Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Highway Safety (1976- 1977)

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Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Highway Safety (1976- 1977)

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    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Select Committee on Highway Safety

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1976-1977

      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 May 25, 1976 with Fred M. Young as its chair. It submitted its report in September 1977, and its recommendations led to changes in the classification of driver's licenses and for the inspection of motor vehicles.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Select Committee on Highway Safety was created in response to an initiative in the Speech from the Throne, to look into all aspects of highway safety in the province. The terms of reference included accident prevention, driver education, motor vehicle inspection and how driver's licences were classified.

      An earlier committee of the same name existed in the 1950's.

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      Relationships area

      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 Highway Safety (1976- 1977)

      Dates of relationship

      1976-1977

      Description of relationship

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      Authority record identifier

      CA322

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      Rules and/or conventions used

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

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      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.

          Canadiana name authorities, 1996-12- 24

          Maintenance notes

          Canadiana notes the existence of only one of these committees of the same name.


          Archivist(s):
          Wayne Crockett