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 FUOM THE 
 
 JOURNALS OF THE lllCISlAlWi ASSEMBLY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Legislative Assembly, 
 
 Quebec, 14th June, 1886. 
 
 Second Report of the Siilect Committee appointed " to consider the question 
 " of the Northern and North Western limits of the Province of Quebec," and 
 the necessary measures to be taken in order tiiat such limits do include the 
 Territories to which it is entitled, by establishing and defining such rights. 
 
 Your Committee respectfully submits to Your Honourable House the follow- 
 ing Report : 
 
 With the view of finding out and definmg these limits, it has carefully studied 
 all the Acts of the Imperial Parliament concerning the same and especially the 
 Act of 177't, intituled the " Quebec Act," the Act of 17'JO. 31 George III, chap. 31, 
 and the " British North America Act " of 1807. 
 
 The British North America Act of 18G7, 30-;{l Victoria, chap. 3, to which we 
 owe our present political existence, assigns the following limits to the different 
 Provinces, respectively : 
 
 Sec. a.—'' Canada" shall be divided into four Provinces, named Ontario, 
 " Qu'jbec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick." 
 
 Sec. 6.—" The parts of the Province of Canada, (as it exists at the passing of 
 " this Act) which formerly constituted respectively the Provinces of Upper and 
 " Lower Canada shall be deemed to be severed, and siiall form two separate pro- 
 " vinces. The part whi('li formerly constituted the Province of Upper Canada 
 " shall constitute the Province of Ontario, and the part which formerly consti- 
 " tuted the Province of -Lowih' Canada shall constitute the Province of Quebec." 
 
 The Statute which precedes the British North America Act of 1807, and 
 which is referred to in the above mentioned section, is the Union Act of 1840, 3 
 and 4 Victoria, chap. 35. 
 
 The first section thereof merely states that after the proclamation to be issued 
 within fifteen months following the passing of the Act, the two provinces res- 
 pectively called Upper and Lower Canada, will form and constitute but one and 
 the same province under the name of the " Province of Canada." 
 
Now llio organization of those two Provinces of Cppor and Lowor Canada 
 had boon derreed by tiie act of 17'n, 31 George III, chap 31, intituled : "An Act 
 to. repeal certain parts of an act passed in the fonrleenlh year of His Majesty's 
 Reign, intitnled : "An Act for making more ellectnal provision for tht? 'joverii- 
 meiit of the Province of Quebec, in North America ; and to make further provision 
 for the Government of the said Province." The same Statute adds : 
 
 "And whereas, by reason of the distance of the said Pi'oviiices from this 
 Country and of the change to be made by this Act in the Government thereof, it 
 may be necessary that there should be some interval of time between the notifica- 
 tion of this act to the said Provinces respectively, and the dav of its commence- 
 ment within the said Provinces respectively"; He it therefore enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, that it shall and may bo lawful for His iMajesty, with the 
 advice of His Privy Council, to fix and declare, or to authorize the Governor or 
 Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec or the person adniinist(M'ing the 
 Government there, to fix and declare the day of the c(mimenc(,Mneut of this Act 
 withm the sold Provinces respectively, provided that such dav shall not bo later 
 than tne thirty-first day of J^ccember, in tlio year of (JurLoid, on(; thousand 
 seven hundred and ninetv-one." 
 
 consequ 
 
 The ]iroclamation provided for and sanctioned by the act quoted above, wj 
 equently issued in November IT'Jl, in the following lei'ins : 
 
 .IS 
 
 PROCLAMATION OF NOVEMBER 1791 
 
 Declaring when tiik Constitutioxai- Act shall have ewect in thi- Phovinces 
 
 01' Upi'ek and Loweu Canada. 
 
 ALURED CLARK: 
 
 GEORGE TIIE THIRD, by ihc Grace ^God, of Great Britain, France and IrclancL 
 King, Drfendcr of iJtc ftiitk, ami so forth. 
 
