Document Record

Title

Office records of the Clerk of the Councils
Proceedings of the Commissioners for the Administration of the Jesuit Estates, Reports 1 and 2, 1788
Kenelm Chandler's Remarks and Observations on the first report of the Committee on the Titles etc. of the Jesuit Estates, 1788
Earl Amherst papers
Dossiers du bureau du greffier des Conseils

Identifier

MIKAN: 204509
Reels/Bobines: C-1215
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: RG 1 E 14
oocihm.lac_mikan_204509
lac_mikan_204509

Subject

Government
Religion
Gouvernement

Document source

Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1796-1791
Copyright Government of Canada/Droit d'auteur Gouvernement du Canada
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted/Protégé par le droit d'auteur - Utilisation non commerciale autorisée
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

Language

English
French

Description

Prior to the Conquest of Quebec, Jesuits received considerable amounts of property for their use in New France. Britain eventually took over control of these estates in 1763 and considered the Jesuit order dissolved in 1773, but, in 1831, London awarded the land to Lower Canada. The Jesuit order was re-established in British North America in 1842, and, in 1871, the Jesuits were authorized by Rome to negotiate a settlement of their estates with the Quebec government. In July 1888, the Legislative Assembly of Quebec passed the Jesuits' Estates Act, which gave the Jesuits $160,000 in return for surrendering all of their land claims. But because Pope Leo XIII was involved during the Act's negotiations, the Orange Order in Ontario strongly opposed the settlement as a papist intrusion into Canadian affairs. A House of Commons legislative attempt to strike down the Quebec law failed, and, in the end, the Jesuits' Estates Act soured relations between English Protestants and French Catholics.
This collection consists of a miscellany of records relating to both state and land activities. These records include those relating to the administration of Jesuit Estates lands, among other things.
There is a list of items in the collection at the start of microfilm reel C-1215. The surviving records rarely form complete series. The collection alternates between French and English documents.
Avant la conquête de Québec, les Jésuites avaient reçu un nombre considérable de propriétés pour leur usage en Nouvelle-France. En 1763, la Grande-Bretagne a finalement pris le contrôle de ces biens et la Compagnie de Jésus fut dissoute en 1773. Mais, en 1831, Londres a remis ces propriétés au Bas-Canada. De retour en Amérique du Nord britannique dès 1842, les Jésuites furent autorisés par Rome, en 1871, à négocier le règlement de leurs biens avec le gouvernement du Québec, En juillet 1888, l'Assemblée législative du Québec a adopté l'Acte des biens des Jésuites qui accordait 160,000 $ aux Jésuites contre l'abandon de toute réclamation. Mais, parce que le pape Léon XIII s'est immiscé dans les négociations de l'Acte, l'ordre d'Orange de l'Ontario s'est violemment opposé au règlement qu'il considérait comme une intrusion papiste dans les affaires canadiennes. Une tentative de la Chambre des communes pour désavouer la loi québécoise échoua et, par conséquent, l'Acte des biens des Jésuites n'a fait qu'envenimer les relations entre les protestants anglais et les catholiques français.
Cette collection est constituée de divers dossiers qui concernent tant les activités foncières que les activités de l'État. Ces dossiers comprennent, entre autres, ceux qui se rapportent à l'administration des biens des Jésuites.
Une liste des documents contenus dans la collection se trouve au début de la bobine de microfilm C-1215. Les dossiers ayant survécu constituent rarement des séries complètes. La langue des documents de cette collection est tantôt le français, tantôt l'anglais.
CAB RG1 Shelf List 2 90 The CAB RG1 Shelf List (see RG , E11, E12, E14 and L7 sections) is a typed volume-level description which provides volume titles and inclusive dates and, where applicable, corresponding microfilm reel numbers.
CAB RG4 Shelf List 2 90 The CAB RG 4 Shelf List (see RG , A3 section) is a typed volume-level description which provides volume title and inclusive dates.
From record: Series consists of a miscellany of records attributed to the Clerk of the Council and relating to both state and land activities of his office. The surviving records rarely form complete series and some bear only a tenuous association with the Clerk's stated duties. The records include: correspondence received and sent; oaths of allegiance and of office; registers and logs or diaries of work performed and registers of documents referred to Council; reports submitted to Council; and records relating to the administration of Jesuit Estates lands. In the conduct of his duties, the Clerk of the Council prepared and preserved certain records on behalf of the Council and others on his own behalf. Among the latter were entry books of letters and orders sent to other government officials, correspondence received, and registers or logs of work performed and information gathered. The inventories of records preserved and the daily or weekly logs demonstrate the range of responsibilities assumed by the Clerk over time and the nature of assistance provided by his staff in performing those duties. The Clerk or his deputy served as Secretary to committees of Council and special commissions, ensuring a degree of consistency for the record-keeping associated with those bodies. As regards the records of oath and allegiance (former archival reference RG1-E11, vol.1), all government officials were obliged to take an oath of allegiance and an oath for the faithful discharge of their duties. The form of these oaths was generally written out on parchment and signatures were affixed at formal ceremonies. For reports of the oath-taking by the Governor and his Council, see the Minute Books of the Council (1764-1775) of the Province of Quebec series and the State Minute Books of the Executive council (1775-1791) of the Province of Quebec series, both found elsewhere within this fonds. When oaths of allegiance were required of recipients of land grants, the oaths were generally recorded on paper in bound registers, in chronological sequence. The surviving records found here are by no means complete. As regards the reports and registers (former archival references RG1-E12, vols. 1 and 10 and RG4-A3, vol. 2), the documents in this series consist of a 1787 Report of the merchants of Quebec on commercial affairs (transcribed in 1938 from the original in the Archives du Séminaire de Québec), a register of bills sent from the post office at Montreal, 1772-1775, and two registers of documents referred to Council, dated 1786-1788 and 1789-1791. These records appear to have been retained in the Executive Council Office for reference purposes. There is little indication of why they were kept there and in what order. As regards the correspondence (former archival reference RG1-E14, vols. 1-4), the Clerk of the Executive Council maintained several series of correspondence received and registers and copies of correspondence and documents sent, in his own right. These have survived in part for the years 1768-1791. It should be noted that both land and state matters appear in these records and that they overlap series found elsewhere within this fonds. This series also includes records which, in previous arrangement schemas, had been grouped together as part of a series of "miscellaneous records" (former archival reference RG1-L7, vols. 1, 35-38 and 40A), records created in various government offices and possibly accumulated by the Clerk of the Executive Council in fulfilment of his duties relating to the land granting system. Included are: a register of warrants for survey and warrants for land grants, 1765-1772; and records relating to an inquiry conducted into Jesuit Estates lands, 1788-1790.

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