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Select Committee on Grievances
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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 on January 23, 1835. The chairman of the committee was William Lyon Mackenzie. Several reports were issued between February and April of 1835, including the seventh report which was a voluminous indictment of the "Family Compact", a Tory oligarchy that dominated Upper Canadian politics in the mid nineteenth century.
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The Select Committee on Grievances responded to an 1833 petition signed by a large number of citizens that called for an examination of the extent of Crown patronage in the province of Upper Canada.
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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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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.
Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12- 24
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Tom Belton, Bob Krawczyk