Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1849-ongoing (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
219 boxes and items (28 metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Founded in Toronto in 1849 as the Canadian Institute by a group of engineers, surveyors, and civil engineers as a professional society that would include all architects, surveyors, and engineers in Ontario. It 1850 it was agreed to include all "whose pursuits or studies were of a kindred character". Incorporated in 1851, became the Royal Canadian Institute by Royal charter in 1914.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of minute books, membership lists, financial records, final typescripts of lectures, correspondence, committee minutes and reports, scrapbooks, clippings and printed materials.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English