ifficulties over building of Canadian Pacific Railway drive
province to verge of secession, 215, 233-234. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of
British Columbia_; Bancroft, _History of British Columbia_; Macdonald,
_British Columbia and Vancouver's Island_; Macfie, _Vancouver Island and
British Columbia_; Morice, _The History of the Northern Interior of
British Columbia_; Herring, _Among the People of British Columbia_;
Fitzgerald, _The Hudson's Bay Company and Vancouver Island_; Mayne,
_Four Years in British Columbia_; Baillie-Grohman, _Sport and Life in
Western America and British Columbia_; Metin, _La Colombie Britannique;
Indians of British Columbia_ (R. S. C., 1888); Langevin, _Report on
British Columbia_.

=British Law.= =Sy= Attempts to introduce after passage of Quebec Act,
65. =S= Introduced into Upper Canada, 85.

=British Legion.= =Dr= Loyalists commanded by Tarleton, 202.

=British Newspapers.= =Hd= Sympathy with rebels expressed in, 190. _See
also_ Newspapers.

=British North America Act.= The constitution of the Dominion; the Act
by which the scattered colonies of British North America were united in
one Confederation. Drafted at the Quebec Conference, 1864; discussed and
passed in the form of resolutions, in the Legislature of Canada, 1865;
put in final shape at the Westminster Conference, 1866; passed by the
Imperial Parliament, and proclaimed, 1867. The essential feature of this
Act, and that which distinguishes it most clearly from the Constitution
of the United States, is the provision that all matters not specifically
assigned to the provinces belong to the Dominion, the reverse being the
case under the United States Constitution. Broadly speaking, the Act
gives the Dominion exclusive jurisdiction over the regulation of trade
and commerce, the postal service, customs and inland revenue, military
and naval service, navigation and shipping, currency and coinage,
banking, weights and measures, patents and copyrights, naturalization,
Indians. To the provinces it gives exclusive jurisdiction over direct
taxation, management and sale of public lands, timber, provincial
prisons, hospitals, asylums, etc., municipal institutions,
administration of justice, education. =Index=: =Md= Conference in
London--Macdonald's letter to Tilley, 125-126; the sixty-nine
resolutions passed, 126; draft bill drawn up--completed bill submitted
to House, and received royal assent, March 29, 1867, 127; royal
proclamation fixes July 1 as