Ontario. Timber Sales Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Timber Sales Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Timber Sales Branch

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1971-1989

      History

      The Timber Sales Branch was established in 1971 within the Resource Products Division of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. It was formed when the Timber Branch was divided into the Timber Sales Branch and the Timber Management Branch.

      In 1972 the branch moved into the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources, within the Division of Forests. In 1978, it moved to the Forest Resources Group.

      In 1989, the Timber Sales Branch was replaced with the Forest Products and Marketing Branch.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Timber Sales Branch was responsible for the disposition of the Ontario's Crown timber resources under the Crown Timber Act. This was accomplished through the continuous inventorying of the forest resource, the development of forest management plans, the allocation of Ontario's Crown timber to the forest industry, the licensing of forest industry mills, the measurement of the harvested volume of Crown timber, and the monitoring of factors affecting the performance of the province's forest industry.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests (1920-1972)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA52

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests controls Ontario. Timber Sales Branch

      Dates of relationship

      1971-1972

      Description of relationship

      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. Timber Sales Branch

      Dates of relationship

      1972-1989

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Timber Branch (1959-1971) (1959-1971)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA264

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Timber Branch (1959-1971) is the predecessor of Ontario. Timber Sales Branch

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Forest Products and Marketing Branch (1989-1992)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA539

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Forest Products and Marketing Branch is the successor of Ontario. Timber Sales Branch

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA265

      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 Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests, 1972

          Annual Report of the Minister of Natural Resources, 1978

          Canadiana Authorities, 1996-12-24

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Nancy Martin, Susan McClure