Collection search - Commissions of Inquiry. Lower Canada, Canada East and Canada [textual record, philatelic record]

While none of these series has been microfilmed, reports submitted by the Governor to London may be found in MG 11, Colonial Office 42, which is available on microfilm.

Records of the Commissioners inquiring into the Red River Disturbances of 1816 (formerly series RG 4 B 46) are being reintegrated into series RG 4 A 1. Series cancelled following reintegration of records into series C 1 include the inquiry into the St. Grégoire riots, 1850-1851 (RG 4 B 61), the inquiry into the accounts of returning officers, 1847-1854 (RG 4 B 60 and RG 4 B 62), the inquiry into the conduct of Joseph Marteau, 1852-1853 (RG 4 B 64), the inquiry into the wreck of the LOCKMABEN CASTLE, 1859 (B 68) and the inquiry into the murder of Robert Corrigan (RG 4 B 69). Records awaiting reintegration include Reports from the Commission of Inquiry into the State and Organization of the Crown Lands Office, 1846, presently in RG 4, B 15, volume 17 and RG 1, L 7, volume 100; and records of an inquiry on military defences and of the inquiry into Fenian activities in Bedford in RG 4, B 29, volumes 5-7.