Report by the Attorney Gerneral of Ontario on the Boundary Question, 1st November, 1881 |
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Page 19 - Temiscamingue, and from the head of the said lake by a line drawn due north until it strikes the Boundary Line of Hudson's Bay, including all the territory to the westward and southward of the said line, to the utmost extent of the country commonly called or known by the name of Canada...
Page 16 - Certified to be a true copy of a Minute of a Meeting of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the $th February, 1946.
Page 9 - Territory, or either of them, into the Union, on such Terms and Conditions in each Case as are in the Addresses expressed and as the Queen thinks fit to approve, subject to the Provisions of this Act ; and the Provisions of any Order in Council in that Behalf shall have effect as if they had been enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 13 - 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 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.
Page 4 - Tribes the full and free privilege to hunt over the territory now ceded by them; and to fish in the Waters thereof, as they have heretofore been in the habit of doing...
Page 14 - Indians to the lands in the vicinity of Lakes Superior and Huron, or of such of them as may be required for mining purposes. The Commissioner executed a treaty by which he obtained a portion of the very territory that...
Page 17 - Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Page 4 - September, 1880, all British Territories and Possessions in North America not already included within the Dominion of Canada, and all islands adjacent to any of such territories or possessions...
Page 16 - Wilmot, to agree upon a third person to be associated with them, such third person not being a resident of Canada, and that the determination of a majority of such referees should be final and conclusive upon the limits to be taken as and for such boundaries as aforesaid respectively.
Page 12 - Memorandum of the Minister of Justice : — " This is the more necessary, as no conventional arrangement between the two Governments as to boundary can confer criminal jurisdiction on the Courts of Ontario, unless the place where any crime may be committed is by law within the Province.