waters within the province under The North-west Irrigation Act, 1898, shall

continue to be vested in the Crown and administered by the Government of Canada for the

purposes of Canada, subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada with

respect to road allowances and roads or trails in force immediately before the coming into

force of this Act, which shall apply to the said province with the substitution therein of the said

province for the North-west Territories.

22. All properties and assets of the Northwest Territories shall be divided equally between the said

province and the province of Saskatchewan, and the two provinces shall be jointly and equally

responsible for all debts and liabilities of the North-west Territories: Provided that, if any difference

arises as to the division and adjustment of such properties, assets, debts and liabilities, such

difference shall be referred to the arbitrament of three arbitrators, one of whom shall be chosen by

the Lieutenant Governor in Council of each province, and the third by the Governor in Council.

The selection of such arbitrators shall not be made until the Legislatures of the provinces have met,

and the arbitrator chosen by Canada shall not be a resident of either province.

23. Nothing in this Act shall in any way prejudice or affect the rights or properties of the Hudson's

Bay Company as contained in the conditions under which that company surrendered Rupert's

Land to the Crown.

24. The powers hereby granted to the said province shall be exercised subject to the provisions of

section 16 of the contract set forth in the schedule to chapter 1 of the statutes of 1881, being an

Act respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

25. This Act shall come into force on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE

(Section 13)

The province of Alberta shall be divided into twenty-five electoral divisions which shall respectively

comprise and consist of the parts and portions of the province hereinafter described.

In the following descriptions where "meridians between ranges" and "boundaries of townships" or

"boundaries of sections" are referred to as the boundaries of electoral divisions, these expressions

mean the meridians, boundaries of townships or boundaries of sections, as the case may be, in

accordance with the Dominion Lands system of surveys, and include the extension thereof in accordance

with the said system.

Names and Descriptions of Divisions

(1) The electoral division of Medicine Hat, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of the said province of Alberta by the north

boundary of the 38th township; thence westerly along the north boundary of the 38th townships to

the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the

meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the southern boundary of the said province of Alberta;

thence easterly along the said southern boundary of the province of Alberta to the southeast corner

thereof; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of the said province of Alberta to the point of

commencement.

(2) The electoral division of Cardston, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the southern boundary of the said province of Alberta where it is intersected by the

meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said

meridian between the I 0th and 11 th ranges to the north boundary of the 5th township; thence westerly

along the north boundary of the 5th township to the St. Mary river; thence along the St. Mary river up

stream to the south boundary of the Blood Indian Reserve; thence westerly along the said south

boundary of the Blood Indian Reserve to the meridian between the 27th and 28th ranges west of

the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 27th and 28th ranges to the

north boundary of the 2nd township; thence westerly along the north boundary of the 2nd

townships to the meridian between the 29th and 30th ranges west of the 4th meridian; thence

southerly along the said meridian between the 29th and 30th ranges to the southern shore of the

Waterton Lakes; thence in a westerly and southerly direction and following the southerly and

eastern shores of the said Waterton Lakes; thence in a westerly and southerly direction and

following the southerly and eastern shores of the said Waterton Lakes to the southern boundary

of the said province of Alberta; thence easterly along the said southern boundary of the province

of Alberta to the point of commencement.

(3) The electoral division of Lethbridge, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 5th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 14th township; thence westerly along

the north boundary of the 14th townships to the Bow river; thence along the Bow river up stream to

the north boundary of the 19th township; thence westerly along the north boundary of the 19th townships

to the meridian between the 22nd and 23rd ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along

the said meridian between the 22nd and 23rd ranges to the Belly river; thence along the Belly river

down stream to the St. Mary river; thence along the St. Mary river up stream to the north boundary

of the 5th township; thence easterly along the north boundary of the 5th townships to the point of

commencement.

(4) The electoral division of Macleod, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the south boundary of the Blood Indian Reserve where it is intersected by the

St. Mary river; thence along the said St. Mary river down stream to the Belly river; thence along the

said Belly river up stream to its most northerly intersection with the meridian between the 22nd and

23rd ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 22nd

and 23rd ranges to the north boundary of the 14th township; thence westerly along the north

boundary of the 14th townships to the western boundary of the province of Alberta; thence in a

southerly direction and along the said western boundary of the province of Alberta to the north

boundary of the 11th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 11th township

to the 5th meridian; thence southerly along the said 5th meridian to the north boundary of the

10th township: thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 10th township to the meridian

between the 29th and 30th ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said

meridian between the 29th and 30th ranges to the north boundary of the 8th township; thence

easterly along the said north boundary of the 8th township to the west boundary of the Peigan

Indian Reserve; thence southerly along the said west boundary of the Peigan Indian Reserve to the

southwest corner of the said Peigan Indian Reserve; thence easterly along the south boundary of

the said Peigan Indian Reserve to the southeast corner of the said Reserve. thence in a straight

line southeasterly to the northeast corner of section 14 in the 6th township in the 27th range,

west of the 4th meridian; thence along the north boundary of section 13 in the said 6th township

and in the 27th range to the meridian between the 26th and 27th ranges west of the 4th meridian;

thence southerly along the said meridian between the 26th and 27th ranges to the Belly river;

thence along the Belly river up stream to the south boundary of the said Blood Indian Reserve;

thence easterly along the said south boundary of the Blood Indian Reserve to the point of

commencement.

(5) The electoral division of Pincher Creek, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the southern boundary of the said province of Alberta, where it is intersected

by the eastern shore of the Waterton lakes, thence northerly and easterly and along the said

eastern shores and the southern shores of the Waterton lakes to the meridian between the 29th

and 30th ranges west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the

29th and 30th ranges to the north boundary of the 2nd township; thence easterly along the said

north boundary of the 2nd townships to the meridian between the 27th and 28th ranges west of

the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 27th and 28th ranges to

the south boundary of the Blood Indian Reserve; thence westerly along the said south boundary

of the Blood Indian Reserve to the Belly river; thence along the said Belly river down stream

to the meridian between the 26th and 27th ranges west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly

along the said meridian between the 26th and 27th ranges to the northeast corner of section

13 in the 6th township in the said 27th range; thence westerly along the north boundary of the

said section 13 to the northeast corner of section 14 in the said 6th township in the 27th range;

thence in a straight line northwesterly to the southeast corner of the Peigan Indian Reserve;

thence westerly along the south boundary of the said Peigan Indian Reserve to the southwest

corner of the said Indian Reserve; thence northerly along the west boundary of the said Indian

Reserve to the north boundary of the 8th township; thence westerly along the said north boundary

of the 8th townships to the meridian between the 29th and 30th ranges west of the 4th meridian;

thence northerly along the said meridian between the 29th and 30th ranges to the north boundary

of the 10th township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 10th township to the

5th meridian; thence northerly along the said 5th meridian to the north boundary of the 11th

township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 11th townships to the western

boundary of the said province of Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along the said

western boundary of the province of Alberta to the southern boundary of the said province of

Alberta; thence easterly along the said southern boundary of the province of Alberta to the Point of

commencement.