 To all Our loving subjects whom these presents may concern— 
 
 Greeting : 
 
 " Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privv Council, 
 by Our Onler-iii-Coimcil, daied in the monlii of August last, to order" that Our 
 Province of Quebec should be divided into two distinct Provinces, to bo called the 
 Province of Upper and the Province of Lower Canada, bv separating the said two 
 Provinces according to 'the following lino of division, viz : To commencv at a 
 stone boundary on the Norib bank of the Lake St. Francis, at Ihe Cove West of 
 the Poinleau Bodet, in Ihe limit between the Township of Lancaster and iho 
 Scigiieurie of New Lougnoil, running along the said limit in the direction of 
 North thirty-four degreesWest to Ihe westernmost angle of the said Seigneurie of 
 New Longueil ; thence along the Norlli-Western boundary of the Seigneurie of 
 Vaudreuil, running Norlii twenty-live degrees East, until it strikes the Ottawa 
 River, to ascend the said River into the Lake Temiscaminuue, and from the head 
 of the said Lake by a line drawn due north until it stiikes the boundary line of 
 Hudson's Bay, including all the territory to th(! w(!stward and southward of the 
 said line to the utmost extent of the countrv comiuonly called or known 1 the 
 name of Canada." 
 
 Tais Proclamation clearly determines the boundary line between the two 
 Provinces, which it even prolongs as far as Hudson's liay, but it contains no 
 clear indication of the northern limits of the said Provinces. It is therefore neces- 
 
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•sary to go back to the act of 177}, called tho Quebec Act, which extHiuls their 
 northern limits to the soutborn boundary of the territory granted to the Mer- 
 chant Adventurers of England, trading at Hudson's Bay. 
 Tliif Act reads as follows : 
 
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 A': 
 
 THE QUEBEC ACT Ol<' 1774. 
 
 An act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province 
 
 of Quebi'O in North America : 
 1 '' \VhPiTas, His Majesty, by his Royal Proclamation bearing date the Seventh 
 day 01 October, m the third year of his Reign, thought fit to declare the Provi- 
 sions which had been made in resnoct to certain Gounlries, Territories and Islands 
 m Anu'rica, ceded to His Majesty by the definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded at 
 Pans on the tenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three • 
 And Whereas, by the a-rangements made by the said Royal Proclamation, a very 
 large Extent of Country within wliieh there were several Colonies and Settlements 
 of the subjects of France who claimed to remain therein under the Faith of the 
 said Tr(!aty, was left without any Provision being made for the administration of 
 Civil (iovernment therein; and certain parts of the Territory of Canada where 
 Sedentary Fisheries had been established and carried on by the subjects of France 
 inhabitants of the said Province of Canada, niider Grants and Concessions from 
 the Government thereof, were annex(;d to the GovernuKuit of Newfoundland and 
 thereby subjected te Regulations inconsistent with the nature of such Fisheries • 
 May It thereloro please four Most Excellent Majestv, that it may be enacted and 
 tie it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majestvi' by and witli the advice and 
 consent of lh(! Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Par- 
 liament assembl(!(l, and by the authority of the same ; 
 
