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| | British North America Acts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | By the Canada Act 1982, the British Parliament, acting at the request and with the consent of Canada, enacted the Constitution Act 1982, which established a procedure for the amendment of the Canadian constitution by the Canadian Parliament. | | | The British North America Acts 1867–1975 are generally named Constitution Acts in Canada, and together with the Constitution Act 1982 are now collectively known as the Constitution Acts 1867–1982, though they remain named as they originally were in the United Kingdom. | | | The British North America Acts 1867–1975 are a series of Acts of the British Parliament dealing with the government of Canada. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America_Act
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| | MSN Encarta - British North America Act |
| | British North America Act (1867), legislation, now known as the Constitution Act, 1867, the basis of the Constitution Act, 1982, which is Canada's fundamental law, determining the structure of government, the allocation of powers between federal and provincial authorities, and the interpretation of other statutes. | | | The British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1867. | | | The act had originated in negotiations among colonial politicians in 1864. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572476/British_North_America_Act.html
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| | British North America Act at opensource encyclopedia |
| | Under this Act the names of the various British North America Acts were changed to the Constitution Act, and together with the 1982 Act and other Acts of the British and Canadian parliaments have become collectively known as the Canadian Constitution. | | | BNA acts were passed in 1867, 1871, 1886, 1907, 1915, 1916*, 1940, 1943*, 1946*, 1949, 1949 (No. 2)*, 1951*, 1952*, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1974 and 1975. | | | The British North America Act is name of a series of acts of the British Parliament dealing with the Constitution of Canada. |
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http://www.wiki.tatet.com/British_North_America_Act.html
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| | British North America |
| | British North America, the term usually applied to the British colonies and territories in North America after the US became independent in 1783 until CONFEDERATION in 1867. | | | On the west coast the HBC colony of Vancouver Island was established in 1849 and what is now southern BRITISH COLUMBIA became another crown colony in 1858. | | | At first it consisted of the provinces of QUEBEC, NOVA SCOTIA, St John's Island [PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND], NEWFOUNDLAND, the HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY territories, and lands belonging directly to the Crown. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001003
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| | Canadian Confederation: The British North America Act, 1867 |
| | British Columbia was admitted into the Union pursuant to section 146 of the Constitution Act, 1867, by the British Columbia Terms of Union, being Order in Council of May 16, 1871, effective July 20, 1871. | | | This Act may be cited as The British North America Act, 1867. | | | The section was re-enacted by the British North America Act, 1952, S.C. 1952, c. |
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http://www.geocities.com/sharut/ca_1867.html
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| | British North America: Canada |
| | The British soon established a rival company; in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company was given a monopoly by the British government to trade in the Hudson Bay area. | | | The British territory was immediately filled up with some 40,000 loyalists who fled from the Americans. | | | This court decision held that Amerind rights to the land had been in place at the time of colonization, but the court was divided on whether those rights had been ended by White settlement. |
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| | MACHRAY REVIEW #5: A Lament for British North America |
| | A few of the statutes which: had amended the British North America Act, 1867 were repealed and the British North America Act, 1949 was renamed the Newfoundland Act. | | | This was the renaming of our basic constitutional document, the British North America Act of 1867.1 will set out in detail the change which was made and describe the near universal lack of interest it elicited. | | | Now each amendment to the British North America Act had been called a British North America Act, with the year of its passage forming part of its title. |
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http://www.prayerbook.ca/library/machray/issue5/machray5d.htm
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| | British North America Act -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | By the British North America Act of 1867, the provinces were given authority to direct the schools within their borders. | | | the act of Parliament of the United Kingdom by which in 1867 three British colonies in North America—Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada—were united as “one Dominion under the name of Canada&; and by which provision was made that the other colonies and territories of British North America might be admitted. | | | (1774), act of the British Parliament that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French Civil Code and the Roman Catholic Church. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9016528
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| | History of BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA |
| | This gives the North West Company's members (known as the Nor'Westers) a virtual monopoly of the rich fur trade in the western half of British America. | | | In his Report on the Affairs of British North America, ready for publication in 1839, Durham makes two proposals which are acted upon during the 1840s. | | | This unseemly war between two British companies leads eventually to a merger, imposed by the government in 1821. |
