Archived Commissions - by Topic

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Aboriginal Peoples

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• Commission Title: Indian Claims Commission (PDF 2.68 MB)
  Date: 1991-2009
  Chair: Renée Dupuis
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
  Date: 1996
  Chair: René Dussault, Georges Erasmus
  Report Titles:
  • Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada)
  • Highlights from the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - People to People, Nation to Nation (Library and Archives Canada)
• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Desirability of Establishing a New Band of Indians on Seabird Island, British Columbia
  Date: 1958
  Chair: Geo L. Cassady
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Indian Act and Indian Administration in General
  Date: 1947
  Chair: Donald Ferguson Brown, J. Fred Johnston
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Matters of Membership in the Indian Bands in Lesser Slave Lake Agency
  Date: 1947
  Chair: W. A. MacDonald
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Indian Affairs
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Nathaniel Whitworth White, Edward Ludlow Wetmore
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Aboriginal Peoples - Charges against R.C. Macdonald

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Certain Charges Made by the Halfbreed Residents of the United States against R. C. Macdonald
  Date: 1905
  Chair: Robert Hill Myers
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Aboriginal Peoples - Claims

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• Commission Title: Commissioner on Indian Claims
  Date: 1977
  Chair: Lloyd Barber
  Report Title: A Report: Statements and Submissions = Un rapport : declarations et mémoires
  Note: Report is bilingual.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate the Unfulfilled Provisions of Treaties 8 and 11 as they Apply to the Indians of the Mackenzie District
  Date: 1959
  Chair: Walter H. Nelson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Report upon the Validity of a Claim made by Certain Indians of the Chippewa and Mississauga Tribes
  Date: 1923
  Chair: Angus Seymour Williams
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission re St. Peter's Indian Reserve
  Date: 1908
  Chair: Hector Mansfield Howell
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Negotiate a Treaty with Certain Indians in the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and to Investigate, Hear and Determine the Claims of Halfbreeds therein
  Date: 1907
  Chair: James Andrew Joseph McKenna, Thomas A. Bothwic
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Adjudicate upon the Claims to Land or Scrip Arising out of the Extinguishment of the Indian Title Preferred by or on Behalf of Half-Breeds
  Date: 1901
  Chair: Narcisse Omer Côté, Samuel McLeod
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Deal with Certain Half-breed Claims in the Province of Manitoba and the North-west Territories
  Date: 1901
  Chair: James Andrew Joseph McKenna
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Report Upon Any Claims to Bounty for Services Rendered as Scouts or Otherwise in Connection with the Suppression of the North-West Rebellion of 1885, Preferred Before Them by Persons Resident in the District of Saskatchewan, in the Said North-West Territories
  Date: 1901
  Chair: James Andrew Joseph McKenna, James Walker
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Deal with Halfbreed Claims in the District of Athabaska and the Adjoining Country
  Date: 1901
  Chair: James Ansdell Macrae
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Fix and Determine the Number, Extent and Locality of the Reserve or Reserves to be Allowed to the Indians of British Columbia
  Date: 1878
  Chair: Alexander Anderson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Ascertain Persons Entitled to Grants of Land and Scrip in Manitoba
  Date: 1876
  Chair: John Maule Machar
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Aboriginal Peoples - Riel Rebellion, 1885

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission into Claims for Compensation for Loss or Damage Arising Out of the Late Half-breed and Indian Insurrection in the North-West Territories
  Date: 1887
  Chair: J. Alphonse Ouimet
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Report upon the suppression of the rebellion in the North-West Territories, and matters in connection therewith, in 1885
  Date: 1886
  Chair: W. H. Jackson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Aboriginal Peoples - Six Nations Indians

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Enquire into the Affairs of the Six Nations Indians
  Date: 1924
  Chair: Andrew Thorburn Thompson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Aboriginal Peoples - Westbank Indian Band

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Matters Associated with the Westbank Indian Band
  Date: 1988
  Chair: John E. Hall

Abou-Elmaati, Ahmad

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• Commission Title: Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin
  Date: 2008
  Chair: Frank Iacobucci

Acadie-Bathurst

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• Commission Title: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission
  Date: 2004
  Chair: Joseph Z. Daigle
  Report Titles:
  • Preliminary Report  
  • Final Report
  Note: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission

Agriculture

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• Commission Title: Federal Task Force on Agriculture
  Date: 1969
  Chair: Douglas Ross Campbell, P. Comtois, J.C. Gilson, David L. MacFarlane, Donald H. Thain, A. Vaillancourt, Douglas Woodward .
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Methods of Stimulating Agricultural Production
  Date: 1916
  Chair: James Alexander Lougheed
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

AIDS

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada
  Date: 1997
  Chair: Horace Krever

Air Canada - Fiscal Management

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• Commission Title: Air Canada Inquiry
  Date: 1975
  Chair: Willard Z. Estey

Air Canada Overhaul Base - Winnipeg

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry as to the Future of the Air Canada Overhaul Base at Winnipeg International Airport, and Related Matters
  Date: 1966
  Chair: Donald Alexander Thompson

Air India Flight 182 (Bombing)

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182
  Date: 2010
  Chair: John C. Major

Airplane Crashes - Air Ontario

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Air Ontario Crash at Dryden, Ontario (Canada)
  Date: 1992
  Chair: Virgil P. Moshansky

Airplane Crashes - Panarctic Oils Ltd.

