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Prairie Regional Laboratory [textual record]

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Date:

1932-1975

Reference:

R1207-38-2-E, RG77-A-2-a, RG77-B-1

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

134921

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National Research Council of Canada fonds

Prairie Regional Laboratory
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Series includes:

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

1932-1975

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

5.4 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of research notebooks, committee documents and correspondence from the Prairie Regional Laboratory registry system, including files on various aspects of lingnin, wheat straw, butylene glycol, myogen enzymes, furfural, mycology, safflower, aeration, etc. Also included is information related to studies of the establishment of a starch-gluten industry in Western Canada, agricultural residues, etc. The committee files related to the Prairie Regional Committee, the Special Western Agricultural Committee, the Co-ordinating Committee on Western Crop Investigations, the Associate Committee on Grain Research, the Associate Committee on Plant Disease, the Associate Committee on Plant Breeding, the Associate Committee on Animal Nutrition, the Associate Committee on Animal Science, etc.
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National Research Council Canada. Prairie Regional Laboratory

Conseil national de recherches Canada. Laboratoire régional des Prairies
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National Research Council Canada. Prairie Regional Laboratory : A prairie research unit had been in existence for many years, with individuals working out of the University of Saskatchewan and the Division of Applied Biology in Ottawa. In 1943, however, the NRC formally put into place plans to construct a laboratory on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan. The PRL was officially opened on 8 June 1948, as part of the Division of Applied Biology, with Dr GA Ledingham as leader. The mandate of the new laboratory was to promote studies on the use of agricultural surpluses (for example: wheat) and farm waste products (for example: straw). By 1950, the laboratory was in full operation and projects related to prairie agricultural issues were transferred from the Ottawa laboratory.

With the discovery of oil and gas reserves on the prairies in the early 1950s, the PRLs research agenda changed somewhat, with greater efforts made to understand the 'fundamental chemistry of agricultural materials'.

In 1983, the PRL became the Plant Biotechnology Institute (PBI), and while the interests of the new Institute were somewhat broader than those of the PRL, the work of the PBI remained focussed on the agricultural products of Western Canada.

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(Electronic) Finding aid 77-1 is a computer generated file list relating to volumes 9-20. 77-1

(Electronic) Finding aid 77-41 is a computer generated box list relating to volumes 313-318, 334-343. 77-41

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Title is based on the contents of the series.

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Further accruals are expected.

Related material:

Related records may also be found in the William Harrison Cook fonds (104319), NRC Series (123169).

Source:

Government

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117-000014-1
1983-84/035 GAD
1986-87/374 GAD
1989-90/014 GAD
RG77-A-2-a
RG77-B-1

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RG77-A-2-a
RG77-B-1
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [RG77]

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

313--318;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

334--337;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

340--343;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

Volume [RG77]

[Consultation 90 Open]

9--20;

[Consultation 90 Open]

338--339;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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