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Royal Commission on Railways and Transportation in Canada [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-sub-series

Date:

1916-1939

Reference:

R231-924-6-E, RG30-V-A-9-e

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

180393

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Canadian National Railway Company fonds

Department of Engineering (Office of the Chief Engineer, Office of the Chief Architect)

Records of the Chief Engineer, Construction Department - Gzowski papers.

Royal Commission on Railways and Transportation in Canada
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Date(s):

1916-1939

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.7 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Sub-sub-series consists of records created and maintained by the Canadian National Railways Operations Division. These records pertain to the activities of C.S. Gzowski who served with the Canadian National Railways as a chief engineer. These records relate to information compiled by or for two royal commissions and covering a period from 1916-1939.

There are miscellaneous reports, statistics, evaluations relating to the Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian Northern Railway conducted by the Royal Commission on Railways in Canada (the first occurred in 1917 and the second, on a broader subject of Transportation, occurred in 1932).

The Chief Commissioner Drayton from the Board of Railway Commissioners was appointed to serve on the royal commission along with W. M. Acworth, a British railway economist, and A.M. Smith, president of the New York Central Railway. Their findings were released in May 1917. Although Smith dissented, Drayton and Acworth agreed that CN, the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific should be united into a single national railway with other railways that the government already owned, including the Intercolonial Railway.

In 1932, R.B. Bennett's government appointed a royal commission to look into the condition of Canada's transportation system. Mr. Justice Lyman Duff, of the Supreme Court of Canada, was named head of the commission. The CN system was suffering financially and the government sought a solution to the public railway's problems.

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(Paper) Finding aid 30-45 is a typed file list relating to volumes 7574-7580. 30-45

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Title is based on the contents of the sub-sub-series.

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No further accruals are expected.

Related material:

See RG30-V-11-e

Source:

Government

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RG30-V-A-9-e
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG30] 7574--7580

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 30-45] 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

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