SESSIONAL PAPERS
VOLUME 21
THIRD SESSION OF THE ELEVENTH PARLFAMENT
DOMINION OF CANADA
SESSION 1911
tU 11^
1 ( V
VOLUMi; XLV.
1-1 George V.
Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers.
A. 1911
See also Numerical List, Page 7.
AI.PH ABIOTIC AL INDEX
SESSIONAL PAPERS
PARLIAMENT OF CANADA
THIRD SESSION, ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT, 1911.
A
Accidents on I.C.I! 83, R.1a
Acton Vale, Post Office at 8R
Accidents on railways M5
Admiralty Court in Nova Scotia 107
Adulteration of Footl It
Advalorem Outy 75
Agriculture, Annual Report 15
.'Vgriculture and other products 17S
.Alaskan Boundary Commission, Report
of ISA
Alberta and Saskatchewan, control of
lands, &c 106, lOGa
.Mberta and Saskatchewan, sale of
lands in 133
Alberta and Saskatchewan Fisheries
Commission 211
Aliens in the service of the Government 198
.Vnnuities, Government 47
-Astronomer, Chief, Report of 25(i
.Atlantic, Quebec and Western Rail-
way 89, 128, V28b
Athol Post Office, mail route 105
-Atlantic Fisheries, Hague Award. . . . 97f)
-Atlantic Service, Fast 200
.Auditor General, -Annual Report 1
.Australian Commonwealth, Reciprocal
Trade with 109
8887—1
Baby Farm, correspondence relative to.. 12C
Hanks Chartered C
Bankers' Association, Rules, Ac, of.. 153
Banks. Unpaid Balances in 7
Barnhill, Major J. L 185
Barracks Site at Toronto 126
Battlefields Commission: —
Memorandum respectinj? Finances.. . .'-S
Report from 58a
Report made to Gove-inent oHi
-Appointment of Alembers of 58f
Medals struck by Wil
Beauharnois Canal, Lighting of 98<i
Beauharnois Canal, Sums paid by Con-
cessionaries 98b, 98e
Bear River, N.S., Rifle Range at 183
Bituminous Coal, imported 205
Boot Last Blocks 66
Bonds on<i Securities 1M
British Canadian I,o m -w.-l In .-est men r
Company . ICt
Bryce, Dr. P. H., Report of 25f
Burk's Falls, Wharf -t Ill
Butter and Eggs, Im,]orted, and ]'iicos
of 17.), 179,, r.tb
By-Elections 18
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Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers.
A. 1911
Cab Hire aud Street Ky. Fares in
Ottawa
Canada aud West Xndijs, Trade Kela
tious
Canadian Atlantic Fishermen
Canadian Bankers' Association, Rules,
Ac
i^anadian biijht. Beat k Power Co
Canadian Pacific Railway : —
Orders in Council, &c., &c
Lands sold by
Bridge at Lachine
Canadian Trade
Canadians Accepted in Navy
Canal Statistics
Carrier & Lain^, Levis, Expropriation
of Property of . . . . p.p. 87, 87a, 87b, 87c^
Census, Methods of taking .... 189, 189b,
Census Schedules
Charing Cross Bank
Chartered Banks
Chrysler, F. H., K.C., monies paid to..
Chinese Frauds on Pacific Coast
Civil Service: —
Appointments and Promotions, Com-
missioners' Annual Report
List
Insurance Act
Employees at Ottawa
Clayoquot Life Saving Station
Comparative Prices, Canada and United
States
Coal Imported
Conciliation Board
Conference at Washington, re Fisheries 97
"Coquette", Trawler
Conservation Commission, &c
Contract for Bridges
Creighton, W. O., Farmers' Delegate . .
Criminal Statistics
Cumberland Coal and Railway Co
Curator's Reports on Banks 152,
Curran, R. E., Railway Mail Clerk.. ..
Customs Department, Annual Report..
Customs Entries at Vancouver
Custom House Employees, Montreal.. ..
Customs Tariff Act 70, 75.
55
55a
80
10c
56(1
20a
, 87d
189c
189a
189
6
118
207
31
30
43
135
68
36b
205
202
98a
85
52
77
763
7
72
152a
160
U
102
69
102a
D
Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner.. 15a
' Daily Telegraph,' Quebec, monies paid
to 147
Davis, M. P., Contractor 137a
Debates, Publication and Distribution
of 115, 115a
De Courcey, Mr., amounts paid to.. ..7t;, 74e
Deep Brook, N.S., Wharf at 193
Departments, obliged to Report to Par-
liament 127
Destructive Insects 51
Dickie Martin, Appointment of 185
Dividends unpaid in Banks 7
Divorces granted by Parliament, &C...116, 168
Dominion Lands, Survey 60, 60o, 60b
Dominion Police 81
Dominion Lands 96, 96a, 96b
Dominion Navies, Status of 208a
Drill Halls, or Armouries, contributions
to 129
Drolet, Jean, amounts paid to 7ih
Dussault & Lemieux, amounts paid to.. 93d
Dutch Loan Company 95
Eclipse Manufacturing Co., monies paid
to 180
Elections, House of Commons 18
Electric installation at Quebec 117
Electric Light, inspection of 13
Elbow River, Water Power on 123, 123o
Employees, Sessional, House of Com-
mons 103a
Employees of Gfovernment at Montreal 69o
Employees of Government in Municipal
Affairs 195, 195a
Erie, Lake, and Great Lakes System.. 54
Estimates 3 to 4, 5, 5o, 5b, 5c
'Essex Record,* monies paid to 74m
Excise Revenue 12
Exchequer Court Rules 197
lilxperimental Farms 16
External Affairs, Annual Report 29b
Farmer's Bank, Papers relating to.. 110, UOo
Farmers' Delegation 113
Fast Atlantic Service 200
Fisheries, Annual Report 22
Fish landed 84
Fisheries Act, changes in 97a
Fishery Bounty, names of persons re-
ceiving 158, 158o
Fisheries Commission, Manitoba, Report
of 174
Fisheries Commission, Alberta, Interim
Report 211
Fishing in the Bays, Rights of 62
I'^islieries Officers, Names, Salaries and
Duties of 165
Fishery Regulations, Breaches of.. ..91, 9Ja
Fishery Wardens in Victoria Co., N.S. lG5a
Food, Adulteration of 14
Forest Reserve Act 61
France. Trade Relation.'! with 10a
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Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers.
A. 1911
Freneh, GenJ. Sir John, Report of 35a
Fruit and Vegetable Growers, Deputa-
tion of 113a
Gas, Inspection of 13
Geographic Board 21n
General Orders, Militia 41
Geological Survey, Report 2G
Germany, Trade Relations with 10«
Georgian Bay Canal 98, 98t;
Glace Bay, Bait Association 177
Governor General's Warrants 42
Godleib, Said, Detention of, at Grosse
Isle 167
Grain Statistics lOd
Grand Trunk Railway Co., Strike on.. 72a, 72b
Greenway. Thomas, Correspondence with 961)
Guysborough ' Times,' Postal Privileges 187
Hague Tribunal Award
Haney, Quinlan & Robertson
Harbours and Rivers, Amounts E.xponded
on.
Harbour Commissioners
' Herald,' Montreal, amounts paid to. .
Hickman, W. A., Immigration Agent..
Holmes, Rt. Rev. Geo., D.D
House of Commons; —
Internal Economy
By-Elections
Sessional Employees
Hydrographic Survey
97i>
77a
184
23
74a
'Gh
130a
46
18
103
25n
Ice Formation on the St. Lawrence.. .. 21b
Immigration, Intejior Report, Part II.. 25c
Immigration : —
Japanese Immigrants 76
Special Agents 76a
Number of Arrivals 76b
Claims of Restaurant Keepers 76c
Complaints against J. Dery 76d
Complaints against Restaurant Keep-
ers 7ge
Letter by Mr. L. Stein 76/
Payments to W. O. Creighton 7tf
Payments to W. A. Hickman 76/i
Imperial Conference, Minutes of 208
Imperial Conference, Admiralty Con-
ferences 208a, 208b, 20Sc
Imperial Conference, Military Confer-
ence 208(1
Imperial Conference Secretariat, &c.. .. 176
Importations from the United States.. 131, 131a
Imports and Exports, 1816 to 1876 109c
8887— 1 J
I
Indian Reserves, Petroleum on 53
Indian Affairs, Annual Report 27
Indian Reserve, St. Peters 71, 71a
Inland Revenue, Annual Report 12
Insect Pests 57
Insurance Act, Civil Service 43
Insurance, Annual Report 8
Insurance, Abstract 9
Intercolonial Railway, Accidents to
Trains 83,83a
Intercolonial Railway. Renewal Equip-
ment 83b
Intercolonial Railway, Maintenance Ac-
count 83b
Intercolonial Railway, Sleepers for.. .. 83c
Intercolonial Railway, East and West-
bound Traffic 203
Internal Economy 46
International Waterways 54,54a
International Naval Conference 5Gm
' International,' Dredge, Work done by.. 93/1
Interior, Annual Report 25
Inquiry Public Printing and Stationery. 39
Irrigation Grant, the Percy Aylwin.. .. 192
Irwin, Fanny Louise, Timber on Home-
stead of.. ". 132
J
Japanese Immigrants 76
Japan, Treaty with 95d, 9
Jette, His Honour, Judge, Administrator
of Quebec lU
Journals, Distribution of llSb
Judges Residences in the Prov. of Que-
bec 170
Judges, Appointment of 199
Justice, Annual Report 31
K
Kelliher and Gordon, Agreement re N.
T. R 77h
Kingston Firms, Supplies, 4c., purchased
from 156
Krenzer, .!., Correspondence with 96b
I.
Labour, Annual Report ,36
Labour, Department of. Correspondence
re Quebec Bridge iS7c
Labour Gazette, Mailing List of 82
Lake, Genl. Sir P. H. N., Report of.. .. 35b
Lands, Dominion 96, 96a, 96b
Laliberte, J. B., amounts paid to.. .. 146
La Patrie, amounts paid to 74d
La Presse, amounts paid to 74e
Law Firms, amounts paid to 99
La Vigie, amounts paid to 74c
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Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers.
A. 1911
Le Canada, amounts paid to 7if, 7ik
Letourneau, Louis, amounts paid to.. .. 148
Le Soleil, amounts paid to lib
Letter Carriers in New Westminster.. .. 1G6
Lighthouse Keepers on River St. Law-
rence 94, 94n
Library of Parliament, Annual Report.. 33
List of Shipping 21c
Lobster Fishery Regulations 48
Long Saxilt, Works at.. 157, 157a
Louisburg, Bait Freezers at 177u
M
Mahone Bay, Dismissal of Sub-collector
at 161
' Manchester Engineer,' Stranding of . .. 182
Malboeuf, Jos. William, Half-breed
Scrip, issued to 130
Manitoba Boundary fc7
Manitoba Fisheries Commission 174
Manitoba and South-eastera Railway 0>. 196
Marine, Annual Report 21
Martineau Company, monies pii.l ^"■.. . 71;;
Measures, Inspection of 13
Montreal Herald, amounts paid to.. .. 74u
Militia Council, Annual Report 35
Militia, General Orders 41
Militia Council, Interim Report 35c
Ministers of the Crown, Travelling Ex-
penses of 172
Mines, Report of Department 26(i
Mint, Operations of the 73
Miramichi Bay, Dredging in 93'i
Miscellaneous, Unforseen Expenses. ... 44
Meat Packers of Ontario and Quebec,
Memorandum by 113?i
Montreal Herald, amounts paid to.. .. 74«
' Montcalm,' Trips Made by Steamer.. .. 169
Montreal, Government Employees at.. .. C9'i
Mounted Police 28
Mc
McDougall, Rev. John 71<i
N
National Battlefields Commission
National Transcontinental Railway : —
Si.\th Reiwrt of Commissioners
Concrete used in Construction
Contracts for Bridges
Contracts at Winnipeg and St. Boni
face
Cost of Structures
Eastern Division, Expenditure on. . ..
Engineering Staff on
Estimated Cost; Actual Cost
Honey, Quinlau & Robertson, Con-
tract of
N
Interim Report of Commissioners.. ..
Kelliher and Gordon, Agreement be-
tween
Length in Miles of each Division, from
Moncton to Winnipeg
Over-classification or over-allowance. .
Payments to Contractors
Quantities of each kind of Excavation
Spur Line to Quebec
Total Expenditure on
Train-hauled Filling
58, 58a, 58b,
Napanee River, Dredging of
Natural Gas, on Six Nation Rescrvo..
Naval Service of Canada : —
Applications for Service in
Allowances to Petty Officers, &c
Canadians Accepted in Navy
Deputy Minister and other Officers in
Expenditure in Connection with
Increase of Wages Authorized
International Naval Conference in Lon-
don
International Naval Conference, Cor-
respondence
Names of Employees in
Name, Tonnage, &c., of each Ship.. ..
Orders in Council, Travelling Allow-
ances, &c
Petitions for Postponement of Adoption
of
Regulations re Entry of Surgeons.. ..
Rules and Regulations for
Regulations in, re Rates of Pay
Regulations in, re Issue of Clotliing. .
NTelson River Survey '.
Xewmarket Canal, Correspondence, &c. .
Nevr Westminster, Penitentiary at.. ..
Newspapers, s^ims paid to ...
Nctherland Loan Co 95, 95o, 955
North Atlantic Coast Fisheries
Northwest Territories Act, Chap. 62.. ..
North Bay, Receipts from Wharf at..
^forthwest Territories, Commissioner for
North Atlantic Collieries
Office Specialty Manufacturing Co.,
monies paid to
3pening and Closing of Parliament.. ..
Opium Smuggling on Pacific Coast.. ..
Orders in Council re D.L.S. Act
Ordinance to rescind Cukon Ordinance
)ttawa Improvement Commisison, Re-
port of
Ottawa River Storage, Progress Report..
Oyster Culture
77c
77!)
77p
77j
lid
58c
93
71t
56c
56/
56«
56d
56b
56g
56/.
56 m
56e
56;
56fc
5G!
56o
56/1
56
56(1
196
204
112
r.i
. 95c
97
79
111
181
155
180
101
207
60
138
19rt
67
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Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers.
A. T.ni
p
Paris Exposition, Expenses Incurred for 206
Parliament, Opening and Closing of . . . . 104
Parrsboro, Post Office Building at.. .. 86n
Pelagic Sealing Treaty 210
Pelletier, Sir Pantaleon, Leave of Ab-
sence of 88, 88<i
Penitentiaries, Annual Report 34
Penitentiary at New Westminster.. .. 112
Percy Alwyn, Irrigation Grant 192
Petroleum and Gas l?egulations 53
Phtenix Bridge Co., Payment by 82
I'icard, C, & Sons, money paid to.. .. 74»
Police, Dominion 81
Police, Royal Northwest Mounted.. .. 28
Postmaster General, Annual Report.. .. 31
Powassau to Nipissing, Mail Route. ... 171
Preston, W. T. R 95, 95n, 95b. 95c
Preferential Tarriff, Goods Imported
under 1J2
Prince Edward Island, Winter Steamers 159
Prince Edward Island, Tunnel 188
Printing Bureau, Employees of 190
Printing. Ac, Government 74
Provincial Control of Lands, 4c.. ..106, 10G<1
Proclamation bringing into Force ' An
Act to Amend the Ry Act." 108
Public Accounts, Annual Report 2
Public Lands, &<:., Disposition of.. ..HI, Ulii
Public Printing and Stationery 32
Public Printing and Stationery Inquiry 39
Public Works, .\nnual Report 19
Q
Quebec, Exten.siou of Boundaries of . . . . 65
Quebec Oriental Railway.. 89, 128, 128u, V28b
Quebec Board of Trade, Resolutions by.. 122
Quebec, Temporary Employees at 120a
Qviebec Bridge Co., Legal Existence of.l25, 125a
Quebec Bridge, Tenders. &c., for.. ..1.37. 137a
IJuebec Bridge, Engineers Appointed.. 137b
Quebec Bridge, Correspondence re Plans
for New Bridge.. .' 137d
Quebec Bridge, Correspondence, Depart-
ment of Labour re ISVc
R
IJailways Owned or Operated iu United
States by Canadian Railways 186
Railways and Canals, ,\nnual Report.. 20
Railway Commissioners, Report of.. .. 20c
Railway Statistics 20b
Reciprocity with the United States..
from 59 to 59s
Reciprocal Trade with the Australian
Commonwealth J09
Reconnaisance Survey of the Nelson
River 195
R
Retiring Allowances 45
River des Prairies, Dredging Work Exe-
cuted 93b, 93c
Royal Northwest Mounted Police 28
S
Samson & Filion, Quebec, monies paid to
Saskatchewan University, Land Grant
for
Secretary of State, Annual Report.. ..
Senate, Cost of .'
Sessional Employees, House of Commons
Seventh Military District, Complaint
against Commandant
Seybold Building, Cost of .^Iterations
and Repairs to
Sliarehvlders in Chartered Banks
Sherwin-Williams Paint Co., amounts
paid to
Shipping, List of
Six Nation Reserve, Natural Gas on.. ..
South Grey, Appointments in 120,
Southwest 1 Section 10. Township 38..
Stadacona Farm, Purchase of
Steanilx)at Inspection
St. Peters Indian Reserve 71, 71o
St. Pie. Post Office at
S.S. • Minlo.' • Stanley ' and ' Earl Grey,'
Coal Purchased for 136.
Superannuation, &c
Surveyor General, Report, ic
Supplies bought from Firms in Kings-
ton
Subsidized Steamship Services ..
Subsidy -Vet, Iflin
Tanguay, George, Lease of Government
Property
Tauguay, George, (Quebec, monies paid to
Tariff Relations with the United States
109a,
Taschereau, C. E., Quebec, moni_es paid
to
Topographical Surveys Branch
Trade and Commerce, Canadian Trade..
Trade and Commerce
Trade and Navigation
Trade Relations, Canada and West
Indies
Trade with Foreign Countries
Trade with United Kingdom and Foreign
Countries
Trade Unions
Transcontinental Railway Commission-
ers ..37,
124
143
29
100
103>i
178
6
124
21c
71c
120a
96
191
23a
71b
86
196b
45
150
25b
10c
10
38
10/
10b
50
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Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers.
A. 1011
Transcontinental Eaihvay, Contract for
Bridges 77, 77a
Travelling Expenses of Ministers, &o..
175a, 175b I
Treaty of Commerce, &c., with Japan.95d, 95e
Treaty re Pelagic Sealing 110 1
Trent Valley Canal, Lease of Water
Power on 98(f
Trout Lake, Mail Eoute 171
V
Unclaimed Balances in Banks 7
Unforseen Expenses H
United Kingdom, Trade Relations with 10a
United States, Trade Relations with.. .. 10a
United States Consuls in Dominion.. .. 101
University of Saskatchewan, Land Grant
for U3
Vancouver, Customs Entries at 102
Vancouver Dry Dock Company 162
Vannutelli, Cardinal, Guard and Escort
for 121
Veterinary Director General. Report of.. 156
Vice-Regal Drawing Room, Correspond-
ence 7-e 63
Voters' Lists, Printing of 3<*
W
Walsh, E. J., C.E., Correspondence with 201
Wanda,' Appraising of the 163
Warrants, Governor General's 12
Weights, Measures, &o 13
Weigher, Appointment of at Montreal 131
Wentworth, Constituency, Appointments
in 120c
Welland Canal, Enlargement 88, 98c
Western Coal Operators' Association.. 202
Wheat Exported from Canada 119
Winnipeg River, Water Power Rights on 14*
Winnipeg, Parliament Site in 194, 191a
Wireless Telegraph Stations 9»
'Wren,' the Trawler »5
Y
Yukon, Ordinances of Council, 1909.. .. *•
Yukon, Ordinances Rescinded 78
Yukon, Ordinances of Council, 1910.. .. •tflti
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See also Alphabetical List, Page 1.
IJST OF SESSIONAL PAPERS
Arranged in Numerical Order, with their titles at full length; the dates when Ordered
and when Presented to the Houses of Parliament; the Names of the Senator or
Member who moved for earh Sessional Paper, and whether it ix ordered to he
Printed or Net Printed.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.
(This volume is bound in two parts.)
1. Beport of the Auditor General for the year ended 31st March, 1910. Volume I, Parts A
to P, nnd Volume II, Parts Q to Y. Presented 2l6t November, 1910, by Hon. William
Patarion Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2.
3. Public Accoants of Canada, for the fiscal year ended SU-t March, 1910. Presented 21st
November, 1910. by Hon. William Paterson.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
3. Estimates for the fiscal year ending Slst March, 1912. Presented 2nd December, 1910, by
Et. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
4. Supplementary Estimates for the fiscal year ending 31st March, 1911. Presented 6th
February, 1911, by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
5. Further Supplementary Estimates of sums required for the service of the Dominion for
the year ending on 31st March, 1911. Pres«nted 16th March, 1911, by Hon. W. S.
Fielding Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
So. Further Supplementary Estimates for the year esding 31st March. 1911. Presented 8th
May. 1911, by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
5b. Further Supplementary Estimates for the fiscal year ended 31st March, 1911 Presented
3rd May, 1911. by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
Se. Further Supplementary Estimates for the fiscl year ending 31st March. 1912. Pre-
sented 9th May, 1911. by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
Sd. Further Supplementary Estimates of sums required for the service of the Dominion for
the year ending on 31st March, 1912. Presented 17th May, 1911, by W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
1
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME Z— Concluded.
6. List of shareholders in the Chartered Banks of the Dominion of Canada as on December
31, 1910. Presented 10th April, 1911, by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 3.
7. Keport on dividends remaining unpaid, unclaimed balances and unpaid drafts and bills
of exchange in Chartered Banks of the Dominion of Canada, for five years and up-
wards prior to December 31, 1910. Presented 19th July, 1911, by Hon. William Temple-
man Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 4.
8. Keport of the Superintendent of Insurance, for the year ended 31st December, 1910.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
9. Abstract of Statements of Insurance Companies in Canada for the year ended 31st De-
cembei, 1910. Presented 27th April, 1911, by Hon. W. S. Fieldhig.
Printed for distribution.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 5.
10. Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce, for the Kscal year ended 31st March,'
1910. Part 1, Canadian Trade. Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Rt. Hon. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
10a. Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Part II. Canadian Trade with
France, Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Presented 32nd November.
1910, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
10b. Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Part III. Canadian Trade with
foreign countries, except France, Germany, the United Kingdom and United States
Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 6.
lOc, Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce for the fiscal year ended 31st March,
1910. Part IV, Canadian Trade, Miscellaneous. Presented 31st March, 1911, by Hon.
W. S. Fielding Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
lOd. Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce for the htral year ended March
31st 1910. Part V, Grain Statistics, including the crop year ended August 31st
1910, and the season of navigation ended December 6th, 1910. Presented 12th May,
1911, by Hon. William Paterson Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
lOe. Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce for the fiscal year ended 31st
March, 1910, Part VI., Subsidized steamship services. Presented 20th April, 1911,
by Hon. William Paterson Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
lOf Report of Trade and Commerce for the fiscal year ended 31st March, 1910, part VII.—
Trade of foreigii countries and Treaties and Conventions. Presented 31st March,
1911, by Hon. W. S. Fielding.. ..Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7.
11. I'eport of the Department of Customs, for the year ended 31st March, 1910. Preseutpd
21st November, 1910. by Hon. William Paterson.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
12. Reports, Returns and Statistics of the Inland Revenue for the Dominion of Canada,
for the year ended 31st March, 1910. Presented 21st November, by Hon. William
Templeman Printed for both distribution nnd sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 8.
13. Inspection of Weights and Measures, U.i... ;uul ICIettric Light, lor tlie year ended 3]st
March, IfllO. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. William Templeman.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
14. Report un Adulteration of Food, fur the year ended 3Kt March, 1910. Presented '2\-i
November, 1910, by Hon. William Templeman.
Printed for both dislrihiili'in and sessional papers.
15. Report of the Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada, for the year ended
31st March, 1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Him. S. A. Fisher.
Printed for both distriljution and sessional papers.
15a. Report of the Dairy and Ccdd Storage Commissioner for the fiscal year ending Hie
31st March. 1910. Presented 12th January, 1911, by Hon. S. A. Fisher.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
15J>. Report of the Veterinary Director General and Live Stock Commissioner. .T. G.
Rutherford, V.S., for the year ending 31st March, 1909.
Printed for both distribution and sessional pai>ers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 9.
16. Report of the Director and Officers of the ICxperimental Farms, for the year ending 31st:
March, 1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. S. A. Fisher.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
17. Criminal Statistics for the year ended 30th September, 1909. Presented 21st November,
1910, by Hon. S. A. Fisher Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 10.
18. (1908). Return of the eleventh general ©lection for the House of Commons of Canada.
held on the 19th and 26th of October, 1908 Reprinted.
18. Return of By-Elections (Eleventh Parliament) House of Commons. 1910.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 11.
19. Report of the Minister of Public Works on the works viiider bis control for the yeai'
ended 31st March, 1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. William Pugsley.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers^
19a. Progress Report Ottawa Kiver Storage, for the fiscal year 1P09-1910 (supplementing
investigations in regard to Georgian Bay Ship Canal project). Presented 6th March,
1911, by Hon. William Pugsley . .P''i»fcrf for both distribution and sessional papers.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 12.
19b. Report upon Recunnaisance Surrey of the Nelson River, September-October, 1909.
Presented 16th February, l911, by Hon. William Pugsley.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
20. Report of the Department of Railways and Canals, for the fiscal yeai ended 31st March,
1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. G. P. Graham.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
20a, (1909.) Canal Statistics for the season of navigation, 1909. Presented 2l9t March, 1910,
by Hon. G. P. Graham Printed for both distrbiution and sessional papers.
20a. Canal Statistics for the season of navigation, 1910. Presented 10th April, 1911, by Hon.
G. P. Graham Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
20b. Railway Statistics of the Dominion of Canada, for the year ended 30th June, 1910.
Presented 16th December, 1910, by Hon. G. P. Graham.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 13.
20c. Fifth Report of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada, for the year ending
31st March, 1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. G. P. Graham.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
21. Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries (Marine, 1910. Presented 2l9t
November, 1910, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
21(1. Report of the Geographic Board of Canada containing all decisions to 30th June, 1910.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 14.
21b. Report on Ice formation in the St. Lawrence River, and Report of the influence of
Icebergs on the temperature of the Sea as shown by use of the Micro-Thermometer
in a trip to Hudson Strait and Bay in July, 1910, by H. T. Barnes, D.Sc, F.R.S.C.
Presented 16th May, 1911, by Hon. S. A. Fisher.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers
21c. List of Shipping issued by the Department of Marine and Fisheries, being a list of
vessels on the registry books of Canada, on 31st December, 1910. Presented 19th
July, 1911, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
23. Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries (Fisheries), 1910. Presented 21st
November, 1910, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 15.
23. Rtport of the Harbour Commissioners, &c., to 31st December, 1910.
Printed for both distribtition and sessional papers.
28a. Report of the Chairman of the Board of Steamboat Inspection, for the fiscal year
1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 15— Concluded.
24. Report of the rostmaster General for the year ended 31st March, 1910. Presented iJnd
NovembfT. 1910, by Et. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Lanrier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 16.
29. Keport of the Department of the Interior, for the fiscal year ending 31st Uareh, 19l».
Presented 21st NoTember, 1910, by Hon. Frank Oliver.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 17.
25o. Keport of the Chief Astronomer, Department of the Interior, for year (nding Slst.
March, 1910 Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
26b. Annual Heport of the Topographical Surveys Branch, Department of the Interior,
1909-10. I'restntid Slst March, 1911. by Hon. Frank Oliver.
Printed for both distribution and tessionat papers.
25<. Report of Dr. P. H. Bryce, Chief Medical Officer, Appendix to Report ot Superinten-
dent of Immigration. Presented 9th. December, 1910, by Hon. Frank Oliver.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 18.
2Sd. Report of the Hydrogiaphic Survey (Streams measurement^, liepartment of the
Interior Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
26. Summary Report of the Geological Survey Branch, Department of Mines, for Calendar
year 1910. Presented 19th. July, 1911, by Hon. William TeTmploman.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
26a. (1909) Summary Report of the Mines Branch of Department of Mines, for the calendar
year, 1909. Presented 26th. January, 1911, by Hon. William Templeman.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
This is bound in Vol. XVI, 1910.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 19.
27. Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, for the year ended Slst Morch, 191t.
Presented 21-t Xovember, 1910, by Hon. Frank Oliver.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
28. Report of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 1910. Presented 2nd December, 1910,
by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.. Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 20.
29. Report of the ."Secretary of State of Canada for the year ended Slst March, 1910. Pr»-
•ented Slst Xovember, 1910, by Hon. Charles Murphy.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
29b. (No issue).
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 20— Conrluchcl
29b. Repjrt of the Secretary of State for External Affairs, for the year ended 31st March,
1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. Charles Murphy.
Prinied for'bolh distribuiion and sessional papers.
30. Civil Seivice Li-t of Canada, 1910. Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. Charles
Murphy Prinied for both disiributioa and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21.
31. Second Annual Report of the Civil Service Commission of Cana.la, for the period from
1st September, 1E09 to 31st August, 1910. Presented 1st December, 1910, by Hon.
Chiiles Murphy Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
32. .Vuuual Report of the Department of Public Printing and Stationery, for the fiscal
year ended 31st March, 1910. Presented 22ud November, lO'lO. by Hon. Charles
Murphy Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
33. Report of the Joint Librarians of Parliament for the year 1910. Presented 17th
November, 1910, by the Hon. the Speaker Printed for sessional papers.
0 1^2^ Report of the Minister of Justice as to Penitentiaries of Canada, for the fiscal yoar
-K^i -5 \ ended 31st Marcli, 1910. Presented 30th November, 1910, by Hen. A. B. Aylesworth.
, , O J t , -\ ' ,1 Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
' 35. Report of the Militia Council, for the fiscal year ending 31st March. 1910. Presented
21st November, 1910, by Hon. Sir Frederick Borden.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
.35a. Report of General Sir John French, G.C.B., Inspector General of the Imperial
Forces, upon his Inspection of the Canadian Military Forces. Presenteil 22nd
November, 1910, by Hon. Sir Frederick Borden.
Printed for both distribution a)id sessional papers.
35b. Report upon the best method of giving affect to the recommendations of General Sir
John French, regarding the Canadian Militia, by Major General Sir P. H. N. Lake,
K.C.M.G., Inspector General. Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Hon. Sir Fred-
erick Borden Printed for distribution and sessional papers,
35c. Interim Report of the Militia Council for the Dominion of Canada on the Training
of the Militia during the season of 1910. Presented 31st March, 1911, by Hon. Sir
Frederick Borden Printed for distribution.
36. Report of the Department of Labour, for the fiscal year ending 31st March, 1910, in-
cluding Report of Proceedings under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907.
Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 22.
36a. Report on Industrial Disputes in Canada up to 31st March, 1911.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
36b. Comparative prices of Agriciiltural, Fisheries, Lumber and Mine products in Canada
and the United States, 1906-1911. Presented 28th July. 1911, by Hon. W. L. Mackenzie
King Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
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CONTENTS OF VOLITME 22— Conrludefl.
■37. Sixth Keport of the Commissionprs of the Transcontinental Railway, fur the year end-
ing 31.st Mareli. 1910. Presented 21st November, 1910. by Hon. G. P. Graham.
Printed for both distr'tbuiioti nnd sessional papers.
38. Report of the Royal Commission on Trade Relations between Cmiada and the West
Indies, together with Part II, Minutes of evidence taken in Canada and Appendices;
Part III, Minutes of evidence taken in the West Indies, and Appendices; and also
Part IV, ilinutes cf evidence taken in London and Appeiidices. Presented 21st
November, 1910. by Ho. William Paterson Printed for Sessional Papers:
39. Report of the Honourable the Secretary of State, on the innuiry into the affairs of
the Department of Public Printing and Stationery. Presented 21st November, 1910,
by Hon. Charles Murphy Printed for both distribution anl sessional papers.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23.
40. Onlinances of the Yukon Territory, passed by the Yukon Council in the year, 1909.
Presented 21st November, 1910, by Hon. Charles Murphy .Vo* printed.
-40a.0rdinances of the Yukon Territory passed by the Yukon Council in the year 1910.
Presented 4th April, 1911, by Hon. Charles Murphy Not printed.
41. Gcnernl Orders issued to the Militia, between the 1st Novenilier, 1909, and the 18th
October. 1910. Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Hon. Sir Frederick Borden.
Not printed.
42. Statement of Governor General's Warrants issued since the last session of Parliament.
on account of the fiscal year 1910-11. Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Hon.
Williiini Paterson Not printed.
43. Statement in pursuaiKc of section 17 of the Civil .Service Insurance .\ct, for the year
ending 31st March, 1910. Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Hon. William Paterson.
Not printed.
44. Statement of expenditure on account of miscellaneous unforeseen e.xpenses, from the
1st April, 1910, to 17th November, 1910, in accordance with the Appropriation Act
of 1910. Presented 22nd November, 1910, by Hon. William Paterson. ..Not printed.
45. Statement of Superannuation and Retiring Allowances in the Civil Service during
the year ending 31st December, 1910, showing name, rank, salary, service, allowance
and cause of retirement of each person superannuated or retired, also whether
vacancy filled by promotion or by new appointment, and salary of any new appointee.
Presented 22nd November, 1911, by Hon. William Paterson Not printed.
46. Report of the proceedings of the preceding year, of the Commissioners of Internal
Economy of the n< use of Commons, pursuant to Rule 9. Presented 1st December,
1910, by the Hon. the Speaker Printed for se.isionnl papers.
47. Return, in pursuance of sectii n IG. of the Government Annuities Act, 1908, containing
statement of the business done during the fiscal year, ending 31st March, 1910. Pre
sented 1st December, 1910, by Hon. S. A. Fisher Prin'ed for sessiojial papers.
•48. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 1st December, 1910, for a copy of
the existing lobster fishery regulations, adopted by Order in Council on 30th Septem-
ber, 1910. Presented 1st December, 1910, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur.
Printed for sessional papers.
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CONTENTS OF VOITJME 2Z— Continued.
49. Detailed statement of all bonds or securities registered in the Department of the-
Secretary of State of Canada, since last return (25th November, 1909), submitted to
the Parliament of Canada under Section 32 of Chapter 19, of the Revised Statutes of
Canada, 1906. Presented 1st December, 191«, by Hon. Charles Mnrphy.. ..Not printed.
50. Annu.il Return respecting Trade XInions, under chapter 125, R.S.C., 1906. Presented Ist
December, 1910, by Hon. Charles Murphy Not printed.
51. Regulations under " The Destructive Insect and Pest Act." Presented 1st December.
1910, by Hon. S. A. Fisher Not printed.
52. First Aunual Report of the Commission on Conservation, 1910. Presented 5th Decem-
ber, 1910, by Hon. S. A. Fisher Printed for sessional papers.
53. Regulations established by Order in Council of 17th May, 1910, for the disposal of
petroleum and gas on the Indian Reserves in the Provinces of Alberta and Saskache-
wan and in the Northwest Territories. Presented 5th December, 1910, by Hon.
Charles Murphy y Not printed.
54. Report of the International Waterways Commission on the regulation of Lake Erie,
with a discussion of the regulation of the Great Lakes System. Presented 7th Decem-
ber, 1910, by Hon. William Pugsley Printed for sessional papers.
54a. Return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 12th December, 1910, (or a
copy of all orders in council or other authority, appointing members of the
Canadian section of the Joint International Waterways Commission, together with
all reports, recommendations and correspondence submitted to the Government,
or any department thereof, by the said Canadian section, or any member thereof.
Also a statement of the total expenses of such Canadian section up to dite, with
particulars thereof. Presented 8th May, 1911.— Mr. Macdonell Not printed.
55. Return in so far as the Department of the Interior is concerned) of copies of all
Orders in Council, plans, papers, and correspondence which are required to be
presented to the House of Commons, under a Resolution passed on 20th February,
1882, since the date of the last return, under such Resolution. Presented 9th
December, 1910, by Hon. Frank Oliver Not printed.
55a. Return of lands sold by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company during the year
which ended on the 31st October, 1910. Presented 4th May, 1911, by Hon. Frank
Oliver ^o< printed.
56. Regulations issued by the Department of the Naval Service regarding rates of Pay,
pursuant to Section 47 of the Naval Service Act. Presented 9th December, 1910,
by Hon. L. P. Brodeur Not printed.
&6n. Regulations issued by the Department of the Naval Service, regarding the issue of
the existing Lobster Fishery Regulations, adopted by rder in Council on 30th Septem-
ber, 1910, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur Noi printeid.
66b. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a state-
ment showing the detailed expenditure to date out of the sum voted by the House
in connection with the new Navy, giving in each case the amount paid, to whom
paid and the object of the expenditure. Presented, 16th December, 1910.— Mr.
Monck Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23—ConUmted.
56c. Return to an order of the House of Commons dated 14th Pecemljer, 1910, for a Return
showing how many applications have been received from Canadian citizens for
service in the proposed Canadian Navy, as officers, and able seamen or blue-
jackets, respectively, and how many officers and men, respectively, of the British
Navy have made application for such service. Presented 11th .January, 1911.—
Mr. Jameson J^nt printed.
56il. R«turn to an addrpss of the Senate dated 24th November, 1910. for the following
information:—!. Has the Department of the Naval Service, which was erected by the
legislation of last session, been regularly organized and put in operation? 2.
Who has been appointed Deputy Minister by the Governor in Council? 3. Who ar«
the other officials and clerks necessary for the proper admi;iistration of the affairs
of the new department who have been appointed by the Governor in Council? 4.
Who among these officials and clerks are those who have been transferred from the
Department of Marine and Fisheiies to the Department of the Naval Service? 3. Wro
among these officials and clerks come from elsewhere? 6. What is the salary of
each of the officials? Presented Uth January. 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry ... .Not printed.
56r. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December. 1910, for a state-
ment showing:— 1. The names of all those engaged to date by the Government in
connection with the new Naval Deparment, whether for service at sea or for
work in connection with the department, either for inside or outside service. 2.
The c( micile of origin of those thus engaggod, their previous occupation, rank or
grade in the British Navy or elsewhere, and previous rate of pay or remuneration
S. The duties assigned, rank or occu^jalion of those thus tn^r.^ed in the scrviye jt
Canada, and present salary and allowances. Presented ISth January. 1911. — Mr.
Movk Not printed
56/. ('opy of an Order in Council approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the
22nd December, 1910, authorizing certain ollowances to Petty Officers and men in
the Naval Service. Presented 19th January, 1911, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur.
Not printed.
56!/. Ciipy <ii an Order in Council approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the
82nd December, 1910, and publisded in the Canada Gazette on the Mth January.
1911, authorizing increase in wages to certain ratings in the neval service. Presente<l
tilth .lanuary, 1911, by Hon. L. P. Brcdeur Not printed.
56/i. Weturn to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a
return showing all rules and regulations passed by the Governor in Council under
the provisions of the Navy Act, adopted at the last session of parliament. Presented
26th January, 1911.— Afr. Monk Not printed.
56i'. Keturn to au order of the Senate dated the 24th November, 1910, for a statement
showing in as many distinct columns:^!. The name of the electoral district. 2
The name of the parish, township, town or city. 3. The name of the first signer,
and mention of the additional number of signers of each of the petitions presented
duri.'g the last session, either to the House of Commons or to the Senate, praying
for the postponement of the adoption of the proposed Naval Act until the people
have had the opportunity of expressing their will by means o* a plebiscite. 4. The
date of the presentation of each of these petitions. 5. The names, in each case, of
the Member or Senator who presented these petitions. Presented 30th November,
1910.— Hon. Jfr. Landry Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23—nont{nv<'(7.
'56./. Return to an order of the Senate dated February 1, 1911, calling for in as many-
column.* :—l. The names of all the ships of which the Canadian fleet service is
actually composed. 2. The tonnage of each of these ships. 3. How old, is each
ship at present. 4. The purchase price, or cost of construction, or, in default
thereof, the actual value of each ship. 5. The horse-power of each of them. 6. The
motive power, side wheels, propeller or sails. 7. The number of persons of which
the crew of each of these ships is composed. 8. The cost of annual maintenance
of each ship with its crew. 9. The purpose for which each ship is used, specifying
whether it is for the guarding of the coasts, the protection of fi.sneries, or for the
what other purpose. 10. The waters on which each of these ships sails — the waters
of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, the Greot Lakes, of the St. Lawrence river, or
elsewhere, with a short statement showing the number and the net tonnage of the
ships of the Great Lakes .service, — of the ships stationed on the shores of British
Columbia, and of the ships sailing on the waters of the tastern portion of the
.\merican continent owned by us. Presented 14th February, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
•56/.-. Oiders in Council published in Canuda Gazette 11th February, 1911, No. 83/lt6.
Regulations for entry of naval instructors. No. 91/146. Revised rates of pay for
electricians. No. 86/146. Revised travelling allowances. Presented 23rn February,
1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Cartwright Not printed
56i. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1911, for a copy
of the final protocol or agreement entered into at the International Naval Conference
held in London, December, 1908, February, 1909, and of the gjneral report presented
to the said Naval Conference on behalf of its drafting committee, and of all corres-
pondence exchanged between the Imperial Government and the Government of Canada
in regard to the same. Presented 10th March, 1911.— M?-. Monk Not printed.
56'". 1. Correspondence and documents respecting the International Naval Conference
/leld in London, December, 1908, February, 1909. 2. Correspondence respecting the
Declaration of London. 3. Final Act of the Second Peace Conference held at Tlie
Hague in 1907, and Conventions and Declarations annexed thereto. Presente<l 23rd
March. 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Not printed
56". Return to an order of the House of Comnioiis, dated 27th Februnry, 1911, for a Return
showing: — 1. How many Canadians have been accepted as members of the Canadian
Navy. 2. What are the names and former residence of those who have been
accepted. Presented 2tth March, 1911.— Mr. Taylor (Leeds), Not printed.
56(1. Order in Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the 31st March,
1911, and published in the Canada Gazette April 15th, 1911:— No. 358 revised regula-
tions for entry of surgeons into the Naval Service. I'resented 24th April, 1911, by
Hon. L. P. Brodeur Not printed.
.57. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated the 7th December, 1910, for a copy
of all correspondence between the Government of Canada or the Right Honourable,
the First Minister, and the government of Manitoba, or the Premier of Manitoba,
referring to the demand of Manitoba for an extension of boundaries and an increase
in subsidy. Presented 14th December, 1910.— Mr. Staples.
Printed for sessional puper.t.
58. Memorai.dum respecting the finances of the National Battlefields Commission, as on
the 31st March, 1910. Presented 15th December, 1910, by H(m. William Paterson.
I'rinted for sessional papers
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58'i. Kepoit from The National Battlefields Commission. Presented 15th December, 1910.
by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Printed for sessional papers.
58b. IMurn to an Address of the Senate dated 24th February. 1911. calling for a copy of
the last report made to the Government by the members of the Quebec Battlefields
Commission. Presented 10th March, 1911.-ffon. 3/r. Landry r^ot printed.
6St [;<turn to an Order of the Senate dated 12th January, 1911, for copies of all Orders
in Council relating to the appointment of members of the " National Battlefields
Commiwion " of the Province ft Quebec, as well as a statement showing the sums
received by the said CommisHion. the sources whence received, the interest thereon,
the expenses incurred, the nature of such expenses, distinguishing what has been
paid for the acquisition of lands, the balance in hand, and the approximate cost,
with the nature of the expenses to be incurred to attain the end which the Com-
mission has proposed for itself. Presented 2Ut March, 19ll.-ffon. Mr. Landry
Sot printed.
58-' i:«turn to an order of the S«-nate dated 23rd Febru.iry, 1911, for a statement showinj;
the number of gold, silver, and bionie medaU. which the Quebec Battlefields Commis-
sion has caused to be struck in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary
of the foundation of the City of Quebec; the cost of each of these s<>ries of medals, the
names of the persons to whom, or the institutions to which, gold medals, silver
medals, and bronie medals have been given. Piesented 28th April, 1911.- Hon. Mr.
Landry ^o' printed.
50 Hoturn tc an address of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a copy
of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individuals. Boards of Trade or other
Iwdies and rorporationi, favouring or asking for a treaty ot reciprocity with the
United State*; and nlsj if all similar documents protesting against or unfavourable
to the same, and a copy of all correepondence had with the Government, or any
member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United States, since the 1st
Janaary. 1910. Presented l.ifh December. 1910. -Mr. Foster Not printed.
59b. Supplijmr.taij return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 7tk December
1910, for a ropy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individuals. Boards
of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a treaty of
reciprocity with the United Statew; and also of all similar documents protesting
against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of nil correspondence had with the
(sovern.-ncr.t, :>r .ry memci-r thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United States,
since the 1st .Tnnuary, 1910. Presented 11th January, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed
696. Further supplemeutiiry return to an Addres^ of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petition", memorials and resolutions from
individuals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking
for a treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents
protesting ngainst or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence
had with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the
United States, since the 1st .Tanuary, 1910. Presented Srd Fej.-uary, 1911.— Hon. Mr.
Foster.. Not printed.
59c. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals, Bt^rds of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring os asking for ft
treaty of reciprocity nith the United States; and also .i! all similar documents
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23— Continued.
protesting against or unfavourable to the same, find a copy of all" correspondence
had with the GoTerument^ or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the
United States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 8th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr.
Foster Not printed.
59(J. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals, boards of trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all fimilar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had with
the gcvernment, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity wHh the United States,
since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 27th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster.,
Not printed.
59c. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and rtsolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents
protesting against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 8th March, 1911.- Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59/. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 11th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59g. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
Decemljer, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the .same, and a copy of all correspondence had with
the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 22nd March, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59h. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials ana resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 27th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster.
■ Not printed.
59J. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals, boards of trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for e
trea+y of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
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CONTENTS OF VOIXTME 23—Contu^ued.
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January. 1910. Presented 28th March, im.-Eon. Mr. Foxter.
Not printed.
59;. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had with
the government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st .Timuary. 1910. Presented 28th March, 19U.-JIoii. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59k Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December. 1910. for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
St.<.t?s. since the 1st January. 1910. Prsei.ted 31st March, 1911. ffon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59i. Further supplementary return to an Address of the Hou.se of Common.s. dated 7th
December. 1910. for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking foi a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had with
the government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1-t January, 1910. Presented 7th April. 1911. tlon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59m. Further -supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
De<ember, 1910. for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 19th April, Wl.-Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59h. Further supplementary return to an Address of the Hou.se of Commons, dated 7th
December. 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from individ-
uals. Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents pro-
testing against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had with
the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
Stete.0. since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 19th April, 19]l.-ffo». Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
89p. Further' supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all petitions, memorials and resolutions from indivi
duals, boards of trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a
treaty of reciprocity with the United States, and also of .all somilar documents pro-
8887— 2i 19
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CONTENTS or VOLUME 22— Continued.
testing against or uufavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had
with the Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United
States, since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 2nd May, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not prinied.
59p. Further supplementary return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all memorials and resolutions from individuals, Boords
of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a treaty of
reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents protesting
against or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had with the
Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United States,
since the Ist January, 1910. Presented 5th May, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
59(3- Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 19th April, 1911, for a Return
showing what duties are imposed by Australia, New Zealand, Norway, France, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Japan, Argentine, Venezuela and Russia,
respectively, upon each of the articles included in the reciprocity agreement between
the United States and Canada.
And also, a statement showing the import prices in 1910 on which duty was col-
lected onthe butter, eggs cheese, salt, beef, bacon, hams, mutton, lamb, pork in brine
and other meat products detailed, barley, beans, oats, oeas, wheat, hay, flaxseed,
green apples, and animals, imported from the above named countries. Pre.sented
8th May, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
59''- Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 8th May, 1911, for a Return
showing, taking the latest Return of Commerce and Navigation of the United
States as a basis, the advantage Canada will have in the United States market over
her principal competitors, under the construction given at Washington by the United
States Court of Customs Appeals on April 10th, 1911, regarding the favoiired nation
clause, by which the competitors of Canada in the United States market are denied
the privileges granted to Canada by the reciprocal agreement in regard to the impor-
tation into the United States of the foUo-wing goods and articles, namely: (a) Mackerel
pickled or salted; (b) Herring, pickled; (c) Cod, Haddock, Hake and Pollock, dried,
smoked, salted or pickled; (d) all other kinds of fish, salted or pickled; (e) Fish oils:
(/) Butter; (g) Cheese; (h) Cattle; (i) Horses; (j) Oats; (fc) Coke; (i) Mineral
Waters; ('") Rolled Iron or Steel Sheets, coated with zinc, tin or other metal; (n)
Mica; (o) Flax seed; (p) Beans and dried peas; (q) Onions; (r) Potatoes; (s) other
vegetables in natural state.
Also showing the present rate of duty in the United States on the above goods
and ai tides ; the rate under the proposed reciprocal agreement of the said goods
and articles; the value of goods; and the amount of duty collected on goods imported
from said competitors on the trade of said year, which will be free under the agree-
ment on goods from Canada. Presented 16th May, 1911. — Mr. Sinclair.. Not printed.
59v. Further supplementary Return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th
December, 1910, for a copy of all memorials and resolu*^ions from individuals.
Boards of Trade or other bodies and corporations, favouring or asking for a treaty
of reciprocity with the United States; and also of all similar documents protesting
agaiast or unfavourable to the same, and a copy of all correspondence had with the
Government, or any member thereof, concerning reciprocity with the United States,
since the 1st January, 1910. Presented 19th May, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Foster.. .Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2Z—Continved.
59f. Statements relative to (1) The yearly imports, quantity and value, for the past 6is
years into Canada from, respectively. Aurtralia, New Ze.Uand, Denmark. Holland,
Belgium France, Argentine Republic and the United States, of wheat, oats, horses,
cattle, sheep, lambs, mutton, beef. eggs, butter, cheese, fowl, M>getables and fruit.
(2) The average prices of butter and of eggs in London, England, for the past
five years in comparison with the prices, respectively, in Easterti Provinces, in Mon-
treal in Toronto, in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Buffalo, in Boston and in
New' York. Presented 28th July. 1911. by Hon. S. A. Fisher Not printed.
60 Return ol orders in council passed between the 1st of November. 1909. and the- 30th
September. 1910. in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the Dominion Lands
Survey \ct Chapter 21, 7-8 Edward VII. Presented 11th January, 1911. 1911. by Hon.
_, , fM- ' Not printed.
Frank Oliver '
60a. Return ..f Orders in Coun.il which have been published in the Canada Gazette and in
the Biitish Columbia Oazetle. between 1st November. 1909, and 30th September, 1910.
in accordance with pr.-visions of subsection (rf) of section 38 of the regulations for the
survey, administration, disposal and management of Dominion Lands within the 40-
mile railway belt in the province of British Columbia. Prese.ited 11th January. 1911.
,, T- 1 <-,i- Not printed.
by Hi'ii. I' rank Oliver '^
60'' Return called for by section 77 of the Dominion Lands Act. chapter 20 of the Statutes
of Canada. 1908. which is as follows-.—
" 77. Every regulation made by the Governor in Council, in virtue of the pro-
visions of this Act. and every order made by the Governor in Council, authorizing the
sale 0? any land or the granting of any interest therein, shnll have force and eflect
only after it has been published for four consecutive weeks in the Canada Gazette.
and all such orders or regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament
within the first fifteen days of the session next after tlie date thereof, and such regu-
lations shall remain in force until the day immediately succewling the day of proro-
gation of that session of Parliament, and no longer, unless during that session they
are approved by resolution of both Houses of Parliament." Presented 11th January,
1911. by Hon. Frank Oliver •^°' '"•'""^''•
61. Return of Orders in Council passed between the 1st November. 1909. and .the 30th
September, 1910, in accordance with the provisions of the Forest Reserve Act,
sections 7 and 1.) . f Chapter 56, Revised Statutes of Canada. Presented 11th January.