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Matter of a Crash of a Panarctic Electra Aircraft at Rea Point, Northwest Territories
  Date: 1976
  Chair: William A. Stevenson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Airports (Toronto/Malton & Pickering)

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• Commission Title: Airport Inquiry Commission
  Date: 1974
  Chair: Hugh F. Gibson

Alberta - Leased Territories

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into, Review and Report upon the Rentals Payable under the Leases in the Townsites and Subdivisions of Banff and Jasper
  Date: 1950
  Chair: Harry O. Patriquin
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Alberta - Natural Resources

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Natural Resources of Alberta
  Date: 1935
  Chair: Andrew Knox Dysart

Almalki, Abdullah

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• Commission Title: Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin
  Date: 2008
  Chair: Frank Iacobucci

Animal Breeding - Arctic

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Possibilities of the Reindeer and Musk-ox Industries in the Arctic and Subarctic Regions
  Date: 1922
  Chair: John Gunion Rutherford
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Arar, Maher

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar
  Date: 2006
  Chair: Dennis R. O'Connor
  Report Titles:
  • Factual Inquiry: Commissioner's Report 
  • Policy Review: Commissioner's Report: A New Review Mechanism for the RCMP's National Security Activities [ PDF 2.67 MB ]
  Note: Archived Website

Arts, Letters & Sciences

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters & Sciences 1949 - 1951
  Date: 1951
  Chair: Vincent Massey

Arvida, Quebec - Aluminum Company of Canada Strike

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into the Events which occurred at Arvida, Quebec, in July, 1941
  Date: 1941
  Chair: William Langley Bond, Severin Letourneau

Asbestos Mining (Thetford Mines, Quebec) - Unrest

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Cause of Unrest in the Asbestos Mining Industry in the District of Thetford Mines, Quebec
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Charles Albert Emile Blanchet
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Assistant Receiver General (Saint John, N.B.) - Conduct

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Conduct of the Office of the Assistant Receiver General at Saint John, N.B.
  Date: 1903
  Chair: John Fraser
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Automotive Industry

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• Commission Title: Inquiry into the Automotive Industry
  Date: 1978
  Chair: Simon Reisman
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Automotive Industry
  Date: 1961
  Chair: Vincent W. Bladen

Baie Verte Canal

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• Commission Title: Commission Appointed to Investigate the Nature and Extent of the Commercial Advantages to be Derived from the Construction of the Baie Verte Canal
  Date: 1875
  Chair: John Young
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Banking

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Banking and Finance
  Date: 1964
  Chair: Dana Harris Porter
  Note: This appendix volume is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Banking and Currency in Canada
  Date: 1933
  Chair: Hugh Pattison Macmillan

Banks (CCB & Northland) - Collapse

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank (CCB) and the Northland Bank
  Date: 1986
  Chair: Willard Z. Estey

Beef - Marketing

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Marketing of Beef
  Date: 1976
  Chair: Maxwell Weir Mackenzie

Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Ltd. - Industrial Disputes (Toronto)

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on a Dispute Respecting Hours of Employment between the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Ltd., and Operators at Toronto, Ont.
  Date: 1907
  Chair: William Lyon Mackenzie King
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Bilingualism and Biculturalism

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
  Date: 1967-1970
  Chair: A. Davidson Dunton, André Laurendeau, Jean-Louis Gagnon

Blood System

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada
  Date: 1997
  Chair: Horace Krever

Bren Machine Gun Contract

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Bren Machine Gun Contract
  Date: 1939
  Chair: Henry Hague Davis
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

British Columbia - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Industrial Disputes in the Province of British Columbia
  Date: 1903
  Chair: Gordon Hunter
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

British Columbia - Land rights

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate the Grievances of Certain Settlers Residing within the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company's Land Belt on Vancouver Island
  Date: 1897
  Chair: Thomas Gainsford Rothwell
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Butler, Frederick - Herring Weir Licenses

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Herring Weir Licenses by Frederick Butler, Musquash, Charlotte County, N.B.
  Date: 1912
  Chair: John F. Calder
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Canada - Public opinion

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• Commission Title: Citizens' Forum on Canada's Future
  Date: 1991
  Chair: Keith Spicer

Canadian Dairy Commission - Commercial Practices

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into Certain Allegations Concerning Commercial Practices of the Canadian Dairy Commission
  Date: 1981
  Chair: Hugh F. Gibson

Canadian Expeditionary Force - Transportation

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Alleged Ill-Treatment of the Men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force While on Board the Transport Northland on her Voyage from Liverpool to Halifax
  Date: 1919
  Chair: Frank Egerton Hodgins
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Canadian Performing Right Society Ltd. & Copyright Amendment Act

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Whether or Not the Canadian Performing Right Society Limited is Complying with the Terms and Conditions of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1931 in Relation to Certain Radio Broadcasting Stations in Alberta
  Date: 1932
  Chair: Albert Freeman Ewing
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Canadian Seamen's Union - Labor Dispute

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Dispute at Cornwall, Ontario, between Certain Members of the Canadian Seamen's Union and Certain Shipping Companies
  Date: 1938
  Chair: Eugene McGrath Quirk
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Canadian-Vickers Limited - Explosion

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• Commission Title: Investigation into the Circumstances attending the explosion in the Drydock of Canadian-Vickers Limited, Montreal, June 17, 1932
  Date: 1932
  Chair: Stanislaus Albert Baulne
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Canals

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into the Best Means for the Improvement of the Water Communications of the Dominion and the Development of the Trade with the North-Eastern Portion of North America (Canal Commission)
  Date: 1871
  Chair: Hugh Allan
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Canneries - British Columbia

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Number of Boats to be Employed by Salmon Canneries in the Province of British Columbia
  Date: 1910
  Chair: John T. Williams, John Pease Babcock
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Cattle Freight Rates

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• Commission Title: Commission on Cattle Freight Rates
  Date: 1895
  Chair: William Loftus Magee
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Chignecto Canal

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• Commission Title: Chignecto Canal Commission
  Date: 1939
  Chair: Arthur Surveyer
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Chinese Canadians - Fraud and Opium Smuggling (Pacific Coast)

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Alleged Chinese Frauds and Opium Smuggling on the Pacific Coast
  Date: 1913
  Chair: Dennis Murphy
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Chinese Canadians - Property Claims (Vancouver Riots)

