Birth registration and birth statistics in Canada / by Robert R. Kuczynski.

  • Robert René Kuczynski
Date:
1930
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Credit: Birth registration and birth statistics in Canada / by Robert R. Kuczynski. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    party on conviction shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars to Her Majesty, may not be held to vest in the Crown, for the purposes of the Dominion, the amount of the penalty. These doubts can only be solved by judicial decision.’'^ His decision of January 2, 1873, as to the British Columbia Act followed the same line. '‘While he recommends that this Act should be allowed to go into operation, [he] desires to call attention to the fact that the power of the local legislature to pass the same may be questioned.’’ Only once, in 1873, was a bill introduced in the Canadian Parliament with the object of securing a uniform system of registration throughout the Dominion. This was probably the bill to which the Registrar-General of Ontario referred as having been introduced by the Minister of Agriculture, although the parliamentary debates which we shall reproduce in full rather indicate that it was a private bill. Friday, 4th April, 1873. Ordered, That the Honorable Mr. Pope have leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the Registration of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, and for the collection and publication of Statistics. He accordingly presented the said Bill to the House, and the same was received and read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday next.^° Thursday, 10th April, 1873. On motion of the Honorable Mr. Pope, seconded by the Honorable Mr. Langevin, Resolved, That the House do immediately resolve itself into a Com- mittee to consider a certain proposed Resolution relative to the Regis- tration of Marriages, Births and Deaths throughout the Dominion. The House accordingly resolved itself into the said Committee, and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and the Honorable Mr. Campbell reported, that the Committee had come to a Resolution. Ordered, That the Report be now received. The Honorable Mr. Campbell reported the Resolution accordingly; and the same was read, as followeth:— Resolved, That it is expedient to provide a system of Registration of Marriages, Births and Deaths, throughout the Dominion, and for that 17 Correspondence, Reports of the Ministers of Justice and Orders in Council upon the Subject of Dominion and Provincial Legislation, 1867-1895 (Vol. I), p. 82. Ibid., p. 1015. See p. 6. Journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, Sessionl 1873, p. 125.