McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
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Authorized form of name
Archives nationales du Québec
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- ANQ
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Dates of existence
1920-
History
They were founded on 2 September 1920 by the Legislative Assembly, with Pierre-Georges Roy as Quebec's first Head Archivist. His mandate was to take care of the archives collected since the time of New France and to implement a policy of selecting, preserving and making available public documents as well as private archives of public interest.
In 1961, they were brought under the jurisdiction of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and renamed the Archives de la Province de Québec in 1963. Today they represent the essential foundation of Quebec collective memory with no less than 67 linear kilometres of textual records, millions of photographs, thousands of films and some 13 million digitized documents. They continuously house the crucial records of 2,300 government departments and agencies. The public has free access to these archives, either online or in one of BAnQ's 10 archive centres throughout Quebec.
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Authority record identifier
n 82029850