(6) The electoral district of Gleichen, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where it

is intersected by the northern boundary of the 14th township; thence northerly along the said

meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 28th township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 28th townships to the meridian between the 2nd

and 3rd ranges, west of the 5th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the

2nd and 3rd ranges, to the north boundary of the 22nd township; thence easterly along the said

north boundary of the 22nd townships to the Bow river; thence along the said Bow river down

stream to the north boundary of the 14th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 14th townships to the point of commencement;--excepting and reserving out of the said

electoral division the city of Calgary, as incorporated by ordinances of the Northwest Territories.

(7) The electoral division of Calgary City, comprising the city of Calgary as incorporated by

ordinance of the Northwest Territories.

8) The electoral division of Rosebud, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where it

is intersected by the north boundary of the 28th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 33rd township; thence westerly

along the said north boundary of the 33rd townships to the western boundary of the province of

Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along the said western boundary of the province of

Alberta to the north boundary of the 28th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 28th townships to the point of commencement.

(9) The electoral division of High River, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 22nd and 23rd ranges, west of the 4th meridian,

where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 14th township; thence northerly along the

said meridian between the 22nd and 23rd ranges to the north boundary of the 19th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 19th townships to the Bow river; thence

along the said Bow river up stream to the north boundary of the 22nd township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 22nd townships to the western boundary of the

province of Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along the said western boundary

of the province of Alberta to the north boundary of the 14th township; thence easterly along

the said north boundary of the 14th townships to the point of commencement.

(10) The electoral division of Banff, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 2nd and 3rd ranges, west of the 5th meridian,

where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 22nd township; thence northerly along the

said meridian between the 2nd and 3rd ranges to the north boundary of the 28th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 28th townships to the western boundary

of the province of Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along the said western boundary

of the province of Alberta to the north boundary of the 22nd township; thence easterly along the

said north boundary of the 22nd townships to the point of commencement

11) The electoral division of Innisfail, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 33rd township; thence northerly along the said

meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of section twentyfour in the

36th township; thence westerly along the section line which bounds on the north the section

comprising the most southerly twothirds of the 36th townships to the Red Deer river, in the 28th

range, west of the 4th meridian; thence along the said Red Deer river down stream to the north

boundary of section twentytwo, in the 37th township; thence westerly along the section line which

bounds on the north the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds of the 37th townships

to the western boundary! of the province of Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along

the said western boundary of the province of Alberta to the north boundary of the 33rd township;

thence easterly along the north boundary of the 33rd townships to the point of commencement.

(12) The electoral division of Red Deer, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of section 24, in the 36th township; thence northerly along

the said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the said north boundary of the 38th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 38th townships to where the said north

boundary of the 38th townships is intersected by the Red Deer river in the 26th range, west of the

4th meridian; thence along the said Red Deer river up stream to the Blindman river; thence

along the said Blindman river up stream to the north boundary of the 39th township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 39th townships to the North Saskatchewan river;

thence along the North Saskatchewan river up stream to the section line which bounds on the north

the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds of the 37th townships; thence easterly along the

said section line which bounds on the north the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds of

the 37th townships to the Red Deer river; thence along the Red Deer river up stream to the north

boundary of section twenty, in the 36th township; thence easterly along the section line which bounds

on the north the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds of the said 36th townships to the

point of commencement.

(13) The electoral division of Vermilion, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the eastern boundary of the province of Alberta where it is intersected by the north

boundary of the 38th township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary of the province of

Alberta to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the North Saskatchewan river up stream to

the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the

said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 54th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 54th townships to the meridian between the

19th and 20th ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between

the 19th and 20th ranges to the north boundary of section twentyfour, in the 47th township;

thence easterly along the section line which bounds on the north the sections comprising the most

southerly twothirds of the 47th townships to the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west

of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the I 0th and 11th ranges to

the north boundary of the 38th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the

38th townships to the point of commencement.

(14) The electoral division of Lacombe, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 38th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 41st township; thence westerly

along the said north boundary of the 41st townships to the North Saskatchewan river; thence

along the said North Saskatchewan river up stream to the north boundary of the 39th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 39th townships to the Blindman river;

thence along the said Blindman river down stream to the Red Deer river; thence along the said

Red Deer river down stream to the north boundary of the 38th township; thence easterly

along the said north boundary of the 38th townships to the point of commencement.

(15) The electoral division of Ponoka, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 41st township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 44th township; thence westerly

along the north boundary of the 44th townships to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along

the said North Saskatchewan river up stream to the north boundary of the 41st township; thence

easterly along the said north boundary of the 41st townships to the point of commencement.

(16) The electoral division of Wetaskiwin, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where it

is intersected by the north boundary of the 44th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 10th and 11th ranges to the section line which bounds on the north the sections

comprising the most southerly twothirds of the 47th township; thence westerly along the said

section line which bounds on the north the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds

of the 47th townships to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the said North Saskatchewan

river up stream to the north boundary of the 44th township; thence easterly along the said north

boundary of the 44th townships to the point of commencement.

(17) The electoral division of Leduc, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the section line which bounds on the north the sections comprising the most

southerly twothirds of the 47th townships; thence northerly along the said meridian between the

19th and 20th ranges to the north boundary of the 50th township; thence westerly along the said

north boundary of the 50th townships to where the said north boundary of the 50th townships

first intersects the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the North Saskatchewan river up

stream to the section line which bounds on the north the sections comprising the most southerly

twothirds of the 47th township; thence easterly along the said section line which bounds on

the north the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds of the 47th town5hjps to the

point of commencement.

