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Select Committee on Wooden Railways
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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 select committee was appointed in 1869 with John Carnegie as chair. The report was presented to the House on December 9, 1869. The committee recommended the use of wooden railways due to the low cost of their construction.
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The Select Committee on Wooden Railways inquired into " the usefulness and cost of Wooden Railways as a means of furthering the settlement of the country."
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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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Archivist(s):
Wayne Crockett