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| | British Empire and American Revolution: 1763-1791 - Canadian Heritage |
| | In 1791 it was passed into effect by the British parliament, as the Constitutional or Canada Act. | | | Consequently, many immigrant minorities had looked to British law and institutions which had meant security, and feared revolutionary upheaval with the chaos it could bring. | | | It certainly continued in British keeping -- although an American privateer raid on Charlottetown in 1775 carried the acting governor and two officials off to General Washington, who did not want them, and sent them home. |
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http://www.canadianheritage.org/books/canada4.htm
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| | Mapping the American Revolution and Its Era |
| | John Wallis was one of the first mapmakers to show the new territory of the United States as defined by the Treaty of Paris (1783). | | | William DeBrahm followed Evans and Mitchell with his map of South Carolina and Georgia, a work that eventually gained him the appointment of Surveyor General of the Southern District of North America. | | | In 1751 Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson published the results of their surveys in the middle and Southern colonies in a A map of the inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland, Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina. |
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| | The British Army Stationed in British North America: 1812 - 1815 |
| | This is an examination of the British Regular Army Units stationed and serving in Canada during the War of 1812, which lasted from 18 June 1812 to 18 February 1815. | | | Regulars in British North America at War’s Declaration 1812. | | | Appendix 1: Regulars Which Served Outside of British North America 1814 - 1815 |
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http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/battles/bna/c_bna1.html
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| | The British North America Act |
| | On July 1st, 1867, the British parliament passed the BNA act. | | | The Provincial legislatures are given the power to make their own laws in fifteen specific subject catagories, and are generally, in all matters of a merely local or private nature in the province according to section 92 of the BNA act. | | | This act established the Dominion of Canada, and gave the Canadian government the right to pass the laws. |
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http://www.plpsd.mb.ca/amhs/history/bna.html
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| | British North America - definition of British North America in Encyclopedia |
| | British North America originally comprised all British colonies and territories on the North American continent, from Georgia to Labrador and Rupert's Land. | | | After the American Revolutionary War, the term became restricted to colonies of the British Empire in North America that did not secede and form the United States of America. | | | See also: British colonization of the Americas and British Empire |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/British_North_America
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| | British North America Act |
| | British North America Act, law passed by the British Parliament in 1867 that provided for the unification of the Canadian provinces into the dominion of Canada. | | | More on British North America Act from Infoplease: | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: British North America Act |
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| | The Moulding of British North America:1791-1815 - Canadian Heritage |
| | And so, by 1821,the West of British North America was reshaped under this Hudson's Bay Company, in a form mainly to last until Confederation. | | | But when Craig, backed by the British elite, went on to urge the imperial government to revoke the whole Constitutional Act, the London authorities in 1811 wisely recalled him instead. | | | Devoted to the Loyalist settlers, as most of them were to him, Simcoe aimed at making his new province a very model of British law, liberty and progress set beside a misguided American republic. |
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http://www.canadianheritage.org/books/canada5.htm
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| | Slavery in America |
| | Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865 | | | Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. | | | In this war, Carolina whites, aided by the Yamasee, completely vanquished the Tuscarora, taking thousands of captives as slaves. |
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| | Canada and North America (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces) |
| | Treaty of Paris: Britain recognised the independence of the United States of America; remaining British possessions in North America were: | | | Ashburton-Webster Treaty settled British North America-United States boundaries disputes which had remained in doubt after the Treat of Ghent, especially the New Brunswick-Maine boundary | | | Treaty of Ghent ended War of 1812 establishing status quo ante bellum and returning all captured territory |
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| | Money and Banking in British North America |
| | Its opponents, mainly Republicans, argued that it was unconstitutional, that it represented too great a concentration of economic power, that it was falling under foreign (British) influence, and that it competed unfairly with the State-chartered banks. | | | The First Bank of the United States had been set up as a privately-owned, but national bank which its creator, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, hoped would serve many of the same functions as modern central banks do, including acting as fiscal agent for the federal government. | | | It operated for 20 years after its creation in 1791, but, despite considerable success, was terminated when Congress refused to renew its charter. |