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate Losses by the Chinese Population of Vancouver, British Columbia, on the Occasion of the Riots in That City in September, 1907
  Date: 1908
  Chair: William Lyon Mackenzie King
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Chinese Immigration - British Columbia

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration
  Date: 1885
  Chair: John Hamilton Gray, Joseph Adolphe Chapleau
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Civil Service Act

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Civil Service
  Date: 1908
  Chair: John Mortimer Courtney
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Coal - Delivery to ships

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Conditions in Regard to the Delivery of Cargoes of Coal to Coasting Vessels in the Maritime Provinces
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Wilfred Eddy Tupper
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Coal - International Trade

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Anthracite Coal
  Date: 1937
  Chair: Henry Marshall Tory

Coal Mining

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Causes of the Lack of Capacity Production in the Coal Mines in the Minto-Chipman District of the Province of New Brunswick
  Date: 1941
  Chair: Maynard Brown Archibald
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Coal Mining - Cost of Living

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• Commission Title: Cost of Living Commission, Coal Mining Industry, Estevan District (Estevan-Bienfait, Saskatchewan)
  Date: 1941
  Chair: George Edwin Britnell
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Cost of Living Commission, Coal Mining Industry, District Eighteen (Alberta and British Columbia)
  Date: 1940
  Chair: George Edwin Britnell
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission on Cost of Living for Vancouver Island Coal Miners
  Date: 1919
  Chair: D. T. Bulger
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Coal Mining - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate the Demands of the Coal Miners of Western Canada
  Date: 1943
  Chair: G. B. O'Connor
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Coal Mining Operations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
  Date: 1920
  Chair: Eugene McGrath Quirk
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Unrest in the Steel-making, Coal-mining and Shipbuilding Industries in the Province of Nova Scotia
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Joseph Andrew Chisholm
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate the Disputes Between the Dominion Coal Company Limited and Employees, Glace Bay and Springhill, and Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co. Ltd. and Employees, Sydney Mines
  Date: 1917
  Chair: Joseph Andrew Chisholm
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Cooperatives

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Co-operatives
  Date: 1945
  Chair: Errol Malcolm William McDougall

Corporate Concentration

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
  Date: 1978
  Chair: Robert B. Bryce

Cotton Factories (Quebec) - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Cotton Factories Industrial Disputes
  Date: 1909
  Chair: William Lyon Mackenzie King
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Courtaulds (Canada) Ltd. - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Industrial Dispute at the Plant of Courtaulds (Canada) Ltd., Cornwall, Ontario (United Textile Workers Federal Local Union No. 3)
  Date: 1940
  Chair: Albert Constantineau
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Criminal Code

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Revision of the Criminal Code
  Date: 1954
  Chair: William Melville Martin

Crow's Nest Pass Railway - Treatment of Labourers

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• Commission Title : Commission to Inquire into the Grievances of the Workmen on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, and into the Circumstances Attending the Deaths of Two of the Said Employees, Charles P. McDonald and E.M. Fraser
  Date : 1899
  Chair : Roger Conger Clute
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Charges of Unjust Treatment of Persons Engaged in Construction of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway
  Date: 1898
  Chair: Calixte Aime Dugas
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Dairy Industry - Weights and Measures

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Weighing of Butter and Cheese
  Date: 1913
  Chair: Robert Alexander Pringle
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Devlin, James - Charges, Kingston Penitentiary

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• Commission Title: Commission on Charges Preferred Against James Devlin, Late Engineer of Kingston Penitentiary
  Date: 1897
  Chair: Charles Murphy
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication

Drugs

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance
  Date: 1990
  Chair: Charles L. Dubin
• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Non-medical Use of Drugs
  Date: 1973
  Chair: Gerald Le Dain

Economic Development

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada
  Date: 1985
  Chair: Donald S. MacDonald

Election Fraud

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and to Investigate the Charges of Irregularities in the Federal Election of 1963
  Date: 1965
  Chair: Nathan Theodore Nemetz
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Report upon Certain Alleged Irregularities among the Military Voters in the December 17, 1917 General Election in the Riding of Chambly-Vercheres
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Farquhar Stuart MacLennan
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Allegations of Election Frauds Prior to and Subsequent to the General Elections of 1896
  Date: 1900
  Chair: John Alexander Boyd
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Electoral Boundaries

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• Commission Title: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission
  Date: 2004
  Chair: Joseph Z. Daigle
  Report Titles:
  • Preliminary Report
  • Final Report
  Note: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission

Electricity

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Report upon the Export of Hydro-electric Power to the United States, in Particular by Ontario Power Company, Canadian Niagara Power Company and the Electrical Development Company
  Date: 1919
  Chair: Henry Lumley Drayton
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Employment Equity

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• Commission Title: Commission on Equality in Employment
  Date: 1984
  Chair: Rosalie Silberman Abella

Energy - National Energy Board

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Energy
  Date: 1958-1959
  Chair: Henry Borden

Espionage - Soviet Union

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate the Facts Relating to and the Circumstances Surrounding the Communication by the Public Officials and Other Persons in Positions of Trust of Secret and Confidential Information to Agents of Foreign Power
  Date: 1946
  Chair: Robert Taschereau

Federal Departments - Records

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Records of the Public Departments
  Date: 1914
  Chair: Joseph Pope
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Federal-Provincial Relations - Financial Management

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Financial Arrangements between the Dominion and the Maritime Provinces
  Date: 1935
  Chair: Thomas White

Financial Management & Accountability

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Financial Management and Accountability
  Date: 1979
  Chair: Allen Thomas Lambert

First World War - Munitions and Military Supplies

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission Concerning Purchase of War Supplies and Sale of Small Arms Ammunition
  Date: 1917
  Chair: Charles Peers Davidson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

