Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee for the Improvement of the Navigation of the St. Lawrence River

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Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee for the Improvement of the Navigation of the St. Lawrence River

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Select Committee for the Improvement of the Navigation of the St. Lawrence River

    Other form(s) of name

    • Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee to whom was referred the Report of the Commissioners of the St. Lawrence Navigation

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    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1840

    History

    Select committees are ad-hoc committees of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada with terms of reference to investigate and report on a specific issue. This committee was appointed January 4, 1840, and presented its report on January 30, 1840. The chairman was William Hamilton Merritt.

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    Functions, occupations and activities

    This select committee reviewed the report of the Commissioners for improving the navigation of the St. Lawrence River.

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    Related entity

    Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly (1791-1841)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA55

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly controls Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee for the Improvement of the Navigation of the St. Lawrence River

    Dates of relationship

    1840

    Description of relationship

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    Authority record identifier

    CA1005

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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 to 1991: A Checklist of Reports. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library, 1992.

        Bishop, Olga B. Publications of the Government of the Province of Canada, 1841-1867. Ottawa, 1963.

        Maintenance notes

        Not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24.


        Archivist(s):
        Tom Belton, Bob Krawczyk