Ontario. Real Property Registration Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Real Property Registration Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Real Property Registration Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Regional Property Registration Branch I

    • Ontario. Regional Property Registration Branch II

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1976-

    History

    The Real Property Registration Branch was created in 1976, within the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. It replaced the former Field Operations Branch of the Property Rights Division.

    Between 1976 and 1979 the Real Property Registration Branch was actually administered as two separate branches each headed by a Director: the Regional Property Registration Branch I and the Regional Property Registration Branch II. In 1979 these were brought together as the Real Property Registration Branch.

    In 1985, the Real Property Registration Branch was moved from the Property Rights Division to the newly formed Registration Division.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Real Property Registration Branch is responsible for managing and operating Land Registry Offices throughout Ontario, which register, store and manage documents, deeds, mortgages and survey plans.

    Address

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations (1972-2001)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA18

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations controls Ontario. Real Property Registration Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1976-

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Property Rights Division. Field Operations Branch (1972-1976)

    Identifier of related entity

    CA1217

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Property Rights Division. Field Operations Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Real Property Registration Branch

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA1216

    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

        KWIC Index to Services, 2000.

        Annual reports of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, 1976-1992. The annual report for 1980 mentions the merger of the two branches into one.

        Maintenance notes

        Not found in Canadiana Authorities.

        Archivist(s):
        Radford-Grant