The subseries includes files pertaining to legislation, cases, and subjects regarding:

• Attorney-General’s Department, including staffing, Agents of the Attorney-General, financial management, automobiles, office equipment, recommendations for appointments, and reorganization of files and equipment (File Block 1);

• Activities within other government departments, including Agriculture, Provincial Analyst, Provincial Auditor, Civil Service Commissioner, Employment Bureau, Environment, Kings and Queens Printer, Industry and Labour, Lieutenant-Governor, Lands and Mines, Mines and Minerals, Highways, Economic Development, Public Works, Publicity Commissioner, Provincial Secretary, Alberta Government Telephones, Provincial Treasurer, Education, Public Health, and Municipal Affairs (File Block 2);

• Banking, bankruptcy, bills of sale, debts, foreclosures, liens, small debts, wage claims, credit unions, finance companies, trust companies, and garnishee proceedings (File Block 3);

• Insurance and bonding, including individual companies, motor vehicle insurance and hail insurance (File Block 4);

• Duties, taxes and taxation, including taxes on beverages, gasoline, minerals, slot machines, estates, and unearned increments (File Block 5);

• Companies, corporations, combines, including sales of shares, foreign companies, corporate tax, auctioneers, oil companies, gas companies, coal mines, natural resources, factories, steam boilers, partnerships, fruit combines, produce merchants, collection agencies (File Block 6);

• Railways and railway companies, including Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Alberta Provincial Railways (File Block 7);

• Drought, draining and irrigation, including irrigation districts and water resources (File Block 8);

• Land, land titles, and surveys, including the land titles offices in Calgary and Edmonton (File Block 9);

• Agriculture, including dairymen, the Alberta Wheat Pool, fences, noxious weeds, milk, farm loans and relief, and the Royal Grain Commission Enquiry (File Block 10);

• Seed grain relief (File Block 11);

• Domestic animals, including stray animals, dangerous animals, livestock encouragement, herds, round ups, brands, stock inspection, livestock pools, and livestock diseases (File Block 12);

• Fish, game and wild animals, including fisheries, poisons, and migratory birds (File Block 13);

• Children and juveniles, including child welfare services, juvenile offenders, neglected children, adoption, and children of unmarried parents (File Block 14);

• Marriage, divorce and domestic relations, including alimony and maintenance orders (File Block 15);

• Schools and education, including school assessment, the University of Alberta, and teachers (File Block 16);

• Religion and religious matters, including cemeteries, the Lord’s Day Act, and the United Church of Canada (File Block 17);

• Clubs, associations, and societies, including the Alberta Architects Association, cooperatives, miners clubs, veterans associations, benevolent societies, professional associations, and women’s institutes (File Block 18);

• Cities, towns, villages and rural municipalities, including Blairmore, Calgary, Drumheller, Edmonton, Edson, Irvine, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Redcliff, Red Deer, Vegreville, Wainwright, Wetaskiwin, and rural municipal districts (File Block 19);

• Public health, hospitals, and medical and dental professions, including maintenance of indigents, alcoholism, tuberculosis, disabled persons, public welfare, nurses, chiropractors, Metis, hospital clinics, venereal disease, and vital statistics (File Block 20);

• Police, detectives, and prisons, including constables, the Alberta Provincial Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, police buildings, Fort Saskatchewan Gaol, Lethbridge Gaol, Bowden Institution, Belmont Rehabilitation Centre, Calgary Provincial Jail, prisoners, prisoners of war, policing in local Alberta communities, deportations, extraditions, and inspections (File Block 21);

• Crime, crime reports, Criminal Code of Canada, criminal prosecutions and juries, including lotteries, Criminal Code amendments, Alberta Provincial Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police reports, the Judicature Act, Rules of Court, and bonding companies (File Block 22);

• Liquor Control Act, including the Alberta Liquor Control Board, local seizures, lists of vendor’s premises, and reports of offenses and infractions (File Block 23);

• Dominion government, including elections, Indian Agents, Official Languages Act, the Indian Act, references to the Supreme Court of Canada, excise and customs duties, and other federal acts (File Block 24);

• Pensions, allowances, and superannuation, including mother’s allowances (File Block 25);

• Miscellaneous legislation files, including the Fire Prevention Act, labour legislation, the Legal Professions Act, issues surrounding uniformity and consolidation of legislation, Bulk Sales Act, Fugitive Offenders Act, Motel and Board House Keeper’s Act, Motor Vehicles and Highway Traffic Act, Mental Defectives Act, Soldier’s Settlement Act, Theatres Act, Amusement Tax Act, and suggested and proposed legislation (File Block 26);

• Legislative Assembly, aviation and aerial navigation, law books, confiscated weapons, immigration and naturalization, needy litigants, Kings Counsel and Queen’s Counsel, missing persons, orders-in-council, calendar of sentences, women’s rights, and public inquiries (File Block 27);

• General inquiries received by the Department (File Block 28);

• Securities fraud (File Block 29);

• Public Trustee, including estate files (File Block 30);

• War Measures Act, including soldiers’ estates and debts, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, civil defense, Veterans Volunteer Reserve, rationing of chemicals and rubber, Defense of Canada regulations and investigations, national registration (File Block 31); and

• Returns, inventories, and inspections of legal offices, including the Land Titles Offices in Calgary and Edmonton as well as clerks, court orderlies, interpreters, sheriffs, and court reporters for Supreme and District Courts in Calgary, Drumheller, Edmonton, Macleod, Grande Prairie, Hanna, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Peace River, Red Deer, Vegreville, and Wetaskiwin (File Block 32).

For further information about the evolution of the departmental filing system, please consult GR1976.0446.