1911, by Hon. Frank Olirer ^'"^ printed.,
62. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated the 7th Decoinber. 1910, for a copy
of Su .lohn Th'.mpson's menicrandum on the question of the rights of fishing in the
bays of British North America, prepared for the use of the British Plenipotentiaries
at Washington in 1888 . and a copy of tlie Treaty agreed to and approved by the
President. Presented 11th ."anuary, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster.
Printed for sessional papers.
63. Return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7t7h December, 1910. for a copy
of any memorials, correspondence, Ac, between His Excellency the Governor General
and the Colonial Office, or between any member of the government, and the foreign
consols general in Canada, relative to the status of the latter, at official functions,
such as the vice-regal drawing room. PresenUd llth January, 1911.-3fr. Sproule.
Printed for sessional papers.
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J -2 George V. Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers. A. 1911
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2Z— Continued.
64. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6th December, 1910, for a return
showing: — 1. What newspapers or companies publishing newspapers in the cities of
Montreal and Quebec have directly or indirectly received sums from the Government
of Canada for printing, lithographing, binding or other work, between the 31st
March, 1910, and the 15th November, following.
2. What is the total amount paid to each of said newspapers or companies between
the dates above stated. Presented 11th January, 1911. — Mr. Monk Not printed.
65. Return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a copy of
all Orders in Council, correspondence, papers, maps or other documents, which passed
between the Government of Canada or any member thereof, and the Government
of Quebec, or any member thereof, or any other parties on their behalf, or between
the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario, or any members thereof,
regarding the extension of the boundaries of the province if Quebec, as set forth in
an Order in Council dated 8th July, 1896, establishing a conventional boundary,
thexiin specified. And also any correspondence, papers, documents, &c., that may have
passed between the aforesaid governments or members thereof, relative to the passing
of an Act to confirm and ratify the aforesaid conventional boundary, which wa^i
passed in 1898. Presented 11th January, 1911.— .If r. Sproule.
Printed for sessional papers.
68. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a Return
showing the names of manufacturers in Canada of turned kiln dried maple boot,
last and shoe last blocks, in the rough, for making manufacturers' boot and shoe
lasts. Presented 11th January, 1911. — Mr. Hughes ^ Not printed.
67. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a copy of all
correspondence, reports, memorials, surveys and other papers in the possession of tlie
Government, and not already brought down, regarding the oyster industry of Canada;
also a copy of all correspondence, reports and other papers regarding the ownership
and control of Oyster beds and of barren bottoms suitable for Oyster culture, and
regarding the consolidating of the ownership with the control and regulation of such
beds and barren bottoms, and vesting the same in the hands of the Dominion
Government; olso a copy of all correspondence, reports, recommendations and other
pap?rs relating to the leasing or sale of such beds or barren bottoms or of portions
of them, for the purpose of Oyster culture or cultivation. Also o copy of all corres-
pondence and reports relating to the culture, cultivation asd conservation of oysters
and other mollusks- Presented 11th January, 1911.— Mr. Warburton.
Printed for sessional papers.
68. Order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a copy of all reports,
evidence, correspondence, and other documents relating to an investigation into
irregularities in the life saving station at Clayoquot, mentioned on page 353 of the
Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for 1909 and 1910, sessional paper
No. 22. Presented Uth January, 1911. — Mr. Barnard ...Not printed.
69. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a Return
showing how many employees of the custom hou<=e at Montreal have left the service
since the 1st July, 1896, up to this date, with their names, duties, salaries and ages,
re^^pectivrly, and date of their leaving; the names, ages, salaries and duties of those
who have replsu;ed them, the date of their entry and their present salaries. Presented
11th January, 1911.— Mr. Wilson (Laval) Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2Z— Continued.
69a. Raurn to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 8th February. 1911. for a Return
showing the full names of the permanent or temporary employees appoisted at
Montreal nnce the 1st of January. 1904. in the Post Office Department, the Customs,
inland Revenue and Public Works; the age and plac« of residence of these employees
at the time of their appointment, the dates and nature of changes, promotions or
increp«es of salary granted these employees since their appointment. Presented 28th
■',,'• eiot pritife.-
April. 1911.— Mr. Gervais
70. Return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910. for a Retarn
showing «hat arrangements have boen made with foreign countr.es by the Governor
General in Council under the provisions of the Customs Tariff Act of 190< without
reference to Parliament. Presented Uth January, I911.-Mr. .4 me... ..Not pr.nted.
71. Eteturn to an Order of the House of Commons, dated Uth December. 1910. for a Return
showing the total expense* in connection with the surrender of St. Peter s Indian
Reserve, including moving the Indians to now reserve sale of lands, ■'"d »11 the
exp-nse n,ade necessary by the surrender. Presented 11th January. I911.-Mr.
„ „ Not printed.
Braclbuiy
71a. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated Hth December. 1910. for a copy of
all correspondence with Rev. John McDougall and all instructions given to h.m
regarding St. Peter's Indians and their reserve; and of Rev. John McDougall s report
of his investigations at St. Peter's Indian Reserve. Presented 11th January. 1911.
w n ji. Not printed.
—Mr. Bradbury
7V,. Supplementary Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated Uth December
1910 for a Return showing the total expense-s in connection with the surrender of
tit. i'eter-s Indian Reserve, including moving the Indians to new Reserve sale of lands,
and all the expense made necessary by the surrender. Pr^ented 18th January. 1911.
-Mr. Bradbury ^"^ "'""""'■
71c. Return to an Address of the House of Commons, dated Uth January, 1911. for a copy
of all correspondence, offers, agreements, orders in council, reports, records, regula-
tions, or other papers or documents, relating to the grant or su. render to one Merrill.
" or s.me other person or corporation, of the concession or right to bore for and acquire
nof.ral gas upon or under the Six Nation Reserve, at or near Brantford. Ontario;
together with a statement of all monies paid for said concession or right, and also
of all monies subsequently received by the Six Nation Indians, or by the government
on their behalf for such concession or rights. Presented 2ud February I911.--Mr.
Not printed.
Osier '^
72. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated Uth December. 1910. for a copy of
all coirespondence. reports, documents and papers relating to the strike of the
employees of the Cumberland Coal and Railway Company, Limited, not previously
brought down. Presented Uth January. I911.-Mr. Rhodes Not printed
72a. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December. 1910, for a copy of
the agreement of settlement of the late strike between the Grand Trunk Railway Com-
pany and the conductors and brakemen, and of all correspondence, documents and
papers relating thereto, or in consequence thereof, between the said parties, or be-
tween either and any person or persons authorized or professing to act for either, or
between the Government or any Minister or Deputy Minister or other person on its
behalf, and said parties, or either of them, or any person authorized or professing to
act for them or either of them befoie, during, or since said strike. Pr^ented 11th
,, ,, ., ..Not printed.
January. I911.-Mr. Northrup *'
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1-2 George V. Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers. A. 1911
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2Z—Contimted.
72b. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 25th January, 1911, for a copy of
all ccirespondence, documents and papers relating to the late strike on the Grand
Trunk Railway between the said railway and the striking conductors and trainmen,
or between either and any person or persons authorized or professing to act for
either, or between the Government or any Minister or Deputy Minister, or any one
on his behalf, and either of said parties or any on professing to act on behalf of
either, since the 29th day of November, A.D., 1910, and particularly all documents,
papers, correspondence and agreements relating to the reinstatement of any of the
men who had been on strike, and the appointment of Judge Barren. Presented 2nd
February, 19U.— Mr. Norihrup Not printed.
73. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a Return
implementing for the year 1910, the information brought down in answer to an Order
of the House of Commons referring to the operations of the mint, dated January
19, 1910. Presented 11th January, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
74. Supplementary Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 24th November,
1909, for a return showing the total amounts i^aid by the government in -each year
"since 1896, for all printing, advertising and lithographing done outside of the
Government Printing Bureau; the total amount so paid by each department of the
Government or such purposes during each year; the names and addresses of each
individual, firm or corporation to whom any such moneys have been so paid, and the
total amount paid to each such individual, firm or corporation in each year since
1896. What portion of the said sums, if any, so paid since 1S96 was expended after
public advertisement, tender and contract, to whom such tenders were awarded,
whether to the lowest tender in each case, what portion was expended otherwise
than by public advertisement, tender and contract, and to whom it was paid in each
instance. Presented 11th January, 1911. — Mr. Armstrong Not printed.
74:0. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 1st February, 1911, for a Return showing
year by year, from July 1st, 1896 up to date, the amounts paid to the Montre il
Herald, by the several departments of the Government of this country. Presented
8th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
74b. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 25th January, 1911, for the production of a
statement showing, year by year, from the 1st July, 1896 up to this date, the sums of
money paid to the newspaper, Le. SoJeil, by each of the different departments of
the Government of this country. Presented 8th March, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
74c. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 25th January, 1911, for the production of a
statement showing, year by year, the sums of money paid the newspaper La Vigie, of
Quebec, by each of the different departments of the Government of this country from
the founding of that newspaper up to this date. Presented 8th March, 1911. — Hoji.
Mr. Landry Not printed.
74(/. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 1st February, 1911, for a Return showing, year
by year, from 1st July, 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to La Presse of Montreal,
by the several departments of the Government of this country. Presented 8th March,
1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
74e. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 1st February, 1911, for a Return showing,
year by year, from July 1st, 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to La Presse of
Montreal, by the, several departments of the Government of this country. Presented
8th March. 1911.— Hon . Mr. Landry Not pritited.
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1-2 George V. Alphabetical Index to Sessional Papers. A. 1911
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2S— Continued.
HI- Return to an Order of the Senate dated 2-lth January, 1911, for a Return showing, year
by year, from the 1st July, 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to the paper Le
Canada, of Montreal, by each of the departments of the government of this counti-y.
Presented 8th March, 1911.^I7oii. Mr. Landry A'ol printed.
7^11- Return to an Order of the Senate dated 31st January, 1911, showing, year by year, from
July the 1st, 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to the Martineau Company by the
several departments of the country. Presented 4th April, 1911. -Hon. Mr. Landry.
.Vol printed.
74'i. Return to an Order of the Senate dated the 31st January, 1911, showing, year by year,
from 1st July, 189(j, up to date, the >aincunts paid to Mr. Jean Drolet, of Quel)eo, by
the several departments of the country. Presented 4th April. 1911. — Tlon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
74(. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 3rd February, 1911, showing, year by year, from
the 1st July, 1896, to this date, the sums of money paid to O. Picard and Sons, of
Quebec, by the different departments of the Government of this country. Presented
4th April, 1911.— iFori. Mr. Landry A'ot printed.
74;'. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 24th January, 1911, showing, year by year from
July 1, 189G, up to date, the amounts paid to Mr. Dp Cnurcy, contractor, by each of
the departments of this ri.untiy. rre-.rnted 4th April, 1911. 77ori. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
74fr. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated the 23rd February, 1911, for a
Return showing:— 1. All sums of money paid by the Government since 31st March last
to Lc Canada newspaper of Montreal or the publishers of the same respectively, for
odv.Mtising or printing, for lithographing or other work; and directly or indirectly
for copies of the newspaper.
2. Is the said newspaper e.xecuting any work of any kind for the Government at
present.
3. Have tenders been called publicly for any of the work done by said newspaper
for the government during the past year. Presented 6th April, 1911.— 3/r. Monk.
Not printed.
74(. Supplementary Return to an Order of the Senate dated 24th January, 1911, for a Return
showing year by year, from 1st July. 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to Mr. De
Courcy, contractor, by each of the departments of this country. Presented 27th
April, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
74in. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 15th May, 1911, for a Return
showing how much was paid by the Government to the proprietors or publishers of
the Essex Record, a daily and w^kly paper published in Windsor, On*-ario, for
printing and advertising, during the fiscal year ending 31st March, 1907, 1908, 1909,
1910 and 1911. Presented 18th July, 1911.— Mr. Boyce JVot printed.
75. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 12th December, 1910, for a Return
showing the average value for duty in 1896 and in 1910, respectively, of the unit of
each article or commodity enumerated in the schedules of the Customs Act, on which
in both years an ad valorem duty was payable. Presented 12th January, 1911.— Mr.
Borden (Halifax) 'Vot printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2S— Continued.
76. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 14tli December, 1910, for a Eeturm
showing all applications made to the Grovernment during the period of agreement
with Japan concerning Japanese immigrants, to admit such immigrants for special
purposes, together with a copy of all correspondence in connection with the same.
Presented 12th January, 1911. — Mr. Taylor {New Westminster) Not printed.
76a. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a Return
giving a list of the special immigration agents appointed by the government since the
31st March, 1909, in what portions of Great Britain and Irelond, the European Con-
tinent, or other country they are severally located, their addresses when they were
so appointed the date of their appointment in each case their respective salaries
and expenses, and any commissions that may have been paid to each or any
since their appointment. Presented 12th January, 1911. — Mr. Wilson {Lennox and
Addington) Not printed.
76b. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing the number of immigrants who have come to Canada since the 31st Marcli
la't up to the present time, the countries from which they came, the number from
each such country, the number of males and the number of females in each case, tie
number under fourteen years of age, between fourteen and twenty-one years, between
twenty-one and forty, and between forty and sixty in each case, their occupations
before coming to Canada, their religion, their destination in Canada, their occupa-
tion when they arrived at such destination ; also the number who have been pre-
vented from landing, and the number deported. Presented Gth February, 1911. — Mr.
Wilson {Lennox and Addington) Not printed.
76c Return to an Order of the Senate dated 24th January, 1911, calling for the production
in detail of the accounts and claims fyled at the Department of the Interior or the
Immigration Office, Quebec, by Mr. Jacques Dery ; restaurant keeper, during the
navigation season of 1910. Presented 7th February, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
76d. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 20th January, 1911, calling for the report
received by the Immigration Department on the subject of the complaints brought
against Mr. Jacques Dery, the keeper of the restaurant established in the immigra-
tion buildings at Quebec, and also of the correspondence exchanged and the inquiry
held by the immigration agent with regard to the overcharges by the restaurant
keeper, and of the refund which he had to make to immigrants of the price obtained
for goods of bad quality. Presented 7th February, 1911. — Eon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
76p. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 25th January, 1911, for the production of a
complaint, signed by a large number of persons employed at the Immigration OfBce
and Immigration buildings at Quebec and addressed to the agent of the Department
at that place, against Mr. Jacques Dery, the restaurant keeper, and also of the reply
of the latter. Presented 7th February, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
76/. Return to an Order of the Senate dated 25th January, 1911, that an Order of this House
do i=sue for the production of a letter dated 1st June, 1910, written by Mr. L. Stein,
of Quebec, addressed to Mr. W. D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigration. Presented
10th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOITTME 2S— Continued.
iGij- Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 3rd April, 1911, for a Return show
ing the itemized accounts, vouchers, statements, reports and other papers relating
to the 'alary and expenses of and paymeTits to W. O. Creighton, farmer delegate to
Great Britain in 1910. Presented 28th April, 1911.— Mr. Stanfield Not printed
76h. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 3rd April, 1911, for a Return show-
ing all itemized accounts, vouchers, statements, reports and other papers relating to
the salary of and payments to W. A. Hickman, immigration agent to Great Britain
in 1902 and 1903. Presented 28th April, 1911.— Jfr. Statificld Not printed.
77. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a Return
showing;—!. The estimated quantity of each class of material required for the con-
struction.
2. The rates or prices agreed upon and the estimated cost of each class of material,
based on rates on accepted tender.
3. The total estimated cost based on these quantities and rates in each case of the
several bridges let to contract during the Bscal year ended March 31, 1910, referred to
on pages 3 and -1 of the Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Transcon-
tinental Railway.
4. A copy of the specifications and contract in each case, the number of the con-
tract and the name of the contractor.
5. The number of bridges yet to be let to contract, location and character, and
the estimated quantity of the different kinds of material in oach case.
6. Why these bridges have not been let to contract and when contracts will pro-
bably be entered into as to these.
7. The bridges let to contract before March 31, 1909, identified by locality,
name of each contractor and luimber. the estimated cost of each of these bridges at
the time the contract was let. based on contract prices, the changes made in the
plans, specifications or contracts if any, and claims or allowances for alterations or
extras, if any, the percentage of the work done, the payments made to date, the
amounts retained as rontract reserve, and the ascertained or estimated amount
required to complete in each case.
8. The bridges that have been completed, identified as above, the estimated cost
at the time of awarding the contract, the nature and extent of changes in plans,
specifications, or contract, if any, the increase or decrease of cost thereby occasioned,
and the actual total cost of each of those bridges. Presented 13th January, 1911.—
Mr. Lennox Not printed.
77a. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December. 1910, for a copy of
the Tender and contract of Haney, Quinlan & Robertson for construction of locomo-
tive and other shops about six miles east of Winnipeg, and tie total estimated cost
based on contract prices. Also a copy of the several other tenders sent in and a
statement of the total estimated cost based upon each of these tenders as moneyed
out at the time of awarding the contract. Presented 13th January, 1911.— Mr. Len-
noT Not printed.
77b. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing as to each contract district of the National Transcontinental Railway between
Moncton and Winnipeg, respectively, what was the origin.il departmental estimate
of quantities of solid rock, broken stone, earth, sand. &c., and the quantities of each
kind of excavation, as above, already paid for. Presented 24th January, 1911.— Mi-.
Ames Not printed.
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77c. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing in all cases where finished structures on the National Transcontinental Rail-
way, have differed materially, to an extent involving a HLSerence in cost of more
than $10,000, from the original standard plans; the original estimated cost of the
structure; the cost according to altered plans; the nature of the change; the name
of the resident engineer, and of the contractor or sub-contractor; the reason, if any,
given for the alteration of plans; and a copy of the correspondence exchanged thereon
between the headquarters staff and the engineer on the ground. Presented 24th
January, 1911.— 3fr. Ames i^^ot printed.
77d. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing the clause in the standard contract on the National Transcontinental Rail-
way having reference to train hauled filling, with a statement showing what amounts
have been paid to date, and to whom, for services o' this nature. Presented 24th
January, 1911. — Mr. .imes jVof printed.
77c. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing what amounts to date have been paid on force account to each and to all
contracts connected with the National Transcontinental railway, setting forth the
district affected thereby. Presented 24th January, 1911.— Mr. Ames.. ..Not printed.
77/. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing all cases where in construction work on the National Transcontinetal Rail-
way a richer mixture of concrete was used than that indicated in the standard speci-
fication, to an extent affecting the cost of the work to the amount of $5,000 or more ;
also the original estimated cost and the actual cost in each of such cases. Presented
24th January, 1911. — Mr. Ames Not printed.
77u- Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing a list of the members of the engineering staff who have been dismissed, or
have resigned or left the service of the National Transcontinental Railway Commission
since 1904, with position formerly held, the date of leaving, and the assigned cause
in each instance. Presented 7th February, 1911.— 3fr. Ames Not printed.
77ft. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 26th January, 1911, for a Return
showing: — 1. In those cases in which an agreement was come to last autumn between
Mr. Killiher and Mr. Gordon as to overbreak on the eastern Division of the Trans-
continental Railway, what quantities of material, and of what class, and what sums
of money were taken from or added to the progress Estimates.
2. In the cases where measurements had to be made, have they been made, and
with what result. Presented 17th February, 1911.— Mr. Lennox Not printed.
77i. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a Return
showing, in resjwct of all cases on the National Transcontinental Railway, where the
original specifications have not been adhered to ; the estimated cost as per original
plan; the actual or estimated cost as l)er amended plan; the name of the contractor
and the resident engineer, and the reason given by the latter for such change. Pre-
sented 24th February, 1911.— Mr. Ames Not printed.
77 j. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a Return
showing what will have been the total expenditure upon, in connection with or in
consequence of, the National Transcontinental Railway up to the 31st of December,
1910, and what amount it is estimated will be required to coirplete and fully equip
the said road between Winnipeg and Moncton. Presented 27th February, 1911. — Mr.
Ames Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 22— Continned.
TJk. Interim Report of the Commissioners of the Transcontinental Railway for the nine
months ended December 31, 1910. Presented 27th February, 1911, by Hon. G. P.
Graham -Vol printed.
771. Return to an Order of the Senate dated ISth January. 1911, for a Return showing:— A.
As relates to the main line of the Transcontinental : —
1. The respective length in miles of each of the divisions of the Transcontinental,
named Division A, Division B, &c., from Moncton to Winnipeg, and specifying in
which province each of the divisions is located.
2. The estimated cost, at the outset, of the construction oi the road in each divi-
sion.
3. The actual price paid, on the 15th January instant, for the building of the
line, sidings, bridges and other necessary works in each division.
4. The approximate cost in each division of the Transcontinental, of what remains
to bo constructed for the completion of the road.
B. As relates to the branch lines of the Transcontinental:—
1. The respective length of each of the said branch lines, specifying the district
and the province within which the said branch lines are located.
2. The estimated cost, at the start, of the construction of each of tht said branch
lines.
3. The actual cost up to the 15th January instant of the construction of said
branch lines.
i. The probable cost of the works to be executed on each of the said branch lines.
5. The indif ation of the special section of the Act which each branch line has been
constructed.
6. The mention of all other branch lines proposed to be constructed by the Trans-
continental Railway Commission or the Government, showing the length and probable
cost thereof. Presented 8th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
77m. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd February, 1911, for a Return
showing: —
1. What contracts outside of those numbered 1 to 21, inclusive, have been let for
construction on the Transcontinental Railway at Winnipeg and St. Boniface of
bridges, station buildings, freight houses, sheds, engine houses, turn tables, water
tanks, section houses, work shops, or other buildings, erections, structures or plant.
2. Were those contracts all let after advertisement and upon tender.
3. What is the cost or estimated cost according to schedule or bulk tender in
each case, and who is the contractor in each case.
4. Were tenders asked for both by schedule and on bulk tender basis, on which
system was the contract awarded and for what reason in each case.
5. What alterations have been made in any of the works since letting of con-
tract, and at what increased or decreased cost. Presented 9th March. 1911. — Mr.
White (Renfrew) Not printed.
77n. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 6th March, 1911, for a copy of the
report of the engineers who investigated overclassification, overbreak, or other
alleged over allowances on progress or final estimate, on the Eastern Division of the
Transcontinental Railway, the evidence taken, or other data collected, and of all
letters, instructions, agreements, plans, drawings, photographs, memoranda and
writings sent, given, had or used in connection with said investigation, not already
brought down, together with a reference to the previous return where papers are
already down ; also a copy of the previous report made by Messrs. Schreiber, Kelli-
gher and Lumsden immediately before Mr. Lumsden's resignation. Presented 16th
March, 1911.— Afr. Lennox Not printed
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2Z— Continued.
77o. Return to au Order of the House of Commons, dated 13th March, 1911, for a Return pr&-
pared upon the lines of Sessional Papers No. 46/ of the 28th April, 1909, relating to
the Eastern Division of the Transcontinental Railway, showing the actual expenditure
upon each of the scheduled items upon each of the 21 contracts for construction of
this divisicn, down to the latest estimate made upon each contract, and the estimated
quantity of work to be done and material to be furnished as to each of these items,
and the estimated cost to complete the contract in each case. Presented 10th April,
1911. — Mr. Lennox Not printed.
77p. Return to an Address of the Senate dated 23rd March, 1911, for a copy of the Order in
Council dated 23rd June, 1910, transferring from the Government to the National
Transcontinental Railway Commission, the spur line between the Quebec bridge and
the city of the same name. Presented 19th April, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
78. For approval by the House under section 17 of the Yukon Act, Chapter 63 of the Revised
Statutes of Canada, 1906, a copy of an ordinance made by His Excellency the Gov-
ernor General in Council, in virtue of the provisions of Section 16 of the said Chapter
63, on the 9th day of December, 1909, and intituled: "An ordinance to rescind an
Ordinance respecting the imposition of a tax upon ale, port«r, beer or lager beer
imported into the Yukon Territory. Presented 13th January, 1911, by Hon. Frank
Oliver Not printed.
79. Return under Section 88 of the Northwest Territories Act, Chapter 62, Revised Statutes
of Canada. Presented 16th January, 1911, by Hon. Frank Oliver Not printed.
80. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a copy of
all correspondence between the mover and any other persons, corporations and
municipal as well as other public bodies, and the Department of Railways and Canals,
resjjectisg the reconstruction and alteration of the Canadian Pacific Railway Com-
pany's bridge across the St. Lawrence river at Lachine, P.Q. Presented 16th
January, 1911.— Mr. Monk Not printed.
81. Report of the Commissioner, Dominion Police Force, for the year 1910. Presented 17th
January, 1911, by Sir Allen Aylesworth Not printed.
82. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a copy of
all correspondence exchanged between the govoiument and the Phoenix Bridge Com-
pany in connection with the payment by said company of $100,000 in discharge of
claims re contract. Presented 16th January. 1911.— M?-. Aims Not printed
83. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th March, 1910, for a return show-
ing the number of accidents to trains of the I.C.R. for ten months, from 1st April.
1908, to 31st December, 1908; the number of persons killed or injured in each of such
accidents for ten months, from 1st April, 1908. to 31st December. 1908: and the cost
of e£ich of such accidents to the I. C. R.. respectively, for repairs, property destroyed,
compensation to passengers, and for compensation to shippers for freight and bag-
gage. Presented 16th January, 1911.— Mr. Stanfield Not printed.
S3a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th March, 1910, for a return
showing the sumber of accidents to trains on the I. C. R. between 1st April, 1909,
and present date, and the location and particulars of each; the number of persons
killed or injured in each of such accidents since 1st April, 1909, to date; and the cost
of each of such accidents to the I. C. R., respectively, for repairs, property destroyed,
compensaticjn to passengers, and for compensation to shippers for freight and bag-
gage. Presented 16th January, 1911. — Mr. Stanfield Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOITJME 23— Continued.
83b Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December. 1910. showing all
data statements, estimates, recommendations and reports with regard to an Inter-
colonial railway renewal equipment account, and as to the initiation of such account
and the operation thereof to the present time.
2. A copy of all correspondence with the Auditor General and other persons m
regard thereto. , u ic f
3 A copy of all correspondence, inquiries and investigations by or on behalt ot
the Auditor General as to the need for such account, and as to the sufficiency or
otherwise of moneys carried to such account, and also as to the application of such
"""TThe samo returns as to the maintenance of rails account; and the same returns
as to a maintenance of bridges account, also as to any other items of maintenanc^.
and as to any recommendations regarding the adoption of such accounts^ f '^7;/,^
16th January. I911.-Mr. Barker " P'"'" "^
eSr. Roturn to an order of the S«nat« dated ith May. 1910. railing f,.r the following infor-
mation :—
1. Were tenders asked for. in 1908 and 1909, for the purchase of railway sleepers
for the use of the Intercolonial railway, and were contract^ award-d to the lowest
tenderer?
2. Who had these contracts, and what is the name of each tendered, and also the
amount of each tender?
3. Did the Department of Railways and Canals, in 1908 and 1909, award any con-
tracts whatsoever for the purchase of the said sleepers and what price was paid to
each contractor, and who had these contracts?
4. In 1908 and 1909, did the Department of Railways and Canals ask for tenders for
the purchase of sleepers made of spruce, white, gray and yelluw, as well as of birch,
ash, poplar. &c.?
5. What quantity of these sleepers, for each kind of wood, was accepted and paid
for in 1S08 and 1909, and does 'the department propose to continue the system of pur-
chasing these kinds of wood?
6. Who bought these sleepers of spruce, birch, ash. poplar. Ac. and who gave the
orders tc receive these kinds of sleepers, and who received them and stamped them
for the Intercolonial railway?
7. In 1909. did the department ask for tenders for sleeyers of cedar. Cyprus and
he "lock? If so, who had these contracts and were these contracts granted to the
lowest bidders, and what quantities were actually furnished by each contractor?
8. What quantity of sleepers has been furnished up to this date—
(a) by the contractors for New Brunswick; and
(b) by the contractors for Nova Scotia nnil for the province of Quebec, respec-
tively?
9. Did the government by order in council authorize Mes-rs. Pottinger, Burpee
or Taylor of Moncton, to purchase sleepers of spruce of all kinds and dimensions,
and to cause these kinds of sleepers to be distributed in the district of Quebec, and
notably in the district of River du Loup and Isle Verte?
10. What price did the department pay for the sleepers of spruce, hemlock, cedar,
birch and poplar, Ac? Who is the contractor therefor? Who received and inspected
the said sleepers'
11. Does the department know that these sleepers are absolutely unfit to be used
in a railway, and that these sleepers are at the present time distributed along the
Intercolonial railway to be used upon the main .track?
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12. How much a carload does the freight of sleepers sent from New Brunswick-
cost in the district of Quebec? Presented 3rd February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
84. Return to an order of the Hoiise of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a return
showing the respective quantities of each of the staple Tari.jties of fish landed by
Canadian Atlantic fishermen yearly, since 1870, and the respective yearly values
thereof. Presented 16th January, 1911.— Mr. Jameson Not printed.
85. Return to an order of the Uouse of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a copy of
all letters, telegrams, correspondence, resolutions, memorials, reports, and all other
papers in the possession of the government, not already brought down, regarding
otter, beaver, or steam trawling, and the operations of the trawlers Wren and
Coquette in the waters of the Northumberland strait, or elsewhere, in Nova Scotia.
Presented 16th January, 1911.— Mr. Chisholm {Antigonish) Not printed.
86. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a return
showing the revenue of the post offices of Acton Vale, Upton and St. Pie, in the
county of Bagot, province of Quebec, since the year 1903 up to 1910 inclusively. Pre-
sented 17th January, 1911. — Mr. Monk Not printed
86a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a copy of
all instructions or communications from the Department of Public Works or any
ofBcer thereof, or the minister of public works, to the chief architect, or any other
architect, with respect to the preparation of plans for the construction of a post
office building at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, and all other post office buildings or public
buildings to be used wholly or in part by the Post Office Department, for which votes
have been passed during the period from 1st January, 1908, to 31st December, 1910.
Presented 20th April, 1911.— Mr. fi/iorf(?jf Not printed.
87. Return to an address of the Senate dated 22nd April, 1910, for; —
1. Copies of all orders in council or of every order of the Department nf Justice
and of the Department of Public Works, and of all the correspondence exchanged
between the government, the Departments of Justice and Public Works, the Bank of
Montreal, the firm of Carrier & Lain4, of L^vis, and all oth.^r persons, on the sub-
iests of —
(a) The acquisition by the government of the property of the firm of Carrier &
Lain^, at the time of the sale thereof by the sheriff in 1908;
(b) the subsequent expropriation, for purposes of public utility, of the same
property, which had fallen into the hands of the bank of Montreal;
(c) its definite purchase from the Bank of Montreal by the government;
(d) the appointment of an agent to represent the government at the sale by the
sheriff;
(c) the appointment of experts for proceeding with the expropriation of the
lands in question ;
2. Copies of all reports submitted, directly or indirectly, to the government, or
in its possession, by the experts hereinbefore mentioned, or by the arbitrators to
whom the Bank of Montreal and the firm of Carrier & Lain6 had submitted their
differences, or by the various advocates or agents acting in the name and in the
interests of the government.
3. Copies of the various contracts entered into between La Banque du Peuple and
the People's Bank of Halifax in 1905, between the government and the bank of Mont-
real, in 1909, between the government and Mr, Ernest Cann, who had become the
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CONTENTS OF VOLTJME 22— Continued. '
lessee of the government, for a period of thirty years, of the lands and buildings
formerly the property of Carrier & Laine.
i. Copies of all documents whatsoever and of a correspondence relating to the
various transactions aforesdid, and also a statement showing all the sums of money
paid by the government with respect to such transactions, with the names of the
persons to whom such sums were paid, and the amounts paid to each of them, and
for what particular object. Prespnted 11th January, 1911.— Hon. Mr. tandry-
Kot priiited.
. Supplementary return to an address of the Senate dated 22nd .\pril, 1910, for:—
1. Copies of all orders in council or of every order of the department of justice
and of the department of public works, and of all the correspondence exchanged
between the government, the department of justice and public works, the bank ot
Montreal, the firm of Carrier & Lain^, of Levis, and all other persons, on the sub-
ject of—
(«) The acquisition by the government of the property of the firm of Carrier 4
Laine. at the time of the sale thereof by the sheriff in 1308;
(b) the subsequent expropriation, for purposes of public utility, of the same pro-
perty, which had fallen into the hands of the Bank of Montreal;
(c) its definite purchase from the bank of Montreal by the government;
(<') the appointment of an agent to represent the goveriiMiont at tht- sale by the
sherifl;
(e) the appointment of experts for proceeding with the expropriation of the
lands in cjuestion;
2. Copies of all reports submitted, directly or indirectly, to the government, or
in its possession, by the experts hereinbefore men'^ioned, or by the arbitrators to
whom the bank of Montreal and the firm of Carrier & Lai;ie had submitted their
dificrenccs, or by the various advtcatcs or agents acting in the name and in the
interests of the government.
3. Copies of the various cuntracts entered into between La Banque du I'euple, and
the People's Bank of Halifax in 1905, between the government and the bank of Mont-
real, in 1909, between the government and Mr. Ernest Cann, who had become the
lessees of the government, for a period of thirty years, of the lands and buildings
formerly the property of Carrier & Lain^.
4. Copies of all documents whatsoever and of all correspondence relating to the
various transactions aforesaid, and also a statement showing all the sums of money
paid by the government w^ith respect to such transactions, with the names of the
persons to whom such sums were paid, and the amounts paid to each of them, and fnr
what particular object. Presented 18th January, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
. Further supplementary return to an address of the Senate dated 22nd April, 1910, for ~
1. Copies of all orders in council or of ©very order of the Department of Justice
and of the Department of Public Works, and of all the correspondence exchanged
between the government, the Departments of Justice and Public Works, the Bank of
Montreal, the firm of Carrier & Laine, of L^vis, and all other persons, on the sub-
jects of —
(n) The acquisition by the government of the property of the firm of Carrier &
Laine, at the time of the sale thereof by the sherifl in 1908;
(b) the subsequent expropriation, for purposes of public utility, of the same pio-
perty, which had fallen into the hands of the bank of Montreal;
(e) its definite purchase from the Bank of Montreal by the government ;
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2S— Continued.
(d) tlie appointment of an agent to represent the government at the sale by the
sheriff;
(e) the appointment of experts for proceeding with the expropriation of the
lands in question;
2. Copies of all reports submitted, directly or indirectly, to the government, or
in its possession, by the experts hereinbefore mentioned, or by the arbitrators to
whom the Bank of Montreal and the firm of Carrier & Laine had submitted their
differences, or by the various advocates or agents suiting in the name and in the
interests of the government.
3. Copies of the various contracts entered into between La Banque du Peuple and
the People's Bank of Halifax in 1905, between the government and the Bank of Mont-
real in 1909, between the government and Mr. Ernest Cann, who had become the
lessee of the government, for a period of thirty years, of the lands and buildings
formerly the property of Carrier & Laine.
4. Copies of all documents whatsoever and of all correspondence relating to the
various transactions aforesaid, and also a statement showing all the sums of money
paid by the government with respect to such transactions, with the names of the per-
sons to whom such sums were paid, and the amounts paid to each of them, and for
what particular object. Presented 27th January, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
87c. Supplementary return to an address of the Senate dated 22nd April, 1910, for copies:—
1. Copies of all orders in council or of every order of the Department of Justice
and of the Department of Public Works; and of all the correspondence exchanged
between the government, the Departments of Justice and Public Works, the Bank of
Montreal, the firm of Carrier & Laine, of Levis, and all other persons, on the sub-
jects of —
(a) The acquisition by the government of the property of the firm of Carrier &
Lain€, at the time of the sale thereof by the sheriff in 1908;
(b) the subsequent expropriation, for purposes of public utility, of the same
property, which had fallen into the hands of the bank of Montreal;
(c) its definite purchase from the Bank of Montreal by the government;
(d) the appointment of an agent to represent the government at the sale by the
sherifl; '-^
(c) the appointment of experts for proceeding with the expropriation of the
lands in question;
2. Copies of all reports submitted, directly or indirectly, to the government, or
in its possession, by the experts hereinbefore mentioned, or by the arbitrators to
whom the Bank of Montreal and the firm of Carrier & Lain4 had submitted their
differences, or by the various advocates or agents acting in the name and in the
interests of the government.
3. Copies of the various contracts entered into between La Banque du Peuple and
the People's Bank of Halifax in 1905, between the government and the Bank of Mont-
treal in 1909, between the government and Mr. Ernest Cann. who had become the
lessee of the government, for a period of thirty years, of the lands and buildings
formerly the property of Carrier & Laine.
4. Copies of all documents whatsoever and of all correspondence relating to the
various transactions aforesaid, and also a statement showing all the sums of money
paid by the government with respect to such transactions, with the name of the per-
sons to whom such sums were paid, and the amounts paid to each of them, and for
what particular object. Presented 7th February, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLTIME 23— Continued.
S7d Return to an order of the Senate dated 9th March, 1911, for a return of copy of the
contract entered into between the Bank of Montreal and the People's Bank of Halifax,
in 1905, in connection with the Bnanci^l situation and with the obligations of the
firm of Carrier-Laine, a copy of which contract was handed over to the government
at the time of the financial transactions concluded between the Bank of Montreal
and the government in 1909. Presented 4th April, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed-
88. Return to an address of the Senate dated 21th November, 1910, for copies of all orders
in council, memoranda or other correspondence respecting the resignation of tha
present Lieutenant Governor of the province of Quebec, the apopintment of his
successor, the application for leave of absence, and the appointment of an adminis-
trator during the absence from the country of His Honour Sir Pantaleon Pelletier.
Presented 11th January, 1911.— Hon. ifr. Landry Not printed.
88'i. Return to an address of the Senate dated 8th February, 1911, for a copy of the order
in council e.\tending, for a period of two months, the leave of absence already
obtained by Sir Pantaleon Pelletier, together with copy of all the correspondence on
the subject between the government. His Honour the Lieutenant Governor of the
province of Quebec, and the present administrator of the said province. Presented
Uth February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
89. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a copy of all
correspo'dence, letters, telegrams, reports and papers of every description between
theliquid.i'.ors of the Charing Cross Bank or of A. W. Carpenter or anyone on their
behalf, and any member of the government, or official ther.>of, regarding the affairs
of the Atlantic, Quebec and Western railway, the Quebec Oriental railway, or the
new Canadian Company, limited. Presented 18th January. 1911.— Mr. Ames.
Not printed.
90. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a return
showing how many wireless telegraph stations are owned by the government where
are they located, the cost of each, and the revenue derived trom each ; what stations
are leased, to whom they are leased, the amount of rental received each year and the
period covered by said lease. Presented 18th January, 1911.— Jtfr. Armstrong.
Not printed.
91. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 15th March, 1910, for a return
showing the names of all persons who have been fined for breach of fisheries regula-
tions in the coast waters of the counties of Pictou and Cumberland, Nova Scotia, and
Westmorland, New Brunswick, during the years 1907, 1908 and 1909, together with a
full statement of the penalties inflicted, moneys collected, and fines or portion thereol
remitted, if any, in each case, and for a copy of all instructi.)ns issued, reports, cor-
respondence and documents relating in any manner thereto. Presented 18th.
January, I911.-Mr. Rhodes ^ot printed.
91a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th Janaary, 1911, for a return
showing the names of all persons who have been fined for breach of fishery regula-
tions in the coast waters of Prince Edward Island since the year 1900 up to this date,
together with a statement of the penalties inflicted, moneys collected, and fines or
potions thereof remitted, in each case; and for a copy of all instructions issued,
reports correspondence and documents relating in any manner thereto. Presented
6th March, I911.-Mr. Fraser -^'ot printed.
8887— 3i 35
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92. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a copy of the
mailing list, and names of all parties to whom the Department of Labour mailed or
otherwise sent copies of the Labour Gazette during the year 1910, and of the names
of all correspondents that report to the department on labour topics for the purposes
of the Labour Gazette. Presented 18th January, 1911.— Mr. Currie {Sirn.coe).
Not printed.
93. Eeturn to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th Deomber, 1910, for a copy of
all correspondence and other papers and documents that have passed between the
government and any party or parties during the past year in connection with the
dredging of the Napanee river; also any instruction given by the minister in con-
nection therewith .= Presented ISth January, 1911.— Mr. Wils^m {Lennox and Addinr]-
ioii) Not printed.
93(1. Eetiun to an addres of the House of Commons, dated 12th December, 1910, for a copy
of all correspondence, sppcificLitious, tenders, orders in council, and other papers
relating to a contract or contracts entered into by the Department of Public Works
for dredging in Miramichi Bay. New Brunswick, since the close of the la«t fiscal year.
Presented 13th February, 1911. Mr. Crocket Not printed.
93'j. Eeturn to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a summary
report on the state of the dredging works executed in the River Des Prairies up to
the present time, making specially known the length, depth and width of the canal
dredged up to date, and the amount expended on this work. Presented 22nd March
1911.— il/r. Wilson (Laval) Not printed.
93f. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd Jauuarj', 1911, for a return
showing: — 1. A copy of the report of the engineer who made the survey and estimate
of the Back River or Riviere des Prairies, between the eastern end of the Island of
Montreal and the Lake of Two Mountains, in the province of Quebec, in view of the
dredging and deepening of said river.
2. Details of work and expenditure to date in connection with the said work.
3. Estimate of cost of work remaining to be done and especially of the part
between Bourde a Ploufle and the Lake of Two Mountains. Presented 22ud March,
1911.— Mr. Afo7!fc Not printed.
93''- Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a return
showing during the seasons 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910, what amounts
were paid to Messrs. Dussault & Lemieux, dredging contractors, for work done by the
lulcrnational, the government dredge, leased to the said contractors, as far as the
-ame can be ascertained. Presented 28th March, 1911.- Mr. Sharpe {Oniarin).
Not printed.
94. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a return
showing the names and dates of first appointment of all lighthousekeepers, from
Quebec to the sea, in the river and Gulf of St. Lawrence; also their present salaries,
with an indication in each case of what they are obliged to provide for the lighthouse
or signal service, and the amount of indemnity granted tliein for .=uch provision.
Also the rules or regulations which provide for the regular increase of their salaries.
Presented 19th January, 1911.— .1/r. Mnvk Not prijiied
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2^—G<mchtded.
94a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 26th January, 1911, for a return
giving the names of the lighthouse keepers on the St. Lawrence, between Queljec and
Montreal, since the 12th April. 1887, and what yearly salary has been paid them
respectively since that date. Presented 27th February, 1911.— ilfr. BJondin.
Not printed.
95. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 5th Uecomber, 1910, a copy of a
Report by Mr. W. T. R. Preston, Commissioner of Trade and Commerce in Holland re
the establishment of a Netherland loan company in Canada; of all communications
between the Department of Trad© and Commerce and any other department of the
government and Mr. Preston on the subject matter of this report; a copy of all cor-
respondence between Mr. Preston and any person or persons in Holland regarding
proposed operations of a Dutch Loan Companj- in Canada, and a copy of correspond-
ence or communications of any nature whatsoever between the government or the
department with any persons relating to this question. Presented 19th January,
1911.— Mr. Monk Not printed^
9.5<'- Keturn to an order of the House of Comraon.s, dated 22nd November, 1909, for a copy
of all correspondence, petitions, reports written representations in the bands of the
government, or any department of the same, concerning the commercial or trade
mission to Japan of W T. R. Preston, as Canadian Trade Commissioner for Canada,
and of the reports of said commissioner, as well as all other reports and ile?patches
received by the government in connection with the execution of said mission. Pre-
sented 6th February, 1911.— iVonfc Not printed.
95b. Supplementary return to an order of the Houfe of Commons, dated 22nd November,
1009, for a copy of all correspondence, petitions, reports, written representations in
t'ae hands of the government, or any department of the same, concerning the com-
mercial or trad© mission to Japan of W. T. R. Preston, as Canadian Trade Commis-
sioner for Canada, and of the reports of said commissioner, as well as all other reports
and dispatches received by the government in connection with the execution of said
mission. Presented 13th February, 1911.— .Vr. Monk Not printed.
93c. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence between any department of the government and Mr. W. T. R.
Preston, Trade Commissidner in Holland, regarding the Netherlands Land Company,
since the date of the last resolution adopted by this House, calling for the same at
the present se.ssion; also a copy of the official document issued by the government
respecting the high regard in which western farm lands are held by some of th©
principal loan and investment companies. Presented 2.3rd February, 1911.— Mr.
Monk Not printed.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24.
95d. Copy of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Japan,
signed at London, ."ird April, 1911. Presented 20th April, 1911. by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for sessional papers.
95c. I'apers with reference to treaty with Japan. Presented 17th May, 1911, by Hon. W. S.
Fielding Prin'.ed for scssioiuil papers.
96. Return to an order of House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a copy of all
applications, reports, records, correspondence, &c., in connection with the entry or
cancellation proceedings in respect of the s.w. J section 10, township 38, range 15,
west 2ud meridian. Presented 19th January, 1911.— .Mr. Lakr Not p-inted.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24r—Oontinued.
96a- Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a copy of
all applications, correspondence, and other documents in reference to sections 11, 12,
H, 22, 24,28, 30, 32,- 34, and 36 in township 10, range 22, west of the 4th meridian.
Presented 1st February, 1911.— J/r. Wallace Not printed.
96b. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 8th February, 1911, for a copy of
all letters, telegrams and correspondence between the Department of the Interior or
any of its officials and Mr. J. Krenzer, or their solicitor, or one Mr. Wolf, and of all
reports of the officials of the said department respecting the south half section 28,
township 27, range 18, west of the 2nd principal meridian, and also all correspond-
ence, letters and telegrams between the department and one Thomas Greenway or
his brother respecting the said lands; and all correspondence between the department
and its officials respecting the said lands; and all papers, reports, correspondence and
documents put in the files of the department, since the 1st of April, in relation to
the dispute between said Krenzer and said Greenway. Presented 22nd February,
1911.— Mr. Staples.. Not printed.
97. Minutes of conference held at Washington the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th January, 1911, as
to the application of the award delivered on the 7th September, 1910, in the North
Atlantic coast fisheries arbitration to existing regulations of Canada and Newfound-
land. Presented 19th January, 1911. by Sir Allen Aylesworth.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
97a. Copy of order in council approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council
on the 21st January, 1911, relating to changes in the fishery regulations under section
54 of " The Fisheries Act," chapter 45 of the revised statutes of Canada, 1906, in con-
formity to the agreement made at the conference held at Washington, January, 1911
Also dspatch from Mr. Bryce to Lord Grey. Presented 25th January, 1911, by Hon.
L. P. Brodeur Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
97b. (1) Copy of Hague Tribunal Award concerning Atlantic fisheries given 7th September,
1910;
(2) Extracts from the special fishery regulations for the pi evince of Quebec;
(3) Protocol 30 containing statements of the acts of Newfoundland and
Canada objected to by the United States authorities.
On motion of Mr. Brodeur, it was ordered. That Rule 74 be suspended, and that
the foregoing papers in connection with the " Hague Tribunal Award," be printed
forthwith, and put under the same cover as the documents the printing of which
was ordered at the sitting of the House on the 25th January, 1911. Presented 27th
January, 1911, by Hon. L. P Brodeur.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
98. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a copy of
all memorials, petitions and requests received by the government since last session
advocating the enlargement of the Welland canal, as well as all memorials, petitions,
resolutions, Ac, favouring the construction of the Montreal and Georgian Bay canal.
Presented 20th January, 1911.— Mr. flodgfris Not printed.
98a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a copy of
the lease made between the government and the Canadian Light and Power Company
relating to the Beanharnois canal. Presented 20th January, 1911.— Mr. Lortic.
Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^0ontinued.
98b. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a return
showing in detail: — 1. All sums paid by the concessionaires or grantees of the Beau-
harnois canal as rental or royalties upon the rights conveyed to them by the Crown
on the Beauharnois canal, or paid by their assigns in the enjoyment of the said
rights, since the concession.
2. Of all sums paid or expended by the government upon the said canal since the
date of the said concession.
3. Of all sums actually due the Crown by the grantees or assigns for the use of
the said canal or in connection therewith. Presented 7th February, 1911. — Mr. Monk.
Not printed.
96c. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911,
for a copy of all memorials, petitions and requests received by the government since
last session advocating the enlargement of the Welland canal, as well as all
memorials, petitions, resolutions, &c., favouring the construction of the Montreal and
Georgian Bay canal. Presented 10th February. 1911. — Mr. Hodgim.. ..Not printed.
Q8d. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 1st February, 1911, for a copy of
all leases, agreements and contracts made with any person, persons, company or
corporations, granting by way of lease or otherwise, any water powers on or along
the Trent Valley canal; together with any correspondence in connection with same.
Presented 9th March, 1911. — Mr. Roche Not printed.
98c. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy
of all correspondence concerning the lease or alienation of the Beauharnois canal, of
all reports called for by the government and made concerning the said alienation by
e.xperts, officers of the departments or others, of all orders in council respecting said
alienation and of the deed or deeds between the Crown and the concessionaires
embodying the said lease or alienation and respecting also any transfers of their
rights and privileges by the original grantees. Presented Itth March, 1911. — Mr.
Monk Not printed.
99. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 12th December, 1910, for a state-
ment showing the amounts paid by the several government departments sine© 1st
January, 1908, to the following law firms, or to any member thereof, and what has
been in each case the nature of the service rendered; Messrs. Dandurand, Hibbard &
Company, Montreal; Stewart, Cox & McKenna, Montreal; Smith, Markay & Com
pany, Montreal; Hibbard, Boyer & Gosselin, Montreal. Presented 23rd January,
1911. — Mr. Reid (Grenville) Not printed.
100. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a return
showing the cost of the Senate of Canada for each year since the fiscal year 1896.
under the headings of number of senators, indemnity, travelling expenses, printing,
staff, and contingencies. Presented 23rd January, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Foster.
Not printed.
101. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a return
showing the names of the United States consuls or consular oflicers in the Dominion,
the districts over which each has consular authority, the scale of fees which is
exacted by them for certification of exports to the United States and the number of
certified lots of goods exported under certificate during the year 1910. Presented
24th January, 1911.— Mr. K/iorfes Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24r-Continued.
102. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7tli December, 1910, for a copy of
all customs entries made at Vancouver, British Columbia, for goods entered free of
duty by each of the following parties during each of the years 1901, 1902, 1903, 1901,
1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910 :— Robert Kelly, by himself, agent, or broker for
him; Kelly. Douglas & Company, or agent, or broker, ''or them; and by any or all
of the departments of the Dominion government; also by any other person, firm or
firms, or broker, having been allowed to make free entry at Vancouver, British
Columbia, during above years, declared as for supply to the Dominion government.
Presented 24th January, 1911.— Mi-. Barnard Not printed.
102«. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January. 1911, for a return
showing the average value for duty in 1896 and 1910, respectively, of the unit of each
article or commodity enumerated in the schedules of the Customs Act, on which au
ad valorem duty was payable together with the rate of duty, the amount on which
duty was paid, and the amount of duty paid for each year, with the to^al;^, respec-
tively. Presented 13th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
103. Return to an order tf the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a return
showing the names, respective ages, when appointed, and pay received, by the ses-
sional employees of the House of Commons. Presented 25th January. 1911.— Mr.
Spruule Not printed.
1Q3.1. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 13th February, 1911, for a return
showing the names and addresses of all sessional employees of the House of Com-
mons, beginning with the session immediately subsequent to the elections of 1S9G, and
for each year succeeding, to and including the present session, their duties in each
case, their home addresses, their salaries, their transfers in each and every case to
either other appointments of the sessional staff or to permanent employment in any
department, the dates of each such appointment or transfer, upon whose recom-
mendation each such appointment was made, their dismissal.s, if any, and the reasons
therefor. Presented 28th March, 1911.— Mr. Sharpc {Ontario) Not printed.
104. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 5th DcKieraber, 1910, for a return
showing the date of the opening and closing of parliament for each year from 1896
to 1910, and the number of days the House and Senate was in session for each of these
years. Presented 27th January, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
105. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all letters; telegrams, correspondence, petitions and communications referring in any
manner to the establishment or maintenance of the mail route from Athol post office
to South Athol, county of Cumberland. N.S Presented 27th January, 1911.- Mr.
Rliodes Not printed.
106. Retuin to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a copy of
all ci rrcspondente, telegrams or memoranda had between this government, or any
member thereof, and the provincial government of Alberta and Saskatchewan, or
either of them, or any of their members, in reference to securing control by such
provincial governments of the lands, timber, water powers, coal and other minerals,
or any of the natural resources which exist within the respective boundaiies nt' said"
provinces. Presented 27th January, 1911.— Mr. Hcrron Not printed.
106a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 13tli February, 1911, for copies
of any correspondence between the government of the Dojninion, or any member
thereof, and the provincial govc: ;\7pcnt« nf Alberta and Saskatchewan, or either of
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CONTENTS OF VOLTJME 2i— Continued.
them, or any of their members, in reference to securing control by such proTincial
governments of the lands, timber, water powers, coal and other minerals, or any of
the natural resources which exist within the respective boundaries of said provinces,
other than school lands. Pre.^ented 20th February, 1911.— Mr. Lake.. ..Not printed.
107. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence between the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Nova
Scotia in respect to the proposed change in the constitution of the Admiralty Court
for that province. Presented 30th January, 1911.— Mr. McKenzie Not printed.
108. Retuiu to an address of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a copy
of the proclamation of the Governor in Council naming a day for the coming into
force of an Act intituled "An Act to amend the Railway Act, 1903," chapter 31 of
the Statutes of Canada of 1904 as provided for by Section 2 of that Act. Presentjed
30th January, 1911. — Mr. Lennox Not printed.
109. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated Uth January. 1911, for a state-
ment giving a concise history of the negotiations in regard to reciprocal trade car-
ried on since 1900 between the governments of Canada and of the Australian Com-
monwealth, together with a copy of official telegrams upon the same subject
exchanged between the two governments, or between the oflScial representatives
thereof, since the Imperial Conference of 1S07. Presented ?lst January, 1911.
—Mr. .imes Not printed.
109a. Tariff relations bettvecn the United States and the Dominion of Canada, 1911. Pre-
sented 1st February, 1911, by Hon. W. S. Fielding Not printed.
J09b. Tariff relations between the United States and the Doii.inion of Canada, correspond-
ence and .statements, 1911. Presented Gth February, 1911. by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Printed for both distribution end sessional papers.
109c. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February, 1911, for a return
showing respectively, the total trade, the imports, the exports for each year from
184C to 187G, both inclusive, between the British North American possessions, except
Newfoundland, and tlie United Kingdom, the United States of .\merica and other
countries respectively. Presented 14th March, 1911. — Mr. Borden Not printed.
110. Keturn to an order of the House of Commons, dated IGth January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence between the Finance Department, or any of its officers ,or any mem-
bers of the government, and any persons or corporotions with leference to the incor-
poration of the Farmer's Bank, or to circumstances in connection therewith. Pre-
sented 1st February, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
110(1. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy
of all correspondence between the government or any member thereof, or any official
of the Department of Finance, and any person or association, with reference to the
conduct and affairs of the Farmer's Bank since the date of its organization. Pre-
sented 1st February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
110'). Return to ^m'order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
the full report and finding of the curator of the Farmer's Bank, up to the time of
his appointment as liquidator of the same by the shareholders for the requisition of
which, authority is given to the Minister of Finance by Section 122 of the Bank Act.
Prese'ited 1st February, 1911 —Hon. ilfr. Foster.
Printed for both di<fribul'n:i and sessin-ial papers.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^Continued.
llOc Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a copy
of all applications, petitions, letters, telegrams and other documents and correspond-
ence, and all orders in council and certificates, relating to or connected with the
establishment of the Farmer's Bank of Canada and its operations. Presented 1st
February, 1911— Mr. Taylor (Leeds).
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
111. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a return
showing the total cost to date of wharves at North Say, Burks Falls and Maganata-
wan, Ontario; the name, date of appointment and salary of wharfinger in each case;
the schedule of fees charged to public or others for use of wharf in each case; and a
detailed statement of receipts for each wharf for the years 1907. 1908, 1909, giving
name of party paying and for what. Presented 2nd February, 1911. — Mr. Arthurs.
Not printed.
112. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence since the 1st January, 1909, with the Department of Justice or any
officers of that department, making or supporting request for increase of pay to
employees of the penitentiary at New Westminster; and of all reports or recommen-
dations in that connection made by any officer of. the department. Also a copy of all
reports made during the period indicated, by the grand jury at New Westminster
with reference to the conditions at said penitentiary. Presented 3rd February, 1911.
Mr. Taylor {New Westminster) Not printed.
113. Report of proceedings between the Farmers' Delegation and the Prime Minister and
members of the government held in the House of Commons chamber on the 16th
December, 1910, with corresponding preliminary to the meeting. Presented 6th
February, 1911, by Et. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
113a. Report of proceedings of the deputation of fruit and vegetable growers and the Prime
Minister and members of the government held in the House of Commons on the tenth
February instant. Presented 21st February, 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
113b. Memorandum presented by the meat packers of Ontario and Quebec at a meeting
held with members of the government on Monday, February 13, 1911. Presented 21st
February, 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
114. Return to an address of the Senate dated 12th January, 1911, for a copy of the order
in council appointing His Honour Judge Jette, administrator of the province of
Quel>ec during the absence of Sir Pantaleon Pelletier, as well as a copy of any
instruction whatsoever in connection with such appointment. Presented 19th Jan-
uary, 1911. — Bon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
115. Return to an address of the Senate dated 17th January, 1911, calling for dates of pub-
lication and distribution to members of parliament of the English and French
editions of the debates of the Senate and of the House of Commons from the year
1900 to date. Presented 25th January, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
1151. Return to an order of the Senate dated 17th January, 1911, for a copy of a return
showing, year by year, from 1900, up to the present day, the date of the publication
and distribution to members of parliament: —
1, Of the English edition of the Journals of the Senate.
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2 Of the French edition of the same.
3 Of the English edition of the Journals of the House of Commons.
i. Of the French edition of the same. Presented Uth February. ^^^^^^°^^^^J^
Landry
115b. E^t^rn to an order of the Senate dated 17th January, 1911, for a copy of a return
showing, year by year, from 1900, up to the present day, the date of the pubhcat.on
and distribution to members of parliament:—
1. Of the English edition of the Jounrnals of the Senate.
2 Of the French edition of the same.
3 Of the English edition of the Journals of the House of Commons.
i Of the French edition of the same. Presented 14th February, 191J--f''"; f ,
. . .Not prmiea.
Landty
116. Return to an address of the Senate dated 17th January, 1911. for ^ ^'^tement of the
number of applications for and number of divorces granted by ^^e Parhament of
Canada from 1894 to 1910 inclusive. Presented ^Ith •''^"""'^•^^'"j^-f^;;;^^^;
McStceeny
117. Return to an aldres of the S.nate dated 22nl Ap il. 1910. showing the expenses
incurred, and the date of each of the payments made by the government for the
electric installation in each of the reoms of the imm.g.al.on officer at guebec dur.ng
the years 1908 and 1909. Presented 31st January. im-Uon. Mr. J^'^"'^-"^^^ ^^.^^^^
1911. — Mr. Lennox
118 Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated IGth January. 1911. tor a return
showing what amount the government paid Mr. F. H. Chrysler. ^-C for profes
sional services between May. 1896, and 31st March, 1D09, and what amount dur ng th
financial year ending 31st March. 1910; what amount s.nce 31st March. 1910, what
aZnt is now due by the government to Mr. Chrysler; and >n ^^f^^^teiZrj
cases Mr. Chrysler is now engaged in for the government. Presented ^^-^^'^^^^^l'.
1911.— Mr. Blain
119. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 25th January. 1911. for a state-
"^t tr'^nfuTh wheat was exported from Canada for rho crop years ending 31st
August, 1908, 1909 and 1910. ,, .. . o. , „..f= ,i„r
2 How much wheat was exported from Canada through United States ports dur-
ing 190S. 1909 and 1910, naming said ports, and amount exported from ^^^Y^Jwil
3. How many terminal grain elevators are there at Port Arthur and Fort Wd-
liam, and what is the name of each. „ . . i. i Tr„„f
4. How much grain was shipped through each eleva-.r at Port Arthur and F
William during each year 1908, 1909 and 1910. and what are the names of the elevators
respectively. ... „ lona iQftq
5 How much wheat was exported from Canada during oach crop year 1908. 1909
and 1910, not passing through the terminal elevators at Port Arthur and Fort
William. . .. „... il.
6 How many men are employed by the government m connection with the
terminal elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William, and what is the total salary
naid the men per year Presented 7th February, im.-Mr. Schaffner.
paia tne men p i j Printed for sessional papers.
120. Return to an order of the House of Common,, dated 18th January, l^^^ J^ V^toT
showing how many appointments have been made by the government from the con-
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CONTENTS OF .VOLUME 2i~Cuntinued.
stitueucy of South Grey since 190J, their luinies, to what iJOsitions appoiiiteil, and
tl e ^, lary or reir.uneration m each c:se. Piesentel 9th February, 1911. — Mr. Blatn.
Not printed.
1120a. Keturn to i<u order of the House of Coramons, dated 25th January, 1911, for a return
showing the full names of the permanent and temporary employees appointed at
Quebec since the first of January, 1905, in the following departments: Post Office,
Customs, Inland Eevenue and Public Works; the age and place of residence of each of
these* employees at the time of their appointment, the dates and nature of changes,
promotions or increases of salary granted them since their appointment. Presented
15th February, 1911. — Mr. Lachance Not printed.
IZOh. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons dated ISth January.
1911, for a return showing how many appointments have been made by the govern-
ment from the constituency of South Grey since 1904, their names, to what positions
appointed, and the salary or remuneratic n in each case. Presented 20th February,
1911.— Mr. BJa/n Not printed.
120c. Return to an order of the House of Commons, Hated 23rd January, 1911, for a return
showing how many appointments have been m"ide by the government from the con-
stituency of Wentworth since 1904, together with their names, to what positions
appointed, and the salary or remuneration in each case. Presented 27th February,
1911.— Mr. Blaine.. Not printed.
121. Return to an address dated the 24th November, 1910, for copies of all orders in council,
of all decisions rendered by the Military Council or some of its members, and of alt
correspondence concerning the guard and escort of honour applied for in August and
September last on the occasion of the visit in Quebec and Montreal of His Excellency
Cardinal Vannutelli. Presented 10th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
122. Return to an address of the Senate dated 1st February, 1911, calling for copies of peti-
tions presented by the Quebec Board of Trade, or of the resolutions adopted by it
during November and December last, and transmitted to the Right Honourable the
Prime Minister of this country, together with all correspondence e.xchanged on the
subject of these resolutions. Presented 7th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
123. Return lo an order of the House of Commons, dated Uth January, 1911, for a copy of
all leUers, agreements, telegrams, or memoranda with respect to the application for
water-power license on the Elbow river west of Calgary. Presented 13th February.
1911.— il/r. McCarthy Not printed
123<i. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 18th January, 1911, for a copy
of all correspondence had between the government, or any member thereof, and the
Municipal Council of the City of Calgary, or any member thereof, regarding the eon-
serving of the water flow of the Elbow river above the intake established by the said
city in connection with their water works system. Presented )6th February, 1911.—
Mr. McCarthy Not printed.
124. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 26th January, 1911, for a state-
ment showing the amounts paid by the various departm.mts of the government to
the Sherwin-Williams Company for paints and other goods in the years 190(1. 1907,
1908, 1909 .nnd 1910. Presented 14th February, 1911.— A/r. Boycc Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME Zi— Continued.
25. Return to an order of the Senate dated 18th January, 1911. showing —
1. In 1884, did a federal statute (47 Vict., ch. 78) confirm the legal existence of
the Quebec Bridge Company?
2. In 1901, did not another federal statute (1 Edward VII, ch. 81). give birth to
a company known as "The Quebec Terminal and Railway Company"?
3. In 1903. after having been, for two years, completely distinct from one an-
other, did not the two aboTe-mentioned companies amalgamate, constituting a new
company, to which a federal statute (3 Edward VII. ch. 177) gave the name of " The
Quebec Bridge and Railway Company"?
4. Was it not during the same year 1903. that were signed between the Quebec
Bridge and Railway Company, the agreements which gave to the government the
power to substitute itself to the bridge company and to complete at a certain date
the colossal enterprise of the construction of a bridge over the St. Lawrence near
Quebec?
5. Was not this substitution of the government to a private company conHrmed
by federal legislation in 1908 at the time of the adoption by parliament of chapter
59 of 7-8 Edward VII?
6. Under the said legislation, has the government passed an order in council
enacting that it take hold of the whole of the undertaking, assets, properties and
concessions of the said Quebec Bridge and Railway Company?
7. When was this order in council passed?
S. What composes the whole of the undertaking, assets, properties and conces-
sions of the said company mentioned in the laws?
9. Has any part of the said whole of the undertaking, assets, properties and con-
cessions of the company been transferred to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Com-
pany, or to the National Transcontinental Commission?
10. What was the part so transferred?
11. Does it comprise the bridge or some of the railway lines from the bridge and
ending at the city of Quebec or at some place on the line of the Canadian Pacific
railway, on the north, and of the Grand Trunk railway on Hie south of the river?
12. Are not the construction of the bridge and of the railway lines from the
bridge, north and south of the St. Lawrence river, under the e.xclusive jurisdiction
of the government who have kept the entire control thereof? Presented 14th Feb-
ruary, mi.-Hon. Mr. l.aiuby ^oi printed.
125". Return to an address of the Senate dated 22ud February, 1911, for a copy of the order
in council, dated 17th August, ICOS. authorizing the transfer to the government of the
Quebec bridge, and of all the assets, franchises and privileges then the property of
the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company. Presented 8th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr.
Landry ATot printed.
126. Retur.! to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a copy
of all papers, reports, valuations, plans, documents, contracts, advertisements, ten-
ders, offers, and letters, relating to the sale and disposition -.f the property purchased
by the government for a barracks site at Toronto, and recently sold by the govern-
ment, generally known as the Baby Farm or property; and more particularly, all
correspondence, valuations or opinions as to the value of the said property, and as
to the method of disposal thereof; and also a copy of advertisements, number of
insertions, and names of papers in which same appeared, in the posses^^ion of the.
Department of Militia, or any other department of the government. Presented 10th
February, I911.-Mr. Macdone/I \ot printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2i-Continued.
127. Return to an order of the Senate dated 17th January, 1911, for a return showing, in
as many distinct columns: —
1. The names of all departments obliged by law to lay before parliament reports
of their annual operations.
?.The date fixed by law for the laying of the said reports before parl'ament.
3. The date on which the said reports have been laid for the fiscal year ending
31st March, 1910, stating whether it was the English or the French edition which was
so laid.
i. The date of the publication and distribution of the French edition of the said
reports.
5. The title of the reports which, up to the 15th January, 1911, nine months and
a half, after the fiscal year ending the 31st March, 1910, have not yet been published
in French.
6. The titles of the reports which, up to the 15th January, 1911. twenty-one months
and a half after the fiscal year ending the 31st March, ^909, have not yet been pub-
lished in French. Presented 16th February, 1911. — Eon. Mr. Landry.. ..Not printed.
128. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 'eth January, 1911, for a return
showing the date of incorporation, a copy of the Act of incorporation, and any sub-
sequent amendments thereto, all petitions, correspondence, applications and other
papers or data asking for or relating to the grant of subsidy thereto, a copy of all
contracts for construction, the subsidies granted and the sevoral payments of the
same, the dates of payment and the persons to whom cheques were issued therefor, a
copy of engineer's reports and certificates on which payment wa« authorized in each
case, the number of miles completed, the number now being operated, the number of
■ miles still to be finished, the total cost to date and the estimated cost of completion,
and the present condition of the road, in the case of the Atlantic, Quebec and
Western Railway Company, the Quebec and Oriental R. R. Company and the new
Canadian company. Also the shareholders, directors and officers of each of these
companies, the capital subscribed and paid up by each subscriber, the amounts pail
out each year to directors and officers as fees and salaries, the amount paid for pro-
motion or other expenses, in detail, for each of the above companies. In the case of
any mileage operated, the yearly revenues and working expenses. Presented 17th
February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
128a. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January,
1911, for a return showing the date of incorporation, a copy of the Act of incorpor-
ation, and any subsequent amendments thereto, all petitions, correspondence, appli-
cations and other papers for data asking for or relating to the grant of subsidy
thereto, a copy of all contracts for construction, the subsidies granted and the
several payments of the same, the dates of payment and the persons to whom cheques
were issued therefor, a copy of engineer's reports and certificates on which payment
was authorized in each case, the number of miles completed, the number now being
operated, the number of miles still to be finished, the total cost to date and the esti-
mated cost of completion, and the present condition of the road, in the case of the
Atlantic, Quebec and Western Railway Company, the Quebec and Oriental R. R.
Company and the new Canadian company. Also the shareholders, directors and
officers of each of these companies, the capital subscribed and paid up by each sub-
scriber, the amounts paid out each year to directors and officers as fees and salaries,
the amount paid for promotion or other expenses, in detail, tor each of the above
expenses. In the case of any mileage operated, the yearly revenues and working
expenses. Presented 17th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
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128b. Further supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd
January, 1911, for a return showing the date of incorporation, a copy of the Act of
incorporation, and any subsequent amendments thereto, all petitions, correspond-
ence, applications and other papers or data asking for or relating to the grant of
subsidy thereto, a copy of all contracts for construction, the subsidies granted and
the several payments of the same, the dates of payment and the persons to whom
cheques were issued therefor, a copy of engineer's reports and certificates on which
payment was authorized in each case, the number of miles completed, the number
now being ope-oted, the number of miles still to be finished, the total cost to date and
the estimated cost of completion, and the present condition of the road, in the case
of the Atlantic, Quebec and Western Railway Company, the Quebec and Oriental R.
R Company, and the new Canadian company. Also the shareholders, directors and
officers of each of these companies, the capital subscribed and paid up by each sub-
scriber, the amounts paid out each year to directors and officers as fees and salaries,
the amount paid for promotion or other e.xpenses, in detail, for each of the above
companies. In the case of any mileage operated, the yearly revenues and working
expenses. Presented 28th March. 1911.-Hon. Mr. Foster Not prmted.
129. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 19th January. 1910. for a return
showing in the construction of drill halls or armouries, or the leasing of sites for
camps of instruction, in how many and what instances municipalities, regiments, or
individuals, have contributed to the cost of the same in the way of concessions, sites,
or moneys, and the amount in each case since 1904. Presented 20th February. 1911.-
r., A- 1 .. ..yot printed.
Mr. Worthmgton '^
130. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence with the Department of the Interior or any officer thereof in
regard to half-breed scrips numbers A. 8931 and A. 9970 issued to Joseph William Mal-
boeuf together with a copy of all documents in any way relating to the said scrips.
Presented 20th February, I911.-Afr. Martin (Regina) Not printed.
130a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 18^h January, 1911, for a copy
of all corrspondence, reports, letters, telegrams and other documents, exchanged
between the Right Reverend George Holmes, D.D., of Lesser Slave Lake, or anyone
on his behalf, and the Minister of the Interior, or any official or temporary employee
of the government, in reference to the issue or application of half-breed scrip. Pre-
sented 22nd February, I911.-Afr. ^mes Not printed.
131. Return to an order of the Senate dated 9th February. 1911, for a return showing the
importations by the Dominion from the United States in the year 1910 of the follow-
ing commodities: —
1. Beef and live cattle. 2. Sheep. 3. Poultry. 4. Ham. 5. Pork. 6. Bacon, 7.
Flour. 8. Wheat. 9. Barley.
With the value of the different articles.
Showing also the exportations from the Dominion to the United States of the
corre'=ponding products with their relative value. Presented 22nd February, 1911.-
Hon. Mr. Macdonald {B.C.) Printed for sessional papers.
131a. Return to an order of the Senate dated 10th Februry, 1911. for a return showing in
as many distinct columns, for the last five years, wi^h an additional column contain-
ing the average thereof: —
I The quality and value of each of the following products.— 4
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2i—ConUnued.
I. Lire stock. 2. Pork and bacon. 3. Potatoes. i. Eggs. 5. Butter. 6. Cheese.
7. Maple sugar. 8. Fcuit. 9. Garden products. 10. Hay. 11. Wheat. 12. Flour. 13.
Oats. 14. Other natural products. 15. Agricultural implements.
Of Canadian origin e.xported to: — (fl) the United States; (b) the Eugli-h market;
(c) other countries.
II. The quantity and quality of the same articles, together with the amount of
duty collected on each of them for consumption and imported from: — (a) the United
States; (b) the British Isles; (e) other countries. Presented 1-tth March, 1911.— Hon.
Mr. Landry .' Not printed.
132. R«turn to on order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence between the Department of the Interior, or any of its oflScers, and
any other persons, respecting the timber on the Fanny Louise Irwin homestead in
the District of Chilliwack, British Columbia, including any instructions to solicitors
to issue a writ in Exchequer Court for cancellation of timber rights not reserved in
Crown grant of the homestead. Presented 20th February, 1911.— M?-. Taylor (New
Westminster) Not printed.
133. Return to an order of the Huu.se of Commons, dated 18th January, 1911, for a return
showing the total acreage of school lands sold in the provinces of Alberta and Saskat-
chewan in each of the years 1906, 1907 and 1903, with the average prices realized, also
a statement of sales of such lands in each said province since 1st of January, 1909, to
date, giving the places at which each -ale was held and date of sale; the description
of the land sold; the upset price at which it was ofiered and the price realized; and
the area of land in each township, in which these school lands are located, that was
under cultivation at the time it was decided to sell the ?cho.>l lands therein. Pre-
sented 20th February, 1911.— Mr. McCarthy Not printed
134. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 15th Decemi>er, 1909, for a copy of
all papers, letters, telegrams, documents, petitions, reports and correspondence with
reference to, or in any way concerning the appointment of a government weigher at
Montreal. Presented 20th February, 1911. — Mr. .Armstrong Not printed.
135. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dat^d 28th February. 1910,
for a return showing the number of persons in the employ of each department of
the government during the year 1909 under the following heads: (n) civil service
employees at Ottawa; {b) civil service employees outside nf Ottawa; (c) in stated
and regular employ, but not under the Civil Service Act, giving the distinctive ser-
vice of each group; (d) those in temporary or casual employment, giving the dis-
tinctive work of each group, and also showing the total amount paid under each head.
Presented 20th February, 1911.- Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
136. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 30th January, 1911, for a return
showing the total quantity of coal delivered to ship at Pic^ou, in each year during
•which the SS. Stanley has been engaged in the winter service between Prince Edward
Island and Nova Scotia, and the cost thereof.
Also, statements showing the totn] cost of putting coal aboard; the quantity .if
freight handled at Pictou, and the total cost of handling such freight. Presented
21st February, 1911.— Mr. Stanfield Not printed.
136«. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 30th January. 1911, for a return
showing the total quantity of coal delivered to ship at Pictou, in eacli year during
which the SS. Kurl Grey has been engaged in the winter service between Prince
Edwajd I-iland and Nova Scotia, and the cost thereof.
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Also, statements showing the total cost of putting coal aboard; the quantity of
freight handled at Pictou, and the total cost of handling such freight. Presented
2Ist February, 1911.— Mr. Stanfield Not printed.
136b. Return to an order of the Hous« of Commons, dated 30th January, 1911, for a return
showing the total quantity of coal delivered to ship at Pictou, in each year during
which the SS. Stanley hcs been engaged in the winter service between Prince Edward
Island and Nova Scotia, and the cost thereof.
Also, statmcnts showing the total cost of putting coal .■\board; the quantity of
freight handled at Pictou, and the total cost of handling such freight. Presented
21st February, 1911.— Mr. Stanfield Not printed.
137. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1911, for a copy of
the last advertisement for tenders, and the specification and contract or proposed
contract for the erection of the Quebec bridge. Presented 21st February, 1911.— Mr.
Lennox Not printed.
137'i. Ketiirn to an address of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910;—
1. For a return showing the contract between the Quebec Bridge and Railway
Company and M. P. Davis, dated July 27, 1903, providing for the constr«ction of the
lines of railway connecting the Quebec bridge with the city of Quebec and with cer-
tain other railways, the tender upon which the contract was based, and the estimated
cost at the time of the contract based upon the scheduled quantities and pric«s.
2. The agreement transferring this undertaking to the government, and of all
correspondence and documents in connection therewith and of the order in council
of 16th February, 1909, tr-insforring it to the commissioners of the Transcontinental
railway.
3. And stating the mileage of the lines of railway embraced in this contract.
4. The sums paid on account by the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company, and
the purposes for which it was paid.
5. The amount owing or claimed by the contractor for work done or material
supplied up to the time the undertaking was taken over by the government, and the
date of taking it over, the amount paid or undertaken to be paid by the government
to the company or its members, the estimated amount at that time required to com-
plete the work, the amount the government or commissioners have since paid and the
estimated amount yet to be paid.
6. And setting forth the reasons for taking the undertaking out of the hands of
the Bridge and Railway Company and for transferring it to the commissioners.
7. Any other sums paid, allowed or assumed for or on account of this company
or its members, and the account on which paid, allowed or assumed. Presented 28th
March, 1911.— Mr. Lennox Not printed.
137l>. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 6th March, 1911, for a copy of
the order in council appointing, or providing for the appointment of, the engineers
to prepare and determine upon plans ond specifications, and superintend the con-
struction of the Quebec bridge, and of all instructions, correspondence, writings and
documents, in connection with these appointments, including the two additional engi-
neers; and also a copy of any subsequent orders in council, or any instructions, cor-
respondence, &c., relating to the refusal of any of the engineers to act, or continue
in office, or the retirement, or substitutions of engineers. Presented 12th April, 1911.
—Mr. Lennox Not printed.
137r. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 10th April, 1911, for a copy of all
correspondence between the Department of Labour and various labour organizations,
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or their officers, in connection with the Quebec bridge. Presented 20th April, 1911. —
Mr. Ames Not printed.
lZ7d. Return to an order of the Senate dated 24th November, 1910, calling for a copy of
all correspondence between the government, some of its members or employees, and
the engineers oppointed to prepare the plans of the new bridge to replace the one
which collapsed at Quebec in the year 1907. Presented 20th April, 1911. — Hon. Mr.
Landry Not printed.
138. Report of the Ottawa Improvement Commission for the fiscal year ending 31st March,
1910, &o. Presented 21st February, 1911, by Hon. W. S. Fielding Not printed.
139. Fourth Joint Report of the Commissioners for the demarcation of the meridian of the
141st degree of west longitude (Alaskan boundary) appointed in virtue of the first
article of the convention between Great Britain and the United States, signed at
Washington on the 21st April, 1906. Presented 21st February, 1911. by Rt. Hon. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier Printed for sessional pap(^r'^.
140. A return to an address of the Senate dated 20th January, 1911, calling for copies of all
orders in council and ordinances, and of all correspondence exchanged between the
parties interested in the subject: —
1. Of the lease, before 1896, to Mr. Georges Tanguay of a military property belong-
ing to the government and situated on des Ramparts street at Quebec.
2. Of the requests made by other persons at that time, to purchase or lease the
property in question.
3. Of the sale of the same property to the same Georges Tanguay. agreed to by
the present government about 1897. Presented 21st February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
141. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December, 1910, for a state-
ment showing the disposition made by the government during the past year of the
following: — public lands, timber limits, mineral areas, water-powers and fishing
rights. Presented 22nd February, 1911. — Mr. Sharpe {Lisgar) Not printed.
141a. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 7th December,
1910, for a statement showing the disposition made by the government during the
past year of the following: — public lands, timber limits, mineral areas, water-powers
and fishing rights. Presented 19th May. 1911.— -Jfr. Sharpe (Lisgar).. ..Not printed.
142. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 11th January, 1911, for a return
showing the concessions granted to Canada by British countries, the products of
which may be imposed into Canada under the preferential tariff. Presented 23rd
February, 1911.— Mr. Ames Not printed'.
143. Order in council, correspondence, &c., in respect to a resolution of the Legislative
Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, declaring it desirable that the parliament
of Canada should create out of the public domain within the province, a suitable
land grant for the University of Saskatchewan. Presented 23rd February, 1911, by
Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Not printed.
144. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a return
showing: — 1. AH grants, leases; licenses, and concessions given to individuals or cor-
porations of water power rights or privileges on the Winnipeg river at present ia
force. 2. The names and descriptions of such power sites. 3. The terms and con-
ditions upon which they are respectively held. 4. The dates upon which these powers
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^Continued.
or privileges were respectively given. 5. What constitutes forfeiture. 6. What
grants, leases or licenses have been forfeited. 7. The general rules and regulations,
if any, applying to the giving and holding of the water-powers on this river. 8. The
amount of development effected by the grantees or lessees respectively. 9. What title
or interest the Dominion claims in the running water, the bed of the river, and the
banks thereof. Presented 24th February, 1911.— Mr Haggart (Winnipeg).
A'oi printed.
145. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 5th December, 1910, for a return
showing the total number of accidents on railways in Canada since 1st April. 1909,
and up to date; the number of fatal accidents; the number on each railway, and tho
causes of the same. Also, the number of accidents on construction work, fatal or
otherwise, on the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific railways, and the
causes of the same. Presented 24th February, 1911.— Mr. Smith (.Vanaimo).
Not printed.
146. Return to an order of the Senate dated 2lth January. 1911, showing, year by year,
from 1st July, 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to Mr. J. B. Lalibert^, of Quebec,
merchant, by each of the departments of the government of this country. Presented
24th February, 1911.— ffon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
147. Return to an order of the Senate dated 25th January. 1911, for the production of a
statement showing, year by year, from the 1st July, 1896, up to this date, the sums of
money paid to the newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, of Quebec, by each of the different
departments of the government of this country. Presented 24th February. 1911.— Hon.
Mr. Landry Not printed.
148. Return to an order of the Senate dated 26th January, 1911, for a return showing, year
by year, since 1st July, 1896, up to date, the amounts paid to Mr. Louis Letourneau,
of Quebec, or to the Quebec Preserving Company, by each of the departments of the
government of this country. Presented 24th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry.
Not printed.
149. Return to an order of the Senate dated 27th January, 1911, tor the production of a
return showing, year by year, from the 1st of July. 1896, to this date, the sums jf
money paid to Messrs. Samson end Filion, of Quebec, merchants, by each of the
different departments of the government of this country. Presented 24th February,
1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry ^ot printed
150. Return to an order of the Senate dated 27th January, 1911, for the production of a
return showing, year by year, from the 1st July, 1896, to this date, the sumS of
money paid to Mr. C. E. Taschereau, of Quebec, notary, by each of the different
departments of the government of this country. Presented 24th February, 1911.—
Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
151. Return to an order of the Senate dated 27th January, 1911, for the production of a
return showing, year by year, from the 1st July, 1896, to this date, the sums of
money paid to Mr. George Tanguay, of Quebec, by each of the different departments
of the government of this country. Presented 24th February, 1911.— Ho?;. Mr.
fjlj.y Not printed.
152. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1911, for a copy of
the curator's reports in the cases of all banks for which curators have been appointed.
Presented 27th February, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed
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152(1. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6tli February,
1911. for a copy of the curators' reports in the cases of all banks for which curators
have been appointed. Presented 2nd May, 1911. — Hon. Mr. Foster Not printed.
153. Return to an order of the House of Commons, da'"ed 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
the by-laws, rules and regulations of the Canadian Bankers' Association as approved
by the Treasury Board and now in effect. Presented 27th February, 1911. — Hon. Mr.
Foster.. Printed for sessional papers.
154. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 30th January, 1911, for a return
showing the total amount of money that has been expended on the Seybold building
for alterations and repairs, or in installation of elevators, heating apparatus or'
other fixtures, by the government during the term of the present lease, and also
under the former lease, when used for census purposes.
2. The particulars of expenditures and to whom were the several amounts paid.
Presented 6th March, 1911.— .Wr. Goodeve Not printed.
155. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 20th February, 1911, for a copy of
all applications made by employees of the North Atlantic collieries for a conciliation
board within the past six months, and of all letters, telegrams, documents, state-
ments and other papers and documents touching the same, or having any relation
thereto, including all correspondence received by the government or any department
of the government from the said North Atlantic collieries or from the employees
thereof touching the matter aforesaid. Presented 27th February, 1911.— Mr. Maddin.
Not printed.
156. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 2nd February, 1911, for a return
showing the amount of money paid for provisions, supplies, repairs, work or any
other service for the year ending 31st March, 1910, to the following firms in the city of
Kingston, respectively: Eliott Brothers, McICelvey & Birch, C. Livingstone & Bros.,
R. Crawford, James Redden & Co., R. Carson, and James Crawford. Presented 27th
February, 1911.— 3/r. Edwards Not printed.
157. Orders in council, correspondence, &c.. touching any proposal or Bill to erect dams, or
other similar works across the River St. Lawrence, or part of the said river, at or
near the Long Sault, or in the vicinity thereof. Presented 27th February, 1911, by
Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Printed for sessional papers.
157". Partial return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 8th February. 1911, for
a copy of all correspondence, memoranda, reports, memorials, plans, orders in council,
treaties, conventions, agreements, documents and papers of every kind, touching any
proposal or Bill to erect dams or other similar works across the River St. Lawrence,
or part of the said river, at or near the Long Sault, or in the vicinity thereof; includ-
ing all statutes of the state of New York and the United States of America relating
thereto, and all Bills now before the Congress of the United States of America touch-
ing the same, and all the procedings upon all such Statutes and Bills. Presented 9th
March. 1911.— Mr. Borden Not-printed.
158. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1911, for a return
giving the names of all persons receiving fishery bounties, and the amount received
by each, at each of the following ports: — Bauline, Little Lorraine, Main-d-Dieu and
Scaterie, in the county of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Presented 28th February, 1911.
—Mr. Maddin Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24r— Continued.
158(1. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16th April, 1911, for a returin
showing the names of all persons in the province of New Brunswick who have-
received fishing bounties during the year ending 31st March, 1911, with the amount
received by ©ach. Presented 2nd May, 1911.— .Wr. Daniel Xot printed^
159. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 20th Janu.iry, 1911, for a copy of
all reports, correspondence, and documents, not already brought down, including
report of survey made in 1909 of the harbour of Cape John and Tatamagouche Bay, in
the counties of Pictou and Colchester, in the province of Nova Scotia, relating to the
route of the winter steamers between Prince Edward Island and the mainland of
Canada, and suggesting or recommending a change or changes on such route, and an
increase in the number of trips daily of such winter steamers; also a copy of al5
similar papers, not already brought down, relating to the route of the summer mail
steamers between Charlottetown and the mainland of Canada, and suggesting a
change in that route and an increase in the number of trips daily; and also
with regard to connecting such suggested route with a point on the Intercolonial
railway. Also for a copy of all similar papers, if any, relating to or suggesting the
route between Cape Traverse in Prince Edward Island and Cape Tormentine in th»
mainland, as a route for the winter and summer steamers. Also for a copy of all
reports, papers and correspondence relating to additional or improved aids to navi-
gation of the harbour of Charlottetown and entrance thereto and in Tatamagouche
bay and harbour. Presented Cth March, 1911.— 3/r. TVarburton Xot printed.
160. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 20th February, 1911, for a copy
of all correspondence, recommendations, orders in council, or other documents relat-
ing to the case of R. E. Curran, a railway mail clerk, who was fatally injured in an
accident at Owen Sound, on the 29th May, 1908, and with regard to which applicatioo
was made for a compassionate grant or allowance to his heirs or familv. Presented
7th March, 1911.— Mr. Macdonell. ^qI printed.
161. Return to an address of the House of Commons,-dated 27th February, 1911, for a copy
of all orders in council, reports, correspondence, documents and papers touching the
dismissal of the sub-collector of customs at Mahoue bay. Nova Scotia. Presented 13th
March, 1911.— M?-. Taylor {Leeds) Vof printed:
162. Return to an order of the Hcuse of Commons, dated 20th February, 1911, for a return
showing:— 1. The nature of the subsidy which has Iieen granted to the Vancouver Dry
Dock Company.
2. The nature of payment of interest or of a guarantee of such subsidy. Pre-
sented 13th March, 1911.— Mr. Barnard.. Yof printed.
163. Return to unorder of the House of Commons, dated 6th March, 191], for a copy of all
papers, reports of appraiser, letters and correspondence relating to the appraising
and passing the customs of the vessel Wanda, owned by one William R. Travers,
Toronto, on the 20th October, 1909. Presented Mth March, 1911.— Mr. Sharps
{Ontario) Xot printed.
164. Stateuient of the affairs of the British Canadian Loan and Investment Company
(Limited) for the year ended 31st December, 1910.
Also, a list of the shareholders on 31st December, 1910, in atcordance with chapter
57 of 39 Victoria. Presented (Senate) Uth March, 1911, by the Hon. the Speaker.
Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^Continued.
1.65. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February, 1911, for a return
showing: —
1. How many fisheries officers have been appointed in connection with the Ontario
fisheries service within the last year?
2. What are their names, their rank, and the limits territorially of the juris-
diction of each?
3. What is the salary of each, and what is the length of time or duration of such
appointments?
i. Do the duties of these officers in any, and in what cases duplicate the services
if similar officers appointed by the Ontario legislature?
5. Has anything been done, and what, to prevent the duplication of this service?
6. What is the total revenue derived during the years 1909 and 1910 from fisheries
for the province of Ontario, and what was the total expenditure?
7. What will be the total expenditure for the year 1911?
8. Is any, and what, system followed in making appointments to this service as to
efficiency. Presented 17th March, 1911. — Mr. Porter Noi printed.
165(1. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16t,h February, 1911, for a return
showing how many wardens for the protection of fisheries were appointed in Victoria
county, N.S., between July and December in the years 1906, 1907, 1909 and 1910.
2. Their names, length of service and amount paid to each. Presented 24th March,
1911. — Mr. Maddin Not printed.
166. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence between the Post Office Department and any of the officials or other
persons, relative to making an allowance for the transportation of letter carriers on
the tramway system in New Westminster. Presented 17th March, 1911.— Mr. Tayior
(New Westminster) Not printed.
167. Return to an address of the Senate dated 23rd February, 1911, for a copy of all the
documents relating to the case of cholera reported in November last as to the Russian
;Said Godlieb, to the quarantining of this person, and to his detention until this date
on Grosse Isle, with a history of the case, day by day, up to this date. Presented
16th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
168. Return to an address of the Senate dated 17th January. 1911, for a statement of tb 3
number of divorces granted by the parliament of Canada since 1894 to 1910 inclusive,
together with the number of divorces granted by each of the courts of Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia; also the population of
each of those provinces according to census of 1901; and the aggregate population of
Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and the Northwe,st Territories according to census in
1901. Presented 16th March, 1911.— Hon. Mr. Power Not printed.
1.69. Return to an order of the Senate dated 17th February, 1911, for a return showing the
correspondence exchanged, the report made by the captain and the log kept by him
relating to the trip just made by the steamer Montcalm in the lower St. Lawrence,
the island of Anticosti and to the Baie des Sept Isles, &c. Presented 16th March,
1911. — Bon. Mr. Landry Not printed
ITO. Return to an address of the Senate dated 10th March, 1911, calling for a statement
showing: —
1. Who are among the judges of the Superior Court of the province of Quebec,
those whose place of residence is fixed by the commission appointing them, and what
is, for each of these judges, the place so fixed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^Continued.
2. Who are the judges whose place of residence has been fixed or changed by
order in council, and what is for each of these judges, the place of residence now
fixed.
3. Who are the judges whose place of residence has never been fixed, neither in
the commission nor by any subsequent order in council, and what is the judiciary
district to which they were appointed. Presented 21st March, 1911.— Hon. Mr.
Landry Not printed.
171. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 30th January, 1911, for a copy of
all advertisements, letters, contracts, complaints, reports of inspectors and othei
correspondence regarding mail routes Trout creek to Loring pnd Powassan to Nipis-
sing or Restoule. Presented 24th March, 1911.— Mr. Arthurs Not printed
173. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February, 1911, for a return
showing what ministers of the Crown were abroad in 1908, 1909 and 1910, on public
business and on what business; what expenses were incurred by each while engaged
on public business; what persons, if any, accompanied each minister on public busi-
ness whose expenses were paid by the government, and the amount of such persons
expenses. Presented 24th March, 1911.— Mr. Sharpe {Ontario) Not printed
173. Return to a order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February, 1911, for a return
showing the value, respectively, of the following products of the country, by prov-
inces, during the years 1909 and 1910, agricultural products of all kinds, including
field products of every kind, fruit, vegetables, live stock, &c., dairy products, &c. ;
timber of all kinds; minerals of all kinds; fish of all kinds; and manufactured goods
of all kinds. Presented 24th March, 1911.— Mr. Macdonell Not printed.
174. Report of the Manitoba Fisheries Commission, 1910-11. Presented 24th March, 1911,
by Hon. L. P. Brodeur Not printed.
175. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a return
showing what amount has been paid by the government during the last fiscal year for
cab hire and street railway fares in the city of Ottawa for the following persons,
with the names and the amounts in each case: ministers of the Crown; speaker of the
Senate and House of Commons; civil servants of all grades fiom deputy ministers
down; all other persons employed in any government work or other service. Pre-
sented 27th March, 1911.— Mr. Taylor (Leeds) Not printed.
175o. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a return
showing what amount has been paid by the government during the last fiscal year
for travelling expenses with the names and the expenditure -n each case, under the
following heads, viz.: railway, steamship, and other lines of transportation; private
cars; Pullman cars; tips to waiters; meals and hotel expenses; for the following per-
sons: Ministers of the Crown; civil servants of all grades; immigration agents; and
other persons employed by the government on any special or other work. Presented
20th April, 1911.— M?-. Taylor {Leeds) Not printed.
175b. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December,
1910, for a return showing what amount has been paid by the government during the
last fiscal year for travelling expenses with the names and the expenditure in each
case, under the following heads, viz.: railway, steamship, and other lines of trans-
portation; private cars; Pullman cars; tips to waiters; meals and hotel expenses, for
the following persons: Ministers of the Crown; civil servants of all grades; immigra-
tion agents; and other persons employed by the government on any special or other
york. Presented 20th July, 1911.— Mr. Taylor {Leeds) Not printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^Continued.
176. Papers referring to tlie organization of a Secretariat, as foll.T.vs: — 1. Despatch to the
governors of the self-governing colonies relative to the reorganization of the Culouial
Office.
2. Note on a visit to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in 1909, by Sir Charles
Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B., assistant under secretary of state for the Colonies.
3. Report of the Dominions Department of the Colonial Office for the year 1909-
1910.
4. Imi)erial Copyright Conference, 1910, memorandum of the proceedings.
5. Further correspondence relating to the Imperial Conference.
6. Correspondence relating to th Imprial Confrence, 1911. Presented, 28th
March, 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Not printed.
177. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 20th February, 1911, for a copy of
the application by or on behalf of the Glace Bay Bait Association, Glace Bay, N.S.,
for moneys in connection with the cold storage building for the storage of bait, at
Glace Bay, N.S.; also a copy of all correspondence between the said association or any-
one on its behalf and the government, any department of the government, or anyone
on behalf of the government or any of its departments. Presented SSth March,
1911.— Mr. JVfaddin Not printed.
177a. Return to on order of the House of Commons, dated 3rd .'ipril. 1911, for a copy of
all the correspondence in connection with the building of bait freezers at Louisburg
and Lingan in the riding of South Cape Breton. Presented 20th April, 1911. — Mr.
Mackenzie Not printed.
178. Return to an address of the Senate dated 8th March, 1911, that an order of the Senate
do issue for the production of a copy of the complaint made by the commandant of
the 61st Regiment against the commandant of the 7th Military District, of the reply
of the latter and of all correspondence on the subject between the authorities at
Ottawa and those at Quebec and Montreal, together with a copy of the report of the
Inspector General respecting the case. Presented 28th March, 1911. — Bon. Mr.
Landry Not printed.
179. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated IGth March, 1911, for a return
showing the average prices of butter and of eggs in London, England, for the past
five years in comparison with the prices, respectively; in eastern provinces, in Mont-
real, in Toronto, in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Buffalo, in Boston and in
New York. Presented 30th March, 1911.— Mr. Sharpe (Ontario) A^ot printed.
179a. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd March, 1911, for a return
showing the quantity and value of butter, eggs, poultry, chilled or frozen meat, bacon,
lard, apples, vegetables, wheat, barley, cattle, horses and potatoes imported into
Canada during the six months ending 1st March, 1911, the countries from which the
same were imported and the duty collected thereon. Presented 6th April, 1911.^
Mr. Middlebro Not printed.
179b. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd March, 1911,
for a return showing the quantity and value of butter, egg-', poultry, chilled or
frozen meat, bacon, lard, apples, vegetables, wheat, barley, cattle, horses and potatoes
imported into Canada during the six months ending 1st Mar<h. 1911, the countries
from which the same were imported and the duty collected theieon. Presentoi! 8th
May, 1911.— Mr. Middlebro Not printed.
180. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th Decoaiber, 1910, for a return
showing the total payments made by the government to the Eclipse Manufacturing
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME ZZ— Continued.
Company, Limited, for year 1909-10, and how these contracts were let ; the total pay-
ments made by the government to the Office Specialty Manufacturing Company,
Limited, for year 1909-10, and how these contracts were let ; the total payments made
by the government to Messrs. Ahearn & Soper for year 1909-10, and how these con-
tracts were let. Presented 3rd April, 1911.— Mr. Sharpe {Lisgar) Not printed.
181. Return to an order of the Senate dated 22nd February, 1911, for a copy of all orders
in council and of all orders issued by the Minister of the Interior giving, from time
to time, to the commissioner for the Northwest Territories, since his appointment as
such, the instructions which he is to follow in the exercise of his executive in so far
as concerns the government of the Northwest Territories. Presented 4th April, 1911.
Bon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
182. Return to an order of the Senate dated 16th March, 1911, calling for a copy of all cor-
respondence relating to the stranding in August, 1910, of the ship Manchester Engi-
neer near the Strait of Belle Isle, and of the investigation held with reference thereto
at Quebec during the month of September or October last, presented 4th April, 1911.
—Hon. Mr. Landry Not printed.
183. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 15th February, 1911, for a return
showing all communications, telegrams, letters, petitions or plans relating to the
rifle range at Bear River, N.S., received since January, 1909.
2. From whom received and upon what dates respectively? Presented 5th April, 1911.
—Mr. Jameson.. -Vof printed.
184. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 14th December, 1910, for a return
showing what total amount has been annually expended in each province since 1880
by the Department of Public Works for harbours and rivers, together with the annual
totals of said expenditure fur the whole of Canada; also that the Department of Pub-
lic Works prepare and lay upon the Table of this House with this Return a map for
each province, showing the location of all wharves, piers, breakwaters, &c., con-
structed or purchased by the federal government, and presently owned by the
Dominion of Canada. Presented 6th April, 1911.— Mr. Ames Not printed.
185. Return to an order of the Senate dated 22nd February, 1911, for:—
1. Copies of all papers relating to the appointment of Martin Dickie to the com-
mand of the 76th Regiment of the counties of Colchester and Hants.
2. Copies of all papers relating to the recommendation of Major J. L. Barnhill
by Lieut. General Drury and others to the command of the said regiment.
3. Copies of all documents relating in any way to the reasons or causes why the
said Major Barnhill as the senior officer of said regiment should not have been
appointed to the command of the same.
4. Copies of all correspondence and other popers and documents relating to the
recent reorganization of the 78th Colchester, Hants and Pictou Regiment of " High-
landers." Presented 4th April, 1911.— Hoh. Mr. Lougheed Not printed.
186. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th March, 1911, for a return
showing the mileage of railways owned, controlled or operated in the United States
by the Grand Trunk, the Canadian Pacific and other Canadian railway companies.
2. Also the mileage of railways owned, controlled or operated by the United States
railway corporations in Canada. Presented 10th .4pril, 1911.— Mr. Rutan.
Not printed.
187. Return to an order of the House of Comiuons. dated 3rd April, 1911. for a copy of all
correspondence, declarations, telegrams, mailing lists, and other documents relating
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^0ontinued.
to an application asking for the granting of statutory postal privileges to a news-
paper published at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, called the Gnysborough Times. Pre-
sented 10th April, 1911. — Mr. Sinclair IVo* printed.
188. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all memorials, reports, correspondence and documents in the possession of the gov-
ernment, not already brought down, relating to a survey of a route for a tunnel
under the Straits of Northumberland between the province of Prince Edward Island
and the mainland of Canada, and also relating to the construction of such tunnel.
\ Presented 12lh April, 1911.— Mr. Richards Not printed.
189. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February, 1911, for a copy
of all enactments, regulations, documents, papers and information of every kind set-
ting forth or showing the systems or method by which the census is taken in the
United Kingdom, the British Dominions and foreign countries, respectively; and
showing in what respect, if any, the principle, system or method adopted in the
United Kingdom, the British Dominions, and foreign countries differs from that pro-
posed for the approaching census in Canada. Presented 12th April, 1911. — Mr.
Borden Not printed.
189a. Forms of schedules, &c., in connection with the census to be taken during the year
1911. Presented 21st April, 1911, by Hon. S. A. Fisher Not printed.
189&. Supplementary return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February,
1911, for a copy of all enactments, regulations, documents, papers and information of
every kind setting forth or showing the systems or method by which the census . is
taken in the United Kingdom, the British Dominions and foreign countries, respect-
ively; and showing in what respect, if any, the principle, system or method adopted in
the United Kingdom, the British Dominions, and foreign countries differs from that
proposed for the approaching census in Canada. Presented 10th May, 1911. — Mr.
Borden Not printed.
190. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1911, for a return
showing: — 1. How many employees were connected with the Printing Bureau in 1896?
2. The names of those employees connected with the Printing Bureau who were
dismissed Ijetween 1896 and 1911, and the date of dismissal and the cause in each case?
3. The names of those employees, who resigned or died between the years 1896 and
1911, and the date of resignation or death in each case.
4. The names of those who have been appointed to positions in connection with
the Printing Bureau between 1896 and 1911, and the date of appointment in each case.
Presented 12th April, 1911.— Mr. Edwards Not printed.
191. Return to an address of the Senate dated 17th January, 1911, for the production of a
copy of the agreements concluded between the government and the former proprietor
of the Stad^cona farm at St. F^lix du Cap Rouge, with reference to the purchase of
the said farm, and of operating the same in the future as an experimental farm, and
of all correspondence on these two matters. Presented 19th April, 1911. — Hon. Mr.
Landry .. : Not printed.
192. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th March, 1911, for a copy of
all the correspondence, contracts, assignments and other documents with regard to
what is called the Percy Aylwin irrigation grant, granted to him under order in coun-
cil dated 1st September, 1908. Presented 8th May, 1911.— Mr. Campbell.. Nol printed.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2i— Continued.
193. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 27th February, 1911, for a copy of
all letters, papers, telegrams, documents, vouchers and pay sheets, showing the
names of all persons who supplied materials or worked, and the prices and rates of
wages, and sums paid to each, in connection with the construction of a wharf at
Deep Brook, N.S. Presented 28th April, 1911.— Afr. Jameson ..Not printed.
194. Keturn to an address of the House of Commons, dated 10th April, 1911, for a copy of
all paper?, documents, memoranda and correspondence relating to the parliament
site in the city of Winnipeg for the province of Manitoba, including the reservations
made in the Crown grants to the Hudson's Bay Company, and the purpose for which
the same were made, ind also a copy of the Dominion order in council, dated the
23rd January, 1872, and all subseauent orders in council and correspondence dealing
with the site for both provincial and Dominion purposes. Presented 1st May, 1911.
—Mr. Haggart (Winnipeg) Not printed.