First World War - Reparations

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Illegal Warfare Claims and for Return of Sequestrated Property in Necessitous Cases, 1925
  Date: 1928
  Chair: John Douglas Hazen, William Pugsley, James Friel
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fish Hatcheries - Nova Scotia

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate into and Report in respect to Dynamite Sticks placed near the Road outside the Hatchery Gate at North East Margaree, Nova Scotia
  Date: 1923
  Chair: Charles Deering La Nauze
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - Alberta and Saskatchewan

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• Commission Title: Alberta and Saskatchewan Fisheries Commission
  Date: 1912
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - British Columbia

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on British Columbia Fisheries
  Date: 1922
  Chair: William Duff
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: British Columbia Fisheries Commission
  Date: 1908
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - Dispute between Dudley Perley and T.B. Williston

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• Commission Title: Commission on Bay du Vin Island Net Stands in Dispute between Dudley Perley and T. B. Williston
  Date: 1896
  Chair: D. G. Smith
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - Georgian Bay, Ontario

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• Commission Title: Georgian Bay Fisheries Commission
  Date: 1908
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - Manitoba

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• Commission Title: Fisheries Commission for Manitoba and the North West, 1909-10
  Date: 1909
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - New Brunswick

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Grievances and Complaints Existing in Regard to Salmon and Lobster Fisheries in Gloucester County, New Brunswick
  Date: 1904
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince, Peter Morais
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries - Pacific

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• Commission Title: Commission on Pacific Fisheries Policy
  Date: 1982
  Chair: Peter H. Pearse
  Report Title: Report: Turning the Tide

Fisheries - Quebec & Maritime Provinces

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• Commission Title: Commission on the Lobster Industry in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces
  Date: 1910
  Chair: William Wakeham
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to inquire into the herring and sardine industry of the Bay of Fundy, as well as into the ravages of the dog-fish and the general condition of the lobster fishery at the Magdalen Islands, St. Mary's Bay and The Bay of Fundy
  Date: 1905
  Chair: Joseph John Tucker
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Fisheries Act - Alleged Violations by James & Charles Noble

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations of the Fisheries Act by Messrs. James and Charles Noble
  Date: 1897
  Chair: Frederick William Johnston
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Floods - Saint Lawrence River

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into the Cause of the High Springs Floods which Occur in the St. Lawrence River between the Cities of Quebec and Montreal
  Date: 1874
  Chair: John Dickinson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Forget, Alphonse - Complaints by Maurice Lalonde

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon certain complaints made against A. Forget, Local Representative of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, at Mont Laurier, Quebec
  Date: 1944
  Chair: Roland Millar
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Foreign Service

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Conditions of Foreign Service [PDF 4.2 MB]
  Date: 1981
  Chair: Pamela A. McDougall

Freshwater Fish

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into Freshwater Fish Marketing
  Date: 1966
  Chair: George H. McIvor

Fuel Wood - Contracts

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Alleged Irregularities Regarding a Fuel Wood Contract at the Citadel
  Date: 1886
  Chair: Jules E. LaRue
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Galt, Justice - Reports against Robert Rogers

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Reports of Mr. Justice Galt of Manitoba against the Honourable Robert Rogers, Minister of Public Works
  Date: 1917
  Chair: Ezekiel McLeod
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

General Cartage and Warehousemen's Association - Working Conditions

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate the Dispute between Members of the General Cartage and Warehousemen's Association of British Columbia and Certain of Their Employees
  Date: 1920
  Chair: William H. Vance
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Goguen, Albert M. - Dismissal

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate into the Dismissal of Albert M. Goguen
  Date: 1923
  Chair: Louis Robichaud
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Government Organization (Canada)

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Government Organization
  Date: 1962
  Chair: J. Grant Glassco

Great Slave Lake Railway

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Great Slave Lake Railway
  Date: 1960
  Chair: Marshall E. Manning

Grain Inspectors (Montreal)

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate Charges made against Grain Inspectors at Montreal
  Date: 1901
  Chair: David Horn
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Grain Trade

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Grain Trade of Canada
  Date: 1908
  Chair: John Millar
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Grain Trade - Futures

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into Trading in Grain Futures
  Date: 1931
  Chair: Josiah Stamp

Grand Trunk Railway Company

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon Payment Made or Authorized by the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
  Date: 1924
  Chair: Frederick Henry Honeywell
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Halifax Disorders

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Halifax Disorders, May 7th-8th, 1945
  Date: 1945
  Chair: Roy Lindsay Kellock
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Health Care

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• Commission Title: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
  Date: 2002
  Chair: Roy Romanow
  Report Titles:
  • Interim Report [ PDF 336 KB ] (Depository Services Program)
  • Final Report (Public Works)

Hepatitis

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada
  Date: 1997
  Chair: Horace Krever

HIV ... see AIDS

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House of Commons Law Branch - Management

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Report Upon the Working of the Law Branch of the House of Commons of Canada
  Date: 1912
  Chair: William Drummond Hogg, Adam Shortt
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Hughes, Owen E. (Sherriff) - Charges of Intemperance

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon Charges of Intemperance against Sherriff Owen E. Hughes of the Judicial District of Saskatchewan
  Date: 1897
  Chair: Thomas Horace McGuire
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Humber Valley (Ontario) - Flood

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Nature and Extent of the Damage Caused by the Flood in and adjoining the Humber River Valley in Ontario
  Date: 1954
  Chair: John B. Carswell, Donald B. Shaw
  Report Title: Report on Hurricane Damage in Ontario
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Immigration - China, India, Japan

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission Appointed to Investigate Methods by which Oriental Labourers have been Induced to come to Canada
  Date: 1908
  Chair: William Lyon Mackenzie King
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Industrial Relations

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Industrial Relations
  Date: 1919
  Chair: Thomas Graham Mathers