(18) The electoral division of Strathcona, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 50th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 19th and 20th ranges to the north boundary of the 53rd township; thence westerly

along the said north boundary of the 53rd townships to the North Saskatchewan river; thence

along the said North Saskatchewan river up stream to the north boundary of the 50th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 50th townships to the point of commencement.

(19) The electoral division of Stonyplain, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 24th and 25th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 53rd township; thence westerly along the said north

boundary of the 53rd township to the rear line of lots fronting on the east side of the Sturgeon river

in the Saint Albert settlement; thence in a southerly and westerly direction and along the said rear

line to Big lake; thence in a westerly direction and along the southerly, westerly and northerly shores

of Big lake to the southwest corner of lot D in the Saint Albert settlement, thence westerly and

along the southerly limit of lots E, F, G, H and I in the said Saint Albert settlement to the southeast

corner of the Indian Reserve Chief Michel Calahoo; thence westerly along the south boundary of the

said Indian Reserve to the southwest corner thereof; thence northerly along the west boundary

of the said Indian Reserve to the north boundary of the 54th township; thence westerly along the

said north boundary of the 54th townships to the 5th meridian; thence northerly along the said 5th

meridian to the south boundary of the Indian Reserve Chief Alexander; thence westerly along the

south boundary of the Indian Reserve Chief Alexander to the southwest corner of the said reserve;

thence northerly along the west boundary of the said Reserve Chief Alexander to the north boundary

of the 55th township; thence westerly along the north boundary of the 55th townships to the western

boundary of the province of Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along the said western

boundary of the province of Alberta to the section line which forms the north boundary of the

sections comprising the most southerly twothirds of the 37th township; thence easterly along the said

section line which forms the north boundary of the sections comprising the most southerly twothirds

of the 37th townships to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the said North Saskatchewan

river down stream to its most northerly intersection with the meridian between the 24th and 25th

ranges west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 24th and 25th

ranges to the point of commencement.

(

20) The electoral division of Edmonton City, comprising the city of Edmonton as incorporated by

ordinance of the Northwest Territories.

(21) The electoral division of Victoria, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the 4th meridian where it is intersected by the North Saskatchewan river; thence

northerly along the said 4th meridian to the north boundary of the 70th township; thence westerly

along the said north boundary of the 70th townships to the meridian between the 10th and 11th

ranges west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 10th and

11th ranges to the north boundary of the 58th township; thence westerly along the said north

boundary of the 58th townships to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the said North

Saskatchewan river up stream to the north boundary of the 53rd township; thence easterly along

the said north boundary of the 53rd township to the meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges

west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges

to the north boundary of the 54th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the

54th townships to the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence

northerly along the said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the North Saskatchewan river;

thence along the said North Saskatchewan river down stream to the point of commencement.

22) The electoral division of Sturgeon, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges. west of the 4th meridian, where it is

intersected by the north boundary of the 58th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 70th township; thence westerly

along the said north boundary of the 70th townships to the meridian between the 24th and 25th

ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 24th and

25th ranges to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the said North Saskatchewan river

down stream to the north boundary of the 58th township; thence easterly along the said north

boundary of the 58th townships to the point of commencement. Excepting and reserving out of

the said electoral division the city of Edmonton as incorporated by ordinance of the Northwest

Territories.

(23) The electoral division of Saint Albert, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 24th and 25th ranges, west of the 4th meridian, where it

is intersected by the north boundary of the 53rd township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 24th and 25th ranges west of the 4th meridian to the north boundary of the 70th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 70th townships to the western boundary of the

province of Alberta; thence in a southerly direction and along the said western boundary of the

province of Alberta to the north boundary of the 55th township; thence easterly along the said north

boundary of the 55th township to the Indian Reserve Chief Alexander; thence southerly along

the western boundary of the said Indian Reserve Chief Alexander to the southwest corner of the

said reserve; thence easterly along the south boundary of the said Indian Reserve Chief Alexander

to the 5th meridian; thence southerly along the said 5th meridian to the north boundary of the

54th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 54th township to the west

boundary of the Indian Reserve Chief Michel Calahoo; thence southerly along the west boundary

of the said Indian Reserve Chief Michel Calahoo to the southwest corner thereof; thence easterly

along the south boundary of the said Indian Reserve Chief Michel Calahoo to the southeast corner

thereof; thence in an easterly direction and along the southern limit of lots I, H, G, F, and E, in the

Saint Albert settlement to the southwest corner of lot D in the said settlement; thence along the

westerly and southerly shores of Big lake in a westerly, southerly and easterly direction to the rear

line of lot 55 in the said Saint Albert settlement; thence in an easterly direction and along the rear line

of lots fronting on the east side of the Sturgeon river in the said Saint Albert settlement to the north

boundary of the 53rd township; thence easterly along the north boundary of the 53rd township

to the point of commencement.

(24) The electoral division of Peace River, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges, west of the 5th meridian,

where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 70th township; thence northerly along the

said meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges to the north boundary of the 80th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 80th townships to the meridian between the

13th and 14th ranges, west of the 5th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between

the 13th and 14th ranges to the north boundary of the 92nd township; thence easterly along the

said north boundary of the 92nd townships to the meridian between the 20th and 21st ranges,

west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 20th and 21st

ranges to the northern boundary of the province of Alberta; thence westerly along the said

northern boundary of the province of Alberta to the northwest corner of the said province;

thence in a southerly direction and along the western boundary of the said province of

Alberta to the north boundary of the 70th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 70th townships to the point of commencement.

(25) The electoral division of Athabaska, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the eastern boundary of the province of Alberta where it is intersected by the

north boundary of the 70th township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary of the

province of Alberta to the northern boundary of the said province; thence westerly along the

said northern boundary of the province of Alberta to the meridian between the 20th and 21st

ranges, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 20th and

21st ranges to the north boundary of the 92nd township; thence westerly along the said north

boundary of the 92nd townships to the meridian between the 13th and 14th ranges, west of the

5th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 13th and 14th ranges, west

of the 5th meridian to the north boundary of the 80th township; thence westerly along the said

north boundary of the 80th townships to the meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges, west

of the 5th meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 19th and 20th ranges

to the north boundary of the 70th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the

70th townships to the point of commencement.

