WO 44. Ordnance Office In-Letters [textual record (chiefly microform)]
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Record Information – Brief WO 44. Ordnance Office In-Letters [textual record (chiefly microform)]
- Item ID number:
- 105238
- Hierarchical level:
- Series
- Date:
- 1788-1856.
- Reference:
- R14028-3-1-E, MG13-WO44
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Found in:
- Archives / Collections and Fonds
- Item ID number:
- 105238
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16 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s)
- Date(s):
- 1788-1856.
- Place of creation:
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Extent:
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130 microfilm reels.
1 cm of textual records (45 p.) : transcripts and photocopies. - Language of material:
- English
- Scope and content:
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War Office 44 consists of 732 bundles and volumes of letters addressed to the Ordnance Office from officers of the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery as well as by government officials and private individuals involved in matters which concerned the Ordnance Office. The National Archives has copied selections from the in-letters addressed to the Ordnance Office relating to the Rideau Canal, Barracks and Ordnance Lands in British North America, and a wide variety of questions of direct and indirect concern to the Ordnance Office. Arrangement is partly by districts, e.g. Canada, Halifax, Newfoundland, Quebec, partly by government departments; e.g. Admiralty, Colonial Office, Treasury, War Office, etc., and partly by subjects, e.g. Artillery, Barracks, Clothing, Engineers, Field Train, Inventions, Laboratories, General Orders, Services of Officers and Men, Surveys, etc.
The photocopies, 25 pages, and the transcripts, 20 pages are available on microfilm reel C-12586. Original microfilmed records of WO 44 are located on microfilm reels: B-217, B-218, B-1293 to B-1352, B-1417 to B-1438, B-1940, and B-3456 to B-3462. - Provenance:
- Biography/Administrative history:
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Great Britain. Board of Ordnance : The Master General of the Ordnance, whose office dated from 1483, worked with other officials on a Board of Ordnance, frequently known as the Ordnance Office. It is the oldest of the offices whose records are included in the War Office group at the Public Record Office. One of the important early duties of the Ordnance, which remained so until the middle of the nineteenth century, was to supply weapons and ammunition to both the army and the navy. Even when there was no requirement for a permanent administrative organization to oversee military affairs, there did exist a need for an authority to supervise the procurement, maintenance, storage, and issue when necessary, of the nation's ordnance. This use of a common ministry of supply resulted in some beneficial standardization while reducing the opportunities to bid up prices. The Board of Ordnance also had charge, for most of its existence, of the artillery and engineer corps, fortifications, and barracks although the last category was administered by a separate Barrackmaster General from 1793 to 1822. General Inventory Manuscripts, Volume 2, MG11-MG15, Ottawa, 1976. Great Britain. Public Records Office online catalogue: 1584
- Finding aid:
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Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 90, British Records on Microfilm, includes a microfilm shelf list for WO 44: reel numbers, volume numbers, outside dates, and general subject matter. MSS0090 (90: Open)Textual records (Microform) A list of items microfilmed from volumes 239 to 732 is also available on microfilm reel B-3456. (90: Open)Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 342 includes reel numbers, volume numbers, outside dates and subject matter. In addition, there is a detailed description of the documents copied in the class WO 44. Moreover, there is a list which was used to guide the camera operators in London, England, at the time of filming of records of Canadian interest in WO 44. MSS0342 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001419.pdf(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l'adresse suivante : (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105238?usrlang=en(Electronic) For a link to the digitized images, please see the "Finding aid" section of this record. (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105238?usrlang=fr - Subject heading:
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- Rideau Canal (Ont.)
- Canada - History, Military
- Canada - History - War of 1812 - Prizes, etc
- Great Britain. Army - Canada, 1788-1797, 1812-1856 Halifax (N.S.), 1812-1855
- Great Britain. Army - Colonial forces - Canada, 1788-1797, 1812-1856 Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers, 1826-1855
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Management, 1788-1797, 1812-1856 Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery, [1826-1855]
- Great Britain. Army - Ordnance and ordnance stores, [1788-1797, 1812-1856] Chesapeake (Ship), 1815
- Great Britain. Army - Ordnance facilities, [1788-1797, 1812-1856] James Wolfe, 1838, 1855
- Ordnance - Canada, [1788-1797, 1812-1856] Great Britain. Admiralty, [1832-1855]
- Ordnance - Quebec, 1812-1824 Great Britain. Colonial Office, [1832-1855]
- Ordnance - Great Britain, [1788-1797, 1812-1856] Great Britain. War Office, [1832-1855]
- Canals - Ontario, [1826-1855] Great Britain. Treasury, [1832-1855]
- Waterways - Canada, [1826-1855] Great Britain. Solicitor General, [1832-1855]
- Crown lands - Canada, [1826-1855] Great Britain. Army. Commander-in-Chief, 1821-1850
- Military establishments - Canada, [1826-1855]
- Military engineering - Canada, 1826-1855
- Land claims - Canada, [1826-1855]
- Kingston (Ont.) - Defences, [1826-1855]
- Montreal (Quebec) - Defences, [1826-1855]
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Officers, 1812-1855
- Ordnance - Nova Scotia, 1812-1855
- Ordnance - New Brunswick, 1812-1855
- Ordnance - Newfoundland, 1812-1855
- Great Britain - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations, 1815
- Capture at sea, 1815
- United States - Relations - Great Britain, 1815
- Seizure of vessels and cargoes
- Ships - United States, 1815
- Great Britain. Army - Officers, 1812-1855
- Ordnance service - Canada, [1788-1797, 1812-1856]
- Military reserves - Canada, [1826-1835]
- Soldiers - Canada - Billeting, 1838, 1855
- Soldiers - Great Britain - Billeting, 1838, 1855
- Ordnance officers - Great Britain, 1788-1797, 1812-1856
- Ordnance officers - Canada, 1788-1797, 1812-1856
- Military uniforms - Conservation and restoration, 1838, 1855
- Signals and signaling, 1844
- Great Britain. Army - Signaling, 1844
- Great Britain - Officials and employees, 1826-1855
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Military construction operations, 1827-1855
- Executive departments - Great Britain, 1832-1855
- Great Britain. Army - Reserves, [1826-1835]
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Barracks and quarters, 1827-1855
- Great Britain. Army - Barracks and quarters, 1827-1855
- Great Britain. Army - Nova Scotia, 1812-1855
- Ordnance - United States, 1815
- Inventions - Canada, 1816, 1943
- Sleighs and sledges - Canada, 1943
- Ordnance - Research, 1816
- Rocketry - Canada, 1847
- Great Britain. Army - General orders (Military science), 1821-1850
- Firearms - Canada, [1815, 1816, 1843-1947]
- Artillery - North America, 1813, 1816, 1818, 1832, 1851-1855
- Barracks - Construction and maintenance, 1827-1851
- Firearms - Canada - Design and construction, 1816
- Military weapons - North America, 1813, 1816, 1818, 1832, 1851-1855
- Military buildings - Canada, 1827-1851
- Great Britain - Armed Forces - Buildings, [1788-1797, 1812-1856]
- James Wolfe, 1727-1759 - Clothing, 1838, 1855
- Great Britain - Relations - United States
- Canada War of 1812
- Canada 1812, Guerre de
- Canada Seven Years' War, 1755-1763
- Canada 1755-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans)
- Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759
- Great Britain
- Grande-Bretagne
- Canal Rideau (Ont.)
- Great Britain. Army. Master General of H.M. Ordnance, [1832-1855]
- Nova Scotia 19th century
- Nouvelle Écosse 19e siècle
- Source:
- Private
- Former archival reference no.:
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MG13-WO44
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