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Office of the Representation Commissioner [textual record, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

1964-1976.

Reference:

R1003-16-6-E, RG59

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

155614

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Office of the Chief Electoral Officer fonds

Office of the Representation Commissioner
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1964-1976.

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

5.4 m of textual records.
5 audio reels (13 h)

Language of material:

English
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CANADA. OFFICE OF THE REPRESENTATION COMMISSIONER [sound recording]

CANADA. OFFICE OF THE REPRESENTATION COMMISSIONER [sound recording]
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Series consists of records containing minutes of meetings held by the various commissions, transcripts, and sound recordings of public hearings held in various localities in the provinces and Northwest Territories. The records also include copies of some of the submissions made by private individuals in the course of public hearings. Correspondence, memoranda between commissioners, with the press or the general public are found in these records. Also included are population statistics, surveys, maps, notes, comments on redistributions, press articles, legislative and procedural references, copies of conferences given, reports on public hearings and representations to the Commissions. The records are generally arranged by commission and include the reports of Electoral Boundaries Commissions for the years 1964-1965 and 1972-1976.

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Canada. Office of the Representation Commissioner

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Canada. Office of the Representation Commissioner : The Office of the Representation Commissioner was established in 1963 under the provisions of the Representation Commissioner Act. A decision was taken to assign the responsibility for readjusting electoral constituency boundaries to independent commissions, one for each province and under a new set of rules. The 1963 legislation created the Office of the Representation Commissioner and ad hoc boundary commissions, one for each province and one for the Northwest Territories. Each commission had four members: a chairman designated by the chief justice of each province from among the members of his court; two members who were initially political appointees but subsequently became the designations of the Speaker of the House of Commons and finally the Representation Commissioner who was to sit on every commission. As soon as possible after the completion of a decennial census, the Commissioner was to prepare maps showing the distribution of population in each province and the Northwest Territories and to present his proposals in relation to the electoral district boundaries for each of these. The Commissioner's duties included the review and study of methods of registration of electors as well as methods of voting allowed for absent electors for illness or other causes and to present a report setting forth his recommendations in these matters. Each commission held hearings and received representations about its published maps. The commission considered the objections and when it drew its final map, it then became law.

The Representation Commissioner was appointed by Resolution of the House of Commons and his Office was designated as a department. The Secretary of State acted as spokesman for the Office in the Cabinet and in the House of Commons.

The position of Representation Commissioner was abolished by the Government Organization Act of 1979. The Chief Electoral Officer assumed at this point most of the responsibilities of the Commissioner under the provisions of the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act. Three-member commissions were established for each province and the Northwest Territories, each being chaired as previously by a judge and comprising two other members appointed by the Speaker. RG59 General Inventory

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(Electronic) Finding aid 59-1 is a typed and handwritten file list generally arranged by commission, volumes 1-16, 16a, 17-31. 59-1 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/59-1_155614_vols_1-16_16a_17-31_open.pdf

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Source of title:

Title based on contents of the series.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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(1973-05-22)
(1973-06-02)
1969-0016 MISA
1980-0118 MISA
R1003

Former archival reference no.:

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RG59

Other accession no.:

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1980-0118 MISA
1969-0016 MISA
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Textual records

[Consultation32 Restricted by law]

Volume [RG59]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1;

[Consultation 90 Open]

3;

[Consultation 90 Open]

5;

[Consultation 90 Open]

7;

[Consultation 90 Open]

10;

[Consultation 90 Open]

12;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14--31;

[Consultation 90 Open]

16/A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [RG59]

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

2;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

4;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

6;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

8--9;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

11;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

13;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

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