ebook img

Centennial series (Legislative Assembly of Alberta), 1869-2005: On behalf of the crown PDF

2006·57.3 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Centennial series (Legislative Assembly of Alberta), 1869-2005: On behalf of the crown

Lieutenant Govefnors of the North-West.'Territories and Alberta, 1869 - 2005 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 in https://archive.org/details/centennialseries01perr . AllgovernmentactionsaretakeninthenameoftheCrown, andtheLieutenantGovernor formallyholds theexecutivepowers on behalfofthe Crown. TheLieutenantGovernor invariablyactson theadviceoftheMinistersbutretains therightto beconsulted, to encourageandtowarn.TheMinistersareresponsibleto theAssemblyand, throughit, tothepeople.That’swhywecallitresponsiblegovernment. “RolesandResponsibilities,”LieutenantGovernorofManitoba: TheHonourableJohnHarvard,P.C., O.M., [Internet],accessed5 December2005,availablefromhttp://lg.gov.mb.ca/role/rr.html TheofficeoftheLieutenant-Governorcombinesthemonarchicalandfederalprinciplesin thegovernmentoftheCanadianprovinces.As thechiefexecutiveofficerin theprovince the Lieutenant-Governorinhisofficeifnotinthepersonis therepresentativeoftheCrownand bystatute, custom, andlegaldecisions exercisesmanyofthemonarchicalpowers essentialto thepracticalandtheoreticalworkingofconstitutional monarchy, parliamentarygovernment, orcabinetgovernment .. JohnT.Saywell, TheOfficeoftheLieutenant-Governor:AStudyin Canadian GovernmentandPolitics (Toronto:UniversityofTorontoPress, 1957; reprint,CoppClarkPitman, 1986),p.3. Legislative Assembly of Alberta: The Centennial Series On Behalf ofThe Crown: LieutenantGovernorsoftheNorth-WestTerritoriesandAlberta, 1869-2005 The Mantle of Leadership: PremiersoftheNorth-WestTerritoriesandAlberta, 1897-2005 A Higher Duty: Speakers oftheLegislativeAssembliesoftheNorth-WestTerritoriesandAlberta, 1888—2005 A Century of Democracy: Elections oftheLegislativeAssemblyofAlberta, 1905-2005 C entennial Series LEGISLATIVEASSEMBLYOFALBERTA On The “BehaCf of Crown Lieutenant Governors of the North-West Territories and Alberta 1869-2005 By Sandra E. Perry, BA BEd MLIS and Karen L. Powell, BA MLIS Editorand Historical Consultant PhilipA. Massolin, BA MA PhD Coordinating Editor Valerie L. Footz, BA MLIS LegislativeAssemblyofAlberta Published undertheauthorityoftheSpeakeroftheLegislativeAssemblyofAlberta. On BehalfofThe Crown: Lieutenant Governors ofthe North-WestTerritories andAlberta, 1869-2005 BySandraE. PerryandKarenL. Powell EditorandHistoricalConsultant: PhilipA.Massolin CoordinatingEditor:ValerieL. Footz Copyright©2006LegislativeAssemblyofAlberta CoverandBookDesign:TraceyL. Sales Typesetting:McRobbieDesignGroup Allrigh—tsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,transmittedinanyformorbyan—y means electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recording,storedinaretrievalsystemorotherwise withoutthepriorwrittenconsentoftheLegislativeAssemblyofAlberta. LibraryandArchivesCanadaCataloguinginPublication Perry,SandraE. OnbehalfoftheCrown:lieutenantgovernorsoftheNorth-WestTerritoriesand Alberta, 1869-2005/bySandraE.PerryandKarenL.Powell;editorandhistorical consultant,PhilipA.Massolin;coordinatingeditor,ValerieL.Footz. "LegislativeAssemblyofAlberta: theCentennialSeries". "PublishedundertheauthorityoftheSpeakeroftheLegislativeAssemblyofAlberta". Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-9689217-1-X(bound).—ISBN0-9689217-4-4(leatherbound) 1.Lieutenantgovernors—Alberta—Biography. 2.Alberta—Politicsandgovernment—1905-. 3. Lieutenantgovernors—NorthwestTerritories—Biography. 4.NorthwestTerritories—Politics andgovernment—1870-1905. I. Powell,KarenL. II.Massolin,PhilipA. (PhilipAlphonse), 1967- III. Footz,Valerie IV.Alberta. LegislativeAssembly V.Title. VI.Title: Lieutenantgovernorsofthe North-WestTerritoriesandAlberta, 1869-2005. JL331.P472006 971.23'03'0922 C2006-900055-7 Everyefforthasbeenmadetotracethesourceofcopyrightmaterialcontainedinthisbook. Thepublisherwillappreciateanyadditionalinformationregardingrightsandwillrectifyanyerrorsor omissionsinfutureeditions. * TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ix . Acknowledgements xi Note on Sources and Scope xv Background TheMonarchy, 1869—2005 3 HistoryoftheOfficeofLieutenantGovernor 13 RoleoftheLieutenantGovernor 29 SeatsofGovernance 41 SymbolsofAuthority 63 LieutenantGovernor’sSuiteandVehicle 77 Aide-de-Camp 85 ApparelandPortraits 93 Protocol 105 NewYear’sLevee Ill HistoryofGovernanceoftheNorth-WestTerritories 117 Lieutenant Governor of Rupert’s Land and the North-WesternTerritory TheHonourableSirWilliamMcDougall, 1869 145 A Lieutenant Governors of Manitoba and the North-WestTerritories TheHonourableSirAdams GeorgeArchibald, 1870—1872 169 TheHonourableSirFrancis GodschallJohnson, 1872 191 TheHonourableAlexanderMorris, 1872—1876 205 Lieutenant Governors ofthe North-WestTerritories The Honourable DavidLaird, 1876-1881 227 TheHonourableEdgarDewdney, 1881-1888 249 The HonourableJosephRoyal, 1888-1893 271 TheHonourableCharles HerbertMackintosh, 1893-1898 293 TheHonourableMalcolm ColinCameron, 1898 311 TheHonourableAmedeeEmmanuelMarie Forget, 1898-1905 .... 325 Lieutenant Governors ofAlberta TheHonourableGeorge HedleyVicars Bulyea, 1905—1915 345 TheHonourableRobertGeorgeBrett, 1915-1925 367 TheHonourableWilliamEgbert, 1925-1931 389 TheHonourableWilliam LeghWalsh, 1931—1936 405 TheHonourablePhilip CarteretHill Primrose, 1936-1937 425 TheHonourableJohnCampbellBowen, 1937—1950 443 TheHonourableJohnJames Bowlen, 1950-1959 467 TheHonourableJohnPercyPage, 1959—1966 491 TheHonourableJohnWalterGrantMacEwan, 1966—1974 513 TheHonourableRalphGarvinSteinhauer, 1974-1979 547 TheHonourableFrankCharles Lynch-Staunton, 1979—1985 567 The HonourableWilmaHelen Hunley, 1985-1991 585 TheHonourableThomasGordonTowers, 1991—1996 605 TheHonourableHoraceAndrewOlson, 1996-2000 629 TheHonourableLois ElsaHole, 2000-2005 651 TheHonourableNorman Lim Kwong, 2005- 673 vi

See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.