List of documents from the constitutional history of Canada

List of documents from the constitutional history of Canada

This is a list of significant documents related to the history of the Constitution of Canada, some of which constitute part of the Constitution itself. (see List of Canadian constitutional documents for a list of documents that make up the Constitution).

Pre-Confederation

* Articles of Capitulation of Quebec (September 18, 1759)
* Articles of Capitulation of Montreal (September 8, 1760)
* Treaty of Paris (1763) (February 10, 1763)
* British Royal Proclamation of 1763 (October 7, 1763)
* [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/9_03424/0200?id=055bd3dcad8c0d16&size=3 Instructions to Governor Murray]
* [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/9_03424/0320?id=9eb513036a6c60bf&size=3 Instructions to Governor Carleton]
* Quebec Act (June 22, 1774)
* United States Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
* French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 26, 1789)
* Constitutional Act of 1791 (June 10, 1791)
* Ninety-Two Resolutions (February 21, 1834)
* Report of the Royal Commission for the Investigation of all Grievances Affecting His Majesty's Subjects of Lower Canada (1837)
* Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions (March 6, 1837)
* Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada (February 22, 1838)
* Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) (February, 1839)
* Act of Union (1840) (February 10, 1841)
* British North America Act 1867 (July 1, 1867)

Confederation

* Manitoba Act (1870)
* Francoeur motion (1918)
* Statute of Westminster (1931)
* Report of the Rowell-Dafoe-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (1940)
* Letters Patent (1947)
* Report of the Tremblay Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (1953)
* Report of the Laurendeau-Dunton Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963)
* Official Languages Act (1969)
* Victoria Charter (1971)
* Report of the Gendron Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and Linguistic Rights in Quebec (1972)
* Charter of the French Language (1977)
* Report of The Pépin Robarts Commission - Task Force on Canadian Unity (1978)
* Sovereignty-Association Act (1980)
* Canada Act 1982 (1982)
* Meech Lake Accord (1989)
* Beaudoin-Edwards committee report (June 20, 1991)
* Report of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Québec (March 27, 1991)
* Allaire report (January 28, 1991)
* Report of the Parliamentary Committee to Examine Matters Relating to the Accession of Québec to Sovereignty (1992)
* Charlottetown Accord (1992)
* Act Respecting the Future of Quebec (1995)
* 1997 Calgary Accord
* Reference re Secession of Quebec (1998)
* Clarity Act (1998)
* Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State (1999)
* Report of the Auditor General of Canada (2004)


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