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Censorship Coordination Committee sous-fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sous-fonds

Date:

1912-1946.

Reference:

R165-29-7-E, RG2-C-2

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

7

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Privy Council Office fonds

Censorship Coordination Committee sous-fonds
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Sous-fonds includes:

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

1912-1946.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

17.4 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Minutes and other materials of the Censorship Directorate [textual record]

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Sous-fonds consists of records created and maintained by the Censorship Branch and the Postal Censorship Division of the Censorship Coordination Committee.

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Canada. Censorship Coordination Committee

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Canada. Censorship Coordination Committee : The implementation of various forms of censorship in case of war or other emergency was examined by a standing Inter-departmental Committee on Censorship established by Order in Council 531 of 14 March 1938. When war was declared a censorship system was instituted under the Censorship Regulations, 1939 (P.C. 2481 of 1 September 1939). Although a Censorship Coordination Committee was created, individual departments actually retained the responsibility for particular types of censorship. The responsibility for cable, telegraph, telephone censorship was assumed by the Department of National Defence; postal censorship by the Postmaster General; press censorship, by the Secretary of State; and broadcasting and radio censorship by the Department of Transport. Responsibility for all censorship was eventually placed under the Department of National War Services (P.C. 4012 of 13 May 1942). The Director of Censorship, Colonel O.M. Biggar, was appointed (P.C. 4013 of 13 May 1943) and given the responsibility for coordinating all aspects of censorship operations for the duration of the war. Censorship activities were terminated by P.C. 5637 of 16 August 1945. RG2 general inventory

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Source of title:

RG 2, Vol. 5942, files 7, 8

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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1981-82/172 GAD
1983-84/017 GAD
RG2-C-2

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RG2-C-2
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