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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds |
| No.: | PR2762 |
| TITLE: | Colonel Robertson-Ross Fonds |
| CREATOR: | Robertson-Ross, Colonel |
| DATE RANGE: | Copied [ca. 1960] |
| EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Lieutenant Colonel Robertson-Ross served as the Adjutant-General of the Militia of the Government of Canada. In 1872, Col. Robertson-Ross surveyed the Canadian Northwest for the purpose of determining and reporting to the Government of Canada on the future formation of an organization dedicated to law and justice. The results of his summaries contributed to the formation of the North West Mounted Police in 1873. |
| CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Lt. Col. Robertson-Ross's granddaughter sent the material to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police office in Ottawa. The RCMP made a copy of the diary, and in 1960 G.B. McClellan, Deputy Commissioner of the RCMP, gave a copy to the Premier's Office in Edmonton, Alberta for deposit in the Provincial Archives of Alberta. The Executive Secretary of the Premier's Office then forwarded the material to the Provincial Secretary of Alberta. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a copy of Lieutenant Colonel Robertson-Ross's diary while he surveyed the Canadian Northwest in 1872. The diary documents Col. Robertson-Ross's trip from Edmonton to Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, over a pass through the Rocky Mountains and to a location known as White Horse Creek in British Columbia. |
| ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | For more information on surveys in the Canadian Northwest, please see the William Pearce fonds at the University of Alberta Archives. |
| GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the accession file PR1963.0013 at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. |