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Select Committee on Highway Safety
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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 April 5, 1954 and was chaired by William McAdam Nickle. It's report was dated February 9, 1955. It recommended amendments to the Highway Traffic Act which were introduced in the Legislature as Bill 116 in 1955. The committee's recommendations also resulted in the creation of a Highway Safety Division within the Department of Highways.
A committee of the same name existed in the 1970's.
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The Select Committee on Highway Safety investigated and made recommendations regarding revisions of the Highway Safety Act. It was established in response to concerns expressed regarding the rising number of highway traffic accidents.
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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.
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Not found in Canadiana, although a later committee of the same name is listed there.
Archivist(s):
Wayne Crockett