Document Record

Creator

Canada West. Provincial Secretary's Office.

Title

Canada West : Provincial Secretary letterbooks
Canada-Ouest : Registres de copies de lettres du secrétaire provincial

Identifier

MIKAN: 125582
Reels/Bobines: C-10799 to C-10800, C-13140 to C-13150
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: RG 5 C 2
oocihm.lac_mikan_125582
lac_mikan_125582

Subject

Government
Correspondence
Gouvernement
Correspondance

Document source

Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1839-1867
Copyright Not Evaluated/Droit d'auteur non évalué
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Language

English

Description

Before Confederation, there were two registrars general, who were appointed as the provincial secretaries of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. The offices of Civil Secretary for the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada were merged in 1841; there was a single office for the province of Canada. The offices of the Provincial Secretaries were maintained: that of Upper Canada continued for Canada West and that of Lower Canada for Canada East.
This collection consists of texts of outgoing correspondence that were entered in the letterbooks maintained by the Provincial Secretary's staff, 1839-1847, for future reference.
Avant la Confédération, deux registraires généraux étaient désignés pour exercer les fonctions de secrétaire provincial dans chacune des provinces du Haut et du Bas-Canada. En 1841, les fonctions de secrétaire civil pour les provinces du Haut et du Bas-Canada furent fusionnées et remplacées par un seul poste pour la province du Canada. Les fonctions des secrétaires provinciales furent maintenues : celui du Haut-Canada demeura en poste pour Canada-Ouest et celui du Bas-Canada demeura en poste pour Canada-Est.
Cette collection se compose des textes des lettres expédiées et consignées dans les registres de copies de correspondance conservés pour consultation ultérieure par le personnel du bureau du secrétaire provincial entre 1839 et 1847.
The shelf lists in the Guide for RG 5 identify the reel numbers for the portions which have been filmed and provide a listing of the records to the volume title level. For the drafts and the unnumbered correspondence, there is no more detailed description. As the shelf list indicates, most letterbooks contain an index. MSS2434 90
Until September 1989, a series of Registers and Indexes, prepared in the Provincial Secretary's Office to provide access to the numbered correspondence and the letterbooks, was shelved as Finding Aids 995 and 996. The microfilm copies of these remain accessible. The subject and nominal entries in the Index volumes provide access to the corresponding Register volumes for each year, while the Registers identify the author, date, subject and fate of each file. An explanation of how these contemporary indexes and registers function and how to trace from the incoming to the outgoing correspondence, or vice-versa, prefaces the shelf lists and was included on each reel of microfilm. MSS0995 90
Until September 1989, a series of Registers and Indexes, prepared in the Provincial Secretary's Office to provide access to the numbered correspondence and the letterbooks, was shelved as Finding Aids 995 and 996. The microfilm copies of these remain accessible. The subject and nominal entries in the Index volumes provide access to the corresponding Register volumes for each year, while the Registers identify the author, date, subject and fate of each file. An explanation of how these contemporary indexes and registers function and how to trace from the incoming to the outgoing correspondence, or vice-versa, prefaces the shelf lists and was included on each reel of microfilm. MSS0996 90

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