194a. Supplementary return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 10th April, 1911,
for a copy of all papers, documents, memoranda and correspondence relating to the
parliament site in the city of Winnipeg for the province of Manitoba, including the
reservations made in the Crown grants to the Hudson's Bay Company, and the pur-
pose for which the same were made, and also a copy of the Dominion order in coun-
cil, dated the 23rd January, 1872, and all subsequent orders in council and corres-
pondence dealing with the site for both provincial and Dominion purposes. Pre-
sented 20th July, 1911.— Mr. Saggart (Winnipeg) Not printed.
195. Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 1911, for a copy of
all orders in council, regulations and rules of the several depirtments of the govern-
ment respecting the participation by employees of the government in civic or muni-
cipal affairs, and especially with regard to their disability from serving in civic or
municipal councils; and all correspondence, documents and papers since the first day
of January, 1900, touching the operation of the said orders in council, rules and
regulations. Also a list of all employees of the government who have been elected
to or have served in city or municipal councils during the said period from the first
day of January, 1900. up to the present time, including all those now so serving and
those who have been prevented by the government from serving. Presented 1st May,
1911.— Mr. Borden ^o* printed.
195a. Supplementary return to an address of the HoUie of Commons, dated 23rd January,
1911, for a copy of all orders in council, regulations and rules of the several depart-
ments of the government respecting the participation by employees of the govern-
ment in civic or municipal affairs, and especially with regard-to their disability from
serving in civic or municipal councils; and all correspondence, documents and papers
since the first day of January, 1900, touching the operation of the said orders in coun-
cil, rules and regulations. Also a list of all employees of the government who have
been elected to or have served in city or municipal councils during the said period
from the first day of January. 1900. up to the pre.sent time, including all those now
so serving and those who have been prevented by the government from serving. Pre-
sented 3rd May, I911.-Mr. Harden Not printed.
196. Return to an address to His E.'icellency the Governor General of the Srd April, 1911
for a copy of all orders in council, memoranda, papers and documents, relating tc
the transfer, or any negotiations concerning the transfer, of a charter known as th?
Manitoba and South Eastern Railway Company. Presented 2nd May, 1911.— Mr
MeCarthv Not printed
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24^ConHnued.
197. Geueial rule and order of the Exchequer Court of Canada in regard to seaN. Pre-
sented 2nd May, 1911, by Hon. Charles Murphy -Vo* printed.
198. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 18th January, 1911, for a return
showing how many aliens there are in the service of the government of Canada who
are residing out of Canada, their names, nationality, the nature of the service, term
of service, residence, and salary.
2. The same information as to aliens now residing in Canada who have been in
the service of the government of Canada for a period of three years or more, and
the date and length of service.
3. The same information in regard to aliens in the service cf the goveninurit of
any province or provinces of Canada. Presented 9th May, 1911. — Mr. Leiinu.r.
Aof printed.
1P9. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 1st May, 1911, for a return ijiviiig
the names of the gentlemen appointed as judges by the present government of Can-
ada since they came into power in 1896, the residences of these gentlemen at the time
of appointments, the positions to which they were respectively appointed, and in each
case where the appointee had a predecessor in the position, tlie time which the posi-
tion was vacant. Presented 11th May, 1911.— Mr. Lennox.. '..Not printed.
200. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 16th January, 1911, for a copy of
all correspondence, telegrams, reports, contracts, papers and memorials in the pos-
session of the government relating to the establ'shment of a fast Atlantic service
between Canada and any otlier coui try; also with reference to an all red route, cable,
or telegraph service, betyeen Canada and any other country, within the past fifteen
years. Presented 16th May, 1911.— Mr. .4r»nst?-0T!s Not printed
201. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 18th May, 1911, for copies of any
correspondence between the government of New Brunswick, or any member or mem-
bers thereof, and the government of Canada, or any member thereof, witli reference
to changing the Subsidy Act, 1910, with respect to a subsidy for a line of railway
from Grand Falls in the province of New Brunswick to the city of St. John in the
same province. Presented 19th May, 1911.— Mr. C(U-rc?/ Not printed.
202. Copy of report of Board of Conciliation and Investigation in tlie matter of the Western
Coal Operators' Association and its employees. Presented 19tli July, 1911, by Hon.
W. L. Mackenzie King Not printed.
203. Return to an order^of the House of Commons, dated 23rd January, 19U, for a return—
1. Showing in tons the east-bound and the west-bound traffic on the Intercolonial
railway for the five years ending 30th June, 1910.
2. The miles of main trunk line and branches of the Intercolonial railway in
each province through which it passes, distinguishing the trunk line from the
branches.
3. Showing in tons th? west-bound traffic originating in each of the maritime pro-
vinces during the period of five years ending 30th .Tune, 1910. Piesented 18th July,
1911.— Mr. 5incJoir Not printed.
204. Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 13th March, 1911, for a copy of all
correspondence, telegrams, &c., during the past twelve months between Mr. E. J.
Walsh, C.E., and the Minister of Department of Railways and Canals in regard to
the Newmarket Canal. Presented 18th July, 1911. — Mr. Wallace Not printed
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2i— Concluded.
205. Eetui n to an order of the House of Commons, dated 20tli April, 1911, for a return
showing :-l. The quantity of bituminous coal imported into Ontario transhipped into
other provinces in 1910.
2. The quantity of bituminous coal imported into Ontario in 1910 imported by
the diSerent railway companies.
3. The quantity and value of slack coal imported into Ontario in 1910, what por-
tion of this slack coal was transhipped to other provinces, and what imported by
railway companies. Presented 18th July. mi.-Mr. Macdoncll Not printed.
206. Return to an order of the House of Commosn. dated 24th April, 1911. for a return
showing in detail the expenses incurred and paid for the Paris exposition m 1900,
a. pavments of the Colonial committee on account of space, &c., $87,000, as shown m
the report of the Auditor General for 1899-1900. page D-15. Presented 21st July,
« . f . n , ' .. .."ot printed
\9ll.— Mr. Paquel '^
207. Report of Mr. Justice Murphy, Royal Commissioner appointed to investigate alleged
Chinese frauds and opium smuggling on the Pacific coast. 1910-11. together with
copies of the evidence taken and exhibits produced before the said commissioner.
Presented 21st July, 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Not printed.
208. Minutes of Proceedings of the Imperial Conference, 1911. Presented 27th July, 1911.
by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
208a. Despatches, Ac, relative to the simultaneous publication of memorandum of confer-
ence on the subject of the status of Dominion navies. Presented 27th July, 1911, by
Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
208b and 208f. Memorandum of conferences between the British admiralty and represen-
tatives of the Dominions of Canada and Australia; and also, copy of a cable despatch
from Mr. Harcourt to Lord Grey. Presented 28th July, 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wil
frid Laurier Printed for both distribution and sessional papers
208J- Rep: rt of a Committee of the Imperial Conference convened to discuss defence (mill
tary), of the War Office, Uth June and 17th June, 1911. Presented 28th July, 1911
bv Hon. S. A. Fisher ..Printed for both distribution and sessional papers.
209. Memorandum respecting the printing of voters' lists. Presented 27th July. 1911. by
Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Not printed.
210. Text of Pelagic Sealing Treaty signed at Washington. 7th July, 1911. Presented 27th
July, 1911, by Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Printed for sessional papers.
211. Interim report. Alberta and Saskatchewan Tisheries Commi^sicm, 1910. Presented 28th
July, 1911, by Hon. L. P. Brodeur Not printed.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
CIVIL SERYICE COMMISSION
J
CANADA
FOn TiriC PERIOD
FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1909, TO AUGl'SiT 31, IKIO
PRINTED BY ORDER OF PARLIAMENT
OTTAWA
PRINTED BY C. H. PARMELEE, PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST
EXCELLENT MAJESTY
I9in
[No. 31—1911.]
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
Civil Service Commission of Canada,
Ottawa, September, 1910.
To the Honourable
Charles Murphy, K.C,
Secretary of State of Canada.
Sm, — In conformity with the provisions of Section 44 of the Civil Service Amend-
ment Act, 1908, we have the honour to submit herewith, a report of the proceedings
of the Civil Service Commission of Canada, covering the i>eriod from the 1st Sept-
tember, 1909, to the 31st Augvist, 1910. As will be observed, the report is dividbd.
into four parts as follows: —
Part I. Report.
" II. Appendices.
" III. Tables.
" IV. Examination papers.
We have the honour to be. Sir,
Your obedient servants,
ADAM SHORTT,
M. G. LAROCHELLE,
Connnissioners.
1 GEORGE v., ■ SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
To His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Grey,
G.C.M.G., etc., etc.. Governor General of Canada.
Mv Lord, — I have the hoiiuur to lay before Your Excellency the accompanying
report of the Civil Service Commission of Canada for the period from the 1st Sep-
tember, 1909, to the ;!l.st August, 1910.
I have the honour to be, My Lord,
Your Excellency's most obedient servant,
CHARLES MURPHY,
Secretary of State.
Ottawa, November, 1910.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Part I. Report.
Report
Page.
Pari II. Appendices.
Appendix A. Civil Service Act 2-26
Appendix B. Civil Service Amendment Act, 190S 27-37
Appendix C. Civil Service Amendment Act, 1910 39-44
Appendix D. Regulations of the Civil Service Commission 45-50
Appendix E. Examiners for Civil Service Examinations from September 1,
1909, to August 31, 1910 51-54
Pari III. Tables.
Table No. 1. Lists of candidates who were successful at the several examina-
tions held under the direction of the Civil Service Commission 57-C7
(1) Successful candidates at Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations
for the Outside Service, November, 1909. (a) Preliminary Examina-
tion, (b) Qualifying Examination, (c) Optional Subjects, (d)
Second Qualifying Examination 57-02
(2) Successful candidates at General Competitive P^xaminations for the
Inside Service, November, 1909, (a) Lower Grade Offices, (b) Steno-
graphers and Typewriters, (c) Third Division Clerkships, (d) Tem-
porary Employment, (e) Second Division Clerkships 02-63
(3) Successful candidate at Sjiecial Qualifying Promotion Examination,
Department of Trade and Commerce, November, 1909 63
(4) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for posi-
tion of Patent Examiner in the Department of Agriculture, Nov-
ember, 1909 63
(5) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Promotion Examination
in the Department of the Interior, December, 1909 03
(6) Successful candidate at Special Qualifying Examination for posi-
tion of Translator on the Staff of the Senate, February, 1910 63
(7) Successful candidate at Special Qualifying Examination for position
of Translator on the Debates Staff of the House of Commons, Feb-
ruary, 1910 63
(8) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for pcsi-
tion of Engrosser in the Department of the Interior, February, 1910. 63
(9) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for posi-
tion of Accountant in the Department of Labour, March, 1910. ... 63
(10) Successful candidates at General Competitive Examinations for
the Inside Service, May, 1910, (a) Lower Grade Offices, (&) Steno-
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graphers and Typewriters, (c) Third Division Clerlvships, (d)
Second Division Clerksliips 63-64
(11) Successful candidates at Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations
for the Outside Division of the Post Office Department, May, 1910,
(a) Preliminary Examination, (h) Qualifying Examination.. .. 64-66
(12) Successful candidates at Promotion Examinations for the Outside
Division of the Department of Customs, May, 1910 66-67
(13) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examination for six
clerkships in the Topographical Surveys Branch of the Department
of the Interior, May, 1910 67
(14) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for posi-
tion of Draughtsman in the Department of Marine and Fisheries,
May, 1910 67
(15) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examination for three
positions as Chemists at the Experimental Farm, Department of
Agriculture, June, 1910 67
(16) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examination for five
clerkships in the Topographical Surveys Branch of the Department
of the Interior, July, 1910 67
(17) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examination for two
iwsitions of Assistant Accountants in the Department of Naval Ser-
vice, August, 1910 67
(18) Successful candidates at Special Qualifying Examinations for
Lower Grade Offices in the Inside Service, from September 1, 1909,
to August 31, 1910 67
Table No. 2. Showing attendance at the several examinations held under
the direction of the Civil Service Commission 68-71
Table No. 3. Showing appointments made imder Section 22 of the Civil
Service Amendment Act, 1908, to Lower Grade Offices, (A) Selected from
the general list of successful candidates, (B) Nominated by the depart-
ments and qualified by special examinations 72
Table No. 4. Showing persons to whom Certificates of Qualification were
issued by the Commission for temporary employment in the Lower Grade
Offices 73
Table No. 5. Showing appointments made to Clerkships in the Third Divi-
sion of the Inside Service, as the result of open Competitive Examination. 74-76
Table No. 6. Showing Assignments made by the Commission for temporary
employment in the Third Division under the provisions of Section 18 of
the Civil Service Amendment Act, 1908 77-79
Table No. 7. — Showing persons to whom Certificates of Qualification for
TempoTary Employment in the Third Division were issued by the Com-
mission under the provisions of Section 23 of the Civil Service Amend-
ment Act, 1908 80-83
Table No. 8. Showing appointments made in Subdivision B of the Second
Division, as the result of open competitive examinations 84
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Table No. 9. Showing apix)intments made to special iiosition* a.s the result
of open competitive examinations 85
Table No. 10. Showing appointments made by the Governor General in
Council, under the provisions of Section 21 of the Civil Service Amend-
ment Act, 1908, (4) After selection by open competition; (B) Selected
by the departments without competition 86-87
Table No. 11. Showing persons to whom Certificates of Qualification for
Promotion were issued by the Commission under the provisions of Sec-
tion 24 of the Civil Service Amendment Act, 1908 88-92
Table No. 12. Showing a temporary appointment made by the Govemor-
iu-Council upon the recommendation of the Honourable the Minister of
Mines, under the provisions of Section 12, Chap. 29, 6-7, Edward VII,
an Act to create a Department of Mines, accompanied by Certificate of
Qualification by the Commission 93
Table No. 13. Showing persons to whom Certificates of Qualification for
temporary employment were issued by the Commission under the pro-
visions of Sections 2.'3 and .^3, Chap. 15, 7-8 Edward VII, and Section
20, Chap. 8, 9-10 Edward VII 93
Table No. 14. Showing special increase, granted by resolution of the
Senate and accompanied by a Certificate of Merit issued by the Commis-
sion under the provisions of Subsection 3 of Section 37, of the Civil
Service Amendment Act, 1908 94
Table No. 15. Showing a re-instatcment to the Inside Service, made by the
Govemor-in-Council and accompanied by a Certificate of Qualification
by the Commission under the provisions of Section 33 of the Civil Ser-
vice Amendment Act, 1908 94
Pari IV. Examination Papers.
I. Papers set at Special Examination fur a lower grade position in the Depart-
ment of the Interior, October, 1909 97-98
II. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower grade position in the
Department of the Interior, October, 1909 98-09
III. Papers set at Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations for the Outside
Service, November, 1909 99-107
IV. Papers set at General Examinations for Lower Grade Offices, Xovembor.
1909 108-109
V. Papers set at Competitive Examination.-; for Clerkshiiis in the Third Divi-
sion, November, 1909 110-120
VI. Papers set at Competitive Examinations for Clerkships in the Second
Division, November, 1909 120-133
VII. Papers set at Special Promotion Examination, Department of Trade and
Commerce, November, 1909 134-136
VIII. Papers set at Special Competitive Examination for position of Assist-
ant Cerealist, Department of Agriculture. November. 1909 136-137
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IX. Papers set at Special Competitive Examination for position of Patent
Examiner, Department of Agriculture, November, 1909 137
X. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower grade position in the De-
partment of Marine and Fisheries, November, 1909 137-139
XL Papers set at Special Competitive Promotion Examination, Department
of the Interior, December, 1909 139-142
XII. Papers set at Special Examination for two lower grade positions, in the
Departments of Justice and the Interior, respectively, December, 1909. . 142-144
XIII. Papers set at Special Examination for position of Translator on the
Staff of the Senate, February, 1910 144-140
XIV. Papers set at Special Examination for position of Translator on the
Debates Staff of the House of Commons, February, 1910 146-148
XV. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower grade position in tlie
Department of the Interior, March, 1910 149-150
XVI. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower grade position in the
Department of Agriculture, March, 1910 151-152
XVII. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower grade position in the
Post Office Department, March, 1910 152-154
XVm. Papers set at Special Examination for the position of Accountant
in the Department of Labour, March, 1910 154^159
XIX. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower grade position in the
Department of the Interior, April, 1910 160-161
XX. Papers set at General Examinations for Lower Grade Offices, May, 1910. 162-1C3
XXI. Papers set at Competitive Examinations for Clerkships in the Third
Division, May, 1910 164-172
XXII. Papers set at Competitive Examinations for Clerkships in the Second
Division, May, 1910 173-190
XXIII. Papers set at Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations for the
Outsidte Division of the Post Office Department, May, 1910 191-192
XXrV. Papers set at Promotion Examinations for the Outside Division of
the Department of Customs, May, 1910 193
XXV. Papers set at Special Competitive Examinations for Clerkships in the
Topographical Sur^'eys Branch of the Department of the Interior, May,
1910 194-196
XXVI. Papers set at Sisecial Competitive Examinations for the position of
Draughtsman in the Department of Marine and Fisheries, May, 1910. . 197-199
XXVII. Papers set at Special Competitive Examinations for positions as
Draughtsmen in the Topographical Surveys Branch of the Department
of the Interior, July, 1910 2fiO-201
XXVIII. Papers set at Special Competitive Examinations for Clerkships in
the Tojwgraphical Surveys Branch of the Department of the Interior,
July, 1910 201-204
XXIX. Papers set at Special Examination for lower grade positions in the
Departments of the Interior and Mines, July, 1910 204-200
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XXX. Papers set at Special Competitive Examination for two jjositions of
Assistant Accountant in the Department of Xaval Service, August, 1910. 206-212
XXXI. Papers set at Special Examination for a lower .srrarle po.sition in the
Department of the Interior, August, 1910 213-214
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THK
CIVIL SERVICH COMMISSION OF CANADA
FROM SEPTKMIIKI! I. I'.imi. TO AUGUST 31, 19111.
The administration of the Civil Service Ainenthnent Act during the second year
of its operation has afforded a better basis for judging of its normal operation and!
of its capacity to meet the varying needs of the Government Service. The rapid |
development of the country in practically every branch of national interest has neces-
sitated a corresponding expansion in the Dominion Civil Service. This has involved •
the appointment of many new clerks and the promotion of a considerable number of
those already in the service. The tables given in Part III of the report, will indicate
the expansion of the service and the directions in which it has taken place.
General Competitions.
In the course of the past year, in accordance with the Civil Service Amendment
Act and the regulations framed under it, the Commission held two general competitive
examinations for the Second and Third Divisions of the Inside Service, one in
November, 1909, and the other in May, 1910. Previous to these examinations, the
heads of the various departments furnished the Commission with the number of clerks
in these divisions likely to be required during the following six months. A public
notice of the examinations was published in the Canada Gazette two months previous
to the holding of them.
The numbers of candidates for the examinations of November, 1909, were twelve
for the Second, and one hundred and sixty-eight for the Third Division. For those
in May, 1910, there were thirty-eight candidates for the Second, and two hundred an^
seventy-one for the Third Division. As the result of these examinations, for the
Second Division nine were successful in November and twenty-nine in May, while
for the Third Division, forty-five were successful in November and seventy in Ma.y.
Practically all of these have been appointed either to permanent or temporary posi-
tions.
Special Competitions.
The Commission held, from time to time, in the course of the year, special com-
petitions for various positions, requiring professional or technical knowledge and
experience, which cnnld nnt be tested by the ordinary examinations. Tlipsf positinn*
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were duly advertised in the Canada Gazette, the advertisemeats setting forth the
educational and technical requirements and the nature and length of experience re-
(luired on the part of the applicants.
In this manner, thirty-five positions were filled, one in the First Division, thirty-
two in the Second Division and two in the Third Division. A list of the successful
candidates will be found in Table 9, page 85, and Table 10, Part A, page 86. Those
given in Part A of Table 10, being over the age limit or otherwise excluded from
appointment by the Commission, under Article 18, required to be appointed under
Article 21 of the Civil Service Amendment Act.
Non-competitive Appointments.
Other appointments of a professional or technical nature, to the number of
twenty-six, seven in the First Division and nineteen in the Second Division, were
made without open competition. These appointments were made on the nomination
of the departments under the authority of section 21 pf the Civil Service Amend-
ment Act. However, nearly one half of those appointed in this manner were selected
after consultation with the Commission, as provided for in Article 16 of the Regula-
tions of the Civil Service Commission.
Temporary Appointments.
During the year, there were two hundred and seventy-eight appointments for
temporary employment. All but four of these were in Subdivision B of the Third
Division, the four others being in Subdivision B of the Second Division.
These appointments, which are limited to six months in any one fiscal year, were
required to meet the needs of the departments, arising chiefly from the following
causes : —
(a) Absence of clerks on regular or special leave.
(h) Temporary pressure of work.
(c) The expansion of the regular work of the departments.
Many of the temporary i5ositions, created under (c), naturally passed into per-
manent positions and, where those occupying them wert' (hily qualified, they received
permanent appointments.
Most of those appointed for temporary eniplnyment may be classified as follows : —
(o) Those successful at previous examinations, but who had not yet received
permanent appointments.
The majority of these receive appointments to permanent positions in the course
of six months after examination. There were ninety-five appointments of this class,
tlie appointments being made under section 18 of the Act. The names arc given in
Tabic 6, pages 77 to 79.
(h) Those who secured more than the minimum of marks qualifying for selec-
tion, but who did not come within the numbers required for permanent apiiointments.
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(c) Those going up for the next semi-annual examination and whose previous j
qualifications indicated the likelihood of their being successful candidates.
(d) University students and others whose qualifications were obviously above
the requirements for the Third Division.
These were selected only after the lists of those entitled to temporary employ-
iiieiit, in virtue of having passed the Civil Service Examination, were exhausted.
Of tiie appointments coming under classes (&), (c) and (d), one hundred and
seventy-three were made under section 23 of the Act. The names arc given in Table
7, pages 80 to 83. This table also indicates those temporary clerks in classes (h) and
(c), who, through subsequent examinations, succeeded in securing permanent appoint-
ments. The remaining ten appointments to temporary positions were made at
salaries above the minimum of $500, in accordance with section 20 of the Amending
Aft of 1010. The names of these are given in Table 13, page 93.
lower Grade Appointments.
There were forty-nine appointments to lower grade positions, .such as messengers,
porters, packers, &c. Of these, thirty-one received permanent appointments and
eighteen temporary employment. Of those appointe<l to permanent positions, eleven
were selected from the regular lists of successful candidates in this grade. The other
twenty were specially nominated by the departments under section 22 of the Act, and
required to pass a qualifying examination before receiving certificates. The names
are given in Table 3, page 72. Of the eighteen appointed to temporary positions in
the lower grades, eight were selected from the regular list of successful candidates and
ten were nominated by the departments. The names will be found in Table 4, page 73.
Summary.
The total number of new appointments to the sen'ice during the past year may
ho summarized as follows: —
Tn the three divisions of the Inside Service, one hundred and ninety-one per-
manent appointments were made. Of these, eight were in the First Division, seventy-
six in the Second Division, and one hundred and seven in the Third Division. There
were also two hundred and seventy-eight appointments to temporary positions and
torty-nine appointments to lower grade positions. The total number of appointments
for the Inside Service during the past year was five hundred and eighteen.
Examinations for Outside Service.
In addition to the regular and special examinations for the Inside Service, the
Commission held two semi-annual qualifying examinations for the Outside Service.
The results will be found iu Part III of the Report, pages 57 to 62 and pages 64 to
67.
Hitherto, no part (if the Outside Service, beyond the holiling of the qualifying
examinations, has been brought iinder the general terms of tlie Civil Service Amend-
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I nient Act. Hence tlie Commission has as yet no part in the appointments and pro-
I motions for the Outside Service.
Examiners.
The list of examiners for competitive and non-competitive examinations, eitlier
general or special, is given in Part IT, Appendix E.
Promotions.
During the past year, two' hundred and two certificates of qualific-ation were
issued for promotions from one grade of the service to another. Of these promo-
tions, ninety-three were from B to A of the Third Division, one from A of the Third
to B of the Second Division, sixty-one from B to A of the Second Division, thirty
from A of the Second to B of the First Division and seventeen from B to A of the
First Division.
It may be observed that these promotions, though based upon merit, were not
necessarily made by competitive examinations. At the same time, no person was
i" promoted without previously obtaining a certificate of qualification from the Com-
mission. This gave the Commission an opportunity to verify, in concert with the
chiefs of the departments, the relative merits of the pe7sons recommended. It is to
/ be borne in mind that in matters of promotion, the Commission has to take into
t account both theoretical and practical qualifications.
It may be mentioned, in regard to the single promotion from the Third to the
Second Division, that the Commissioners and the government are considering- this
important question with a view to arriving at an equitable solution.
Suggestions of the Commissioners.
SPECIAL SALARY INCREASES.
Under Article 33 of the Civil Service Aniondment x\.ct, where the qualification.'^^
required for the performance of the duties of the position are of an exceptional char-
acter, on the original appointment of a clerk provision is made for adding a certain
amount, not to exceed five hundred dollars, to the minimum salary of the grade to
which he may be appointed. In the case, however, of appointments to the Third and
Second Divisions, in a number of cases it may not be possible to determine, at the
time of appointment, whether the successful candidates have the exceptional qualifi-
cations required for the positions in question. In many cases this can be adequately
determined only after a year or two of experience. Yet, under the law as it stands,
it is then too late to increase or diminish the initial salary, according to the practical
capacity shown by those appointed.
Again, in a still larper number of cases, the duties of a clci-k who shows excep-
tional ability, particularly in B of the Second Division, may bo enlarged in range and
quality within a comparatively few years after his appointment. This may be due
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i-ither to the development of new functions in connection with the work assigned to
him, or he may be entrusted with a higher g-rade of work than that assigned to him
• u (Mill-ring the service. In such cases, after a clerk has once entered the service, the
■ uly method provided for in the Act by which he can be adequately remunerated for
the increased importance and responsibility of his work, is by promoting him to tlu:
next higher grade in the service. In the case, however, of the majority of such clerks
who enter the service in Subdivision B of the Second Division at eight hundred dollars,
this would mean an increase, within a few years, to double that salary, $1,600 being
the minimum salary of Subdivision A of the Second Division. The present alterna-
tive, therefore, is to permit such a clerk to remain in the service for say eight years
before he can rise to a salary of $1,^00, or to promote him at one stroke to a salary
of $l,r)(X). Some departments inclined to the first horn of the dilemma, others to the
second. In the first case, substantial injustice is the result, or the loss of good men
to the service. In the second case, unnecessary expenditure is entailed on the depart-
ment. It would appear advisable, therefore, by a suitable amendtnent of section 33,
to provide that some intermediate salary, say $1,200, should be introduced in at least
Subdivision B of the Second Division, to meet the requirements of such cases as those
referred to. This would also enable the very reasonable purpase of Article 33, as at
present framed, to be secured in a more equitable manner and in the best interests
of the service.
S.M.Atn ANKMAI.IKS cl\ til ANlilNi; CRADES.
Another <lifticulty in connection with the operation (if the new Act has been
brought to the attention of the Commission during the past year. The salaries of
lower grade employees are the same, and subject to the same annual increases as those
of clerks in Subdivision B of the Third Division. When, therefore, a messenger or
porter has entered the service at $500 and has been three .years in it, he will receive
a salary of $600, but, should he possess sufficient ambition and industry to prepare
himself for the Third Division examination and should he prove a successful candi-
date, instead of entering the Third Division at a salary of $600, he must enter at the
minimum of the Division, which is $500. Thus, the net reward of his industry and
ambition in preparing himself to become a more efficient civil servant is a reduction
of $100 in his salary. In other words, he will- require two years additional time in
the higher grade of the service to recover his former income. An equal or even
greater hardship is involved in passing from Grade A of the Third Division to Grade
B of the Second Division, by means of the competitive, as distinguished from the
qualifying examination. In Grade A of the Third Division, the clerk at a salary of
from $900 to $1,200, after preparing himself for the full competitive examination for
the Second Division and proving to be a successful candidate, must enter the higher
division at $800. Thus, in consequence of his industry and ambition in establishing
his superior qualifications, he is required to sacrifice from $100 to $400, according to
his length of service. In other words, it will require him to spend from two to eight
years in a higher branch of the service before he recovers the salary which he formerly
received.
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Assuredly there could have been no intention, in passing the present Act, that
such injustices should result from its normal operation. These anomalies should
certainly be remedied, and this could be accomplished by the same alteration in the
Act as that recommended in connection with the previous suggestion regarding sec-
tion 33 of the Civil Service Amendment Act.
THE APPOINTMENT OF SORTERS^ PACKERS AND PORTERS.
I The Commission is of the opinion that the appointment of sorters, packers and
porters, in the lower grades, should be made by competitive examinations. The Com-
missioners are well aware that this method of appointment might not be practicable as
regards the positions of messengers, inasmuch as the heads of departments may some-
times require from such employees special qualifications, but they believe that such
is not the case with the other positions and that competitive examinations would be
more satisfactory to the public and the. candidates.
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE FROM CIVIL SERVANTS.
The Commissioners desire to submit that some provision should be included in
the Act which would enable them to remunerate such of the civil servants whose
services they may from time to time deem essential to the proper discharge of their
duties in the general or special exminations. They fully recognize the wisdom
of the government in curbing and prohibiting any distraction from official duties;
but, at the same time, the Commission is frequently under the necessity, in the public
interest, of using the official knowledge of a number of civil servants in the higher
divisions. For this reason, the Commission is of the opinion that a reasonable com-
pensation should be allowed for such service; otherwise these officials might very
properly decline their good offices, as there is no statute to oblige them to give such
assistance to the Conunission.
Staff of the Commission.
The Commissioners are particularly pleased to recognize the good offices of the
staff of the Commission. By their capacity, devotion and efficiency, their work has
been very satisfactory.
ADAM SHORTT,
M. G. LAROCHELLE,
Commissioners.
Ottaw.4, September, 1910.
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PART II
APPENDICES
31—1
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
APPENDIX A.
An Act respecling the Civil Service of Canada.
SIIOKT TITLE.
1. This Act inav be cited as the Civil Service Act. R.S., ^1'"^ title.
c. 17, s. 1.
INTERPRETATION.
2. Til this Act, unices the context otlierwise requires, — Difinitions.
(a) ' head of the department ' means the minister of the
Crown for tlie time being presiding over the department;
(b) ' deptity,' ' deputy head,' or ' deputy head of the depart-
ment,' means the deputy of the minister of the Crown
presiding over the department, and the Clerk of the Privy
Council ; and includes also tlic Auditor General, in all
cases in which such meaning is not inconsistent with his
powers and duties under the Consolidated Revenue and
Audit Act;
(c) ' Board ' means the examiners appointed for the purposes
of this Act. U.S., c. 17, s. 2 ; 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 1.
CONSTITUTION.
3. The Civil Service for the purposes of this Act includes of whom the
and consists of all classes of officers, clerks and employees, ^^J^'j} fjfnsi'sT
elsewhere than in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta
and in the Northwest Territories and tiie Yukon Territory, in
or under the several dejjartments of the Executive Government
of Canada and in the office of the Auditor General, included
in schedules A and E to this Act, appointed by the Governor
in Council or other C'im]x»tent authority before the first day of
Julv, one tlumsand eight hundred and eighty-two, or there-
after appointed or employed in tiie manner provided by the
Civil Service Act for the time being in force; and also
includes, —
(a) such officers, clerks or emjiloyees in the lower grades
as are determined by order in council ; and,
(b) such officers, clerks and employees in the provinces of
Saskatchewan and Alberta and in the Xorthwest Territories
and the Yukon Territory, holding positions which if ^oid
in other parts of Canada would bring them under the pro-
visions of this Act, as the Governor in Council brings
under the provisions hereof.
2.
31— li
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIOX OF CANADA
Exception.
Two
■divisions.
Inside
division.
Outside
division.
Regulations.
Governor in
Council to
determine
nunil)er of
oiEcers, etc.
If the
actual num-
ber exceeds
that allowed
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2. The Civil Service shall not, however, include nor shall
this Act apply to any of the officers or employees to whom
by the provisions of the Post Office Act that Act instead of
the Civil Service Act is intended to apply. R.S., c. 17, s. 3;
sch. B. ; 2 E. VII., c. 28, s. 1.
4. The service shall be divided into two divisions, namely : —
(a) The first or inside departmental division which shall
comprise officers, clerks and employees of those classes
mentioned in schedule A, employed on the several depart-
mental staffs at Ottawa, and in the office of the Auditor
General ; and,
(b) The second or outside departmental division which shall
comprise officers, clerks, and employees of those classes
mentioned in schedule B, and the other officers, clerks and
employees included in the Civil Service who are employed
otherwise than on the departmental staffs at Ottawa. U.S.,
•c. 17, s. 4.
5. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make
general rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provi-
sions of this Act, respecting the appointments and promotions
of the officers, clerks and employees in the Civil Service and
all other matters pertaining thereto. U.S., c. 17, s. 5.
6. The Governor in Council shall, from time to time, deter-
mine the number of officers, clerks of the several classes and
grades, messengers and other employees who are required for
the working of the several de-partments in each division of
the Civil Service, but the collective amoimt of the salaries of
each department shall, in no case, exceed that provided for by
vote of Parliament for that purpose.
2. If the number of officers, clerks, and employees then
attached to any department in either division thereof is greater
than th-e number allowed to the department, as herein provided,
tlie Governor in Council shall name the persons to fill the
several offices ; and the remainder shall be supernumerary
clerks, ineligible for increase of salary, of that class respectively
in which they rank, and shall so remain until promoted in the
manner herein j^rovided or until severed from the service. E.S.,
c. 17, s. 6.
BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
7. Three examiners shall, from time to time, be appointed
by the Governor in Council, who, for the purposes of this Act,
shall be known as the Board ; and they shall examine all candi-
dates for admission to the Civil Service, and give certificates of
qualification to such persons as are found qualified, according
to such regulations as are authorized by the Governor in Coun-
cil for the guidance of the Board.
2.
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2. The Governor in Council may appoint a person who Clerk,
shall be Herk to the Board, at a salary not exceeding seven
hundred dollars per annum.
3. Each nieniber of the Board shall receive such salary, Salary of
not exceeding four hundred dollars per annum, as is fixed members,
by the Governor in Council.
4. The members of the Board, while engaged in their work, Travelling
shall be paid such travelling expenses as are determined by the *'='i'^"''*^-
Governor in Council.
5. Such persons as are selected by the Board to assist it Pay of
in the conduct of examinations shall receive such sum, not "^^'^'^ ^° '
exceeding five dollars a day, as is fixed by the Governor in
Council.
6. The meetings of the Board shall be held at such times. Meetings,
and the proceedings thereof shall be governed by such rules
and regulations as the Governor in Council, from time to
time, determines.
7. The Board shall be supervised by the Secretary of State. Supervision.
R.S., c. 17, 8. 8 ; 52 V., c. 12, s. 1.
8. The Board may obtain the assistance of persons who Who may be
have had experience in the education of the youth of Canada, assistants.
and with such assistance shall hold, or cause to be held, period-
ical examinations for admission to the Civil Service, at such
times and places as shall be determined, from time to time, by
the Governor in Council.
2. Examinations shall, as far as possible, be in writing, and J^^j^"';"^'
the cost thereof shall be defrayed out of moneys previously writing,
voted by Parliament for that purpose. R.S., c. 17, s. 9.
9. Whenever the Board is satisfied that any irregularity or rrmcedlngs
fraudulent practice has obtained at any examiuation held by IneguUirUy
it or by any person deputed by it, the Board may summon a,< examina-
before it by an instrument signed by the chairman or acting
chairman of the Board, and may examine under oath or affinn-
ation, any person v.-ho, in its opinion, is in a position to give
evidence in relation to such irregularity or fraudulent practice.
58-59 v., c. U, s. 1.
10. If the person so eumuKniod does not appear at the time Refusal to
and phice appointed by such instrument, the chairman or acting tvit^L.^^
chairman of the Board shall be vested with all the powers con-
ferred upon a justice of the peace by the Criminal Code, in the
case of a person to whom a smnmons has been directed, requir-
ing such person to appear before such justice at a time and place
therein mentioned to give evidence respecting a charge of an
indictable offence, and who does not appear in obedience thereto.
58-59 v., c. 14, s. 1.
11. Whenever any person appearing in obedience' to anyTumsh-^
such instrument, or by virtue of a warrant issued under the persons re-
last
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fusing to last preceding section, refuses to be sworn, or having been
sworn refuses to answer such questions as are p\it to him,
or refuses or neglects to produce any documents which he is
required to produce, without in any such case offering any
just excuse for such refusal or neglect, the chairman or acting
chairman of the Board shall, as to such person, be vested with
all the powers, as to process and punishment in respect to
witnesses, conferred in like cases upon a justice of the peace
by the Criminal Code. 58-59 V., c. 14, s. 1.
Oath how ad- J2, Every oath or affirmation required for the purpose of
ministere . ^^^^^^ ii^q^iry mav be administered by any member of the Board.
51 v., c. 12, s. 2.
13. If any person is proved upon such inquiry to have
been concerned in any fraudulent practice, or to have been
guilty of any breach of the regulations made by the Governor
in Council with respect to any examination held under the
authority of this Act, the Board shall report the same to the
Secretary of State, who may thereupon cause such person's
name to be removed from the list of persons who are found
qualified. 51 V., c. 12, s. 2.
14. Every person who, at any examination held under
this Act, personates any candidate or employs, induces or
allows any person to personate him, is guilty of an offence
against this Act, and liable, on summary conviction, to im-
prisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine
not exceeding two hundred dollars, and, if he is employed
in the Civil Service, to be dismissed therefrom. 51 V., c. 1-2,
s. 2.
Procuring 15. Every person who surreptitiously procures from any
examina^ ""*^ printer or other person, and every person who, without
tion question authority, furnishes to any other person any examination ques-
paper. ^^^^^ paper or any other paper relating to any such examination
as aforesaid, is guilty of an offence against this Act, and liable,
on summary conviction, to imprisonment, with or without hard
labour, for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not
exceeding two hundred dollars, and, if he is employed in Uie
Civil Service, to be dismissed therefrom.
Disqualified. 2. No sucli person shall be allowed to present himself at
any subsequent examination. 51 V., c. 12, s. 2.
Report to
Secretary of
State.
Disqualifica-
tion.
Personation
at examina-
tion.
No appoint-
ment with-
out examinr
tion.
EXAMIN.\TIOXS.
16. Except as herein otherwise provided no person shall be
appointed to or employed in eitlier division of the Civil Service
unless the person so appointed or employed has passed the exam-
ination hereinafter required in order to qualify him for such
appointment or employment. I\.S., c. 17, s. 29.
17.
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17. It shall be necessary to pass the first or preliminary Preliminary
examination in order to qualify for the following appointments tb ™'"^'
or emplojnnents : — ■
llessenger ;
Porter ;
Sorter;
Packer ;
Tidewaiter ;
Assistant inspector of weights and measures ; and,
Such other appointments or employments in the lower grades
as are determined by the Governor in Council. U.S., c. 17,
s. 2!); 58-59 V., c/lo, ss. 4 and 8.
18. It shall be necessary to pass the second or qualifying Qualifying
examination in order to (jualify for the following appointments tiJn,
or employments: — •
Third-class clerkships in tlie first division;
Third-class clerkships and the offices of landing waiters aiid
lockers in the second division for Customs service ;
Third-class excisemen and stenographers or typewriters in
the second division of the Inland Itevcnue service;
Third-class clerkships, railway mail clerkships and the offices
in the second division for Post Office service; and,
Temporary clerks or writers in either division. K.S., c. 17,
s. 29 ; " 51 v., c. 12, s. 14 ; 58-59 V., c. 15, ss. 4 and 8 ;
03-04 v., c. 14, s. 3; 3 E. VII., c. 9, ss. 15 and 26.
19. Candidates may pass both the preliminary and qualify Both examin-
ing examinations at tiieir ojition. U.S., c. 17, s. 29. ft'Tption'^^'^
20. Xo person shall be admitted either to the preliminary ur Candidates
qualifying examination until ho has satisfied the Board, — s"on.'"^'"'^
(a) that at the time a]i])oiuted for such examination he will,
if the examination is for aii appointment which the passing
of the preliminary examination is sufficient to qualify for. Age.
be of the ftiU age of fifteen years, and, in other cases, be
of the full age of eighteen years ; and, if for the inside
dejiartniental division, that his age will not then be more
than thirty-five years;
(h) that he is free from any physical defect or disease Physique.
whi',-h would be likely to interfere with the proper discharge
of his duties; and,
(c) that his character is such as to qualify him for employ- Character,
nicut in the service. R.S., c. 17, s. 30; 58-59 V., c. 15, s. 5.
21. The preliminary and qualifying examinations shall 05 Times and
held only once a year and during the month of November, under """°"-
such regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, as are from
time to time made by the Governor in Council, and published
in the Engli.sh and French languages in the Canada Gazette.
51 v., c. 12, s. 5.
22.
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In May.
Subjects.
Age.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
22. Except as herein otherwise provided no promotion in
either division of the Civil Service shall take place without
special examination under regulations made by the Governor in
Council. E.S., c. 17, s. 39.
23. Except as herein otherwise provided promotion exam-
inations shall be held once a year in the month of May and at
such other time as is from time to time fixed by the Governor
in Council, and shall he in such subjects as are determined from
time to time for each department by the Governor in Council,
and in such subjects as by report of the deputy head of the
department in which the promotion is to be made, concurred in
by the head of the department, are submitted to the Board as
best adapted to test the fitness of the candidates for the vacant
office. 51 v., c. 12, s. 8; 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 22.
24. Wlien a vacancy to be filled by promotion exists in the
inside division, the examination shall not be open to any person
lappointed to the outside division who at the date of his first
appointment was of a greater age than thirty-five yeai"s. R.S.,
c. 17, s. 39.
Yearly esti-
mate of
probable
vacancies.
To whom ex-
aminations
shall be
open.
Either
language.
25. Once in each year, not later than the fifteenth day of
March, the deputy head of each department shall make and lay
before the Board through the Department of the Secretary of
State estimates of the number of vacancies to which promotions
may be made in the first and second divisions respectively of
his department during the ensuing year, either by reason of
retirement, death, failure of health or other cause, in the respec-
tive classes of chief, first-class and second-class clerks.
2. The number so estimated shall be the number with refer-
ence to which the examinations for promotion shall be held.
R.S., c. 17, s. 40; 51 V., c. 12, s. 9.
26. The examinations shall be open to all persons who
comply with the requirements of this Act as to proof of age,
health and character, and conform to the regulations made as
herein provided, upon payment of such fees as are determined
by the Governor in CounciL R.S., c. 17, s. 32.
27. All examinations under this Act shall be held in the
English or French language, at the option of the candidate.
E.S., c. 17, s. 32; 51 V., c. 12, s. 6.
28. jSTotice of every examination, whether for admission
into the Civil Service or for promotion therein, shall be pub-
lished in the English and French languages in the Canada
Gazette at least one month before the date fi.xed for the examin-
ation, and such notice in the case of promotion examinations
shall state the number of promotions expected in each class
in each division. U.S., c. 17, ss. 33 and 41 ; 51 V., c. 12, s. 7.
29.
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StSSIONAL PAPER No. 31
29. Immediately after each examination a list of the persons Pass list.
who are found qualified shall be made out, and published in
the Canada Gazette. E.S., c. 17, s. 34.
APPOINTMENTS.
30. Except as herein otherwise provided all appointments Tenure,
to the Civil Service shall be during pleasure, and no person
shall be appointed to any place below that of a deputy head
unless, in addition to passing the requisite examination, he has
served the probationarv term hereinafter mentioned. R.S., Probationary
tfT ir\ service.
C. 17, S. 10.
31. No person shatt be appointed to any place in the first Age limits.
or inside departmental division of tlie Civil Service, other than
that of a deputy head, controller of railway mail service <~r
superintendent of railway mail service, on probation or other-
wise, whose age exceeds thirty-five years, or wlio has not
attained the full age of eighteen years: Provided that this
section shall not render ineligible any officer or employee, not
within the said age limits, to be transferred from the outside
service to the railway mail service branch. 58-5'J V., c. 15,
8. 12; 60-61 v., c. 14, s. 1.
32. "Wliencver it become>> necessary to make any appoinr- First ap-
ment to any of the classes to which it is herein provided pomtnients.
that first appointments shall only be made after qualifying
examination, such necessity shall be reported to the head of
the department by his deputy; and upon such report being ^ ^
approved by the head of the department, and after the salary ^j. '^
to bo paid' lias been voted by Parliament, the head of the
department shall select and submit to the Governor in Council
for probation, from the lists of qualified candidates made by
the Board, a person fitted for the vacant place. R.S., c. 17,
8. 35.
33. The person so selected shall not receive a permanent Probation,
appointment until ho has served a probationary term of at least
six months. Iv.S., c. 17, s. 35.
34. The bead of the department or the deputy head may, Rejection
at any time during the period of probation, reject any clerk jj^[j'^s pro-
or employee appointed to his department. R.S., c. 17, s. 35.
35. No probationary clerk shall remain in any department Report of
more than one year, unless, at or before the end of that time, as tocom*^
the deputy head signifies to the head of the department in petency.
writing that the clerk is considered by him competent for the
duty of the department. E.S., c. 17, s. 36.
36. If such probationary clerk be rejected, the head of the ^Jj^^^?^^ '
department shall report to the Governor in Council the reasons '
for
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for rcjcctinp,- him, and tinothev clerk slinll tlicreiipon be selected
in like manner in his stead.
2. The head of the department shall decide whether th(!
name of the person rejected shall be struck off the list as unfit
Another f^j. ^^g service generallv, or whether he shall be allowed another
trial. E.S., c. 17, s. 36.
Officers 37. Allien the deputy head of a department in which a
spedaTq^uali- vacancy occurs reports, for reasons set forth in such report, —
fications. ^dj that the qualifications requisite for such office are wholly
or in part professional or toclmical; and,
(b) that it would be for the public interest that the examin-
ation herein provided for should, as regards such vacancy,
be wholly or partially dispensed with ;
the Governor in Council may, without reference to the age of
the person, if the head of the department concurs in such report,
select and appoint or promote such person as is deemed best
fitted to fill the vacancy, suliject to such examination as is
suggested in the report, o E. VII., c. 0, s. 21.
Exceptions. 38. Citv postmasters and post office inspectors; inspectors,
collectors and preventive officers in the Customs Department;
inspectors of weights and measures, and deputy collectors and
preventive officers in the Inland Eevenue Department, may be
a])pointed without examination and without reference to the
rules for promotion herein prescribed. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 21.
Three years' 39. Notwithstanding anything in this Act a person who
tn''o'u"skfe^ has Served over three years as an officer or acting officer in
Customs. the outside service of the Customs may be appointed an
examining officer in such service siibject to such examination
on the duties of office and other qualifications as is prescrilied
Ijy the deputy head in a report to be concurred in by the head of
the department, o E. VII., c. 9, s. 21.
rollefre 40. Graduates of the lioyal ]\Iilitary College, or of any
graduates. nniversity in Canada, sliall be exempt from the qualifying
examination. 51 V., c. 12, s. 5.
Vacancy in 41. If a vacancy occurs in the office of the Auditor General,
Aiitlitnr j.| report required as to such vacancv shall be made to the
iicneral s i * -r» o -t ^ o^n
<,ffice. Minister of Finance. li.S., c. It, s. .38.
Ke-entry. 42. Any officer, clerk or employee who has resigned, shall
be eligible, without examination, under the authority of an
order in council, to re-enter the service, in the class in which
he was serving at the time of such resignation, and at the
salary which he was then receiving, if funds are available for
the payment of his salary. R.S., c. 17, s. 53.
PEOMOTIONS.
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PEOilOTIOXS.
43. The promotion examination may be dispensed with on Exemptions
a report from the deputy head, concurred in by the head of tho am^^tlon.
department, tliat such examination is not necessary in the case
of the following? persons when employed or when seeking pro-
motion in the line of their profession: —
Barristers ;
Attorneys ;
Military or civil enijincers ; ,
Officers of the artillery in the Department of Mihtia and
Defence ;
Architects;
Drauditsmen and land surveyors.
2. Such examination may also be so dispensed with in the ^p^«;;^/J-^^^
case of special-class excisemen seeking promotion in the Depart-
ment of Inland Revenue. 51 V., c. 12, s. 8.
44. Railway mail clerks and clerks employed in post offices K.nilwny mail |
shall not be Required to pass the promotion examination.
GO-Gl v., c. 26, s. 2; Gl V., c. 20, s. 6.
45. Xo such examination shall be required for the re-employ- Excisemen,
ment or promotion of excisemen who passed the departmental
examinations for the special class in the excise service before
the first day of July, one thousand eight huiulred and eighty-
two. R.S., c. 17, s.'39.
46 Except as herein otherwise provided, when any vacancy Selection for
occurs in'one of the hi-her classes, in either division the head vaeanc.es u.
of the department shall select from the list of .successful candi- classes,
dates for i)romution, the person whom he considers best fitted ^^
for the office, having due reference to any special duties incident
to such office, to the qualification and fitness shown by the ,
candidates respectively during their examination and to the
record of their previous conduct m the service. K.b., c. 1<,
s. 42; 51 v., c. 12, s. 10.
47. Every promotion so made shall be subject to a probation probation.
of not less than six months. , , i j: .i i . -, t
2. At any time during the first year the head of the depait- 1„ c^se^of
ment mav reject the person promoted, or he may be definitely
accepted 'at any time during the second period of six months
after his promotion.
3 If the person so selected is rejer-tod he shall then return Return to
to the performance of the duties in which he was previously i"^"--
engaged. R.S., c. 17, s. 43.
48. When any clerk who is promoted on probation .is Further^_
reiected, the head of the department snail select another m
his stead from the candidates whose names still remain on
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llie lists of qiialificJ persons made by the Board. Iv.S., c. IT,
s. 44.
49. During; tlie period for which a clerk is promntorl on
Former
whom per- probation the dnties of the office previously held by him sliall,
formed. jf necessary, be performed by a person selected for that purpose
by the head of the department. E.S., c. 17, s. 45.
EXCHANGES AND TRANSFEES.
Without
examination.
Age.
50. An exchange of positions between two officers serving
in different departments, or in different divisions of the same
department, and the filling of a vacancy in one departmenr
by a transfer from another division of the same department or
from another department, may be authorized by the Governor
in Council to be made without examination of either officer.
2. Such exchange or transfer shall be made without increase
of salary of either of the persons exchanging or transferred.
3. No person shall be ti-ansfei'red from the ovitside to the
inside division, whose age at the date of his first appointment
exceeded thirty-five years. E.S., c. 17, s. 46.
DEPUTY MINISTERS.
Office. 51. There shall be a deputy head for each department.
2. No officer shall hereafter be raised to the rank of deputy
Created by head except in the case of a vacancy occurring, or M-hen a new
Parliament, department is created by Act of Parliament. 51 V., c. 12, s. 3.
Appoint-
ment.
Removal,
statement of
52. The deputy heads of departments shall be appointed
by the Governor in Council, and shall hold otlice during
pleasure.
2. Whenever such pleasure is exercised in the direction of
removing a deputy head from his office, a statement of the
reasons for so doing shall be laid on the table of both Houses
of Parliament within the first fifteen days of the next follow-
ing session. U.S., c. 17, s. 11.
Salnry of
Deputy
Minister of
Justice.
Salary of
Deputy
^Minister uf
Finance.
53. The Deputy Minister of Justice may, if at the time of
his appointment he is a barrister of at least ten years' standing,
be paid a salary beginning on appointment at four thousand
five liundred dollars per annum, with an annual increase of one
hundred dollars imtil a maximum salary is reached of five
thousand dollars. 3 E. VII., c. 9, ss. 2 and G.
