Bill 14 (Legislature 6, Session 4)

L6 S4 8925

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 14 of 1930.

An Act respecting the Transfer of the Natural Resources of Alberta. (A.ssented to ,1930). HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Alberta Natural Re sources Act." 2. The Agreement set out in the

Schedule hereto is here by approved. 3. The Tr(l,nsjel' of Public Lands Act, being

chapter 69 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1926, is hereby repealed. 4. This Act shall come into force .................... .

2 SCHEDULE.. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Made this fourteenth day of December, 1929, BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT 01<' 'l'HE DOMINION OF CANADA, repre sented herein by the Honourable Ernest Lapointe, Min ister of Justice, and the Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior, Of the first pw't, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA, repre sented herein by the Honourable John Edward Brownlee, Premier of Alberta, and the Honourable George Hoadley, lVIinister of Agriculture and Herulth, 9f the second lJ([l't.

WHEREAS by

section 21 of The Alberta Act, being

chapter 3 of four and five Edward the Seventh, it was provided that "All Crown lands, mines and minerals and royalties incident thereto, and the interest of the Crown in the waters within the Province under The N01H~-WC8t lrr£gation Act, 1898, shall continue to be vested in the Crown and administered by the Government of Canada for the purposes of Canada, subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada with respect to road allowances and roads or trails in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act which shall apply to the said Province with the substi tution therein of the said Province for the North-West Ter ritories ;" AND

WHEREAS it is' desirable that the Province should be placed in a position of equality with the other provinces of Confederation with respect to the administration and control of its natural resources as from its entrance into Confederation in 1905; AND

WHEREAS it has been agreed between Canada and the said Province that the provisions of The Alberta Act should be modified as herein set out; N OW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMEN'I' WITNESSETH: TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS GENERALLY. 1. In order that the Province may be in the same position as the original provinces of Confederation are in virtue of

section 109 of The British North America Act, 1867, the interest of the Crown in all Crown lands, mines, minerals (precious and base) and royalties derived therefrom within the Province, and all sums due or payable for su<;h lands, mines, minerals or royalties, shall, from and after the com ing into force of this Agreement and subject as' therein

3 otherwise provided, belong to the Province, subject to any trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any interest other than that of the Crown in the same, and the said lands, mines, minerals and royalties shall be administered by the Province for the purposeS' thereof, subject, until the Legis lature of the Province otherwise provides, to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada relating to such administration; any payment received by Canada in respect of any such lands, mines, minerals or royalties before the coming into force of this Agreement shall continue to belong to Canada whether paid in advance or otherwise, it being the intention that, except as herein otherwise specially pro vided, Canada shall not be liable to account to the Province for any payment made in respect of any of the said lands, mines, minerals, or royalties before the coming into force of this Agreement, and that the Province shall not be liable to account to Canada for any such payment made thereafter. 2. '1'he Province will carry out in accordance with the terms thereof every contract to purchase or lease any Crown lands, mines or minerals and every other arrangement whereby any person has become entitled to any interest therein as against the Crown, and further agrees not to affect or alter any term of any such contract to purchase, lease or other arrangement by .legislation or otherwise, except either with the consent of all the parties thereto other than Canada or in so far as any legislation may apply generally to all similar agreements relating to lands, mines or minerals in the Province or to interests therein, irre spective of who may be the parties thereto. 3.

Any power or right, which, by any such contract, lease or other arrangements, or by any Act of the Parlia ment of Canada relating to any of the lands, mines, minerals or royalties hereby transferred or by any regulation made under any such Act, is reserved to the Governor in Council or to the Minister of the Interior or any other officeI"' of the Government of Canada, may be exercised by such offic.er of the Government of the Province as may be specified by the Legislature thereof from time to time, and until other wise directed, may be exercised by the Provincial Secretary of the Province. 4.

The Province will p.erform every obligation of Canada arising by virtue of the provisions of any statute or order in councilor regulation in respect of the public lands to be administered by it hereunder to any person entitled to a grant of lands by way of subsidy for the construction of railways or otherwise or to any railway company for grants of lands for right of way, road bed, stations, station grounds, work-shops, buildings, yards, ballast pits or other appurtenances. 5.

The Province will further be bound by and will, with respect to any lands or interests in lands to which the Hud son's Bay Company may be entitled, carry out the t.erms and conditions of the Deed of Surrender from the said Com-

4 pany to the Crown as modified by The Dominion Lands Act and the Agreement dated the 23rd day of D,8cember, 1924, between His Majesty and the said Company, which said Agreement was approved by Order in Council dated the 19th day of December, 1921 (P.C. 2158), and in particular the Province will grant to the Company any lalld8 in the Province which the Company may be entitled to select and may select from the lists of lamli-! furniHh~d to thC! r;ompnny by the Minister of th8 Interior under and pursuant to the said Agreement of the 23rd day of December, 192(1, .and will release and discharge the reservation in patents referr.t~d to in clause three of the said agreement, in case sllch release and discharge has not been made prior to the coming into force of this agreement.

