Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Lake Levels of the Great Lakes

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Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Lake Levels of the Great Lakes

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    • Select Committee on Lake Levels of the Great Lakes

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1952-1953

      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 committee was established March 28, 1952, and was chaired by Osie F. Villeneuve. The report was dated March 1, 1953.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The committee was appointed to investigate the causes of abnormally high water levels which led to extensive damage to shorelines and lake front property during the winter and spring of 1952. It also investigated the effects of variations of water levels, the methods of control used by other jurisdictions and reported on effective methods of prevention.

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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 Lake Levels of the Great Lakes

      Dates of relationship

      1952-1953

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      Authority record identifier

      CA301

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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.

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Wayne Crockett