 " That all the Territories, Islands and Countries in North America belon"-in"- 
 to the (h'own of (ireat Britain, bounded on tht; South by a line from the B'lv o'f 
 Chaleurs, along the High Lands wdiich divide the Rivers that emptv themselves 
 into the River Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the Sea to a point 
 inioity-liveDegreesof Northern Latitude, on the Eastern Bank of the River Con- 
 necticut keeping the same Latitude directly West, through the Lake Champlain 
 uiilil. in the same Latitude, it meets the River St. Lawrence ; from thence np the 
 Laslern Bank ol the said River to the Lake Ontario, thence, throu-ii the LakcOntario 
 Jind the River commonly called Niagara; and thence along bv the Eastern and 
 Sonlli-Eastern Bank of Lak(' Erie, following the said Bank, iiiitil the same shall 
 1)0 int-r,socted by the Northern Boundary, granted bv the Charier of the Province 
 ot Pennsylvania, incase the same shall be so intersected ; and from thence alou'-' 
 the said Northern and Western Boundaries of the said Province until the s'lid 
 Western Boundary strike the Ohio; but in case the said Bank of the said Lake 
 shall not be found to be so intersected, then following the said Bank nntil it shall 
 arrive at that point of the said Bank which shall be nearest to the Norlli-Westeru 
 Angle of the said Province of Pennsylvania, and thence by a right Line, to the 
 said North-Western Angle of the said Province; and thence along Ihe Western 
 Boundary of the said Province, until it strikes the River Ohio; and aloii" the 
 Bank of the said Riv.>r, Westward to the Banks of the Mississipi, and Northward 
 to the bouthern Boundary of the Territory granted to the Merchants Adventurers 
 ol England, trading to Hudson's Bay ; and also all such Territories, Islands 
 and Countries which have, since the tenth of February, one thousand seven 
 bundled and sixty-three, been made part of the Government of NewFonndland 
 be, and they are hereby, during His Maj-sty's Pleasure, annexed to, and made 
 1 art and Parcel of the Province of Quebec, as created and established by the 
 said Royal Proclamation of the seventh of October, one thousand seven hundred 
 and sixty-three." 
 
This doscriptioii in thn Statnto of 1774 is (lon-obonilod bv all the dinlomatic 
 (locuiiUMils and niou> paiticniaily by the instrnctions addressrd to tho Govornors 
 ilins in tli<> foinniissions addressed to Sir (luy Carleton on llie 27lh Dcrernber 
 17/4, and in those addressed to tht; same Governor bearing,' date the 2-2iu\ Anril"' 
 1 / /7, the norlhern limit of the I'rovinco of Qnebec, is d.-olared to be the sonlhern 
 boundary of the l.irilory coded to the Merehant Adventurers of En-land tradins? 
 at ilndsou's Bay. In all the otiier Commissions addressed later on to the dillei -m 
 Govoriiors, and r>siK-eially to the Hi-ht liononrahle Charles Paulell Thomi)sonon 
 the (.th September, IS3!), it is declared that the Hik! soparalin- the two I'rovinros 
 of Upper am Lower Canada extends towards iho North until it reachea the shores 
 of Hudson s Day. 
 
 _ Does it follow, that the Northern limils of the Province of Quebec sliould 
 incl'ido all tJK! territory situate in the same latitude as the said shores and Ihattho 
 coiicessionsto the Hudson's Day Corn])any have nev(r extended further to the East 
 
 and to the South Ihaii those shores ? This is what one may infer fioni the jud'r; 
 ment which Ihe Prn-y Gunncil was called upon to fiive couceruiiiK tlu; boundary 
 
 since, by adherin-; to llu; Proclamation of 
 
 line betw( en Manitoba and Ontario; 
 
 Sir Alure.l Clarke, dated in 1 ,!M ami authorized by the Statute of the year 171)i, 
 Jl Geo. Ill, Chap. 31, their Lordships declared that, as the dividing line between 
 tlie two 1 rovinces ol Upper and Lower Canada extended to Hudson's Day the 
 SJimc should apply to the Western line and the latter should extend as far as 
 
 Hudson's Day. 
 its entirety, on: 
 New Lonynetii 
 as far as Lake 
 Hudson's Day ; 
 La' 
 
 I (berelore the judnri.ent of the Privy Council be accepted in 
 Province would be bounded on the West by the S('i<,Miiories of 
 I and Vaudreuil as far as the River Ottawa, by the River Ottawa 
 Temiscamingue, thence by a line drawn difn North as far as 
 on lie North and West by the .slid ] Jay, Iliidson-s Straits and 
 nrauor, on the Last by llu> said Labrador and the Gulf of St. J.as-reiice 
 Indeed It IS quite obvious that if the Province of Ontario do(>s not stay its 
 course to the North at the He'-ht of land or water-shed between the St. Lawrence 
 and Hudson s D;iy, and this under tlu^ laws referriuLr to the old Pnivin 
 rio\y divided m two. we have the li-lil to go beyond the same line. 
 I royince ol Ontario is admilied to extend as far as James Day, it Ayould" be both 
 anomalous and unfair to insist in bounding this Province lialf- 
 division line between the two Proviii-es is llu; line which 
 Western limits. 
 
