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The Lieutenant-Governor as a Dominion Officer: The Reservation of the Three Alberta Bills in 1937

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

J. R. Mallory
J. R. Mallory*
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McGill University
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1948 , pp. 502 - 507
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1948

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References

1 Forsey, Eugene, “Disallowance of Provincial Acts, Reservation of Provincial Bills, and Refusal of Assent by Lieutenant-Governors, 1937-47” (Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. XIV, no. 1, 02, 1948, p. 94)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Frank Milligan, “Reservation of Manitoba Bills and Refusal of Assent by Lieutenant-Governor Cauchon, 1877-82” (ibid., vol. XIV, no. 2, May, 1948, p. 247).

2 Dominion and Provincial Legislation, 1867-1895 (Ottawa, 1896), p. 105.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., p. 78.

4 Forsey, E. A., “Disallowance of Provincial Acts, Reservation of Provincial Bills, and Refusal of Assent by Lieutenant-Governors since 1867” (Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. IV, no. 1, 12, 1938).Google Scholar

5 Constitutional Principle (No ONE). In re the office of His Majesty's Attorney-General (Speech of John W. Hugill, K.C., M.L.A. Delivered in the Legislative Assembly at Edmonton, Alberta, on Tuesday, February 28th, 1939, Calgary, n.d.), p. 11.

6 Ibid., p. 12.

7 Cf. Globe and Mail, Aug. 7, 1937. “Formal assent to the Social Credit legislation was given by the Lieutenant-Governor, removing all doubt of his reservation of signing the bills pending appeal to constitutional authorities in Ottawa.”

8 Hugill, , Constitutional Principle, p. 6.Google Scholar

9 Canada, Department of Justice, Memorandum on the Office of Lieutenant-Governor of a Province: Its Constitutional Character and Functions, November, 1937 (Ottawa, 11, 1938).Google Scholar

10 “Mr. Coldwell: For a copy of any instructions sent to the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta in regard to the reservation of the three Alberta bills in October, 1937. Mr. Lapointe (Quebec East): Mr. Speaker, there were no instructions sent to the lieutenant-governor of Alberta.” Canada, House of Commons Debates, 1938, p. 1067.

11 Edmonton Journal, Mar. 26, 1938.

12 See Milligan, , “Reservation of Manitoba Bills,” p. 247.Google Scholar