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Approvals 1896
Various activities of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company required approvals from government. This page shows approvals received in 1896.
Order-in-Council 1198 of year 1896
In 1896, the DAR requested assignment to itself of a contract between the Federal Government and the Bay of Fundy Steamship Company to provide steamship services and carriage of mail among Saint John, N.B. and Digby and Annapolis. Evidently the DAR had acquired the interests of the Bay of Fundy Steamship Company. The approval was granted in a Federal Order in Council number 1198 of the year 1896. (Orders in Council are numbered beginning from number 1 each calendar year.)
Below is the text of the report to the Governor General for his approval, signed by the Prime Minister and the Governor General.
(Transcribed from a hand-written original)
No. 1198 .C.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY
The Right Honourable Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formastine, Baron Hadde, Moethlie, Farves and Kellie, in the Peerage of Scotland, Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Baronet of Nova Scotia, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George,
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA,
Report of a Committee of the Privy Council ON MATTERS
OF STATE
PRESENT:
The Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell in the chair [then Prime Minister – ed.]
Sir A. P. Caron [Postmaster General]
John Costigan [Minister of Marine and Fisheries]
George E. Foster [Minister of Finance, Receiver General]
John Haggart [Minister of Railways and Canals]
J. A. Ouimet [Minister of Public Works]
T. Mayne Daly [Minister of the Interior, Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs]
W. B. Ives [Minister of Trade and Commerce]
A. R. Dickey [Attorney General of Canada]
D. Ferguson [Minister without Portfolio]
John F. Wood [Controller of Customs, Controller of Inland Revenue][not in Cabinet]
E. G. Prior [Controller of Inland Revenue]
A. Desjardins [Minister of Militia and Defence]
May it please your Excellency
[embedded typewritten note:]
Privy Council Minutes. 5 February – 17 February 1896.
(R.G. 2, Series 1, Volume 675)
On a Report dated 5th February 1896, from the Minister of Trade and Commerce, submitting that a Contract was some months since entered into between the Minister of Trade and Commerce as representing Her Majesty, and the Bay of Fundy Steamship Company for a Steam Service between St. John, Digby and Annapolis, such service to continue until the 30th of June 1896; and that the Bay of Fundy Steamship Company performed the Service under the terms of the Contract and received payment therefor up the the 31st December 1895, and has since that date asked permission under the terms of the Contract to assign
[typewritten note inserted:]
Privy Council Minutes. 5 February – 17 February 1896.
(R.G. 2, Series 1, Volume 675)
assign the same to the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company ; and that it appears that the said Railway Company are running their Steamers between St. John and Digby carrying the Mails as required by terms of the Contract as far as Digby, but there transferring them to the Railway and delivering them by rail at Annapolis instead of by steamer.
The Minister recommends inasmuch as this is not strictly within the terms of the Contract, that, upon the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company signifying its acceptance of the transfer of the Contract, and binding itself to the carrying out of its provisions, in
[typewritten note inserted:]
Privy Council Minutes. 5 February – 17 February 1896.
(R.G. 2, Series 1, Volume 675)
in so far as the Steamship Service between St. John & Digby is concerned and the carrying of the Mails etc. From that place to Annapolis by rail instead of by steamer , to be authorized to sanction such transfer , and to pay subsidy from the 1st of January 1896, to the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company, upon usual proof of the performance of services as above.
The Committee submits the same for Your Excellency’s approval.
[signed by] Mackenzie Bowell
[handwritten:] Approved 11th Feb. 1896 Aberdeen
[typewritten note inserted:]
Privy Council Minutes. 5 February – 17 February 1896.
(R.G. 2, Series 1, Volume 675)
Gallery
Scan of page one of the 1896 OIC 1198 document.
Scan of page two of the 1896 OIC 1198 document.
Scan of page three of the 1896 OIC 1198 document.
Scan of page four of the 1896 OIC 1198 document. Signatures.
External Links
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=ordincou&id=119700&lang=eng
[Editor's note: the "1197" in the link immediately above will select the proper document for OIC 1198.]