 in fact, lor two eenliiries the Imperial Parli;iment, the Legislatures, various 
 Governments and too Press are engaged in the most serious and iini.ortant 
 discussions on this topic, and yet inner have the Northern ^iinits of the ,irs-nt 
 1 rovince ol Queiiec lieen clearly defined, because the lerritoiy of the IIiulsoiiDay 
 Company ilsell which bimiided tin; same has never l>jen properly described by 
 the Imiteiial Statutes. i x j j 
 
 nee ofOuebec 
 Whilst the 
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 •way, since the 
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 ine btatute ol IS;.'! which should haye cleared up the question, concedes to 
 tlio Hudson Day Comiiauy llu< Indian territories not then beloiiuiii-- either to the 
 Company or to the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, the bou'mliry (ruestioii 
 being still undecided and unknown. Thus it will be noticed that the \liinculty 
 arises from the absence of any oiTicial document declaring the Hudson Day 
 Ciiarler yalid as regards the disputed territories North of the IL'i-ht of Land or 
 walor-shed. " 
 
 It is true this difficulty no longer exists, since the rights of tli(> Company are 
 extinct and the Inderal Government, holding possession of the territory, woukl 
 be free to dispose of the same as it might deem consistent with the ri-ht's of the 
 interested parlies. ° 
 
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 tion 
 
 Dnt it is more advisable for the Province to abide by the Imperial Statutes 
 above, and which throw sufficient light on our rights to force their reco"iii- 
 on the -luthoritios \ybo have to decide upon them. ° 
 
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 The Eastern boundary of tho old Provinco of Q.K-boo, that is to say tho 
 ^Vt'll ''/'Vrr'''/''^; Lal.n.dor was sotllod fwst by the prodamation of tho 7th 
 Octoh.ir, I /(.,j, which contains tho foUowiii;,' paragraph • 
 
 Tni.n nlJ'i i?"''''';''">'-"f ''I' Qiiobt-o, iH.im.hMl Oil ihc f/ihrador Coast bv t hp Hi vop St. 
 Jo n, and Imiii thciiro hv a liii.. .hawii from Ihc head of that rivn", fhn„if;h tho 
 
 lin in ',1 n " "c '?""' ""' "* ''"' '^••''^'-' ^••i''^^i" i '■'"'" wli.-ncc 11... said lin 
 
 m rth lal itiide passes aloi,,; tl,o islan.ls which divi.h' th.' iv-./s tl a.t .'inplv Ihcn 
 selves into th. said Fl.vcr St. Lawron.;.-, Inm, thos.. which fall into th.. sea a I 
 nlsoalonf^lhcnoilli coast of Ihc I^.io d.s^liialeuis, and th. coast on 
 J. nnnicc to La|Ki nosi..r,..s and from Ihciicc crossiiio. H,,, „,oulii of the Hivcr St. 
 
 lUvor sr Jolni.''" ''' "'"^ "^' ^^'" ^''""'^ "^ ^""*^"'^* l...-nninatcs at the afm-esidd 
 
 vi in^''r"'"n'''"l''^' "■" '"'''' '"''"'l^"'i : "An A.'t for makin- more .dfeCnal Pro- 
 Jision lor the Cove. iuiumU oI the Province of Qn.diec in Norih An. ica," tiie 
 
 as tne Alajidalen and Anticosti Islands. 
 
