Textual records (Paper) For the single volume formerly linked to former series RG 1, series L7, the CAB RG 1 Shelf List (see RG 1, L7 section) provides volume title and inclusive dates. For the remainder of the records in this series, the Shelf List serves as a finding aid. It is a typed volume-level description. CAB RG 1 Shelf List (90: Open)
Textual records (Paper) For the submissions themselves (vols. 1-71), the Shelf List correlates volume number to date. For the registers and indexes (vols. 72-93), the Shelf List indicates subject (i.e., whether the register and index relate to land or state matters), year, range of file numbers registered in the volume, page numbers, an indication of location of the index within the volume, and corresponding microfilm reel numbers. The CAB RG 1 Shelf List (E7 section) also provides instructions on how to use the indexes and registers to locate submissions. CAB RG 1 Shelf List (90: Open)
Textual records (Paper) The inter-relationships amongst the series in this fonds are such that a finding aid describing one series may also provide a degree of access to other series. Thus, the annual indexes and registers of submissions in the present series must be consulted year by year but offer access by date as well as names and subjects to not only the present series but also the State Minute Books of the Executive Council series, the Despatches Referred to the Executive Council series, and the Orders-in-Council of the Executive Council series. Registers and indexes (90: Open)
Textual records (Paper) They also provide a degree of access to the 'Put By' Submissions to the Executive Council series. Land submissions referred to in the registers are located in the Land Submissions to the Executive Council series (although a nominal card index now exists as a finding aid for that series in addition to the registers found here).
The numerical sequence used in the registers cannot be used like the "PC" numbers for post-Confederation orders-in-council and related records. Registers and indexes (90: Open)
Textual records (Paper) The documents must be sought by the date on which the submission received a decision in Council, or was considered and "put by." Despatches referred to Council should be sought in the Despatches Referred to the Executive Council series, rather than with the regular submissions in the present series. Indexing was not standardized and may seem not merely irregular but irrational. Registers and indexes (90: Open)
Textual records (Paper) A question of Military Reserves in Toronto could be indexed under M, R, or T, as well as O for Ordnance Lands, or under the names of prominent officials involved in the case. The choice on one occasion is not a reliable guide to what the choice might be on the next; researchers must search widely and imaginatively.
Entries in the registers are neither complete nor consistent, such that it may not be immediately apparent whether the desired submission will be found in the present series, in the Despatches Referred to the Executive Council series, or in the "Put By" Submissions to the Executive Council series. Registers and indexes (90: Open)
Textual records (Paper) As no register for the period prior to January 1843 has been located, the only guide to the submissions for that period is the state minute books (see State Minute Books of the Executive Council series, vols. 61-62). Registers and indexes (90: Open)