Colonial Office 47, miscellaneous Canada material, is divided into the following categories: volumes 1-55, Lower Canada, various newspapers; volumes 56-79, Upper Canada, various newspapers; volume 80-83, shipping returns; volumes 84-121, miscellaneous, 1764 to 1836; volumes 122-140, Lower Canada, Blue Books; volumes 141-155, Upper Canada, Blue Books; volumes 156-194, Province of Canada, Blue Books; volumes 195-206, Canada, Trade and Navigation Returns, 1850 to 1858, 1917-1920; volumes 207-211, Canada, Trade and Commerce, 1920-1925; volumes 212-213, Canada, Commercial Intelligence Journal, 1925. Acquired are selected volumes of shipping returns, surveyors' reports, memoranda, blue books, minutes of meetings, instructions to governors, newspapers and other papers. This material is available on microfilm reels B-219, B-971 to B-982, B-991 to B-994, B-1021, B-1478 to B-1486, B-2490 to B-2524, B-2900 to B-2915. Transcripts are available on reel C-13615.
The following selections from CO 47 regarding newspapers have been copied: volumes 1-3, Montreal Herald, 1824-1836, 1840-1841 and Herald (Abstract), 1834-1857; volumes 42-54, Montreal Morning Courier, 1835-1849, and Montreal Courier, 1848-1851; volume 55, Montreal Weekly Pilot, 1846-1851; volumes 56-60, Upper Canada Herald, 1826-1841, and Kingston Herald, 1841-1847; volumes 61-67, The Patriot, 1829-1839, and The Toronto Patriot, 1839-1848; and volumes 71-73, Kingston British Whig, 1847-1856., The following selections regarding shipping returns and other matters have been copied: volume 80, shipping returns, Quebec and St. John, Quebec, 1786-1795; volumes 81-83, shipping returns, Quebec, 1801-1814; volume 107, list of documents despatched by Governor James Murray relating to the redemption of Canadian paper money, ca. 1764; volume 109, lists of grants of seigneuries and land en roture, 1770; volume 110, Report of James Marriott, British Advocate-General, on a code of law for Quebec, with an appendix concerning police and the Jesuits Estates, 1773; volume 111, papers relating to a suit, 1782, initiated by Attorney General, James Monk against William Taylor and George Forsyth, for failing to supply the full amount of goods as required by Guy Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs; volume 112, political and commercial observations relating to Canada, 1788; and volumes 113-114, public accounts and vouchers, Upper Canada, 1806-1808., Also copied were: volume 115, surveyors' reports on townships and districts, Upper Canada, 1826. The reports are made by district, giving the name of township, a description and price of land, as well as general remarks on settlers, buildings, mills and roads; volumes 116-118, memoranda and précis concerning clergy, colleges, the military, land, Amerindians and other matters, 1826-1845; volumes 119-120, draft instructions to governors, 1835, and instructions for William Pitt Amherst (1773-1857), Earl Amherst of Arracan, with minutes, 1735-1836; volume 121, two minutes on the state of affairs in Lower Canada, with appendices, 1836; volumes 122-140, Blue Books of Statistics, Lower Canada, 1821-1823, 1825-1840; volumes 141-155, Blue Books, Upper Canada, 1821, 1823, 11827-1839; volumes 156-194, Blue Books, Canada, 1841-1866.
