Author : Alexander Fraser
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Book Synopsis The Ontario Archives: Scope of its Operations by : Alexander Fraser
Download or read book The Ontario Archives: Scope of its Operations written by Alexander Fraser and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This act provides for the government of Ontario a lieutenant-governor, who represents the Crown; an executive council of ministers of state and a legislature composed of duly elected representatives of the people. To this body the act secures exclusive legislative powers in Ontario and Quebec, in the matter of Crown lands, forests and mines; education, from the public common school to the university; municipal government, institutions and laws; incorporation of chartered companies—commercial, financial, professional, or social; solemnization of marriage, involving family history, vital statistics, etc.; property and civil rights; administration of justice, embracing both civil and criminal jurisdiction; agriculture and immigration, under which municipal, industrial, and agricultural statistics are collected, tabulated, and published; the founding and maintenance of provincial institutions such as hospitals, asylums, reformatories, prisons, and institutions for the instruction of the deaf and dumb and the blind; offices for the local registration of deeds, titles to land; the licensing of shops, taverns, hotels, auctioneers, etc.; the erection of local public works; the authorization and regulation of transportation not interprovincial.
