Rowell-Sirois Commission Report, 1940

Copyright 1994-2011 William F. Maton

• Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, established in 1937.
• A detailed study of federal-provincial relations around the era of the later part of the Great Depression. It contains what is probably the only highly researched examination of the financial relationship between the provinces and the central government.

  Book I - Canada 1867 - 1939

  • Orders in Council; Table of Contents; Terms of Reference; History of the Commission
  • Chapter I - Confederation
  • Chapter II - The First Thirty Years
  • Chapter III - The Wheat Boom, 1896-1913
  • Chapter IV - The War Period, 1914-1921
  • Chapter V - The Post War Prosperity, 1921-1930
  • Chapter VI - The Depression
  • Chapter VII - The Economy Today
  • Chapter VIII - Canadian Public Finance Today
  • Chapter IX - The Constitution Today

  Book II - Recommendations

  • Table of Contents and Introduction
    • Section A - The Allocation of Jurisdiction
      • Chapter I - The Social Services
      • Chapter II - Labour Legislation
      • Chapter III - Education
      • Chapter IV - The Regulation of Certain Economic Activities
      • Chapter V - Facilities for Dominion-Provincial Co-operation
    • Section B - Public Finance
      • Chapter I - The Canadian Economy and Public Finance
      • Chapter II - Plan I
      • Chapter III - Tax Transfer Recommendations
      • Chapter IV - Dominion and Provincial Debts
      • Chapter V - National Adjustment Grants
      • Chapter VI - Plan II
      • Chapter VII - Municipal Finances
      • Chapter VIII - Equity and Efficiency in Taxation
    • Section C - Administrative Economies
      • Chapter I - Union of Certain Provinces
      • Chapter II - Avoidance of Overlapping and Duplication
    • Section D - Dominion-Provincial Aspects of Transportation
      • Chapter I - The Freight Rate Structure
      • Chapter II - The Problem of Railway and Highway Competition
      • Chapter III - British and United States Experience
      • Chapter IV - The Basis for Dominion-Provincial Co-operation
    • Section E - Miscellaneous Submissions to the Commission
    • Section F - Special Claims
      • Chapter I - Compensation for the Adverse Effects of Federal Policies
      • Chapter II - Claim of British Columbia for Revision of Subsidies
      • Chapter III - British Columbia's Claim as to the Pacific Great Eastern Railwy
      • Chapter IV - Saskatchewan's Claim for Revision of the Natural Resources Award
      • Chapter V - Claims Concerning Trade through Maritime Ports
      • Chapter VI - Other New Brunswick Claims
      • Chapter VII - Prince Edward Island Claims
    • Section G - Abstract of the Leading Recommendations
    • Index

  Book III - Documentation

  • Book III - Table of Contents
  • Part A Section I
  • Part A Section II - Table of Contents
  • Part A Section II - Plan I
  • Part B

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  Last HTML revision: 20 August, 2011.
  William F. Maton