Upper Canada. Provincial Secretary's Office

Zone d'identification

Type d'entité

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Forme autorisée du nom

Upper Canada. Provincial Secretary's Office

forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom

    Forme(s) du nom normalisée(s) selon d'autres conventions

    • Provincial Secretary's Office

    Autre(s) forme(s) du nom

    • Office of the Provincial Secretary for Upper Canada

    Numéro d'immatriculation des collectivités

    Zone de description

    Dates d’existence

    1791-1840

    Historique

    Like the other officers of the government, no provision was made for the office of the Provincial Secretary in the Constitutional Act of 1791. The Act did, however, provide authority for the Lieutenant-Governor to establish a legislative council in order to "make laws for the peace, welfare and good government of the province", and of which the Provincial Secretary was a member.

    Under the Union Act of 1840, the two Provincial Secretaries of the former provinces of Upper and Lower Canada were not to be united into one office. As a result, the Provincial Secretary's Office for Upper Canada was continued as the Provincial Secretary's Office for Canada West.

    Lieux

    Statut légal

    Fonctions et activités

    The Provincial Secretary was responsible for a number of functions within the Government, including the preparation and recording of land patents, commissions, proclamations, patents for inventions, and all documents requiring the Great Seal of the province. The Provincial Secretary's Office was also responsible for transcribing the acts of Parliament and for acting as a Records Office for the Government.

    Adresse

    Constitutional Act, Statutes of Great Britain 1791, Chap. 31

    Organisation interne/Généalogie

    Contexte général

    Zone des relations

    Entité associée

    Canada (Province). Provincial Secretary's Office (1841-1867)

    Identifier of related entity

    BA65

    Type de relation

    temporel

    Type de relation

    Canada (Province). Provincial Secretary's Office est le successeur de Upper Canada. Provincial Secretary's Office

    Dates de la relation

    Description de la relation

    Zone des points d'accès

    Mots-clés - Sujets

    Mots-clés - Lieux

    Epithet

    Zone du contrôle

    Identifiant de notice d'autorité

    BA64

    Identifiant du service d'archives

    Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Statut

    Approved

    Niveau de détail

    Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

    Langue(s)

      Écriture(s)

        Sources

        Bishop, Olga. Publications of the Province of Upper Canada and of Great Britain, 1791-1840 (1984)

        Notes de maintenance

        Agency not in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

        Archivist(s):
        R. Anger