International Trade

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• Commission Title: Special Trade Commission to Great Britain, France and Italy
  Date: 1916
  Chair: James William Woods

Japanese-Canadians - Property Claims

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate Property Claims of Canadian Citizens of Japanese Origin Evacuated from Coast Areas of British Columbia in 1942
  Date: 1950
  Chair: Henry Irvine Bird
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Japanese-Canadians - Settlements in British Columbia

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Provision made for the Persons of the Japanese Race in Settlements in British Columbia
  Date: 1944
  Chair: F. W. Jackson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Kingston Graving Dock - Contracts

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon Certain Claims of Messrs Bancroft, Connolly and Company, Regarding the Construction of the Kingston Graving Dock
  Date: 1896
  Chair: George W. Burbidge
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Kirchner, Walter H. - Complaints Regarding Pension and Treatment Services

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Complaints made by Walter H. Kirchner, M.C., D.C.M., Secretary, Canadian Combat Veterans Association, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Regarding Pension and Treatment Services with Respect to Certain Cases Concerning Which Mr. Kirchner had made Representations
  Date: 1948
  Chair: James Joseph McCann
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Komagata Maru

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Hindu Claims Following Refusal of Immigration Officials to Allow over 300 Hindus Aboard the S.S. Komagata Maru to Land at Vancouver
  Date: 1914
  Chair: H. C. Clogston
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Labour Law

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Uniformity of Laws Relating to Industrial Work in Canada
  Date: 1920
  Chair: Frederick Albert Acland
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Labour Laws - Massachusetts

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• Commission Title: Commission appointed to enquire into and report on the system of laws regulating labor in the State of Massachusetts
  Date: 1883
  Chair: A. H. Blackeby
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Landreville, Leo A. - Northern Ontario Natural Gas

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into the Dealings of the Honourable Mr. Justice Leo A. Landreville, with Northern Ontario Natural Gas Limited
  Date: 1966
  Chair: Ivan Cleveland Rand

Leper colony - Tracadie, New Brunswick

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate the Administration of the Leper Lazaretto Colony at Tracadie, New Brunswick and the Treatment of Inmates thereof
  Date: 1898
  Chair: Emmanuel Persillier Lachapelle, Arthur Vallée
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Life Insurance

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Life Insurance
  Date: 1907
  Chair: Duncan Byron MacTavish
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Liquor Laws

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Prohibitory Liquor Law
  Date: 1875
  Chair: F. Davis, J. W. Manning
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Lobster Fishing - Illegal

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Illegal Lobster Fishing and Canning and Illegal Smelt Fishing in Lobster Fishing Districts Numbers 7 and 8 in the Maritime Provinces in the Year 1936
  Date: 1938
  Chair: Arthur T. Leblanc
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Illegal Lobster Fishing in the Shediac Sub-Division of New Brunswick
  Date: 1919
  Chair: Ward Fisher
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Lobster Industry

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Lobster Industry
  Date: 1899
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

MacPhail, Agnes - Dispute with A.C. Hall & J.D. Dawson

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Question as to the Truth or Falsity of Statements Made by A.C. Hall, a convict of Kingston Penitentiary and Mr. J.D. Dawson, Inspector of Penitentiaries (Allegations by Agnes MacPhail, M.P.)
  Date: 1935
  Chair: E. J. Daly
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Manitoba - Land Rights

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into Conflicting Claims of Lands of Occupants in Manitoba
  Date: 1878
  Chair: Alexander Morris
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Manufacturing Industry

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• Commission Title: Commission on the State of the Manufacturing Industries of Ontario and Quebec
  Date: 1885
  Chair: A. H. Blackeby
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission on the Manufacturing Industries of Certain Sections of the Maritime Provinces
  Date: 1884
  Chair: Edward W. Willis
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Martineau Defalcation

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Recent Defalcations in the Department of Militia and Defence
  Date: 1903
  Chair: John Mortimer Courtney
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Mining (British Columbia) - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title : Commission Relating to Unrest and Discontent among Miners and Mine-Owners in the Province of British Columbia
  Date : 1900
  Chair : Roger Conger Clute
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Mining (Cobalt, Ontario) - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Unrest in the Mining Industry at Cobalt, in the province of Ontario, and the Nature and Causes Thereof
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Emerson Coatsworth
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Miramichi

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• Commission Title: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission
  Date: 2004
  Chair: Joseph Z. Daigle
  Report Titles:
  • Preliminary Report
  • Final Report
  Note: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission

Mulroney, Brian

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into Certain allegations respecting Business and Financial Dealings Between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney
  Date: 2010
  Chair: Jeffrey James Oliphant

Munitions - Shell Committee - Contracts

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into Certain Contracts made by the Shell Committee
  Date: 1916
  Chair: William Ralph Meredith, Lyman Poore Duff
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Munitions - Supply of Raw Materials for Production

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• Commission Title: Munition Resources Commission
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Thomas Cantley
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Munitions Industry

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• Commission Title: Munitions Industry Inquiry
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Colin George Snider
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Munsinger, Gerda

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to One Gerda Munsinger
  Date: 1966
  Chair: Wishart Flett Spence

New Westminster Penitentiary

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate the Administration and Affairs of New Westminster Penitentiary
  Date: 1895
  Chair: Montagne William Tyrwhitt Drake
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Newspapers

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Newspapers
  Date: 1981
  Chair: Tom Kent
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Newsprint
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Robert Abercrombie Pringle
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Nippon Black Dragon - Articles in Vancouver News Herald

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Charges contained in articles in the Vancouver News Herald under the heading "Nippon Black Dragon operates within British Columbia"
  Date: 1942
  Chair: John Charles Alexander Cameron
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Noble, James and Charles - Claims

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Claims for Loss and Damage Sustained by Messrs. James and Charles Noble
  Date: 1902
  Chair: William Lount
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Northwest Territories - Administration of Justice

