Primary and Secondary Sources in Government Documents
This page lists the significant primary and secondary sources available in the Government Documents collection.
Constitutional Documents
Aboriginal Treaties and Related Documents
Pioneers and Immigrants
Constitutional Documents
Major Constitutional Documents
Other Sources of Constitutional Documents
Major Constitutional Documents
Below you will find a list of major documents that have helped shape the Canadian Constitution since 1760.
Articles of Capitulation, Montreal, Sept. 8, 1760 (bilingual)
Royal Proclamation, Oct. 7th, 1763 (bilingual)
The Québec Act, 1774 (bilingual)
The Constitutional Act, 1791
Act of Union, 1840
British North America Act, 1867 (bilingual)
Statute of Westminster, 1931
Canada Act, 1982
Constitution Act, 1982
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Other Sources of Constitutional Documents
These texts, first compiled almost a hundred years ago, remain an excellent source of material.
Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791
Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, 1918
Volume I
Volume II
Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1791-1818
Arthur G. Doughty and Duncan A. McArthur, 1914
Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1819-1828
Arthur G. Doughty and Norah Storey, 1935
Statutes, Treaties and Documents of the Canadian Constitution, 1713-1929
W.P.M. Kennedy, 1930
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Aboriginal Treaties and Related Documents
Major Treaties
Other Significant Documents Affecting Aboriginals
Other Sources of Treaty Documents
Major Treaties
Below you will find a list of major treaties between European colonial powers or the Canadian government and Aboriginal peoples in Canada after 1760.
The Selkirk Treaty, 1817
The Robinson Superior Treaty, 1850
The Robinson Huron Treaty, 1850
The Manitoulin Island Treaty, 1862
Treaty Number One, 1871
Treaty Number Two, 1871
Treaty Number Three, 1873
Treaty Number Four, 1874
Treaty Number Five, 1875
Treaty Number Six, 1876
Treaty Number Seven, 1877
Treaty Number Eight, 1899
Treaty Number Nine, 1905
Treaty Number Ten, 1906
Treaty Number Eleven, 1921
Williams Treaties, 1923 - Chippewa Indians
Williams Treaties, 1923 - Mississauga Indians
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Other Significant Documents Affecting Aboriginals
Jay Treaty, 1794
English
French
Indian Act, 1876
Indian Act, 1985
James Bay and Northern Québec Native Claims Settlement Act, 1975
Cree-Naskapi (of Québec) Act, 1984
Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act, 1984
Nunavut Act
Nisaga'a Final Agreement Act
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Other Sources of Treaty Documents
These texts, first compiled over a hundred years ago, remain an excellent source of material.
Indian treaties and surrenders, from 1680 to 1890
Canada (1891)
Volume I
Volume II
The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories including the Negotiations on which they were based.
Alexander Morris, 1880
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Pioneers and Immigrants
Major Immigration Documents
Other Significant Documents Affecting Immigration
Other Miscellaneous Documents
Major Immigration Documents
Below are some documents that affected or shaped Canadian immigration policy:
An act concerning emigrants and quarantine, 1866 / Un acte concernant les émigrants et la quarantaine, 1866 (bilingual on opposite pages)
Chinese Immigration Act, 1885
Statutes passed by the colonies to restrict Pauper Immigration, 1886
An act to amend the Chinese Immigration Act, 1887
An act to amend the Chinese Immigration Act, 1892
Extracts from the Immigration Act, circa 1893
Extracts from the Quarantine Act, circa 1893
Chinese Immigration Act, 1901
Immigration Act, 1906
Acte concernant l'immigration et les immigrants, 1906
Immigration Act, 1910
Acte concernant l'immigration et les immigrants, 1910
War Measures Act, 1914
La Loi des mesures de guerre, 1914
Wartime Elections Act, 1917
La Loi des élections en temps de guerre, 1917
Immigration Act, 1919
Loi modifiant la loi de l'immigration, 1919
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1923
Un acte concernant Chinois D'Exclusion, 1923
Immigration Act, 1952
Loi concernant l'immigration, 1952
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Other Significant Documents Affecting Immigration
Regulations to be observed for the orderly and expeditious settlement of New Brunswick, 14th January 1785
An Act for encouraging new settlers in his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America (1790)
Copy of a Circular dispatch addressed to the governors of Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by Viscount Goderich, 11 December 1831
Lower Canada: An Act to create a fund for defraying the Expense of providing Medical Assistance for Sick Emigrants ... , 25 February 1832
Nova Scotia: An Act relating to passengers from Great Britain and Ireland arriving in this province, 10 February 1832
New Brunswick: An Act to regulate Vessels arriving from the United Kingdom with passengers and emigrants
An act to repeal certain Acts [regarding British emigrants to Lower Canada], probably circa 1849 (About taxes on new emigrants, and certain emigrants who were not allowed into the province, like the mentally ill.)
Information for the use of Military and Naval Officers proposing to settle in the British Colonies, 1834
Dominion Lands Act, 1872
Acte concernant les terres publiques de la Puissance, 1872
Dominion Lands Act (revisions), 1879
Dominion Lands Act (revisions), 1883
Dominion Lands Act legislation affecting Manitoba and the North West Territories
Further acts affecting the emigration of children (Under British Law)
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Other Sources of Treaty Documents
Acts of the legislatures of the provinces now comprised in the Dominion, and of Canada, 1887 (Contains at least 35 documents related to the construction of various Canadian railways; see indexes)
Actes des législatures des provinces formant aujourd'hui partie de la puissance et actes du Canada, 1887
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