Ontario. Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Advisory Committee to the Minister of Natural Resources

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1951-1978

    History

    The Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests was established in 1951 by Order-in-Council 383/51. The Committee had its origins in the report of the Royal Commission on Forestry (1947) which recommended that an advisory committee be established to provide "reasonable continuity in forest policy when changes of government or even changes of Ministers occur, and to guard against possible unwise or precipitate Department action." In 1948, the Forestry Act was amended to permit the appointment of such a committee to advise on forest policy. On December 1, 1950 the Premier of Ontario announced that a committee would be formed, and an organisational meeting was held on December 28, 1950.

    On February 22, 1951 Order-in-Council 383/51 formally established the Committee. It consisted of eight members and a chair drawn from education, the building industry, finance, forest engineering, labour, the lumber, mining and pulp and paper industries, and railways. The Committee was reappointed by order-in-council on an annual basis.

    In 1972 when the Ministry of Natural Resources replaced the Department of Lands and Forests, the Committee was renamed the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Natural Resources. The Committee ceased to exist in 1978.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests advised the Ontario Minister of Lands and Forests on forest policy.

    Address

    Order-in-Council 383/51.

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests (1920-1972)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA52

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests controls Ontario. Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests

    Dates of relationship

    1951-1972

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources (1972-2014)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA17

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources controls Ontario. Advisory Committee to the Minister of Lands and Forests

    Dates of relationship

    1972-1978

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA195

    Institution identifier

    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Status

    Approved

    Level of detail

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

    Language(s)

      Script(s)

        Sources

        Annual reports of the Department of Lands and Forests and the Ministry of Natural Resources, 1951-1978.

        EG 1-11, Box 1, File 1, Minutes, 1950-1954

        Maintenance notes

        Not found in Canadiana Authorities, 1999-12.

        Archivist(s):
        C. Gray, N. Martin