 The main offices of the archive are located at York University in Toronto.The Bureau of Archives, as it was originally known, was first located in the Ontario Legislative Building, under the leadership of Alexander Fraser (1860-1936), a prominent Scottish-born Toronto journalist, academic and militia officer who held the position of Provincial Archivist from 1903 to 1935.During his tenure, Fraser remained a prolific author and amongst other things prepared annual reports for publication describing progress in making records available to the public, and presenting the full texts of major document collections.