Ontario. Military Grants Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Military Grants Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Military Grants Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Military Branch

    • Military Lands Branch

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1901-1916

    History

    In 1901 "An Act to provide for the appropriation of certain lands for the Volunteers who served in the South Africa frontier and the Volunteer Militia who served on the frontier in 1866" (1 Edw., VII c. 6) was passed and the Military Grants Branch was established within the Department of Crown Lands to administer military land grants.

    In 1916 the Military Grants Branch was disbanded and the military lands grants function was assumed by the Military Office of the Lands Branch, Department of Lands, Forests and Mines.

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    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Military Grants Branch administered the process of giving military land grants to volunteers who served in the South Africa frontier and the Volunteer Militia who served on the frontier in 1866. It received applications for military land grants, determined the validity of applications, issued location certificates, supplied maps and reports to veterans, and oversaw the patenting process for these lands.

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    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands (1867-1905)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA49

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands controls Ontario. Military Grants Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1901-1905

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Mines (1905-1906)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA50

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Mines controls Ontario. Military Grants Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1905-1906

    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. Military Grants Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1906-1916

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Lands Branch (1916-1941)

    Identifier of related entity

    CA1150

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Lands Branch is the successor of Ontario. Military Grants Branch

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

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    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA1486

    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

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      Script(s)

        Sources

        Annual reports of the Department of Crown Lands, Department of Lands and Mines, and Department of Lands, Forests and Mines, 1900-1920.

        Maintenance notes

        Heading does not appear in Canadiana Authorities, 2000-10-14

        Archivist(s):
        Gray