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Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, 1873 to 1900 at Canadiana.org; Acts of the Parliament (of the Dominion) of Canada, 1901 to 1997 at the Internet Archive; Acts of the Parliament of Canada, 1987 to 2023 at the Government of Canada Publications catalogue. Official Justice Laws Website of the Canadian Department of Justice
In response, the Parliament of Canada passed the Board of Commerce Act, 1919 [2] and the Combines and Fair Prices Act, 1919. [3] The assigned the Board of Commerce two main functions: Investigate and restrain combinations, monopolies, trusts and mergers constituting a "combine." Inquire into and enforce prohibitions against hoarding and ...
The Canada Highways Act was a 1919 act of the Dominion Parliament of Canada. The Act established a fund to support the construction of provincial highways as part of the post- World War I reconstruction program of Robert Borden 's Union government.
February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and former prime minister of Canada, dies in office. April 17 – New Brunswick women are permitted to vote. April 10 – The Quebec referendum on the prohibition of alcohol. May 3 – Yukon women are permitted to vote. May 15 – June 25 – Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
The British North America Acts, 1867–1975, are a series of acts of Parliament that were at the core of the Constitution of Canada. Most were enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and some by the Parliament of Canada. Some of the acts were repealed in Canada by the Constitution Act, 1982. The rest were renamed the Constitution Acts ...
The modern-day Parliament of Canada came into existence in 1867, in which year the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passed the British North America Act, 1867, uniting the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada—with the Province of Canada split into Quebec and Ontario—into a single federation called ...
… in conformity with established constitutional practice, it being the considered view of His Majesty's government in Canada that the motion, with respect to honours, adopted on the 22nd day of May, 1919, by a majority vote of the members of the Commons House only of the 13th parliament (which was dissolved on the 4th day of October, 1921) is ...
Disallowance is the decision by a representative of the Crown to veto an act of the Parliament of Canada, or a provincial legislature, and the act ceases to operate as law. [9] The authority to disallow an act of the federal Parliament was set out in section 56 of the Constitution Act, 1867, and was held by the Crown in council.