Ontario Mortgage Corporation

Identity area

Type of entity

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Authorized form of name

Ontario Mortgage Corporation

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Ontario Mortgage Corporation

    Other form(s) of name

    • OMC

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1974-

    History

    The Ontario Mortgage Corporation (OMC) was established in the fall of 1974 and attached to the Ontario Ministry of Housing.

    From 1974 until 1982, management of the OMC was supervised by a Board of Directors, which reported to the Minister of Housing. On April 1, 1982, however, OMC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ontario Land Corporation (OLC) and its Board of Directors was merged with that of the OLC.

    On March 31, 1987, the Ontario Land Corporation ceased operations and OMC, under the management of its own Board of Directors, was reactivated with certain assets and liabilities of the OLC being transferred to it.

    With this change, ministerial responsibility for OMC was given to the Ontario Minister of Government Services.

    Since 1987, the OMC has been attached to the Ministry of Government Services (1987-1993); the Management Board of Cabinet (1993-1994); the Ministry of Housing (1994-1995); and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, since 1995.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Ontario Mortgage Corporation (OMC) provided home buyers with mortgages at less than market rates to promote an increase in the levels of individual home ownership. Since 1974, the Corporation's responsibility has expanded to the provision of mortgage funding to private developers of condominium developments and other housing ventures designed to provide lower cost housing to prospective buyers.

    Address

    The Ontario Mortgage Corporation was established under the Corporations Act.

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Housing Corporation (Ont.) (1948-1974)

    Identifier of related entity

    BA702

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Housing Corporation (Ont.) is the predecessor of Ontario Mortgage Corporation

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    BA162

    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

        Public Accounts of the Province of Ontario 1986/87 (Vol. 2)

        Annual Reports of the Ministry of Housing (1974-1981)

        Annual Reports of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (1982/1983)

        Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12- 24

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        R. Anger