Ontario. Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1968-1994

      History

      The Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch was created in the Consumer Protection Division of the Department of Financial and Commercial Affairs on September 1, 1968. It assumed the duties of the Officer in Charge of Stuffed Articles, Environmental Health Branch, Department of Health.

      In 1972, it became part of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, where it formed part of the Technical Standards Division.

      The Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch ceased to exist in 1994 when the Technical Standards division was restructured into the Licensing and Administration Branch, the Engineering and Standards Branch and the Inspection and Enforcement Branch.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch was responsible for the regulation of materials used for filling articles sold in Ontario. Manufacturers of stuffed articles had to register with the branch, and were responsible for affixing content disclosure labels to their products

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Financial and Commercial Affairs (1966-1972)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA84

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Financial and Commercial Affairs controls Ontario. Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch

      Dates of relationship

      1968-1972

      Description of relationship

      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. Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Branch

      Dates of relationship

      1972-1994

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA1188

      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

          Archives of Ontario, Inventory 31 -- Records of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations; Government of Ontario Telephone Directories; KWIC Indexes.

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Steve Billinton