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 (1763) (February 10, 1763)
• British Royal Proclamation of 1763 (October 7, 1763)
• Instructions to Governor Murray
• Instructions to Governor Carleton
• 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 (1839) (February, 1839)
• Act of Union (1840) (February 10, 1841)
• British North America Act 1867 (July 1, 1867)

Confederation

• Manitoba Act (1870)
• Francoeur motion (1918)
• Statute of Westminster (1931)
• Report of the Rowell-Dafoe-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (1940)
• Letters Patent (1947)
• Report of the Tremblay Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (1953)
• Report of the Laurendeau-Dunton Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963)
• Official Languages Act (1969)
• Victoria Charter (1971)
• Report of the Gendron Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and Linguistic Rights in Quebec (1972)
• Charter of the French Language (1977)
• Report of The Pépin Robarts Commission - Task Force on Canadian Unity (1978)
• Sovereignty-Association Act (1980)
• Canada Act 1982 (1982)
• Meech Lake Accord (1989)
• Beaudoin-Edwards committee report (June 20, 1991)
• Report of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Québec (March 27, 1991)
• Allaire Report (January 28, 1991)
• Report of the Parliamentary Committee to Examine Matters Relating to the Accession of Québec to Sovereignty (1992)
• Charlottetown Accord (1992)
• Act Respecting the Future of Quebec (1995)
• 1997 Calgary Accord
• Reference re Secession of Quebec (1998)
• Clarity Act (1998)
• Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State (1999)