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A 6 - Lower Canada: Special Council - Ordinances [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1838-1841.

Reference:

RG14-A6

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

104681

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Parliament of Lower Canada

A 6 - Lower Canada: Special Council - Ordinances
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Date(s):

1838-1841.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

61 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The known surviving records of the Special Council consist chiefly of Ordinances: drafts, fair copies and texts engrossed on parchment, 1838-1841. The series, arranged chronologically (in volumes 1-6), exhibits substantial gaps. The parchments are the "copy of record" for these statutes, akin to the Acts in RG 14, B 3 and C 6.

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Lower Canada. Special Council

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Lower Canada. Special Council : By authority of the 1838 imperial statute 1 & 2 Victoria, chapter 9, the Special Council was created to exercise many of the powers which had been vested in the provincial Parliament of Lower Canada until the collapse of representative government in 1837. Its powers were enlarged by authority of the 1839 imperial statute 2 & 3 Victoria chapter 53. During four sessions, 1838-1841, a total of 197 statutes (commonly called Ordinances to distinguish them from the Acts of the previous legislature) were passed.

Employment of W.B. Lindsay as Clerk of the Special Council provided a certain continuity of record-keeping practices. Such documents as he may have retained with earlier and later Parliamentary records are believed to have perished by fire with them. The known surviving records of the Special Council are those sent to the governor for his information and the copies of proceedings and Ordinances he forwarded to London. These latter copies may be found with his despatches (see Colonial Office 42) or segregated as "Sessional Papers" (see Colonial Office 45).

The original minutes of proceedings for the Special Council appear not to have survived, but the texts of them were printed as Journals. Two 1838 Resolutions of the Special Council are preserved with Executive Council records (see RG 1, E 4, volume 1). Proclamations summoning the Special Council are found in RG 4, B 7 with earlier proclamations summoning and dissolving the Parliament of Lower Canada.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a list of titles for the drafts and final texts of Ordinances found here, with notes of transfers made in 1975. MSS0603 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001057.pdf

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Availability of other formats note:

While this series has not been microfilmed, the texts of the Ordinances are to be found with the printed statutes for the province of Lower Canada and in Colonial Office 44, volumes 33-38 (available on microfilm reels B-1475 to B-1477).
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Legislative bodies - Lower Canada, 1838-1841 Lower Canada. Legislature. Special Council, 1838-1841

Lower Canada - History, 1838-1841

Ordinances - Lower Canada, 1838-1841

Statutes - Lower Canada, 1838-1841

Law - Lower Canada, 1838-1841

Legislation - Lower Canada, 1838-1841

Lower Canada - Politics and government, 1838-1841
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RG14-A6
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The original documents are open for consultation. Given their physical characteristics, parchments and rolled or sewn paper documents may be copied only by photography. Researchers should use the microfilm of Colonial Office 44 or the printed texts.

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