Nothing in this agr.~ement, or in any agreement varying the same as hereinafter pro vided, shall in any way prejudice or diminish the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company or affect any right to 01' interest in land acquired or held by the said Company pursuant to the Deed of Surrender from it to the Crown, The Dominion Lands Act or the said Agreement of the 23rd day of Dec.·3m bel', 1924. SCHOOL LANDS FUND AND SCHOOL LANDS. 6.

Upon the coming into force of this Agreement, Can ada will transfer to the Province the money or securitie::; constituting that portion of the school lands fund, crJated under sections 22 and 23 of 1'he Act to amend and consoli date the several Acts 1'cspccting Public Lands of the Dom.ill ion, being

chapter 31 of 42 Victoria, and subsequent statutes, which is derived from the disposition of any school lands within the Province or within that part of the Northwest Territories now included within the boundaries thereof. 7. The school lands fund to be transferred to the Prov ince as aforesaid, and such of th8 school lands specified in

section 37 of The Dominion Lands Act, being

chapter 113 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, as pass to the ad ministration of the Province under the terms hereof, shall be set aside and shall continue to be administered by th.~ Province in accordance,' 1nuta,tis m'lttnlldis. with the provi sions of sections 37 to 40 of The Dominion Lands Act, for the support of schools organized and carried on thercin in accordance with the law of the Province. WATER. 8. Canada agrees that the provision contained in

section 4 of The Dominion Wlitet' P01J)er Act, being

chapter 210 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, that every undertak ing' under the said Act is declared to be a work for the gen eral advantage of Canada, shall stand repealed as from the date of the coming into force of this Agreement in so far as the same applies to undertakings within the Province; nothing in this paragraph shall be de.emed to affect the leg-

5 islative competence of the Parliament of Canada to make hereafter any declaration under the tenth head of

section 92 of The British North America Act, 1867. FISHERIES. 9. Exc.ept as herein otherwise provided, aU rights of fishery shall, after the coming into force of this Agreement, belong to and be administered by the Province, and the Province shall have the right to dispose of all such rights of fishery by sale, lic.,mce or otherwise, subject to the exer cise by the Parliament of Canada of its legislative jurisdic tion over sea-coast and inland fisheries. INDIAN RESERVES. 10.

All lands included in Indian reserves within the Prov ince, including those selected and surveyed but not yet con firmed, as well as those confirmed, shall continue to be vested in the Crown and administered by the Government of Can ada for the purposes of Canada, and the Province will from time to time, upon the request of the Superintendent Gen eral of Indian Affairs, set aside, out of the unoccupied Crown lands her.eby transferred to its administration, such further areas as the said Superintendent General may, in agreement with the appropriate Minister of the Province, select as necessary to enable Canada to fulfil its obligations under the treaties with the Indians of the Province, and such areas shall thereafter be administered by Canada in the same way in all resp.ects as· if they had never passed to the Province under the provisions hereof. 11.

ThE'! provisions of paragraphs 1 to 6 inclusive and of paragraph 8 of the Agreement made between the Govern ment of the Dominion of Canada and the Government of the Province of Ontario on the 24th day of March, 1924, which said Agreement was confirmed by statute of Canada, 14 and 15 George the Fifth

chapter 48, shall (except so far as they relate to The Bed of Navigable Waters Act) apply to. the lands included in such Indian res·erves as may hereafter be set aside under the last preceding clause as if the sald Agreement had been rnade between the parties hereto, and the provisio.ns o.f the said paragraphs shall likewise apply to. the lands included in the reserves hereto.fo.re selected and surveyed, except that neither the said lands no.r the pro. ceeds of the disPo.sitio.n thereof shall in any circumstances become administrable by or be paid to the Pro.vince. 12.

In order to. secure to. the Indians o.f the Province the continuance of the supply of game and fish for their sup port and subsistence, Canada agrees that the laws respect ing game in force in the Pro.vince fro.m time to time .shall apply to. the Indians within the boundaries thereof, pro. vided, however, that the said Indians shall have the right, which the Province hereby assures to. them, o.f hunting, trap-

