Ontario. Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Municipal Accounting and Auditing Branch

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1945-1963

    History

    The Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch was established within the Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs in 1945. Prior to this, the Chief Supervisor of the department was responsible for the supervision of defaulting municipalities and the Municipal Statistician was responsible for the collection of municipal statistics. The Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch was established to provide a more formal framework for these activities and to provide additional support for analsysis of the information collected from the local level.

    In 1963 the Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch was divided into two new branches, the Municipal Accounting Branch and the Municipal Finance Branch.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch supervised the financial affairs of municipalities and school boards in Ontario and provided advice to municipalities in the management of their finances. It was also responsible for tabulating and approving any subsidies and other payments from the provincial to the local level based on the collection of municipal financial data.

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    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Dept. of Municipal Affairs (1934-1972)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA21

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Dept. of Municipal Affairs controls Ontario. Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1945-1963

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Municipal Finance Branch (1963-)

    Identifier of related entity

    CA1247

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Municipal Finance Branch is the successor of Ontario. Municipal Auditing and Accounting Branch

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

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    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA1246

    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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        Sources

        Department of Municipal Affairs Annual Reports, 1935-1961.

        Maintenance notes

        Agency not found in Canadian Name Authorities.

        Archivist(s):
        Crockett