Ontario. Parks and Recreation Administration Committee

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Parks and Recreation Administration Committee

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Parks and Recreation Administration Committee

    Other form(s) of name

    • Parks and Recreation Administration Study Committee

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1973-1974

    History

    The Parks and Recreation Administration Committee was established on May 22, 1973 by Order-in-Council 1387/73 under the authority of Section 10 of the Ministry of Natural Resources Act, 1972. The Committee reported to the Ontario Minister of Natural Resources. The Committee's term ended on March 31, 1974. It was succeeded in December, 1974 by the Provincial Parks Council.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Parks and Recreation Administration Committee studied and made recommendations on parks and the administration of recreational facilities in Ontario.

    The Committee studied existing provincial parks and recreational programmes to assess their objectives, policies, client groups, services, and relations with other government and non-government groups. It made recommendations as to how to administer parks and recreation efficiently and responsively, as well as recommendations on relations between the provincial government and quasi-governmental and private organizations concerning the provision of parks and recreation. It examined the role of the federal government in the provision of parks and recreational programmes and made recommendations concerning the co-ordination of parks and recreational activities in the province.

    Address

    Order-in-Council 1387/73

    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. Parks and Recreation Administration Committee

    Dates of relationship

    1973-1974

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Provincial Parks Council (1974-1995)

    Identifier of related entity

    CA1472

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Provincial Parks Council is the successor of Ontario. Parks and Recreation Administration Committee

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA1465

    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

        Order-in-Council 1387/73.

        Maintenance notes

        Not in Canadiana Authorities, 1999-12.

        Archivist(s):
        N. Martin, S. McClure