Government Know How! AKA What? I've never heard of that!

Archives of Ontario


Houses the documented memory of Ontario and is responsible for managing, storing conserving, arranging, describing and providing access to the province's irreplaceable documented history dating back to the 1700's. The current inventory is valued at $340, million and is held in trust for the public.
The Archives currently holds records created by offices of the government and the private sector, as well as a growing volume of records in other media (electronic records, film, photographs, video, audio-tapes, maps and drawings.)
The records of the Archives of Ontario are used for many kinds of research. For research on your ancestors, looking up the impact of provincial government policies,
find out when a particular company started operation, when a building was built, or how the earliest settlers lived.


The Catalogue can be found at:
www.archives.gov.on.ca.


Through this site, visitors can also access online exhibits and databases relating to archival records and photographs.
The Archives of Ontario serves researchers daily in person in their reading room, by mail, email, fax and by phone.


Email: reference@archives.gov.on.ca
Phone: 1-800-668-9933

Address changes for Ontario, Canada Residents

You've been in the same house your whole adult life and now you move to your retirement home or apartment and you've got all those documents to change. What do you do? Where do you turn? Maybe I can put some helpful links in here.

Driver's License, Outdoor Cards, Health Cards.

There's an internet web site that you can go to and only enter the information once for an address change and all three Ministries will be notified. How simple can that be?

To access this on-line service see:
www.servicepontario.ca/english/iac/address_change.htm
...and you can choose all or one of these too change.

Kiosks - Service Ontario.
There are 70 Service Ontario kiosks located throughout the province of Ontario to access a number of government of Ontario services including:renewing license plate stickers, ordering personalized license plates, purchasing driver and vehicle abstracts, paying Ontario provincial court fines, changing your address on your Ontario Health Card or Driver''s License and finally renewing your Outdoor cards.
You'll need your credit card or debit card to take advantage of these easy to use (they call them) machines.
They are open seven days a week at most locations with extended service hours. Located in /major shopping centres.
You can call:1-800-268-4646
web site: www.mto.gov.on.ca

Go have a look and see what's up!

Ontario Government Information

I know, most of my current followers are from the United States, but I wanted to add some Ontario specific information on my Blog. It is after all supposed to be informative and so with information, you will be informed! (No wonder folks never take me seriously!)
I would think that your own government would have like web services available for you.

This is taken from a book I picked up at our Libro (The old St Willibroard Credit Union...previously known as the Care Credit union...)

Online: The Government of Ontario, the Federal Government and most Municipalities provide a wide range of information and services via the worldwide web.
-Online Service. www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/services.htm
This web site enables you to complete some routine tasks online like:
...request a birth certificate.
...renew a driver's licence
...register a change of name.
...renew an outdoors card and much more....? (Outdoors card is hunting and fishing in Canadian.)

What my government calls Life Event Bundles and here's what that says:
Significant changes come into everyone's life such as birth, marriage, retirement, (here we go!) and even losing one's wallet. We call these life events. The Ontario Government is using Life Events as a new way to organize information and services to bring everything on a subject together in one place.
If you are dealing with a certain life event, the Online Services gateway operated by the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services can provide one-window access to information from many different departments and jurisdictions to help you deal with that life event.
Current life event services bundled online include:
...Getting ready to retire.
...Leisure and Active Living For Older Adults.
...Getting Married (Something some of us are still doing..)
...Losing Your Wallet.
...How to Deal with Spouse Abuse.
...Moving
...Managing your debt
...Vacation Ontario
...What to do when someone dies. )this will certainly be helpful.)

For more information visit the "Life Events" section at the Government of Ontario Web site:
www.gov.on.ca
Or visit a government Information centre nearest you. For a directory call Citizen's Inquiry Bureau at 1-800-267-8097.