Ontario. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Colonization Roads Branch

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1900-1937

      History

      In 1900, the Surveys, Patents and Roads Branch of the Ontario Department of Crown Lands was divided to form the Surveys and Patents Branch, which remained as part of the Department of Crown Lands, and the Colonization Roads Branch, which was transferred to the Ontario Department of Public Works.

      The head of the Branch was the Superintendent of Colonization Roads.

      In 1919, the Branch was assigned to the Ontario Department of Lands, Forests and Mines (renamed the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests in 1920), where it remained until 1926. In 1926, it was attached to the Ontario Department of Northern Development. Finally, in 1937, the Department of Northern Development was absorbed into the Ontario Department of Highways and the Colonization Roads Branch ceased to exist.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Colonization Roads Branch supervised, and assisted by way of grants, the construction and repair of roads in unorganized and sparsely settled parts of Ontario.

      Address

      Colonization Roads Act, Statutes of Ontario 1907, Chap. 17

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Public Works (1869-1972)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA40

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Public Works controls Ontario. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

      Dates of relationship

      1900-1919

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Mines (1906-1920)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA51

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Mines controls Ontario. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

      Dates of relationship

      1919-1920

      Description of relationship

      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. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

      Dates of relationship

      1920-1926

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Northern Development (1926-1937)

      Identifier of related entity

      BA85

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Northern Development controls Ontario. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

      Dates of relationship

      1926-1937

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Surveys, Patents and Roads Branch (1870-1900)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA505

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Surveys, Patents and Roads Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Colonization Roads Branch (1900-1937)

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA290

      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

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

          Maintenance notes

          Agency not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

          Archivist(s):
          R. Anger