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Collection of Post Office Inspectors reports
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1874-1902 (Produção)
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- Canada. Post Office
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91 microfilm reels : positive
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História administrativa
Prior to 1851, the Post Office Department in British North America was an overseas extension of the General Post Office of Great Britain. In 1849 the Imperial Parliament passed "An Act for enabling colonial legislatures to establish Inland Posts" (Gt. Brit. 12 & 13 Vic [1849], c.66). This legislation was followed in the Province of Canada by "An Act to provide for the transfer of the management of Inland Posts to the Provincial Government, and for the regulation of the said Department" (13 & 14 Vic. [1850]). Similar legislation was passed in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, and control of the Post Office passed to those Colonial governments in 1851.
With Confederation in 1867, the post office departments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were amalgamated with that of Ontario and Québec and new legislation, "An Act for the regulation of the postal service (31 Vic.[1867], c.10) was passed. When British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, and much later, Newfoundland, joined Canada, the existing colonial postal administration was absorbed by the larger Canadian administration. The Post Office Department continued as a government department until 1981, when it became a Crown Corporation called the Canada Post Corporation.
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Consists of reports from Divisional Inspectors and best reflects the development of the post office service as a mirror of the settlement of Canada. The reports frequently contain useful descriptions of communities requesting new postal services. Included are maps and site plans for housing postal facilities, petitions, biographical information about persons recommended for or seeking postmastership positions, patronage correspondence, recommendations or suggestions for names or name changes or for a change of site and notices of post office closings. The reports are numbered and are in chronological order. The records for the years 1875-1902 are the residue of original dossiers that have not survived. Only correspondence for the years 1875-1902 has been microfilmed. The early `reports' can be applications to establish post offices, copies of correspondence received from community representatives, P.O.D memorandums and the like. Later reports were filed by the Inspectors and include inspection forms, one or two main files per post office, along with related correspondence, memorandums, etc. The original register to the reports for the years 1875-1902 has not survived.
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Purchase.
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- inglês
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MF 2188-2279
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Queen's University Archives provides this material for personal study only. It does not provide research services for this material. Permission to publish must be obtained from Library and Archives Canada.