A Commission , or Royal Commission, is a formal public inquiry created by the government. A commission would be put together to look into...

During our country's 150th anniversary celebration of confederation I will write posts titled Canada 150 with a link to a publica...

We have taken a look many times at the Sessional Papers of Canada and of the provinces, but if you want to know what went on closer to ho...

Besides the Canada Sessional Papers and the Journals of the Assembly, there are Sessional Papers and Journals for the provinces. In Cana...

Government publications are a vastly underused resource to find our ancestors. We have visited the Sessional Papers a few times in this b...

If you have a fishing ancestor in the USA and you know the name of the vessel they worked on, you may find them in our Canadian waters or o...

I had another topic ready to post for today, but I discovered something is happening that I couldn't wait to talk about! Coming to y...

When a country was at war, after the dust had settled individuals, corporations or even States for that matter could make a claim against ...

The Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada are an often overlooked source for research in Canada. Probably because they are not i...