Collection search - Petitions and addresses to the Governors and the Executive Council of Upper Canada [textual record]

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Petitions and addresses to the Governors and the Executive Council of Upper Canada [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1828-1840.

Reference:

RG1-E16

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3631502

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Civil Secretary's correspondence. Upper Canada and Canada West

B 3 - Civil Secretary, petitions and addresses. Upper Canada

Petitions and addresses to the Governors and the Executive Council of Upper Canada
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Date(s):

1828-1840.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of oversize petitions and addresses, drawn from various series for convenience in shelving. This is an artificial series.

The petitions and addresses for Upper Canada are found in volume 5 of the series. There are addresses and petitions from the inhabitants of various places in Upper Canada for a variety of reasons including requests for boundary line changes, canals, navigation, and requests for pardons.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides the date of the document, the name of the recipient, the occasion or purpose of the address or petition; and the name and residence of the signatories. This finding aid relates not only to the Upper Canada petitions in volume 5 but also to those in volumes 1 to 4 for Quebec and Lower Canada, 1773-1840; as well as to Newfoundland, 1833. MSS0870 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002870.pdf

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Custodial history:

These documents were formerly identified as Series E. They are now physically located in the series RG 1, E 16 but are described in RG 5 because of their intellectual affinity to RG 5.

Arrangement note:

The arrangement of the documents is roughly chronological within geographical designations: Quebec and Lower Canada, 1773-1840; Upper Canada, 1828-1840; and Newfoundland, 1833.

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RG1-E16
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Textual records

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Volume [RG1 E 16] 5--7

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

Finding aid box [FA 870] 81

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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