Saskatchewan Act

(THE SASKATCHEWAN ACT)

4-5 Edward VII, c. 42 (Canada)

An Act to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan

[Assented to 20th July, 1905]

Whereas in and by the Constitution Act, 1871, being chapter 28 of the Acts of the Parliament of the

United Kingdom passed in the session thereof held in the 34th and 35th years of the reign of her late

Majesty Queen Victoria, it is enacted that the Parliament of Canada may from time to time establish

new provinces in any territories forming for the time being part of the Dominion of Canada, but not

included in any province thereof, and may, at the time of such establishment, make provision for the

constitution and administration of any such province, and for the passing of laws for the peace,

order and good government of such province and for its representation in the said Parliament of Canada;

And whereas it is expedient to establish as a province the territory hereinafter described, and to

make provision for the government thereof and the representation thereof in the Parliament of Canada;

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons

of Canada, enacts as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as the Saskatchewan Act.

2. The territory comprised within the following boundaries, that is to say, - commencing at the intersection

of the international boundary dividing Canada from the United States of America by the west boundary

of the province of Manitoba, thence northerly along the said west boundary of the province of Manitoba

to the north-west corner of the said province of Manitoba; thence continuing northerly along the

centre of the road allowance between the twenty-ninth and thirtieth ranges west of the principal

meridian in the system of Dominion lands surveys, as the said road allowance may hereafter be

defined in accordance with the said system, to the second meridian in the said system of Dominion

lands surveys, as the same may hereafter be defined in accordance with the said system; thence

northerly along the said second meridian to the sixtieth degree of north latitude; thence westerly

along the parallel of the sixtieth degree of north latitude to the fourth meridian in the said system

of Dominion lands surveys, as the same may be hereafter defined in accordance with the said

system; thence southerly along the said fourth meridian to the said international boundary dividing

Canada from the United States of America; thence easterly along the said international boundary

to the point of commencement, - is hereby established as a province of the Dominion of Canada,

to be called and known as the province of Saskatchewan.

3. The provisions of the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1886 shall apply to the province of

Saskatchewan in the same way and to the like extent as they apply to the provinces heretofore

comprised in the Dominion, as if the said province of Saskatchewan had been one of the provinces

originally united, except in so far as varied by this Act and except such provisions as are in terms

made, or by reasonable intendment may be held to be, specially applicable to or only to affect

one or more and not the whole of the said provinces.

4. The said province shall be represented in the Senate of Canada by four members: Provided

that such representation may, after the completion of the next decennial census, be from time to

time increased to six by the Parliament of Canada.

5. The said province and the province of Alberta shall, until the termination of the Parliament of

Canada existing at the time of the first readjustment hereinafter provided for, continue to be

represented in the House of Commons as provided by chapter 60 of the statutes of 1903, each

of the electoral districts defined in that part of the schedule to the said Act which relates to the

North-west Territories, whether such district is wholly in one of the said provinces, or partly in

one and partly in the other of them, being represented by one member.

6. (1) Upon the completion of the next quinquennial census for the said province, the representation

thereof shall forthwith be readjusted by the Parliament of Canada in such manner that there shall

be assigned to the said province such a number of members as will bear the same proportion to

the number of its population ascertained at such quinquennial census as the number sixty-five bears

to the number of the population of Quebec as ascertained at the then last decennial census; and

in the computation of the number of members for the said province a fractional part not exceeding

one-half of the whole number requisite for entitling the province to a member shall be disregarded,

and a fractional part exceeding one-half of that number shall be deemed equivalent to the whole

number, and such readjustment shall take effect upon the termination of the Parliament then existing.

(2) The representation of the said province shall thereafter be readjusted from time to time according

to the provisions of section 51 of the Constitution Act, 1867.

7. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, the qualifications of voters for the election of

members of the House of Commons and the proceedings at and in connection with elections of such

members shall, mutatis mutandis, be those prescribed by law at the time this Act comes into force

with respect to such elections in the North-west Territories.

8. The Executive Council of the said province shall be composed of such persons, under such

designations, as the Lieutenant Governor from time to time thinks fit.

9. Unless and until the Lieutenant Governor in Council of the said province otherwise directs,

by proclamation under the Great Seal, the seat of government of the said province shall be at Regina.

10. All powers, authorities and functions which under any law were before the coming into force of

this Act vested in or exercisable by the Lieutenant Governor of the North-west Territories, with the

advice, or with the advice and consent, of the Executive Council thereof, or in conjunction with that

Council or with any member or members thereof, or by the said Lieutenant Governor individually,

shall, so far as they are capable of being exercised after the coming into force of this Act in relation

to the government of the said province, be vested in and shall or may be exercised by the Lieutenant

Governor of the said province, with the advice or with the advice and consent of, or in conjunction

with, the Executive Council of the said province or any member or members thereof, or by the

Lieutenant Governor individually, as the case requires, subject nevertheless to be abolished or a

ltered by the Legislature of the said province.

11. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall, as soon as may be after this Act comes into force,

adopt and provide a Great Seal of the said province, and may, from time to time, change such seal.

12. There shall be a Legislature for the said province consisting of the Lieutenant Governor and one

House, to be styled the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

13. Until the said Legislature otherwise provides, the Legislative Assembly shall be composed of

twenty-five members, to be elected to represent .the electoral divisions defined in the schedule to

this Act.

14. Until the said Legislature otherwise determines, all the provisions of the law with regard to the

constitution of the Legislative Assembly of the North-west Territories and the election of members

thereof shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the Legislative Assembly of the said province and the

election of members thereof respectively.

15. The writs for the election of the members of the first Legislative Assembly of the said province

shall be issued by the Lieutenant Governor and made returnable within six months after this Act comes

into force.

16. (1) All laws and all orders and regulations made thereunder, so far as they are not inconsistent

with anything contained in this Act, or as to which this Act contains no provision intended as a

substitute therefor, and all courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and all commissions, powers,

authorities and functions, and all officers and functionaries, judicial, administrative and ministerial,

existing immediately before the coming into force of this Act in the territory hereby established as

the province of Saskatchewan, shall continue in the said province as if this Act and the Alberta Act

had not been passed; subject, nevertheless, except with respect to such as are enacted by or existing

under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Ireland, to be repealed, abolished or altered by the Parliament of Canada, or

by the Legislature of the said province, according to the authority of the Parliament or of the said

Legislature: Provided that all powers, authorities and functions which under any law, order or

regulation were, before the coming into force of this Act, vested in or exercisable by any public

officer or functionary of the North-west Territories shall be vested in and exercisable in and for the

said province by like public officers and functionaries of the said province when appointed by

competent authority.

