The report of the Special Joint Committee on Senate Reform (Molgat-Cogrove), 1984,
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www.ontariospeaks.comweb site.
Added the Report
on the New
Brunswick Companion Resolution to the Meech Lake Accord.
After a long hiatus, and a lot of
tweaking, I have finally returned to this project. The Constitution Act,
1867 and the Constitution Act,
1982 now have their footnotes marked up and appended.
Added a link to
the Iroquois Nations Constitution.
Finally
completed the entire Codigo Civil
de Mexico and totally re-vamped the look.
Added the
current bill
for amending the Constitution in respect to
Newfoundland and its denominational schools.
Improved the
description on the Constitution
Act, 1867 a bit on the Canadian
Constitution page.Finished off the
Meech Lake Accord Report and fixed the directories and
such.
The site now has
a new home, http://www.solon.org/,
in addition to the mirror at http://www.miredespa.com/
Add a link to South
Africa's new constitution on the home page.Acckk!! The
Spanish portions of this archive have some accent
screw-ups and such. Sigh. The unamed company's spelling
software gets a thrashing for this...
Revamped the Charlottetown
Consensus and cleaned up the typos and spelling
errors.Added the
version of the Constitution
Act, 1867. Lovingly hand-typed for the past several
weeks....
All the "core"
Constitutional Documents have been put online. Vacation
time? Nope. There's a great collection of documents
(about 400+) that is next....The Alberta
Act, 1905 and the Saskatchewan
Act, 1905 round out the core of the collection.Started thinking
about creating these pages on the fly to control colours
and such...A large but worthy CGI conversion project.
This site will be moving to its proper home very soon:
http://www.solon.org/.Added the Yukon
Territory Act, 1898 to the Canadian
Constitution page. For a comparison, you may want to
check the newly available Yukon Act.
Removed NAFTA
and GATT off this server since it actually got little or
no traffic. Pointers to the original sites are included
instead.
Updated some of
the pages to reflect changes and additions.
Typos happen.
'Nuff said.The
Constitution Act, 1930 is now available. On my list
of The Most Hideous Documents to Scan[TM], this ranked
No. 2, mainly due to its length. The Consitutitonal
Act, 1791 ranked No. 1. This was attributable to the
massive blocks of Italicized paragraphs.
The legendary Victoria
Charter, The earliest oppurtunity where Canada could
have had its own Constitution since the
Dominion-Provincial Conference of 1927. Note the
similarites and differences between this proposal and the
ones suggested by Meech
Lake and the Charlottetown
Accord.
Added the
Miscellaneous Statue Law Revision Act, 1977, in English
and FrenchAdded link to
the The
American Revolution - an HTML Project as a complement
to this site.Cleaned some
more documents.
Lot's! First off
the Constitutional
Act, 1791 is now available.the French
versions of the Constitution
Amendment Proclamation, 1993 (Prince Edward Island), Constitution
Amendment Proclamation, 1993 (New Brunswick Act), Constitution
Amendment, 1987 (Newfoundland Act) and the Constitution
Amendment Proclamation, 1983 are now on-line.The Treaty of
Paris, 1763, in English
is online. This document gives the big picture on the
"Conquest" of Quebec and the French-Indian War.
French to follow soon.The Rupert's
Land Order of 1870, defining the remaining
territories to be admitted into Canada
Some of the
pages are blackened in recognition of the Internet Days
of Protest, a campaign to protest the passing into law of
the US Communications
Decency Act (After all, "Living next to you is
something like lying next to an elephant: No matter how
well tempered the beast, you feel every twitch and
grunt".)
Created a
directory for aboriginal
legal materials, and as a consequence started to move
some documents around. Among the documents there now are
the British Columbia Treaty Commission Agreement, One of
the Robinson Treaties, and Treaty No. 2.Fixed another
annoying but interesting typo in the Constitution
Act, 1982
Fixed some more
inconsistencies in formatting the HTML pages.The Canadian
Constitution page in Spanish
is finalized. French will follow in time.Another version
of Bill
C-110, this time giving British Columbia a
constitutional veto.
The Diario
Oficial de la Federación is available by
subscription to Infosel
in Mexico, and a link to that site has been made.Duh! Forgot to
add a most important link! Servidor InfoJus
WWW, by Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas
de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México. This contains all the constitutions of the Mexican
states, as well as the Federal
constitution.
The first
version of the Spanish translations for the archive are
now in place for the Canadian Constitution. As a policy,
The Project won't be making translations of source
documents, rather it will provide translations of
explanatory sections, as in home pages, etc.
Bill C-110, An
act respecting consitutional amendments, is available
here in French
and English
Added the Prince
Edward Island Terms of Union and corrected a typo
found in the Colonial
Laws Validity Act, 1865
Added a link
explaining Canada's Coat
of Arms
The motion
respecting the recognition that Quebec is a Distinct
Society is available now in French
and English.
Added the Manitoba
Boundaries Extension Act, 1881Moved Pierre
Elliott Trudeau's draft preamble
of 1980 to the Proposals
section, and cleaned up that page as well.Added the London
Resolutions of 1866, which expressed how the British
North American colonies wished to be organized after
union. Compare this with the Constitution
Act, 1867Also added the Colonial
Laws Validity Act, 1865, which gave the United
Kingdom Parliament the power to over-ride any conflicting
colonial laws.Added some info
to the Miscellaneous
section of the Canadian Constitution archiveFixed a broken
link in the Table
of Constitutional Documents
The British Columbia
Treaty Commission Agreement is now available.
