Collection search - B 20 - [Provincial Secretary and Registrar], Applications for pardon or clemency. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada [textual record]

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B 20 - [Provincial Secretary and Registrar], Applications for pardon or clemency. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada [textual record]

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Date:

1767-1857.

Reference:

RG4-B20

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Item ID number:

125707

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Civil Secretary's records relating to the administration of justice. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

B 20 - [Provincial Secretary and Registrar], Applications for pardon or clemency. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada
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Date(s):

1767-1857.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

3 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Petitions for clemency, whether a reduction of sentence or a full pardon, were formed into a series together with opinions of the Attorney General and other Law Officers of the Crown on specific cases, draft and engrossed copies of the actual pardons and related warrants of discharge or of detention, correspondence and other documents covering the period 1767-1857.

The political pardons of 1837-1840 form a sub-series (volumes 25-30). Further documents relating to the sentencing of political prisoners is to be found in the series "Les evénéments de 1837 et 1838" (see MG 8, A 25, available on microfilm).

Further correspondence and opinions are found in the "S Series" (RG 4, A 1) and the Provincial Secretary's numbered correspondence (RG 4, C 1), as well as in the letterbooks (RG 4, C 2 and RG 7, G 15 C and G 17 C). Texts of pardons and warrants were recorded in the Registrar's entrybooks (see RG 68) and indexed in the General Index of Commissions for RG 68.

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Textual records (Paper) The Guide to RG 4 contains a shelf list: description of material, outside dates, volume number and page numbers. (90: Open)

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Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Records of Our History: Canada, 1760-1815. Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1987.10.01 -1988.03.31 - (Petition of Isaak Newton, 1795 - RG4-B20 vol.1)

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RG4-B20
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG4 B 20] 1--32

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