Records of the Royal Commission on Uranium Mining
- GR-3651
- Series
- 1969-1980
The series consists of clippings files, reports, published material, and exhibits and submissions used in the work of the Royal Commission on Uranium Mining between 1979 and 1980, although some of the records themselves date back to the 1960s. At some point following their usage, the records were transferred to the Library Services branch of the Ministry of Employment and Investment. It is unclear whether or not the Library Services branch further arranged the records or whether material was added to the records at this time. Many of the reports and exhibits mirror Royal Commission holdings in other series, but the provenance of the newspaper clippings files is unclear.
The series is arranged by type of record. Containers 930210-0002 and 0004 contain third party reports. Many of these document work done in Japan. Containers 930210-0015, 0024, and 0027 contain clippings collected from newspapers across BC, as well as several from Alaska and the United Kingdom. Many of the newspaper articles are arranged by date, although some are arranged by subject matter. Container 930210-0034 contains published materials from a variety of sources, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the works of the Royal Commission itself. Container 930210-0039 contains transcripts and submissions from the Royal Commission. Container 930210-0040 also contains exhibits from the Royal Commission. Records in boxes 930210-0039 and 930210-0040 are stamped with a unique four-digit “S” number. It is unclear whether this was a number assigned by the Royal Commission or whether it was added by the Library Services branch at a later date.
Accession records created while the records were still in the custody of the Library Services branch show that several boxes were destroyed after being deemed duplicates of material already held by the Archives. The records are classified under special schedule 112907 (Commission of Inquiry records), which states that “commission of inquiry records are the administrative and operational records of the office of the chair of any commission issued or inquiry held under the Inquiry Act (RSBC 1996, c. 224).
British Columbia. Royal Commission of Inquiry, Health and Environmental Protection, Uranium Mining