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From Arm's Length to Hands-On: The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940

From Arm's Length to Hands-On: The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940

Paperback

Series: Heritage

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0802075819
ISBN13: 9780802075819
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Feb 13 1995
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.97
Language: English

Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada; the dualism had demanded double-barrelled ministries and the rotation of the capital, after 1849, between Toronto and Quebec City every four years.


The year 1867 was therefore a watershed. The creation of the province of Ontario demanded that a civil service be put in place to support the new offices of the lieutenant-governor, Executive Council, and Legislative Assembly. However, the election of the Whitney government in 1905 is perceived by J.E. Hodgetts as an equally important dividing point in Ontario's bureaucratic history. Before 1905 the province met the fairly rudimentary needs of a largely agrarian community by relying on local authorities and the assistance of private clientele and charitable associations. Thus administration was at arm's length. It placed minimal demands on a miniscule staff and the simple structures of the emergent public service.

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