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Labour Gazette [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1890-1978

Reference:

R224-70-3-E, RG27-C-4

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

134390

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Department of Labour fonds

Communications Directorate

Labour Gazette
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Date(s):

1890-1978

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4.0 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Sub-series consists of reports and correspondence created and maintained by the staff of the Labour Gazette. In its early years the Labour Gazette maintained a network of individual correspondents in cities and towns across Canada who filed monthly reports with the department in Ottawa on food prices and wages (and, occasionally, other important indexes) in their localities. These handwritten reports (on forms supplied to the correspondents by Ottawa) were then compiled to and printed in the Labour Gazette. A small sample of these correspondents reports have been preserved in these records. One file contains correspondence between W.L.M. King and F.W. Giddon regarding the cost of living in the United States in 1902-1903; others contain records pertaining to what is probably the first comprehensive study of retail prices and their movement in Canada. The study was conducted by R.H. Coats of the Department of Labour who later became Dominion Statistician. There are also newspaper accounts of the Labour Gazette's demise in 1978 as well as a memorial volume of tributes to the Labour Gazette from former employees of the publication.

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Canada. Labour Canada. Publications Division

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Canada. Labour Canada. Publications Division : Begun in 1900 under the editorship of William Lyon MacKenzie King, the Labour Gazette was designed to provide Canadians in the labour relations field with accurate information on wages and cost of living as well as monthly accounts of important strikes, lockouts and contract settlements. Its printed pages over the years are an invaluable research tool in writing Canadian labour and industrial relations history. RG27 General Inventory

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 27-14 is a handwritten file list (vols. 1-39, 47-51 & 3439). 27-14 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/27-14_134390_vols_1-39_47-51_3439_open.pdf

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Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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1986-87/167 GAD
RG27-C-4

Former archival reference no.:

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RG27-C-4
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG27]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--39;

[Consultation 90 Open]

47--51;

[Consultation 90 Open]

3439;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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