54. The Deputy Minister of Finance may, if at the time of
his appointment he has been for at least ten years in tlie .service
^of one or more of the chartered banks of Canada as general
manager or as manager of a branch of such bank or in both
capacities, be paid a salary beginning on appointment at four
thousand
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thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with an annual
increase of one hundred dollars until a maximum salary is
reached of five thousand dollars.
2. The salary of the Deputy Minister of Finance holding Present
office on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine I'<?P"ty-
hundred and three, shall, so long as he remains in office, be five
thousand dollars per annum. 3 E. VII., c. 9, ss. 2 and 3.
55. The Deputy Minister of Hallways and Canals may, if P.-ilary of
at the time of his appointment he is a civil engineer of at least Pr'^"'/ ,
' . . . ~ . JNiinister of
ten years' standing, be paid a salary beginning on appointment Railways and
at four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with an '-'^"•'i'^-
annual increase of one hundred dollars until a ma.ximum salary
is reached of five thousand dollars. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 2.
56. In all cases not hereinbefore provided for the salary of Salaries of
a deputy head of a department siiall on appointment be three 2|,.Jjg ^^"^^
thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with an annual
increase of one hundred doHars until a maxinuun salary is
reached of four thousand dollars per annum. 3 E. VII., c. 9,
ss. 2 and 4.
57. The increases of salary hereinbefore authorized to be Increases
made to any deputy head shall be made by the Governor in ''°^'' ™''''^*-
Council upon the recommendation of the head of his depart-
ment. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 2.
58. Nothing herein contained shall operate to diminish the >fo salary
salary or emolument of any deputy head holding office on the """"**"-" •
twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and
three, who was at that date in receipt of a salary larger than
would be payable to him under this Act. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 5.
59. The deputy head of each department shall, subject to Duties,
the directions of the head of the department, oversee and direct
the officers, clerks and employees of the department, and shall
have general control of the business thereof, and shall perform
such other duties as are assigned to him by the Governor in
Council.
2. He shall give his full time to the piiblie service and shall Fu" time,
discharge all duties required by the head of the department, or
by the Governor in Council, whether such duties are in his own
department or not.
3. No deputy head shall receive any pay, fee or allowance in No extta
any form in e,v^'"aa of the amount of the salary hereinbefore^''^'
authorized to be paid to him. 3 E. VII, c. 9, s. 7.
60. In the absence of any deputy head, a chief clerk named Acting
by the head of the department shall perform the duties of such "^^^ ^'
deputy head, unless the performance of such duties is otherwise
provided for by the Governor in CounciL
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G°eneta"K'^°' 2. There shall be in the office of the Auditor General a chic'f
clerk who shall at all times act for the Auditor General in his
absence. U.S., c. 17, s. 14.
CHIEF CLERKS, GRADE A.
How created. 61. A chief clerkship, grade A, in any department shall only
be created by order in council, passed after, —
(a) the deputy head has rei^orted that such an officer is
necessary for the proper performance of the public business
in the department, stating the reasons on which he has
arrived at that conclusion ;
(h) the concurrence of the head of the department in such
report; and,
(c) the salary has been voted by Parliament. 3 E. VII.,
c. 9, ss. 8 and 19.
Salary. 62. The minimum salary of a chief clerk, grade A, shall be
two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, with an annual
increase of one hundred dollars up to a maximum of two thou-
sand eight hundred dollars per annum.
Idem. 2. If, however, a person upon his appointment or promotioji
to a chief clerkship, grade A, is in receipt of a salary greater
than the minimum salary of such chief clerkship, he may be
appointed or promoted at the salary which he is then receiving
if it does not exceed the maximum salary of such chief clerk-
ship. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 8.
Prnniotion of 63. A chief .clerk in any department may without being
to grade A. required to undergo any examination be promoted to a chief
clerkship, grade A, by an order in council passed after, —
(a) the de])uty head has reported that the duties devolving
upon such officer are of special importance, and that the
oificer recommended for such promotion is specially quali-
fied for their performance ;
(b) the concurrence of the head of the department in such
report; and,
(c) the salary has been voted by Parliament. 3 E. VII.,
c. 9, s. 8. "^
CHIEF CLERKS.
How created. 64. A chief clerkship in any department shall only be created
by order in council, passed after, —
(a) the deputy head has reported that such an officer is
necessary for the proper performance of the public business
in the department, stating the reasons on which he has
arrived at that conclusion ;
(h) the concurrence of the head of the department in such
report ; and,
(c) the salary has been voted by Parliament. E.S., c. 17,
s. 15.
65.
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65. The minimum salary of a chief clerk shall be one thou- Salary,
sand nine himdred dollars, with an annual increase of fifty dol-
lars up to a maximum of two thousand live hundred dollars.
3 E. YIL, c. 9, s. 9.
FIRST-CLASS CLERKS.
66. A first-class clerkship shall only be created by order in How created,
council, j)assed on the report of the deputy head, concurred in
by the head of the department, setting forth the reasons for
creating the office, and after the salary has been voted by Par-
liament. R.S., c. 17, s. 17.
67. The Tuinimum salary of a first-class clerk shall be one Salary,
thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with an annual in-
crease of fifty dollars up to a ..laxinnim of one thousand nine
himdred dollars. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 10.
SECOND-CL.\SS CT.KRKS.
68. A second-class clerkship shall only be created by order How created.
in coxincil, passed on the rejwrt of the deputy head, concurred
in by the head of the department, setting forth the reasons for
creating the office, and after the salary has been voted by Par-
liament. K.S., c. 17, s. 19.
69. The minimum salary of a second-class clerk shall be one Salary,
thousand two hundred dollars per amuiui, with an annual in-
crease of fiftv dollars up to a maximum of one thousand five
hundred dollars. 3 K. Vll., <•. 9, s. 11.
JUXIOR SF.COXD-CI.ASS CLERKS.
70. A juuior second-class clerkship shall only be created by How created,
(u-dcr in council, passed on the report of the deputy head, con-
curred in by the head of the department, setting forth the
reasons for creating the office, and after the salary has been
voted by Parliament. 63-04 V., c. 14, s. 2.
71. The minimum salary of a junior second-class clerk shall Salary.
be eight hundred dollars per annum, with an annual increase of
fifty dollars up to a maximum of one thousand one hundred
dollars. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 12.
72. The Governor in Council may, upon the rccommenda- College ^
tion of the head of the department, concurred in by the Treasury gi'^'lu'ites.
Board, appoint a person who is a graduate of the Eoyal ililitary
College or of any university in Canada to be a junior second-
class clerk. 63-64 V., c. 14, s. 7.
73.
CIYIL SERVICE COMMISSIOS OF VAX AD A
Condition of
Buch appoint-
ment.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
"73. An appointment shall only he made nnder the last pre-
ceding section in one of the following cases; —
(a) Where the person to be appointed is to take the place of
a clerk of the second or a higher class ;
(b) Where the depnty head of the department reports that,
owing to the special class of work to be performed, an
appointment under the said section is desirable. 63-64
v., e. 14, s. 7.
THIED-CLASS CLERKS.
How created. 74. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided a third-clas3
clerkship shall only be created by order in council passed on the
report of the deputy head, concurred in by the head of the
department, setting forth the reasons for cfeating the office, and
after the salary has been voted by Parliament. 3 E. VII., c. 9,
s. 19.
Salary. 75. The minimum salary of a third-class clerk shall be five
hundred dollars per annum, with an annual increase of fifty
dollars up to a maximum of seven hundred dollars. 3 E. VII.,
c. 9, ss. 16 and 18.
TG. The Governor in Council may give to any person who is
appointed a third-class ckrk, in addition to the salary herein
provided for on appointment, an amount not exceeding fifty
dollars per annum for each optional subject not exceeding two
in which he has passed the qualifying examination.
2. Such optional subjects shall be book-keeping, shorthand
and typewriting. 63-64 V., c. 14, s. 6 ; 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 15.
77. Any person who at the time of his appointment as third-
class clerk is in the service of the Government and receiving or
entitled to receive a salary, and who has been or is a writer,
clerk, packer, sorter or messenger, either temporary or other-
wise, in the inside service of one of the departments of the
Government at Ottawa, or in the office of the Auditor General,
may be so appointed at the salary which he was so receiving or
entitled to receive at the time of such appointment, not exceed-
ing, however, the maximum salary of a third-class clerk. 3 E.
VII., c. 9, s. 20.
Without "^8. Any such person as in the last preceding section
qualificaticn. mentioned who had for two years prior to the twenty-fourth
day of October, one thousand nine hundred and three, been
continuously in the inside service, either in the capacity of
writer, clerk, packer, sorter or messenger, or in any other capa-
city, may be appointed a third-class clerk without regard to hi-3
age, and without passing the qualifying examination.
2. The order in council appointing him shall be held to
create the third-class clerkship in respect of which such appoint-
ment is made. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 20.
MESSENGERS,
Supplement
for optional
subjects.
Appoint-
ment of
certain em-
ployees as
thinl-class
clerks.
Except
order in
council.
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:.iessexgi:rs, packeks and sokters.
79. This Act in so far as applicable shall continue to apply Permanent
' 1 1 i_ messengers,
as lieretof ore to permanent messengers, packers and sorters packers and
appointed before the first day of January, one thousand eight sorters.
hmidred and ninety-six. 58-59 V., c. 15, ss. 2 and li.
80. The salary of a messenger, packer or sorter appointed •'Salary,
to the Civil Service previous to the first day of January, one
thou.-5and eight hundred and ninety-six, may be increased to j»
maximum of seven hundred dollars per annum by amotmts
not exceeding fifty dollars in any one year. 58-59 V., c. 15,
S3. 2, 12 and 14; "s E. VIT., c. 9," s. 27.
PRIVATE SIXUETARIES.
81. Any member of the Civil Service may be appointed Additional
private secretary to the head of a department, and may bc*^"^"
paid an additional salary not exceeding six hundred dollars a
year whilst so acting.
2. Xo salary shall be payable to any private secretary unless If voted,
the amount has been voted by Parliament. R.S., c. 17, s. 48.
SALARIES.
82. Except as herein otherwise provided the salary of a Begin at
clerk on appointment or promotion to any class shall begin """i™""'-
at the minimum of such class. 58-59 V., c. 15, s. 3 ; 63-64 V.,
c. 14, 3. 5 ; 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 17.
83. The officers, clerks and employees mentioned in schedule Schedule B.
B to this Act shall be paid according to the scale thereby
establi.shed.
2. Tlie salaries of officers, clerks and employees in the second Other out-
er outside division of departments other than the Customs, ^' ^ ^ ^"'''^'
Inland Eevenue and Post Office Departments shall, subject to
the provisions of any Act relating thereto, be fixed in each case
bj' the Governor in Council. K.S., c. 17, s. 25.
84. If an officer, clerk or employee who is promoted to a Salary in
hisiher class, or who is transferred from one class to another <-"J'^'^^ .
, . , . r y ■ <•■•"' uiinimum
class, IS, at the time ot sucli promotion or transfer, in receipt in ceruin
of a higher salary or emolument than the minimum salary of '^^^■
the class to which he is promoted or transferred, the Governor
in Council may authorize the payment to him pi the salary
or emolument he was receiving at the time of such promotion
or transfer, if it does not exceed the maximum salary of tho
class to which he is promoted or transferred. 63-64 V., c. 14,
s. 12.
85. Xo officer, clerk or employee shall receive any increase Conditions of
of salary except by order in council passed on the report of the '"c^ease.
deputy
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deputy head, concurred in by the head of the department, stating
that such officer, clerk or employee is deserving of such increase.
R.S., c. 17, s. 26; 63-64 V., c. 14, s. 8; 3 E. VII., c. 9, ss. 18,
25 and 27.
May be
Buspended.
From what
time payable.
In case of
promotion.
Post office
inspectors
and assist-
ants.
86. The increase of salary of any officer, clerk or employee
authorized under this Act for the then current year may be
suspended by the head of the department for neglect of duty
or misconduct, and may be subsequently restored by such head,
but without arrears. K.S., c. 17, s. 26.
STl, Except as herein otherwise provided any inci'ease of
salary authorized by this Act shall be payable from the first
day of the official quarter next succeeding the date on which,
from his length of service, any clerk or employee for whom
such increase is recommended, is eligible for such increase.
2. In case of promotion, the increase of salary shall become
payable from the day on which such promotion takes place.
R.S., c. 17, s. 27.
88. Increases of salary of post office inspectors and assistant
post office inspectors shall, however, be payable at the expiration
of one year from the date of appointment, or at the expiration
of one year from the date on which the post office inspector
or assistant post office inspector last received an increase, as
the case may be. 3 E. VII., c. 49, s. 7.
Payment of
salary pro-
hibited.
89. Except as herein otherwise provided no salary shall
be paid to any member of the Civil Service whose appointment
or promotion, or whose increase of salary, after the first day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, has not
been made in the manner provided by the Civil Service Act in
foi'ce at the time of such appointment, promotion or increase,
or otherwise authorized or confirmed by law. R.S., c. 17, s. 28.
No extra
payment.
90. ISTo extra salary or additional remuneration of any kind
whatsoever shall l)e i:>aid to any deputy head, officer, clerk or
employee in the Civil Service or to any other person per-
manently employed in the public service. 51 V., c. 12, s. 12.
Status of 91. The status of clerks in the service on the twenty-fmirtli
served. day of October, one thousand nine hundred and three, is hereby
fl^reserved, and if the salary of any such clerk is less than the
minimmn salary of his class as fixed by this Act, his salary
may be inci'eased to such minimum. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 13.
Deduction 92. When the absence of any officer is not occasioned by his
for"unaiuhor- employment on other duties by the Government, by leave cf
ized absence, absence or on account of illness certified by an authorized medi-
cal practitioner, appointed by the Governor in Council for that
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purpose, his salary for each day of such absence shall he
deducted from his monthly salary. K.S., c. 17, s. 51.
93. Xothing contained in this Act shall prejudicially afFeot Act notto
the salary or emoluments of any deputy head, officer, clerk orPJ^^^\'Jj'''^
employee in the Civil Service, appointed on or before the fir-^l officers,
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, so long
as he continues in office, nor shall anytliing herein contained
prejudicially affect any salary or emolument granted and fixed
by any Act in force on the day in this section mentioned. K.S.,
c. 17, s. 5i.
TEMrOUARY EMPLOY.MKXT.
94. When from a temporary i>rc.>sure of work or from any j^,,^
other cause extra assistance is required in any branch of either authorized,
the first or second division, the Governor in Council may, on
the report of the dejuity head of the department, concurred in
by the head of the department, that sudi extra assistance is
required, authorize tlie employment of such number of tem-
porary clerks, writers, messengers, porters, packers, or sorters,
a.s arc required to carry on the work of tlie (]ei)artment. 58-59
v., c. 15, s. 7.
95. Tcmj)nrary employment shall not give to any person any no per-
claim to permanent appointment or to continued or further Jj^^neiuap-
tcmporary employment. 58-59 V., c. 15, s. 9.
96. Temporarv clerks employed on the first day of January, Temporary
our thousand oiglit liundrcd and ninetv-six, may be continued in l^;^^^ ^^^^
such temporary ciu]doyment, notwithstanding tlieir not havjng is<jc.'
passed any examination, at such rate of pay as fixed by the
Governor in Council, not exceeding the rate of pay which they
were then receiving. 58-59 V., c. 15, s. 8.
97. Graduates of the Royal Military College or of any uni- (.„„pgp
versity in Canada may be employed wiilunit passing the quali graduates,
fying examination. 51 V.,C. 12, s. 5.
98. The remuneration of temporary clerks and writers and );einunera-
of messengers, porters, packers and sorters, shall be at the rate J^^™ o^f tem-
to begin with of five hundred dollars per annum, which may be employees.
increasLxl by annual sums not exceeding fifty dollars up to a
maxintum of seven hundred dollars per annum. 3 E. VII.,
c. ri, s. 27.
99. The Governor in Council may in the case of any tein- increase,
porarv clerk, or in tlie case of any temporary messoiigei-, porter,
packer or sorter, whose salary was, on the twenty -fovirth day of
October, one thousand nine hundred and three, less than five
hundred
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tunclrcil dolLirs per aiinnm increase sucli salary to the amount
last mentioned. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 27.
"Vote. 100. Temporary employees shall be paid only out of moneys
specially voted by Parliament for the purpose. 58-59 V., c. 15,
s. 11.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
How granted. 101, The head of a department may grant to each officer,
clerk or other employee, leave of absence for purposes of recrea-
tion for a period not exceeding three weeks in each year.
2. Every such officer, clerk or employee, whether in the first
or second division, shall take the leave so granted at such time
during each year as the head of the department determines.
RS., c. 17, s. 49.
When.
In case of
illness, etc.
102. In case of illness or for any other reason which to him
seems sufficient, the Governor in Council may grant to any
officer, clerk or other employee, leave of absence for a period not
exceeding twelve months. K.S., c. 17, s. 49.
How.
In what
cases.
Removal of
suspension.
Pay
forfeited.
Report.
SUSPENSION.
103. The head of a department, and in his absence the
deputy head, may, —
(a) suspend from the performance of his duty or from the
receipt of his salary any officer, clerk or employee guilty
of misconduct or negligence in the performance of his
duties ;
(b) remove such suspension;
but no person shall receive any salary or pay for the time during
which he was under suspension.
2. All cases of suspension by the deputy head of a depart-
ment shall be reported by him to the head of the department.
K.S., c. 17, s. 50.
DISMTSSAI,.
Governor in 104. Xo provision herein contained shall impair the power
di° mi^ss. ™'^^ of the Governor in Council to remove or dismiss any deputy
head, officer, clerk or employee, but no such deputy head, officer,
clerk or employee, whose appointment is of a permanent nature,
shall be removed from office except by authority of the Governor
in Council. E.S., c. 17, s. 55.
Form and
use.
ATTENDANCE BOOK.
105. There shall be kept in each department, and in the
office of the Auditor General, at the seat of Government, and
in each office of the second division, a book or books to be
called the attendance book, which shall be in such form as is
(k'tcriiiincil
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determined by the Governor in Council, in -which each officer,
clerk and employee of such office or department shall sign his
name, at such times as are determined by the Governor in
Council. K.S., c. 17, s. 56.
106. The deputy heads of departments and all officers, Allegiance
clerks, messengers, sorters and packers of the Civil Service ^^^ °'^*^^"
who have not already done so, and every deputy head, officer,
clerk, messenger, sorter or packer hereafter appointed, before
any salary is paid him, shall take and subscribe the oath of
allegiance and also the oath contained in schedule C to this
Act, or such other oath as is provided by any other Act, in that
behalf.
2. In the case of the Clerk of the Privy Council, and all Secrecy,
officers, clerks and employees under him, and in the case of any
officer, clerk or employee of whom the Governor in Council
requires the same, there shall be added to the oath at the
asterisks, in the form of the oath in the said schedule C, the
words contained in schedule D to this Act.
3. The Clerk of the Privy Council shall take and subscribe Clerk of
the said oaths before the Governor General or some one Coimcil.
appointed by him to administer the same.
4. In the case of persons residing or coming to reside at the P.efore whom
city of Ottawa, the oaths shall be taken and subscribed before Ottawa"
the Clerk of the Privy Council.
5. In other cases the oaths may be taken and subscribed And else-
before a justice of the i>eace or other proper authority, who shall '"'lere.
forward the same to the Clerk of the Privy Council.
6. The Clerk of the Privy Council shall keep a register of Register.
all such oaths. R.S., c. 17, s. 57.
107. The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament Contents.
within fifteen days after the commencement of each session,
a report of the proceedings of the Board under this Act
during the preceding year, which report shall include a copy of
the examination papers, a statement of all examinations held
and of the number of candidates at each, and the names of the
successful candidates, and also the rules and regulations made
durino- the year under the provisions of this Act respecting
appointments, promotions, examinations, and all other matters
appertaining to the Civil Service. E.S., c. 17, s. 58 3 51 V.,
c. 12, s. 13.
CIVIL SERVICE LIST.
108. The Secretary of State shall cause to be printed each Contents,
year a list, to be called the Civil Service List of Canada, of
all
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all persons employed in the several departments of the Gnvorn-
ment, together with those employed in the two TTonses of
Parliament, npon the first day of July, next preceding, show-
ing the dates of their several appointments and promotions,
their age, rank in the service, and salary; and shall lay flip
same before Parliament within the first fifteen days of each
session. R.S., c. 17, s. 59.
SCHEDULE A.
(a) Deputy heads of departments;
(b) Ofiicers who have special professional or technical
qualifications ;
(c) Chief clerks of both grades;
(d) First-class clerks ;
(e) Second-class clerks;
(f) Junior second-class clerks.
(g) Third-class clerks. R.S., c. 17, sch. A; 58-59 V., c. 15,
s. 12; 63-64 V., c. 11, s. 1 ; 3 E. VII., c. 9, ss. 11 .and 19.
SCHEDULE B.
CUSTOMS.
Higher Classes.
Inspectors Salary from $1,600 to $2,500
Collectors "" 300 to 4,000
Chief clerks " 1,200 to 2,000
Surveyors " 1,200 to 2,400
Assistant surveyors (coinprising
tide surveyors, chief landing
waiters and chief lockers) ... " 800 to 1,200
Technical Officers.
Appraisers Salary from $800 to $2,000
Assistant appraisers " 600 to 1,506
Gangers " COO to 1,200
Oilier Classes.
Clerks Salary from $400 to $1,200
Examining olficeis (including
lockers and landing waiters) . . " 400 to 1,000
Packers, messengers and tide
waiters " 300 to 600
3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 23.
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INLAND REVENUE.
Inspectors Salary from $1,600 to $2,500
Collectors " 500 to 2,400
Deputy collectors " 400 to 1,700
Accountants " COO to 1,500
Special-class exciscinon (chief
officers in charge of distil-
leries) " 1,400 to 1,800
Special-class excisemen, other
than the foregoing " 1,200 to 1,400
First-, second- and third-class ex-
cisemen " 600 to 1,200
Probationary excisemen " 500
Stenographers and typewriters. . " 400 to 600
Messengers " 400 to 750
To which may he added for surveys of important manufactories
an additional salary for the special-class excisemen and other
officers connected witli such survey, not exceeding in any one
case two hundred dollars per annum. 3 E. VII., c. 9, s. 24.
POST OFFICE.
Post Office Inspectors and Assistant Post Office Inspectors.
The salary of a post office inspector on appointment shall bo
two thousand dollars, with increases of fifty dollars per annum
for six years, and one hundred dollars per annum thereafter up
to a maximum of two thousand six hundred dollars.
Any post office inspector who, on the thirteenth day of
August, one thousand nine hundred and three, had completed
six years of service as such may be granted an increase of one
liundred dollars per annum up to the maximum of two thousand
six hundred dollars.
Any post office inspector who, on the last mentioned date, had
completed less than six years of service as such may be granted
an increase of fifty dollars per annum until he has completed
six years of service, and one hundred dollars per annum there-
after up to the maximum of two thousand six hundred dollars.
The salary of an assistant post office inspector on appoint-
ment shall be twelve hundred dollars, with increases of fifty
dollars per annum for the first six years, and one hundred
dollars per annum thereafter up to a maximum of one thousand
eight Imndred dollars.
Any assistant post office inspector who, on the thirteenth day
of August, one thousand nine hundred and three, had completed
six vears of service as such may be granted an increase of one
hundred dollars per annum up to a maximum of one thousand
eiiilit lumdred dollars.
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Any assistant post office inspector who, on the last mentioned
date, had completed less than six years of service as such may
be granted an increase of fifty dollars per annum until he has
completed six years of service, and of one hundred dollars per
annum thereafter up to a maximum of one thousand eight
hundred dollars. 3 E. VII., c. 49, s. 7.
Railway Mail Clerks.
—
On Appoint-
ment.
After 2 years
service in
any class of
Railway
Mail Clerks.
After 5 years
service in
any class of
Railway
Mail Clerks.
After 10
years service
in any class
of Raihvav
Mail Clnrks.
Chief Clerk
First Class
$
1,000
720
600
480
$
1,200
80D
640
520
S
1,350
880
720
560
1,500
960
Second Cl.iss
Third Class
800
640
52 v.,
c. 1
aass 1.
Wl
" 2.
'
" 3.
'
'• 4.
'
" 5.
'
To Railway Mail Clerks, in addition to regular salary, an allowance not exceeding
half a cent per mile for every mile travelled on duty in the Post Office cars, and an
additional allowance of half a cent per mile for every mile so travelled between eight
in the afternoon and eight in the forenoon.
City Postmasters.
When postage collections exceed $250,000. .$4,000
" are from $200,000 to 250,000. . 3,750
" " 150,000 to 200,000. . 3,500
" 100,000 to 150,000. . 3,250
" " 80,000 to 100,000. . 2,800
" 6. " " " 60,000 to 80,000.. 2,400
" 7. " " " 40,000 to 60,000.. 2,200
" 8. " " " 20,000 to 40,000.. 2,000
" 9. " " are less than 20,000.. 1,400
to $1,800, as the Postmaster General determines. These salaries
shall not be supplemented by any allowances, commissions or
perquisites whatsoever.
Assistant Postmasters.
Class 1. When postage collections exceed $80,000. .$3 000
" 2. " " are from $60,000 to 80,000.. 1^800
" 3. " '• " 40,000 to 60,000.. 1,600
" 4. " " " 20,000 to 40,000.. 1,400
" 5. " " are less than 20,000.. 1^100
to $1,400, as the Postmaster General determines. 52 V., c. 12
8. 3.
Clerks
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Clerics in City Post Offices, and the Offices of Post Office
Inspectors and Superintendents of Railway
Mail Service.
Fourth class, on appointment, four himdred dollars; by
annual increases of fifty dollars up to seven hundred dollars.
If any stamper and sorter is promoted to the fourth class, his
initial salary as sucli class clerk shall he not less than his salary
as such stamper and sorter at the time of such promotion.
Junior third class, on appointment, seven hundred dollars;
by annual increases of fifty dollars up to eight hundred dollars.
Senior thinl class, on appointment, eight hundred dollars;
by annual increases of fifty dollars up to nine hundred dollars.
Junior second class, on appointment, nine hundred dollars;
by annual increases of fifty dollars up to one thousand dollars.
Senior second class, on appointment, one thousand doUars;
by annual increases of fifty dollars up to one thousand two
hundred dollars.
First class, specific duties, with fixed salaries in each case
to be determined by the Po.stmaster General; no salary to be
less than one thotisand two hundred dollars, or more than ono
thousand five hundred dollars.
Any clerk in any of the said offices who on the thirteenth
day of August, one thousand nine hvmdred and three, was
in'the third cUiss, shall be deemed to be a junior third-class
clerk, his salary until otherwise ordered, continuing to be the
amount which lie was then enjoying, subject to annual increases
not exccrding fifty dollars until it reaches eight hundred dollars
per annum.
Any clerk in the second class on the last mentioned date
sliall be deemed to be a senior second-class clerk, except that
if his salary was then less than one thousand doUars, it shall,
until otherwise ordered, continue to be the amount which he
was then enjoying, subject to annual increases, not exceeding
fifty dollars each, until it reaches twelve hundred dollars per
annum. 3 E. VII., c. 40, s. 6.
SCHEDULE C.
I (A.B.) solemnly and sincerely swear that I w-ill faith-
fully and honestly fulfil the duties which devolve upon me
as and that I will not ask, or receive
anv sum of money, services, recompense or matter or thing
whatsoever, directly or indirectly, in return for what I have
done or may do in the discharge of any of the duties of my
said ofiice, except my salary or what may be allowed me by law
or by an order of the Governor in Council ; * * * *
So help me God. K.S., c. 17, sch. C.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIoy OF CAMDA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
GCHEDULE D.
(After the astcrisls in schedule C.)
And that I will not, without due authority in that bchnlf,
disclose or make known any matter or thing which comes to
T:iy knowledge by reason of my employment as (as the case
may be). K.S., c. 17, sch. D.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 20
APPENDIX B.
An Act to amend the Civil Service Act.
[AsscTUed to 20lh July, 1908.]
IT IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
IT- Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as
ollows: —
SHORT TITLE.
1. This Act may be cited as The Civil Service Amendment Act, Short title.
190S.
INTERPRETATION.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — Definition,
(a) " Coiinuission " means the Civil Service Conunission hereby
constituted;
{b) "deputy head," in addition to the ofTicers mentioned
in paragraph (6) of section 2 of The Civil Service Act, includes
the Clerks of both Houses and the Librarians of Parliament;
(c) "head of a department," in addition to the Ministers
mentioned in paragiaph (a) of section 2 of The Civil Service
Act. includes the Sppakers of both Houses:
(d) the word "now," when used in this Act, shall mean the
date of its coming into force.
CONSTITUTION.
.•?. The Civil Service shall be divided into two divisions, Two
divisions.
naii;elv,
'riie' Inside Service, which shall consist of that part of the ^nsiUe^
public service in or under the several departments of the Execu-
tive Government of Canada and in the offices of the Auditor
General,
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
General, the Clerk of the Privy Council, and the Governor
General's Secretary, employed at the city of Ottawa, or at the
Experimental Farm Station or the Dominion Astronomical
Observatory near Ottawa, but not including the officers, clerks,
and employees employed at Ottawa in the second or outside
departmental division as defined by paragraph (b) of section 4
of The Civil Service Act, or in any office of a purely local character;
and
Outside The Outside Service, which shall consist of the rest of the
Public Service.
p"JiiLment°^ 2. So much of this Act and of The Civil Service Act as relates
to appointment, classification, salaries and promotions shall
apply to the permanent officers, clerks and employees of both
Houses of Parliament and of the Library of Parliament.
toTnddi"" *• Sections 5 to 26, both inclusive, and 28 to 40, both in-
Service. clusive, of this Act apply only to the Inside Service.
Repeal of 2. As regards the Inside Service only, the following sections
parts of c. s. ^^^ schedule of The Civil Service Act are repealed: 4, 16 to 26,
both inclusive, 32 to 37, both inclusive, 40, 41, 43, 46, 61 to 78,
both inclusive, 80, 82, 84, 85, 90, 91, 94, 97, 98 and 99, and
schedule A.
Application 3. The Governor in Council may, by order in council to be
Service!" ^ published in the Canada Gazette, bring the whole or any part
of the Outside Service under the same provisions of the law as
the Inside Service.
Classification 5- The Inside Service under the deputy heads, excluding
SerWce.* mcssengers, porters, sorters and packere, and such other ap-
pointments and employments in the lower grades as are deter-
mined by the Governor in Council, shall be divided into three
divisions.
^.rs.t. 2. The First Division shall be divided into —
Subdivision A, consisting of officers having the rank of
deputy heads but not being deputy heads administering
departments, assistant deputy ministers, and the principal
technical and administrative and executive officers;
Subdivision B, consisting of the lesser technical and adminis-
trative and executive officers, including the chief clerks now
holding office and not eligible for subdivision A.
Second^ 3. The Second Division shall consist of certain other clerks,
having technical, administrative, executive, or other duties
which are of the same character as, but of less importance and
responsibility than, those of the first division. This division
shall be divided into subdivisions A and B.
Third 4. The Third Division shall consist of the other clerks in the
Service whose duties are copying and routine work, under diiect
supervision, of less importance than that of the second division.
This division shall be divided into subdivisions A and B.
6.
Division.
Division.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
G. Clerks now holding the rank of first class shall be placed Second and
in subdivision A of the Second Division. ?!!"?4
2. Clerks now holding the rank of senior second class shall
be placed in subdivision B of the Second Division.
3. Clerks now holding the rank of junior second class shall
be placed in subdivision A of the Third Division.
4. Third class clerks and temporary clerks paid out of Civil
Government Contmgencies shall be placed in subdivision B of
the Third Division.
7. Except as herein otherwise provided, all persons now Application
employed in the first or inside departmental division, as defined 1^^^*"'
by paragraph (a) of section 4 of The Ciril Service Act, including Service,
temporary clerks paid out of Civil Government Contingencies,
.shall, upoii the coming into force of this Act, Ije classified accord-
ing to their salaries under this Act.
8. As soon as practicable after the coming into force of the Orpaniza-
Act, the head of each department shall cause the organization fi^'ammnts
of his department to be determined and defined by order in ' ' "' """ "'
council, due regard being had to the status of each officer or
clerk as the cane may be.
2. The order in council shall give the names of the several
branches of the department, with the number and character
of the offices, cl(>rksiiii)s and other positions in each, and the
duties, titles and salaries thereafter to pertain thereto.
•"!. After being .so determined and defined, the organization
of a department shall notbechanged except by order in council.
4. Copies of such orders in council shall be sent to the Com-
mission.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
9. There shall be a Commission, to be called the Civil Service Civii Servic.
Commission, consisting of two members appointed bv the Conm.ission
/~i • ri ■! J - ^ constituted
(jovernor in Council.
2. The rank, standing and salary of each commissioner shall status of
he those of a deputy head of a department: and each commis- siZ^*"
sioner shall hold otfice during good behaviour, but shall be
removable by the Governor General on address of the Senate
and House of Commons.
10. The duties of the Commission shall be — Duties of
{a) to test and pass upon the qualifications of candidates for Commission.
admission to the service, and for promotion in the service,
and to issue certificates with respect thereto where required
under this Act or regulations made thereunder;
(6) of its own motion to investigate and report upon the
operation of The Civil Service Act or of this .Vet, and upon the
violation of any of the provisions of The Cii il Service Act or of
this Act or of any regulation made under either of the said Acts,
and
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1 GEORGE v., A. 191t
and upon the request of the head of a department with the
approval of the Governor in Council, to investigate and report
upon the organization of the department, the conduct and effi-
ciency of its officers, clerks and other employees, and any other
matter relative to the department; and in connection with, and
for the purposes of, any such investigation the Governor in
Council may invest the commission with all or any of the powers
vested in a commissioner appointed under Part II. of The
Inquiries Act;
(c) such other duties as are assigned to it by tl:e Governor
in Council.
2. Such duties shall be performed in accordance with regula-
tions made by the Commission and approved by the Governor
in Council.
3. A commissioner shall not hold any other office cr engage
in any other employment.
11. The present Civil Service examiners shall continue to
• hold office during pleasure, and shall be under the direction of
the Commission.
2. The powers of the Civil Service examiners as a board under
sections 7 to 15, both inclusive, of The Civil Service Act shall
be vested in, and may be exercised by, the Commission; and
for the purposes of the said sections, either member of the Com-
mi?sion may exercise any function or power vested by the
said sections in the chairman of the board.
3. The said sections shall, so far as they are applicable and
with the necessary modifications, apply to examinations under
this Act.
4. Such further examiners as are deemed necessary may be
appointed by the Commission.
Commis- ^ ^o, Each Commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties
of°office.°^ ^ of his office, take and subscribe, before the Clerk of the Privy
Council, an oath that he will faithfully and honestly perform
the duties devolving upon him as commissioner.
APPOINTMENTS.
Regulations.
Other
emi^loynient
proliibited.
Civil Service
examiners
and examina-
tions.
Competitive
admis-sion
examiua-
tiou5.
13. Except as herein otherwise provided, appointment to
positions in the Inside Service under that of deputy head shall
be by competitive examination, which shall be of such a nature
as will determine the qualifications of candidates for the par-
ticular positions to which they are to be appointed, and shall
be held by the Commission from time to time in accordance with
the regulations made by it and approved by the Governor in
Council.
Q"a''fi''.ation 14, isfo person shall be admitted to such an examination
unless he is a natural-born or naturalized British subject, and
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has been a resident of Canada for at least three years, and is, at
the time of the examination, of the full age of eighteen years and
not more than thirty-five years, and presents the required cer-
tificates as to health, character and habits.
15. Before hoMing anv such examination the Commission Computation
shall require e;>ch head of a department to furnish it whh "f^"^'^^^;- °f
the number of additional permanent oflSccrs or clerks likely to
be required in his department within the next six months.
2. On this basis, and having regard also to the requirement
of the several departments for temporary services, a computa-
tion shall be made by the Commission of the number of com-
petitors to be selectetl at the next ensuing examination.
3. If there remain from a previous examination successful
competitors who have not received appointments, their number
shall be deducted in making the computation, and their names,
in the order of merit, sliail be placed at the top of the list to be
prepared in accordance with section 17 of this Act.
1<». Thereupon due notice of the examination shall be given .Voticeof
by the Commission, stating the character and number of the 11^03"°*
positions to be competed for.
17- Immediately after the examination the Commis.'^ion List of
shall make out a list of the successful competitors therejit for ^'^'^pg^;"^^,
each position, in the order of merit, up to the number computed
in accordance with section 15.
IS. From the said list the Commission, on the application of Selections to
the tlcputy head, with the approval of the head, of any depart-
ment, shall supply the required clerks, whether for permanent
or temporary duty.
2. The selections shall be, so far as practicable, in the order
of the names on the list, bat the Commission may select any
person who in his examination shows special qualifications for
any particular subject.
3. The Connnission shall forthwith notify the Treasury Board
anil the Auditor (kneral of the name and position in the service
of each clerk supplied to any department and also of the re-
jection of any such clerk during his probationary term.
4. Assigmnent for temporary duty shall not prejudice the
right to assignment for permanent duty.
5. No clerk supplied for temporary duty shall be so employed
for more than six months in any year.
19. The head of the department, on the report in writing of J^j.^^*"""
the deputy head, may, at any time after two months from the probation,
date of assignment, and before the expiration of six months,
reject any person assigned to his department.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
2. The cause of the rejection shall be reported by the deputy
head to the Commission, who shall thereupon select another
person to take the place of the one rejected, and decide whether
the latter shall be struck off the list or allowed a trial in another
department.
Probationary go. After a pevsou SO Selected has served a probationary
term of six months, he shall be deemed to be permanently
accepted for the service.
Professional 21. If the deputy head reports that the knowledge and
quaimcd'" ^ ability requisite for the position are wholly or in part profes-
officiurs. sional, technical or otherwise peculiar, the Governor in Council,
upon the recommendation of the head of the department based
on the report in writing of the deputy head, may appoint a
person to the position without competitive examination and
without reference to the age limit, provided the said person
ol)lains from the Commission a certificate, to be given with or
without examination, as is determined by the regulations of the
Commission, that he possesses the requisite knowledge and
ability and is duly qualified as to health, character and habits.
M ^=cnger3, 22. Appointments to the positions of messenger, porter,
packers, etc. gg,.tg,. ^j;,^! packer, and to such other positions in the lower
grades as are determined by the Governor in Council, may be
made by the Governor in Council upon the recommendation of
the head of the department based on the report in writing of
the deputy head, and accompanied by a certificate of qualifi-
cation from the Commission, to be given with or without ex-
amination, as is determined by the regulations of the Com-
mission, that the person applying for the appointment possesses
the requisite knowledge and ability and is duly qualified as to
age, health, character and habits.
Temporary 23. ^Vllen, from a temporary pressure of work, extra assist-
cicrka. j^j^gg jj-^ excess of thosc whose names are on the list of successful
competitors is required in the Inside Service of any department,
the Governor in Council may, upon the reconmiendation of the
head, based on the report in writing of the deputy head of the
department that such extra assistance is required, authorize the
employnient of such number of temporary clerks as are re-
quired to carry on the work of the department.
2. Every such clerk shall, however, before appointment
obtain a certificate of qualification from the Commission, to be
given with or without examination, as is determined by the
regulations of the Commission, that he possesses the requisite
knowledge and ability and is duly qualified as to age, health,
character and habits.
3. No such temporary clerk shall be employed for more than
four months in any year.
PROMOTIONS.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
niOMOTlONS.
24. Promotion, other than from the third to the second Promotion
division, shall be made for merit b}' the Governor in Council ^y '"'="'^-
upon the recommendation of the head of the department,
based on the report in writing of the deputy head and accom-
panied by a certificate of qualification by the Commission to be
given with or without examination, as is determined by the
regulations of the Commission.
25. Except as herein otherwise piovided, vacancies in the Promotion
first division shall be filled by promotions from the second D?"sion to''
division. First.
26. Clerks in the third division shall be permitted to enter Promotion
for the open competitive examination for the second division, oi^sbn.''
after such term of scr\-ice and under such other conditions as
are determined by regulations made by the Governor in Council,
on the recommendation of the Commission.
2. Any person placed in the third division upon the coming
into force of this Act, may, by the Governor in Council, upon
the reconmiendation of the head of the department, based on
the report in writing of the deputy head, and accompanied by a
certificate of qualification by the Commission, to be given with or
without examination, as is detennined by the regulations of the
Commission, be promoted from the third division to the second
division without an open competitive examination.
SALARIES.
27. The salary of a deputy head shall l^e five thousand Salary of
dollars per annum. ilcad.'^
2. Sections 53 to 57 of The Civil Service Act, both inclusive, u.s., c. le,
are repealed. sections
^ 5.3 to 57
repealed.
28. In the first division, the minimum and maximum Salaries in
salaries shall be as follows: — DivUion
In subdivision A, S2,800 to $4,000;
In subdivision B, 2,100 to 2,800.
2t). In the second division, the minimum and maxinuim Salaries in
salaries shall be as follows:— vi^^L
In subdivision A, 81,600 to S2,100;
In subdivision B, 800 to 1,600.
30. In the third division, the minimum and maximum l^'afjes in
salaries shall be as follows: — l>ivision
In subdivision A, S900 to SI, 200;
In subdivision B, 500 to
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CIVIL SERTICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
Salaries of
temporary
clerks.
1 GEORGE v., A. 191 1
31. The salary of a temporary clerk shall be the minimum
salary of the grade or division for which he has successfully
competed: Provided that the salary of a temporary clerk em-
ployed imder section 23 of this Act shall be the minimmn salary
of subdivision B of the third division.
Salaries of
messengers,
porters, etc.
Existing
conditions
continued.
Salary on
appoint-
ment.
Salary on
promotion.
Status
preserved.
33. For the position of messenger, porter, sorter, packer,
and such other positions in the lower grades as are determined
by the Governor in Coimcil, the minimum and maximum
salaries shall be $500 and $800, and, unless the official record, to
be kept as hereinafter provided, shows him to be undeserving
thereof, there may be given to every person holding such a
position an annual increase of fifty dollars until the maximum
is reached.
2. Every person now holding such a position in the service,
whether permanent or temporary, shall be continued in the like
position under this Act at his present salary with the same
tenure of office as if appointed to the said position under this
Act, and shall be eligible for annual increase as in this section
provided.
33. The salary on appointment shall be the minimum
salary attached to the position: Provided that, in case the
qualifications required for the performance of the duties of a
position are of an exceptional character, a further sum, not
exceeding $500, may be added to the said salary by the Governor
in Council upon the recommendation of the head of the depart-
ment, based on the report in writing of the deputy head accom-
panied by the certificate of the Commission that the person
proposed to be appointed possesses the qualifications required
for the performance of the duties of the said position: Pro-
vided always that such salary shall not exceed the maximum
salary of the subdivision to which the appointment is made.
34. If a person, on his appointment or promotion to any
office or position, is in receipt of a salary in the service greater
than the minimum salary of the office or position to which he
is appointed or promoted, he may be appointed or promoted
at the salary which he is then receiving if it does not exceed
the maximum salary of the said office or position.
35. Nothing in this Act shall be held to reduce the status
of any officer, clerk or employee in the service ; and if the salary
of any such officer, clerk or employee is less than the minimum
salary of his subdivision or position under the provisions of this
Act, his salary may forthwith be increased to such mininuun.
2. Any person (whether permanent or temporary) who is in
receipt of a salary at or above the maximum, as heretofore
established, of the class (permanent or temporary) in which
he is then serving shall, on the expiry of one year from his
having
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
having first been in receipt of such salary, be eligible for the
increase of salary provided by this Act.
36. Except as herein otherwise provided, the salary of any salary and
person placed in the Inside Service by or under this Act or to classification,
whom the provisions thereof are made applicable, shall be that
which he is then receiving, and the said salary shall determine
his classification : Provided that where the amount of the salary
is common to two subdivisions, the classification shall be deter-
mined by the Governor in Council.
37. There may be given to every officer in the first division Annual
an annual increase of one hundred dollars, until the maximum ""=''^*®^-
of his subdivision is reached.
2. Unless the official record, to be kept in the manner herein-
after set forth, shows him to be undeserving thereof, there may
be given to every officer, clerk, or other employee in any sub-
division of the second or third divisions an annual increase of
$50, until the maximum of his subdivision is reached.
3. In case of exceptional merit a further increase, not exceed-
ing $50, may be given in the second and third divisions.
4. The said increase shall only \x authorized by the Governor
in Council upon the recommendation of the head of the depart-
ment based on the report in writing of the deputy head and,
in case of officers, clerks, and other employees of the second and
third divisions to wliom a further- increase is recommended,
accompanied by a certificate of merit from the Commission.
38- No salary or additional remuneration beyond the No extra
regular salaiy of the office he holds shall be paid to any deputy by^specS*^
head, officer, clerk, or employee in the Civil Service, or to any vote,
other person permanently employed in the public service, except
by a special vote of Parliament, in which the name of the person
who is to receive the remuneration shall be given ; and no vote
expressed to be made generally, though qualified by the words
"notwithstanding anything in The Ciril Service Act" or any
words to lil-ce effect, shall be deemed sufficient to authorize the
payment of any such additional salary or remuneration.
30. Any person chosen by a Minister to be his private private
secretary may, without examination and irrespective of age, ^"''*"'"^^*'
be appointed for a period not exceeding one year, and paid as a
clerk in subdivision B of the second division, and after one
year's services as such secretary he shall be deemed to be ap-
pointed to such rank.
40. A record of the conduct and efficiency of all officers. Record of
clerks and employees below the first division shall be kept in °™p ''^'"'''''
each department
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2. Such records shall be established by means of icports,
to be furnished to the deputy head at least every three months
by the chiefs of branches.
3. At the end of each year, and oftener if required by it,
copies of these reports shall be sent to the Commission by the
deputy head.
4. Such reports, if adverse or unfavourable, shall he shown to
the persons respecting whom they are made.
Paympnt on 41. If a persou dies while in the public service, after having
enf[)ioyee been at least two years therein, an amount equal to two months
of his salary shall be paid to his widow or to such person as the
Treasury Board determines.
Attempt to
influence
Commission.
Noting at
I'ominion or
i'rovincial
election.
42. No person shall, directly or indirectly, solicit orendeavour
to influence a member of the Commission with respect to the
appointment of any person to the service, or with respect to
the promotion of, or an increase of salary to, any officer, clerk,
or employee in the service.
2. Any person who, directly or indirectly, solicits or en-
deavours to influence a member of the Commission in favour of
his appointment, promotion or increase of salary, shall be
deemed to be unworthy of such appointment, promotion or
increase, and it shall not be accorded him; and if he is employed
in the Civil Service, he shall be liable to immediate dismissal.
43. No officer, clerk or employee in the Civil Service shall be
debarred from voting at any Dominion or Provincial election
if under the laws governing the said election he has the right to
vote; but no such officer, clerk or employee shall engage in
partisan work in connection with any such election.
/^dministra- 44. The Secretary of State shall be charged with the admin-
.'md report to istratiou of this Act and shall lay before Parliament, within
Parliament, fifteen days after the commencement of each session, a report
of the proceedings of the Commission under this Act during the
preceding year.
OflScers of
Parliament.
45. Wherever under sections 5, 8, 10 (paragrapli b of sub-
section 1), 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 (subsection 2), 32, 33, 36 and 37
(subsection 4), of this Act or under The Civil Service Act, any
action is authorized or directed to be taken by the Governor in
Council or by order in council, such action, with respect to the
officers, clerks and employees of the House of Commons or the
Senate, shall be taken by tlie House of Commons or the Senate, as
the case may be, by resolution, and with respect to the officers,
clerks and employees of the Library of Parliament, and to such
other officers, clerks and employees as are under the joint con-
trol of both Houses of Parliament, shall be taken by both Houses
of Parliament by resolution, or, if such action is required during
the
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the recess of Parliament, by the Governor in Council, subject to
ratification by the two Houses at the next ensuing session.
46- Nothing in this Act or The Civil Service Act shall be The same,
held to curtail the privileges now enjoyed by the officers, clerks,
and employees of the House of Commons or of the Senate or of
the Library of Parliament with respect to rank and prece-
dence, or to attendance, office hours, or leave of absence, or with
respect to engaging in such employment during parliamentary
recess as may entitle them to receive extra salary or remunera-
tion.
4T. All sums of money voted by Parliament for the financial .\pprorria-
ycar ending on the thirty-first day of March, 1909, and applicable moneys.
^ to the payment of the salaries or the increases to the salaries of
any persons in the public service, shall, in the event of the pro-
motion of any such persons to higher divisions or grades, or on
their transfer to other positions in the public service, or on their
becoming entitled to, or being granted, increases of salary under
the provisions of this Act, Ix; applicable to the payment of the
salaries or increases to the salaries of such persons so promoted
or transferred, or becoming entitled to, or being granted, such
increases; and during the said financial year there may be paid
out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada such sums of
money as have not l»en voted by Parliament but are required
for the payment of such salaries and increases of salaries as are
authorized by this Act.
48. This Act shall come into force on the first day of Sep- Commence-
tembernext. mem of Act.
OllAWA; Printed by Samuel Edward Dawsov, Law Printer to tlie King's
most Excellent Majesty.
-I GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
APPENDIX C.
An Act to amend the Civil Service Act.
[Assented to 4th May, 1910]
HIS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as
follows : —
1. This Act may be cited as The Civil Service Amendment Short title.
Act, 1910.
2. Sections 4, IG to 26, both inclusive, 32 to 37, both in- R.s., c le
elusive, 40, 41, 43, 46, 61 to 78, both inclusive, 80, 82, 84, 85, f^oSe'
90, 91, 94, 97, 98 and 99 of The Civil Service Act are repealed. Service.
60 far as concerns the Outside Service, other than that portion
of the Outside Service defined by paragraph [b) of section 4 of
the said Act.
2. Sections 30 and 42 of the said Act are repealed as to the Ss. 3o, 42
Inside Service, and as to the Outside Service other than that '•"^P^^i'^'i-
portion of the Outside Service defined by the said paragraph {b) Exception,
of section 4.
3. Section 21 of the said Act is repealed and the following is New s. 21.
substituted therefor : —
"21. The preliminary and qualifying examinations shall be T'me and
held at the times and places specified under the regulations of exmnina-
the Civil Service Commission for the ordinary competitive ''°"^-
examinations."
4- Subsection 1 of section 50 of the said Act is amended by ^- ^° , ,
adding thereto the following: —
"Provided that an officer shall not be transferred from the Transfer fro^.
Outside Service to the Inside Service under the authority of in"ide
this section unless he has served for a period of three years in service,
the Outside Service, and no such transfer shall be made to the
Third Division of the Inside Service."
5.
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ClYIL SERTICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
S. 50
amended.
Conditions of
t ransfer.
Temporary
t ransfer from
Outside to
Inside
service.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
5. Section 50 of the said Act is further amended by adding
thereto the following subsection: — ■
"4. No transfer shall be made, under the authority of this
section, to the Inside Service except upon the report in writing
of the deputy head that the duties performed in the Outside
Service b)' the officer to be transferred are of a Uke character
to those of the position to which he is to be transferred, and if
performed in the Inside Service would entitle him to the said
position, and that he is qualified for the duties of such
position."
6. Any officer or employee in the Outside Service may, by
order in council, be transferred to any position in the Inside
Service for a period not exceeding six months, but he shall,
during such period, notwithstanding his duties in the Inside
Service, remain subject to the law relating to the Outside
Service.
Temporary
clerli for
decennial
Examina-
tions and
period of
service.
Census clerks
ineligible for
other work.
To receive
annual
increase.
7. Special competitive examinations may be held by the
Civil Service Commission, in accordance with regulations in
that behalf made by the Commission and approved by the
Governor in Council, for ascertaining the qualifications of per-
sons to be employed as temporary clerks for the compilation of
any decennial census, and the successful competitors may be
employed temporarily for the duties aforesaid for any period
not exceeding three years.
