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Select Committee on Air Pollution and Smoke Control
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Select Committees are ad-hoc committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with specific terms of reference to investigate and report on a specific issue. This committee was established September 8, 1955 with Alfred H. Cowling as its chair. It made an interim report on February 29, 1956 and its final report on February 14, 1957. Many of the committee's recommendations were later included in the Bill 152, passed in 1958, An Act to provide for the control of Air Pollution.
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The Select Committee on Air Pollution and Smoke Control was created in response to an increasing number of petitions and other requests for tighter controls of air pollution. The committee examined existing pollution control legislation and related regulations with the objective of formulating a coherent program.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sage, Richard; Weir, Aileen. Select Committees of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1991: A Checklist of Reports. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library, 1992.
Canadiana name authorities, 1996-12- 24
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Archivist(s):
Wayne Crockett