Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
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Cemeteries Branch
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Cemeteries Branch was established within the Ontario Department of Financial and Commercial Affairs, in 1968. It formed part of the Consumer Protection Division. Prior to 1968, responsibility for the regulation of cemeteries rested with the Cemeteries Advisory Board of the Ontario Department of Health, from 1956-1966, and with the Public Health Engineering Service, a section within the Environmental Health Branch of the Public Health Division, from 1966-1968.
When the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations was formed in 1972, the Cemeteries Branch became part of this ministry, under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance. In 1976, the Financial Institutions Division was created, and the Cemeteries Branch became a part of that division. It remained there until 1986, when it was absorbed into the Business Regulation Branch of the Business Practices Division.
Places
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Cemeteries Branch was responsible for inspecting cemeteries in Ontario, approving the establishment of new cemteteries, and approving alterations to existing ones.
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Relationships area
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Control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
Status
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
KWIC Indexes, 1975-1986
Ontario Government Telephone Directories, 1962-1986
Maintenance notes
Agency not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24
Archivist(s):
R. Anger