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Prime Minister's Office, index cards [textual record]

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Date:

1948-1957.

Reference:

R11214-16-0-E, MG26-L

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

199944

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Louis St. Laurent fonds

Prime Minister's Office, index cards
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Series includes:

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

1948-1957.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

77.4 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Series consists of card indexes created in the Prime Ministers Office (PMO), as well as an index to speeches and an index to constituency-related correspondence. The PMO card index is a letter by letter index of official correspondence found in the Prime Minister's Office indexed files series (Volumes 38 to 221). The cards provide an overview of the breadth of correspondence handled by the PMO, ranging from secret correspondence with foreign governments to the trials and tribulations of ordinary Canadians. They also represent the original order of the PMO correspondence.

There are two sets of index cards, nominal and subject. Both nominal and subject index cards record the date of the letter and contain the name of the correspondent, a brief description of the letter's contents and the original PMO file number. However, not every letter was included in the index.

Researchers should note that much of the correspondence referred to on the index cards no longer exists. Some of it was transferred to the Privy Council Office, other material was destroyed before it reached the National Archives. The index cards are valuable to show what once existed in the PMO, but are not very useful as a finding aid.

The constituency index cards (Volumes 673 to 682) include nominal and subject indexes to correspondence to and from constituents in St. Laurent's Quebec East riding and other Quebec Ridings. Unfortunately the original files are no longer existant. The index thus serves as the only source of information on the concerns of constituents for the years 1948-1957.

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MG26-L
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG26 L] 425--682

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10