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WO 1. In-Letters and Papers [textual record (chiefly microform)]
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Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 90, British Records on Microfilm, includes microfilm reel and volume numbers, outside dates and names of militia units. MSS0090 (90: Open)Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of contents and a partial nominal index to the transcript copies. MSS0101 (90: Open)
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Record information WO 1. In-Letters and Papers [textual record (chiefly microform)]
Date:1755-1800, 1840-1855.Reference:R14028-1-8-E, MG13-WO1Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:104702Date(s):1755-1800, 1840-1855.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:28 microfilm reels.
2.4 m of textual records : transcripts.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:War Office 1 consists of 1,138 volumes of original despatches, letters, and papers for the period 1732 to 1868, addressed to the Secretary at War, and after 1794, to the Secretary of State for War. The National Archives has copied only those portions of WO 1 directly relating to Canada including microfilm and transcript selections of military despatches, letters and papers sent from governors, lieutenant-governors, commanders of the forces and other military officers and private individuals in North America together with letters from public departments in Great Britain. The eighteenth century correspondence relates for the most part to the wars in North America.
The microfilmed records, dated 1755 to 1800 and 1840 to 1855, appear on microfilm reels B-967 to B-969, B-996 to B-1000, B-3059 to B-3078. The transcripts, dated 1755 to 1800, and 1840 to 1848, appear on microfilm reels C-13062 to C-13068.Additional name(s):Additional information:Arrangement note:From 1800 to 1840, the correspondence was generally filed with those of the Colonial Office (see MG 11). Those items sent from the 1840s onward relate generally to the military business of the Colonial Office. The letters in WO 1 are organized under the various military stations from which they were sent. After 1840 each year's in-letters are arranged internally under the various military stations or public departments from which they were sent, or under the subjects with which they deal or alphabetically by the name of the write.Subject heading:- Governors - British North America, 1755-1800, 1840-1848 Great Britain. Secretary at War, 1755-1785
- Governors - Canada, [1755-1800, 1840-1848] Lord Dorchester, 1794
- Governors - Newfoundland, 1792-1797, 1848-1855 Sir Guy Carleton, 1794
- Governors - New Brunswick, 1848-1855 John Graves Simcoe, 1794
- Governors - Nova Scotia, 1794-1800, 1848-1855 Duke of Kent, 1792-1800
- Governors - Prince Edward Island, 1848-1855 Mark Milbanke, 1792-1797
- Naval operations - Great Britain, 1795, 1806-1817 Richard King, 1792-1797
- Colonial administrators - British North America, 1755-1800, 1840-1848 James Wallace, 1792-1797
- Governors - Vancouver Island (B.C.), 1848-1855 George Murray, 1794-1800
- Lieutenant governors - British North America, 1755-1800, 1840-1848 John Murray, 1794-1800
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Officers, 1755-1800, 1840-1848 Guadeloupe, 1795
- Lieutenant governors - Upper Canada, 1794 Martinique, 1795
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Guadeloupe, 1795 Le Régiment de Royal Canada, 1793-1900
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Martinique, 1795 Bermuda, [1840-1847]
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Management, [1755-1800, 1840-1848]
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - British North America, 1755-1800, 1840-1848
- Operational readiness (Military science), 1806-1813
- Canada - History - War of 1812 - Causes
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Operational readiness, 1806-1813
- Canada - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations
- Great Britain - Military policy
- Canada War of 1812
- Canada 1812, Guerre de
- Great Britain
- Grande-Bretagne
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