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Title
Fonds consists of
Arrangement structure
Date(s)
1761-1871
Place of creation
Québec (Province)
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
As ancestors of the Canada Gazette, the Quebec Gazette and La Gazette de Québec documented the official communications of the government in Quebec, Lower Canada and the united province of Canada for most of a century. The gazettes are arranged in series RG 4 D 1 to D 4 and RG 4 B 55 according to date and publisher. Series RG 4 B 73 contains records relating to the printing and distribution of statutes, 1850-1871. Series RG 4 B 6 contains Ordinances of the military government, 1761-1763, and of Quebec, 1764-1791. Series RG 4 B 5 contains an incomplete run of Acts for Lower Canada, 1814-1815, and Canada, 1853-1857. Proclamations are divided between series RG 4 B 3 and B 7.
Conditions of access
The Quebec Gazette has been withdrawn fr
om circulation as a conservation measure. Researchers must use the microfilm for consultation and for copying purposes. Only photographic copies may be made of the documents written on parchment.
Finding aid
Textual records The shelf lists in the Guide for RG 4 identify the microfilm reel numbers where available and provide descriptive detail to the volume level for all series. 90 (Paper)
Textual records This finding aid describes the Ordinances in series B 6, with notation of related material in RG 14. A list of ordinances, 1761-1792, prefaces the texts published in the Report of the Public Archives of Canada for 1913, Appendix E and for 1914-1915, Appendix C. MSS0161 90 (Electronic)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001172.pdf
Textual records This finding aid describes the Proclamations in series B 7.
A complete list of proclamations for Quebec, 1764-1791, and Lower Canada, 1792-1815, prefaces the texts published in the Report of the Public Archives of Canada for 1918, Appendix C and for 1921, Appendix B. Proclamations of 1847-1849 are indexed in RG 4, B 9, volume 12. Proclamations of 1839-1855 are listed in the Blue Books of Statistics (RG 1, E 13 and MG 11, CO 47). MSS0503 90 (Electronic)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001544.pdf
Textual records This is a finding aid to the proclamations, 1766-1860, Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East (RG 4 B 3). MSS1557 90 (Paper)
Textual records This finding aid is attatched at the series level RG4-D1. MSS1807 90 (Paper)
Creator / Provenance
Biography / Administrative history
The purpose of the official gazettes in each province was to communicate government announcements. Proclamations and other public documents were customarily published in three successive issues of the gazette. The Quebec Gazette, however, began publication in June 1764 as an ordinary newspaper, publishing both news reports and advertisements. Other newspapers also published government notices, but were not the official channel of communication.
Responisbility for transmitting texts to the King's Printer for publication in the gazettes and for the distribution of printed government documents was closely alied to custodianship of the statutes (Ordinances or Acts) engrossed on parchment, and of the "original" texts of proclamations. The responsibility was generally but not always assigned to the Provincial Secretary and Registrar. Government expenditures on printing are detailed in the public accounts (see RG 1, E 15 A and E 15 C).
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Subject heading
1. Law
2. Canada
3. Delegated legislation
4. Government publications
5. Canada.
6. Québec (Province)
7. Droit
8. Règlements (Droit administratif)
9. Publications officielles
Source
Private
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MIKAN no.
105376
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