General correspondence [textual record]
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Record Information – Brief General correspondence [textual record]
- Item ID number:
- 156172
- Hierarchical level:
- Sub-series
- Date:
- 1852-1920
- Reference:
- R194-40-3-E, RG17-A-I-1
- Type of material:
- Textual material, Art
- Found in:
- Archives / Collections and Fonds
- Item ID number:
- 156172
- Context of this record:
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Record Information – Details - Sub-series includes:
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89402 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s)
- Date(s):
- 1852-1920
- Bilingual equivalent:
- Click here
- Place of creation:
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Extent:
- 141.9 m of textual records
- Language of material:
- English
- Scope and content:
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Sub-series consists of incoming correspondence received by the Upper and Lower Canadian Boards of Agriculture, 1852-1867 (with certain gaps) and the federal Department of Agriculture, 1867-1920. The correspondence was received in most cases from individual Canadians or officials and agents of the Department or of other government agencies.
This sub-series has two very distinct parts, although the division between them is not a precise one. When the Department of Agriculture in 1893 lost its hitherto most important function of immigration, it reorganized its records system. Until that time, each letter received was given a sequential number (starting at 1 in 1865) as it was received in the Department and filed as a docket. Unlike modern file systems, therefore, if a correspondent wrote the Department ten times in one year, even if on the same subject, the ten letters are not on one subject file, but were individually registered and were placed in ten separate dockets. The replies by the Department to these ten letters -- or rather copies of the replies -- are not interleaved with the letters, but exist in an entirely separate sub-series of outgoing letterbooks and correspondence (see related records note). By the mid-1890s, however (around volume 760 of this sub-series), the Department began to create modern subject files, combining incoming and outgoing correspondence, although maintaining for these files the same sequential numbering system started in 1865. Despite this development for more important subjects, the old system of individual dockets was continued, also using the same sequential series of file/docket numbers. Thus, by the late 1890s, large subject files existed alongside the two and three page individual letter dockets of the earlier era.
The subjects covered by this sub-series reflect the rich diversity of the functions of the Department of Agriculture, including such topics as archives, agriculture societies, exhibitions (local and international) experimental farms, animal, crop and food science, census records, every aspect of immigration, copyright, patents, cattle exports, quarantine, public health and some land matters. The files are fewer in number before 1865, but after that date a fairly complete series has survived.
This sub-series was received by the National Archives of Canada in two parts: volumes 1-1366 (covering the years 1852-1920) and volumes 2729-2809 (covering the years 1889-1920). The more recent accession (Vols. 2729-2809) consists entirely of subject files; the earlier records (Vols. 1-1366) consist of both individual dockets and by the early 1890's, subject files as described above. - Finding aid:
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(Electronic) The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" fields in the MIKAN record, volumes 1-1366. 17-1 MIKAN (90: Open)(Electronic) Finding aid 17-2 is a typed conversion list referring to volumes 1-1366 and reels T-4365 to T-4406. 17-2 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/17-2_156172_vols_1-1366_open.pdf(Electronic) Finding aid 17-3 is a typed conversion list referring to volumes 2729-2809. 17-3 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/17-3_156172_vols_2729-2809_open.pdf(Electronic) Finding aid 17-4 is an Excel list register referring to volumes 1367-1486, 1488-1489, 3539-3544. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. 17-4 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/17-4_156172_volumes_1367-1489_3539-3544_open.pdf(Electronic) Finding aid 17-5 is a handwritten alphabetical list referring to volumes 1-1366, 2729-2809. 17-5 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/17-5_156172_vols_1-1366_2729-2809_open.pdf(Paper) Finding aid 17-7 is a typed file list. 17-7(Electronic) The finding aid is an unverified file list. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. 17-14 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/17-14_156172_volumes_2729-2809_open.pdf(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address (T-4365-T-4406): (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_156172 - Additional information:
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- Source of title:
- Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.
- Availability of other formats note:
- See reels T-4365 to T-4406 for microfilmed copies of the records in volumes 1367-1489 and 3539-3944. These reels replace separate original documents which have been removed from circulation for conservation reasons.
- Accruals:
- No further accruals are expected.
- Related material:
- Other incoming correspondence is located in the Deputy Minister's letters received sub-series (R194-48-8-E), involving principally letters addressed specifically to the Deputy Minister, 1885-1895. The replies by the Department -- or rather copies of the replies -- are not interleaved with the letters, but exist in an entirely separate sub-series of outgoing letterbooks and correspondence. See the English and continental letterbooks sub-series (R194-47-6-E), the Deputy Minister's letterbooks sub-series (R194-49-X-E), and the Secretary and Assistant Deputy Minister's letterbooks sub-series (R194-51-8-E).
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T-4406 : microfilm copies of the records in volumes 1367-1489 and 3539-3944 Copy No. 4
4403 : Originally part of volume 49.
4404 : Originally part of volume 60.
4405 : Originally part of volume 99.
4406 : Originally part of volume 162.
4407 : Originally part of volume 403.
4408 : Originally part of volume 738. - Source:
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1984-85/184 GAD
RG17 - Former archival reference no.:
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RG17-A-I-1
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Textual records[Consultation90 Open]Volume [RG17][Consultation 90 Open]1--1489;[Consultation 90 Open]2729--2809;[Consultation 90 Open]3539;[Consultation 90 Open]3544;[Consultation 90 Open]3540/A--3540/B;[Consultation 90 Open]3541/A--3541/C;[Consultation 90 Open]3542/A--3542/C;[Consultation 90 Open]3543/A--3543/B;[Consultation 90 Open]Microfilm reel [RG17] T-4365--T-4406[Consultation 90 Open]Graphic (art)[Consultation32 Restricted by law]Volume [RG17] 4403--4408[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]
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