Collection search - Provincial Secretary and Registrar, Board of Registration and Statistics. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East [textual record]

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Provincial Secretary and Registrar, Board of Registration and Statistics. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1764-1874.

Reference:

R17256-0-4-E, RG4-B12, RG4-B32, RG4-B33, RG4-B34, RG4-B75, RG4-B77

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105259

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Provincial Secretary and Registrar, Board of Registration and Statistics. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East
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Fonds includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1764-1874.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

2.47 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of several specialized series of documents which were accumulated in the course of statistical reporting by the Civil Secretary or the Provincial Secretary and Registrar and segregated from the primary correspondence series. These returns of shipping and of vital statistics (series RG 4 B 32 and B 34), applications or examinations for civil service positions and lists of the Civil Establishment (series RG 4 B 12 and B 33), and miscellaneous office records should be examined in conjunction with the "S Series" (RG 4, A 1) and the numbered correspondence files (RG 4, C 1).

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Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East. Provincial Secretary and Registrar. Board of Registration and Statistics

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Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East. Provincial Secretary and Registrar. Board of Registration and Statistics : A wide range of statistical reports were supplied by the Governor to the Colonial Office and to the Legislature. These reports were based on data collected by the Civil Secretary or by the Provincial Secretary and Registrar. Reporting practices had formalized by 1821; the Blue Books of Statistics (see RG 1, E 13 and MG 11, Colonial Office 47) were produced annually thereafter. The Civil Secretary was responsible for preparing the reports enclosed in despatches to the Colonial Office. The Provincial Secretary had the responsibility for preparation of the Blue Books. After the union of Upper and Lower Canada, the Board of Registration and Statistics, composed of the Provincial Secretary, the Receiver General and the Inspector General, took over that task.

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Textual records (Electronic) This finding aid describes volumes 1 to 16 and 18 to 23. MSS2758 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003707.pdf

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Availability of other formats note:

The census return of 1830 in series RG 4 B 77 was microfilmed in 1986, on reel H-1758.

Related material:

Correspondence relating to the collection of statistical data before and after 1841 is found in the "S Series" (RG 4, A 1) and the Provincial Secretary's numbered files (series C 1). Lists and registers of appointments found in RG 68 and in RG 4, B 24 and B 26 may well have been used in compiling the statistical reports. The printed Journals of the Legislature contain numerous statistical reports.

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Private

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RG4-B12
RG4-B32
RG4-B33
RG4-B34
RG4-B75
RG4-B77
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