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Small Business Branch
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The Small Business Branch came into being within the Ontario Ministry of Industry and Trade in 1983 when the Small Business and Field Services Branch was divided into the Small Business Branch and the Domestic Offices Branch. The branch was divided into sections which changed over time. At formation, the branch consisted of the Manufacturing Productivity Section and the Small Business Development Section. By 1985, the sections were the Small Business Advocacy Section and the Small Business Advice and Counsel Section. In 1990, they were the Small Business Advocacy Section, the Youth Start-Up Capital Section, and the Business Start-Up Services Section.
The branch was located in the Industry Division until November 1986, when it became part of the newly created Small Business, Services and Capital Projects Division.
It continued to exist until 1989, when the branch was replaced with Small Business Ontario, which reported directly to the Deputy Minister.
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The Small Business Branch stimulated the competitiveness and growth potential of small business through advisory services and financial incentive programs. A priority was given to the needs of business in planning and starting their ventures. The branch attempted to help strengthen the managerial skills of entrepreneurs, and proposed ways of improving small business financing.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Archives of Ontario. Inventory 9 - Records of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (February 1997)
Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24
Maintenance notes
Canadiana notes that the Small Business Branch became Small Business Ontario in "1989?". This was hard to confirm, since the form of name in telephone directories around 1990 is simply "Small Business". The KWIK index from 89/90 has "Small Business Branch", from 91/92 it notes "Small Business Ontario". Since our own sources imply confusion, I changed that dates of this change from 1991 as we originally had it, to 1989, as indicated in Canadiana.
Archivist(s):
Robert Anger