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War Supply Board sous-fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sous-fonds

Date:

1939-1947, predominant 1939-1940.

Reference:

R226-19-8-E, RG28-A

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

71

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Department of Reconstruction and Supply fonds

War Supply Board sous-fonds
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Sous-fonds includes:

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

1939-1947, predominant 1939-1940.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1.2 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Sous-fonds consists of records created and/or maintained by the War Supply Board. The sous-fonds includes numbered files (Vol. 6, 33); organization files and charts (Vols. 34; 180); minutes of meetings (Vols. 35); and tenders (Vol. 47).
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Canada. War Supply Board

Canada. Defence Purchasing Board
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Canada. War Supply Board : Before the Second World War, Canada possessed only the barest rudiments of a munitions industry. On 3 June 1939 Parliament passed the Defence Purchases, Profits Control, and Financing Act ( 3 Geo. VI, ch. 42) which established the Defence Purchasing Board and empowered it to enter into all contracts for supplies and defence projects over ,000. The War Supply Board succeeded the Defence Purchasing Board with increased authority and wide powers "to mobilize, conserve and coordinate the economic and industrial facilities available in respect of munitions, supplies and defence projects for the effective prosecution of the present war ..." (P.C. 2696, 15 September 1939). Initially the Board reported to the Minister of Finance, the Hon. J.L. Ralston, but he perceived its first President, Wallace Ronald Campbell, the President of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, to be a possible embarrassment to the Government and asked to be relieved of the responsibility. The Hon. Clarence Decatur Howe, then Minister of Transport, took over as President, and "the order in council of 23 November [P.C. 3786] that effected this began the process that was to make C.D. Howe what one might almost call the absolute monarch of Canadian war production." [C.P. Stacey, Arms, Men and Governments; the War Policies of Canada, 1939-1945, p. 496.] The War Supply Board operated in the period of the "phoney war" and its munitions orders in its five-month life ( 31 million) were no greater than those of the Defence Purchasing Board. The Board did give two large orders for mechanical transport to General Motors of Canada and Ford of Canada in March-April 1940. The Department of Munitions and Supply, mandated to administer the requirements of the armed forces of Canada and also of Allied purchases in Canada (3 Geo. VI, ch. 3), superseded the War Supply Board when the Act created the Department was proclaimed on 9 April 1940 (P.C. 1435).

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consist of volume number, file number, part number, title and outside dates. 28-13 (90: Open)

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Source of title:

Title is based on P.C. 2696, 15 September 1939.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Source:

Government

Former archival reference no.:

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RG28-A
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG28]

[Consultation 90 Open]

6;

[Consultation 90 Open]

33;

[Consultation 90 Open]

47;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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