 n-.^n-'V-'^'-'l-"^ llio Hritish Parliament passed in ISO!), intihiled : '-An Act for 
 oslablis lung Gonrts of Jnd.caLure in Ihe Island of Newfoundland and the Islandi 
 m, iV! 1,1 I'r '^•;'' •'';V""!':-'"'" l'-"'^ "'' "i'' Coastof Lahradorand the I>lands being 
 ciaiiso t^overninent of Newfoundland,' contains the following 
 
 1 " ^l^^^^'f •VJiereas His Majesty, by his Proclamation of iheSin-enth 
 day ot Ucloher, one thousand seven hundred and sixtv-three, was 
 plc;e Ml to (leclaie that ho had put the Coast of LnhmJor, from t/io 
 Hiver bt. Join to Hudson's Slrai/s, with Ihe Islands of ..|////r;o,s7/ and 
 Maddrui", ;ui( all other smaller Islands Iviiig on the said Coast, under 
 llio care and iiisijection of tho Gov^'m-nent of AVir/e»/(^//a«r/ ; And 
 \\ liereiis, hy an act passed in the fourtecMith vcar of the reinu of His 
 prosont Majesty, intituled: ^'d;j Ad for mnhimj more rffrrlual. Procision for the 
 Oovcrnmc.U o/ the Procuirr of Qachec in Nurlh Amrr:-", " - id ;•" siudi Tei'ritories 
 and Islands and Countries, as iiince tho tenth day 
 seven hui dred and sixty-three, iiad been made pari 
 foiindland, were, during His Majesty's pleiisnre, am 
 Province of Quebec, as created bv the said l'rocl;''n^ 
 siianco of an act jiassed in th(> tlii'rty-first vearof His, 
 tnjed : '-An Act to repeal ceriaiu jiarts of-an Act jiassc- 
 ol His Majesty's Reign, iiitiiiihHl : 'An Act for making moi-b 
 
 I 10 Government of Ihe Province of Quebec in North' America, ,.,.„ ,u u..uv,. nn mer 
 1 rovision lor thi! Government of Ihe said province," I lie said Province of Quebec 
 was divid, d int.. two Provinces of Upper an-! Lower Canada, this latter inclnding 
 the parts ol the (.oast ol Labrador and tho said Islands so formerly annexed to the 
 Government ol Newfoundland ; And Whereas it is expedient tlia't the said Coast 
 ol Labrador and the adjacent Islands (e.xc.'pt the Islands id' Matlehdne;), should bo 
 re-annexed to the (,ov.;rninent of Newfoundland ; Be it therefore enacted. That 
 snchparlsol the Coast ol Labrador, from tho liiver St. John to JIudsoii's Straits, 
 and the said Island of Anticosti and all other small.M' Islands so annexed to tho 
 Government of Newfoundland by the said Pro(damalion of the seveii'i, day of 
 Oclober, one tlionsand seven hundred and si.xty-three (except the said Islands of 
 JI/a^/dYwu'), shall be separated fioni the snid Cnvernment of Lower Cenada and 
 bo ag.'iin re-annexed to 'ho Government oi Ncirfoundlaud, anvlhin- in the said act 
 passed m the Ihirty-hrst year of His present Majesty's Roign or any other act to 
 tho contrary, notwithstanding." 
 
 Finally, the last Statute which settles the quool ion of the Labrador boundaries, 
 intituled : "An Act to provide for the extinction of Feudal and Seignioral Rights 
 
 Piirt of Oiu 
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 (Inriuiil llin Is- 
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 try, one Ihousand 
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 urtiM'iith y(,'ar 
 1 Provision for 
 iiiii 10 niaki' further 
 
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 y:l^'vZ:^:'Jj^^^^^^ in Iho Province of 
 
