Ontario. Institutes Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Institutes Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Institutes Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Farmers' Institutes Branch

    • Ontario. Office of the Superintendent of Farmers' Institutes

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1894-1922

    History

    The origins of the Institutes Branch date to 1894, when a Superintendent of Farmers' Institutes was appointed within the Ontario Department of Agriculture. This office developed into the Farmer's Institutes Branch, which by 1911 was known as the Institutes Branch.

    In 1920, Farmers' Institutes were discontinued, and the branch became limited to the direction of Women's Institutes. Gradually, the name of the branch came to be the Women's Institute Branch.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Institutes Branch supervised and regulated farmer's institutes in Ontario in order to educate about agricultural practices and techniques. The branch made grants to the institutes, and arranged meetings. The activities of the branch gradually expanded to include women's institutes, farmer's clubs, and other rural organizations.

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    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (1888-1966)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA59

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture controls Ontario. Institutes Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1894-1922

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Women's Institute Branch (1922-1956)

    Identifier of related entity

    CA1060

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Women's Institute Branch is the successor of Ontario. Institutes Branch

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

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    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA1059

    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

        Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, 1910-1956

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

        Reports of the Women's Institutes of the Province of Ontario, Ontario Department of Agriculture, 1906-1930.

        Maintenance notes

        Not found in Canadiana Authorities, 1996-12-24.

        Archivist(s):
        Paul McIlroy