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry re Administration of Justice in the Hay River of the Northwest Territories
  Date: 1968
  Chair: William George Morrow

Northwest Territories & Yukon - Staking of Crown Lands

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Facts Concerning the Staking of Certain Areas of the Crown in the North West Territories and Yukon Territory (Dispute between California Standard Co. and Sun Oil Co.)
  Date: 1951
  Chair: Kenneth J. Christie
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into Changes Affecting the Administration of Justice in the North-West Territories
  Date: 1880
  Chair: Edgar Dewdney
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Nureddin, Muayyed

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• Commission Title: Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin
  Date: 2008
  Chair: Frank Iacobucci

Palmer, K.H. (Rev.) and Sir Sam Hughes - Charges, Guelph Novitiate

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into certain charges by Rev. K.H. Palmer and Sir Sam Hughes relating to the administration at Guelph Novitiate
  Date: 1919
  Chair: Joseph Andrew Chisholm
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Parliament Buildings - Fire

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission re Parliament Buildings Fire at Ottawa, February 3, 1916
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Duncan Byron MacTavish
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Passenger Transportation

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• Commission Title : Royal Commission on National Passenger Transportation
  Date : 1992
  Chair : Louis D. Hyndman
  Report Title : Directions: the Final Report of the Royal Commission on National Passenger Transportation
  

Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Industrial Designs

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Industrial Designs
  Date: 1957-60
  Chair: James Lorimer Ilsley
  Report Titles:
  • Report on Copyright (1957)
  • Report on Industrial Designs (1958)
  • Report on Patents of Invention (1960)

Penal System

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Investigate the Penal System of Canada
  Date: 1938
  Chair: Joseph Archambault

Pilotage

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Pilotage
  Date: 1968-1971
  Chair: Yves Bernier
• Commission Title: Commision to Inquire into the Navigation of Small Vessels in the St. Lawrence River
  Date: 1942
  Chair: Lucien Cannon
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Pilotage Business of the District of the Port of St. John
  Date: 1895
  Chair: W. H. Smith
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Politicians - Allegations of Wrongdoing

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• Commission Title: Special Public Inquiry 1964
  Date: 1965
  Chair: Frederic Dorion

Post Office - Security

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry Relating to the Security and Investigation Services Branch Within the Post Office Dept.
  Date: 1981
  Chair: René J. Marin

Post Office - Working Conditions

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission of Inquiry into Working Conditions in the Post Office Department
  Date: 1966
  Chair: André Montpetit

Presqu'isle Lighthouse Reserve - Squatters

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• Commission Title: Commission to Examine into All Matters Connected with the Occupation by Squatters of the Government Lightouse Reserve at Presqu'isle, Ontario
  Date: 1904
  Chair: William Patrick Anderson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Public Land Sales

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• Commission Title: Commission to investigate and report upon all matters connected with the management and sales of lands comprised within the town sites of Regina, Moose Jaw, Qu'Appelle and Verdin
  Date: 1900
  Chair: James Allan Smart, Edwin Frederick Stephenson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Public Service - Rates of pay

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Increases in Rates of Pay for Civil Servants in Group D
  Date: 1965
  Chair: Jacob Carroll Anderson

Public Service - Wages

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Technical and Professional Services
  Date: 1930
  Chair: Edward Wentworth Beatty
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Quebec Central Railway - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Dispute between the Management of the Quebec Central Railway and the Employees
  Date: 1937
  Chair: Albert Constantineau
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Quebec City - Landslide

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate the Nature and Extent of Losses Incurred by Inhabitants of Quebec City in Consequence of the Landslide that Occurred in September, 1889
  Date: 1897
  Chair: William Cook
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Quebec Harbour Commission

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate into and Report in Respect to the "Amount Required to Pay the Park St. Charles Company, Limited, for Land Occupied by the Quebec Harbour Commission"
  Date: 1921
  Chair: Louis Edmond Panneter
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Railroad Cars - Grain Transportation

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Distribution of Railway Box Cars
  Date: 1959
  Chair: John Bracken
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Railway Accident - Mississauga

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• Commission Title: Mississauga Railway Accident Inquiry
  Date: 1981
  Chair: Samuel G. M. Grange

Railway Rates

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report on Complaints as to Discrimination in Passenger and Freight Rates in Manitoba and the North-west Territories
  Date: 1895
  Chair: Peter Suther Archibald
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Railways

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• Commission Title : Royal Commission on Transportation
  Date : 1961-62
  Chair : Murdoch Alexander MacPherson
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Railways
  Date: 1888
  Chair: Alexander Tilloch Galt
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Railways - Construction

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Charges of Alleged Delay in the Construction of A Pile Trestle Bridge on the Pictou Branch of the Intercolonial Railway
  Date: 1901
  Chair: Frederick W. Holt
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Red River Valley (Manitoba) - Floods

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Nature and Extent of the Damage Caused by the 1950 Floods in the Red River Valley in Manitoba
  Date: 1950
  Chair: John B. Carswell, Donald B. Shaw
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Relief Camps (British Columbia)

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Relief Camps, British Columbia
  Date: 1935
  Chair: William Alexander Macdonald

Reproductive Technologies

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
  Date: 1993
  Chair: Patricia Baird
  Report Title: Final Report: Proceed with Care

Right of Common - Cutting Hay (Manitoba)

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into and Report upon Claims to Rights of Cutting Hay and Common in the Province of Manitoba
  Date: 1874
  Chair: Jno.H. Bain
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Rocky Mountain Park, Banff - Management

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Matters in Connection with the Rocky Mountain Park of Canada at Banff
  Date: 1897
  Chair: Edwin Frederick Stephenson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Ross, John - Estate

