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Registry files [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1880-1969

Reference:

R214-30-4-E, RG88-A-I-a

Type of material:

Textual material, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

135035

Context of this record:

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Natural Resources Canada fonds

Surveys and Mapping Branch sous-fonds

Office of the Surveyor General

Registry files
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Record information – Details
Sub-series includes:

2997 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1880-1969

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

54.15 m of textual records.
483 photographs : b&w
1 drawing
4 reproduction photostats
13 photograph negatives: b&w

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Henrietta Constantine collection [graphic material]

British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska Highway collection [graphic material]

National Map Collection (Canada) collection [graphic material]

Canada. Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources collection [graphic material]

Canada. Surveys and Mapping Branch collection [graphic material]

Canada. Surveys and Mapping Branch collection [graphic material]

Canada. Surveys and Mapping Branch collection [graphic material]

Canada. Surveys and Mapping Branch. Energy Mines and Resources Collection [graphic material]
Scope and content:

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Sub-series consists of registry files created by the office of the Surveyor General. At various times from the early 1880s to 1949 the duties of the Surveyor General have been performed from administrative positions equal to that of a director of a branch, chief of a service and chief of a division. For this same period of time the correspondence of the Surveyor General, regardless of his administrative standing, was placed in a straight numeric registry system. This registry incorporates material created between 1881 and 1949, although certain items placed with these registry records fall outside these dates. Some of the files have been screened and stripped of routine subject matter.

A wide variety of subjects are covered in these files. For example: surveyors' files (Such files, one for each survey season, usually consist of letters of instruction, progress reports from the field, the report of the Inspector General of Surveys, and the final survey report. The survey report can also be found in the published annual report of the Surveyor General.), aerial surveying, details of changes to the Dominion Land Surveys Act, costs of surveys and instruments used in surveying, and the progress of boundary surveys.

Those survey records relating to lands transferred under the resource transfer agreements of 1930 were transferred to the provinces involved in the 1950s by the Legal Surveys and Aeronautical Charts Division. A file list prepared at the time of this transfer and available in the Government Archives Division helps to identify the final disposition of these records.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 88-2 is an unverified file list indicating box number, file number, file description and outside dates for volumes 1 - 7. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. 88-2 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/88-2_135035_volumes 1-7_open.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 88-2 is a verified list indicating volume number, file number, file part number, file title and outside dates for volumes 3290-3294. 88-2 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/88-2_135035_volumes 3290-3294_open.pdf

Additional information:

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Source of title:

Title based on contents of the sub-series.

Related material:

Related material can be found in the Index sub-series of the same series (135033). Many of the cartographical items have been removed from the files in Volumes 330 to 402 and are now in the custody of the Cartographic and Architectural Archives Division.

Container note(s):

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535 : originally part of vol.300

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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117-000001-X
1969-113 NPC
1970-154 NPC
1971-237 NPC
1972-063 NPC
1973-159 NPC
1973-200 NPC
1973-271 NPC
1982-171 PIC
1989-90/001 GAD
2015-01733-X
23/262.853
R214
RG88
RG88-C-V-2

Former archival reference no.:

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RG88-A-I-a
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Conditions of access:

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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [RG88]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--7;

[Consultation 90 Open]

87--402;

[Consultation 90 Open]

473--477;

[Consultation 90 Open]

492;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R214] 3290--3294

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

Volume [R214] 6278

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG88] 535

[Consultation 90 Open]

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