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Deputy Minister subject files
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1958-1970 (Creation)
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- British Columbia. Dept. of Commercial Transport
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45 cm of textual ecords
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The Department of Transport and Communications was established in 1959 with the enactment of the Department of Commercial Transport Act (SBC 1959, c. 12). The new department was formed out of the Railway Dept., the Weigh Scale Section of the Dept. of Highways, and the Commercial Vehicle Section of the Motor Vehicle Branch, Dept. of Attorney-General.
In 1959, the mandate of the Dept. of Commercial Transport included responsibility for railways and pipelines, registration and licensing of commercial vehicles; establishing and operating weighing-stations and for the weighing of commercial vehicles; and for issuance, renewal and transfer of licences and permits under the Motor Carrier Act.
In 1973, the name of the department was briefly changed to Dept. of Commercial Transport and Communications (OIC 1742/73) before it was renamed the Dept. of Transport and Communications (Department of Transport and Communications Act, SBC, 1973, c.112). The functions added were the Motor Vehicle Branch, the Data Processing Centre, aircraft operations, government telecommunications services, the Motor Carrier Branch, the Telecommunications Consultants Branch and BC Ferries.
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Series consists of subject files of the Deputy Minister of the Department of Commercial Transport. Records relate to many different areas of the activities of department.
This series includes miscellaneous subject files along with a large number of files relating to the Canadian Conference of Motor Transport Authorities, Canadian Good Roads Association, Royal Commission of Inquiry Into Road-User Charges. The records of the Canadian Conference Motor Transport Authorities include correspondence (1959-1970), conference particulars (1964-1969), committee files, etc. The Canadian Good Roads Association records include a pavement committee file (1958), correspondence, minutes, etc. (1966).
Deputy Minister A.J. Bowering was a commissioner on two Commissions of Inquiry into Road User Charges (1958, 1960). Records of this commission have been incorporated into his record system. The commission records in this unit include correspondence, briefs, exhibits, reports etc.
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Transferred from the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, 1980.
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Accession number(s): G80-103