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1889
Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889
52-53 Victoria, c. 28 (U.K.)
An Act to declare the Boundaries of the Province of Ontario in
the Dominion of Canada
[12th August 1889.]
WHEREAS the Senate and Commons of Canada in Parliament assembled
have presented to Her Majesty the Queen the address set forth in
the schedule to this Act respecting the boundaries of the
province of Ontario: And whereas the Government of the province
of Ontario have assented to the boundaries mentioned in that
Address: And whereas such boundaries so far as the province of
Ontario adjoins the province of Quebec are identical with those
fixed by the proclamation of the Governor-General issued in
November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, which have
ever since existed: And whereas such boundaries, so far as the
province of Ontario adjoins the province of Manitoba, are
identical with those found to be the correct boundaries by a
report of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which Her
Majesty the Queen in Council, on the eleventh day of August one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, ordered to be carried
into execution: And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries
of the province of Ontario should be declared by authority of
Parliament in accordance with the said address: Be it therefore
enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as
the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889. 2. It is hereby
declared that the westerly, northerly, and easterly boundaries
of the province of Ontario are those described in the address
set forth in the schedule to this Act.
SCHEDULE. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN FROM THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF
COMMONS OF CANADA. WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal
Subjects, the Senate and Commons of Canada. in Parliament
assembled, humbly approach Your Majesty with the request that
Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to cause a measure to be
submitted to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, declaring and
providing the following to be the westerly, northerly, and
easterly boundaries of the province of Ontario, that is to
say:-- Commencing at the point where the international boundary
between the United States of America and Canada strikes the
western shores of Lake Superior, thence westerly along the said
boundary to the north-west angle of the Lake of the Woods,
thence along a line drawn due north until it strikes the middle
line of the course of the river discharging the waters of the
lake called Lake Seul or the Lonely Lake, whether above or below
its confluence with the stream flowing from the Lake of the
Woods towards Lake Winnipeg, and thence proceeding eastward from
the point at which the beforementioned line strikes the middle
line of the course of the river last aforesaid, along the middle
line of the course of the same river (whether called by the name
of the English River or, as to the part below the confluence, by
the name of the River Winnipeg) up to Lake Seul or the Lonely
Lake, and thence along the middle line of Lake Seul or Lonely
Lake to the head of that lake, and thence by a straight line to
the near west point of the middle line of the waters of Lake St.
Joseph, and thence along that middle line until it reaches the
foot or outlet of that lake, and thence along the middle line of
the river by which the waters of Lake St. Joseph discharge
themselves to the shore of the part of Hudson's Bay commonly
known as James' Bay and thence south-easterly following upon the
said shore to a point where a line drawn due north from the head
of Lake Temiscamingue would strike it, and thence due south
along the said line to the head of the said lake. and thence
through the middle channel of the said lake into the Ottawa
River, and thence descending along the middle of the main
channel of the said river to the intersection by the
prolongation of the western limits of the Seigneurie of Rigaud,
such mid-channel being as indicated on a map of the Ottawa Ship
Canal Survey made by Walter Shanly, C.E., and approved by Order
of the Governor-General in Council, dated the twenty-first July
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six; and thence southerly,
following the said westerly boundary of the Seigneurie of Rigaud
to the south-west angle of the said Seigneurie, and then
southerly along the western boundary of the augmentation of the
township of Newton to the northwest angle of the Seigneurie of
Longueuil, and thence south-easterly along the south-western
boundary of said Seigneurie of New Longueuil to a stone boundary
on the north bank of the Lake St. Francis, at the cove west of
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