6 ping, and fishing game and fish for food at all s,easons of the year on all unoccupied Crown lands and on any other lands to which the said Indians may have a right of access. SOLDIER SETTLEMENT LANDS. 13. All interests in Crown lands in the Province upon the security of which any advance has been made under the provisions of Th'e Soldier Settlement Act, being

chapter 188 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, and amending Acts, shall continue to he vested in aml :Hil11inh;tm'ed by the Government of Canada for the purposes of Canada. NATIONAL PARKS. 14. The parks mentioned in the sch.~dule hereto shall continue as national parks and the lands included therein, as the same are described in the Orders in Council in the said

schedule ref.3rred to (except such of the said lands a3 may be hereafter excluded therefrom), together with the mines and minerals (precious and base) in each of the said parks and th~ royalties incident thereto, shall continue to be vested in and administered by the Government of Can ada as national parks, but iil the event of the Parliament of Canada at any time declaring that the said lands or any part thereof are no longer r,equired for park purposes, the lands, mines, minerals (precious and base) and the royalties incident thereto, specified in any such declaration, shall forthwith upon. the making thereof belong to the Province, and the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Agreement shall apply thereto as from the date of such declaration. 15.

The Parliament of Canada shall have exclusive leg islative jurisdiction within' the whole area included within the. outer boundaries of each of the said parks notwithstand ing that portions of such area may not form part of the park proper; the laws now in force within the said area shall continue in force only until changed by the Parliament of Canada or under its authority, provided, how/.:!ver,· that all laws of the Province now or hereafter in force, which are not repugnant to any law or regulation made applicable within the said area by or under the authority of the Par liament of Canada, shall ext.end to and be enforceable with in the same, and that all general! taxing Acts passed by the Province shall apply within the same unless expressly ex cluded from application therein by or under the authority of the Parliament of Canada. 16.

The Government of Canada will introduce into the Parliament of Canada such legislation as may be necessary to exclude from the parks aforesaid c8rtain areas forming part of certain of the said parks which have been delimited as including the lands now forming part thereof which are of substantial commercial value, the boundarie3 of the an~as to be so excluded having been heretofore agreed upon by representatives of Canada and of the Provinc3, and the

7 Province agrees that upon the exclusion of the said areas as so agreed upon, it will not, by works outside the bound aries of any of the said parks, reduce the flow of water in any of the rivers or streams within the same to less than that which the Minister of the Interior may deem necessary adequately to prt~serve the scenic beauties of the said parks. SEED GRAIN, ETC., LIENS. 17.

Every lien upon any interest in any unpatented land passing to the Province under this Agreement, which is now held by Canada as security for an advance made by Canada for seed grain, fodder or other relief, shall continue to be vested in Canada, but the Province will, on behalf of Canada, collect the sums due in respect of such advances, except so far as the same are agreed to be uncollectible, and upon payment of any such advance, any document required to be executed to discharge the lien may be ex.ecuted by such officer of the Province as may be authorized by any provin cial law in that behalf; the Province will account for and pay to Canada all sums belonging to Canada collected. here under, subject to such deduction to meet the expenses of collection as may be agreed upon between the Minister of the Interior and the Provincial Secretary or such other Min ister of the Province as may be designated in that behalf under the laws thereof.

GENERAL RESERVATION TO CANADA. 18. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, noth ing in this Agreem~nt shall be interpreted as applying so as to affect or transfer to the administration of the Prov ince (

a) any lands for which Crown grants have been made and registered under The Land Titles Act of the Province and of which His Majesty the King in the right of His Dominion of Canada is, or is entitled to become the regis tered owner at the date upon which this Agreement comes into force, or (

b) any ungranted lands of the Crown upon which public money of Canada has heen expended or which are, at the date upon which this Agreement comes into force, in use or reserved by Canada for the purpose of the federal administration. HISTORIC SITES, BIRD SANCTUARIES, ETC. 19. The Province will not dispos.e of any historic site which is notified to it by Canada as such and which Canada undertakes to maintain as an historic site.

The Province will further continue and preserve as such the bird sanctu aries and public shooting grounds which have been already established and will set aside such additional bird sanctu aries and public shooting grounds as may hereafter be es tablished by agreement between the Minister of the Interior and the Provincial Secr.etary or" such other Minister of the Province as may be specified under the laws thereof.

8 FINANCIAL 'rEIRMS. 20.

In lieu. of the provision made by subsection 1 of sec tion 20 of The Alberta Act, Canada will, from and after the date of the coming into force of this Agreement, pay to the Province by half-yearly payments in advance, on the first days of January and July in each year, an annual sum based upon the population of the Province as from time to time ascertained by the quinquennial cemsus thereof, as folloWR: The sum payable until the population of the said Province reacheR eight hUllri reri thommnri Rhnl! be five Illlnril'cri ana sixty-two thousand live hundred dollars; Thereafter, until such population reaches one million two hundred thousand, the sum payablle shall be seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; And thereafter the sum payable shall be one million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 21.

