Document Record

Creator

Upper Canada. Executive Council Office

Title

Land submissions to the Executive Council

Identifier

MIKAN: 205131
Reels/Bobines: C-1609 to C-1615, C-1618 to C-1636, C-1644 to C-1653, C-1723 to C-1732, C-1740 to C-1745, C-1875 to C-1880, C-1885 to C-1891, C-1893 to C-1900, C-2022 to C-2023, C-2027 to C-2036, C-2041 to C-2053, C-2095 to C-2097, C-2105 to C-2113, C-2115 to C-2120, C-2123 to C-2132, C-2137 to C-2141, C-2188 to C-2204, C-2206 to C-2216, C-2218 to C-2219, C-2233 to C-2236, C-2481 to C-2482, C-2484 to C-2486, C-2488 to C-2492, C-2731A to C-2733, C-2737 to C-2748, C-2803 to C-2821, C-2830 to C-2838, C-2841 to C-2842, C-2947 to C-2961, C-2967 to C-2969, C-2980 to C-2985
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: RG 1
oocihm.lac_mikan_205131
lac_mikan_205131

Document source

Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1765/1897

Language

English

Description

Series consists of the petitions and related records submitted to the Executive Council, sitting as a land committee in the performance of its land disposal functions. The "land committee" dealt with all manner of petitions for grants and leases, requests for title deeds and reports from the Surveyor General or, after 1827, the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Even after the introduction of the system of land sales, committee work continued. The recommendations of the committee were entered in the land minute books of the Executive Council (see the Land Minute Books of the Executive Council series, elsewhere within this fonds) while the petitions and other documents submitted to the committee for its consideration were filed separately. It is the latter records, commonly called the Upper Canada Land Petitions, which make up the present series. Petitions and other documents submitted by applicants for land grants or leases were forwarded by the governor's Civil Secretary to the Executive Council and were filed there in one series with all other submissions to the land committee. A variety of certificates and other documentation submitted in support of individual requests, as well as reports by the Surveyor General or the Attorney General on technical and legal matters, and some lists of settlers by region, will be found filed with the petitions. The great majority of the records in this series date from the years 1783-1841, although in a small number of cases records which post-date Union will be found here.

URL

https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205131