Historical Chronology of Important Constitutional Events

A GUIDE TO THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION

I 2 I 5 (This is the date generally associated with Magna Carta. However, after King John's death and the ensuing period of conflict among the power elite in England, the Charter was re-issued by Henry III in 1225, and later confirmed by Edward I in 1297.)

1628 Charles I accepts the

1663 Royal Government in New France

1670 Royal Charter incorporating the Hudson's Bay Company

1679 Act (An Act for the better securing of the Liberty of the Subject, and for the Prevent1on of Imprisonment beyond the Seas)

1689 English

1701 Act of Settlement

1713 of Utrecht

1763 The Royal Proclamation

1774 The

1787 (Adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America, 11 years after the Declara- tion of Independence)

1791 The Constitutional Act of 1791

1839 Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America

1840 The Act of Union

1864 The Quebec Conference

1865 The Colonial Laws Validity Act

1866 The London Conference liv / Chronology

1867 The British North America Act

1870 admitting Rupert's Land and the to the union

1870 The Act (Canada)

1871 Order in Council admitting the colony of to the union

1873 Order in Council admitting the colony of Prince Edward Island to the union

1875 The Supreme and Exchequer Court Act (Canada)

1880 Order in Council annexing to Canada all British territories and adjacent islands in North America

1896 A.-G. for Ontario v A.-G. for Canada (Local Prohibition case), [l896j A.C. 348

1905 The Act (Canada)

1905 The Act (Canada)

1930 The Alberta Natural Resources Act, The Saskatchewan Natural Resources Act, The Manitoba Natural Resources Act (all, Canada)

1931 The Statute of Westminster

1933 The Extraterritorial Act (Canada)

1937 The Succession to the Throne Act (Canada)

1947 New Letters Patent for the Governor-General

1949 Amendment to the Supreme Court of Canada Act, Stats. Can. 1949, c. 37, ended appeals to the Privy Council ( enacted only after the Privy Council itself had decided that the had authority to make the amending decision inA.-G. for Ontario v A.-G. for Canada, [1947] A.C. 127)

1949 An Act to approve the Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada (Canada)

1949 BNA Act amended to give the Dominion Parliament limited authority to amend the Con- stitution of Canada (sees. 91 (1) of BNA Act, as amended)

1960 The Canadian Bill of Rights

1969 Reg. v Drybones (1970), 9 D.L. R. (3d) 473