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into Claims of Estate of the Late John Ross for Advances made to Contractors, Sections 3, 6, 9 and 15 of the Intercolonial Railway
  Date: 1935
  Chair: Louis Arthur Audette
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  Date: 1979-1981
  Chair: Mr. Justice D.C. McDonald
  Report Titles:
  • First Report: Security and Information (1979)
  • Second Report: Freedom and Security under the Law (1981)
  • Third Report: Certain R.C.M.P. Activities and the Question of Governmental Knowledge (1981)

Salmon Fishing - British Columbia

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River
  Date: 2012
  Chair: Bruce Cohen
  Report Titles:
  • Fraser River Sockeye Salmon: Past Declines. Future Sustainability? (Interim Report) (Government of Canada Publications)
  • Final Report: The Uncertain Future of Fraser River Sockeye, Volume 1: The Sockeye Fishery (Government of Canada Publications)
  • Final Report: The Uncertain Future of Fraser River Sockeye, Volume 2: Causes of the Decline (Government of Canada Publications)
  • Final Report: The Uncertain Future of Fraser River Sockeye, Volume 3: Recommendations—Summary—Process (Government of Canada Publications)
  Note: Archived Website
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Salmon Fishing in British Columbia
  Date: 1940
  Chair: Gordon McGregor Sloan
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission on the Salmon Fishery Industry in British Columbia
  Date: 1903
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Sailing Ships - Gypsum Queen

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon all Matters Relating to the Loss of the Sailing Vessel "Gypsum Queen" on July 31, 1915
  Date: 1932
  Chair: Horace Harvey
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Sardine Fisheries in L'Etang River - Pollution

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate the Falling Off of Sardine Fisheries in L'Etang River Alleged to be Caused by Pollution of Water from a Sardine Cannery
  Date: 1914
  Chair: William Ambrose Found
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Schreiber, Karlheinz

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into Certain allegations respecting Business and Financial Dealings Between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney
  Date: 2010
  Chair: Jeffrey James Oliphant

Seals and the Sealing Industry

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Seals and the Sealing Industry in Canada
  Date: 1986
  Chair: Albert H. Malouf
• Commission Title: Pelagic Sealing Commission
  Date: 1916
  Chair: Louis Arthur Audette
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Second Narrows Bridge (B.C.)

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• Commission Title: Commission appointed to Inquire into the Matter of Second Narrows Bridge, Burrard Inlet, B.C.
  Date: 1931
  Chair: Louis E. Côté
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Security

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Security (Abridged)
  Date: 1969
  Chair: Maxwell Weir Mackenzie

Sentencing

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• Commission Title: Canadian Sentencing Commission
  Date: 1987
  Chair: J.R. Omer Archambault
  Report Title: Report: Sentencing Reform: A Canadian Approach

Separate Schools - Manitoba

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• Commission Title: Commission Appointed to Confer with the Government of the Schools in that Province
  Date: 1896
  Chair: Donald Alexander Smith
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Shellfish Fisheries

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• Commission Title: Shell-fish Fishery Commission
  Date: 1913
  Chair: Edward Ernest Prince
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Shipbuilding - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Unrest in the Steel-making, Coal-mining and Shipbuilding Industries in the Province of Nova Scotia
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Joseph Andrew Chisholm
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into the Alleged Unrest Existing in the Shipbuilding Industry in the Province of Quebec
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Farquhar Stuart MacLennan
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Shipping Federation of B.C. Ltd. - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Industrial Dispute Involving the Shipping Federation of British Columbia Limited and the Long-shore Workers at Vancouver, British Columbia
  Date: 1935
  Chair: Henry Hague Davis
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Shipyards - British Columbia

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into the Most Effective Methods to Secure Maximum Production in the Shipyards of British Columbia
  Date: 1942
  Chair: Stephen Ellswood Richards
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate into and Report Concerning the Relations between the Firm of J. Coughlan and Sons, and its Employees
  Date: 1919
  Chair: Dennis Murphy
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Shipyards in Vancouver
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Edward Burns
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate into Unrest in the Shipbuilding Industry in British Columbia
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Dennis Murphy
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Shipyards - Ontario & Quebec

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Shipbuilding in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  Date: 1942
  Chair: Léon Mercier Gouin
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Somalia

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia
  Date: 1997
  Chair: Gilles Létourneau
  Report Title: Final Report (Department of National Defence)

Sponsorship

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities
  Date: 2005-2006
  Chair: John H. Gomery
  Report Titles:
  • Who is Responsible?  Phase 1 Report (2005)
  • Restoring Accountability - Phase 2 Report (2006)
  Note: Archived Website

Sports

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance
  Date: 1990
  Chair: Charles L. Dubin

S.S. Scandinavian - Military Dependents

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• Commission Title: Commission to investigate the treatment of soldiers' dependents on the S.S. Scandinavian who arrived at Port of St. John on Jan. 10, 1919
  Date: 1920
  Chair: William Botsford Chandler
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

St. Andrews Company Limited - Fishing Licenses

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire Whether the St. Andrews Company Limited, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Applicant for Fishing Licenses is Operated in the Interests of United States Citizens
  Date: 1910
  Chair: John F. Calder
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Station CHEK-TV - Complaints

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into Complaints received concerning certain activities of Station CHEK-TV, Victoria, British Columbia
  Date: 1960
  Chair: Andrew Stewart, Carlyle Allison, Joseph F. Brown, Eugene Alfred Forsey, Leslie M. Marshall
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Statutes - Canada

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• Commission Title: Commission for the Revision and Consolidation of the Public Statutes of Canada
  Date: 1906
  Chair: Sir Samuel Henry Strong
  Note: The Commission did not publish a report other than the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906.
• Commission Title: Commission for the Revision and Consolidation of the Public Statutes of Canada
  Date: 1927
  Chair: Sir Charles Fitzpatrick
  Note: The Commission did not publish a report other than the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927.
• Commission Title: Commission to Collect, Examine and Classify the Statutes Passed by the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada since Confederation
  Date: 1882
  Chair: James Cockburn
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Steel Industry - Industrial Disputes

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Unrest in the Steel-making, Coal-mining and Shipbuilding Industries in the Province of Nova Scotia
  Date: 1918
  Chair: Joseph Andrew Chisholm
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Steel Industry - Wages

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on wage rates in steel plants at Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and Sydney, N.S. (Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd, Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. Ltd.)
  Date: 1942
  Chair: F.H. Barlow
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Steel Profits

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• Commission Title: Steel Profits Inquiry
  Date: 1974
  Chair: Willard Z. Estey
  Report Title: Steel profits inquiry, October, 1974 = Enquête sur les benefices de la sidérurgie, octobre, 1974
  Note: Report is bilingual.

