Document Record

Creator

Canada (Province). Executive Council Office

Title

State submissions to the Executive Council [Province of Canada], 1841-1867 : indexes and registers
Communications de l’État adressées au Conseil exécutif (province du Canada), 1941-1867 : Index et registres

Identifier

MIKAN: 205322
Reels/Bobines: C-10691 to Cto10694
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: RG 1-L7|RG 1-E7, R11250-0-0-E
oocihm.lac_mikan_205322
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Subject

Government
Genealogy
Gouvernement
Généalogie

Document source

Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1841-1867
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Language

English

Description

The Executive Council of the Province of Canada sat from 1841 to 1867, when it was replaced by the Queen's Privy Council of Canada. It had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from its inception in 1841 to 1848. Members were advisers to the Governor and later to the Premier of the Province of Canada. Members of the Executive Council were not necessarily members of the Legislative Assembly but were usually members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. Members were appointed, often for life and came from Canada East and Canada West. The council replaced the Executive Councils of Upper and Lower Canada.
This collection consists of submissions to the Executive Council on state business as well as contemporary registers and indexes. Included in the submissions themselves are letters, petitions, reports, memoranda and other documents concerning state business submitted from both private citizens and government offices to the Executive Council for its consideration, report and approval, 1841-1867. Arrangement of the submissions is chronological, according to the date on which the question was decided in Council.
Le Conseil exécutif de la province du Canada a siégé de 1841 à 1867 avant d’être remplacé par le Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada. Son rôle était comparable à celui du Cabinet britannique, mais il n’était pas responsable envers l’Assemblée législative de la province du Canada entre le moment de sa création en 1841 et 1848. Ses membres jouaient le rôle de conseillers auprès du gouverneur, puis subséquemment auprès du premier ministre de la province du Canada. Les membres du Conseil exécutif n’étaient pas obligatoirement membres de l’Assemblée législative mais, en général, ils siégeaient au Conseil législatif de la province du Canada. Originaires de Canada Est et de Canada Ouest, les membres étaient souvent nommés à vie. Le Conseil exécutif de la province du Canada remplaçait les Conseils exécutifs du Haut et du Bas-Canada.
Cette collection se compose des communications adressées au Conseil exécutif, ainsi que des registres et des index de l’époque. Les communications contiennent des lettres, des pétitions, des rapports, des mémoires et d’autres documents relatifs aux affaires de l’État. Soumises entre 1841 et 1867 au Conseil exécutif pour examen, rapport et adoption, ces communications étaient présentées tant par de simples citoyens et que par des organismes gouvernementaux. Elles sont classées par ordre chronologique suivant la date de résolution du Conseil.
For the single volume formerly linked to former series RG 1, series L7, the CAB RG 1 Shelf List (see RG 1, L7 section) provides volume title and inclusive dates. For the remainder of the records in this series, the Shelf List serves as a finding aid. It is a typed volume-level description.
For the submissions themselves (vols. 1-71), the Shelf List correlates volume number to date. For the registers and indexes (vols. 72-93), the Shelf List indicates subject (i.e., whether the register and index relate to land or state matters), year, range of file numbers registered in the volume, page numbers, an indication of location of the index within the volume, and corresponding microfilm reel numbers. The CAB RG 1 Shelf List (E7 section) also provides instructions on how to use the indexes and registers to locate submissions.
The inter-relationships amongst the series in this fonds are such that a finding aid describing one series may also provide a degree of access to other series. Thus, the annual indexes and registers of submissions in the present series must be consulted year by year but offer access by date as well as names and subjects to not only the present series but also the State Minute Books of the Executive Council series, the Despatches Referred to the Executive Council series, and the Orders-in-Council of the Executive Council series.
They also provide a degree of access to the 'Put By' Submissions to the Executive Council series. Land submissions referred to in the registers are located in the Land Submissions to the Executive Council series (although a nominal card index now exists as a finding aid for that series in addition to the registers found here). The numerical sequence used in the registers cannot be used like the "PC" numbers for post-Confederation orders-in-council and related records. Registers and indexes 90
The documents must be sought by the date on which the submission received a decision in Council, or was considered and "put by." Despatches referred to Council should be sought in the Despatches Referred to the Executive Council series, rather than with the regular submissions in the present series. Indexing was not standardized and may seem not merely irregular but irrational. Registers and indexes 90
A question of Military Reserves in Toronto could be indexed under M, R, or T, as well as O for Ordnance Lands, or under the names of prominent officials involved in the case. The choice on one occasion is not a reliable guide to what the choice might be on the next; researchers must search widely and imaginatively. Entries in the registers are neither complete nor consistent, such that it may not be immediately apparent whether the desired submission will be found in the present series, in the Despatches Referred to the Executive Council series, or in the "Put By" Submissions to the Executive Council series. Registers and indexes 90
As no register for the period prior to January 1843 has been located, the only guide to the submissions for that period is the state minute books (see State Minute Books of the Executive Council series, vols. 61-62). Registers and indexes 90

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