Where the Documents Come From

The documents that make up the Canadian Constitution stretch back hundreds of years and come from Britain, France and Canada. They have been researched from:

• The Early Canadiana Online collection.

• National Archives (1918). Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791. Vols I and II. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, Eds. Ottawa: J. de L. Taché (King's Printer).
  URL: http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=9_03424
  URL: http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=9_03425

• National Archives (1914). Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1791-1818. Arthur G. Doughty and Duncan A. McArthur, Eds. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee (King's Printer).
  URL: http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=9_03421

• National Archives (1935). Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1819-1828. Arthur G. Doughty and Norah Storey, Eds. Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude (King's Printer)
  URL: http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=9_03427

• (1930). Statutes, Treaties and Documents of the Canadian Constitution, 1713-1929. W.P.M. Kennedy, Ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  URL: http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=9_03428