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Title

Sous-fonds consists of

42 lower level description(s)

Arrangement structure

Sous-fonds part of

Industry Canada fonds [textual record, cartographic material] (R1002-0-5-E)

Accession

1. Great Seal of Canada collection [graphic material]
2. Great Seal of Canada collection [graphic material]
3. Register copies of commissions, proclamations, land documents [textual record (microform)]
4. Registrar General [textual record]
5. COMMISSION [textual records]
6. Naturalization Records and Justices of the Peace and Magistrates [textual records]
7. Indexes to Indian and Ordnance Land Patents, 1845-1960 [textual records]
8. General Index, 1651-1977 [textual records]
9. Registrar General of Canada [textual records] (117-000110-5)
10. Railway deposits of Registrar General [textual record] (2000-00798-8)
11. Railway deposits of Registrar General [textual record] (2000-00800-3)
12. Registrar General [textual record] (2000-00801-1)
13. Registrar General [textual microform] (2001-00089-8)

Bilingual equivalent

Sous-fonds Registraire général [document textuel, document cartographique]

Date(s)

1760-1998

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Sous-fonds consists of records created and/or maintained by the Registrar General. The sous-fonds includes registers of documents issued under the various seals of Canada by the Registrar General including proclamations, charters of incorporation, commissions, warrants and pardons, bonds, letters patents, land documents, licences, writs, and exemplifications, 1763-1980; letterbooks, registers, returns, receipts and correspondence, 1796-1964; warrants authorizing the use of the Great Seal, 1901-1955; and patents, 1936-1950.

Conditions of access

Terms of use

Crown Copyright. Credit Library and Archives Canada.

Finding aid

Finding aids are available. See lower level descriptions and accession records in ArchiviaNet (the NA website). 90 (Other)

Additional name(s)

Canada. Dept. of the Registrar General. Dept. of the Registrar General.

Biography / Administrative history

The Office of the Registrar General of Canada was established in 1868 with the creation of the Department of the Secretary of State (31 Vic [1868], c.42, s.4). The duties of the Registrar General were assumed by the Secretary of State. For a brief time, in 1966, an autonomous Department of the Registrar General was organized (14-15 Eliz.II [1966-67], c.25, s.6 to 10). However, in 1967, with the establishment of the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (16 Eliz. II [1967/68], c.16), the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs assumed the duties and functions of the Registrar General. In 1993, the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs was abolished and the Office of the Registrar General of Canada was transferred to the Department of Industry. Industry Canada has subsequently decentralized the function of the Office of the Registrar General among concerned federal institutions.

The Registrar General of Canada is the custodian of the Great Seal of Canada, the Privy Seal of the Governor General, the Seal of the Administrator of Canada, and the Seal of the Registrar General of Canada.

The Registrar General of Canada is responsible for the registration of all instruments of summons, proclamations, commissions of appointment, letters patent, letters patent of land, writs and other instruments and documents issued under the Great Seal, and all bonds, warrants of extradition, warrants for removal of prisoners, leases, releases, deeds of sale, surrenders and all other instruments requiring federal Crown registration.

The registration of such instruments is divided into three functions: Commissions of Appointments, Railway Deposits, and Registration of Documents. A fourth function, the registration of Pardons was discontinued by the Registrar General and transferred to the National Parole Board in 1992. 97/024 appraisal report

Additional information

Source

Government

Other system control no.

0FD621

Related control no.

1. 97/024
2. 1940-008 NPC
3. 1940-014 NPC
4. 1982-83/082 GAD
5. 1983-84/007 GAD
6. 1985-86/549 GAD
7. 1987-88/166 GAD
8. 1987-88/352 GAD
9. 1987-88/353 GAD
10. 1989-90/110 GAD
11. 117-000110-5
12. 2000-00798-8
13. 2000-00800-3
14. 2000-00801-1
15. 2001-00089-8
16. R???
17. RG68

MIKAN no.

311