Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Lignite

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Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Lignite

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    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Select Committee on Lignite

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee Appointed to Consider the Problem of the Development and Processing of the Lignite Deposits in Ontario

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    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1944-1945

    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 formed March 23, 1944 with Archibald Kelso Roberts as chair. They produced an interim report, and a final report in 1945, which concluded that the development of the lignite deposit at Onakawana would be financially unsound.

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    The Select Committee on Lignite explored the development of lignite generally, and also examined the Ontario Fuel Commission's report on the Onakawana Lignite Deposit.

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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 Lignite

    Dates of relationship

    1944-1945

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    Authority record identifier

    CA395

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    Rules and/or conventions used

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

    Status

    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