II. UNION
DECLARATION OF UNION
3.- It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation that, on and
after a Day therein appointed, not being more than six Months after the passing
of this Act, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form
and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada; and on and after that Day those
Three Provinces shall form and be One Dominion under that Name accordingly.
CONSTRUCTION OF SUBSEQUENT PROVISIONS OF ACT
4.- Unless it is otherwise expressed or implied, the Name Canada
shall be taken to mean Canada as constituted under this Act.
FOUR PROVINCES
5.- Canada shall be divided into Four Provinces, named Ontario,
Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
PROVINCES OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC
6.- The Parts of the Province of Canada (as it exists at the passing
of this Act) which formerly constituted respectively the Provinces of Upper
Canada and Lower Canada shall be deemed to be severed, and shall form Two
separate Provinces. The Part which formerly constituted the Province of upper
Canada shall constitute the Province of Ontario; and the Part which formerly
constituted the Province of Lower Canada shall constitute the Province of
Quebec.
PROVINCES OF NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK
7.- The Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall have the
same Limits as at the passing of this Act.
DECENNIAL CENSUS
8.- In the general Census of the Population of Canada which is
hereby required to be taken in the Year One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, and in every Tenth Year thereafter, the respective Populations of
the Four Provinces shall be distinguished.
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