Identity area
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Legal Services Branch
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Description area
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History
The Legal Services Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism was formed in 2005 when the former Ministry of Tourism and Recreation was restructured. The recreation function was transferred to the new Ministry of Health Promotion, and a new stand-alone Ministry of Tourism was created. The branch reported to the Deputy Ministry of Tourism.
The branch ceased to exist in 2010 when the new Ministry of Tourism and Culture was formed.
Places
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Legal Services Branch provided strategic legal advice and services to the Ministry of Tourism to assist the ministry in meeting its business goals and corporate initiatives. Principal areas of law included commercial, corporate, real property, intellectual property, administrative and contract.
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Government of Ontario KWIC (Keywords in Context) indexes
Maintenance notes
In actual fact, it appears that the Legal Services Branch served more than one ministry (covering, for a time, the functions of citizenship, culture, tourism / recreation, though recreation was removed after its transfer to Min. of Health Promotion), however, previous authorities relating to tourism / culture / recreation have usually given each ministry a separate legal services branch authority, so this approach has been continued. (Shimpo, 2020)
Archivist(s):
Shimpo