Collection search - Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada sous-fonds [multiple media]

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Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada sous-fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Sous-fonds

Date:

1943-1947

Reference:

R165-37-6-E, RG36M7 78903/91, RG36-7

Type of material:

Textual material, Architectural and technical drawings, Maps and cartographic material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

11

Context of this record:

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Privy Council Office fonds

Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada sous-fonds
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Sous-fonds includes:

71 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1943-1947

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5.2 m of textual records
156 maps
75 architectural drawings
469 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Canada. Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources collection [graphic material]

Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources collection [graphic material]

Canada. Special Commission for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada collection [graphic material]
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Sous-fonds consists of a series of numbered files relating to the following topics: Reports to the Cabinet War Committee; the CANOL Project; the Northwest Staging Route; the Western Labour Board; Airfields and Aerodromes; the Alaska Highway; Resources; U.S. Accommodation by lease or purchase; requests for U.S. Surplus movables; Communications (aviation); trading to Alaska; U.S. contractors; land acquisitions and several unnumbered files.

Cartographic material, architectural drawing: RG36M7 78903-91 consists of maps, surveys, engineering plans and architectural drawings dealing with all aspects of the Canol pipeline project including: oil location and production at Norman Wells; pipeline (Norman Wells to Whitehorse); Northwest Staging Route; Alaska highway; U.S. Engineers Divisional HQ. Edmonton; contractors buildings; Port Edward site and sites for air bases.

This sous-fonds also includes photographs of the construction of the Alaska Highway and Canol pipeline.

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Canada. Office of the Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada

Biography/Administrative history:

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Canada. Office of the Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada : In 1943, the federal government established the office of Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in North West Canada to act as a liaison between Canada and the United States and to supervise and coordinate the construction of transportation and communication facilities and natural resources development in North West Canada recommended by the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD), established by the Government of Canada and the United States on 22 August 1940. "The northern wartime construction programs of the United States exemplified the close collaboration between Canada and the United States that followed the overrunning of Western Europe by the Nazis in the summer of 1940 and the signing of the Ogdenburg Agreement by the leaders of the two countries. Military collaboration was exercised principally through the Permanent Joint Board on Defence(PJBD) set up under that agreement and composed of a five-member section appointed by each sponsoring government. It was this board that received proposals, mostly from the U.S. section, to push forward with enterprises designed to put the geography and resources of the Canadian north at the disposal of the common war effort."

The Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in Northwest Canada, Major-General W.W. Foster, was directly responsible to the Cabinet War Committee and was largely guided in his actions by policy decisions made at that level (PC 3758, 6 May 1943). Because the American presence in the North West had aroused anxiety about Canadian autonomy, Major-General Foster tried to ensure that the Americans did not go beyond the formal agreements between Canada and the United States in that region. At the end of the Second World War, Canada took back control over the area of the North West from the United States. Both the North West Staging Route - a series of airfields - and the Alaska Highway came under Canadian control. When the United States withdrew from the region, the Alaska Highway was still incomplete and the unprofitable CANOL project - a scheme for oil production and oil pipelines was halted. The Northward Expansion of Canada 1914-1967, Morris Zaslow, pp. 210-11

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 36-5 is a handwritten file list for volumes 1-51. 36-5 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/36-5_11_vols_1-51.pdf

Architectural drawing; cartographic material (Paper) Finding aid consists of a detailed item listing. Architectural drawings are indexed by building type and architect. RG36M7 78903/91 Finding aid available in main reference room. (90: Open)

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General note:

(was RG 36/7)

Source of title:

Order in Council PC 3758 6 May 1943

Custodial history:

In 1947, following the withdrawal of United States' activities in northwest Canada, the records of this office were transferred to the Mines and Resources Division of the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources and subsequently were sent to the Archives.

RG36M7 78903/91 transferred from Government Archives Division, RG36/7 in March 1979.

Cartographic math data:

Architectural drawing: Scales differ.

Cartographic material: Scales differ.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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1966-071 NPC
1971-027 NPC
1979-084 NPC
78903/91 CA
R165
RG2
RG36M7 78903/91

Former archival reference no.:

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RG36M7 78903/91
RG36-7

Other accession no.:

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1966-071 NPC
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG 36 7] 1--51

[Consultation 90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Microfiche

[Consultation 90 Open]

NMC180652--NMC180653;

[Consultation 90 Open]

NMC182355;

[Consultation 90 Open]

NMC183427;

[Consultation 90 Open]

NMC183429;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [RG36M7 78903/91] 2000015418--2000015426

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015418 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--16

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015419 Item no. assigned by LAC 17--37

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015420 Item no. assigned by LAC 38--59

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015421 Item no. assigned by LAC 60--84

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015422 Item no. assigned by LAC 85--109

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015423 Item no. assigned by LAC 110--135

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015424 Item no. assigned by LAC 136--168

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015425 Item no. assigned by LAC 169--205

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000015426 Item no. assigned by LAC 206--221

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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