Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on the Agricultural College

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on the Agricultural College

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    • Select Committee on the Agricultural College

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1874

      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 December 1, 1874 and reported on December 18. It was chaired by James Bethune. The committee concluded that the college had been mismanaged buy its previous principal, Henry McCandless, but not under the current Principal, Charles Roberts.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Select Committee on the Agricultural College examined charges in the Legislature regarding the management of the Agricultural College at Guelph and "the conduct of the late Principal and his management of the said college."

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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 the Agricultural College

      Dates of relationship

      1874

      Description of relationship

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      Authority record identifier

      CA423

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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