Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Select Committee on the Petition of the Welland Canal Company

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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 on the Petition of the Welland Canal Company

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    • Select Committee on the Petition of the Welland Canal Company

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      Dates of existence

      1825

      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 struck on November 25, 1825. The Chairman was John Beverley Robinson, then Attorney-General. The Committee issued two reports, on December 7 and 14, 1825.

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      The Select Committee on the Petition of the Welland Canal Company examined and reported upon several petitions regarding government support for, and public concern with, construction of the Welland Canal.

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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 the Welland Canal Company

      Dates of relationship

      1825

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      Authority record identifier

      CA994

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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

          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