Section 3 [One Dominion]
It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by
Proclamation that, on and after the passing of this act, the
Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and
be One Dominion under the Name of Canada; and on and after that
Day those Three Provinces shall form and be One Dominion under
that Name accordingly.
Section 4 [Name Canada]
Unless it is otherwise expressed or implied, the Name Canada shall
be taken to mean Canada as constituted under this act.
Section 5 [Four Provinces]
Canada shall be divided into Four Provinces, named Ontario,
Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
Section 6 [Province Location]
The parts of the province of Canada (as it exists at the passing
of this act) which formerly constituted respectively the Province
of Upper Canada and Lower Canada shall be deemed to be severed,
and shall form Two separate Provinces. The part which formerly
constituted the province of Upper Canada shall constitute the
Province of Ontario; and the part which formerly constituted the
Province of Lower Canada shall constitute the Province of Quebec.
Section 7 [Province Delimitation]
The Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall have the same
Limits as at the passing of this act.
Section 8 [General Census]
In the general Census of the Population of Canada which is hereby
required to be taken in the Year One Thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, and every Tenth Year thereafter, the respective
Populations of the Four Provinces shall be distinguished.