Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Land Management Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Land Management Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Land Management Branch

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1979-1991

      History

      The Land Management Branch was established within the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources' Lands and Waters Group in 1979. The Branch replaced the Lands Administration Branch. The Branch was composed of the following sections over the course of its existence: Public Lands, Mining Lands, Land Acquisition, Titles, Resource Access, Fuel Minerals, and Aggregate Resources (beginning in 1985). The Branch ceased to exist in 1991 as a result of a Ministry re-organization.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Land Management Branch managed crown lands, including mining lands, in Ontario. The Branch was responsible for the administration and disposition of public and mining lands, the acquisition of private lands, the issuance of Crown title documents, the co-ordination of the resource access program of the Ministry of Natural Resources and ensuring the future availability of mineral aggregates and fuel mineral resources such as oil, gas, oil shales, peat and lignite.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources (1972-2014)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA17

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources controls Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Land Management Branch

      Dates of relationship

      1979-1991

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Lands Administration Branch (1972-1979)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1265

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Lands Administration Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Land Management Branch

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Information Resource Management Branch (1991-)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA2258

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Information Resource Management Branch is the successor of Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Land Management Branch

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA1323

      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 Minister of Natural Resources, 1979-1991; KWIC Spring 1986

          KWIC Indexes to Government Services, 1981-1991

          Canadiana Authorities, 1996-12-24

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          N. Martin; Carol Hopp