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File classification manuals from Health Canada and its predecessors [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Accession

Date:

1952-2010.

Reference:

RG29, R227, 2019-00036-9

BAN no.:

2019-00036-9

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5106801

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Date(s):

1952-2010.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

4.8 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Accession consists of a series of obsolete file classification manuals used by Health Canada and its predecessors, primarily the Department of National Health and Welfare. The majority of the manuals date from 1960 to 1988.
Provenance:

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Canada. Health Canada

Canada. Health and Welfare Canada
Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 29-360 is an unverified list indicating file number, title, box number and outside dates. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. 29-360 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/29-360_5106801_open.pdf

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General note:

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These records have been accessioned in order to facilitate research in RG29. Although file classification manuals can be very useful research and reference tools, they have significant limitations that must be understood. Such manuals, by their very nature, provide detailed information on the system(s) that a creator used to arrange/classify the records in their care. Combined with proper recordkeeping policies, procedures, and practices, a file classification manual can give a researcher a sense of what kind of documentation might have been created, where and how it was held in the creating institution, and therefore where it might be located within the archival holdings. Health Canada and its predecessors used these manuals to classify and organize their information. Researchers should note that though a file block may appear in one of the guides, the department did not necessarily ever create those files, nor were they necessarily considered to have archival value. Therefore, not all record blocks mentioned in the file classification guides will be part of LAC's collection. They are, however, a valuable tool for facilitating research in RG29 and for understanding how federal health information was organized in this period.

Custodial history:

In August 1985, the Records Improvement Section of Department of National Health and Welfare transferred a series of obsolete file classification manuals to the Government Archives Division of the National Archives of Canada. Additional manuals were transferred in 1989 and in 2011.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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R227-40-7-E
R227-40-7-F
RG29-26
RG29-28
RG29-3
RG29-31
RG29-36
RG29-37
RG29-48
RG29-6

Former archival reference no.:

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RG29
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [2019-00036-9] 1--24

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27