Ontario. Dept. of Economics

Identity area

Type of entity

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Dept. of Economics

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Department of Economics

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1956-1961

      History

      The Department of Economics was created in April, 1956, and replaced the Office of the Provincial Economist which had formed part of the Treasury Department.

      The Department was presided over by the Treasurer of Ontario. Reporting to the Treasurer, and responsible for administering the day-to-day operations of the Department, was the Deputy Minister of Economics. The Department consisted of four branches. These were the General Economics Branch, the Finance Branch, the Inter-governmental Affairs Branch, and the Economic Statistics Branch.

      In January 1961, the Department was renamed the Department of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations. Less than a year later, however, it was amalgamated with the Department of Commerce and Development and continued as the Ontario Department of Economics and Development.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Ontario Department of Economics was responsible for analysing, advising and making recommendations on economic and financial conditions and trends, economic and financial policy, and on fiscal relations between governments.

      Address

      The Department of Economics Act, Statutes of Ontario 1956, Chap. 16

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Office of the Provincial Economist (1952-1956)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1582

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Office of the Provincial Economist is the predecessor of Ontario. Dept. of Economics

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations (1961)

      Identifier of related entity

      BA90

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations is the successor of Ontario. Dept. of Economics

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      BA8

      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

          Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12- 24

          MacTaggart, Hazel. Publications of the Government of Ontario, 1956-1971 (1975)

          Directories and Guides to Services of the Government of Ontario, 1956-1961

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          R. Anger