Sunset Vinegar Company - Alcohol

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate and Report upon the Illegal Removal of Alcohol in Bond by the Sunset Vinegar Company
  Date: 1928
  Chair: Gordon Clapp Lindsay
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Sweating System

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Whether, and if so, to What Extent, the Sweating System is Practised in the Various Industrial Centres of the Dominion
  Date: 1896
  Chair: Alexander Whyte Wright
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Swine Industry

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• Commission Title: Commission on the Swine Breeding Industry of Denmark, Great Britain and Ireland
  Date: 1910
  Chair: W. W. Ballantyne
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Taxation

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Taxation
  Date: 1966
  Chair: Kenneth LeM. Carter
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Taxation of Annuities and Family Corporations
  Date: 1945
  Chair: William Carlos Ives

Temperance Act (Quebec City)

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Sufficiency of the Petition for Bringing into Force the Temperance Act in the City of Quebec
  Date: 1917
  Chair: Oscar Coderre
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Tobacco Industry

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• Commission Title: Tobacco Inquiry Commission in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  Date: 1928
  Chair: Edgar S. Archibald
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Tobacco Trade
  Date: 1903
  Chair: Duncan Byron MacTavish
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Toronto Harbour Commissioners

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• Commission Title: Commission to Examine and Investigate the Transactions of the Toronto Harbour Commissioners
  Date: 1927
  Chair: James Herbert Denton
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Toronto Waterfront

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront
  Date: 1992
  Chair: David Crombie
  Report Title: Regeneration: Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City: Final Report

Trans-Canada Air Lines DC-8F Aircraft CF-TJN, Crash

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry into Crash of Trans-Canada Air Lines DC-8F Aircraft CF-TJN at Ste. Therese de Blainville, P.Q. on 29th November 1963
  Date: 1964
  Chair: Geo S. Challies

Transportation - Safety

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• Commission Title: Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act Review Commission
  Date: 1994
  Chair: Louis D. Hyndman
  Report Title: Advancing Safety

Travis, Jeremiah

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• Commission Title: Inquiry into the Case of Jeremiah Travis
  Date: 1886
  Chair: Thomas Wardlaw Taylor
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Trent Valley Canal

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• Commission Title: Commission Appointed to Consider the Advisability of Extending the Trent Valley Canal, and to What Extent
  Date: 1890
  Chair: George McKenzie Clark (resigned), John Kennedy, Frank Turner, Charles A. Weller
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Unemployment Insurance

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• Commission Title: Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance
  Date: 1986
  Chair: Claude Forget
• Commission Title: Unemployment Insurance Act
  Date: 1962
  Chair: Ernest C. Gill

Unity (Canadian)

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• Commission Title: The Task Force on Canadian Unity
  Date: 1979
  Chair: Jean-Luc Pepin, John P. Robarts
  Report Titles:
  • Volume 1: Coming to Terms: The Words of the Debate
  • Volume 2: A Time to Speak: The Views of the Public
  • Volume 3: A Future Together: Observations and Recommendations

Veniot, P.J. - Allegations

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Certain Allegations made by Honourable P.J. Veniot, M.P.
  Date: 1935
  Chair: John B.M. Baxter
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Veterans

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on Veterans' Qualifications
  Date: 1945
  Chair: Wilfred Bovey
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Veterans' Land Act - Land Purchase in Sandwich West (Ontario)

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Purchase Price of Certain Land in the Township of Sandwich West, Ontario, Bought under the Provisions of the Veterans' Land Act
  Date: 1946
  Chair: D. M. Brodie
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Water-power

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Leasing of Water-Power on the Lachine Canal
  Date: 1887
  Chair: Etienne H. Parent
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Welland Canal, Ont. - Employees

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate Charges Against Certain Employees of the Welland Canal
  Date: 1879
  Chair: David Stark
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Whitelaw, J.M. - Mail Fraud

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Abstraction of Money from a Letter Posted by Rev. J.M. Whitelaw
  Date: 1900
  Chair: William White
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

William Davies Company, Ltd. & Matthews-Blackwell, Ltd. - Cost Accounting

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• Commission Title: Commission to Investigate the Businesses of William Davies Company, Limited and Matthews-Blackwell, Limited
  Date: 1917
  Chair: George F. Henderson, A. B. Brodie, G. T. Clarkson
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Women

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada
  Date: 1970
  Chair: Florence Bird

Yukon - Complaints against public servants

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon Certain Charges Preferred against Many Government Officials in the Yukon Territory
  Date: 1899
  Chair: William Ogilvie
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Yukon - Gold Mining

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• Commission Title: Commission to Inquire into the Treadgold and Other Concessions of the Yukon Territory
  Date: 1904
  Chair: Byron Moffatt Britton
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.

Yukon - Quartz & Placer Mining

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• Commission Title: Royal Commission to Inquire into, Review and Report on the Administration of Quartz Mining and Placer Mining in the Yukon Territory
  Date: 1954
  Chair: George Edwards Cole
  Note: This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.