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Canada Company collection [textual record (some microform)]

Hierarchical level:

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Date:

1824-1887.

Reference:

R4019-0-4-E, MG24-I46

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100552

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Canada Company collection
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1824-1887.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

10.4 cm of textual records (422 p.).
1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35 mm.

Language of material:

English

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Guildhall Library collection [textual record (microform)]

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Fonds consists of correspondence of Robert Wilmot Horton, Undersecretary of State for War and the Colonies, to John Galt and other company officials, 1825-1826, 60 pages; correspondence, 1864-1887, 6 pages, and general business records, 1832-1887, 356 pages, of the Canada Company.

In addition, there is one microfilm reel, A-2159, consisting of original minutes with provisions and draft commission, bonds, list of dividends payable to proprietors, 1864 and list of shareholders, 1864. The original minutes relate to the intended arrangements between Earl Bathurst with memoranda containing provisions to be introduced to the Company charter and draft commissions to be granted to the Commissioners appointed to value the lands in Upper Canada. There are also original minutes of definite settlement, 1824-1828.

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Canada Company
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Great Britain. Dept. of State for War and the Colonies

Galt, John, 1779-1839
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Canada Company : The Canada Company was established in late 1824 to foster the settlement of Upper Canada. Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1825, as a land and colonization company, it received its Charter in 1826 and operated until it was dissolved in December 1953. In 1826, the Canada Company purchased from the government some two and one half million acres of land, half in what was known as the Huron Tract (Western Ontario), and the remainder in the Halton and Wilmot blocks as well as scattered crown reserves across the province. The payments went to the executive branch of the Upper Canada government to the dismay of Reformers in the elcted assembly.

After the Act of Union (1841), the company's connection to the Tory elite diminished. With the implementation of a leasing system, the company operated more effectively and less conspicuously. Following the sale of its last holdings in the 1950s, it ceased operation.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a summary list of general business records in the table of contents and a descriptive listing for the correspondence which has been organized alphabetically by author. MSS0247 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001137.pdf

Textual records (microform) (Electronic) Finding Aid 2001 provides only a summary listing of the contents for the six divisions of this material on reel number A-2159. MSS2001 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000853.pdf

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General note:

Correspondence of Robert Wilmot Horton, 1825-1826, was received in 1954. Correspondence and general business records was received in 1934, with records of the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Railway Company.

Microfilmed material was microfilmed by World Microfilms Publications for the Guildhall Library of London, England. A copy of the reel was purchased by the London Office of the National Archives of Canada during the course of its activities and transferred to the Archives in 1988.

Associated material note:

The bulk of the Canada Company's records are held at the Archives of Ontario. A few records remain on deposit at the Guildhall Library in London, England. Microfilm copies of the material at Guildhall Library have been obtained.

Related material:

Related records are found with the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Railway Company, MG 24, I 8, the papers of John Galt, MG 24, I 4, and Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, MG 24, A 55.
Subject heading:

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Land settlement Canada

Colonisation intérieure Canada

Land settlement Upper Canada

Entreprises Canada

Business enterprises Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1994/0116
1994/0118
2003-00238-3

Former archival reference no.:

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MG24-I46
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000001069.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 I 46] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 247] 32

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Finding aid box [FA 2001] 527--530

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Microfilm reel A-2159

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

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