THE LEGAL HISTORY OF ALBERTA

14 : This was rhe situation with respect to the administration of justice in the North· West Territories when on the 2nd of June, 1886, the Parliament\"' of Can:1da by Chapter 25 of tk:t year, provided for the creation of a Suprer:1c Court of the Northwest Territories. [...] 18R7, and in the Sdtedule to the Revised Statutes the whole of the 1880 Statute is declared to be repealed.· The Lieutenant Governor in Council was given authority to pass Ordinances for procedure in civil matters and the procedure in criminal cases was to con form to the procedure in like cases in England as of the 15th of July, 1870, except that there was to be no grand jury. [...] J - 6 - in the Territories, in so far as the same are applicable to the Territories, and in so far as the same have not been, or may not hereafter be repealed, altered, varied, modified by any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applicable to the Territories, or of the Parliament of Canada, or by any ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun cilo "22 Thus this Act became the first to at. [...] The ordinance established all of the pro- cedures and practices which were to be followed in the courts of the Territories, regulating all aspects of the conduct of civil matters, defining the jurisdiction of the court, and outlining the duties of the various judicial Officials.. [...] ; - 12 - Also, the effectiveness of the judicial system in meeting the needs of the territorial population must be consideredo The judicial arrangements adopted from the Hudsones Bay Company's era were inadequate even before , the transfer, and despite the slow growth of the territor ial population, they remained largely unchanged until 1876.