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1937-1939 (Creation)
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- Nova Scotia. Royal Commission on the Acadia Coal Company
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9 cm of textual records (8 file folders)
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The Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Acadia Coal Company was created by Order-in-Council on August 2, 1937. Justice William F. Carroll, judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, was appointed chairperson with A. Stanley MacKenzie, chair of the NS Economic Council, and Frederick H. Sexton, lawyer and principal of the NS Technical College, as co-commissioners. Its mandate was to investigate the financial position and affairs of the Acadia Coal Company in relation to its competitors, the wages paid to its workers, the scope of its mining operations, and to determine if external interest exists in its mining property leased from the NS Government. The Royal Commission held public meetings in Stellarton, Pictou County on August 17, 26, and 27, 1937, and February 22, 1938, hired accountant D.S. Hart to examine Acadia Coal Co. Ltd. finances back to 1933, and hired an independent mining engineer George S. Rice to examine mine workings and talk with miners. The commissioners submitted their final report to His Honour Robert Irwin, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, on January 19, 1939 and then disbanded.
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Fonds consists of typed hearing transcripts (August 17, 26, and 27, 1937); reports to the royal commission from mining engineer George S. Rice and accountant D.S. Hart (1937-1938); correspondence to the commissioner including a copy of the Order-in-Council (1937-1938); a written submission from the community of Thorburn, NS regarding Acadia Mine No.3 (1937?); and a signed manuscript of the final report submitted to government (1939).
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Copyright held by the Province of Nova Scotia (crown).
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See Nova Scotia Archives’ Services page for information on copying, reproduction, and use of materials.
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See also Report of Royal Commission on Acadia Coal Company 1937-1938 (Halifax, NS: King’s Printer, 1939) in Nova Scotia Archives Library. (Reference number: V/F v.138 #25.)