Civil Secretary’s correspondence. Upper Canada and Canada West
Record Information
- Hierarchical level:
- Series
- Date:
- 1766-1841.
- Place of creation:
- Ontario
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Extent:
- 18.6 m of textual records.
- Language of material:
- English
- Found in:
- Archives / Collections and Fonds
- Item ID number:
- 125539
- Former archival reference no.:
- RG5-A1
Finding aid
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-01 There are some gaps in the electronic finding aid. Therefore, the researcher may wish to supplement consultation of the electronic finding aid with an examination of some parts of the paper-based finding aid. In part one of the electronic version of the finding aid there is an introduction and a microfilm shelf list which provide dates, volume numbers, page numbers and microfilm reel numbers of the documents described. In addition, part one of the electronic version of the finding aid also contains description of documents at the item level for the period n.d. to 1816, document pages 1-14231. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002176.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-02 Description, at item level, for the years 1817 to 1829, pages 14233-54782. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002177.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-03 Description, at item level, for the year 1818, pages 17579 to 20069. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-04 Description, at item level, for the years 1819-1825, pages 20070 to 37925. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002178.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-05 Description, at item level, for the years 1825 to Oct. 13 1827, pages 37972-46821. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002179.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-06 Description, at item level. This part of the finding aid is somewhat chaotic. A list of contents follows: April to June 1833, pp. 70356 to 71985; 1 January to April 1833, pages 68813-70355; June to December 1832, 65928-68812; 22 October 1830 to December 1830, pages 58257 to 59221; and 1 July 1830 to 21 October 1830, pages 56950 to 58256. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002180.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-07 Description, at item level, for January to June 1831, pages 59222 to 61249. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002181.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-08 Description, at item level, for January to 30 June 1832, pages 63504 to 65927; 1 July 1831 to December 1831 and a few for 1832, pages 61250 to 63503. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002182.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-09 Description, at item level, for the year June to December 1833, pages 71986 to 74773. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002183.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-10 Description, at item level, for the year 1 January 1834 to June 1835, pages 74774 to 84669. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002184.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-11 Description, at item level, for the year 1 July to end of 1835, pages 84670 to 91641. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002185.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-12 Description, at item level, for the years July 1 1836 to December 1836; and January 1 to December 1837, pages 91686 to 95072 and 95073 to 100326. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002186.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-13 Description, at item level, for the years 1837 to 1838 as follows: Index to Records of the Upper Canada Club, 1837-1838, pages 100327 to 109829; other records, including Niagara General Session, January 1838 to June 1838, pages 100327 to 109829. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002187.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-14 Description, at item level, for the year 1 October 1838 to 27 November 1838, pages 114221 to 115803. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002188.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-15 Description, at item level, for 27 November 1838 to December 1838, pages 115804-116999. Includes a return of prisoners on charges of insurrection or treason, December 1838, pages 116931-116971. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002189.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-16 Description, at item level, for January 1 to March 1838, pages 117053 to 120391. Includes a list of prisoners at Prescott, pages 117000-117052 and a petition of the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church of Christ regarding the Clergy Reserves, 120197 to 120212. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002190.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-17 Description, at item level, for the year 1 April to 30 June 1839, pages 120392 to 122706. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002191.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-18 Description, at item level, for 1 July 1839 to September 1838, pages 122707 to 125773. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002192.pdf
Textual records (Electronic) MSS0881-19 Description, at item level, for 1 July to September 1839, pages 122707 to 125773. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002193.pdf
Textual records (Paper) MSS0881-00 Finding aid 881 is a calendar of the complete series, providing a description of each item. The calendar was compiled over a long period and reflects several changes in descriptive standards. In general, the nature of the item, its author and recipient, the contents and the date are specified, as well as its extent in pages. A copy of the Shelf List is included in the finding aid to permit rapid identification of the microfilm reels on which the documents appear. Most sections of this finding aid are also available electronically as a pdf or tif file. MSS0881 (90 90: Open)
(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90 90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539
(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l’adresse suivante : (90 90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539?usrlang=fr
Ordering and Viewing Options
- Volume
- [RG5 A 1] [Access 90 Open]
- 1–4 [Access 90 Open]
- 6–265 [Access 90 Open]
- 1A [Access 90 Open]
- 5/1–5/2 [Access 90 Open]
- Finding aid box
- [FA 881] 82–86 [Access 10 Closed]
- Microfilm reel
- C-4502–C-4508 [Access 90 Open]
- C-4543–C-4549 [Access 90 Open]
- C-4600–C-4618 [Access 90 Open]
- C-6862–C-6918 [Access 90 Open]
- C-9822–C-9825 [Access 90 Open]
Digital copies
Canadiana Heritage: https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539
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TITLE | URL | REELS |
Indices | ||
General index to the Public Archives of Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_3723367 | 38 |
Index to the registry files of the office of the Surveyor General | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_135033 | 13 |
Upper Canada | ||
[Correspondence from the] Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_126307 | 2 |
[Correspondence received by the Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada, the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of Canada, and the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada] | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192924 | 9 |
Adjutant-General’s Office, Upper Canada: Register of officers | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_133520 | 2 |
Bonds and securities Upper and Lower Canada, Province of Canada, and Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192550 | 42 |
Canada : Governor General’s Office, Internal Letterbooks, Upper Canada to and from Treasury | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192905 | 1 |
Civil Secretary, appointments to offices. Upper Canada and Canada West | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105217 | 2 |
Civil Secretary’s correspondence received: [Province of Canada] | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_126290 | 33 |
