Ontario. Bureau of Labour

Identity area

Type of entity

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Bureau of Labour

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Bureau of Labour

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1900-1916

      History

      The Bureau of Labour was created by legislation on April 30, 1900 and attached to the Ontario Department of Public Works. The Bureau was administered by the Secretary of the Bureau of Labour, who reported to the Commissioner of Public Works. During its sixteen years in existence, the Bureau had three different secretaries: R. Glockling (1900-1905); John Armstrong (1906-1910); and Robert Edgar (1911-1916). In addition to the collection of labour-related information and statistics, the Bureau also established seven Employment Bureaus across the province to provide free information to those seeking employment. These were found in Hamilton and Ottawa (1906), London (1907), Berlin (1908), Brantford (1910), Walkerville (1912) and St. Thomas (1915). In 1916 the Bureau of Labour ceased to exist, and was replaced by the newly-formed Trades and Labour Branch within the Department of Public Works.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Bureau of Labour collected and published information and statistics relating to labour and the workplace in Ontario. This included information on: employment, wages, and hours of labour; strikes and/or other labour difficulties; trade unions and labour organisations; and the commercial, industrial and sanitary conditions of the workplace. The Bureau was also responsible for the creation and management of the Free Employment Bureaus designed to assist the unemployed in finding work.

      Address

      Act respecting the Bureau of Labour, Statutes of Ontario 1900, Chap. 14

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Trades and Labour Branch (1916-1919)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA53

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Trades and Labour Branch is the successor of Ontario. Bureau of Labour

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      BA26

      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

          Bishop, Olga. Publications of the Government of Ontario, 1867-1900 (1976)

          MacTaggart, Hazel I. Publications of the Government of Ontario, 1901-1955 (1964)

          Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          R. Anger