REPRESENTATION IN THE SENATE tion. 7. The province shall continue to be represented in the Senate Senate of Canada by four members; provided that such repre- representasentation may, after the completion of the decennial census of June, nineteen hundred and eleven, be from time to time increased to six by the Parliament of Canada. COMMENCEMENT OF ACT 8. This Act shall come into force on a day to be fixed by Commenceproclamation of the Governor in Council published in The ment of Act. Canada Gazette, but such proclamation shall not be made until after the Legislature of Manitoba shall have consented to the increase of the limits of the province herein provided for, and agreed to the terms, conditions and provisions aforesaid. Preamble. Short title. Boundaries extended. THE MANITOBA BOUNDARIES EXTENSION ACT, 1930 20-21 GEORGE V, CHAPTER 28 An Act to provide for the extension of the boundary of the [Assented to 10th April, 1930.] WHEREAS in and by virtue of Article I of the Treaty between His Britannic Majesty in respect of the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America for the further demarcation of the boundary between Canada and the United States of America, signed at Washington on the twenty-fourth day of February, 1925, the two parcels of land hereinafter described, situate, lying and being in the Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods became the property of Canada; AND WHEREAS the said parcels of land are situate within the boundaries of lands added to the Province of Manitoba by the Manitoba Boundaries Extension Act, 1912. AND WHEREAS in pursuance of section three of The British North America Act, 1871, the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba has passed an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for the extension of the Boundary of the Province of Manitoba in the Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods," being chapter three of the Statutes of 1928, consenting to the increase in the limits of the said province; AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said parcels of land be added to and form part of the Province of Manitoba; THEREFORE His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Manitoba Boundaries Extension Act, 1930. 2. The pieces or parcels of land hereinbefore mentioned and more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, shall from and after the passing of this Act be added to and form part of the Province of Manitoba. (1) See 1950 c. 16 infra. SCHEDULE PARCEL A All and Singular, that certain piece or parcel of land covered by water, situate, lying and being in the Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods and particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point, the second intersection from the south of the meridian through International Boundary Monument number nine hundred and twenty-five with the middle thread of the Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods, said point being north two thousand nine hundred and four feet, more or less, of said International Boundary Monument number nine hundred and twenty-five, thence due north along the said meridian four hundred and seventy feet, more or less, to the third intersection from the south of the said meridian with the said middle thread of the said Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods, thence following the sinuosities of the said middle thread of the said Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods southerly a distance of seven hundred feet, more or less, to the place of beginning, containing by admeasurement two acres, be the same more or less. PARCEL B All and Singular, that certain piece or parcel of land covered by water, situate, lying and being in the Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods and particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point, the fourth intersection from the south of the meridian through International Boundary Monument number nine hundred and twenty-five with the middle thread of the Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods, said point being north three thousand seven hundred and twenty feet, more or less, of said International Boundary Monument number nine hundred and twenty-five, thence due north along the said meridian two hundred and ninety feet, more or less, to the fifth intersection from the south of the said meridian with the said middle thread of the said Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods, thence following the sinuosities of the said middle thread of the said Northwest Angle Inlet of Lake of the Woods southerly a distance of three hundred and twentyfive feet, more or less to the place of beginning, containing by admeasurement one half acre, be the same more or less. Preamble. B.C., 1931, c. 8; Alberta, 1931, c. 6. THE ALBERTA-BRITISH COLUMBIA BOUNDARY ACT, 1932 22-23 GEORGE V, CHAPTER 5 An Act respecting the Boundary between the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia (1) [Assented to 4th April, 1932.] WHEREAS by Order in Council P.C. 337, approved on the eighteenth day of February, 1913, an invitation was extended by the Government of the Dominion of Canada to the Governments of the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia to participate in the joint survey of the boundary line between the Province of Alberta and the Province of British Columbia; And whereas the said invitation was accepted by the Government of the Province of Alberta by Order in Council No. 534-13, approved on the sixteenth day of June, 1913, and by the Government of the Province of British Columbia by Order in Council No. 812, approved on the second day of June, 1913; And whereas by Order in Council approved on the eleventh day of July, 1913, J. N. Wallace, D.L.S., was appointed Boundary Commissioner to represent the Dominion on the joint survey of the boundary line, and whereas by Order in Council, approved on the twentieth day (1) The object of this Act was to ratify and confirm the boundary as surveyed and marked upon the ground by the Interprovincial Boundary Commission between the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia as the true boundary, whether or not the same increased, diminished or otherwise altered the territory of the respective Provinces. The Commission carried on the survey of the Boundary continuously from 1913 to 1924, at which time the Rocky Mountain section of the Boundary had been completed, together with 252 miles of the 120th Meridian survey to a point in Latitude 57°26′40′′. At this point the Government decided to discontinue the survey for the time being, there being about 174 miles of the 120th Meridian still to be surveyed through uninhabited and unproductive country. The work of the Commission was done in such a way as to earn the complete confidence in its technical accuracy of the Surveyors General of the Dominion and British Columbia and the Director of Surveys for Alberta. The report of the Commission, including an Atlas of Maps, was issued in three parts, signed copies of which were transmitted to the Governments of Alberta and British Columbia, as well as being of record in the Topographical Survey of the Department of the Interior. The object of the survey was not only to delimit the Boundary on the ground but also to establish the surveyed Boundary as the true and unalterable Boundary between the two Provinces according to law so that no possible dispute in regard to its position can arise in the future. Acts were passed by the Legislatures of Alberta and British Columbia consenting to the confirmation of this Boundary by the Parliament of the Dominion. Alberta, 1931, c. 6; British Columbia, 1931, c. 8. See also 1955, c. 24, infra. of September, 1915, R. W. Cautley, D.L.S., was appointed Boundary Commissioner to represent the Dominion in the place of the said J. N. Wallace; And whereas A. O. Wheeler, B.C.L.S., as Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia, with the said J. N. Wallace, as Commissioner for the Dominion up to the twentieth day of September, 1915, and the said R. W. Cautley, as Commissioner for the Province of Alberta and, after the twentieth day of September, 1915, for the Dominion as well, did subsequently enter upon the work of the joint survey of the said boundary line and did complete the same in or about the year 1924 from the International Boundary on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, northerly to a point on the one hundred and twentieth meridian of west longitude in or about latitude north fifty-seven degrees, twenty-six minutes, and forty and twenty-five one hundreds seconds; And whereas the said Commissioners have made due report of their said survey, and have caused the line indicating the boundary between the said Provinces to the extent aforesaid to be surveyed and marked upon the ground and to be duly laid down upon maps signed by them as such Commissioners, which said reports and maps have been printed and copies thereof deposited in the office of the SurveyorGeneral of the Dominion in the Department of the Interior; And whereas by section three of The British North America Act, 1871, it was enacted that the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada may from time to time, with the consent of the Legislature of any Province of the Dominion, increase, diminish or otherwise alter the limits of the Province, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the said Legislature, and may, with the like consent, make provision respecting the effect and operation of any such increase or diminution or alteration of territory in relation to any Province affected thereby; And whereas the said Provinces have given their consent, by Acts of their respective Legislatures passed in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-one, to the establishment of the above mentioned boundary line, and it is expedient that the said line so surveyed, marked and laid down should be established to the extent aforesaid as the boundary line between the Province of Alberta and the Province of British Columbia: Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Alberta-British Columbia Short title. Boundary Act, 1932. line. 2. The line so surveyed, marked and laid down in the Boundary manner referred to in the preamble to this Act, to the extent thereof, is hereby declared to be the boundary line between the Province of Alberta and the Province of British Columbia, whether or not the same increases, diminishes, or otherwise alters |