If at the date of the coming into force of this Agree ment any payment has been made under subsection 1 of

section 20 of The Alberto, Act in respect of any half-year commencing before but terminating after the said date, a proportionate part of the payment so made shall be taken as having been made under the provisions hereof. 22. It is agreed that the Honourable W. F. A. Turgeon, a judge of the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan, Charles M. Bowman, of the Town of Waterloo, in the Province of Ontario, Esquire, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada, and Fred E. Osborne, Esquire, Mayor of the City of Calgary, or, if any of the foregoing cannot act, then such other person or persons as may be agreed upon, will be appointed commis sioners under

Part I of The" Inquir.ies Act to enquire and report whether any, and, if any, what consideration, in addition to the sums provided in paragraph 20 hereof, should be paid to the Province in order that the Province may be placed in a position of equality with the other prov inces of Confederation with reSpE!ct to the administration and control of its natural resources: as from its entrance into Confederation in 1905, such commissioners to be empowered to decide what financial or other considerations are relevant to the enquiry, and the report to be submitted to the Parlia ment of Canada and to the Legislature of Alberta; and if by the said report, the payment of any additional consideration is recommended, then, upon Agreement between the Govern ments of Canada and of the Province following the submis sion of such report, the said Governments will respectively introduce the legislation necessary to give effect to such Agreement.

RECORDS. 23. Canada will, after the coming into force of this Agreement, deliver to the Province from time to time at the

9 request of the Province the originals or complete copies of all records in any department of the Government of Canada relating exclusively to dealings with Crown lands. mines and minerals, and royalties derived therefrom within the Province, and will give to the Province access to all other records, documents or entries relating to any such dealings and permit to be copied by the Province any of the docu ments required by it for the effective administration of the Crown lands, mines, minerals and royalties. AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT. 24.

The foregoing provisions of this agreement may be varied by agreement confirmed by concurrent statutes of the Parliament of Canada and the Legislature of the Prov ince. WHEN AGREEMENT COMES INTO FORCE. 25. This Agreement is made subject to its being approved by the Parliament of Canada and by the Legislature of the Province of Alberta, and shall take effect on the first day of the calendar month beginning next after the day upon which His Majesty gives His Assent to

an Act of the Parlia ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland confirming the same.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Honourable Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, and the Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior, have hereunto set their hands on behalf of the Dominion of Canada, and the Honourable John Edward Brownlee. Premier of Alberta, and the Honourable George Hoadley, Minister of Agriculture and Health thereof, have hereunto set their hands on behalf of the Province of Alberta.

Signed on behalf of the Govern-l ment of Canada by the Hon ourable Ernest Lapointe, Min- L ister of Justice, and the Hon- ( ourable Charles Stewart, Min-j ister of the Interior, in the presence of Signed on behalf of the prov-1 ince of Alberta by the Honour able John Edward Brownlee, Premier of the said Province, and the Honourable George r Hoadley, Minister of AgricuI-1 ture and Health thereof, in the presence of )

10 SCHEDULE. PARKS. Buffalo ................ P.C. 463, 7th March, 1908. p.e. 1306, 5th June, 1909. p.e. 646, 27th March, 1913. p.e. 2842, 26th November, 1920. p.e. 498, 31st March, 1924. p.e. 408, 19th March, 1925. Elk Island ............ p.e. 6Mi, 27th Mareil,l!ll:t p.e. 377, 20th February, 1922. Jasper ................ p.e. 132',3, 14th September, 1907. p.e. 10Ei8, 18th May, 19Ofl. p.e. 1338, 8th June, 1911. P.C. 1165, 24th June, 1914. p.e. 637, 7th April, 1927. p.e. 158, 6th February, 1929'. p.e. 159, 6th February, 1929. Nemiskam ........... , p.e. 1134, 31st May, 1922.

Rocky Mountains ....... p.e. 2197, 25th November, 1885. p.e. 18!)}, 23rd July, 1892. p.e. 1338, 8th June, 1911. p.e. 2594, 18th September, 1917. p.e. 158, 6th February, 1929. Wawaskesy ............ p.e. 11:34, 31st May, 1922. Waterton Lakes ........ p.e. 111521, 30th May, 1895. p.e. 1338, 8th June, 1911. p.e. llq5, 24th June, 1914. p.e. 1298, 20th April, 1921. p.e. 25i~6, 20th July, 1921. Wood Buffalo Reserve .. p.e. 24'98, 18th December, 1922. p.e. 408, 14th March, 1925. p.e. 634, 30th April, 1926. p.e. 1444, 24th September, 1926.

No. 14. FOURTH SESSION SIXTH LEGISLATURE 20 GEORGE V 1930 BILL

An Act respecting the Transfer of the Natural Resources of Alberta. Received and read the First time ................... . Second time .................. . Third time ................... . HON. MR. BROWNLEE EDMONTON: W. D, McLEA!<. KING'S PI:l!<TEH A.D. 1930 Title: 1930 (6th, 4th) Bill 14,

An Act respecting the Transfer of the Natural Resources of Alberta

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