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Title
Fonds consists of
Arrangement structure
Date(s)
1868-1871
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Fonds consists of correspondence, 1870-1871, 44 pages; commissions, 1868-1870, 5 pages; orders, 1870, 3 pages; and a petition, ca. 1871, 1 page.
Conditions of access
from 1 to 3
Finding aid
No finding aid
Creator / Provenance
Biography / Administrative history
Lord Lisgar was born in Bombay, India and educated at Oxford. He was a Conservative MP, 1831-1855, and Lord High Commissioner of Ionian Island, 1855-1859. He was Governor General, New South Wales, 1861-1867 and administrator of Canada, 1 December 1868 to 1 February 1869. He served as Governor General 2 February 1869 to 21 June 1872. He supported Confederation, and organized the Governor-Generals Foot Guards. See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 1011; Encyclopedia Canadiana, Vol. 6; p.146.
Additional information
Subject heading
1. Great Britain. Army - Troops - Withdrawal from Canada, 1870-1871
2. Louis Riel, 1870-1871.
3. British Columbia - Officials and employees, 1871
4. Earl of Kimberley, 1870-1871.
5. British Columbia - Officials and employees - Pensions, 1871
6. Rupert's Land, 1869-1870.
7. Pensions - British Columbia, 1871
8. Montreal (Quebec), 1870.
9. British Columbia - Politics and government - 1849-1871, 1871
10. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 1870.
11. Red River Expedition, 1870, [1870-1871]
12. Kingston Penitentiary (Kingston, Ont.), [ca. 1871]
13. Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870, [1870-1871]
14. Ireland, 1871.
15. Amnesty Question, 1869-1875, [1870-1871]
16. Sir Frederick Rogers, 1870.
17. Washington, Treaty of, 1871, [1870-1871]
18. Sir Stafford Northcote, 1870.
19. Franco-Prussian War, [1870-1871]
20. Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathern (d. 1942), 1870.
21. Northwest, Canadian - History - 1870-1905, 1870
22. Great Britain. Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1870-1871.
23. Governors general - Canada, 1870
24. W. E. Gladstone, 1871.
25. Hudson's Bay Company - Commissions, 1868-1870.
26. Governors - Rupert's Land, 1869.
27. Commissions, 1868-1870.
28. Canada - Officials and employees - Appointment, qualifications, tenure, etc., 1868-1870.
29. Canada - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment, 1868-1870.
30. Ireland - Officials and employees, 1871.
31. Politics and government
32. Ireland
33. Home Rule (Ireland), 1871.
34. Cavan County (Ireland) - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment, 1871.
35. Montreal (Quebec) - Rites and ceremonies, 1870.
36. Orders of knighthood and chivalry - Great Britain, 1870.
37. Investiture (Feudal law), 1870.
38. Petitions - Canada, [ca. 1871]
39. Prisons - Canada [ca. 1871]
40. Prisoners - Canada, [ca.1871]
41. Correctional institutions - Canada, [ca. 1871]
42. Fenians, [ca. 1871]
43. Canada - History - Fenian Invasions, 1866-1870, [ca. 1871]
44. Crime and criminals - Canada, [ca. 1871]
45. Royal visitors - Canada, 1870.
46. Executive orders, 1870.
47. Kingston (Ont.) - Prisons, (ca. 1871]
48. Kingston (Ont.) - Prisoners, [ca. 1871]
49. Prison sentences, [ca.1871]
Source
Private
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MIKAN no.
104537
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