Added the British
North America (No. 2) Act, 1949, the Statute
Law Revision Act, 1950 and the British
Columbia Terms of Union.Though no longer
law, the infamous Quebec language bill (Bill 178) that
invoked the "notwithstanding clause"
(Constitution Act, 1982, section 33) is here in English
and French
Played around with the graphics a
bit.Installed the first bits of the
committee reports repository (Meech Lake
Committee report).
Fixed the Status
of the Artist Act in English
and French.
Added the
description of the New
Brunswick Companion Resolution to the Proposals
page, as well as the resolution itself.
Changed the
Constitution page a bit to include a more expanded
explanation of some acts and highlighted several points
therein
The
controversial Union
Act, 1840 is now available.Created a third
auxiliary page related to odds
and ends regarding the Constitution of Canada and its
development, such as a draft preamble
tabled by P.E. Trudeau.
The Official
Residences Act and the Official
Languages Act are online now.Fixed a blatant
error on the Canadian
Constitution page that seeped from the mirror of the
original.Updated my To Do
list.
The British Coumbia
Treaty Commission AgreementAdded a pointer
to Places
on the World Wide Web for Historians, which is a
great resource to primary and secondary documents on the
net.
Fixed the Constitution
Act, 1907: it was missing the Schedule.Added a link to LOI
relative à l'emploi de la langue française,
or "Law regarding the use of the French
language," from France.
Updated the Table
of Constitutional Documents to reflect changesContinued adding
HTML 3.0 coding to apply stylistic changesAdded the Canada
Act, 1982, in English
and French.Added the Décret
en conseil sur les territoires adjacents (Adjacent
Territories Order).
The Newfoundland
Act is now available.A bonus for
Constitutional Aficionados: The Quebec
Resolutions of 1864 are availble here. This document
was essentially the forerunner of the Constitution
Act, 1867
The
Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912 is now
available.
Added a link to
UNAM's Instituto
de Investigaciones Jurídicas exhaustive and
complete rendering of all the constitutions
of all of Mexico's States as well as that of its own
country's.
It was build
your favourite search engine week!Moved the NAFTA
and GATT archives into a new directory where all other
international treaties should go.
The Department of
Justice Act.
The Canadian Multiculturalism Act is
now available
Finally fixed a
glaring omission in my WAIS scripts, so now the
print_hit_bold script actually gets fed the altered URL.Fixed the home
page slightly to highlight the differing search engines.Treaty
No. 2, between the Crown and the Chippewa and Cree
Indians of Manitoba.
The Quebec
Referendum Bill.
Japanese
Copyright Law, only in Japanese.Consitution
of Ireland
Ministry of Justice
Law serverLoi
constitutionnelle de 1982 is now online.Started the
process of adding HTML 3.0 coding to the pages.
Due to an
interest in learning the Japanese language, I ran across Jim
Breen's excellent EDICT dictionary server and found a
Japanese-English-Japanese legal term dictionary as well.
Caveats? You need the ability to diplay Kanji and Kana,
as well as have some sort of access to Jim's Xjdic
client....
Started to
"modernize" a bit by adding mailto, since they
are both supported by Netscape
and Mosaic
browsers now.Added a link to
the Constitution
of Spain.Added a pointer
to the new Product
Liability Law of Japan.Added a link to
the Statutes of
Australia
Fixed a really,
really, dumb typo that caused WAIS to die...It's a long
and painful story...trust me, you'll want the
made-for-T.V. version - NOT!
Due to my
playful nature when it comes to operating systems such as Linux,
the machine has at times behaved rather capriciously....The search
engines have moved yet again, because the main server has
been deactivated for the next two weeks for network
upgrades ;_;....You can try to use the ones here
insteadHarvest is now
running here...This means you can search
some of the world's legal resources. This part is under
beta test, but please feel free to use it now.
The Indian Act,
complete
The first 50
sections to the Indian Act
A French version
of the Charter
of Rights and FreedomsA proposal for a
new Japanese Constitution with a draft, as
published by the Yomiuri Shimbun
newspaper in Japan.
Corrections to
the Constitution
Act, 1982.A draft Preamble
for the then proposed Constitution Act, 1981.
First entry for
this file. This site was actually started on July 4,
1994.The Jay TreatyMinor changes to
some of the pages, including Netscape aware extensions
for experimental purposes.
This Archive has actually been around since 4 July, 1994. The first bits and pieces ever in place were the BNA Act 1867 and the resources page. The Codigo Civil de Mexico, as of 1994, was put in place around May 1995. After that, the archive really expanded to its present state.
In fact, here's more on that, from a recent reply to a query:
The site started off with one document, back in 1994. The document in question was the British North America Act [1867] (Canada's early 'constitution'). I wanted to do this because copies were circulating that were either incomplete or incorrect.After that, the site took on a life of its own, and it has been an on-going hobby of mine. (I actually work in the data-communications/computer field.)
As for the selections, it wasn't deliberate. I started to centralize, very early in the site's life, what was available on WWW (again around 1994, early 1995) as well as make available documents I had come accross personally (por exemplo, El Codigo Civil de Mexico - de que edad, yo no sabe).
Anyways, I think people began to independently discover the idea that many documents like these could become available, freely. Over time, other sites sprang up and devoted their energies to specific areas of international and constitutional law - better than I could. So my efforts have gradually evolved to concentrate on the Canadian Constitution, and bits and pieces of Canadian aboriginal law, plus a couple of things related to Mexico.