Report on Canadian archives. 1887
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alternative: [Report on Canadian archives]
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
is part of: Report on Canadian Archives
creator: Public Archives of Canada
creator: Brymner, Douglas, 1823-1902
issued: 2016-06-02
issued: 1888
description: "Title varies: 1881-1905, Report on Canadian Archives; 1908-1912, Report of the work of the Archives Branch; 1913-1914/15, Report of the work of the Public Archives. No reports issued for 1906-1907, 1911, 1916, 1927. Also found in Canada. Parliament. Sessional Papers, 1873-1924, and in the Annual Departmental Reports, 1925-1929/30. Reports for 1872-1880 were not issued separately but included in the Reports of the Minister of Agriculture. Some reports reprint the text of newly acquired documents. 1886, 1889, 1890 and especially 1892, contain material found significant by Hume Wrong for his biography of Alexander Mackenzie (no.623); 1891 contains important documents concerning Beckwith's secret mission to the U.S.A. re Nootka; 1928 has a copy of Duncan McGiIIivray's Some account of the trade carried on by the North West Company, first published in 1811 as On the origin and progress of the North-West Company (no.421)." -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 47. "Being an appendix to Report of the Minister of Agriculture." --title page.
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extent: cccxxcviii, 85-564 pages : map (folded), tables ; 26 cm
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note: X I / EEPOE^-^ ON 2 4. d. V&* CANADIAN ARCHIMES BY DOUGLAS BRYMNER, Archivist, 1887. ((Being an Appendix to (Report of the Minister of Agriculture.) OTTAWA: PRINTED B5T MACLEAN, ROGER & CO., WELLINGTON STREET, 1888. EPORT ON HISTORICAL ARCHIVES. DOUG-LAS BRYMNER, ARCHIVIST. Honourable John Cabling, Minister of Agriculture, &c, &c., &e. Sir,—I have the honour to present the report on the Archives for 1887* The State Papers in the Record Office, London (Colonial Series), for the period from 1755 to 1791, have been copied and are now on the shelves here, available for reference. The correspondence and documents contained in these cover the time immediately preceding the cession of Canada, down to the division of the Province of Quebec into Lower and Upper Canada. Among the later volumes of this series are six volumes containing report of the investigation in 1787 into the state of the Courts of Justice and the conduct of the Judges of the C jurts of Common Pleas, and nine volumes of the papers relating to the estates held by the Jesuits in Quebec, the investigation extending from November, 1790, to May, 1791. Instructions have been given to have the work of copying the documents after 1791 divided, so that those relating to the two old Provinces may be obtained concurrently for reference. Copyists have been engaged on these papers for some time, ancl they will be forwarded as fast as the volumes are revised and bound. I would beg to call attention to the report on the documents in Paris, made by Mr. Joseph Marmette, Assistant Archivist, in continuation of report of investigations among the French Archives relating to the Colonies, with list of the documents to be copied there, which can be proceeded with so soon as the necessary means shall be provided. Satisfactory progress has been made during the year in the copying of the land titles and other papers in the Provincial Registry Office in Quebec. Very important additions have been made to the collection of the old Fr…
note: Page cccxxvi misnumbered as page cccxx. Page 142 misnumbered as page 42. Alternative title from cover page of 1882 report. Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40314844
has type: Annual reports
identifier: FC152 .C13
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0304563
language: English ; French
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Ottawa : Maclean, Roger & Co.
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. FC152 .C13
subject: Canada--History--Sources
subject: Archives--Canada
subject: Public Archives of Canada
type: Text