ministère du Développement économique, du Commerce et du Tourisme

OBS: Department of Planning and Development was established March 14, 1944. Name changed January 27, 1961 to Department of Commerce and Development. (The Office of the Provincial Economist was established April 1954. Name changed March 28, 1956 to Department of Economics and again January 27, 1961 to Department of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations). Merged with the Department of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations on December 15, 1961 to form the Department of Economics and Development. Name changed April 11, 1968 to Department of Trade and Development. The Department of Trade and Development merged with the Department of Tourism and Information (Name changed March 25, 1964 from Department of Travel and Publicity to Department of Tourism and Information) in April 1972 to form the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. Name changed February 13, 1982 to Ministry of Industry and Trade when its tourism functions became part of the new Ministry of Tourism and Recreation. Name changed 1985? to Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology. Name changed April? 1993 to Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. The former Ministry of Economic Development and Trade merged with the Tourism portion of the former Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation to form the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism on June 26, 1995.