Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Common and Grammar Schools

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Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Common and Grammar Schools

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    • Select Committee on Common and Grammar Schools

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Common and Grammar Schools Committee

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    Dates of existence

    1868-1869

    History

    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 select committee was established on November 17th, 1868, with M.C. Cameron as Chair. It made its report on January 19, 1869.

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    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Select Committee on Common and Grammar Schools was appointed to examine allegations that Upper Canada College was absorbing a disproportionate share of the original endowment for the support of university education in the province and to examine its role within the general system of education in the province.

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    Related entity

    Ontario. Legislative Assembly (1867-)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA23

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Legislative Assembly controls Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Common and Grammar Schools

    Dates of relationship

    1868-1869

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    Authority record identifier

    CA383

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    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

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    Approved

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    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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        Sources

        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.

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        Wayne Crockett