(2) The Legislature of the province may, for all purposes affecting or extending to the said province,

abolish the Supreme Court of the North-west Territories, and the offices, both judicial and ministerial,

thereof, and the jurisdiction, powers and authority belonging or incident to the said court: Provided

that, if upon such abolition the Legislature constitutes a superior court of criminal jurisdiction, the

procedure in criminal matters then obtaining in respect of the Supreme Court of the Northwest

Territories shall, until otherwise provided by competent authority, continue to apply to such superior

court and that the Governor in Council may at any time and from time to time declare all or any part

of such procedure to be inapplicable to such superior court.

(3) All societies or associations incorporated by or under the authority of the Legislature of the

North-west Territories existing at the time of the coming into force of this Act which include within

their objects the regulation of the practice of, or the right to practice, any profession or trade in the

North-west Territories, such as the legal or the medical profession, dentistry, pharmaceutical

chemistry and the like, shall continue, subject, however, to be dissolved and abolished by order

of the Governor in Council, and each of such societies shall have power to arrange for and effect the

payment of its debts and liabilities, and the division, disposition or transfer of its property.

(4) Every joint-stock company lawfully incorporated by or under the authority of any ordinance

of the North-west Territories shall be subject to the legislative authority of the province of

Saskatchewan if -

force of this Act situate in the province of Saskatchewan; and

(b) the powers and objects of such company are such as might be conferred by the Legislature

of the said province and not expressly authorized to be executed in any part of the North-west

Territories beyond the limits of the said province.

17. Section 93 of the Constitution Act 1867 shall apply to the said province, with the substitution

for paragraph (1) of the said section 93, of the following paragraph:-

"(1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to separate

schools which any class of persons have at the date of the passing of this Act, under the terms of

chapters 29 and 30 of the Ordinances of the North-west Territories, passed in the year 1901, or

with respect to religious instruction in any public or separate school as provided for in the said

ordinances."

(2) In the appropriation by the Legislature or distribution by the Government of the province of

any moneys for the support of schools organized and carried on in accordance with the said chapter

29, or any Act passed in amendment be no discrimination against schools of any class described

in the said chapter 29.

(3) Where the expression "by law" is employed in paragraph (3) of the said section 93, it shall be

held to mean the law as set out in the said chapters 29 and 30; and where the expression

"at the Union" is employed, in the said paragraph (3), it shall be held to mean the date at which

this Act comes into force.

18. The following amounts shall be allowed as an annual subsidy to the province of Saskatchewan,

and shall be paid by the Government of Canada, by half-yearly installments in advance, to the said

province, that is to say: -

(b) on an estimated population of two hundred and fifty thousand, at eighty cents per head,

two hundred thousand dollars, subject to be increased as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: -

a census of the said province shall be taken in every fifth year reckoning from the general

census of one thousand nine hundred and one, and an approximate estimate of the population

shall be made at equal intervals of time between each quinquennial and decennial census;

and whenever the population, by any such census or estimate, exceeds two hundred and

fifty thousand, which shall be the minimum on which the said allowance shall be calculated,

the amount of the said allowance shall be increased accordingly, and so on until the

population has reached eight hundred thousand souls.

19. Inasmuch as the said province is not in debt, it shall be entitled to be paid and to receive

from the Government of Canada, by half-yearly payments in advance, an annual sum of four

hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the equivalent of

interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the sum of eight million one hundred and seven

thousand five hundred dollars.

20. (1) Inasmuch as the said province will not have the public land as a source of revenue, there

shall be paid by Canada to the province by half-yearly payments, in advance, an annual sum

based upon the population of the province as from time to time ascertained by the quinquennial

census thereof, as follows: -

The population of the said province being assumed to be at present two hundred and fifty thousand,

the sum payable until such population reaches four hundred thousand, shall be three hundred and

seventy-five thousand dollars;

Thereafter, until such population reaches eight hundred thousand, the sum payable shall be five

hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

Thereafter, until such population reaches one million two hundred thousand, the sum payable

shall be seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

And thereafter the sum payable shall be one million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

(2) As an additional allowance in lieu of public lands, there shall be paid by Canada to the province

annually by half-yearly payments, in advance, for five years from the time this Act comes into force,

to provide for the construction of necessary public buildings, the sum of ninety-three thousand seven

hundred and fifty dollars.

21. All Crown lands, mines and minerals and royalties incident thereto, and the interest of the Crown

in the waters within the province under The North-west Irrigation Act, 1898, shall continue to be

vested in the Crown and administered by the Government of Canada for the purposes of Canada,

subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada with respect to road allowances

and roads or trails in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act, which shall apply

to the said province with the substitution therein of the said province for the North-west Territories.

22. All properties and assets of the Northwest Territories shall be divided equally between the

said province and the province of Alberta, and the two provinces shall be jointly and equally

responsible for all debts and liabilities of the North-west Territories: Provided that, if any

difference arises as to the division and adjustment of such properties, assets, debts and liabilities,

such difference shall be referred to the arbitrament of three arbitrators, one of whom shall be

chosen by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of each province, and the third by the Governor

in Council. The selection of such arbitrators shall not be made until the Legislatures of the

provinces have met, and the arbitrator chosen by Canada shall not be a resident of either province.

23. Nothing in this Act shall in any way prejudice or affect the rights or properties of the Hudson's

Bay Company as contained in the conditions under which that company surrendered Rupert's

Land to the Crown.

24. The powers hereby granted to the said province shall be exercised subject to the provisions

of section 16 of the contract set forth in the schedule to chapter 1 of the statutes of 1881,

being an Act respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

25. This Act shall come into force on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE

(Section 13)

The province of Saskatchewan shall be divided into twentyfive electoral divisions which shall

respectively comprise and consist of the parts and portions of the province hereinafter described.

