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Cultural Liaison Branch
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The Cultural Liaison Branch was created during a reorganization of the Culture Division of the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications, in December 1992. The Branch assumed the agencies liaison and publishing industry support functions of the former Cultural Industries and Agencies Branch.
The Cultural Liaison Branch was comprised of two sections: the Cultural Agencies Section and the Ontario Publishing Centre. The Branch was initially part of the Culture Division, Ministry of Culture and Communications. However, along with the rest of Culture Division, it became part of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation when the Ministry of Culture and Communications was dissolved in February 1993, and subsequently in June 1995 became a component of the new Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation.
Agencies with which the branch liaised included the Art Gallery of Ontario, CJRT-FM, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TV Ontario), Ontario Film Development Corporation, Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ontario Science Centre, Royal Ontario Museum, Science North, and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
The Cultural Liaison Branch was merged with the Libraries and Community Information Branch in November 1995 to become the Cultural Partnerships Branch.
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The Cultural Liaison Branch provided fiscal, policy and program liaison with the cultural agencies and institutions that reported to the Ontario Minister of Culture, Tourism and Recreation.
Through the Ontario Publishing Centre, the branch also developed programs that abetted the growth and financial stability of the Ontario book publishing and magazine industries.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Ontario Government Telephone Directories, 1992-1995
Inventory 47 - Culture (July 1996)
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Agency not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24
Archivist(s):
G. Brown, R. Anger