Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee on the Petition of Charles Duncombe, Esq.

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Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee on the Petition of Charles Duncombe, Esq.

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    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Select Committee on the Petition of Charles Duncombe, Esq.

    Other form(s) of name

    • Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee to which was Referred the Message of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, Communicating the copy of a Petition of Charles Duncombe, Esq. to the British House of Commons

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    Dates of existence

    1837

    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 issued its report on January 23, 1837. The committee Chairman was Allan MacNab.

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    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Select Committee on the Petition of Charles Duncombe, Esq. examined the petition of Charles Duncombe, a leader of the reform movement in Western Upper Canada, accusing the Lieutenant-Governor of favouring conservative candidates in the recent elections.

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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 on the Petition of Charles Duncombe, Esq.

    Dates of relationship

    1836

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    Authority record identifier

    CA1002

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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

        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. Also not found in 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. Form of name based on similar committees found in the checklist.


        Archivist(s):
        Tom Belton, Bob Krawczyk