2. During such term of service such temporary clerks shall
not be eligible for any employment other than the compilation
of the decennial census, and they shall not be entitled by reason
of service in the compilation of the census to any further em-
ployment.
3. Such temporary clerks shall be eligible for annual statut-
ory increase as provided by section 37 of The Civil Service
Amendment Act, 190S.
R.S., c. 16, 8. That part of Schedule B of The Civil Service Act which
fraended. rclatcs to Customs is amended by striking out the figures and
word "300 to 4,000," opposite to the word "Collectors," and
substituting therefor the figures and word " 300 to 4,500."
Sch. B
amended.
9. That part of the said Schedule B which relates to Inland
Revenue is repealed and the following is substituted therefor : — ■
"inland revenue.
Salaries of
Inland
R(' venue
ofEciuls.
Inspectors Salary from $2,000 to $3,000
"Provided that inspectors of spe-
cial manufactories may receive a
salary not exceeding in the ag-
gregate $3,200.
" Collectors
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" Collectors Salary from S 600 to $2,800
" Deputy collectors " 400 to 2,000
"Accountants " 800 to 1,800
" Special class excisemen (chief
officers in charge of distilleries) " 1,600 to 2,200
" Special class excisemen (other
than the foregoing) " 1,300 to 1,600
" First, second and third class ex-
cisemen, " 700 to 1,500
" Probationary excisemen 600
" Stenographers and typewritei-s. . " 400 to 700
" Messengers " 400 to 800
"Provided that deputy collectors who have passed the special
class examination may receive an additional salary not to ex-
ceed two hundred dollars per annum; and provided further that
special class excisemen and other officers connected with the
survey of important manufactories may receive an additional
salary not exceeding in any one case three hundred dollars per
annum."
lO. That part of the said Schedule B which relates to Post Sch. B
Office is amended by striking out tJie heading "Post Ofjice /„. """-"dcd.
spectors and AskiHant Post Office Inspectors" and the next fol-
lowing six paragraphs, and substituting therefor the follow-
ing:—
"Post Office Inspectors, Assistant Post Office Inspectors,
and Superintendents of the Railway Mail Service.
"The salary of a post office inspector, on appointment, shall ^„'"o®(|°J
be two thousand five hundred dollars, with increases of one in-nectois
hundred dollars per annum up to a ii aximum of three thousand fntlndcM'
five hundred dollars. If the salary of any post office inspector
is at present less than two thousand five hundred dollars it shall
forthwith be increased to that minimum.
"The salary of an assistant post office inspector, on appoint-
ment, shall be one thousand six hundred dollars, with increase.* of
one hundred dollars per annum up to a maximum of two thou-
sand five hundred dollars. If the salary of any assistant post
office inspector is at present less than one thousand six hundred
dollars it shall forthwith be increased to that minimum.
"The salary of a superintendent of the railway mail ser\ico,
on appointment, shall be one thousand six hundred dollars, with
annual increases of one hundred dollars up to a maximum of two
thousand five hundi'ed dollars. If the salary of any such
superintendent is at present less than one thousand six hundred
dollars it shall forthwith be increased to that minimum.
"Any post office inspector, assistant post office inspector,
or superintendent of the railway mail service who has been,
for the period of one year, in receipt of the maximum salary of
his class, as heretofore established, shall be eligible for the
increase
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Salaries of
assistant
postmasters.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
increase of salary under this Act from the first day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and ten, and, if he has served for any
less period than one year at such maximum salary, he shall be
eligible for the increase as soon as he has completed one year's
service at such maximum salary."
11. The said Schedule B is further amended by striking out
all the words under the heading "Assistant Postmasters" and
substituting therefor the following : —
"Class 1. When postage collections exceed $800,000. . .
$2,800.
"Class 2. When postage collections are from $500,000 to
$800,000. $2,600.
"Class 3. When postage collections are from $250,000 to
$500,000. .$2,400.
"Class 4. When postage collections are from $150,000 to
$250,000. .$2,200.
"Class 5. When postage collections are from $80,000 to
$150,000. $2,000.
"Class 6. When 'postage collections arc from $60,000 to
.$80,000.. $1,800.
"Class 7. When 'postage collections are from $40,000 to
$60,000.. $1,600.
"Class 8. 'When postage collections are from $20,000 to
.$40,000.. $1,400.
"Class 9. AVhen postage collections are less than $20,000 . .
$1,100 to $1,400, as the Postmaster General determines."
Clerks in
outside post
offices
brought
under Act.
12. When it has been determined by the Governor in Coun-
cil that any post office not under The Civil Service Act is to be
brought under the said Act, any clerk or other employee then
employed in such office, and who has been continuously em-
ployed for a period of two years immediately preceding the date
on which the office is brought under the said Act, shall be con-
sidered as eligible for appointment under this Act, irrespective
of age and without having to pass the Civil Service examina-
tion, and such clerk or employee may be paid the same salary
as he had theretofore received in such office ; provided that such
salary shall not exceed the maximum salary of the class in the
Civil Service to which he is appointed.
Date wiien 13. The Salaries and increases provided by sections 8, 9, 10
hMrease-stai<(. ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^j^.^ ^^^ ^j^^^jj ^^ payable as from the first day of April,
one thousand nine hundred and ten.
1908, K. 1
new 8. 4.
Inside
•ervic*.
14. Subsection 1 of section 4 of The Civil Service Amendment
Act, 1.90S, is repealed and the following is substituted therefor : —
"4. Sections 5 to 26, both inclusive, sections 28 to 37, both
inclusive, and sections 39 and 40 of this Act apply only to the
Inside Service."
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15. Subsection 5 of section 18 of the said Act is amended by s. is
inserting the word "fiscal" before the word "year" in the last l-'^cai^^ar
line thereof, and by adding thereto the foUomng subsection: —
"6. The Commission may select for any office or employment Selections to
any person who is a successful competitor for a higher office or ^" ^^'^^'^"'^^
employment; provided that no such selection shall be made to
the prejudice of any person on the hst of successful competitors
for such lower office or employment."
16. Section 21 of the said Act is amended by adding thereto s. 21
the following subsection :— amended.
"2. No appointment shall be made under this section to theTWrd
Third Division . "
17. Section 22 of the said Act is amended by adding thereto s. 22
the following :— amended.
"Provided that no qualification as to age shall be required in No age limit
the case of appointment to the position of messenger." messengers.
18. The said section 22 is further amended by adding thereto s. 22
the following subsection : — amended.
"2. Any person who has satisfied the Commission in the Temporary
respects aforesaid may be appointed or employed temporarily messengers,
in any of the said positions."
19. Subsection 3 of section 23 of the said Act is repealed and s. 23
the following is substituted therefor: — ^"^° ° "
"3. No such temporary clerk shall be employed for more Temporary
than six months in any fiscal year." clerks.
20. Section 31 of the said Act is repealed and the following New s. 31.
is substituted therefor : —
"31. The salary of a temporary clerk shall be the minimum Salaries of
salary of the grade or division for which he has successfully cf^^'"'"'^
competed: Provided that the salary of a temporary clerk em-
ployed under section 23 of this Act may be the minimum salary
authorized for subdivision B of the Third Division, or the mini-
mum salary authorized for subdivision B of the Second Divi-
sion, having regard to the duties required of him, subject in
either case to be increased as authorized by section 33 o£ this
Act."
21. Section 38 of the said Act is repealed and the following News. 38.
is substituted therefor : —
"38. In the absence of special authority of Parliament no No additional
payment additional to the salary authoi-izcd by law shall be pemaTcnt°
made to any deputy head, officer, clerk or employee perman- officers for
ently employed in the Civil Service in respect of any service '^"'^ ®* '^ " •
hereafter to be rendered by him, whether in the discharge of
his ordinary duties of office or of any other duties which may
be imposed upon him, or which he may undertake or volunteer
to
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CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
Proviso as to
annual
salaries from
several
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
to discharge or otherwise perform; and no vote expressed to be
made generally, though qualified by the words "notwithstand-
ing anything in The Civil Service Act," or words to the like
effect, shall be deemed to authorize such a payment : Provided,
however, that nothing in this section is intended to prohibit
the payment to any officer, clerk or employee in the Outside
departments Scrvice of a Separate annual salary from each of two or more
Out's'ide ^ " departments or distinct branches of the public scrvice in re-
Service. spcct of Separate duvies performed in the Outside Service for
each of such departnivints or branches respectively, if one of
such salaries is not sufficient to compensate him for his whole ■
time, and if the aggregate salaries do not exceed reasonable
compensation for the discharge of all the duties so performed;
and provided further that nothing in this section shall affect
the operation of section 46 of this Act."
Printed by Charles Henry Parmelee, Law Printer to
the King's most Excellent Majesty.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31 A. 1911
APPENDIX D.
REGULATIOXS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
WITH REFERENCE TO EXTRANCJ-; TO Till: SERVICE A>D PROMOTION IN THE SERVICE.
(Approved hy His ExceUenci/ the Governor General in Council, on the 19th day of
April 1909.)
In accordance with section 10, clause 2 of the Civil Service Aineiidmeut Act,
1908, requiring that the duties of the Civil Service Commission 'shall be performed
in accordance with regulations made by the Commission, ' and approved by the
Governor in Council,' the following regulations have been prepared by the Com-
mission : —
E.\AMI\ATI0NS FOR ENTRANCE TO THE I.VSIDE SERVICE.
1. In order to comply with section 13 of the Civil Service Amendment Act, which
states that ' except as herein otherwise provided, appointment to positions in the
inside service under that of deputy head shall be by competitive examination, which
shall be of such a nature as will determine the qualifications of candidates for the
particular positions to which they are to be appointed, and shall be held by the Com-
mission from time to time in accordance with the regulations made by it and approved
by the Governor in Council,' the Commission will provide for general competitive
examinations for entrance to the following divisions and subdivisions of the inside
s(>rvicp : —
(a) Clerks for Subdivision B of the Third Division.
(6) Clerks for Subdivision B of the Second Division.
2. Ill accordance with section 15 of the Civil Service Amendment Act, the
number of competitors to be selected, for appointment to the service, from those
taking the examinations for the above divisions, shall be computed by the Commis-
sion on the basis of the reports from the several departments as to their probable
requirements for the ensuing six months.
."3. The general competitive examinations shall be held twice a year, in the months
of May and November. Forms on which applications for these examinations shall be
made will be provided by the Commission, and may be had on application to the
Secretary of the Commission. General competitive examinations shall be held at the
following places: Halifax, Yarmouth, Sydney, Charlottetown, St. John, Fredericton,
\l(inct -11. Oncbce. Montve'l. Ottawa. Kincstdii. Hamilton, Toionto. London, Sault
Ste. Marie, Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Brandon, Eegina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton,
Nelson, Vancouver and Victoria. The examination may also be held at such other
places as may be selected by the Commission for the convenience of candidates apply-
ing for examination.
(2) 'Where competitive examinations are required involving technical or scientific
subjects and necessitating the use of scientific apparatus, it shall not be necessary to
hold such examinations at each of the above places, but the Commission shall, as far
as possible, arrange for at least one place in each province where such examinations
may be taken.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
4. Any examination may be taken in the English or French language, at the
option of the candidate.
5. A general examination for messengers, porters, sorters and packers shall be
held at the same time and places as the general examinations for the Second and
Third Divisions, and shall include the following subjects of the ordinary public school
standard: — Reading, writing, spelling, and the first four rules of arithmetic. The
minimum percentages of qualification shall be fifty per cent on each subject and sixty
per cent on the whole examination.
6. Where messengers, porters, sorters and packers require certificates of quali-
fication and fitness under section 22 of the Civil Service Amendment Act, the Commis-
sion may require any or all of these to pass an examination which shall be as nearly
as may be of the same standard as that set for those who take the general examination
for entering that grade of the service.
7. The general competitive examination for clerkships of Subdivision V, of the
Third Division shall include the following subjects of the average high school
standard: Writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, history, composition, copying
manuscripts, typewriting. No candidate shall be selected for appointment to a posi-
tion in the Third Division who secures less than fifty per cent of the marks assigned
to each subject, and sixty per cent of the marks assigned to the whole examination.
8. Candidates may take, in addition to the foregoing subjects, either or both of
the subjects of stenography and book-keeping. While the marks obtained for these
extra subjects shall not affect the standing of the candidates in the compulsory sub-
jects, yet, where a knowledge of stenography or book-keeping is required for any
position in the service, those having these qualifications and otherwise on the list of
successful competitors will be given the preference.
9. Persons employed in the Civil Service in the Third Division may take the
competitive examination for entrance to the Second Division under the following
regulations : —
(2) Such persons must have been employed at least one year in the Third Division
before competing in such examination ; also their records in the reports to be furnished
under the Civil Service Amendment Act must be good.
(3) In case of failure in such examination any person so failing shall not com-
pete again within a year.
(4) Persons so failing may, if their records for conduct continue good, present
themselves for examination a second time, but in case of failing a second time they
shall not again be allowed to take the said examination.
10. To insure the availability of a sufficient number of competent typewriters and
stenograjshers, the Commission may appoint a special eomijctitive examination for
typewriters and stenographers, for Subdivision B of the Third Division, which shall
include the following subjects: — Typewriting, stenography, writing, spelling, com-
position and copying manuscripts.
(2) Where a sufficient number of typewriters and stenographers are not available
among those who have taken the full examination for Subdivision B of the Third
Division, the requirements of the departments may be supplied by appointing, in
order of merit, those who have taken the special examination for typewriters and
stenographers.
(•3) No one appointed as the result of such special examination shall be con-
sidered as eligible for promotion to Subdivision A of the Third Division who has not
subsequently qualified in the additional subjects of arithmetic, history and geography
as required for the regular examination for entrance to the Third Division.
11. Where candidates for employment as temporary clerks require certificates of
qualification and fitness under section 23 of the Civil Service Amendment Act, the
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Commission may require any or all of these to pass an examination which shall be
as nearly as may be of the same standard as that set for those who take the general
examination for entering that grade of the service.
12. Candidates for the general competitive examination for clerkships of Sub-
division B of the Second Division shall take all of the subjects in group A of the
following list, any two in group B, and any three in group C : —
A. — Writing, spelling, composition, literature, arithmetic, typewriting, French
(for those taking the general examination in English), English (for those taking
the general examination in French.)
B. — Algebra, geometry, physics, chemistry, geology (including mineralogy),
biology (animal and vegetable).
C. — Latin, German, history (modern), political science, economics, geo-
graphy (general, physical and commercial), philosophy (scholastic or general),
law (Enslish or civil).
(2) No candidate shall be selected for appointment to a position in Subdivision
B of the Second Division who secur^^s in Group A less than 50 per cent of the marks
assigned to writing, spelling, composition, literature, arithmetic and typewriting, 40
per cent of the marks assigned to French and English and CO per cent of the marks
assigned to the whole group.
(3) No candidate shall be selected for appointment to a position in Subdivision B
of the Second Division who secures in Groups B and C less than thirty per cent of
the marks assigned to each subject, and forty per cent of the marks assigned to the
subjects selected from the two groups.
(4) The standard of examination shall require a good general knowledge of the
subjects selected from the above groups. In order that due regard may be had to the
different university systems in Canada, a curriculum shall be prepared by the Com-
mission showing, with as much detail as possible, the ground to be covered under
each of the subjects in the above groups A, B and C. A copy of this curriculum shall
be supplied to any person on making application to the secretary of the Commission.
13. Candidates may take, in addition to the foregoing subjects, either or both
of the subjects of stenography and book-keeping. While the marks obtained for these
extra subjects shall not affect the standing of the candidates in the compulsory sub-
jects, yet where a knowledge of stenography or book-keeping is required for any posi-
tion in the service, those having thtse qualifications, and otherwise on the list of
successful competitors, will be given the preference.
14. Where the deputy head of a department applies to the Commission for a
nomination to a clerkship in Subdivision B of the Second Division in such depart-
ment requiring special competitive examinations in technical or scientific subjects,
these may be provided by the Commission, instead of the general competitive examina-
tions for Subdivision B of the Second Division. The subjects for such special exam-
inations shall be arranged between the Commission and the deputy head of such
department.
15. Where the deputy head of a department applies to the Commission ior a
nomination to a position above that of Subdivision B of the Second Division, which
requires to be filled by appointment from without the service, the Commission shall,
after consultation with the deputy head of the department in which the appointment
is to be made, provide a special competitive examination or test, which may or may
not involve written answers to questions, but which shall be of such a nature as to
secure a person well qualified for the position to be so filled. In determining the
qualifications of candidates for such positions, the examination or test shall have
special reference to executive ability and tact, such special or professional training
as may be required, and a successful experience in duties similar to those pertaining
to the position to be filled.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
16. Where the oppolntment is one which is to be made under section 21 of the
Civil Service Amendment Act inasmuch as the person to be appointed requires to
obtain from the Commission a certificate that he possesses the requisite knowledge
and ability, the Commission, with the consent and co-operation of the head and deputy
head of the department in which the appointment is to be made, may arrange a form
of examination or test, by which to determine whether the person is qualified. On
satisfying the Commission that he is duly qualified, such person will receive the
certificate of the Commission.
17. When the selection is made by the head and deputy head of the department
without reference to the Commission, the Commission may make such inquiries and
appoint such an examination or test to determine the qualifications of the person so
nominated, as it may deem necessary for an intelligent and responsible discharge of
its duties.
PROMOTIONS IN" THE IXSIDE SERVICE.
18. A candidate who is recommended by the head of a department for promotion,
other than from the Third to the Second Division, in order to receive the prescribed
certificate of qualification, must satisfy the Commission of his ability to perform the
duties of the position to which he is to be promoted. For this purpose the Commis-
sion, if it considers an examination necessary, may, after consultation with the deputy
head of the department in which the promotion is to take place, prescribe a promo-
tion examination, having regard to the requirements of the subdivision to which the
promotion is to be made, and the special duties of the position to be filled.
19. Where there are two or more persons in the employment of a department who
are eligible for promotion to any vacant position, the Commission may, on the request
of the head of the department, provide a competitive promotion examination limited
to those who are declared eligible for promotion. Such an examination shall have
regard to the requirements of the subdivision to which the promotion is to be made,
and the special duties of the position to be filled. Upon the results of this examina-
tion, if satisfactory, the Commission shall issue the required certificate of qualification.
20. Candidates who, imder subsection 2 of section 26 of the Civil Service Amend-
ment Act, 1908, are nominated by the head of a department for promotion from the
Third to the Second Division must, in order to receive the prescribed certificate of
qualification, satisfy-the Commission that they are qualified to enter the Second Divi-
sion. To this end the Commission, after consultation with the head or deputy head
of the department in which the promotion is proposed, shall prescribe a non-competi-
tive promotion examination which, while having special reference to the requirements
of the position to be filled, shall nevertheless insure a qualification substantially
equivalent to that required in the open competitive examination for entrance to the
Second Division.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
21. All competitive examinations for entrance to the service shall be advertised
in the Canada Gazette at least four weeks before the examinations are to take place.
Such advertisements shall state the number of positions to be competed for, the con-
ditions to be complied with by the competitors, the subjects to be covered by the
examinations, and the places at which the examinations may be held.
22. Within one month after the publication of the results of a Civil Service
examination any candidate who considers that his answer papers have not been cor-
rectly valued maj' make application to the Commi'^sion to have his pafevs re-read.
Such application must be accompanied by a fee of $3 in the case of Third Division
or lower examinations, or $5 in the case of Second Division or higher examinations.
In cases where the appeal is sustained the fee will be returned.
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(2) The answer papers of all oandidates at any Civil Service examination, after
being valued by the examiners, shall be retained by the Commission for a period of
SIX months from the date of publishing- the results, and at the end of that n^-iod thev
shall be destroyed.
23. Every successful candidate, before receiving a permanent appoint n,ent to the
T\^VlT'^/ '""'' t ^'^ Commission with a certificate of good health which
shall be filled out on standard forms to be furnished by the Commission
(2) There shall be appointed by the Governor General in Council in each place
where an exnnunat.on is held one or more medical examine,-s. from whom such cer-
tificates shall be obtained.
(3) The fees for the health certificate shall be:-For messengers, porters, sorters
packers, and for temporary clerk, two dollars ($2): for clerks of the Third Division!
three dollars ($3); for clerks of the First and Second Divisions, five dollars ($5).
24. Every successful candidate, before receiving an appointment to the inside
service, must furnish the Commission with references to at least three reputable
pereons who may be able to give adequate information as to the candidate's character
and habits.
25. The following shall be the schedule of fees to be paid by the candidates at
the several examinations held under the direction of the Commission:—
Examination for lower grade positions, a fee of $ 2 00
Examination for clerkships in Subdivision B of the Third
Division, a fee of 4 qq
Examination for clerkships in Subdivision B of the Second
Division, a fee of g qq
Extra examinations which may be authorized from time to
time for positions requiring special qualifications, a fee of 10 00
Promotion examinations: —
In the Third Division 2 00
To the Second Division 3 qq
In the Second Division 4 qq
For higher divisions 5 qq
(2) No fee shnll be required for the privilege of taking optional subjects.
(3) The fees for the regular Third and Second Division examinations shall be
payable by the candidates when presenting themselves for examination. The fees for
the extra examinations shall be payable at the time of making application to take such
an examination.
26. Copi<>s of the reports of the 'conduct and efiiciency of all officers, clerks and
employees below the First Division,' which, in accordance with section 40 of the Civil
Service Amendment Act, are required to be made in each department, shall be fur-
nished to the Commission by the deputy heads of the various departments every three
months.
(2) To insure uniformity these reports shall be made out on forms prepared by
the Commission, which may be procured by the departments upon requisition to the
Government Stationery Ofliee.
27. As soon as practicable, after coming into force of these regulations, the deputv
heads of the several departments shall furnish to the Commission, for the purpose of
Its establishment books, returns of the officers of their departments, with such parti-
culars as to their past service and present employment as are provided on the form
prepared by the Commission.
28. The secretary of the Treasury Board shall notify the Commission of all
changes which take place in the organization of the offices in the several departments
in the inside service, whether these changes result from the creation of new offices the
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division or combination of existing offices, or the abolition of offices; also of all
charges in the personnel of the officers holding respective offices in the several depart-
ments in the inside service, whether these changes result from original appointment,
promotion, transfer, death, resignation or dismissal.
29. The Commission shall select examiners duly qualified to prepare the neces-
sary examination papers and to value the answers of the candidates, in connection
with the general and special examinations provided for in the Civil Service Acts and
in these regulations.
(2) Each of the examination papers for the. First and Second Divisions of the
inside service shall be prepared and the answers valued by two examiners.
(3) In tlie case of promotion examinations, and of special or technical examina-
tions for the First and Second Divisions, as far as possible one of the two examiners
shall be selected from within the department in which the appointment is to be made,
and the other from without.
30. Examiners for the inside service shall be paid in accordance with the fol-
ing scale of fees : —
To each examiner for setting a paper for the general compe-
titive examinations for the First and Second Divisions. . $15 00
Wliere the examination is one of a special or technical char-
acter for the First or Second Division of the inside ser-
vice, and where not more than five candidates are taking
the same examination, each examirier shall be allowed
$20 for setting the paper and valuing the answers.
To each examiner for setting a paper for the Third Division
examinations 10 00
To each examiner for setting a paper for the lower grade
examinations 5 00
To each presiding examiner at the various centres where the
examinations are held: — -
Per day 10 00
Per half day 5 00
Where the number of candidates at any centre exceeds
twenty-five, an assistant examiner may be appointed for
such additional number up to twenty-five, and other
additional assistants may be appointed in like proportion,
where the number of candidates exceed fifty.
To each assistant to the presiding examiner: —
Per day 5 00
Per half day 3 00
For valuing the answ-ers in the ease of the general compe-
titive examinations, the compensation shall be as fol-
lows : —
For each paper in the examinations for the First or Second
Divisions 0 50
For each paper in the examinations for the Third Division. . 0 20
For each paper in the examinations for the lower grades. ... 0 10
1 GEORGE V.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
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A. 1911
APPENDIX E.
EXAMINERS EOR CIVIL SERVICE EXAMIXATIOXS, FROM THE 1st
SEPTEMBER. 1909, TO THE 31st AUGUST, 1910.
Preliminary and Lower Grade Examinations.
Xovember, 1909.
renmanship. Arithmetic and English Ortho-
VrJlt^X^li ■■ "u J°''" Thorburn, M.A., LL.D., Ottawa.
Jrench Orthography Rov. A B. Roy. O.M.I., Unir^rsitv of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
Qualifying Examinadon for the Outside Service.
Xovember, 1909.
English Spelling, Composition and Grammar.. W. J. Sykes, M.A., Ottawa
1^;^; ::::;::;:::::::::::: :;•:[:. ^,^^Bn^-. Ottawa.-
i'rench Transcription, SpellinK, Composition
and Grammar Rev. Canon Dauth, Laval University, Mont-
B k t real, P.Q.
FrSF^"^f'""f^^'^^^^^''"«-- •■ ■• ::K:kKl;r^^ta^^:'""
French Shorthand and Typewriting .1.0. Marceau, Montreal, P.Q.
Third Division Examination.
November, 1909.
Geon!!.«ni^v''*"r^ ""i^ 4"t'i?'^t'<=-;, F. A. Jones. B. A., Ottawa.
OreoRrapliy, French Spelling, ComposiHon,
Transcription and Writing Rev. A. B. Roy. O.M.I.. University of Ottawa.
p^- , Ottawa.
VnXlh'r^^. ■■ V- ■" -y^- •■ ■■■ ■■ ^- "■ P'ltman, D. Paed., Ottawa.
Rn^r V'"'P<'si'i<)n and Transcription W. A. Graham, Ottawa.
T.v£m 'A-''''''"'''***"^ ^"5* Stenography R. C. Dunbar. Ottawa.
liench Typewriting and Stenography J. O. Marceaii. Montreal, P.Q.
Book-keeping O L Blatch, B.A., Ottawi.
Second Division Examination.
November, 1909.
French and English L. R. Gregor, B.A., Ph.D., McGill University,
Montreal, P.Q., and Rev. Canon Dauth,
GeoniPtrv o„,i A -ii •• Laval University, Montreal, P.O.
<.eomet.j and Arithmetic .John Matheson, M.A., Ph.D.. Queen's Univer-
sity. Kingston, Ont.. and C. C. Jones, B.A.,
Ph.D.. LL.D., University of New Bruns-
1-n.rlici, Til I wick, Fredericton, N.B.
Knjish Literature A. MacMechan, B.A., Ph.D., Dalhousie Uni-
versity, Halifax, N.S., and J. Marshall,
French Literature nr ^^■''- ^^^^1^'% University, Kingston, Ont.
i^uerature Monseigneur Laflamme, Laval University,
Qj ,-, Quebec, P.Q.
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Algebra C. C. Jones, B.A., Ph.D., LL.D., University
• ""^ of Kew Brunswick, Frederictou, N.B., and
John Matheson, M.A., Ph.D., Queen's Uni-
versity, Kingston, Ont.
Latin -'^ N. DeWitt, Ph.D., Victoria University,
Toronto, Ont., and A. D. Smith, LL.D.,
Mt. Allison University, Sackville, N.B.
Chemistry V,. MacKay, B. A., Ph.D., Dalhousie Univer-
sity, Halifax, N.S., and Rev. Canon Dauth,
Laval Universit}', Montreal, P.Q.
History Rev. Canon Dauth, Laval University, Mont-
real P.Q., and G. M. Wrong, M.A., Uni-
versity of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Scholastic Philosophv Rev. Canon Dauth, Laval University, Mont-
real, P.Q.
Economics O. D. Skelton, M. A., Ph. D., Queen's Univer-
sity, Kingston, Ont., and W. C. Keirsted,
M.A., Ph.D., University of New Bruns-
wick, Fredericton, N.B.
Spelling and Dictation F- A. Jones, B.A., Ottawa, and Rev. A. B.
Roy, O.M.I., University of Ottawa, Ottawa.
Geology A. P. Coleman, M.A., Ph.D., University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ont., and Prof. F. D.
Adams, Ph. D., McGill University, Mont-
real, P.Q.
Physics H. T. Barnes, D.Sc, F.R.S.C, McGill Uni-
versity, Montreal, P.Q., and J. L. Ho^g,
M.A., Ph.D., McMaster University,
Toronto, Ont.
Gorman H. L. Bober, M.A., King's College, Windsor,
N.S., and W. H. Vander Smissen, M.A.,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Civil Law Rev. Abbe Gosselin, Laval University, Quebec.
P.Q.. and Arch. McGoun, K.C., M.A., B.C.L.
McGill University, Montreal, P.Q.
Biology • D. P. Penhallow, D.Sc, F.R.S.C, F.G.S.A.,
McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., and
Ramsay Wright, M..^., LL.D., University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Composition Rev. A. B., Roy, O.M.I., University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, and W. A. Graham, Ottawa.
Geography Rev. A. B. Roy, O.M.I., University of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
Shorthand and Typewriting R. C. Dunbar, Ottawa, and J. O. Marceau,
Montreal, P.Q.
Book-keeping Geo. L. Blatch, B.A., Ottawa.
Special E.vaminafion for position of Assistant Cerealist, Department of Ar/riculture.
November, 190P
Pape] on Cultivation and Classification of ,
Cereals C. E. Saunders, Ph.D., Cerealist, Experi-
mental Farm, Ottawa.
Special Examination for position of Patent Examiner, Department of Agriculture.
November, 1909.
Mechanical Engineering Ernest Brydone-Jack, B.A.. C.E., M.Can. Soc.
C.E., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Man
Special Promotion Examination, Department of the Interior.
Dcceml er, 1909.
Penmanship, Spelling and Arithmetic .Tohn Thorburn, M.A., LL.D., Ottawa,
Composition and Letter Writing and Book-
keeping A. E. Attwood, M.A., Ottawa.
Special Examination for positions of Translator on the Staff of the Setiaie. and the
Debates Staff of the House of Commons.
February, 1910.
Composition and Translation L. R. Gregor, B.A., Ph.D., McGill University,
Montreal, P.Q., and Rev. Canon Dauth,
Laval University, Montreal, P.Q.
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Special Exfimination for the position of Accounlant in the Department of Labour,
^farch, 1910.
Book-keeping Geo. L. Blatcli, B.A., Ottawa.
Arithmetic and Composition A. E. Attwood, M.A., Ottawa.
French Kev. A. B. Roy, O.M.I., Universitr of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
Preliminary and Lower Grade Examinations.
May, 1910.
Penmanship, Arithmetic and English Ortho-
graphy John Thorburn, M.A., LL.D., Ottawa.
French Orthography Rev. A. B. Rov, O.M.I., University of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
Qualifying Examination fur the Outside Service.
May, 1910.
English liramnuir \V. J. Sykes, M.A., Ottawa.
French (Inunniar Rev. A. U. Roy, O.M.I., Ottawa.
Other examiners same as for Third Division Examination. I
Third Division Examination.
M:iy, 1910.
Arithmetic and English Spelling F. A. Jones, B.A., Ottawa.
Cieography, French Spelling, Composition,
Transcription and Writing Rev. A. B. Roy, O.M.I., University of Otta-.ru.
Ottawa.
History J. H. Putman, D. Paed., Ottawa.
English Composition, Transcription and Writ-
ing W. A. Graham, Ottawa.
English Typewriting and Shorthand R. C. Dunbar, Ottawa.
I'ri'iioh Typewriting and Shorthand J. O. Marceau, Ottawa.
B(uik-k.eping Geo. L. Blatch, B. A., Ottawn.
Second Division Examinaiion.
May, 1910.
English Spelling F. A. Jones, B.A., Ottawa.
English Composition -■V. E. Attwood, M.A., Ottawa.
English Literature I. Marshall, M.A., Queen's University, King-
ston, Out., and A. MacMechan, B.A., Ph.D.,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
French Composition Rev. J. Boyon, CM. I., University of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
Frencli and English Rev. Canon Uauth, Laval University, Mont-
real. P.Q., and L. R. Gregor, B.A., Ph.D.,
McGill University, Montreal, P.Q.
Arithmetic and Geometry C. C. Jones, B.A., Ph.D., LL.D., University
of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., and
.). Matheson, M.A., Ph.D., Queen's Univer-
sity, Kingston, Ont.
Algebra '. Matheson, M.A., Ph.D., Queen's Universitv,
Kingston, Ont., and C. C. Jone?, B.A., Ph.D.
LL.D., University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, N.B.
Phvsics J. L. Hogg, M.A., Ph.D., McMnster UniversitT,
Toronto. Ont., and H. T. Barnes, D.So..
F.K S.C. McGill Universitv, Montreal,
P.Q.
Chemistrv Rev. Canon Dauth, Laval University, Mont-
real, P.Q., and E. Mackay, B. A., Ph.D.,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
(leology A. P. Coleman, M.A., Ph.D., University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ont., and F. D. Adam«,
Ph.D., D.Sc, F.G.S.A.. F.R.S., McGill
Umiversity, Montreal, P.Q.
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Biology Ramsay Wright, M.A., LL.D., University of
Toronto. Toronto, Ont., and D. P. Pen-
hallow, D.Sc, F.R.S.C, F.G.S.A., McGill
University, Montreal, P.Q.
Latin A. D. Smith, LL.D., Mt. Allison University,
SackviUe, N.B., and N. DeWitt, Ph.D.,
Victoria University, Toronto, Out.
-German H. L. Bober, M.A., King's College, Windsor,
N.S., and G. H. Needier, B.A., Ph.D.,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Out.
l£istory Geo. M. Wrong, M.A., University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ont., and Rev. Canon Dauth,
Laval University, Montreal, P.Q.
Political Science S. B. Leacock, B.A., Ph.D., McGill Univer-
sity, Montreal, P.Q.
Economies O. D. Skelton, M.A., Ph.D., Queen's Univer-
sity, Kingston, Ont., and W. C. Keirsted,
M.A., Ph.D., Univer.sity of New Bruns-
wick, Fredericton, N.B.
Geography and French Spelling Rev. A. B. Roy, O.M.I., University of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
Scholastic Philosophy and French Literature. . Monseigneur Laflamme, Laval University.
Quebec, P.Q.
General Philosophy R. Magill, M.A., Ph.D., Dalhousie Univer-
sity, Halifax, N.S., and John Watson,
M.A., LL.D., Queen's University, King-
ston. Ont.
Civil Law Arch. McGoun, K.C., M.A., B.C.L., McGill
University, Montreal, P.Q.
English Typewriting and Shorthand R. C. Dunbar, Ottawa.
French Typewriting and Shorthand J. O. l\Iarceau. Montreal, P.Q.
Book-keeping G. L. Blatch, B.A. Ottawa.
Special Examination for Clerkships in the Topographical Surveits Branch of the
Department of the Interior.
May, 1910.
Special papers E. G. Deville, LL.D., D.L.S., Surveyor General,
Ottawa.
Special Examination for position of Draughtsman, Department of Marine and
Fisheries.
May, 1910.
Special papers Lt. Col. W. P. Anderson, Chief Engineer;
Department of Marine and Fisheries,
Ottawa.
■Special Examination for Draughtsmen and Clerics in the Topographical Surveys
Branch of the Department of the Interior.
July, 1910.
■Special papers E. G. Deville, LL.D., D.L.S., Surveyor General,
Ottawa.
Special Examination for position of Assistant in the Department of Naval Service.
August, 1910.
Book-keeping G. L. Blatch, B. A, Ottawa.
Composition and Arithmetic A. E. Attwood, M.A., Ottawa.
Special Examinations for Lower Grade positions throughout the year.
Writing, Arithmetic and English Spelling .lohu Tliorburn, M.A., LL.D., Ottawa.
French Spelling Rev. A. B. Roy, O.M.I., University of Ottawa,
Ottawa.
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TABLES
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
TABLE No. 1. — (1) Successful Candidates at Preliminary and Qualifying Exam-
inations for the Outside Service, November, 1909.
(A) PRELIMINARY EXAMIXATION.
At I'aiuouver.
Broadbent, Wilfred C. M.
Bryson, Alex. B.
Drysdale, John.
Dulton. Arthur.
Greenfield, Lillian.
Griffis, Arthur R.
Jaraes, George E.
Learmouth, Ale.t.
Baker, G
Davis, William It.
Harrie, William H.
Cooper, Francis G.
Cunningham, Struthers C.
Gully, Francis E.
Holden, Hubert.
Cook, John.
Bagshawe, G. W.
Fidler, Henry.
Greaves, Chas. E.
Letawsky, John.
Barss, G. A.
Benson, Ida C.
Cringan, Ale.x. R.
Cros.s, Fred. K.
Denton, Wilfred.
Dufresne, Paul.
Eyres, Arthur W.
Fridfinnson, William.
Harris, R. W.
Havercroft, John.
Cooney, W. Chris.
Copeland, Chester R.
Fischer, Gordon P.
Gilbank. Clifford J.
Leith, Robert.
Avis, Richard.
Barlow, Laftayetta.
Enright, Lawrence J.
Keenan. James J.
Mai tin, Dtdbeit P.
Martin, Rav M.
McTaggart, Arthur W.
Orr, Joanna S.
Henwiek, James.
Rynoch, George T.
Sciarini, Herbert.
Turner. Gilbert J.
Waddell. Walter H.
Wright, William C
E.
At Victoria.
Lory, Richard.
Robinson, A.
Sinclair, John B.
At Calgary.
Lee, William.
Mc'iarry, May.
Salisburv, Wilfred R.
Toyo, G. E.
At Edmonton.
^titchc•ll, A.
Periaton, Walter.
Simpson, Cecil E.
Third, Alfred E.
At Regina.
Gravel, J. A.
At Winnipeg.
Kirk, Sydney A.
Laycock, Burton.
Leith, James R.
^ft;Intosh, W. Donald.
MiicUoiiald, U. W.
Macaulay, John.
Meikle, W. S.
Millar, Alex. M.
Osovskv, A.
Suren, E.
At London.
Miners, Clarence E.
Moore, Chas. E.
Morris, Carolyn L.
McArthur, Daniel.
McCraken, Morrison
At HamiUon.
Matches, William.
Nash, Richard F.
Reid, Grace M.
Robertson, James
Way, William J.
Wl.r-flpr, William.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
At Kingston.
Allen, Robert J.
Cathcart, A. W.
Addy, John J.
Barehara, Abraham.
Bee, Herbert.
Burns, Robert.
Daiues, Wilfred.
Davey, F. C. P.
Elliott, Blanche F.
Finucan, William.
Gordon, Charles.
Gowans, James T.
Gyles, Richard E.
Haacke, Harry R.
Hanson, Walter J. A.
Horn, Harry R.
Ingram, Norman E.
Kaiser, Thomas W.
Kellas, James.
Lettan, William H.
Mabey, John H.
Barratt, William A.
Cornwall, John F.
Descoteaux, Felix H.
Duhamel, Boria.
Hall, W. G. T.
Hodgins, Hector A.
Jordan, Otto.
Lacelle, Claude.
Aymong, Emilien.
Belanger, J. Alt.
Bessette, H.
Bigonesse, Ovide.
Boucher, Cyrille.
Brodeur, J. E. A.
Brunet, Edward.
Caron, Fortunat.
Carriere, Leopold H.
Charlebois, Rene.
Delehanty, Thomas.
Desaulniers, Eugene L.
Desruisseau, Edw. J.
Destremps, Armand.
Duchesneau, Gaston.
GauTin, Silvio.
Gore, Alf. G.
Gourre, Leonidas.
Graveline, Albany W.
Gnay, Lorenzo.
Hebert, Rodolphe.
H^roux, .Joseph.
Jacobs, Charles.
Lamonreux. Philippe.
Lamouche, Ovide.
Lebeau. Armand.
Lefebvre, Ovila.
Legault, Jules.
Maillonx, .Joseph G. A.
Hannons, Owen J.
Nolin, Antonio.
(yFarrell, John P.
Patrv, Emile.
Galaugher, W. H.
Wilkinson, H. R.
At Toronto.
Meredith, Thomas H.
May, Edwin J.
Millar, James M.
Mitchell, Fred P.
McKinnon, Donald L.
O'Leary, Oswald J.
Ovcrend, William.
Pascoe, Norman C.
I'erkins, Nellie.
Rounds, Samuel.
Reesor, Wilmot G.
Scott, Thomas H.
Sloan, Henry C.
Tobin, Jos.
Vickers, Chas. G.
Waters, Hubert W.
Webb, Ernest.
Weller, Percv A.
White, William S.
At Ottawa.
Larose, Marie F.
McLellan, Ernest H.
Neville, Ivedmond.
Parker, Jolin W.
Rochon, Henry J.
Thrun, Otto.
Willett, William A.
At Montreal.
Major, Raoul.
Marcoux, Joseph A.
Marion, Samuel.
Menard, Rodolphe.
Moore, James J.
Murray, Louise A. M.
McNulty, George H.
O'Shaughnessy, Edgar.
Ouimet, Joseph E.
Papineau, Eug. E.
Pacjuette, Alfred.
Pelletier. Alpha.
Perreault, Chas. A.
Pratte, Franpois.
Prevost, Arthur.
Primeau, Alfred.
Redmond, John.
Rohland, Joseph P.
Rogers, Edward.
Roy, A. Josaphat.
St. Jean, Z^non.
St. Laurent, Edouard.
Serre, Fridolin.
Thibaudeau, Joseph.
Thouin, Edouard.
Trudel, Ars^ne.
VallitTPS, J. Hecfor.
Vnllf'p, Paul E. M.
At Quehec.
Paulin,
Samson,
Savard,
F. X. A.
Odilon F.
Arthur.
Vaillancourt, Jean B.
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Burt, Arthur.
Casey, Thomas.
Cox, Fred. W.
Currey, Albert C.
Donovan, Jeremiah J.
Joyce, Fred.
Morgan, Thomas G.
Bayers, William G.
Davidson, Allen H.
Dibbon, Jos. R.
Lane, .John.
Cook, Josie.
Co vie, Gertrude.
Hayden, Edith.
Mathioson, Katie.
MacMillan, Belle.
McDonald, John.
McDougall, Harrie.
McLeod, Maude.
At St. John.
McCann, William J.
McKim, Harry K.
O'Donnell, Francis E.
Pheasant, F. Walker.
Power, Jas. B.
Puddingiion, H. H.
At Halifax.
McDonald, Chas. J.
O'Brien, Chas. F.
Shand, E. Stanley.
Wilson, Harry W.
At Charlottetown.
McLean, Mary.
McNeil, William P. Fl.
Newson, Hazel M.
Power, Mav.
Sinnott, Ella B.
Smith, William W.
Worthy, Ethel L.
(B) QUALIFYING EXAMINATION.
At Vancouver.
Buchan, John.
Orr, Joanna S.
Maxwell, Robert C.
Douglass, Walter S.
Ferguson, John S.
Hornbrook, John S.
Ironside, Gordon L.
Falconer, William.
Gronow, Percy J.
Lee, John E.
Bisson, J. E.
Carmichael, Pearl.
Greenhalgh, Bertram W.
Govenlock, Thos. G.
Tidsbury, Geo. G.
Cadden, John.
Hunt, Albert.
Macdonald, Alan G.
Macdonald, John J.
MacNeil, G. Grant.
Sharpe, Lome G.
Whitehead, Chas. A.
At Nelson.
Gates, W. H.
At Calgary.
Mclntyre, John.
Patterson, Frank D.
Dodds, Stanley O.
Scott, Geo. J.
At Edmonton.
Falconer, John S.
Page, Walter.
At Saskatoon.
Bruce, Geo. A.
At Moosejaw.
Perry, Glen R.
Scullv, James J.
Wright, Ethel M. S.
Yake, J. Calvin.
At Regina.
Muirhead, Alex.
McDonald, Thos.
Parker, John.
Shaw, Jos. B.
Sweeney, James.
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Barnelt, J. A.
Benson, Ida C.
Brown, Clias. G.
Campbell, David.
Case, Frank C.
Christie, A. W.
Clark, Wm. J.
Faija, John K.
Calcott, Stanley.
Copeland, Chester R
Deacon, Ormston L.
Grant, George.
Irwin, Charl.'s.
Johnstone, Henry D.
Kneitl, Emma.
Lanaway, Noble C.
Clancy, Wm. F.
Finnigan, James H.
Hayes, Gordon B.
Alfred P.
At Winnipeg.
Forbes, Robert K.
Gray, Thomas.
Macdonald, Davidson W.
MacDougall, John A.
Menu, Celesta.
Thomas, Wm. H.
Woodrow, Fred.
Bernier, ,Tos. O.
At Port Arthur.
Jetley, Hugh E.
At Windsor.
Monfortoii, Edmuiid.
At London.
Locker, Robert A.
MacDonald, George A.
Morris, Carolyn L.
McLaren, Gilbert E.
Shillington, Robert J.
Steel, John McK.
Hooper, Harry R.
Thompson, Wm. B.
At Hamilton.
Wright, Lewis.
Savage, W. S.
Oliver, P. Henry.
At Kingston.
Cathcart, A. W.
Kearney, James A.
Scott, George B.
Armstiong, Thomas E
Barclay, Andrew L.
Brophy, Fred W.
Breed, Elizabeth.
Davey, Fred C. P.
Everest, John W.
Foster, Wm. C.
Frost, James H.
Hamilton, Wm. B.
Hayes, Wilbert.
Hetherington, W. J.
Hunter, Robert I.
Isbister, Wm. P.
Beaton, John.
Bliss, Muriel.
•Corbeil, Noe.
Champagne, Juliette.
Charbonncau, William W.
Chattawav, George.
Doran, Wm. T.
•Certificate cancelled.
Irving, Kenneth H.
NeAberry, Adele W.
Wilkinson, H. R.
Galaugher, W. H.
At Toronto.
Law, James M.
Mark, Sophie.
Maunder, W. A.
Morrison, John 0.
McCarthy, James.
McEwan, James C.
O'Donoghue, Geo. M.
Park, Hume O.
Pollock, Freda.
Shorey, Amos B.
Smith, Wm. P.
Weller, Percy A.
Woodward, Luard L.
At Ottawa.
Jamieson, Silas A.
Higgins, Ernest.
Mnuhard, Wilfred E
Neville, P. V.
Malctte, John L.
Powers, Gordon E.
At Charlottetown.
Pmitli, Wm. W.
Wiight, Leith.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIOy OF CANADA
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At St. John, X.B.
Barry, Patrick E. Nugent, George E.
Cronin, Leonard T. Puddington, Harry H.
Cyr, Joseph. Dowd, J. J.
Newcombe, Fred. J.
At Halifax.
Boreham, Gladys S. O'Brien, Charles F.
Downie, Guy F. Robichaud, Uenie J.
Freeman, Zohett D. Wall. Harold L.
Lebbetter, John T. Wilson, Harry W.
Logan, Heber. Shand, Elma S.
Maclellan, John J. Hanway, John B.
MacCormack, Allan J.
At Montreal.
Bastien, Joseph I. E. Proulx, Conrad.
Beausoleil, Jules P. Rouillard, Raoul.
Charest, Jos. A. E. Senecal, Joseph A.
Craig, Arthur F. Thivierge, Arthur.
Desaulniers. Eugfene L. Vaillancourt, Am6de.
D^sy, Lucien. Choquette, Ren6.
Hebert. Arthur H. Dupuis, Phil. V.
Laporte, Alfred. Tontaine, Joseph E. L.
L'Heureux, L. Adelard.
At Quebec.
Beauchamp, Jos. 0. E. O'Farrell, Agnes D.
Bergeron, E. O. L. Powers, Preston W.
Dagneau, Joseph George. Tiudel, Joseph O. A.
Grondin, Valmore. Mercier, Jos. E. N.
(C) OPTIONAL SUBJECTS.
At Vancouver.
Buchan, John — Stenography, Typewriting.
At Nelson.
Gates, W. H. — Book-keeping.
At London.
Morris, Carolyn L. — BoOi-ke?ping, Typewriting.
At Kingston.
Galaugher, W. H. — Typewriting.
At Montreal.
Charest, Joseph A. R. — Book-keeping.
At Halifax.
Poreham, Gladys I. — Stenography, Typ?writing. O'Brien, Chas. F.— Book-keeping.
(D) SECOND QUALIFYING EXAMINATION.
At Calgary.
Salisbury, W. R. Ross. G. D.
Smith, J. Daniel.
At Moose jaw.
Boys, V. H. Mallen, Gerald.
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At Winnipeg.
Baird, E. B. Smith, P. C.
Currie, H. J. Templeton, H.
At Toronto.
Jordan, W. J. O'Connor, J. T.
Lishman, W. A. Swinson, D. H.
Lindsay, L. H. Thompson, W. C.
Mofiat, W. W.
(2) Successful Candidates at General Competitive Examinations, November, 1909.
(A) LOWER GRADE OFFICERS.
In Order of Merit —
1. Farlie, George H., Ottawa, Ont. G. .Tacombe, H. G., Calgary, Alta.
2. McGahey, .Tohu H., Wilson's Bay, Ont. 7. Gravel, Omer, Montreal, P.Q.
3. Legare, Alfred, Tetreauville, P.Q. 8. McCadden, John, Ottawa, Ont.
4. Bedard, J. Edgar, Hull. P.Q. 9. Morgan, Owen L.. Ottawa, Ont.
5. DesRosiers, Dionne, Ottawa, Ont. 10. Usher, Ernest, Ottawa, Ont.
(B) STENOGRAPHERS AND TYPEWRITERS.
In Order of Merit —
1. Doherty, Sarah L. 3. Low, Agnes.
2. Stewart, Leah L. i. Irish, A. Hilda.
(C) THIRD DIVISION CLERKSHIPS.
In Order of Merit—
1. Dery, Joseph E., Ottawa, Ont. 22. Moyer, Lulu B., Hamilton, Out.
2. McCloskey, Agnes, Chesterville, Ont. 23. Evoy, Irene, Queloec, P.Q.
3. Harkness, Ada, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. 24. Fetterly, Ethel S., Cornwall, Ont.
4. Adams, Gertrude E., L'Orignal, Ont. 2.5. Pelletier, J. Aldoria, Hull, P.Q.
5. Robitaille, Oscar, Ottawa, Ont. 26. Hebert, Bernadette, Ottawa, Ont.
6. Wood, Perry A., Toronto, Ont. 27. Arkley, Helga P., Ottawa, Ont.
7. Connolly, James J., Ottawa, Ont. 28. Rivington, Eleanor S., Ottawa, Ont.
8. Crosby, Bertha A., U.xbridge, Ont. 29. Grant, Jessie B., Ottawa, Ont.
9. McJanet, Jessie P., Ottawa, Ont. 30. Govenlock, Euphemia, Seaforth, Ont.
10. Rook, Jennie E., Prescott, Ont. 31. Roonev, Helene E., Ottawa, Ont.
11. Janes, Lila E., Lindsay, Ont. 32. Bedard, Delphine, Hull, P.Q.
12. Kinsman, Mildred, Canning, N.S. 33. Cornfoot, Nathan A., Charlottetown, P.E.I.
13. Mennie, Edward L., Ottawa, Ont. 34. Pratte, Gaston, Ririere-du-Loup S't'n, P.Q.
14. Purcell, P. J. Thomas, Ottawa, Ont. .35. Hollister, Arthur, Ottawa, Ont.
15. Shore, Sarah G., Ottawa. Ont. 36. Dodson, Fred. J., Red Deer, Alta.
16. Spotswood, Edna, Riceville, Ont. 37. Lisle, Edward, Ottawa, Ont.
17. Dumouchel, Corinne, Ottawa, Ont. .38. Welsh, William, St. Catharines, Ont.
18. Bartlett, Elizabeth M.B., Ottawa, Ont. 39. Desmarais, Herve, Ottawa, Ont.
19. Paterson, Mary K., Renfrew, Ont. 40. Buck, Stanley E., Brantford, Out.
20. LeRoy, Sarah, Ottawa, Ont. 41. Pelletier, Eugene, Ottawa, Ont.
21. Rankins, Grace A., Ottawa, Ont.
(D) TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT.