In the following descriptions where "meridians between ranges'' and "boundaries of townships" or

' 'boundaries of sections" are referred to as the boundaries of electoral divisions, these expressions

mean the meridians, boundaries of townships or boundaries of sections, as the case may be, in

accordance with the Dominion lands system of surveys, and include the extension thereof in

accordance with the said system.

Names and Descriptions of Divisions

(1) The electoral division of Souris, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the southeast corner of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence northerly along

the east boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan to the north boundary of the 6th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 6th townships to the meridian between the 10th

and 11th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the

10th and 11th ranges to the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence easterly

along the said southern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the point of commencement.

(2) The electoral division of Cannington, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan by the

north boundary of the 6th township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary of the

province of Saskatchewan to the north boundary of the 11th township; thence westerly along the

said north boundary of the 11th townships to the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges,

west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 10th and 11th

ranges to the north boundary of the 6th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 6th townships to the point of commencement.

3) The electoral division of Moosomin, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan by

the north boundary of the 11th township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary of the

province of Saskatchewan to the north boundary of the 19th township; thence westerly along the

said north boundary of the 19th townships to the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said 2nd

meridian to the north boundary of the 11th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 11th townships to the point of commencement.

(4) The electoral division of Whitewood, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the 2nd meridian where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 11th township;

thence northerly along the said 2nd meridian to the north boundary of the 20th township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 20th townships to the meridian between the 4th and

5th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 4th and

5th ranges to the north boundary of the 11th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 11th townships to the point of commencement.

(5) The electoral division of Grenfell, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 4th and 5th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where it is

intersected by the north boundary of the 11th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 4th and 5th ranges to the north boundary of the 20th township; thence westerly along

the said north boundary of the 20th townships to the meridian between the 6th and 7th ranges,

west of the 2nd meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 6th and 7th ranges

to the north boundary of the 21st township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the

21st township to the meridian between the 7th and 8th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence

northerly along the said meridian between the 7th and 8th ranges to the north boundary of the

22nd township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 22nd township to the meridian

between the 8th and 9th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian

between the 8th and 9th ranges to the north boundary of the 11th township; thence easterly

along the north boundary of the 11th townships to the point of commencement.

(6) The electoral division of Wolseley, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 8th and 9th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where

it is intersected by the north boundary of the 11th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 8th and 9th ranges to the north boundary of the 22nd township; thence westerly along

the said north boundary of the 22nd townships to the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges,

west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges

to the north boundary of the 19th township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the

19th township to the meridian between the 11th and 12th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence

southerly along the said meridian between the 11th and 12th ranges to the north boundary of the

11th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 11th townships to the point of

commencement.

(7) The electoral division of Saltcoats, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan by

the north boundary of the 19th township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary of the

province of Saskatchewan to the north boundary of the 34th township; thence westerly along the

said north boundary of the 34th townships to the meridian between the 3rd and (l 4th ranges,

west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 3rd and 4th

ranges to the north boundary of the 20th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 20th townships to the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said 2nd meridian to the

north boundary of the 19th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 19th

townships to the point of commencement.

(8) The electoral division of Yorkton, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 3rd and 4th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where it is

intersected by the north boundary of the 20th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 3rd and 4th ranges to the north boundary of the 34th township; thence westerly along the

said north boundary of the 34th townships to the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of

the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to

the north boundary of the 22nd township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 22nd

townships to the meridian between the 7th and 8th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly

along the said meridian between the 7th and 8th ranges to the north boundary of the 21st township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 21st township to the meridian between the

6th and 7th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the

6th and 7th ranges to the north boundary of the 20th township; thence easterly along the said

north boundary of the 20th townships to the point of commencement.

(9) The electoral division of South Qu'Appelle, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where

it is intersected by the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence northerly

along the said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 11th

township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 11th township to the meridian

between the 11th and 12th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 11th and 12th ranges to the north boundary of the 19th township; thence westerly

along the said north boundary of the 19th townships to the meridian between the 16th and 17th

ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 16th and

17th ranges to the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence easterly along

the said southern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the point of commencement.

(10) The electoral division of North Qu'Appelle, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian,

where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 19th township; thence northerly along the

said meridian between the 10th and 11th ranges to the north boundary of the 34th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 34th townships to the meridian between the

16th and 17th ranges. west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between

the 16th and 17th ranges to the north boundary of the 19th township; thence easterly along

the said north boundary of the 19th townships to the point of commencement.

(11) The electoral division of South Regina, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 16th and 17th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where

it is intersected by the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence northerly

along the said meridian between the 16th and 17th ranges to where it is intersected by the centre

of the track of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway; thence westerly along the said centre

of the track of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway to where it is first intersected by the

north boundary of the 17th township; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 17th

townships to the meridian between the 23rd and 24th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence

southerly along the said meridian between the 23rd and 24th ranges to the southern boundary

of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence easterly along the said southern boundary of the

province of Saskatchewan to the point of commencement. Excepting and reserving out of the

said electoral division of South Regina all that portion thereof comprised within the limits of the

city of Regina as incorporated by ordinance of the Northwest Territories.

(12) The electoral division of Regina City, comprising the city of Regina as incorporated by

ordinance of the Northwest Territories.

(13) The electoral division of Lumsden, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 16th and 17th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where it is

intersected by the centre of the track of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway; thence northerly

along the said meridian between the 16th and 17th ranges to the north boundary of the 34th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 34th townships to the meridian between the

23rd and 24th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between

the 23rd and 24th ranges to the point where it is first intersected by the east shore of Last Mountain

lake, thence southerly along the said east shore of the said lake to its intersection with the meridian

between the 23rd and '4th ranges in township 24; thence southerly along the said meridian between

the 23rd and 24th ranges to the north boundary of the 17th township; thence easterly along the

said north boundary of the 17th townships to where it is first intersected by the centre of the track

of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway; thence easterly along the said centre of the track

of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the point of commencement.

(14) The electoral division of Moosejaw, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 23rd and '4th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where

it is intersected by the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence northerly

along the said meridian between the 23rd and 24th ranges to the point where the said meridian

intersects the east shore of Last Mountain lake in township '1; thence northerly along the said east

shore of Last Mountain lake to its intersection with the northern boundary of township 26, thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 26th townships to the meridian between the 7th and

8th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 7th and

8th ranges to the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence easterly along

the said southern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the point of commencement;

excepting and reserving out of the said electoral division of Moosejaw all that portion thereof

comprised within the limits of the city of Moosejaw as incorporated by ordinance of the

Northwest Territories.

