HISTORY OF CANADA. 
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CHAPTER XVII. 
THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 
1. British North America Act. 
2. Duties of Governor-General. 
3. The Senate, 
4. The House of Commons. 
5. The Provineial Levislutures, 
6. Admission of other Provinces, 
7. Duties of Parliament. 
8. Debt and revenue. 
+. Dominion Day, 
' Nova Scotia dissatisfied. 
‘, Manitoba. 
2. British Columbia, 
18. Washington Treaty, 
14. Chanyes in Ontario Ministry, 
1. The Dominion of Canada began in 1867 with the 
union of the four provinces of Upper Canada, Lower 
Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. By the 
‘““ British North America Act,” the name of Upper Canada 
was changed to Ontario, and that of Lower Canada to 
Quebec. It is important to understand this Act, because 
it made provision for three important things : first, how the 
Dominion was to be guverned ; secand, how each province 
was to be governed, and, third, how the Dominion might, 
in the future, be enlarged by adding other provinces. 
2, According to that Act, the authority of the Sovereign 
>f the British Empire, was to be represented by a Gov- 
ernor-General, in whom was to be vested the power by 
which the laws are to be carried out. For this reason he 
appoints the Lieutenant-Governors of the provinces, and 
the judges of the various courts, He is the commander- 
in-chief of all the military and naval forces in the 
Dominion, and no Act of Parliament can become law until 
he has given his assent to it. In him resides the power to 
summute the sentence of a court of justice. His respon- 
sible advisers were to consist of thirteen members of Par- 
liament who possessed {he confidence of Parliament,