In Order of Merit —
1. Morrison, Lillian. 10. Ardley, Nellie M.
2. Trudel, Jeanne. 11. Ells, Lena A.
3. Hebert, Berthe. 12. Barber, Lily J.
4. Low, Constance M. 13. Kilt, Esther I.
5. Fyles, Faith. 14. Stothers, Laura R.
6. Moss, Laura. 15. Quinney. Hattie A.
7. Bauer, Bertha T. 16. Rooney, Minnie H.
8. Giroux, Adeline. ' 17. Edwards, Mary T.
9. Nagle, E. Loretto. 18. Lanthier, Mary E.
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(E) SECOND DIVISION CLERKSHIPS.
In Order of Merit —
1. Astle, Thomas F.
2. Campbell, C. Elmer.
3. Burroughs, John A.
4. Racette, J. B. F.
5. Gauthier, Joseph L. IT.
6. Malette, Wm. J.
7. Lafrance, Oscar.
8. Loranger, Jean M. J.
9. Rousseau, Joseph A. S.
(3) Successful candidate at Special Promotion Examination, Department of Trade
and Commerce, November, 1909.
Bawden, F. E.
(4) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for position of
Patent Examiner in the Department of Agriculture, November, 1909.
Mace, Frank G., Hamilton, Ont.
(5) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Promotion Examination in the
Department of the Interior, December, 1909.
Heariiden, J. R., Ottawa
(6) Successful Candidate at Special Qualifying Examination for position of
Translator on the Staff of the Senate, February, 1910.
I>e Jfontigny, Lnuvigiiy, Montreal, P.Q
(7) Successful Candidate at Special Qualifying Examination for position of
Translator on the Debates Staff of the House of Commons. February, 1910.
Dt-saiilniers. Ernest, Ottawa. Oiil.
(8) Successful Candidate at Special Competitive Examination for position of
Engrosser in the Department of the Interior, February, 1910.
Manhand. Charles E.. Ottawa, Ont.
(9) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for the position of
Accountant in the Department of Labour, March, 1910.
(10) Successful candidates at General Competitive Examinations for the Inside
Service, May, 1910.
(.4) LOWER
Order of Merit —
Kerr. Allan, Ottawa, Ont.
Ellement, Ambrose A., Ottawa, Ont.
Forde, Alban, Ottawa, Ont.
Anderson, Fred. E., Ottawa, Ont.
Cadieux, Joseph A., Ottawa, Ont.
Marcile, Albert A., Acton Vale, P.Q.
Mackenzie, John J., Green Hill, N.S.
Laferriere, Roland, Hull, P.Q.
Yorke, G. W., Pembroke, Ont.
Uonohue, Jerry, Cormac, Ont.
Desrosiers, E., Hull, P.Q.
Hoad, William F., Ottawa, Ont.
Enright, Arthur F. J. Toronto, Ont.
Larcher, Blanche, Ottawa, Ont.
Sproule. Athol H., Ottawa, Ont.
Desmarais. Ovila, Hull, P.Q.
Mallette, Rosario, Oka, P.Q.
Bourgeau, Walter J., Aylmer, P.Q.
GRADE OFFICES.
Bonneville, Nazaire, Ottawa, Ont.
Lafleur, Rodolphe, Montreal, P.Q.
Frechette, Eugene, Hull, P.Q.
Burnside, Christopher, Ottawa. Ont.
Mullen, Edmund G. F., Hull, P.Q.
Barsalon, Dieudonne, L'Ange Gardien, P.Q.
Parent, Joseph H., Montreal, P.Q.
Lundv, W. M.. St. John, N.B.
Campbell. William J., Ottawa, Ont.
Gibson, James E., Hull, P.Q.
Genereu.\-, L. A., Montreal, P.Q.
Ferguson, William T., Ottawa, Ont.
Vaillant, Francois, Ottawa, Ont.
Neville, Redmond J., Ottawa, Ont.
Whitmore, Louis C, Rocbonrille, P.Q.
Moisan, F. X. P., Quebec, P.Q.
Perrier, Joseph L., Ottawa. Ont.
Mayer, Olier, Ottawa, Ont.
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(B) STENOGRAPHERS
Order of Merit —
Shaw, A. Louise, Montreal, P.Q.
Morris, Carolyn, Oil Springs, Ont.
Robertson, Muriel S., Ottawa, Ont.
Arnoldi, Clara E., Edmonton, Alta.
Breniner, Irene G., Halifax, N.S.
Fairbairn, Hattie G., Ottawa, Ont.
Stuart, Mabel L., Prescott, Ont.
Bailey, Anita B., Toronto.
Blackburn, Ina B., London, Ont.
Burgess, Marion I., Ottawa, Ont.
Feeney, Mary E., Peterborough, Oj
Barber, Lily J., Ottawa, Ont.
White, Edith, Ottawa, Ont.
Bertram, Aniv R. London, Ont.
Cleary, Ella A., Ottawa, Ont.
Gibeault, Albert, Montreal, P.Q.
Hervey, Violet B., Round Hill, N.S.
Burke, Agnes, Ottawa, Ont.
AND TYPEWRITERS.
McCuaig, Christina I., Ottawa, Ont.
McDonald, Catherine A., Ottawa, Ont.
Lennan, Minnie, Ottawa, Ont.
McVity, Mary E., Aylmer, P.Q.
Dion, Marie B., Hull, P.Q.
Lanthier, Mary E., Ottawa, Ont.
Gleason, Anna, Ottawa, Ont.
Lesperance, Eva, Ottawa, Ont.
Laflamnie, .Joseph, Hull, P.Q.
Foisy, Wilfrid, Ottawa, Ont.
Robitaille, Edgar, Ottawa, Ont.
Tetu, Alexandre, Quebec, P.Q.
Levesc£ue, Placide, Ottawa, Ont.
Stevens, Frank A., Belleville, Ont.
Lowry, Victor C, Hamilton, Ont.
de Bellefeuille, Lionel, Montreal, P.Q.
Miller, Sidney L., Charlottetown, P.E.I.
(0) THIRD DIVISION CLERKSHIPS.
Order of Merit-
Anderson, C. Elva, Newmarket, Ont.
Russell, Blanche A., Ottawa, Ont.
Bauer, Bertha, Hamilton, Ont.
MacKenzie, Isabella, Ottawa, Ont.
McRae, Christine, Apple Hill, Ont.
Beaubien, Alderic H., Quebec, P.Q.
Kelly, John P., Ottawa, Ont.
Watson, James W., Ottawa, Ont.
McLaren, Robert D., Ottawa, Ont.
Baril, Conrad, Ottawa, Ont.
Neville, Peter V., Aultsville, Ont.
Vincent, Walter M., Golspie, Ont.
Buchanan, Herbert J., Maberley, Ont.
Danis, Rene R., Ottawa, Ont.
Griffiths, Charles G., Toronto, Ont.
McCutcheon, Lewis W., Walkerton, Ont.
Irving, Kenneth H., Charlottetown, P.E.I. 35. Perrier, Joseph L
Broceland, D. P.. Ottawa, Ont.
(D) SECOND DIVISION CLERKSmPS.
Order of Merit —
Wallace, Charles A., Ottawa, Ont.
Smith, Reginald G., Ottawa, Ont.
Nichols, Edward W., Acaciaville, N.S.
Elliott, Henry E., Harriston. Ont.
Bourgault, Berthe, Ottawa, Ont.
Lord, Alexander R., Fenelon Falls, Ont
Vaughan, Gladys E. B., Sackville, N.B.
Taylor, Lome B., Reid's Mills, Ont.
Kendall, Carson J., Ottawa, Ont.
McCully, Robert C, Bathurst, N.B.
Thivierge, Arthur, Montreal, P.Q.
Ronson, Clifford W., Toronto, Ont.
Spence, William A., Ottawa, Ont.
Cheney, Harry W., Ottawa, Ont.
Cnlioon, Aubrey A., Ottawa, Ont.
Out.
19. McLellan, Ernest H., Ottawa, Onf.
20. Cadieux, Joseph A., Ottawa, Ont.
21. Pothier, Alphee, Pubnico, N.S.
22. Mathie, Andrew T., Ottawa, Ont.
23. Bazinet, Odilon G. J., Ottawa, Ont.
24. York, John E., Ottawa, Ont.
25. Reid, William T., Vallentyne, Ont.
26. Fowler, Robert, Ottawa, Out.
27. Pelletier, Donat, Ottawa, Ont.
28. Dalev, Stanley J., Ottawa, Ont.
29. Dame, Honore, Hull, P.Q.
30. Wilson, Walter L., Ottawa, Ont.
31. Macdonald, Maitland M., Ottawa,
32. Pratte, Herve, Ottawa, Ont.
33. Danis, James T., Daniston, Ont
34. Heisler, John A., Indian Harbour, N.S.
Ottawa, Ont.
lb. Rideout, E. Aubrey, Fredericton, N.B.
17. (Juimond, Georges, Iberville, P.Q.
18., Jodoiu, Raymond, Montreal, P.Q.
19. Iveson, Walter L., Metcalfe, Ont.
20. Dumoulin, Rene, Ottawa, Ont.
21. Chisliolm. Austin J., Goderich, Ont.
22. Bourgault, Juliette, Ottawa, Out.
23. Cook, George H., Ottawa, Ont.
24. Clarke, Douglas E., Mountain, Ont.
25. Smithers, Harry L., Dunnville, Out.
26. Kane, Leo A., Kingston, Ont.
27. Dehler, George .1., Linwood, Ont.
28. Mover, Flossie M., Ottawa, Ont.
29. Pelletier, Romuakl, Ottawa, Out.
(11) Successful candidates at Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations for the
Outside Division of the Post Office Department, May, 1910.
(.4) PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.
At Yanc
Boecher, G. H.
Brooke, B. R. F.
Charbonneau, Jo.seph.
Chaplin, Lionel.
Evans, Fred.
Lalonde, Leon.
Longworth, R. W.
LeMesurier, F. W.
Morgan, John.
Murray, E. C.
Murray, J. J.
Nash, Stanley.
Oben, A. J.
Ogilvy, C. S.
Prendergast, Matthew.
Norris, J. A.
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At Victoria.
Mcintosh, C. H. Snell, M. D.
At Edmonton.
Fraser, A. M.
Maxwell, O. B.
Morin, A.
Roberts, H. R.
Vermilyea, W.
Chudley, E. G.
Court, W. G.
Cummer, R. V.
Diaper, William.
Galbraith, S. G.
Ferval, P.
Hill, R. C.
Charleston, A. W. J.
Green, W. J.
Gourley, Samuel A.
Henderson, Jos.
Harvey, 11. C.
Ingram, H.
Cameron, D. N.
Charlton, J.
Bulger, J. L.
Credicott, R.
Dumphey, M. H.
Falvey, W. P.
Fitzsimmons, C. H.
Giroux, J. C.
Harris, A.
Murray, A. O.
Mcintosh, Wm.
Hurtubise, A.
Bisaillon, Alex.
Bourbonniere, Mrs. J. 0.
Collet, C.
Courtois, G.
D'Kstimauville, E. M. S.
Francis, C. H.
Campbell, C.
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Reneault, J. E.
Perraton, C.
At Regina.
White, R. J.
At Calgary.
Home, W.
Howse, T.
McKenna, F. A.
McLean, S. A.
Riddell, D. A.
Waddell, A. T.
At Winnipeg.
Morrison, A. M.
Neily, Geo. F.
Rodrigtiez, P. J.
Scott, W.
Sterland, Robert.
Treherne, A. E.
At London.
McGuigan, C. T.
Mahoney, H.
At Kingston.
Kane, James F.
At Toronto.
Orpen, Edward H.
Podger, Charles.
Pennell, Wm.
Tliornton, F.
Walker, J. B.
Wood, S. D.
Stone, Ilbert.
Farrell, J.
At Ottawa.
Durliani, W. H.
At Mentreal.
Hamilton, A. A.
Martineau, Mary C.
Merineau, J. B.
Poupart, F. L.
Reid, A.
Steben, G. A.
At St. John, N.B.
Mackin, W.
At Halifax.
Phillips, A. L.
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Benoit, O. D.
Davidson, T.
Ferguson, H. P.
Hewitt, Thomas H.
Xicholl, F. A.
(B) QUALIFYING EXAMINATION.
At Edmonton.
Leslie, P. D.
At Calgary.
Bell, E. C.
At Begina.
Parker, L. N.
At Moosejau'.
Manalian, R. M.
Maclean, D. B.
Penton, H.
At Sas'katoon.
Cameron, G. F.
At Winnipeg.
Maclean, Daniel J.
At London.
Thompson, A. S.
At Toronto.
Chapman, W. B.
McWhirter, H. J.
Meredith. T. H.
McCall, P. L.
Musgrove, Milton W.
Gravel, E.
(rauvin, Silvio.
Godbout, M. J. A.
Marchand, W.
Burrill, S. D.
Dunn, C. P.
Beive, .T. W.
Eaton, Mrs. F. M.
Coulter, A. K.
At Ottawa.
Lucas, Elmer.
At Montreal.
Linohen, J. H.
Lemoine, Eugene.
At Queliec.
Coleman, Ellen M.
At St. John.
Carvell, W. W.
At Halifax.
Fahie, W. H.
(12) Successful candidates at Promotion Examinations for the Outside Division of
the Department of Customs, May, 1910.
At Vancouver.
Sowter, A. B.
At Begina.
Shaw, J. B.
At Winnipeg.
Kennedy, A. M.
At Port Arthur.
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Boyce, T. R.
At Montreal.
Latcmche. A. 41. Sorley, J. S.
McGoldrick, M. P.
(13) Successfnl candidates at Special Competitive Examination for six clerkships
in the Topographical Survey Branch of the Department of the Interior,
May, 1910.
In Order of Merit —
1. Trpdette, .1. I'., Ottawa, Ont. 3. Dubuc, Charles P., Montreal, P.Q.
2. Gai;M<)ii, .1. X., Montreal, P.Q. 4. LaBeree, Edwin E., Ottawa, Ont.
(14) Successful candidate at Special Competitive Examination for the position of
Draughtsman in the Department of Marine and Fisheries, May. 1910.
Carson, William Harvey, Ottawa, Ont.
(15) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examination for three positions
as Chemists at the Experimental Farm, Department of Agriculture, June,
1910.
In Order of Merits
1. Carrutlior.s, E. B., Toronto, Ont. 3. Stuart, A. T., Toronto, Ont.
2. Robinson, C. H., Toronto, Ont.
(16) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examination for five clerkships
in the Topographical Surveys Branch of the Department of the Interior,
July, 1910.
In Order of Merit—
1. Koe, B. .1., Ottawa, Ont. 4. McCuUy, Robert C, Bathurst, N.B.
2. Bradley, James D., Ottawa, Ont. 5. Roe, A. J. F., Ottawa, Ont.
3. Fournier, Ovide E., Coaticook, P.Q.
(17) Successful candidates at Special Competitive Examinations for two positions
of Assistant Accountants in the Department of Naval Service, August
1910. '
1. Willianis. H. F., Ottaw.i, Ont. 2. Talbot, F. X., Ottawa, Ont.
(18) Successful candidates at Special Qualifying Examinations for lower grade
offices, from 1st September, 1909, to 31st August, 1910.
Department of the Interior, November, 1900.
Fagan, Thomas.
Department of Marine and Fisheries, November, 1909.
Bohemier, Emile.
Department of the Interior, December, 1909.
Chaput, Len.
Department of Justice, December, 1909.
Warner, Harry.
Department of the Interior, March, 1910.
Mann, Arthur.
Department of Agriculture, March, 1910.
O'Keefe, John.
Post Office Department, March, 1910.
Piatt, Hugh.
Department of the Interior, July, 1910.
Humphries, Archibald.
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TABLE No. 2. — Showing attendance at the several examinations held under the
direction of the Civil Service Commission.
1(1) Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations for the Outside Service, Novem-
ber, 1909.
Place of Examination.
Preliminary.
Qualifying.
Victoria
Vancouver. . . .
Nelson
Edmonton
Calgary
Saskatoon
Moosejaw
Regina
Winnipeg
Port Arthur . . ,
Windsor
London
Hamilton
Toronto
Kingston
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
St. John
Charlotte town.
Halifax
7
26
2
17
22
5
13
15
56
1
3
40
31
114
14
58
144
47
31
20
41
(2) General Competitive Examinations, November, 1909.
Place of E.xauiination.
Calgary
Edmonton
Port Arthur
Sault Ste. Marie.
Windsor
liondon
Hamilton
Toronto
Kingston
Ottawa
Montreal . . .
Quebec
St. John
Charlottetown . . .
Yarmouth
Halifax
Lower
Grades.
Third Division.
4
113
Second
Division.
93
4
2
4
. 2
1
1
150
16
9
2
2
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(3.) Special Promotion Examination, Department of Trade and Corameroe, held at
Ottawa, November, 1909
(4.) Special Competitive Examination for the position of Assistant Chemist at the Ex-
perimental Farm, Department of Agriciiltare, held at Ottawa, November, 1909
(5.) Sijecial Com|x'titive Examination for the position of Assistant Cerealist at the
Extjerimental Farm, Department of Agriculture, held at Ottawa, November, 1909
(6.) Special Competitive Examination for the position of Patent Examiner in the
Department of Agriculture, November, 1909,
At Toronto
At Ottawa
(7.) Siiecial Competitive Promotion Examination, Department of the Interior, held
at Ottawa. Dfoeinhf.r, 1909
(8.) S[Kt:ial •,i\iulifving Exiimination for the position of Translator on the Staff of the
Senate, held at ( )tt:i« a," Kebruarv, 1910
(9.) Special l^ualifying Examination for the position of Translator on the Debates Staff
of the House of Conunons, held at Ottawa, February, 1910
(10.) Special Examination for the position of Engrosser in the Department of the
Interior, held at Ottawa, February, 1910 :
(11.) Special Com|)etitive Examination for the |x>sition of Accountant in the Depart-
ment of Labour, March, 1910.
At Ottawa
At Montreal
(12) General Competitive Examinations, May, 1910.
Place of Examination.
Lower
G rades .
Thibd Division.
Sbconu Division.
Total.
Men.
Women.
Men.
Women.
2
2
4
6
4
U8
2
2
2
3
5
«
78
17
9
1
2
3
2
15
6
2
1
1
5
1
3
10
17
12
Ottawa
80
11
2
3
294
36
15
1
Moneton
l"
1
2
1
4
3
129
. .
4
l"
99
2
Halifax
2
142
1
34
4
7
408
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(13) Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations for the Outside Division of the
Post Office Department, May, 1910.
Place of Examination.
Prelimin-
ary.
Qualify-
ing.
Total.
2
20
2
1
2
A
10
1
4
IG
4
5
15
3
12
18
11
5
11
134
21
9
Edmonton
6
13
10
25
10
1
3
17
4
33
8
5
24
G
20
4
3
3
127
39
Kingston
18
38
15
8
14
261
(14) Promotion Examinations for the Outside Division of the Customs Department,
May, 1910.
At Quebec
■I Montreal
M Port Arthur.
M Winnipeg
M Regina
.■ Calgary
1. Vancouver . .
(15) Special Competitive Examination for clerkships in the Topographical
Survey Branch of the Department of the Interior, May, 1910.
At Ottawa 2
At Montreal 2
(16) Special Competitive Examination for position of Draughtsman in the
Department of Marine and Fisheries, May, 1910.
At Ol tawn 2
At Halifax 1
(17) Special Competitive Examination for positions as Chemists at the Ex-
perimental Farm, Department of Agriculture, held at Ottawa, June,
1910 11
(18) Special Competitive Examination for positions as Draughtsmen in the
Topographical Surveys Branch of the Department of the Interior,
July 1910.
At Ottawa 4
At Quebec 2
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(19) Special Competitive Examination for clerkships in the Topographical
Surveys Branch of the Department of the Interior, July, 1910.
At Ottawa 6
At Montreal 2
(20) Special Competitive Examination for the position of Assistant Account-
ant in the Department of Naval Service, August, 1910.
At Ottawa 5
At Montreal 3
(21) Special Examinations for lower grade offices —
Department of the Interior, October, liiOO 2
Department of Justice, November, 1909 1
Department of the Interior, November, 1909 3
Department of Marine and Fisheries, November, 1909 1
Department of the Interior, December, 1909 1
Department of Justice, December, 1909 1
Department of the Interior, !March, 1910 2
Department of Agriculture, March, 1910 1
Post Office Department, March, 1910 1
Department of the Interior, April, 1910 1
Department of the Interior, July, 1910 2
Department of Mines, July, 1910 1
Department of the Interior, August, 1910 1
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P^VIiT IV
EXAM I NATION PAP ER8
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
I.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE POSI-
TION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. OCTOBER, 1909.
PENMANSHIP.
POLAR DISCOVERY.
' We venture to say tbat all the strenuous work and labour undergone, the suffer-
ings and starvation and the sacrifice of human life during the long period through
which explorers have boeu in search of the North Pole, have been gifts placed upon
the altar of individual honour and glory rather than as administering to the advance
of scientific knowledge or the general good of humanity. Nor is it easy to see how
the science of Meteorology is to be profited by a mere visit to the Pole. The conditions,
atmosphere, temperature of the wind, snow and ice must practically be at any high
northern latitude, as from SO to 85, the same as at the Pole, and, of course, it is well
known that the magnetic pole is not at the North Pole, and it is very doubtful if the
two ever were coincident, or ever will be. In spite of the fact, then, that a few workers
write of the scientific importance of the discovery of the pole in glowing words, it
appears to the. author of this article that the increase of knowledge that this discovery
is capable of bringing into any field of scientific thought or investigation, except that
of mere descriptive geography, is practically nil.'
SPELLING.
Copy the following extract, correcting the errors in spelling; 3 marks will be deducted
for every misspelled word in your copy.
We have scan how from the very erliest ages the demandes for foode, cloathing,
fewel and shelter, have induced men to labor in order to prokure, by the simplest arts,
the nessessaries of life; and how when abondence and leesure were sekured, the arts
wich adminster to man's intclectuel and morral nature, and wich are no less nessessary
to his apiness ware also called into existance.
We have obsarved that men seaking too escape the drujjery of mannuel laber have
rellegated toyl to the captiv and the slave, or else contrived to ecconnomize musscular
ogzertion, eether by utilizing the naturel forses with wich they weir familliar, or by
inventing or applying some sort of machinary.
The former of these too plans has on the hole bean a sourse of degradation to awl
parties, and of danger to evry community that has fostered it. The lattar, on the
contrarey, has been eminently benefishial. A display of ingenuity commonley existes
cmmulation and the successfull working of a lokomotive or power-loom has often
improved a hole naborhood.
DICTATION.
Note. — Candidates are not expected to see this paper. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed: 30 minutes.
The growth of socialism in Great Britain is evidenced by the fact that the other
day the annual conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain unanimously
passed a resolution proposed by the Yorkshire delegates and declaring that in the
opinion of the annual conference the time has arrived when the land, minerals, mines
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and railways should be owned and managed by the state for the people to avoid a
stoppage of the industries of the country. While the passage of the resolution did not
meet with objection, it was evident that it was regarded more as an expression of
opinion than as a call to action, for one delegate observed that they would have to
wait for Gabriel's trumpet to blow until they could secure the reforms, while another
referred to it as a ' tall order.'
AEITHMETIC.
This paper was given in French.
II.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE POSI-
TION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OCTOBER, 1909.
PENMANSHIP.
Same paper as given in No. I. above. {See page 97.)
SPELLING.
Copy the following, correcting the errors in spelling; 3 marks will be deducted for
every misspelled word in your copy.
The storey of an ilfated Hudson Bey adventur evidentely lyes behinde the meager
reports convayed to Lt. Col. F. White controler of North West mimted polise, in a
leter he receeved yestreday from Major Moodio, the oficer in eharg of far northren
patroles. Major Moodie statees that a steemer named the Paradox, and owud by H.
W. Allisun of Ipswich Englande was piked up durin the sumer in Hudson straites by
the Hudson Bey Compani's steemer Pelican and toud to Fort Churshil.
The Paradox was a litel crafte of fourty tuns that had been cruched in the ice
earley last springe and had driftid arounde the strates in a helples condision for
sevarle weekes.
DICTATION.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed, 30 minutes.
GREAT SILVER CAMP PRAISED BY AMERICAN PRESS.
' Cobalt, the greatest Ontario silver camp, is not only the leader among the world's
producers of the white metal, but it is to-day statistically the foremost mining camp
m the world. No other camp can boast an increase of 59 per cent in output during
the first six months of 1909 as compared with the corresponding period of last year.
No other single mining area can claim $15,000,000 earned and paid in dividends in
the first five years of its existence. Of every dollar in ore shipped out, 70 cents has
been returned to the shippers to be used for fixed charges, developments, costs, divi-
dends .nnd incroasc'l cash reserves and quick assets.
' In no other mining camp do ores reach such high average values per ton of out-
put, nor is the ratio between total shipments and dividend disbursements so high as
in the Cobalt camp. In what is conceded by engineprinp- experts to be the most diffi-
cult known mining area in which to place ore " in sight," because every foot of
Cobalt's ground is " tight " formation, the leading mines have succeeded in putting
more than a ton in view for every ton taken down for shipment.'
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ARITHMETIC.
Note. — The work of each question must be given in full. Time allowed, one hour and
a half.
Values.
10 1. Write in words the following:— G0701892; 5000204.
20 2. Write in figures 60 million 200 thousand and 500. Five million, two
hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.
20 3. Add the following:— 163194568; 272385647; 897856846; 212375647;
498673548; 27549.
-20 4. Deduct 47354796458307 from 974506253593756 and multiply the re-
mainder by 76.
20 5. Divide 205466257692 by 498.
10 6. A man bought a horse for $115 and after keeping him three months,
sold him for $155. If he paid $30 for his keeping, and received $50 for the
use of him during that time, how much did he gain?
100
III.— PAPERS SET AT PRELIMINARY AND QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS,
NOVEMBER, 1909.
Preliminary Examination.
PENMANSHIP.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.
Few characters in Canadian History better deserve notice than Monsieur de
Champlain. Up to the month of October, 1635, he continued to attend diligently to
his various duties, as the King's Lieutenant-General, for so the Royal Commission
styled him. Then he was seized with a mortal sickness which for ten weeks he endured
with calmness and resignation. On Christmas Day he breathed his last. His character
was in every way a noble one. He was industrious, brave, loyal and pious. Although
he met with many obstacles in his career, he had no enemies. This proves that he was
amiable in temper and conduct. His habits were simple and frugal. He was beloved
by both the French and the Indians. The chiefs of the latter delighted in his company,
and would say to him. ' You have always something pleasant to tell us to make us
laugh,' and when the Huron chiefs heard of his return to Quebec from France, in
1633, some of them came all the way from the shores of the Georgian Bay to bid him
welcome. — Miles' History of Canada.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 10.30 a.m. to 11.15 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors.
As one waehed the sengularly euteresting procedings in the House of Lordes in
Lundon this efternoon, the memmory of anothar sceene withen the same wals was
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spuntaneusly revivid. Upon a day of days in those darke monthes of the war, when
Lord Lansdowne stud at the tabel, and anounced the fale of Pretoria, an exullting
cheer betraied what had bene the intensety of the strane. The men who were so
resently embitered oponants in feild and senate were now the singel-minded superiors
of an Act which in annothar place was finly discribed as a worthey embodyment of a
great nacienal purpos.
ARITHMETIC.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to .3 p.m.
Note. — The work of each question must be given.
Values.
10 1. Write in words: 60701892, 57637801, 1945681631, 594900.
10 2. Write in figures : Two hundred million, three hundred thousand and
eight hundred. One million five hundred and forty thousand and twenty-five.
10 3. Add the following :— 288965, 107844, 369832, 407821, 657646, 189554,
677053, 535648, 880327, 758509, 382387, 466989.
14 4. From 894376531638 take 362783416216 and multiply the remainder by
907.
16 5. Divide 523465247356 by 849.
20 6. How many pounds of nails can be bought for 75 cents at the rate of
4 pounds for 20 cents?
20 7. How many days are there from April 10th to December 12th, both in-
clusive ?
100
Qualifying Examination.
SPELLING.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 4.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 5 marks will be deducted.
From this it might appeer that the stashuns having acomplished the purpuse for
wich they were established, had now practicaly compleeted there work. It must not be
forgoten, however, that new varities of fruits of doutful meritt are constantly being
introduced, and these must be tested and reported on seperately as soon as posible. In
adition to this there are other resons for not curtaleing the work.
I agre perfektly with Mr. Brown in thinking that we should adopt more sientific
methods in testing apples. My first duty, however, is to thank you sincearly for the
honour you have confered on me in my elekshun to the responsable ofice of President
of this Asociation. I also thank the members of the counsel for the valuible asistence
I have recieved from them this year. Our finnances, as you will see by the Tresurer's
repport are in a good condition. This year has been one of speshul progres, and the
financial statement shows a good ballance in hand, which shows good managment.
The aim of the convenshun is to discus matters of nashonal signifigance afecting
the fruit industry sugesting wether it would not be advisible to form a Dominion
Asociation. The apple growers take plesure in reporting a good yeild. Severel
comities were appointed.
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AKITHMETIC.
Wednesday, iS^ovember 10th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
XoTE. — The work of each question must be given.
1. Add 5636155; 7832976; 87654; 429877; 34550, and 67818; and divide the sum
by the difference between 15964 and 9978.
2. (a) Multiply 8576-9348 by 67^-059.
(6) Divide 16796-16 by -1296.
3. Simplify 8% - 7% -f 5% - ^ 2
13 - ll%o + 10%^9i%o ^ n ^ '^'
4. Two brothers inherited $6,460; the elder spent | of his share and the younger J
of his; they then had $4,610 between them. How much did each inherit?
6. Find the proceeds of the following note, discounted at Ottawa on May 25,
1908, at 5% per annum.
$648 ^ Ottawa, May 15, 1908.
Five months after date I promise to pay H. Lemoine, or order, the sum of
John Magloire.
6. Find the interest at 6i% per annum on $5,896.50 from July 16, 1902, to May
12, 1903.
7. What sum placed at 7%, for 219 days, will amount to $3,126.00?
6. A grocer bought 80 pounds of tea at 21c. a lb. and mixed it with some at a
higher price. He sold the mi.xture at 35c a lb. and received $43.75, gaining $15.35.
How many pounds of the better quality had he, and what was the price of it?
9. A man borrowed $1,200 and at the end of each year he paid $300 to pay the
interest at 6% and reduce the principal. How much did he owe after making 3 pay-
ments?
10. A farmer sowed 75 acres in wheat, 58 acres in oats, 37 acres in barley. The
wheat yielded 24 bush, per acre, the oats 42, and the barley 35. If the expenses were
$2.50 per acre, on the average, what did he gain by selling the wheat at 82c. a bush.,
the oats at 40e. and the barley at 53c.?
N.B. — Count 3 days of grace and 365 days to a year.
GEOGRAPHY.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Vak
20 1. Draw a map of Canada which \\i\\ .'how clearly each province and its
capital, and also the other subdivisions of Canada not yet organized as prov-
inces. Trace and name the following rivers: — Fraser, St. Maurice, Yukon,
Mackenzie, Saskatchewan, Nelson, Eestigouche.
10 2. In what sections of Canada is lumbering an important industry?
Where does the lumber from each section find a market?
10 3. From what places in Western Europe do Canadians get silk ; cotton
goods; woollens; oranges; steel?
16 4. Next June a consignment of wheat is to be shipped from Edmonton
through Canada to a port for ocean vessels, and then to be shipped to Liver-
pool. It is to be carried a? far a^ practicable by water. Tell definitely the
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route it will probably take, mention the railways which will carry it, and
name in order the waters through which the ship or ships carrying it will
pass.
12 5. What is irrigation? Where is it used in Canada? What climatic
conditions make its use necessary in Canada?
12 6. Where is each, and what are the products: Bahamas, Trinidad.
Hawaiian Islands, Labrador?
20 7. Locate definitely and tell some interesting facts associated with each
of the following: — Yarmouth, Moncton, Sydney, Levis, Brandon, Lethbridge,
White Horse, Sudbury, Rossland, Seattle.
100
HISTORY.
Thursday, November 11th, from 10.30 a.m. to noon.
Note. — Only 8 questions to be answered. Values: 124 marks each.
1. What was tbe Renaissance? When did it take place? What important changes
in France and England were due to it?
2. What were the Crusades? When did they take place? Name some important
events connected with them.
3. What was the Commonwealth? What great name in history is closely as-
sociated with it? Name four important events of the period.
4. Give an account of the French Revolution of 1791, as follows: — (a) Causes;
(&) Prominent men who took part; (c) Important events.
5. Who was Richelieu? When did he live? What is he famous for?
6. Name the difFerent Fur-trading Companies in the early days of Canada. How
did they carry on the Fur trade?
7. What great events mark the following dates:— 1492, 1759, 1763, 1837, 1867?
8. State the leading events of Lord Elgin's administration, in Canada (1847-
1854).
9. Explain what is meant by the term ' Representation by Population.' When
did it first take effect in Canada?
10. Explain clearly the following terms, as they apply to Parliament: — Adjourn,
Dissolve, Prorogue, Session, Speaker of the House, Premier.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Thursday, November 11th, from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — From the four Questions 4, 5, 6, and 7, candidates will select any three.
Values.
(A) The late Dr. Routh, of Magdalen, who died not so very long ago,
believed to the end of his life that students still came up to Oxford in a
stage-coach; and, if a student were a few days late in entering, he excused
him on the ground that the roads were had, and that he had made the
jcmrney from Bath at an unseasonable time of year.
21 1. Write out in full the clauses in extract above; tell the kind of each
and the relation of each subordinate clause.
15 2. Parse each italicized word and phrase in this extract (A).
15 3. Point out and correct the errors in the following sentences, giving
reasons for your opinions: —
(a) Every one of us have had this feeling about our futures.
(b) An old punt was laying upon the bank.
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(c) When my father returned, he gave my sister and I a box of figs.
(d) The organ is playing and the people hurriedly taking their seats.
(e) He told me there would be no trouble if I did my work like all the
other clerks did.
12 4. Give the past tense and perfect (or past) participle of come, go, lie,
wear and set.
12 5. Write an example of each of the following: — (a) a simple sentence,
(6) a compound sentence, (c) a complex sentence, (d) a compound-complex
sentence.
12 6. Show by short illustrative sentences that a phrase may be used as —
(a) an adjective, (h) an adverb, (c) a verb, (d) a noun.
12 7. Of the two words in brackets in each of the following sentences select
the correct one, and give reasons for your opinions : —
(a) He i=; a boy [who. whom] people say is honest.
(h) Watch the boat [rising, raising] on the waves.
(c) [Has, have] any phenomena been observed?
(d) If it were January, I [should, would] be ready.
9 8. Name the interrogative pronouns and tell when each is used.
4 9. Explain Proper noun and Abstract noun, and give two examples of
each.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 9.30 a.m. to noon.
1. Write a composition of about 250 words on one of the following subjects: —
(a) How Electrical Inventions Affect Rural Life. (Such inventions as tele-
phones and electric cars arc suggested.)
(6) One of my Teachers. (A Description.)
(c) An Excursion by Boat (or Train).
(d) The Preservation of our Forests.
( i) reasons for doing so.
(ii) any methods used.
2. (a) Write a letter to a representative citizen of a Canadian town, asking for
information as to the advantages afforded by the town for the starting of any standard
line of business.
(b) Write a reply to this letter from the person to whom it is addressed.
TRANSCEIPTION AND WRITING.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
The candidate is required to make a neat, clean and correct copy of the manu-
script handed to him with this slip, writing out all abbreviations at full length, and
correcting any misspellings. The words scored through are to be omitted, and the
interlineations and the marginal and other additions are to be inserted in their proper
places as indicated. All changes or corrections, other than these, will he counted as
errors. This paper will be taken as a test of writing also.
BOOKKEEPING.
Friday, November 12th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Same as for Third Division Examination. (See page 118.)
104 CIVIL SEIiVIVE CUilillSSIOy OF CSNADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
SHORTHAND— Eighty Words a Minute.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909. Time allowed: 30 minutes.
Same as for Third Division Examination. (See page 117.)
; TYPEWRITING.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909. Time allowed: 30 minutes.
Same as for Third Division Examination. (See page 115.)
Second Qualifying Examination.
SPELLING.
Wednesday, November I7tli, 1909, from 4.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to
correct the errors. For every mistake in spelling 5 marks will be deducted.
Your Executive have endevored, this past asociation year, to put more of the
work on the standing comitees. In previus years these comitees have not met after
the anuel convenshun and so there work was not so efective as might otherwise have
been acomplished. Only a begining was affected.
The individuel has ceesed to be an important factor in meny lines of humen
activity. The peepul and the goverment unite there eforts, and thus increese the
value of farm produkts. The lateest devolepment of the Experement Station work is
to take a fruit orcherd of fourty or fifety akers as the hasus for there investigashuns.
The same principal is being aplied in experementing with corn seperatcly. Yet farmers
do alright when they recieve cheeper prices than formally because they grow more
than preveusly. Harmful inseks do less mischeef than they used to do because now
oficers are pade a salery to distroy theese little theeves. Consequently the little
enemys of fruit trees yeild to vigerus treetment.
ARITHMETIC.
Wednesday, November 17th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — Only eight questions to be answered.
1. Multiply 675908.656 by -85625 by -02564.
2. Simplify (l|-1^02)^(j-.006) ^.^g-^g.g,
-002 H- -06
3. Simplify /2i + 3g 3§ \ ^ pVn ^ 2%i\ _ -281
4. What is the amount of the following bill : — 36 lbs. 8 oz. of beef at 12c. a pound ;
16 lbs. 10 oz. of mutton at 14c. a lb. ; 7 lbs. 12 oz. of pork at 12c. a lb; 15 lbs. 6 oz. of
turkey at 18c. a lb., and 4 lbs. 10 oz. of suet at 8c. a lb.?
5. A money-lender placed $1,800 at 5%; $2,500 at 4%; $2,000 at 6%; $1,700 at
4i%. He wishes to recall it and place it all at a uniform rate, so as to receive the
fame amount of interest as before. What rate per cent should he charge?
6. The discount on $1,460 for 40 days is .$20. Find the rate per cent.
7. Find the proceeds of the following note: —
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Ottawa, Feb. 12th, 1899.
$480^
Three months after date I promise to pay John Small, or order, the sum of
Four Hundred and Eighty ^ dollars, with interest at 5% per annum. Value
received.
Egbert Hall.
Discounted Feb. 24th, 1899, at 6%. Count 3 days of grace, and 365 days
to a year.
8. A man borrowed $1,000, and at the end of each year he paid $200 to pay the
interest at 5% and reduce the principal. How much did he owe after making fourth
payment ?
9. With $28,800, five hundred men can be kept 6 months at a daily cost of 32c.
per man. How much would it be necessary to reduce the daily cost per man, in order
to make the money last two months longer?
10. I sold two horses for $200 each. On one I gained 20%, and on the other I
lost 20%. Did I gain or lose on the whole, and what was the gain or loss on each ?
GEOGKAPHY.
Thursday, November 18th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Values.
20 1. Draw a map of Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces. Show on it the
Intercolonial Railway as clearly and fully as you can. Locate and name three
towns or cities of Quebec in the Intercolonial Eailway, three in New Bruns-
wick, four in Nova Scotia and two in Prince Edward Island.
10 2. Wliat sections of Canada are best adapted for fruit-growing; for
wheat- raising; for dairying; for salmon-fishing?
10 3. Wlicre do the people of Great Britain and Ireland obtain the raw
materials for the manufacture of sill<, cotton, tobacco, wooUens, leather
goods ?
16 4. A gentleman wishes to travel with speed and comfort through Canada
next January from Montreal to Victoria, B.C., and thence to Dawson city.
Indicate clearly for him the ordinary method of taking this journey, and give
a list of twelve cities or towns, in oi'der, through which he will pass. Where
will he change from train to boat or from boat to train, &c. ? Will he be
obliged to cross foreign ground? If so, where?
12 5. Compare the climate of Manitoba with that of England. Wliat natural
conditions cause the difference?
12 6. Where is each and of what use to the British Empire : Gibralter, Suez,
Hong Kong, Malta?
"_'*' 7. Locate definitely and tell some interesting fact connected with the
following: Lunenburg, St. Stephen, Sherbrooke, Father Point, Brockville,
Kamloops, Saskatoon, Cobalt, Prince Albert, Sorel.
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HISTORY.
Thursday, November 18th, 1909, from 10.30 a.m. to noon.
Note. — Only eight questions to be answered. Values: 12 J marks each.
1. Describe briefly the Norman Conquest, as follows: — (a) Men taking part.
(6) Battles fought, (c) Any changes it introduced into England, (d) Date.
2. What was the Revolution of 1688? Wlio were the principal leaders engaged in
it? What change did it bring abovit in England?
3. Give an account of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as follows : (a) Give the dat«.
(b) Writers and Statesmen. (c) Explorers and Navigators, (d) Manners and Cus-
toms.
4. State the important events in the career of Napoleon Bonaparte.
5. Give a brief account of the reign of Louis XIV., referring especially to the
work of Colbert.
6. Name, locate and give some account of the various Indian tribes found in
Canada by the early French and British explorers.
7. Write brief historical notes on the following: — Brock, Wolfe, Montcalm, La
Salle, Champlain.
8. Who was Pontiac? When did he live? What did he try to accomplish?
9. Describe the industrial progress of Canada during the last twenty years.
10. Who was Dr. Ryerson ? With what great work is his name associated ? Give a
brief outline of that work.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Thursday, November 18th, 1909, from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — From the four questions, 4, 5, 6 and 7, candidates will select pny three.
Values.
A. After the parade, the General read a message from the King, in which
His Majesty asked that the boys should be told that the patriotic responsibility
and discipline that they were now acquiring would enable them to do their
duty later in life should any danger threaten the Empire.
17 1. Write out in full the clauses in this passage; tell the kind of each and
the relation of each subordinate clause.
15 2. Parse each italicized word or phrase in this passage (A).
15 3. Point out and correct the errors in the following sentences, giving rea-
sons for your opinions : —
(o) Over these small inlets the foliage of the trees bend and darken the
water.
(b) Walking through the fields in June pretty flowers are seen on every
side.
(c) At his heels walked a dog who looked as if his days were nearly
ended.
(d) Our only hope was that the other members of the party had been
more careful than us.
(e) Not very far up the river was the bridge, a massive iron structure
and which people were constantly passing over.
12 4. Give the plural of each of the following nouns (Should the plural be
the same as the singular, or should the noun have no plural meaning, say
so:— mother-in-law, silver, box, sheaf, lady, boy, eaves, piano, potato, series,
basis, man-servant.
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12 5. Distinguish iu meaning between :
(o) I shall go and / will go.
(b) He shall go and He will go.
(c) Shall he go? and Will he go?
and give any reasons for your opinions.
12 6. Classify (according to time, place, &c.) the following adverbs: — now,
yonder, why, very, swiftly, not, once, when, where, how, thus, rather.
12 7. Of the two words in brackets in each of the following sentences select
the correct one. and give reason for your opinion: —
(a) You must not [lay, lie] in bed so long in the morning.
(h) AVhat [should, would] we do without sleep?
(c) iTs'o (iue is more anxious about his welfare than [me, I].
(d) I am afraid he will [lose, loose] his deposit.
!t 8. Name and illu.strate three ways in which words are inflected.
8 9. Write the following forms of the verb see: —
(a) First person, singular, future.
(b) First person, plural, perfect (or present-perfect).
(c) Third person, plural, past progressive (or imperfect or continuous).
(d) Third person singular, future perfect.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Wednesday, November 17th, 1909, from 9.30 a.m. to noon.
1. Write a composition of about 250 words on one of the following subjects: —
(o) Harvesting in Western Canada.
(b) The Salmon Industry.
(c) Deep-Sea Fishing.
(d) The Propose*! Georgian Bay Canal.
(e) Advertising as it is Done To-day —
(i) Methods;
(ii) Some objections;
(iii) Good results.
(/) A Delightful Book.
2. (o) Write a letter to one of the Government Departments at Ottawa asking for
information on any matters connected with the Department.
{b) Write the reply to this letter which might be sent by the Department.
TRANSCRIPTION AND WRITMG.
Thursday, November 18th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
The candidate is required to make a neat, clean and correct copy of the manuscript
handed to hijn with this slip, writing out all abbreviations at full length, and correct-
ing any misspellings. The words scored through arc to be omitted, and the interlinea-
tions and the marginal and otlier additions are to be inserted in their proper places
as indicated. All changes or corrections, other than these, will be counted as errors.
This paper will be taken as a test of writing also.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 191t
IV.— PAPERS SET AT GENERAL EXAMINATIONS FOR LOWER GRADE
OFFICES, NOVEMBER, 1909.
PENMANSHIP.
Tuesday, November 9tli, 1909, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Value— 100.
LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.
112 Fleet Street, Tuesday Night.
United South Africa.
The tone of the speeches in both Houses of Parliament to-night is taken to indi-
cate that the South African Constitution Bill will be allowed to become law practi-
cally in the shape in which it has been presented. There is no disposition to com-
plain of any of the amendments made within the last few days. If a United South
Africa is satisfied it is felt that only the existence of elements of the gravest injustice
or of danger to Imperial interests would justify interference. But of course criticism
of some points will not remain inarticulate. The native question in its two aspects —
the treatment of the Protectorates and the exclusion of the Cape blacks from eligibility
for seats in the Legislature — is certain to be the centre of controversy. Lord Courtney
inside Parliament and Mr. Schreiner outside have already stated the Opposition case.
For the moment, however, as I have suggested, the general desire is to leave the new
Dominion to work out in this as in other matters its own salvation.
SPELLING.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 10.30 a.m. to 11.15 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 5 marks will be deducted.
Value— 50.
In the yeare 1884 a Le^ue was foremed — the Impeeriel Fedderashon Legue — under
the most favourabel aspiees. It enjoied the asistence of a long serius of distingushed
statsmen and promenant personnages; but it was disolved without having acomplesed
its objec, unles inded its sole objec was the edducation of publick oppinion to the
importanse of the subjec. But durin its carere it was again and again chalinged to
produse a plan, and it was unwiling to anser the chalinge. I think we may, at all
events, lerne from its expeeriance that the realisation of our hopes, if they are in the
direcshon of a federashou of the Empir — their final realisation — is a matter of such
magnetud and such great conipleeashon that it cannot be undertaken at the present
time. * * * We may, however, aproch the desirebel consumasion by a prosrss of
graduel devekipement.
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DICTATION.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 11.15 a.m. to noon.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly.
Value— 50.
QUESTION' OF OWNERSHIP OE THE POLE TO BE DISCUSSED.
London, Sept. 7. — The question of the ownership of the land of the North Pole
is to come up in the House of Commons. Sir Gilbert Parker has given notice of his
intention of asking Promior Asquith whether this territor.v is not considered as be-
longing to Canada, and if Dr. Cook has planted the American flag there, whether or
not this act gives the United States any right of possession over the region.
' The honour of planting the national flag at the North Pole undoubtedly belongs
to America,' said Lieut. E. H. Shaekleton, the English explorer, who recently led an
expedition into the Antarctic regions, to-day. .
' The news within a week,' he continued, ' that two men have reached the pole is
an extraordiiiar.v coincidenco. We all expected to lienr of Onniiuuidcr i'i:.ir.y'!i arrival
some time during the month, and sincerely hoped that the result of his years of effort
and struggle would be crowned with success.' Peary undoubtedly got to the pole;
between him and Dr. Cook the pole certainly has been reached. It is said that Peary
reached the goal April 6, 1909. It will be interesting to know the date he left his base
to go to the polar sea, and his rate of travel northwards.
ARITHMETIC.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Note. — The work of each question must be given.
Values.
10 1. Write in figures: Thirty-four million, eighteen thousand and forty;
Three million, two hundred and fourteen thousand and five.
10 2. Write in words: 163164568 and 593006070502.
10 3. Add 264578, 2601574, 19594643, 567384396, 4725693, 84537295 and
658372469.
10 4. Multiply 78543279 by 709 and divide the product by 376.
20 5. A company charges $20.25 for $2,700 insurance. What is the rate
charged ?
20 6. Bought goods at 50 cents a yard and sold them at 60 cents a yard.
What per cent was gained ?
20 7. When land is selling at an advance of $40 an acre, what is the gain
per cent if it cost $120 an acre?
100
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v.— PAPEKS SET AT COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR CLERKSHIPS IN
THE THIRD DIVISION, NOVEMBER, 1909.
SPELLING.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 4.45 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.
Note. — Copy the following, correcting the errors in spelling; 5 marks will be de-
ducted for every misspelled word in your copy.
The northurn. shoar of hudsin Bay is a land of desolashun. Loftie mouutians of
shatered rok, kovered with ice wich the sou has nevar conkered; vallies whos sloaps
have bin hidden since the flud by deap drifts off snow mete the traveler at eavery
tourn. Inn a few favord spotts, dureing the breef an firey sumer, sura stunted pinz
and course moss show that natur iz knot ded but sleping. Laks, swampz and eternel
sollitudes kover the interriur. On the south-westarn shoar putatos an uther vegitables
hav bin projuiced and korn wood probablie succeed, but has knot yet bin tryed.
Farthur in the interriur the produxions are thos off a milder klimat then that of Kebec.
On the koasts of the bay wintur is awefull inn it's cevarity and fore six munths awl
natur iz imprizoned in ise and sno, roks ar wrent buy the grasp off the froste, and,
withe a krash lik the rore of artilary, hirst innto fragments and are skaterred too
grate distantses rownd. For the thre munths of sumer a mor then tropekal heet opens
this dreerie wildurnes two the fereles salors of Ingland, but sqwalls and curants of
turrible voilence ar too bee braved in reeching it. Bourne by thee tieds and currants
huge iceburgs glid among thes pearlous sees, sometimes crusheing the Iprgest ships
lik knutshels.
DICTATION.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 4.15 p.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed, 30 minutes.
In considering the state of agriculture in Egypt, we do not confine its importance
to the tangible benefits which it annually conferred upon the people, by the improved
condition of the productions of the soil. The influence it had on the manners and the
scientific acquirements of the people is no less obvious and worthy of our contempla-
tion. The early advancement of the Egyptians in geometry and mensuration has been
reasonably attributed to the peculiar nature of the Nile, and the effects of the inunda-
tion. Besides the mere measurement of superficial areas, it was of paramount im-
portance to agriculture, and to the interests of the peasant, to distribute the benefits of
the inundation in due proportion to each individual, that the lands which were low
might not enjoy the exclusive advantages of the fertilizing water by constantly drain-
ing it from those of a higher level. For this purpose, the necessity of ascertaining
the various elevations of the country, and of constructing accurately levelled canals
and dykes obviously occurred to them. These dykes were succeeded or accompanied
by the invention of sluices, and all the mechanism appertaining to them. The regula-
tion of the supply of water admitted, the report of the exact quantity of land irrigated,
the depth of the water and the time it remained upon the land which determined the
proportional payment of taxes, required much scientific skill.
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AEITHMETIC.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — Answer the first question and any 7 others. The details of the work of each
question must be given.
1. Divide the sum of: 469765; 30967; 4097697; 8969708; 376798; 479; 3769608;
879609; 5069071; 88969; 5998999; 8769697; 3456807 and 6699778 by the smallest of
these numbers.
2. If $10.50 be a person's income tax at li cents on the dollar, hove much is it
when his income tax is $12.25?
3. At what price must goods which cost $66.69 be marked so that after giving a
discount of 2i%, they may still be sold at a profit of 12i% ?