(15) The electoral division of Moosejaw City, comprising the city of Moosejaw as incorporated by

ordinance of the Northwest Territories.

(16) The electoral division of Maple Creek, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 7th and 8th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian, where it is

intersected by the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence northerly along

the said meridian between the 7th and 8th ranges to the north boundary of the 26th township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 26th townships to the western boundary of the said

province of Saskatchewan; thence southerly along the said western boundary of the province of

Saskatchewan to the southern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence easterly

along the said southern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the point of commencement.

(17) The electoral division of Humboldt, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan

by the north boundary of the 34th township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary of

the province of Saskatchewan to the north boundary of the 42nd township; thence westerly along

the said north boundary of the 42nd townships to the meridian between the 24th and 25th ranges,

west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 24th and 25th

ranges to the north boundary of the 34th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary

of the 34th townships to the point of commencement.

(18) The electoral division of Kinistino, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan

by the north boundary of the 42nd township; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary

of the province of Saskatchewan to the northeast corner of the said province; thence westerly

along the northern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan to the meridian between the

24th and 25th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between

the 24th and 25th ranges to the north limit of the Indian Reserve Chief Muskoday; thence easterly

along the said north limit of the Indian Reserve Chief Muskoday to the South Saskatchewan river;

thence along the South Saskatchewan river up stream to the north boundary of the 45th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 45th townships to the meridian between the

24th and 25th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between

the 24th and 25th ranges, to the north boundary of the 42nd township; thence easterly along the

said north boundary of the 42nd townships to the point of commencement.

(19) The electoral division of Prince Albert, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 24th and 25th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian, where

it is intersected by the northern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence westerly

along the said northern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the meridian between the 5th

and 6th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 5th

and 6th ranges to the north boundary of the 47th township; thence easterly along the said north

boundary of the 47th townships to the meridian between the first and 2nd ranges, west of the 3rd

meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the 1st and 2nd ranges to the north

boundary of the 46th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 46th

townships to the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along the said 3rd meridian to the South

Saskatchewan river; thence along the said South Saskatchewan river down stream to the north

limit of the Indian Reserve Chief Muskoday; thence westerly along the said north limit of the Indian

Reserve Chief Muskoday to the meridian between the 24th and 25th ranges, west of the 2nd

meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between the 24th and 25th ranges to the

point of commencement; excepting and reserving out of the said electoral division all those

portions described as follows:--

Firstly, the city of Prince Albert as incorporated by ordinance of the Northwest Territories;

and

Secondly, those portions of lots 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 82

of the Prince Albert settlement which lie to the south of the said city of Prince Albert as incorporated

and that portion of the Hudson Bay reserve outside of and adjoining the said city on the east and

south and which lies to the north of the production in a straight line easterly of the southern

boundary of the said lot 82 in the Prince Albert settlement; and

Thirdly, fractional sections 13 and 24 in the 48th township in the 26th range west of the

2nd meridian.

(20)The electoral division of Prince Albert City, comprising:--

Firstly, the city of Prince Albert as incorporated by ordinance of the Northwest Territories;

and

Secondly, those portions of lots 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 82

of the Prince Albert settlement which lie to the south of the said city of Prince Albert as

incorporated and that portion of the Hudson Bay reserve outside of and adjoining the said city

on the east and south and which lies to the north of the production in a straight line easterly

of the southern boundary of the said lot 82 in the Prince Albert settlement; and

Thirdly, fractional sections 13 and 24 in the 48th township in the 26th range west of the

2nd meridian.

(21) The electoral division of Batoche, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 23rd and 24th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian,

where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 26th township; thence northerly along the

said meridian between the 23rd and 24th ranges to the north boundary of the 34th township;

thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 34th township to the meridian between the

24th and 25th ranges, west of the 2nd meridian; thence northerly along the said meridian between

the 24th and 25th ranges to the north boundary of the 45th township; thence westerly along the

said north boundary of the 45th townships to where it first intersects the South Saskatchewan

river; thence along the said South Saskatchewan river up stream to the north boundary of the

40th township; thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 40th townships to the

meridian between the 1st and 2nd ranges, west of the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along

the said meridian between the 1st and 2nd ranges to the north boundary of the 26th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 26th townships to the point of commencement.

(22) The electoral division of Saskatoon, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 1st and 2nd ranges. west of the 3rd meridian, where it is

intersected by the north boundary of the 26th township; thence northerly along the said meridian

between the 1st and 2nd ranges to the north boundary of the 40th township; thence westerly along

the said north boundary of the 40th township to the South Saskatchewan river; thence along the

said South Saskatchewan river down stream to the north boundary of the 41st township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 41st townships to the North Saskatchewan river;

thence along the said North Saskatchewan river up stream to the meridian between the 13th

and 14th ranges west of the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the

13th and 14th ranges to the north boundary of the 26th township; thence easterly along the said

north boundary of the 26th townships to the point of commencement.

(23) The electoral division of Rosthern bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the north boundary of the 41st township where it is intersected by the South

Saskatchewan river; thence along the said South Saskatchewan river down stream to the 3rd

meridian; thence northerly along the said 3rd meridian to the north boundary of the 46th

ownship; thence westerly along the said north boundary of the 46th township to the meridian

between the 1st and 2nd ranges, west of the 3rd meridian; thence northerly along the said

meridian between the 1st and 2nd ranges to the north boundary of the 47th township; thence

westerly along the said north boundary of the 47th townships to the meridian between the 5th

and 6th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along the said meridian between the

5th and 6th ranges to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along the said North Saskatchewan

river up stream to the north boundary of the 41st township; thence easterly along the said north

boundary of the 41st townships to the point of commencement.

(24) The electoral division of Redberry, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 5th and 6th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian, where it

is intersected by the North Saskatchewan river; thence northerly along the said meridian between

the 5th and 6th ranges, to the northern boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence

westerly along the said northern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the meridian

between the 13th and 14th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian; thence southerly along the said

meridian between the 13th and 14th ranges, to the North Saskatchewan river; thence along

the said North Saskatchewan river down stream to the point of commencement.

