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Method of Amending the British North America Act: Report and Minutes of Evidence before the Special Committee of the House of Commons. Ottawa: The King's Printer. 1935. Pp. xiii, 141. (25c.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Eugene Forsey*
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McGill University
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1936

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1 Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British North American Provinces (Quebec, 1865), pp. 41–2.Google Scholar

2 There is an historical error on page 31. The B.N.A. Act of 1871 was not passed without an address from the Dominion Parliament. The bill was drafted at the request of the Dominion Cabinet, but submitted to the British Parliament only after an address from both Houses of the Dominion Parliament ( Journals of the House of Commons of Canada, 1871, pp. 291–4, 300–1Google Scholar; British Parliamentary Debates, ser. 3, vol. 206, pp. 778, 1171, 1499, 1598 Google Scholar; vol. 207, pp. 138, 219, 305, 724).