Collection search - B 36 - Provincial Secretary, municipal records: Canada East [textual record, philatelic record]

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B 36 - Provincial Secretary, municipal records: Canada East [textual record, philatelic record]

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Series

Date:

1841-1867.

Reference:

RG4-B36

Type of material:

Textual material, Stamps and stamp products

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

126156

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Provincial Secretary's Office, Correspondence. Canada East

B 36 - Provincial Secretary, municipal records: Canada East
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Date(s):

1841-1867.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

1.5 m of textual records.
96 postal covers.

Language of material:

English

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Volume 1 is an alphabetical table of municipalities, 1853-1867. Letters received, entrybooks of letters sent, proclamations and a register of correspondence (volumes 2-9, 11-13) relate to the incorporation of municipalities in 1841-1842. Volume 10 is a register of the incorporation of counties, 1845-1848. Volumes 14-16, the Provincial Red Books, record the names of municipal officers, by district and date of election. By-laws from the cities of Montreal and Quebec, and a register of by-laws for counties, form volumes 17-21.

Records of municipal and provincial elections have been reintegrated into RG 4, series B 72 and C 1, eliminating volumes 22-24. Records in volumes 18-20 and 25 are under investigation with a view to reintegration with series C 1. Register of by-laws for 1842-1846 are found in RG 1, E 12, volumes 4-6. Other related records are found in RG 5, B 46.

The series also consists of postal covers for the period from 1841 to 1854 which were in most cases mailed from Quebec City, Montreal and villages in Canada East, and addressed to the Provincial Secretary's head office in Kingston, Canada West. There are 96 covers in the series. Most postal markings are from Canada East and of particular interest are manuscript postal markings and postmarks such as broken circles and double circles. There are also some examples of the Quebec steamboat letter "Q" oval postmark for 1842.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid describes only the material included in volumes 2 to 9. The papers are arranged chronologically by districts and the table of contents presents a list of the volume numbers, the districts and the page numbers. This is followed by a descriptive list of the papers within those volumes. MSS0759 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001298.pdf

Philatelic record (Electronic) The finding aid provides a list of the postal covers. CPA-254 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001801.pdf

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RG4-B36
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG4 B 36]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--21;

[Consultation 90 Open]

25;

[Consultation 90 Open]

19A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 759] 73

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG4 B 36]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2--7;

[Consultation 90 Open]

25;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10