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Office of the Dominion Statistician [textual record, graphic material]

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Date:

1903-1979

Reference:

R233-10-8-E, RG31-A

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

134468

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Statistics Canada fonds

Office of the Dominion Statistician
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Series includes:

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

1903-1979

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

21.6 m of textual records
6 photographs: b&w

Language of material:

English

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Office of Chief Statistician [textual record]

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Series consists of numbered and unnumbered files from former Dominion Statisticians, including Robert Hamilton (RH) Coats (1916-1941); Sedley Anthony (SA) Cudmore (1942-1945); Herbert Marshall (1945-1956) and Walter Elliot (WE) Duffett (1957-1972). The records of S.A. Cudmore also reflect his tenure as Assistant Chief Statistician. Also included are central registry files stamped `From the Office of the Chief Statistician', from the tenure of RH Coats to Peter G Kirkham.

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Canada. Office of the Chief Statistician of Canada

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Canada. Office of the Chief Statistician of Canada : Under the terms of the 1918 Statistics Act, the Dominion Statistician was required, under the direction of the Minister to whom s/he reported, to `supervise and control' the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. S/he was to be the Minister's representative in statistical negotiations with the provinces, and as per Order-in-Council 2503 (12 October 1918) and 1092 (20 May 1920), had a great deal of authority with regards to statistical matters in other departments. The 1948 Statistics Act, added the requirement to advise on all matters pertaining to statistical policy, to confer with government departments to that end and arrange with other government departments the collection, classification and publication of statistics. On 25 January 1965, Order-in-Council 1965-29 declared the Bureau, for legal and administrative purposes, to be a department of the federal government, with the Dominion Statistician as its deputy head. In 1971, a new Statistics Act was passed, which changed the name of the organization to `Statistics Canada' and, subsequently, of the departmental head to `Chief Statistician of Canada'. RG 31 General Inventory; Statistics Canada Annual Reports; David A Worton, The Dominion Bureau of Statistics: A history of Canada's Central Statistics Office and its antecedents, 1841-1972"; INFOSOURCE

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Government

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117-000133-4
1981-82/175 GAD
1989-90/133 GAD
RG31-A

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RG31-A
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