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| | Settling in British North America |
| | From Benjamin Franklin, who wrote in 1751: “So vast is the Territory of North America that it will require many Ages to settle it fully and, till it is fully settled, Labour will never be cheap here, where no Man continues long a Labourer for others, but gets a Plantation of his own”. | | | The birth of the United States of America was 26 years away. | | | The city of Richmond, Virginia was started in 1737, while Charlotte, North Carolina was just being settled in 1750. |
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| | whist4 |
| | The consolidation of British power in North America following the conquest of New France in the 1760s was short-lived for, within a decade, British North America disintegrated as a result of the successful declaration of independence by the 13 colonies which became the nucleus of the new United States of America. | | | What common bonds connected these disparate components of the British Empire included the reluctance of their residents, for whatever reasons, to become part of the United States and their consequential dependence -- politically, economically, and in most, but not all cases culturally, on the British imperial connection. | | | The residue of British North America was a loose collection of colonies comprising Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Rupert's Land (controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company), and a vast, largely unorganized, territory stretching north and westward to the Pacific and the Arctic Ocean. |
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| | St. John's: Bank of British North America |
| | Subsequently, other branches were opened in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, the Yukon and in California. | | | This Italianate-style building was constructed in 1849 to house Newfoundland's first commercial bank, the Bank of British North America (BBNA). | | | Formed in 1835, the Bank of British North America established its first colonial branch in Newfoundland in 1837. |
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| | British Canada North America Regional |
| | Vincor owns wineries in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, California, Washington state... | | | Besides going on to teach medical students at the University of British Columbia, he... | | | Alberta and British Columbia are ahead of the country with 65 per cent of residents online. |
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| | The Scot in British North America - Introduction |
| | Up to the time of the American Revolution, the colonists of New England, or Virginia, looked across the ocean with tender affection to the dear old land they had left behind. | | | The Christianity of Columba and his island home had almost disappeared, when Kentigern or St. Mungo appeared in Strathclyde to raise anew the standard of the cross. | | | Crafty demagogues may flatter and prompt the ignorant prejudices of the residuum, but there can be little doubt that the sound heart of the United States is drawing closer to the maternal bosom than it has done at any time since '76. |
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| | British North America |
| | The Road to American Revolt in British North America | | | A sequence of time-lines that explain the events leading up to the American Revolution | | | The story, the people, the places, slavery in America, educational resources. |
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| | British North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | British North America was an informal term first used in 1783, but uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report. | | | The Americans tried but failed to capture Canada. | | | At the start of the American Revolution in 1775 the British Empire included 20 colonies north of Mexico. |
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| | British North America Collection |
| | Manuscript, 'Thoughts on the Furr Trade with the Indians in North America,' 47 pp., bound with Andrew Burnaby, Travels through the Middle Settlements in the Years 1759 and 1760 (London, 1775). | | | Anonymous memorandum book relating to Hudson's Bay, 56 pp. | | | John Brittain, 'Description of the Settlements in the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with an account of their natural productions and advantages, collected from a number of respectable inhabitants and well informed persons,' Halifax, N.S., 1784, 106 pp. |
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| | RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: Canada : BRITISH-NORTH-AMERICA |
| | Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in British North America. | | | Some list archives are not available; if there is a link here to an archive but the link doesn't work, it probably just means that no messages have been posted to that list yet. |
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| | Canada & B.N.A. Books |
| | The Essays and Proofs of British North America by Kenneth Minuse and R. Pratt The definitive work on BNA Essays and Proofs from the Essay Proof Society. | | | Release 4, A photographic guide to the genuine postal issues of the Canadian provinces: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Islands | | | The Colonial Postal System and Postage Stamps of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1849-1871 by Alfred S. Deaville |
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| | Untitled |
| | formulate questions to facilitate research in specific areas (e.g., the impact of the American Revolution on the Loyalist migration to British North America); | | | analyse and describe conflicting points of view about a series of historical events (e.g., the ways in which a Patriot and a Loyalist would view British actions in the Thirteen Colonies); | | | construct and interpret a wide variety of graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, and models to organize and interpret information (e.g., on a map of North America trace the loyalist migration routes and their areas of settlement); |
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