- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .O5L5M5
- Category:
- Ontario
- Creator:
- Upper Canada. Lieutenant Governor.
- Material Description:
- 4 microfilm textual records (14 volumes) ; 16 mm
- Background:
This series contains miscellaneous correspondence and enclosures addressed to the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada or his office and to the Governor of Lower Canada or his office. Included in the Records are letters and enclosures; addresses; reports from private persons; and from provincial officials in both Upper and Lower Canada.
A substantial amount of correspondence from the Military Secretary is included, as well as from the Attorney General, Inspector General, Customs Office, and Indian Department. The material is arranged in chronological order but with subdivisions for the political sections of the country.
Only a portion of these records are held in the Loyalist Collection.
- Contents:
Includes Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada's Correspondence from 1792-1819, 1820-1826, 1826-1830, 1831-1834, and 1835-1841; Governor General's Correspondence from 1795-1840, Jan.-May 1841, June-Dec. 1841; Governor General's Correspondence 1878; and Governor General's Correspondence-Drafts, Governor General's and Lieutenant Governor's Correspondence- Copies, Letter addressed to Governor for 1774-1855.
- Originals:
The original documents are held by Library and Archives Canada.
- Archival Ref. No.:
NAC/LAC RG 7, G 14.
- Finding Aids:
NAC Finding Aid 772 provides access to the material and is available on microfiche in the Loyalist Collection.
An inventory description and microfilm shelf list are available.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- UpperCanadaLtGovShelfList.pdf Inventory-Description_Miscellaneous-Records_UC-Lt-Governor.pdf
- Notes:
The Loyalist Collection contains volumes 1-9 and volumes 31-34 on four microfilm reels. The complete series contains 110 volumes (1774-1914). Only the first 19 volumes are described in Finding Aid 772.