Identity area
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Small Business Ontario
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Small Business Ontario was created in 1989, replacing the Small Business Branch. At creation, it reported to the Deputy Minister of the Ontario Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology, but in 1991 was moved to the Industry and Technology Division of the ministry.
It was divided into several sections, consisting of the Business Start-Up Services Section, the Small Business Development Section, the Technical Personnel Program, the Youth Entrepreneurship Section and the Youth Start-Up Capital Section.
In 1992, Small Business Ontario was replaced by the Domestic and Small Business Operations Branch.
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Small Business Ontario 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?". The actual 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