Introduction

This index provides bibliographic access to materials associated with more than 200 federal Royal Commissions that have taken place since Confederation. There are approximately 7000 items in the index that includes commission reports, briefs, submissions, evidence, working papers and other documents.

Users can search for records of interest by entering keywords, the name of the commission, the chairperson, the commissioner or the author and other access points in either the basic or the advanced search screen. Most materials cited in this index are held in the Canadian Official Publications collection of the National Library of Canada. Links to other pertinent websites are also included.

Unpublished records of federal royal commissions are housed in the National Archives of Canada and are described in the following guide :

AMICUS No. 9399263

National Archives of Canada. Government Archives Division. Records of federal royal commissions (RG 33) / James Murray Whalen -- Ottawa : National Archives of Canada, 1990-1994. -- 2 v. ; 28 cm. -- ISBN 0662572173