 V lie."." ((i UcoruoIV h. 7-Vr > '"'^ "l'»*'i- nmposrs .-..laiiii- to tli(5 said Pro- 
 found Iheroi.n^ ' ^'''^''' ''''•' ^^•'' ^*''^«'^«'^ '" '«"^^; tl"' following clause ?s 
 
 ot: 4; :: S. Fo,a\M;inil^-iy.l!!T;;''lV''r,''''' '■^'>'' !'.V virtn,, of., certain Act pass.-d in the 
 Ti.inl, in.it, '1? -A i t fn o 1 . l''?" '^ "' '"'i '^'•'•'"^'y Kins (i.or-^. tlio 
 N,nvloundl;n.d and n tit sh ,d' , .M^^^ Conrls of Judicatnn. in th. Island of 
 andllnMslandslvip'o 1; ' an^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 an.l of thn Act ,,a.ss'.d it, j f, V: ^.^h «^-'''''r'.';'"''' "'" ^''^v-Fonndland 
 tiile.l: "An A't for I . I H Vw \rh tn ,/.• ""'rV '*' ^ •^'■•'.1"^'^ i"ti- 
 
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 Hiunbiy submit; .J, 
 
 Ls. DUIIAMEL, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Quebec, 19th Juuo, I8HC. 
 
 ;.P!)...ntcd to take into considcnUi m ' a r Uo o u!'? Y ''\ ''' ^1' v'^f '"'^'"'^^ 
 limits of the Province of ()ueh(-c ' wuLT " '^'"' '' '■""' -^''''H'-wester.i 
 
 such limus do it^iude U.c^;;;.';uJ.:i;^to wSu ircnl-K '' '''"' ""■'^^' ""'^ 
 
 R|!-nlv^'?"'n ' ?' V"""'''''^:''' ^^'■- I^l^'>H^l"^t, seconded hv Mr Dalnmel 
 
 in a clear, distinct an.l precise' „'a,mer''' H^'oughoul then- whole extent 
 Tiiat ''■= — ■ • 
 
 ^lU doubt, is of a nature o c^! i\, h '°'''"'-^^ 
 
 Govermu'nt of tliis Province ; ' "'' ''''"^'' en^i^arrassment to th. 
 
 r 
 
 d 
 
 the. 
 
a 
 
 Whereas It is important in the interest of the Province to put an end to a <=tite 
 ungs Nvhioh IS proind.cial alike to tlio development of the impo la ^Isou^res 
 of that part o the country, and to the admi.iistrlition of justice t J m-o'r,^ of 
 
 of tlu- H !hM' n?' "^^'''T'^"' '^''^'' '''^ ^''''^ '^"'^ '« ^hi security andTuara tee 
 ot the iiffhts, of our citizens respecting private property in that region • 
 
 Resolved, That in tlie opinion of this House 'the Westorif, Northern and 
 
 as follovvs : ''' '^ '^" ^''"^"'^ '^^'''^'' ''' ^"^ '^''''^^ ^^« flxed\-ind delermined 
 
 All the country inc ' ided, towards the West, by the prolonsalion of the nresont 
 
 James Bay, thence hy the shore line of James' Bay to the mnn!!i „f the River Eist 
 Maine, towards the North along the right bank of the said river from it no Uh to 
 
 of tl e Great Esquimaux, Ashuanipi or Hamilton River and foUowiim- the lef bank 
 of that river into Rigolet Bay,-Hamilton Inlet; towards the l£ ai 1 tht 
 
 ^'T^'I^'^^V^' .^^''^^'^ «^' ^h^'no^t' Eastern p^int of the s ur es of he St 
 Paul or little Esquimaux Riverand along that river, towards the East to he 5=>nd 
 degi-ee of North latitude and following that parallel to tlu. ineiid an of I'An e 
 au Blanc Saljlon, the present recognized frontier of the Province of (Jiebec 
 
 Tha an humb e Address be presented to His Excellency the Governor-General 
 of ihe Dominion, based on the present resolutions, praving him to idont orTo 
 cause to be adopted the measures necessary to est!,bh^sh"a id dcHeimh e in ? 
 lefimtive manner the Western, Northern and Eastern frontiers of the pT^ InJe of 
 Quebec, as set forth in these resolutions. lOMute oi 
 
