The office of the Auditor General is responsible for examining the expenditures of the Government of Canada and for reporting to Parliament on the finances of individual departments and agencies. The Auditor General also maintains seven regional offices across Canada to audit the accounts of federal district offices., This accession consists of financial statements and year-end audit files created by the Edmonton office of the Auditor General relating to federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations in Alberta and the Northwest Territories between 1968 and 1977. Among the offices documented are the Government of the Northwest Territories (headquarters and regional offices), various N.W.T. agencies such as the N.W.T. Housing Corporation, the Liquor Control Commission, the Workman's Compensation Board, and the Small Business Loans program; the Northern Transportation Company, Grimshaw Trucking, Eldorado Nuclear, Eldorado Aviation, and the Northern Canada Power Commission; and the Edmonton and Calgary offices of various federal departments such as Health and Welfare, Indian, Affairs, DREE, Veterans' Affairs, the Canada Assistance Program, the CBC, and the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation. The files are partially in alphabetical order by name of agency., Since 2010, archival records are held at the Regional Service Centre in Winnipeg.
