List of documents from the constitutional history of Canada

This is a list of significant documents related to the history of the Constitution of Canada, some of which constitute part of the Constitution itself. (see List of Canadian constitutional documents for a list of documents that make up the Constitution).

Pre-Confederation

• Articles of Capitulation of Quebec (September 18, 1759)
• Articles of Capitulation of Montreal (September 8, 1760)
• Treaty of Paris (February 10, 1763)
• British Royal Proclamation of 1763 (October 7, 1763)
• Quebec Act (June 22, 1774)
• United States Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
• French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 26, 1789)
• Constitutional Act of 1791 (June 10, 1791)
• Ninety-Two Resolutions (February 21, 1834)
• Report of the Royal Commission for the Investigation of all Grievances Affecting His Majesty's Subjects of Lower Canada (1837)
• Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions (March 6, 1837)
• Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada (February 22, 1838)
• Report on the Affairs of British North America (February, 1839)
• Act of Union (February 10, 1841)
• British North America Act 1867 (July 1, 1867)

Confederation

• Manitoba Act (1870)
• Francoeur motion......
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