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Unemployment Relief Commission [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

1918-1953

Reference:

R224-92-2-E, RG27-H-1

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

159592

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Department of Labour fonds

Unemployment Relief Commission
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Series includes:

1325 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1918-1953

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

50.6 m of textual records
1 photograph : b&w.
Positive - paper - silver

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of central registry files created and/or maintained by the Unemployment Relief Commission. This material relates to the relief measures undertaken by the federal government particularly during the period 1930 to 1942. The records include correspondence with municipalities, provinces and other government departments and agencies. Considerable attention is given to relief legislation and the resulting programs such as the Single Men's Unemployment Relief Camps, Farm Relief Schemes, Resettlement programs, etc. There are numerous files containing relevant statistical information about these operations as well as contracts for relief projects and Settlers' Accounts which itemize aid given to resettlement participants. Most of these records have file numbers and were organized according to the original filing system. However, a large portion of this material had no file numbers and was organized by subject. A number of these files relate to particular events, individuals or organizations. Medical records of individuals injured during the Regina Riot of 1935, information about the transient problem and unrest in the camps are examples of some of these topics. There are also files relating to work of Humphrey Mitchell when he was Director of Labour Transference for the Department. Other files deal with the National Employment Commission, the National Registration Branch, the National Unemployed Workers Association, the Canadian Defence League and the Workers' Unity League. Photographic material consists of one portrait of Joseph Sirois, Chief Commissioner of the Unemployment Insurance Commission from 1940-1941.

There are also the office records of the Commissioner of Unemployment Relief, Harry Hereford, consisting of bound volumes containing copies of legislation, orders in council, memoranda of agreement between the federal and the various provincial governments concerning unemployment relief, as well as sample forms, statistics concerning relief and summaries of relief projects undertaken by the Department of National Defence and other federal departments. These bound volumes are arranged by year (1931-1936) and each volume is indexed. Photograph included in this series is one portrait of Joseph Sirois, Chief Commissioner of Unemployment Insurance Commission, 1940-1942.
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Canada. Unemployment Relief Commission

Sirois, Joseph, 1881-1941
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Canada. Unemployment Relief Commission : The Unemployment Relief Commission was created in the Department of Labour in 1930 in order to administer the successive unemployment relief acts passed by Parliament during the Great Depression. Headed by Harry Hereford, the Commission reported directly to the Minister of Labour. Canada's relief legislation provided for some direct activity on the part of the federal government such as the relief camps and construction projects for the single unemployed male, but a greater emphasis was placed on sharing relief costs with provinces and municipalities. In the latter cases, relief programmes were administered by local officials. With the coming into force of the Unemployment Insurance Act in 1940 and the return to full employment during the Second World War, the Unemployment Relief Commission's activities came to an end. A certain number of disputed financial claims between Ottawa and the provinces over shared-cost programs regarding relief remained unsettled until after 1945 and for that reasons some of the records described below reach into the early 1950's. RG27 General Inventory

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(Electronic) Finding aid 27-29 is a typed file list relating to volumes 38, 52-54, 613-614. 27-29 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/27-29_159592_vols_38_52-54_613-614_open.pdf

(Electronic) Finding aid 27-29 is a computer generated file list relating to volumes 2020-2271. 27-29

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Title is based on the contents of the series.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Related material:

Related records may also be found in the files of Harold Hereford series (MIKAN 134403, RG27-B-7-i-a, Volume 4469).

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4611 : portrait of Joseph Sirois.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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2002-00768-3

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RG27-H-1
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Textual records

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Volume [RG27]

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38;

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52--54;

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613--614;

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2020--2271;

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Graphic (photo)

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Volume [R224] 4611

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Date modified:: 2024-07-04