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OK THE r»R,ovirvoE of- <^uii:beo ; ■\\ II il9t I North and North-Western Limits EXTRACT ' / ^\ 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- \ A^X iiii-n •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 : Vi 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 10 tl. •way, since the liould det('riiiini.' its 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. ° cited 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. ° v V ^ 'X V 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 ('oust of l.iihni- (Inriuiil llin Is- IiiikIm l.viiii; on tllC ."uill CoMHl, rc-nniioxi'il to 'lie (J ovo r 11- moiit of \ow- IuiiimIIi'ihI. try, one Ihousand ■"rninent of N(nv- iad(! part of tho ■'""aereas, in pur- 's Reign, inti- urtiM'iith y(,'ar 1 Provision for iiiii 10 niaki' further 6 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- for other iMirposc^s Ix. Co s I il u ?'""" m' ''n "•■'' '" N'-^vroundlau'd, and Straits and Iho s| ml Anti^^^^ Hndson's Coast, rxr.'pt 11,,. Isl Is ru;ii' ;,-/^ '''" ^'^T' •''^•1"'=""' ^" l'"' ^^'-^'^i (lov,.rnn„.nt .d' N.-w , ,/l .n/i ;,^;^^^^ '"'"''^•'^ ''> '""1 '"-■•» P-'ft of the Coast of l.al.ra.lo Im '■ n ^;,; , !' 'if'":^'"'"^ "''J^ r'i"';' ^"^'''^ '''' "'" ^^''^ Canada ; lin it th.Mvf v, :..;'' '' ^" '"" '"';."' I"^''^ '>! tin, Pn.vinco ofLowor W.-stwa d of a lii.i.i' !:""■'"''• "' ""' ^'^''^ <^'>'ist as H.-s -to tho 'Vr.:.'^':L%' A, ' ^ . ' .' r,:' '''\^:?''''' ="'!l «-l":'i '■.•on. tin, Hay or ilarl.o'lr (N'lhiin |i:ii'lM nl"ll](. Cua.", <iC l.ubi-i.liir iiiiil M ilj aooii t i.M- liMils ro-Hii- ii(\';i'(l III Lower (!iiiiai|,'i. dc-i'oe of North ril' \.... .0 II 1 • '-"-" i»» "I'll ..Trii 111 n'Oni 111, r,ii,',*'l,','-|i"''?;''" •""■"■•■'» ""■ l'i!1v-sn.0M.I ,1 ■V.llli I'arall.'l- ' ''" ™' "'«'■!'• limil bolwwii the 47lli and Lionlioii or the limit 01 11,1 [>,'''■!,,',. ""'''°" ' **^'""''' ^"' ">'■■■" '» "» iajj'^rih^^ai'i;-— ^^^^ Albany lliv,,-. doso lo Ihc 5i','l pa'Xl "'""'^ino at tlio mout], „f the with„t,ta.,e.ti„.a.yi„i!;li;;^'^,^i^,''i--ssi;';^ '^''""- Northern and Eastern boundaries nii-ht MlancSablo!, fi'oni Now llie 5-iiid de on this side tho ol 1,0,, 111 iii'ast Main lliver, a,ul our Westei'i, 1,0 deUnedas follows- Ml th.. fn,...;',n';.',r;7r""i "'Vir^'""'''' ',' """""aiies nu,i,'ht a,„a. h.,.„a,, li. 5^ O^SpSt^^:^;^i%Ktnti^ bhoio li,,e ot » he same Bay as far as the low.-rds the ..jrth. bv the right bank of shore of James' Bay folic-., . •>iiig tin month of tho East Main River- the said river, froin its mo,Uli'to its source from that point, still going \ '• > '*>M^rm: \ %v f } the Ka.L and tin, Nnr.h'S/^:^ ^M ij ./"r;^.^^ .nl.-l; tow ■ low.nls llH. FOas ■;,, as tin' sCn L, n rrwri rl'' i"""^ """ ^«^' "i^'''^ a.i.nitt..l lunu.dar, or U.M'rovV.i, e of gj/b^r "" ^'•^'^'""' ""^' !"-"«^""i entitf .'I'a^l'I'wl •!.;:^^;!^fi;,;;'^;;f ;;;;;,;;!!;'^^ n.. UM.n.onaI an., to ,,UU± wo aro :idininis. /''"i^."l'"'>illy, Y<iiir(;nmmill(H!ai'('ofoi,iiii.iii that Ih,. \V,.«i, ,.„ v ,. N OI' iiain Hivcr ; towards nioiith lo its source ; from Uic slrikiii-' (lie nios'l li, f;y the riplu%hcrc of Iho-yafdlViv.;; H'o,,?!?: .'.id aiou'^t he same Ilivcr low 1< »>m v.. . V ' ain, or I'clit hsijiiiniatix I'Mlud,. ami follow! ri.'i-,;:,.! ,,,,ii1 Mpih'"?, ""(/'S" ,'l"!-'>-«'."f No.lh wi«.-;i--;4;;:",^-ii"==!^,;ii;;;-:-.-^rJ^ a dciini- 10 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 t fl |i;^C;,';:n-n^:^El!;; •S;^^;;;;^^;;;; --l-^;^- point or t;. .o.n.ces of the 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. ;