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Title: Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Date: 1996
Chair: René Dussault, Georges Erasmus
- 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)
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on the Indian Act and Indian Administration in General
Date: 1947
Chair: Donald Ferguson Brown, J. Fred Johnston
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commissioner on Indian Claims
Date: 1977
Chair: Lloyd Barber
Report is bilingual.
Title: Commission re St. Peter's Indian Reserve
Date: 1908
Chair: Hector Mansfield Howell
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commisssion 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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission
Date: 2004
Chair: Joseph Z. Daigle
(Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission)
Title: Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada
Date: 1997
Chair: Horace Krever
Title: Airport Inquiry Commission
Date: 1974
Chair: Hugh F. Gibson
Title: Royal Commission on the National Resources of Alberta
Date: 1935
Chair: Andrew Knox Dysart
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar
Date: 2006
Chair: Dennis R. O’Connor
- 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 ]
Title: Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters & Sciences 1949 - 1951
Date: 1951
Chair: Vincent Massey
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on the Automotive Industry
Date: 1961
Chair: Vincent W. Bladen
Title: Royal Commission on Banking and Currency in Canada
Date: 1933
Chair: Hugh Pattison Macmillan
Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank (CCB) and the Northland Bank
Date: 1986
Chair: Willard Z. Estey
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Date: 1967-1970
Chair: A. Davidson Dunton, André Laurendeau, Jean-Louis Gagnon
Title: Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada
Date: 1997
Chair: Horace Krever
Title: Commission to Investigate Herring Weir Licenses by Frederick Butler, Musquash, Charlotte County, N.B.
Date: 1912
Chair: John F. Calder
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on the Civil Service
Date: 1908
Chair: John Mortimer Courtney
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Cost of Living Commission, Coal Mining Industry, Estevan District (Estevan-Bienfait, Saskatchewan)
Date: 1941
Chair: George Edwin Britnell
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Cost of Living Commission, Coal Mining Industry, District Eighteen (Alberta and British Columbia)
Date: 1940
Chair: George Edwin Britnell
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission on Cost of Living for Vancouver Island Coal Miners
Date: 1919
Chair: D. T. Bulger
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
Date: 1978
Chair: Robert B. Bryce
Title: Royal Commission on Cotton Factories Industrial Disputes
Date: 1909
Chair: William Lyon Mackenzie King
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance
Date: 1990
Chair: Charles L. Dubin
Title: Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada
Date: 1985
Chair: Donald S. MacDonald
Title: Commission to Investigate Allegations of Election Frauds Prior to and Subsequent to the General Elections of 1896
Date: 1900
Chair: John Alexander Boyd
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission
Date: 2004
Chair: Joseph Z. Daigle
Title: Commission on Equality in Employment
Date: 1984
Chair: Rosalie Silberman Abella
Title: Royal Commission on Financial Management and Accountability
Date: 1979
Chair: Allen Thomas Lambert
Title: Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations of the Fisheries Act by Messrs. James and Charles Noble
Date: 1897
Chair: Frederick William Johnston
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Conditions of Foreign Service
Date: 1981
Chair: Pamela A. McDougall
- Report [ PDF 4.2 MB]
Title: Royal Commission on Government Organization
Date: 1962
Chair: J. Grant Glassco
Title: Royal Commission to Investigate Charges made against Grain Inspectors at Montreal
Date: 1901
Chair: David Horn
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on the Halifax Disorders, May 7th-8th, 1945
Date: 1945
Chair: Roy Lindsay Kellock
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Date: 2002
Chair: Roy Romanow
- Interim Report [ PDF 336 KB ] (Depository Services Program)
- Final Report (Health Canada)
Title: Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada
Date: 1997
Chair: Horace Krever
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission to Investigate Uniformity of Laws Relating to Industrial Work in Canada
Date: 1920
Chair: Frederick Albert Acland
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Recent Defalcations in the Department of Militia and Defence
Date: 1903
Chair: John Mortimer Courtney
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Miramichi and Acadie-Bathurst Electoral Boundaries Commission
Date: 2004
Chair: Joseph Z. Daigle
Title: Munition Resources Commission
Date: 1918
Chair: Thomas Cantley
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Newspapers
Date: 1981
Chair: Tom Kent
Title: Commission to Inquire into Charges contained in articles in the Vancouver Hews Herald under the heading "Nippon Black Dragon operates within British Columbia"
Date: 1942
Chair: John Charles Alexander Cameron
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Pilotage
Date: 1968-1971
Chair: Yves Bernier
Title: Commision to Inquire into the Navigation of Small Vessels in the St. Lawrence River
Date: 1942
Chair: Lucien Cannon
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission to Inquire into the Dispute between the Management of the Quebec Central Railway and the Employees
Date: 1937
Chair: Albert Constantineau
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Relief Camps, British Columbia
Date: 1935
Chair: William Alexander Macdonald
Title: Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
Date: 1993
Chair: Patricia Baird
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Date: 1979-1981
Chair: Mr. Justice D.C. McDonald
- 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)
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Seals and the Sealing Industry in Canada
Date: 1986
Chair: Albert H. Malouf
Title: Pelagic Sealing Commission
Date: 1916
Chair: Louis Arthur Audette
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission appointed to Inquire into the Matter of Second Narrows Bridge, Burrard Inlet, B.C.
Date: 1931
Chair: Louis E. Côté
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Security
Date: 1969
Chair: Maxwell Weir Mackenzie
- Report (Abridged)
Title: Canadian Sentencing Commission
Date: 1987
Chair: J.R. Omer Archambault
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Shipyards in Vancouver
Date: 1918
Chair: Edward Burns
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia
Date: 1997
Chair: Gilles Létourneau
- Final Report (Department of National Defence)
Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities
Date: 2005-2006
Chair: John H. Gomery
Title: Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance
Date: 1990
Chair: Charles L. Dubin
Title: Steel Profits Inquiry
Date: 1974
Chair: Willard Z. Estey
Report is bilingual.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on Taxation
Date: 1966
Chair: Kenneth LeM. Carter
Title: Royal Commission on Taxation of Annuities and Family Corporations
Date: 1945
Chair: William Carlos Ives
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Commission to Examine and Investigate the Transactions of the Toronto Harbour Commissioners
Date: 1927
Chair: James Herbert Denton
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront
Date: 1992
Chair: David Crombie
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
Title: Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance
Date: 1986
Chair: Claude Forget
Title: Unemployment Insurance Act
Date: 1962
Chair: Ernest C. Gill
Title: The Task Force on Canadian Unity
Date: 1979
Chair: Jean-Luc Pepin, John P. Robarts
- 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
Title: Royal Commission on Certain Allegations made by Honourable P.J. Veniot, M.P.
Date: 1935
Chair: John B.M. Baxter
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
Title: Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada
Date: 1970
Chair: Florence Bird
Title: Commission to Inquire into the Treadgold and Other Concessions of the Yukon Territory
Date: 1904
Chair: Byron Moffatt Britton
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
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
This report is available in English only, the original language of publication.
