Identity area
Type of entity
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Northern Ontario Public Health Service
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NOPHS
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Northern Ontario Public Health Service (NOPHS) was established in 1962. It formed part of the Public Health Administration Branch of the Department of Health.
Dr. W. H. Cross was Chief of the Service between 1962 and 1965. Dr. Edgar J. Young became the Chief and Regional Medical Officer of the Northern Ontario Public Health Service in 1966 and stayed until 1974.
The NOPHS reported through several branches within the Department and later the Ministry of Health: The Local Health Services Branch, the Community Health Protection Branch and the Public Health Branch.
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The Northern Ontario Public Health Service provided direct public health services to residents of unorganized and isolated communities in Northern Ontario, which were not served by local health units. It also provided public health inspections to industrial camps, schools, food premises, tourist establishments, swimming pools, public park campsites, and correctional institutions. The program was mainly built around sanitation, immunization, and public health nursing.
In 1966 the office assumed the additional role of Regional Medical Officer and began supervising the field staff that provided direct health services in Northern Ontario Public Health Service area. In 1968, NOPHS began consulting services to the following eight new district health units in Northern Ontario: Algoma Health Unit; Muskoka-Parry Sound Health Unit; North Bay District Health Unit; Northwestern Health Unit; Porcupine Health Unit; Sudbury and District Health Unit; Thunder Bay Health Unit; and Timiskaming Health Unit. However, the Service also continued to provide direct public health services to residents of unorganized communities.
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Ontario government telephone directories.
Maintenance notes
Not found in Canadiana.
Archivist(s):
Bob Krawczyk