Bill 6 (Legislature 11, Session 3)

L11 S3 7034

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 6 of 1950.

An Act to Incorporate Northwest Telephone Company Limited. (Assented to , 1950.)

WHEREAS the persons hereinafter named have by their petition prayed that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislativ_e Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1.

George David Kenneth Kinaird, Chartered Account ant, Bernard Greer Aylen, Chartered Accountant and Ron ald Martland, Barrister & Solicitor, all of the City of Ed monton, in the Province of Alberta, together with such persons as become shareholders in the Company are incor porated under the na.me "Northwest Telephone Company Limited", hereinafter called "the Company". 2. The persons named in

Section 1 of this Act shall be the provisional directors of the Company . . 3. The capital stock of the Company shall consist of one hundred thousand shares without nominal or par value. The maximum price at or for which the shares without nominal or par value may be sold is Five ($5.00) Dollars per share. 4.-

(1) The Company shall be a private company within the meaning of The Companies Act.

(2) No member of the Company shall have the right to transfer any share or shares in the capital stock of the Company unless and until such transfer has been approved by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Conlpany.

(3) The number of members of the Company (exclusive of persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company, were while in such employment and have con tinued after the determination of such employment to be members of the Company) shall not exceed fifty.

(4) Any invitation to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the Company is prohibited. 5. The head office of the Company shall be in the City of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta.

2 6. The Company, subject to the provisions of any general legislation relating thereto, may: (

a) Locate, construct, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire and own, hold, develop, operate~ manage, maintain, control, lease, mortgage, create hens upon, sell, conveyor otherwise dispose of and turn to account any and all kinds of communication systems whether by telephone, telegraph, radio or ele·ctrical or other means and any and all plant, works, mach inery, equipment and appliances for the production, generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity and electrical power and energy including, but without restricting the generality of the fore going, any and all towers, cables, wires, poles, man holes, conduits, works, structures, buildings, plants, instruments, switchboards, machinery, apparatus, appliances, implements, materials and supplies as may be necessary or convenient for the purposes of the Company's undertaking or as may appertain to its business and to dispose of the same, in whole or in part; (

b) Carryon all or any of the businesses of operating, and providing systems of communications for the public or as private services, whether long distance or, local, by telephone, telegraph, radio or any electrical or other means, establish offices for the transmission and reception of messages and transmit and re ceive messages for the public or as a private se"rvice and charge tolls and rates therefor; (

c) Carryon the business of manufacturing, generating, producing, purchasing, acquiring, transmitting, dis tributing and selling electricity and electrical power and energy and all kinds of apparatus and supplies used in connection therewith; (

d) Acquire by purchase or otherwise, construct, main tain and otherwise deal with land and submarine telegraphs (including in such expression telephones and all other electrical or other contrivances for transmitting messages by any means), and also lands, works, buildings and conveniences; (

e) Acquire, carryon and deal with the undertakings, works, lands, property and businesses of other tele phone and telegraph companies and of companies and per~ons engaged in manufacturing, constructing, and laYIng down telegraph and telephone lines, in struments, machinery, wire and other materials and things used with or appertaining to telegraphic or telephone communication of every sort; (/) Manufacture, buy, sell, import, export, exchange, construct, Install and generally deal in all kinds of radio ma~hines, radi~ telephon~s, wireless telephones and all kInds of radIO and WIreless equipment and apparatus, electrical machines, appliances? fixtures and parts thereof;

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g) Subject to the provisions of the Canadian Broad casting Act, 1936 and of the Raclio Act, 1938, and to the provisions of any statute of the Parliament of Canada in force from time to time relating to radio reception or transmission, and to any lawful rules and regulations made or promulgated there under, acquire, lease, own, establish, equip, main tain and operate radio and/or wireless broadcast ing and receiving stations for the purpose of trans mitting or receiving telephone wireless or radio messages of any kind whether independently or in conjunction with any telegraphic, telephonic, physi calor other conducting means, including television broadcasting and all music, concerts, singing, speak ing or any other sounds or images whatsoever; sub ject, as aforesaid to carryon a general advertising and publicity business, whether by radio or other wise including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the transmission of news, ad vertising and other matter of every kind either directly or through the medium of relay stations or wireless exchange stations and to provide regular radio communications, and to enter into and carry out advertising and other contracts of every kind and nature that may be necessary for or conducive to the accomplishment of any of the purposes of the Company; (

h) Enter into any contracts or arrangements with any federal, provincial or municipal authority or any person or company for any purpose or work in the Company's interest or that may seem conducive or incidental to the Company's objects and to obtain from or give to any such federal, provincial or muni cipal authority, person or company any franchises, rights, privileges and concessions which the Com pany may think it desirable to obtain or to give and carry out, exercise and comply with any such con tract or arrangement; (

i) For the purposes of the Company's undertakings, construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, charter, maintain and operate steamships and other vessels, aircraft and aerodromes, together with the facilities required for the operation of the same; (

j) Acquire and use any privilege granted by any feder al, provincial or municipal authority and acquire, use and dispose of any invention, letters patent of invention or the right to use any inventions in any way connected with or appertaining to its business; (

k) As a contractor for any other person or corporation do anything, as a contractor, which it might do for its own purposes; (

l) To carryon any other business directly or indirectly connected with the supply or employment of electri city or capable of being cOllveniently carried on in connection with any of these objects or calculated

4 directly or indirectly to render profitable any of the property or rights of the Company; (

m) Exercise all or any of the powers defined in sub section (1) of

section 19 and in sections 40 and 41 of The Companies Act. 7. The liability of the members of the Company is limited. 8. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

.No.6 FIRST SESSION TWELFTH LEGISLATURE 14 GEORGE VI 19,50 BILL

An Act to Incorporate Northwest 'relephone Company Limited. Received and read the First time ....................................... . Second time ............ . Third time ..................... . MR. McLAUGHLIN. Title: 1950 (11th, 3rd) Bill 6,

An Act to Incorporate Northwest Telephone Company Limited

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L11 S3 7034
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Volume / chapter	L11 S3 7034
Language	en
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