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even though a ented to by the governor-general in the King’s name, may afterward be disallowed by the Imperial Privy Council. Each one of the different provinces also has an executive and a_legislature of its own, presided over by a lieutenant-governor, and _ constituted much as before the Union. The lieutenant-governor are appointed by the governor-general. In this distribution of legislative power between the general and the provincial parliaments certain cla es of subjects of a loca! nature are a igned exclusively to the legislatures of the provinces, while subjects of more general concern aré a umed by the Parliament. The debt: of the several provinces, at the Union were a umed (with certain limit a tions) by the Federal Government: and, on the other hand, certain dutie: and revenues, and certain public work: and properties belonging to the sever a provinces before the Union, were taker po e ion of to form a con solid a tec revenue-fund for defraying the inter est of these debts, and for other ex * pend it ures of the Federal Government On Sept. 1, 1905, Alberta and Sas katchewan, formed from the provi sional districts of Alberta, Athabaska A in i boi a and Saskatchewan, wer made | ee The Yukon Terri tory. of which the Klondike is a smal section, was constituted in 1898. The population, March 31, 1910, by provinces was: Ontario, 2,687,861; Quebec, 2,124,834; Maritime Provinces, 1,060,678; Manitoba, Columbia, 321,733; unorganized territory, 59,050. The largest cities were: Montreal, with ‘suburbs, Kingston, 20,000; and Hull, 16,735. In 1534 Jacques Cartier, a French navigator, entering the St. Lawrence on the festival of the saint of that title, took nominal po e ion of North America in the name of his king, Francis I. In 1608 Quebec was founded by De Cham plain; in 1623 he built Fort St. Louis, from’ which stronghold France ruled for 150 years a vast region extending BE. to Acadia (now Nova Scotia), W. to Lake Superior, and ultimately down the Mi i ippi_as far as Florida and Louisiana. The Recollet and Jesuit mi ionaries traversed the country, and underwent incredible hardships in their zeal for the conversion of the Indians. These fearle priests were the pioneers of civilization in the far West, and to La Salle is due the discovery of the Mi i ippi valley. In 1670 Charles II. granted the Hudson Bay Company the perpetual exclusive right of trading in the territory watered by all the streams flowing into Hudson Bay.