 Resolved, That the said resolutions be referred to a Select Committee com- 
 posed o the Honorable Messrs. Lynch, Taillon, Beaubieu, Mercie^ an'lS 
 and oMessrs. Dnhamel, Gagnon, Asselin, J.^aucher de Sain\-i\Iauri c^ S - H S 
 ud Boyer to prepare and report the draft of an Address to His Excellei cv t le 
 Governor-General, praying him to adopt or to cause to be adopted the step n^ces! 
 s^ary to estabhsh and deK'rmme in adelinitive manner the Westeru Northern and 
 Eastern Iroiitiers of the Province of Quebec, as set forth in the siid J^solutions 
 
 iv ,1 Tl'f "•^""''■'^'^'f .ij^'' J31anchet Reported, from th... said Committee, That they 
 had drawn up an Address accordingly, and the same was r.vid as follow(!lh : 
 
 To Uis Excclkncij the Rif/hl Ho^ionihlc Hnirij Charles Keith Pr/ti/ Fit-.maurice 
 
 Marquis of Laiulsdowue, G. C. M. G., GoverDorGaieml 
 
 of Canada and Vicc-Admiial of the sa7)ic. 
 
 MaV it i'LKASE YoiU E.VCh' f-LKNCV. 
 
 ,-,/^''rM'''V'"'''''/^^'-''^"''''^'''J'''^^^'''''^''^ f'f^fti^lalive Assembly for the Pro- 
 vince ol Quebec in Legis'alure assembled, dee- it their duly humbly to represent 
 Ihat, 111 the opinion ol this House, the Western, Northerir and East<-rn 
 frontiers ol the Province ol Quebec are and should be established and determned 
 cis loiiows : 
 
 All the country included, towards the West, by the proloimation of the present 
 boundary line betu-een Ontario and Quebec until 'it touches the southe i sIoit'S 
 James' Bay, thence liy the shore line of St. James' Bay to the mouth of the ri ver -^s 
 Maine ; towards the North along the right bank of the said rivei f 2^ ts n o ' i 
 
 ml ^'?^';h : ''^"7^,^"'^ '^''^'^f ".'^•^ "'?''fl^ I'y =• lino striking the most northern 
 
 111 1 . ot 11 e great Esquimaux, Ashuanipi or Hamilton river, and followin- the 
 
 lelt bank ol that river into Rigolel Bay,_Hamiltou Inlet; towards tlie east^lnd 
 
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 Laiisc an Blanc Sal)loii rhc nrp^ont .. " .• ^^ • ' '' '" ^'^^' '"endian of 
 Qu.'hor; " '"' f"'*^^'^"' '•^'^"g'lized Ironliors of the Province of 
 
 Qut'ho' 
 
 Thai, thei-efoi 
 
 ■MU.ro.di Yonr Ex cHlency^to n riv YnTP n '^'" r^'-ovmoe of Qnebec now 
 He. Majesty's P.mvv Con cil for^Gan J, Yu^^'"'''^. '^ '^^' P'*"^'^'^'' ^'^ «"bmit to 
 
 Thilt the said Hon de^rhvS^ '^'""''''^ P'-"f''"«"« ^o wit : 
 
 nwnsurr, necess;uv to T w;i'' /L,^T "-'Li'^^t'^ '^i' ^-^'"^« 'o be adopted the 
 
 vmceofQnebec, asheiein- 
 
 nieasurcs necess;iiv to esfihli^li VLi .i .""^'P^ ur eanse to be ado[.ted the 
 
 Gove,.nor P?"?l.. ''L!'^^'^."^'^^/: '^^'^ voted an Add.. 
 
 Conncil of this Province rndhlthev h °^ '*!" "'^"?''^bl'^ 'l'^ Execntive 
 Address to H.S ExcellenVt Gov S^ '""'^ P''"^^^ '" his hands the 
 
 Attest. 
 
 L. Delorme, 
 Clerk Legislative Assembly. 
 
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