Collection search - Records relating to charges against J.A.N. Provencher [textual record]

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Records relating to charges against J.A.N. Provencher [textual record]

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Date:

1877-1878

Reference:

R216-698-1-E, RG10-B-8-x

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

159456

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Records relating to charges against J.A.N. Provencher
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Series includes:

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

1877-1878

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.2 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of records relating to the Commission appointed to investigate the charges against J.A.N. Provencher, Acting Superintendent of Indians for Manitoba.

Joseph A. N. Provencher was appointed Indian Commissioner for Manitoba and the North West Territories by Order in Council 28 February 1873, on the resignation from that post of Wemyss Simpson. With the re-structuring of the administration in 1876 and the appointment as Indian Commissioner of Lt. Governor David Laird, Provencher became Acting Superintendent of the Manitoba Superintendency. In November 1877 a Commission was appointed to investigate frauds and irregularities allegedly committed by Provencher in connection with his position as Acting Superintendent. Investigating commissioners Ebenezer McColl, Inspector of Indian Agencies, and W. A. Ross, barrister, found the charges substantially borne out by the evidence collected through their commission, and Provencher was dismissed (Order in Council, 9 May 1879). The investigation found Provencher guilty of, among other things, corruption in the tendering of Indian supplies, providing the Indians with inferior equipment, sending fictitious accounts to the Department, supplying the Indians with food unfit for use, collusion to produce fraudulent accounts with suppliers, and of having been "corruptly interested" in contracts for cattle and other Indian supplies.

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(Electronic) Finding aid 10-1 is a computer generated volume list. 10-1

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_159456

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Title is based on the contents of the series.

Availability of other formats note:

Reference copies of volumes 995-996 are available on microfilm reels T-1453 to T-1454.

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No further accruals are expected.

Related material:

Related material will be found in the Black Series sub-series.

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T-1453 : microfilm copies Copy No. 1
T-1453 : microfilm copies Copy No. 2
T-1453 : microfilm copies Copy No. 3
T-1453 : microfilm copies Copy No. 4
T-1453 : microfilm copies Copy No. 5
T-1454 : microfilm copies Copy No. 1
T-1454 : microfilm copies Copy No. 2
T-1454 : microfilm copies Copy No. 3
T-1454 : microfilm copies Copy No. 5

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RG10-B-8-x
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG10] 995--996

[Consultation 90 Open]

Microfilm reel [RG10] T-1453--T-1454

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10