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Departmental Commission on Public Records sous-fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sous-fonds

Date:

1897

Reference:

R776-46-7-E, RG35-1

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

257

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Treasury Board fonds

Departmental Commission on Public Records sous-fonds
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Sous-fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1897

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.15 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Sous-fonds consists of minutes of the Commission, letterbooks, and their working papers.

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Canada. Commission on Public Records

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Canada. Commission on Public Records : A Departmental Commission to inquire into and report upon the state of Public Records was appointed in 1897, (T. B. Minute 486, 19 February 1897, PC 1997-328, 16 March 1897). The Commission was comprised of the Deputy Minister of Finance (J. M. Courtney), the Auditor General (J. L. McDougall) and the Under-Secretary of State (Joseph Pope) who were to report to the Treasury Board on the state of the records in departments of government generally; how and where they were kept and their safety in case of fire; what paper or records might be destroyed and after what interval; and to make suggestions with a view to the adoption of a system for the safe keeping of Public Records which must be preserved and the periodical destruction of records that had no continuing value. This special commission continued its proceedings until October 1897 and submitted its report in November of 1897. This initiative marks one of the earliest instances in which the Treasury Board addressed the issue of information management and general administrative policy, policy areas that have emerged as explicit spheres in the mandate of the modern Board and its supporting Secretariat.

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Source of title:

Title based on order in council creating the Commission, order-in-council 1897-486, T.B. minute 486, 19 February 1897.

Source:

Government

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RG35-1
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