Document Record

Creator

Canada. Dept. of the Interior.

Title

Index to the registry files of the office of the Surveyor General

Identifier

lac_mikan_135033
165540
RG 88 A 1 b
R214-28-6-E
R214-28-6-F
Government
oocihm.lac_mikan_135033

Document source

Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Language

English

Description

Following the passing of the responsibility for the administration of natural resources to the western provinces in 1930, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Mines were combined into a new Department of Mines and Resources. Federal responsibility for surveys and mapping, mines, energy, and other natural resources was transferred to the new ministry. In December 1949, the Department underwent yet another complete re-organization when it was renamed the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. Under the Government Organization Act of 1966, the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys was abolished and the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources was created. Today, the department is known as the Department of Natural Resource Funding or Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
The Surveyor General is an official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory. Originally, this would often have been a military appointment, but is now more likely to be a civilian post.
This collection consists of an index to the registry files of the Surveyor General. The first registers cover correspondence created between 1881 and ca. 1924, while the second series covers the years ca. 1924 to ca. 1949.
Many of the file references in the first registers have been carried forward into the second. The indexes are arranged alphabetically.

URL

https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_135033