Civil Secretary’s letter books | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192908 | 6 |
Civil Secretary’s letter books [of Upper Canada] | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_126291 | 11 |
Commissions from Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, Province of Canada and Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192570 | 41 |
Despatches to the Lieutenant Governor, S series | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192816 | 3 |
Drafts of correspondence sent from the Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada, the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of Canada, and the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192925 | 6 |
Drafts of enclosures to despatches from the Lieutenant Governor, Upper Canada to the Colonial Office | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_126299 | 4 |
Heir and Devisee | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205142 | 21 |
Licenses, Upper and Lower Canada, Canada East and Canada West and Ontario, 1817-1867 | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192630 | 3 |
Parish registers: Ontario | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103544 | 14 |
Registrar’s office files of Upper and Lower Canada, the Province of Canada and Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192665 | 6 |
State minute books of the Executive Council of Upper Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205063 | 1 |
State submissions to the Executive Council of Upper Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205134 | 20 |
Upper Canada and Canada West : Returns of Population and Assessment | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_125534 | 3 |
Upper Canada Land Books | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205068 | 41 |
Upper Canada Sundries | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539 | 94 |
Upper Canada. Civil Secretary : records relating to Rebellions | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105220 | 4 |
War of 1812 pension records | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_133515 | 2 |
Warrants and pardons from Upper Canada, the Province of Canada and Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192689 | 9 |
Great Britain | ||
British Military and Naval Records. Admiralty Records | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105515 | 15 |
Colonial Office : Colonies general original correspondence | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_104320 | 4 |
Despatches from the Colonial Office | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_126294 | 113 |
Great Britain. Admiralty : Masters logs (ADM 52) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105250 | 3 |
Great Britain. Admiralty. Admiralty & Secretariat : papers (ADM 1) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105048 | 8 |
Great Britain. Audit Office. Declared Accounts (AO 1) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105516 | 1 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : America and West Indies, original correspondence, etc. (CO 5) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103905 | 17 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : British North America, original correspondence (CO 6) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103906 | 4 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : Canada, formerly British North America, entry books (CO 43) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103910 | 7 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : Canada, formerly British North America, miscellanea (CO 47) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103914 | 1 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : Canada, formerly British North America, original correspondence (CO 42) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103908 | 141 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : colonial papers, general series, (CO 1) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_103902 | 1 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : Colonies General, Entry Books, Series 1 (CO 324) : Entry Books of Commissions, Instructions, etc. | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_133493 | 1 |
Great Britain. Colonial Office : emigration, original correspondence (CO 384) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_104563 | 1 |
Great Britain. Foreign Office fonds : records pertaining to British North America | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_158582 | 1 |
Great Britain. War Office : in-letters and papers (WO 1) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_104702 | 7 |
Great Britain. War Office. Commissariat Department : in-letters (WO 57) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105015 | 1 |
Great Britain. War Office. Ordnance Office : in-letters (WO 44) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105238 | 1 |
Great Britain. War Office. Ordnance Office : miscellanea (WO 55) | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105369 | 2 |
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst fonds | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_98615 | 1 |
Letter books of despatches from the Colonial Office | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_133505 | 5 |
Letter books of despatches to the Colonial Office | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_126300 | 9 |
Treasury Fonds : T 28. Various Out-letters | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_106003 | 1 |
Treasury Fonds : T 47. Various Registers | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_106016 | 1 |
Loyalists | ||
Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists – Series I | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105765 | 2 |
Audit Office : AO 13. Claims, American Loyalists – Series II : selections | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105755 | 2 |
The centennial of the settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists, 1784-1884 : the celebrations at Adolphustown, Toronto and Niagara, with an appendix | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_99636 | 1 |
Land & surveys | ||
Land documents concerning Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, Canada East and Canada West and Canada | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_787982 | 53 |
Land petitions and related records of the Executive Council | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_204929 | 30 |
Land submissions to the Executive Council | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205131 | 3 |
Land surveyor certificates | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_192629 | 1 |
Office of the Surveyor General : letterbooks | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_135037 | 6 |
Miscellaneous | ||
Correspondence [from John Galt Fonds] | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_108954 | 2 |
Delancey-Robinson collection | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_100836 | 2 |
Department of Indian Affairs : Tyendinaga Agency [Ontario], 1836-1913 | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_159259 | 8 |
Edgar Dewdney fonds | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_104386 | 4 |
John By and estate fonds | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105671 | 1 |
Lachine Canal Commission | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_137284 | 2 |
Militia and Defence : Nominal rolls and paylists for the Volunteer Militia | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_194987 | 57 |
Perth [Ontario] Military Settlement fonds | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_97775 | 1 |
Saint John [New Brunswick] Registrar of Shipping, 1824-1943 | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_178470 | 22 |
Sir Charles Bagot fonds | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_98650 | 1 |
Traill family collection | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105633 | 11 |
William Lyon Mackenzie collection | https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_98642 | 2 |