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The Dominion of Canada consists of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec—formerly Upper and Lower Canada—Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. They were united by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in March, 1867, known and cited as ‘The British North America Act, 1867,’ and which came into operation on the 1st July, 1867, by royal proclamation. The Act orders that the constitution of the Dominion shall be ‘similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom that the executive authority shall be vested in the sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland, and carried on in her name by a Governor-general and Privy Council; and that the legislative power shall be exercised by a Parliament of two Houses, called the ‘Senate,’ and ‘the House of Commons.’ Provision is made in the Act for the admission of Newfoundland, British Columbia, Vancouver’s Island, and the remaining provinces and territories of British North America, into the Dominion of Canada.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Canada and British North America
1. Official Publications
Summary and comparative statements of the Imports and Exports of Canada, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868. Presented to both Houses of Parliament. 8. Ottawa, 1869.
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions for the year 1S68. Fol. London, 1869.
Statistical Tables relating to the Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom. Part XIII. Fol. London, 1869.
Statistical Abstract for the several Colonial and other Possessions of tho United Kingdom. No. V. 8. London, 1809.
Correspondence relative to the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces. London, 1865.
Further Correspondence relative to the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces. London, 1866.
2. Non-Official Publications
Canadian Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. 8. Toronto, 1869.
Faillon (Abbé) Histoire de la Colonie Française en Canada. 2 vols. Fol. Montreal, 1865.
Howe (Hon. Joseph), Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the Empire. 8. London, 1866.
Hunt (F. Sterry) Canada: a Geographical, Agricultural, and Mineralogical Sketch. Published by authority of the Bureau of Agriculture, for distribution at the Dublin Exhibition. Toronto, 1865.
Macfie (Matthew) Vancouver Island and British Columbia; their History, Resources, and Prospects. 8. London, 1865.
Monro (Alex.), History, Geography, and Statistics of British North America. 12. Montreal, 1864.
Rowlings (Thomas) The Confederation of the British North American Provinces: their Past History and Future Prospects. 8. London, 1866.
Russell (Wm. Henry) Canada: its Defences, Condition and Resources. S. London, 1865.
Year-Book and Almanac of Canada for 1869, being an Annual Statistical Abstract for the Dominion, and a Record of Legislation in British North America. 8. Pp. 161. Montreal, 1869.
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Martin, F. (1870). Canada. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230252998_19
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