Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Operations and Ministry Services Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Operations and Ministry Services Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Operations and Ministry Services Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Ministry Services Branch (1986-1989)

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1986-1995

    History

    The Ministry Services Branch of the Office for Francophone Affairs was created on November 18, 1986. It became the Operations and Ministry Services Branch in November, 1989, when it assumed the functions of the former Ontario French Language Services Commission.

    In 1995, it was combined with the Policy and Research Branch to form the Policy and Ministry Services Branch.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Operations and Ministry Services Branch of the Office of Francophone Affairs provided advice and assistance to ministries and agencies of the Ontario government in the development, implementation and management of French language services, and assisted with the designation of public service agencies, and determined the exemption of services for the purposes of the French Language Services Act. The branch also provided administrative services to the Office of Francophone Affairs.

    Address

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs (1985-)

    Identifier of related entity

    BA157

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs controls Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Operations and Ministry Services Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1986-1995

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Policy and Ministry Services Branch (1995-)

    Identifier of related entity

    CA565

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Policy and Ministry Services Branch is the successor of Ontario. Office of Francophone Affairs. Operations and Ministry Services Branch

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

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    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA563

    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 Office of Francophone Affairs, 1985-1991.

        Government of Ontario Telephone Directories, 1985-1998.

        Maintenance notes

        Agency not in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

        Archivist(s):
        Bob Krawczyk