(25) The electoral division of Battleford, bounded as follows:--

Commencing at the meridian between the 13th and 14th ranges, west of the 3rd meridian,

where it is intersected by the north boundary of the 26th township; thence northerly along the

said meridian between the 13th and 14th ranges, to the northern boundary of the said province

of Saskatchewan; thence westerly along the said northern boundary of the province of Saskatchewan

to the western boundary of the said province of Saskatchewan; thence southerly along the said

western boundary of the province of Saskatchewan to the north boundary of the 26th township;

thence easterly along the said north boundary of the 26th townships to the point of commencement.

THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1907
(7 Edward VII, c. 11)

An Act to make further provision with respect to the sums to be paid
by Canada to the several provinces of the Dominion.

9th August, 1907

Whereas an address has been presented to His Majesty by the Senate
and Commons of Canada in the terms set forth in the schedule of this
Act:

Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:--

1. (1) The following grants shall be made yearly by Canada to
every province, which at the commencement of this Act is a province of
the Dominion, for its local purposes and the support of its Government
and Legislature:
(a) A fixed grant --
Where the population of the province is under one hundred and
fifty thousand, of one hundred thousand dollars;
Where the population of the province is one hundred and fifty
thousand, but does not exceed two hundred thousand, of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars;
Where the population of the province is two hundred thousand, but
does not exceed four hundred thousand, of one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars;
Where the population of the province is four hundred thousand, but
does not exceed eight hundred thousand, of one hundred and ninety
thousand dollars;
Where the population of the province is eight hundred thousand, but
does not exceed one million five hundred thousand, of two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars;
Where the population of the province exceeds one million five
hundred thousand, of two hundred and forty thousand dollars; and

(b) Subject to the special provisions of this Act as to the
provinces of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, a grant at the
rate of eight cents per head of the population of the province up to
the number of two million five hundred thousand, and at the rate of
sixty cents per head of so much of the population as exceeds that
number.

(2) An additional grant of one hundred thousand dollars shall be
made yearly to the province of British Columbia for a period of ten
years from the commencement of this Act.

(3) The population of a province shall be ascertained from time to
time in the case of provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
respectively by the last quinquennial census of statutory estimate of
population made under the Acts establishing those provinces of any
other Act of the Parliament of Canada, making provision for the
purpose, and in the case of any other province by the last decennial
census for the time being.

(4) The grants payable under this Act shall be paid half-yearly in
advance to each province.

(5) The grants payable under this Act shall be substituted for the
grants and subsidies (in this Act referred to as existing grants)
payable for the like purposes at the commencement of this Act to the
several provinces of the Dominion under the provisions of section one
hundred and eighteen of the British North America Act, 1867, or of any
Order in Council establishing a province, or of any Act of the
Parliament of Canada containing directions for the payment of any such
grant or subsidy and those provisions shall cease to have effect.

(6) The Government of Canada shall have the same power of deducting
sums charged against a province on account of the interest of public
debt in the case of the grant payable under this Act to the province
as they have in the case of the existing grant.

(7) Nothing in this Act shall affect the obligation of the
Government of Canada to pay to any province any grant which is payable
to that province other than the existing grant for which the grant
under this Act is substituted.

(8) In the case of the provinces of British Columbia and Prince
Edward Island, the amount paid on account of the grant payable per
head of the population to the provinces under this act shall not at
any time be less than the amount of corresponding grant payable at the
commencement of this Act; and if it is found on any decennial census
that the population of the province has decreased since the last
decennial census, the amount paid on account of the grant shall not be
decreased below the amount then payable, notwithstanding the decrease
of the population.

2. This Act may be cited as the British North America Act, 1907,
and shall take effect as from the first of July nineteen hundred and
seven.

THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1915
(5 and 6 George V, c. 45)

19th May, 1915

Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:

1. -- (1) Notwithstanding anything in the British North American
Act, 1867, or in any Act amending the same, or in any Order in Council
or terms or conditions of union made or approved under said Acts or in
any Act of the Canadian Parliament --
(i) The number of senators provided for under section twenty-one of
the British North America Act, 1867, is increased from seventy-two to
ninety-six:
(ii) The Divisions of Canada in relation to the constitution of the
Senate provided for by section twenty-two of the said Act are
increased from three to four, the fourth Division to comprise the
Western Provinces of Manitoba, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and
Alberta, which four Divisions shall (subject to the provisions of the
said Act and of this Act) be equally represented in the Senate as
follows: Ontario by twenty-four senators; Quebec by twenty-four
senators; the Maritime Provinces and Prince Edward Island by
twenty-four senators, ten thereof representing Nova Scotia, ten
thereof representing New Brunswick, and four thereof representing
Prince Edward Island; the Western provinces by twenty-four senators,
six thereof representing Manitoba, six thereof representing British
Columbia, six thereof representing Saskatchewan, and six thereof
representing Alberta:
(iii) The number of persons whom by section twenty-six of the said
Act the Governor-General of Canada, may, upon the direction of His
Majesty the King, add to the Senate is increased from three to six to
four or eight, representing equally the four Divisions of Canada:
(iv) In case of such addition being at any time made the
Governor-General of Canada shall not summon any person to the Senate
except upon a further like direction by His Majesty the King on the
like recommendation to represent one of the four Divisions until such
Division is represented by twenty-four senators and no more:
(v) The number of senators shall not at any time exceed one hundred
and four:
(vi) The representation in the Senate to which by section one
hundred and forty-seven of the British North America Act, 1867,
Newfoundland would be entitled, in case of its admission to the Union,
is increased from four to six members, and in case of the admission of
Newfoundland until the Union, notwithstanding anything said in the
said Act or in this Act, the normal number of senators shall be one
hundred and two, and their maximum number one hundred and ten:
(vii) Nothing herein contained shall affect the powers of the
Canadian Parliament under the British North America Act, 1886.

(2) Paragraphs (1) to (vi) inclusive of subjection (1) of this
section shall not take effect before the termination of the now
existing Canadian parliament.

2. The British North America Act, 1867, is amended by adding
thereto the following section immediately after section fifty-one of
the said Act:
51A. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, a province shall always
be entitled to a number of members in the House of Commons not less
than the number of senators representing such province.

3. This Act may be cited as the British North America Act, 1915;
and the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1886, and this Act may be
cited together as the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1915.

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