4. A man wishes to build a house 40 ft. long and 30 ft. wide. Find the total cost
of:
(a) Excavating the cellar to a depth of 6 ft. at 25 cents a cubic yard; and
(h) Building the foundation wall, if the wall be 9 feet high and 2 ft. thick, at
15 cents per cubic foot.
5. What principal will give $616 simple interest in 5i years at 63%?
6. A bank discounted a $625 note 73 days before it was due at 8%. The proceeds
were invested in a 6% stock at 102}. Find the annual dividend from the investment,
brokerage being i%.
7. $475.»<'. Ottaw.\, Feb. 6th, 1909.
Three months after date I promise to pay John Smith, or order, the sum of
Four Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars, at the Standard Bank here, with in-
terest at the rate of 6% per annum. Value received.
Peter Blank.
Find the total amount that Peter Blank will have to pay when the note becomes
legally due, if there are 365 days in the year.
8. A Niagara fruit-grower sent a quantity of fruit to his agent in Ottawa to be
sold by auction, on a commission of 9%. What must be the value of the fruit sold
in order that the agent may purchase lumber with the net proceeds, to the value of
$3,500, after retaining his purchase commission of 4% ?
9. Find the cost at $24 per thousand feet of the 2-inch lumber required for a
sidewalk f of a mile long and 6 ft. wide.
10. A grocer bought 120 barrels of apples, each containing 2 bush. 1 pk., at $1.50
a bbl. and paid $14.40 to have them brought to his .store. If the loss from decay
amounts to 20%, at what price per peck must he sell them in order to gain 10% on
his outlay?
GEOGEAPHY.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
1. Wliat are the political divisions of North America; how are those divisions
subdivided ?
2. Draw a contour map of tie Dominion of Canada, indicating by single dotted
lines the navigable rivers, and by double dotted lines, the most important railways;
indicate also the chief ports and stations on those routes.
3. Name in order of magnitude the provinces composing the Dominion of Canada ;
give their approximate area and population; what are their forms of industry; what
are their sources of wealth; where is the seat of their respective governments?
4. Name at least five (5) cities or towns in each province of the Dominion ; give
their approximate population.
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5. Wiiat is meant by tlis United Kingdom? Give its political divisions. What
are their forms of industry? What are thoir sources of wealth?
6. Name the four (4) largest cities in the following countries : — England, Ireland,
Scotland, the United States, France, Germany; tell what they are noted for.
7. What is Australia? Wliat are its political divisions? How does it compare
with Canada in industry and wealth?
•S. Describe the great lakes of North America.
9. Describe the great chains of mountains of North America.
10. How many miles (as near as possible) are there between Ottawa and the fol-
lowing points : — Montreal, Toronto, Quebec, Hamilton, Three Rivers, St. John, N.B.,
Halifax, Winnipeg and Vancouve'r?
HISTORY.
Thursday, {November 11th, 1909, from 10.30 a.m. to noon.
Note. — Answer seven questions only.
1. Give the most, important clauses of the Capitulation of Quebec and of Montreal.
2. At what different places did the Canadian Leegislature sit between 1840 and
1S6Y? Tell what you know about the circumstances that led to the successive changes.
3. Give some account of the origin, organization, privileges and obligations of
the Company of One Hundred Associates.
4. When, why and by whom was a fortress first built at Louisburg. Trace as
fully as you can its subsequent history, giving dates.
5. Describe the character and policy of Cromwell.
6. Describe the character and policy of Richelieu,
7. State the results of the Seven Year's War as regards France.
8. Give the causes of Napoleon's fall.
9. Tell briefly how Great Britain acquired New Zealand. Gibraltar, Newfoundland,
Australia and Orange River Colony.
10. Write brief notes on: Reform Bill of 1.'.".2. Irish ITome Rule. Daniel O'Con-
nell, Richard Cobden, the Chartists.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Wednesday. November 10th, 1909, from 9.30 a.m. to noon.
Values.
25 1. A letter is received by the Deputy ^Minister of Agriculture requesting
information on the following points: —
(a) Must the vessel bear the cost of quarantine inspections?
(6) Are the costs incurred in the maintenance of and attendance upon
healthy persons who may have been exposed to infection, and who have been
detained for quarantine, to be at the charge of the vessel?
(c) Where, and at whose expense will sick persons be taken care of?
(d) In the event of a vessel being allowed to proceed, leaving its passen-
gers in quarantine, who shall defray the cost of the subsequent transfer of
such passengers from quarantine to the port of destination?
(e) By whom are the appliances, materials, and labour for disipfection
supplied, and at whose cost?
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Write a reply embodying the following information : —
(a) No, except at an unorganized quarantine station, when the master
of the vessel shall pay a fee of $5.00 for each medical inspection ordered by
the quarantine officer.
(6) Yes.
(c) In the quarantine hospitals, at the charge of the government.
(d) The vessel.
(e) The government, without charge to the vessel.
75 2. Analyze and make a synopsis of the attached letter, which will give
in a clear and concise form the important points in it. This synoijsis should
not exceed two pages of foolscap. Candidates are requested to give attention
to spelling, writing, punctuation, grammar and style.
100
Ottawa, Oct. 21, 1905.
Members of the Canadian Club: —
It was a great satisfaction to me, as I am sure it was to every one present at the
gathering this afternoon, to hear Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr. Geoffrey Drage set
forth their views on a subject of the highest importance — the unification of the
Empire.
When they concluded, I would have wished, had it been in order, to give expres-
sion to my own thoughts and their bearing on the great subject which these distin-
guished gentlemen have been good enough to bring before the Club. As there wag
no opportunity aiforded me of expressing my views, I trust there will be no impro-
priety in submitting a few words in this form.
I think I speak correctly for the Canadian people when I say that they welcome
enlightenment, the more so when it comes from so high authority; b'ut I am not sure
that they are ready, or that the people of all or of any of the other portions of the
Empire are ready, to accept or reject any plan of organization, however excellent it
may appear at sight. It is, I think, regarded of the first im])ortance that they should
act with deliberation, that they should be well informed, that they should be afforded
the fullest opportunity of an interchange of thought, and thus obtain that knowledge
of the wants and wishes of each other so necessary to wise decision and action.
Wlien in England last summer, I was much impressed by reading the discussion
on the paper of Sir Frederick Pollock at the Royal Colonial Institute. Among other
things stated, one of the speakers reminded those present that so sound a statesmen as
the late Lord Salisbury considered it dangerous to attempt to force the various parts
of the Empire into a mutual arrangement for which they are not ready. He said: 'If
we will be patient and careful, there is a tremendous destiny before us ; if we are
hasty, there may be the reverse of such a destiny; there may be the breaking apart of
those forces which are necessary to construct the majestic fabric of a future Empire.'
These and other considerations lead me to think that those associated with Sir
Frederick Pollock have scarcely attached sufficient importance to the sequence of their
proposals. Without going into particulars, the two main proposals made are, first, an
Imperial Council, and, second, an Intelligence Department for the purpose of acquiring
knowledge for the use of the Council, and possibly for other purposes.
The first, as explained by Sir Frederick, is not seemingly too ambitious a proposal,
and, as some better arrangement than now obtains is recognized to be desirable, it may
prove to be the best. I am at present offering not the slightest objection to it. T do
not suggest that it be renounced ; but I am inclined to think that, if it be the best,
there would be the best chance of it receiving general assent eventually if preference
be given to the second proposal in the first instance. Wliat the Empire really requires
without unnecessary delay !■; a properly organized Intelligence Department; that is
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to say, some effective means by -which the British people in all climes would mutually
exchange information on every subject of common interest.
For myself, I am a member of a number of associations, each aiming to promote
the consolidation of the Empire. I have listened to or read everything which has been
said or written thereon which has come to my notice. I have myself given the subject
much thought; and I am satisfied that, to strengthen Imperial cohesion, the course
advocated by the Chambers of Commerce everywhere^and perhaps more especially
by the Ottawa Board of Trade — is well calculated to bring fruitful results with the
least delaj-. These bodies recommend the establishment of an Imperial cable service
uniting the great divisions of the Empire with each other, and with the Mother Coun-
try— a service encircling the Globe, which, while greatly promoting trade would in
the highest degree foster free intercourse between the various groups of British people
in all lands under the sway of King Edward. The President of the Ottawa Board of
Trade reported at the last annual meeting thnt the Council has ' placed itself in com-
munication with commercial associations and individuals in all parts of the Empire.'
The replies received strengthen ' and confirm the view that there shoiild be established
as speedily as practicable, a chain of State-owned Cables and Telegraphs to link
together in the most effective manner the Mother Country, Canada, New Zealand,
Australia, India, South Africa, and the West Indies.'
The President further reports that singularly favourable responses to the com-
munication of the Board have been elicited from well-known sources in every quarter
of the Globe; that not a single adverse reply has been received; and that no argument
has been advanced against the public policy of completing without loss of time the
comprehensive chain of Imperial Cables, of which the Pacific Cable forms the initial
and most important link.
By such means the prohibitive charges heretofore exacted on the intercourse of
the British people around the Globe would be set aside, in some cases the tax would
be entirely removed, and it would become possible to invoke the aid of the press as
one of the most powerful agencies in advancing Imperial organization. I have else-
where given my views in some detail on this point, and I would refer to a pamphlet
issued and circulated by the United Empire Club of London, and likewise an article
in the Empire Review for August last. In those publications it is pointed out that
the State-owned Cable across the Pacific is engaged in transmitting ordinary traffic
only a few hours each day, and lies idle at the bottom of the ocean not less than
twenty hours in every twenty-four. It is shown to a demonstration that a free press
service can be established during a portion of the idle hours of the Cable without
adding in the least to working expenses. It is suggested that this means of instantane-
ous communication between Countries widely separated by the ocean be more fully
utilized than at the present time; it is urged that the chain of Empire Cables be com-
pleted, and when not employed in ordinary paying traffic, that arrangements be made
by which they would be used under the control of an Intelligence Department in the
free transmission of news and general information for daily publication in any news-
paper in all parts of the British world. But I must leave the articles to which I refer
to speak for themselves.
On this date a hundred years ago events were transpiring near the entrance to
the Mediterranean which rendered the British Empire of the Nineteenth Century,
and many succeeding centuries possible. Since then a process of development has been
going on, and it appears desirable to some persons that development should now be
accelerated. We must be careful however that progress may not be arrested by undue
haste. The British pcojdc are grouped in democracies under monarchial forms, and
they are entitled to claim the right to be placed in possession of a general knowledge
of matters which concern their well-being. It is manifestly of the first importance that
they should be well informed, and that they should gain clear ideas; until then it is
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not probable tbat any ' cut and dried ' scheme whi<;-h materially affects them will readily
be assented to.
If my memory does not fail me, it was said in the discussion on the paper of Sir
Frederick Pollock at the Royal Colonial Institute, that the British Constitution ii
regarded as a model of strength for the reason that it was not invented by anybody all
in one piece, but has grown through process of long years. By analogy, if the greater
British Empire is to have a constitution that will stand the stress of time, not a few
think that it had better come by growing. To accelerate the process of evolution, I am
satisfied that the most certain course is to begin by utilizing to the fullest extent that
heaven-sent means of transmitting human words across the ocean, and by cultivating
the freest and most friendly intercourse between all those people who go to make up
the Empire.
In submitting these remarks, I need scarcely state that I do so in no spirit of
fault-finding. If I am correct in the belief that one of the purposes of the gentlemen
who have spoken to us is to ascertain how far we approve of their proposals, it is fitting
that we should speak frankly. For myself, I have done so, and I believe I have spoken
the mind of many others. I am sure we all very fully appreciate the public spirit and
kindness of the distinguished gentlemen from England who have been so good as to
take us into their confidence.
Faithfully yours,
SANl)FORD FLEMING.
TRANSCRIPTION AND WRITING.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Tho candidate is required to make a neat, clean and correct copy of the manu-
script hnnded to him with this slip, writing out all abbrevations at full length, and
correcting any misspellings. The words scored through are to be omitted, and the
interlineations and the marginal and other additions are to be inserted in their proper
places as indicated. All changes or corrections, other than these, will he counted as
errors. This paper will be taken as a test of writing also.
TYPEWRITING.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909. Time allowed: 30 minutes.
THE TELEPHONE IN ENGLAND AND IN CANADA.
The number of telephones in connection with the post ofiice of the London tele-
phone system increased during the year from 24,000 to 32,000.
Is that not a reasonable and substantial increase? Does that look as if the tele-
phone companies were taking away all the business from the telegraph campanies?
The growth of the system is still rapidly proceeding, additional subscribers being
connected at an average of about 160 a week. New exchanges at Epsom and Ealing
were opened early in the year .... It is satisfactory to know that a balance is now
shown after paying all working expenses and after ijroviding for interest and for a
sinking fund for the repayment of capital. It must, however, be remembered that the
revenue in previous years has been insufiicient for these purposes, and that a consider-
able deficiency remains to be met out of the balances in future years.
I merely read these statements to show that in Great Britain they are making
wonderful strides, not only in the telegraph but in the telephone as well. The hon.
gentleman seems to think that the figures given by my hon. friend from South Simcoe
were not of sufficient interest to the people of this Dominion when they were gathered
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some four years ago, and that since that time conditions have changed to such an
extent that a very different state of affairs exists to-day. However, let me give a few
quotations. The charge for a three minutes' conversation over 60 miles is as fol-
lows : —
Cents.
Canada 35
Great Britain 18
New Zealand 12J
Norway 9J
Denmark 9A
Switzerland 10
Bavaria 12
Belgium 194
Russia 26
Australia 24^
NEW WHARFS IX NEW BRUNSWICK.
The places where the new wharfs will be located are as follows : —
The Range, Parish of Waterborough, Queens county, N.B.
Burton, Parish of Burton, Sunbury count.y, N.B.
Newcastle, Parish of Canning, Queens county, iN.B.
Barkers, Parish of Sheffield, Sunbury county, N.B.
McAllisters, Parish of Chipman, Queens county, N.B.
Youngs Cove, Parish of Waterborough, Queens county, N.B.
Ironbound Cove, Parish of Chipman, Queens county, N.B.
Scotchtown, Parish of Canning, Queens county, N.B.
Lower Jemseg, Parish of Cambridge, Queens county, N.B.
Tenders for these wharfs will close on November 18.
MOTIONS AGREED TO WITHOUT DISCUSSION.
For a return showing in respect of the government steamship ' Stanley ' the fol-
lowing information for the years 1894 to 1908, inclusive: — The total yearly wages of
officers, engineers, seamen and other hands aboard; the total wages paid for handling
freight at Pictou and at other ports; the total wages paid for loading coal at Pictou
and at other ports; the total quantity and cost of coal; the total quantity of meats
and poultry used.
SALARIES OF POSTMASTERS.
Post Office Department, Canada,
Ottawa, September 17, 1907.
Postmasters are informed that the Postmaster General, after careful consideration
of representations made by those postmasters whose salaries are based on the revenue
of their offices, has decided on the following scale of remuneration : —
Salary.
Fifty per cent on the first $1,000 of revenue, 30 per cent on all over $1,000 and
up to $10,000, and 20 per cent on all over $10,000, the minimum salary to be $35.
Allowance for Night Duty.
An allowance will be paid for night duty when a postmaster is required io be on
duty after 9 p.m. or liefore 7 a.m. The minimum allowance will be $10, and the maxi-
mum $100, according to the time employed, and the work done.
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Allowance for Forward Duty.
The rate of remuneration will be 12J per cent on the revenue of the offices for
which ilirect or indirect forward duty is performed.
SHORTHA^'D— 80 Words a Minute.
Thursday, Xovember 11th, 1909. Time allowed: -30 minutes.
(To he Dictated in Five Minutes.)
The fact is now leyond controversy that typhoid can be wiped off the face of the
earth.- If we attend ] to the purification of our water and milk supply typhoid fever
will be prevented. It is not only a disgrace ] for a city to have typhoid fever but I
believe it is a crime. If the driver of an engine ] or the conductor of a train is guilty
I'f cidpable negligence through which that train is thrown off the track ] and lives are
sacrificed, there is a legal claim against the railway company for damages and there is
a criminal ] charge of manslaughter against the ofticers nf the train. I would like to ask
what difference there is in ] degree between the carelessness of the trainmen and the
carelessness of a city not one thousand miles from Ottawa which ] to-day has 1,000
rases or more of typhoid? If our people were sufiicientl.v educated do you think they
would] for one instant tolerate the administration of a city council that would allow
the pollution of its water supply to ] continue day after day and year after year? I
am not a lawyer but I maintain that the municipal government ] which allows its people
to drink polluted water is as blamcable for the loss of lives as the train officials ] by
whose negligence a train is run off the track. I find that cases almost parallel with
this have come ] before the courts in England and have been decided there. In the
case of Brown vs. the Three Counties Asylum ] of Bedfordshire, a widow sued for the
loss of her husband who died from typhoid caused by the impure water ] served by the
asylum authorities and she got a verdict of £650. It occurs to me ] that if some
widow in the city I have referred to would bring action against the city council for
the ] loss of her husband by typhoid fever it would be the means, more than anything
else, of educating the people ] on this question. If the city had to pay for the loss of
the breadwinner of a family, the municipal ] authorities would probably begin to think
about the propriety of establishing a filtration plant to supply pure water to the
citizens. ] The supervision of our water supply and proper supervision of our milk
supply woidd banish typhoid fever from the land. ]
SHOKTHAND— 100 Words a Minute.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909. Time allowed: 30 minutes.
(To he Dictated in Three Minutes.)
I deeply regret not to have understood the speeches made by the hon. gentlemen
who preceded me upon the impoitant question of agricultural interests. ] I wish to say
a few words in support of this resolution, because I know that a new country cannot
be successfully settled without the aid of experimental work. ] Experimental work
has contributed greatly towards the successful settlement of northwestern Canada.
The Indian Head farm has been in operation for many years ] and it has been of great
benefit. At one period the territory immediately surrounding Indian Head was not
being settled, ] and I believe that the great change that has taken place in that section _
of the country is largely due to the experimental work conducted ] by the Minister of
Agriculture. I feel that it is impossible to say too much in support of the work being
done by these experimental farms. ] I am sorry we have not an experimental fann in
the northern portion of Quebec, along the line ] of the National Transcontinental Rail-
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way. In a few years our prairie country will be largely settled and we will then have
to locate people in the wooded areas. ] I see no reason why we should not direct at-
tention to the country say 25 or 50 miles north of this city. ] That work, however,
can never be taken up successfully until some experimental work is done farther north
in that province. ] I take pleasure in supporting this resolution and I sincerely trust
that the government will see its way clear to give the province of Quebec ] at least one
experimental farm and possibly two, because I believe we cannot have too many of
them in the various sections of this large country. ]
SHOKTHAND— 120 Words a Minute.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909. Time allowed: 30 minutes.
(To be Dictated in Three Minutes.)
The Indians are our wards and we have to protect them, but I take the position
that if they cannot use the land for the reserve and if the disposal ] of the land would
result in the development of the country, the land should be disposed of. I also realize
that the Indian has to be controlled. I cannot say ] that I endorse the methods which
are employed in the handling of the Indians. I do not know much about the subject,
but I think it is a mistake to ] educate the head and allow the Indian to make a savage
of his stomach. I think that if we worked the other way ^-e would make more of the
head. However, I do not suppose the minister wants to listen to my theories on that
subject. Does the hon. gentleman believe with me that it is in the interest of the
settler ] and that it is in the interest of the Indian as well, that the land should be
sold? I understand the hon. gentleman to say that we cannot sell Indian reserves. "]
That is quite true, but the Indian is an individual that can be controlled. He can be
advised as long as he has confidence in the people that he is dealing with. ] That has
been my experience with the Indian. I do not hold to the opinion that a good Indian
is a dead Indian. I want to ask the minister if ] he has not made efforts to get these
Indians to dispose of some of that land? I understand that he has, but if he would,
when he is in the country, ] endeavour to see the Indians, I believe that could be
accomplished. It is useless to send a boy on a man's errand to the Indian. He likes
to get hold ] of the chief muck-a-muck of the country when he is available.
BOOKKEEPING.
Friday, November 12th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to noon.
(You are engaged in business and are keeping your own books.)
1. Define the following terms: —
Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account, Trading Account, Credit Note, Cash
Discount, Trade Discount, Accommodation Paper.
2. Make the entries necessary to record the following transactions in the proper
books and balance your cash book and journal.
Oct. 4th. Bought of West & Co. 20 cases cheese $235 00
6 chests tea 175 00
2 hhds molasses 40 00
2 bbls. sugar 22 00
4 boxes soap 12 00
Freight and cartage. ... 7 50
491 50
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Oct. 5th. Bought of King Miifg. Co.
2 show cases .$ 47 00
1 office desk and chair. . 17 50
6-1 50
Oct. 5th. Sold Canada Lumber Co.
1 bbl. sugar 10 00
4 cases cheese 100 00
1 chest tea 45 00
1 box soap 5 00
166 00
Oct. 6th. Sold Smart & Co.
100 lbs. tea 35 00
100 " sugar 8 00
43 00
Oct. 7th. Received from Canada Lumber Co. cheque for $157.70 and allowed
them 5% discount on their bill of goods.
Oct. 7th. Made sight draft on Smart & Co. for their account less 5% dis-
count.
Oct. 7th. Deposited Canada Lumber Co.'s cheque in the Bank of Montreal
and received credit also for Smart & Co.'s draft less 15c. col-
lection charges.
Oct. 8th. Invested in the business $5,000.00, which amount you deposited to
your credit in the Bank of Montreal.
Oct. 9th. Accepted West & Co.'s draft at 3 months dated October 4th for
$200.00.
Oct. 9th. Issued cheque to West & Co. for balance of account less 5% on the
portion not settled by draft.
Gave King A[nfg. Co. your note at 3 months in settlement of their
account.
Invested $2,000 in shares of the Canada Cement Co., Ltd., for which
you receive 20 shares of 7% preferred stock and 5 shares of
common stock, par value of each $100.
3. A traveller hands to you the following memo, of collections : —
White, cheque for his account $50 less 15c. e.xehange.
Brown, cash on account $25.00.
Green, cheque in full of account less 2% discount $73.50.
Grey, cash in full of account $47.25.
Black, allowance for goods returned $2.75, cheque in full $15.37 (3% dis-
count allowed and 15c. exchange charged).
The traveller deducts his expenses $22.50 and turns in the balance to you.
You give him a cheque for his month's salary $75.00 and deposit the cash
and cheques in the bank.
Rule books and make these entries, omitting ledger.
4. What percentage will you have to add to the cost of your goods to make a
profit of —
25 per cent on the selling price?
20
33§ "
50
5. You purchase a quantity of goods costing $3,543.00 f.o.b. Liverpool, duty is
$1,181.00, cartage, insurance and freight to destination $52.70. What percentage
would you add to the original cost to cover expenses and give you a profit of $885.75?
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIOy OF CAXADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
From the following Trial Balance make a Balance Sheet: —
Bank of Montreal, balance $ 287 60 $
Cash on hand 176 30
Land and Buildings 3,782 79
General Expense 178 83
Discount earned 139 65
Interest and Discount 180 56
Plant and Machinery 830 30
Insurance isremiums 156 63
Taxes and Water ' 73 00
Advertising 176 20
Office Expense 68 11
Fvirniture and Fixtures 165 65
Stable Expense 241 13
Wages 1,826 77
Eeserve for Bad Debts 320 00
Inventory, Jan. 1/09 6,681 62
Purchases to date 15,811 68
Sales to date 19.351 62
Accounts Payable 1.384 73
Bills Payable, regular 1,532 28
" " accom 2,000 00
Capital a/c 10,000 00
Accounts Receivable 3,451 11
$34,408 28 $34,408 28
Inventory. Oct 31/09 6,768 40
VI.— PAPERS SET AT COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR CLERKSHIPS IN
THE SECOND DIVISION, NOVEMBER, 1909.
SPELLING.
Thursday, ^Tovember 9th, 1909, from 4.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 5 marks will be deducted.
The profeshun of asstronemmie has a tendansy to mak a man naro-niincded. The
seeseless round of komputashun buy day an obsirvashun buy nite dceuinianding evrey
eyeota^of his thyme has a strong tendensy two keap his mined frum expanding allong
enny uther lines. Butt if he has bin threw an ole-fashuned kolege kurikulum the
liberellising effect of studie off vareous branshez of nowledge keps him frum undew
narownes. It is noatwurthie, that men of onlie moderrat nientle kaliber are the most
likly to chrivel up. Thee mentle jiants have a menny-cidednes wich leeds them to
cxploar uther reloms of nowledge to a moderrat extendt. Won of the best tex-buks on
polittikal okonnomie publeeshod inn this kuntrie is the wurko off iind asstroiicmmor,
most of whos thyme is oecupide with derrekting inntrikat callkewlashuns beelonging
to the striktly matthemattikal cide of the sience. The karakterisstiks wich are nessesary
for a man to beecum an accomplished asstronnemer are perseverance and unnering
akurasy. If he is in the midst of the komputashun of a perlimencry orrbit of a
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kommit, a cingle innkorekt finger may visheate awl the sucseding work and render his
finale results valewles. His mentle masheeuery must bee sew well loobrekated that he
kan go threw compleekated callkewlashuns without heekuming konfussed or falling a
pra;- to a hawnting feer that sum e^rce has bin komniitted.
DICTATIOX.
Thursday, Xovember 9th, 1009, from 4 p.iv. to 4.30 p.m.
XoTE. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed, 30 minutes.
It has been noted as a leading characteristic of the constitutional history of Eng-
land that her political institutions have been iueessantlj- in process of development,
a singular continuity marking the whole of the transition from the most ancient to
the present form of government. It is not a history of breaks, or of new establish-
ments, or of successive new creations of instrumentalities of legislation and adminis-
tration : all the way through it is a history of almost insensible change, of slow modi-
fication, and of miforced, almost unconscious development. Very great contrasts
appear between the character of her government in one age and its character in another
age distant one or two centuries from the first; but it is very difficult to perceive any
alteration at all when comparison is made from generation to generation. Almost no
changes can be given exact dates : each took place ' about ' such and such a j'ear, or
in this or that long reign. The whole process, therefore, is one which may be outlined
in brief epitome: its stages arc long, its features large, its details unessential to
clearness.
EXGLISH COMPOSITION.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to noon.
N.B. — This paper will be taken as a test of Writing also.
Values.
50 1. Write to a friend in England a letter of about 400 words, setting
forth the advantages which Canada offers to settlers; or
write an essay of about 400 words on any one of the following topics. — -
(a) Oriental Immigration.
(6) State Management of Eailways.
(c) The Future of Canada.
20 2. Correct, where necessary, the following sentences, giving reasons for
whatever changes you make : —
(a) The English not only respected Wellington's qualities as a
general but also as a statesman.
(b) The city coimcil were considering how to dispose of the
sewage.
(c) On Christmas Eve he sent a ton of coal to a poor widow
woman.
(d) There were less people there yesterday than to-day.
(e) They say they never saw him before, a fact which I can dis-
prove.
30 3. Make a synopsis of the following letter, which will give in a clear and
concise form the essential points in it. This synopsis should not exceed one
page of foolscap. Candidates are requested to give special attention to spell-
ing, punctuation, grammar and style.
122 CITIL SEKVICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Ottawa, June 9, 1902.
To His Excellency
The Governor General in Council.
The undersigned referring to the despatch of the Lieutenant Governor of British
Columbia of 29th ultimo, observes that with regard to chapter 46 of the British
Columbia Acts of 1901, intituled ' An Act to provide for the collection of a tax on
persons,' the provincial government refers to a correspondence with the undersigned.
The Attorney General of British Columbia wrote Mr. Mills on January 31 last, refer-
ring to Mr. Mill's report to Tour Excellency upon this statute of December 27, 1901.
The Attorney General stated as follows : —
' These provisions in almost their present form were first enacted by sections 6, 7
and 8, chapter 24 of 1881, and afterwards re-enacted by sections 8 and 9 of chapter
110 of the Consolidated Statutes of 1888, and by sections 5, 6 and 7 of chapter 167 of
the Eevised Statutes of 1897.
' You will therefore see that this legislation is not new, and that on three occa-
sions the Dominion Executive have allowed it to go into effect.
'I have no doubt that these provisions were first devised to facilitate the collection
of poll tax from the Chinese. As you are no doubt aware, we have in this province
quite a large number of Chinese and Japanese labourers. It is almost impossible to
identify these men, and so they can evade payment of this tax. Very few of them
possess any property that can be reached, so the only way to compel them to contribute
towards 1 he revenue of the province is by a poll tax collectable through their employers.
' I feel confident that you are not inclined to throw any unnecessary obstacles in
the way of our compelling these people to contribute a reasonable amount towards the
maintenance of government in the province in which they make the money which they
forthwith export to China.
' In your report I notice you make this observation : " It is not clear to the under-
signed whether in the case of an employee the statute intends that payment should
be enforced directly against him." I submit it is reasonably clear that a collector may
proceed cither against the employer or the employee for the amount of the tax. Section
3 imposes the tax upon every male person, and subsection (3) of section 5, in my
opinion, recognizes the liability of the employee to pay the tax and provides that in the
event of his doing so any I'ability of the employer shall cease. I would strongly urge
upon you this view of the statute, that it imposes a direct tax upon every male above a
certain age; that his liability to pay does not cease upon being employed by another,
but in that event by a statutory attachment of the "salary or wages due or to become
due to such male person " (sec. 5, subsection 1) the employer becomes liable out of
such salary or wages to pay the debt due to the Crown by the employee and that the
employer's payment of the tax discharges pro ianto his liability to his employee.
' I consider it quite competent for a provincial legislature to enact that all moneys
due or to becorre due from an employer shall be attached until a tax debt, due from the
employee to the Crown, or to a municipality, shall have been discharged, and that out
of such moneys the employer shall pay the tax.
' It may be that all the provisions of the Act are not as well drawn as they might
be, but I submit that the above is a fair interpretation to put upon the statute as a
whole. You lay stress in your report upon the clause in subsection (1") of section 5,
that " Every such merchant, farmer, trader or employer of labour, shall be primarily
liable for the said tax in respect of every male person in his employ at any time during
the year for which said tax is payable, and until the tax is paid in respect of such
person." That clause it seems to me may be fairly interpreted to refer to the em-
ployer's liability as garnishee and to be a direction to the collector to have recourse in
the first instance to the employer instead of wasting time and money collecting from
the employees.
' If you cannot adopt this view T am prepared to submit legislation either repeal-
ing the clause or making it clear that it has the meaning T attribute to it. As the
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disallowance of this Act or the striking out from it of the attachment provisions
would seriously affect our already inadequate revenue, I ask that you reconsider the
Act and that you do not have it disallowed at least until I fail to remove your objec-
tions to it.'
The undersigned having considered these observations of the Attorney General,
thereupon the Deputy Minister of Justice, by direction of the undersigned, wrote to
Mr. Eberts, under date of February 21 last, as follows: —
' Referring to your letter of 31st ultimo, addressed to Mr. Mills, with regard to
the Revenue Tax Act, 1901, of British Columbia, I observe that there has been similar
legislation in force in British Columbia since 18S1, and I am not aware that any
<juestion has come before the courts with respect to it. It would seem, therefore, that
the people of the province must have largely acquiesced in the enforcement of these
provisions. The Minister, however, entertains no doubt that they are ultra vires to
the extent stated in hia predecessor's report, approved on 10th ultimo. Any employer
objecting to the validity of the Act may, of course, conveniently have the question
determined by the courts, and in view of the fact which you state that previous
statutes were not disallowed he is not inclined to recommend extreme measures with
regard to the present Act. He thinks, however, that it would be worth while for you
to consider whether a more constitutional means cannot be devised for ensuring the
collection of the tax, as it is not unlikely, particularly as attention has now been called
to the invalidity of the statute, that litigation may arise which will involve the prov-
ince in costs, and otherwise prove embarrassing.
' Awaiting a reply to the official despatch, the Minister does not propose at present
to make any further recommendation to His Excellency.'
The imdersigned'considering the communication of the Attorney General, and of
the aforesaid reply, and for the reasons therein stated, recommends that the Act in
question be left to such operation as it may have.
C. FITZPATRICK, •
Minister of Justice.
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — Only eight questions to be attempted.
1. Make (1) a list of Shakspere's historical plays, (2) outline the plot of any one,
(3) describe the most important character in the play selected.
2. Contrast any one of Shakspere's comedies with any one of his tragedies, point-
ing out what is comic in the one case (in character and situation) and tragic in the
other.
3. For what is Milton's poetry remarkable? Mention his chief works and describe
each briefly. Give some account of his life and character.
4. Give (1) the names of two poets and two novelists in the eighteenth century,
and (2) the titles of their chief works. Describe any one of the works mentioned
(poem or novel).
5. Tell what you know about the life and poetry of Robert Burns and of the
dialect in which he wrote.
6. Give some account of some author (not referred to in these questions) whose
works you have read and admire. Name his chief works and tell why you like them.
7. Narrate briefly the plot of any one of Scott's novels, and describe three char-
acters in it.
8. Write a brief life of Bymn. name his chief poems aird tell what you know about
each.
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9. Give some account of any one of Macaulay's essays, and write down the titles
of others. What kind of poetry did he write? What kind of history?
10. Name the authors of the following works: — Vanity Fair, Romola, Westward
Ho! David Copperfield, Kidnapped; tell what they are about and make lists of other
works by the same authors.
AEITHMETIC.
Wednesday, Xovember 10th, 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to .3..30 p.m.
Note. — Only si.x questions to be answered. The work of each question must be given.
1. Find correct to three places of decimals, —
(a) 14-793 X 3-14159.
(h) 14-793-4-3-14159.
2. E.xpress 3-2 -h 3-46 - 0-8 as a vulgar fraction in its lowest terms, and also as a
circulating decimal.
3. Find V17 to three places of decimals.
4. A clerk's salary was increased 10% at the end of each year for two years. How
much better is his salary at the end of the time than if he had received a single
increase of 20 per cent?
5. A note is drawn for $525 at 70 days, and is discounted immediately at .i bank
at 5%. How much less than the face value does the bank give for it?
6. A man has an annual income of $1,425 from an investnient in 9i% stock at
140. Wliat sum has he invested ?
7. A bank pays interest at 3% per annum compounded quarterly. What interest
would accumulate in one year on a deposit of $2,500?
8. How much must a Canadian firm pay for a bill of exchange to cancel a debt of
£575 in England, exchange being at 9i% premium?
9. Find the amount of the agent's commission in each of the following cases: —
(a) he receives $2,000 to invest in goods after deducting his commission of 2% ; (6)
he sells goods for $2,000, and after retaining his commission of 2%, he sends the rest
to his employer'.
10. Wliat is the weight of a piece of water-pipe, 20 ft. long, with inside diameter
1 in., and made of material J in. thick, which weighs 500 lbs. per cubic foot.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
Tuesday, November 9th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
Translate into FrencTi.
' Did I suppose that this society would interfere with the prosperity of such local
bodies, I should be slow to favour its establishment. I believe, however,- that the con-
trary effect will be produced. They are sustained by the subscriptions and donations
of local members, and of the provincial legislatures, while this society must depend
on the Dominion Parliament, from which they draw no aid. They will find abundant
scope for their more frequent meetings in the contributions of local labourers, while
this will collect and compare these, and publish such portions as may be of wider
interest. This society will also, it is hoped, furni.sh means of publication for memoirs
too bulky and expensive to appear in local transactions. There should, however, be a
closer association than this. It is probable that nearly all of the local societies are
already represented among our members, by gentlemen who can inform us as to their
work and wishes. We should therefore be prepared at oneo to offer terms of friendly
union, (f^ir J. W. Dawson on the Royal Society of Canada.)
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
Traduire en anglais.
L'esprit classique de la France a fait assurement subir a ses grands hoinmes des
transformations qui les rapprochent des heros convenus de la tragedie cornelienne ou
racinienne; mais c'est toujours par le courage et le mepris de la mort, par I'elan irre-
sistible et I'expansion victorieuse, par la grandeur d'ame et l'esprit clievaleresque, par
le devouement a la patrie ou a I'humanite, par I'amour de la " liberte ", des " lumieres "
et du " progres " que les heros de France ont seduit les imaginations populaires, sim-
ples et spontanees. Ce sont des symboles moins de la realite historique que de I'ideal
present a I'ame de la nation. Or, on ne saurait nier que cet ideal, pour le caracteriser
d'un seul mot, soit un ideal de generosite. Aux yeux de certaines nations, etre gene-
reux, c'est etre " dupe ". Sans doute la generosite doit etre eclairee, et les " idees " ne
sont des forces qu'a condition de ne pas etre en contradiction avec la realite. ^ Mais
ce n'est pas par trop d'amour et de devouement pour les idees que les peuples pechent
aujourd'hui ; tout au contraire. Le scepticisme. le prosaisme utilitairo. la corruption
financiere, I'etroite politique des partis et des interets, la lutte egoiste des classes,
voila les maux qu'il faut partout combattre au nom des idees. (Alfred Fouillee.)
Pour les candidats de langue anglaise.
Ecrire une composition frangaise d'au moins 200 mots sur un des sujets suivants:
La marine britannique, en particulier, ses rapports avec celle que le gouverne-
ment canadien est sur le point de creer.
Les avantages et les desavantages d'un regime democratique.
Un voyage autour du monde.
For candidates who take the general examination in French.
Write an English composition of not less than 200 words on one of the following
subjects : —
IVTonsPieneiir de Laval and his administration of the Canadian Church.
The policy for French-Canadians ordinarily formulated in the words: "Empa-
rons-nous du sol."
Eace suicide: are we threatened in Canada?
ALGEBRA.
Friday, November 12th, 1909, from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
i^OTE. — Only seven questions to be answered.
1. Add together the fractions
x+1 1- x 1
5x-x2-G' 1x-x^-12 ' .r'-i - 6.r + 8 *
2. Express as the difference of two squares
(a) l + x'^ + x*.
(b) x* + Uy\
and hence factorize the expressions.
3. If -/: and /? are the roots of the quadratic equation ax^ + hx + c = 0; prove
b , c
y- + B = - - and -r S = -
^ a '^ a
4. Deduce the condition for equal roots in a quadratic equation.
Find for what value of m the equation
x2 - 2a; (1 + 3m) -I- 7 (3 + 2m) = 0
will have equal roots.
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6. Find the sum of the first n natural numbers and also the sum of the squares of
the first n natural numbers.
6. State your grounds for saying that
P — r 1
x° = 1, .ri = q \/x'\ a' = a'
What is the numerical value of
I
16 ^, flL\ , 8^ ?
(¥)
7. Given, to base 10, lop. 2 = -3010300, Ior. 3 = • 4771213;
find the logarithms of 96 and 36000.
8. Expand to four terms (1 + 2:r) -
and write down and simplify the 8th term of the same expression.
9. Deduce the formula for the number of n dissimilar things taken r at a time.
How many even numbers of four figures each can be formed with the digits
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, no digit being repeated?
10. If A can do a piece of work in 300 days, and B in 7.') days, in how many days
can they, working together, complete the work?
GEOMETRY.
Saturday, November 13th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Note. — Only seven questions to be answered.
1. The three sides of one triangle are respectively equal to the three sides of an-
other. Prove that the two are equal in all respects.
State what the theorem becomes if the word 'proportional' be substituted
for the words ' respecti^iely equal.'
2. Two sides of one triangle are respectively equal to two sides of another. Prove
that the triangle whose sides enclose the greater angle has the greater base.
A, B, C are points on the circumference of a circle. Where m^y B lie, in
order that AB may be greater than CB?
3. In the triangle ABO, C is an acute angle. Prove that AB^ =. BC^ + CA2 - 2B0 .
DC, when DC is the projection of AC on BC.
Explain what the theorem becomes when C becomes right or obtuse.
4. ACB is an arc of a circle. Prove that as C moves in the circumference the
angle ACB remains constant.
What theorem does this give when 0 moves into coincidence with B? Also
when C passes to the other side of B ?
."). Describe a segment of a circle which will contain an angle equal to a given
angle.
ABC is an isoceles triangle, and D a point in the base BC. Show that the
circles ABD and ACD are equal.
6. Show that the bisector of the vertical angle of a triangle divides the base into
parts which are proportional to the sides.
Describe a triangle when given the base, the vertical angle, and the ratio of
the two sides.
7. Divide a line segment in medial section (extreme and mean ratio).
Describe an isoceles triangle in which each base angle is double the vertical
angle.
8. The arcns of similar trinncrlps are proportional to (he squares on the corres-
ponding sides.
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Show ;ilso that this property holds good for simihir polysoiis and for circles.
9. Find the mean proportional to two given line segments.
Find a sqiiare whose area is equal to that of a given triangle.
10. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a
circle is equal to the sum of the rectangles contained by the opposite sides.
By taking the diagonals perpendicular to each other, deduce a theorem re-
garding right-angled triangles.
PHYSICS.
Thursday, November 11th, from 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Note. — Only seven questions to be answered.
1. State Boyle's law. Calculate how much the pressure of a gas must be changed
in order to reduce one litre at a pressure of 76-0 centimeters of mercury to a volume
of 800 cubic centimeters.
2. Forces of 10 and 20 pounds act at right angles. Find the resultant force, and
show by a diagram the direction in which it acts.
3. It is desired to lift a cask weighing 200 pounds into a cart 3 feet high. The
driver can lift 60 pounds. Find the length of plank required to roll the cask up in
order that the man may accomplish the task unaided.
4. Distinguish between a musical note and a noise. How is difference of quality
in musical notes explained?
5. An object one inch high is placed 5 inches in front of a convex lens. The
image is found to be 20 inches from the lens on the other side. Find the focal length
of the lens and the position of the image.
6. Account for the appearance of colour in nature. How would you proceed to
show the composition of sunlight?
7. Describe any form of thermometer for measuring temperature. What scale may
be used in the calibration?
8. What is meant by absolute and relative humidity in determining the amount
of water vapour in the air. Describe an instrument for finding the dew point.
9. What are some of the properties of a magnet? How would you show that the
earth is a magnet?
10. Explain in a few words the principle of each of the following: —
(a) A Leyden jar;
(&( A telegraphic relay;
(c) A Daniell cell.
CHEMISTRY.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Note. — Only seven questions are to be attempted. Definite chemical reactions
described should be expressed by equations.
1. State the law of multiple proportions. Give an example.
2. Describe the preparation, properties and uses of silver nitrate.
3. How is hydrogen sulphide prepared? What happens when it is passed into
aqueous solutions (a) of copper sulphate, (b) of ferric chloride, (c) of caustic soda?
4. Describe the preparation of phosphorous, and give an account of its properties
and uses.
5. Give full directions for preparing barium chloride and barium nitrate from
heavy spar.
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6. You are given a metallic substance which is believed to contain copper, silver
and lead. State accurately your procedure to ascertain whether these are its con-
stituents, writing equations for all reactions involved.
7. What is an oxidizing agent? Name three oxidizing agents, citing a reaction
in illustration of each.
8. What is the difference in composition between cast iron, wrought iron and
steel? Give a brief account of the manufacture of steel from iron ore.
9. An electric current is passed by means of copper electrodes through an aqueous
solution of copper sulphate. State and explain as fully as you can what occurs.
10. Describe the preparation, properties and uses of lime.
LATIN.
Friday, November 12tb, 1909, from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
I. Decline the following nouns in full and state the gender of each: — filia, senex,
bos, tussis, deiis. Decline together: — manus sinistra, lapis niger, ignobile volgus.
11. Write the other degrees of comparison of the following : — novus, magnus,
facilis, pulcher, sapienter, bene, male.
III. (a) By what two cases is price expressed in Latin? (h) Express in two
ways: 'He is wiser than his father.' (c) What is meant by the 'double dative" ?
Illustrate.
IV. Translate six only of the following sentences into Latin —
1. He said he had been fighting for his country.
2. He knew that the wicked were not happy.
3. Do this that you may be free.
4. I am afraid that you do not love me.
5. No one is so wise that he cannot learn.
6. Why should I enumerate the multitude of their ships?
7. O ! that he had been living then.
8. Why do you give nothing to the poor?
9. He said that he did not speak Latin.
10. Ask them whether they have done it or not.
11. Tell me who you are and what you wish.
12. This being the case, take up your arms.
13. I will bear it as I can.
14. The more a man reads, the more he knows.
15. If any one bore the hardships of life bravely, it was he.
(Candidates may omit one of the following questions.)
V. Translate: —
De pietate autem Attici quid plura commemorem? Cum hoc ipsum vera
gloriantem audierim in funere matris suae, quam extulit annorum nonaginta,
cum esset septem et sexaginta, se numquam cum matre in gratiam rediisse,
numquam cum sorore fuisse in simultate, quam propre aequalcm habebat.
Quod est signum, aut nullam umquam inter eos querimoniam intercesaisse,
aut hunc ea fuisse in sues indulgentia, ut, quos amare deberet, irasci eis nefas
duceret. Neque id fecit natura solum, quamquam omnes ei paremus, sed
etiam doctrina. Nam et principium philosophorum ita percepta habuit prae-
cepta, ut eis ad vitam agendam, non ad ostentationem, uteretur.
— Cornelius Nepos, Atii(i,f< .A' 17/.
Account for the mood of: — commemorem, duceret.
Account for the case of: — annorum, indulgentia.
Ad vitam agendam. Could the gerund be substituted for the gerundive?
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VI. Translate : —
Postero die castra ex loco movent, idem faeit Caesar; equitatumque
omnem, ad numeriim quatiior nxilium, quern ex onini Provincia et Aeduis
atque eorum sociis coactum habebat, praemittit, qui videant, quas in partes
hostes iter faciant. Qui, eupidius novissimum agmen insecuti, alieno loco
cum equitatu Helvetiorum proelium comniittunt; et pauci de nostris cadunt.
Quo proelio sublati Ilelvetii quod quingentis equitibus tantam multitudinem
equitum propulerant, audacius subsistere, nonnuniquam ex novissinio agmine
proelio nostros lacessere, coeperunt. Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis
habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus, populationibus prohi-
bere.
— Caesar, Bellum Gallicum I 15.
Aoponnt for the mood and tense of: — videant, faciant.
Give the principal parts of: — cadunt, lacessere.
VII. Neptune Calms the Stokm.
Translate : — ■
Sic ait, dicto eitius tumida aequora placat
cnllcetasque fugat luibes solenuiuc reducit.
Cymothoe simul et Triton adnixus acuto
detrudunt navis scopulo; levat ipse tridenti
et vastas aperit Sytis et temperat aequor,
atque rotis summas lovibus perlabitur undas.
ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est
seditio, saevitque aniniis ignobilc volgus,
iamque faces et saxa volant, furor arma ministrat;
tum pietate gravem ac moritis si forte vir\un quern
cnnsjiexere. silent arrectisque auribus adstant ;
ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet:
sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam
prospiciens genitor caeloque invectus aperto
flectit equos curruque volans dat lora secundo.
—Virgil, Aeneid I 11,Z-156.
Explain the case of: — dicto, pietate, dictis.
Oive the usual prose form of: — conspexere.
GERMAN.
Friday, November 12th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. .
Note. — Only three of the first five questions to be ansvrered.
1. Translate, and explain the place of the words in italics:
(a) Gestern Abend war er nicht zu Haus.
(b) Sagen Sie, bitte, Ihrem Herrn Vater, dasz ich heute nicht kommen
hann.
(c) Jeden Sonnabend A-omm< er uns besuchen.
Translate into German :
(d) At seven o'clock he got up and at eleven he went to bed.
(e) Ask your doctor before it is too late.
If) After he had read your letter, he began to laugh.
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2. Translate the sentence : Her ring has been found already —
(a) by using the passive voice;
(6) by using the indefinite personal pronoun ' man ' ;
(c) by using a reflexive verb.
Translate into German :
{d) He is said to be very clever.
(e) When was he appointed? (To appoint = ernennen.)
if) He has become an oiEcer.
3. (a) Give the rule as to the mood and tense of the verb in indirect state-
ments.
Translate :
(fo) The physician fears that it is too late now.
(c) I thought you were in Toronto !
{d) I should like to see him.
(e) That would be nice!
(/) Try it, whatever it may be !
4. (a) How do the Germans express ' iv, order to ' f
Translate :
(6) He is too young in order to understand that.
(c) He has to write a letter.
(d) Instead of working he talked with her.
(e) I have not money enough to buy it.
(f) Do you want me to read?
6. (a) Explain the use of the Infinitive instead of the Perfect participle in :
leh habe ihn gestern im ' Trovatore ' singen horen.
{h) What other verbs do likewise?
Translate :
(c) Did you not see her dance with her cousin?
(d) 1 have not been able to go.
(e) I could not go.
(f) He did not wish to do it.
(g) He would not do it.
6. Translate into English:
(a) Eines Abends kam ein alter Bauer auf eine Sternwarte und sagte, er
sei gekommen, um den Mond durch das Teleskop zu sehen. ' Kommen Sie
nach fiinf Stunden wieder; der Mond geht erst gegen zwei Uhr morgens auf,
und jetzt ist er erst neun Uhr.' ' Das tveisz ich recht gut,' anhvortete der
Besuch. ' Aber weun er erst aufgegangen ist, Icann ich audi ohne Teleskop
sehen.'
(6) Berlin liegt an der Spree und ist seit 1871 die Haupstadt des Dcut-
schen Eeiches. Jetzt hat es iiber drei Millionen Einwohner. Die Haupt-
strasze B rlins heiszt ' Unter den Linden.' In dieser Strasze slehen vier
lleihen Linden und deshalb heiszt sie so. In der Mitte zwisclicn den Linden
liegt ein breiter Weg fiir Fusgiinger. Unter den Biiumen stchen Biinke, auf
denen man sitzen kann. Am ostlichen Ende der Strasze liegt das kijnigliche
Schlosz. Dahinter ist ein groszer Springbrunnen. Eine schone Briicke fiihrt
vom Schlosse iiber den EIusz.
(c) Give principal parts of the words in italics.
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7. Translate: Wiegenlied.
Es geht durch alle Lande
Ein Engel still umher.
Kein Auge kann ibn sehen,
Doch Alles sieht er;
Der Himmel ist sein Vaterland,
Vom liebeii Gott ist er gesaudt.
Er geht von Haus zu Haiise,
Und wo ein gutes Kind
Bie Vater oder Mutter
Im Kammerlein er find't,
Da woknet er und bleibet da,
Und ist dem Kinde immer nah.
8. Translate into German:
1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your nationality?
4. Where do you live ?
5. Are you married?
6. Has he any children?
7. What is your profession?
S. What can you do?
9. Have you time this afternoon?
10. Can you give him any work?
9. Write a short composition in German on either of the following subjects: —
(a) An appreciation of some German book.
(b) The advantages of a knowledge of German.
MODERN HISTORY.
Wednesday, November 10th, 1909, from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Note. — Candidates are to answer seven questions only.
1. Explain the origin of the Company of Montreal and the founding of Ville-
Marie.
2. Outline the chief events of the administration of Sir James Craig, Governor of
Canada.
3. Show the influence upon Europe of the discovery of America, and of the new
route by sea to India.
4. What caused the war which led to the establishment of the United States of
America? ^^
5. Discuss the statesmanship of Henry Vlll. of England.
(!. Estimate the cfTeets of Richelieu's work in France.
7. What caused and what resulted from the Thirty Years' War?
8. What causes led to the Union of England and Scotland?
9. Explain what the Congress of England achieved.
10. Wliat effect had the Battle of Trafalgar on the power of Napoleon First?
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Note. — Six questions to constitute a full paper.
1 . Discuss briefly the advantages and disadvantages of division of labour.
2. Discuss the origin and basis of private property and the utility of inheritance.
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3. (a) Define ad valorem and specific duties. Which are to be preferred?
(&) Under what circumstances would an export duty fall on the foreign pur-
'chaser ?
4. What are the causes which affect the rate of interest? Is there any general
tendency to a fall in the rate of interest? If the rate falls, does saving necessary
slacken ?
5. (a) Compare proportional and progressive taxation.
(h) Is the increased value which a fall in the interest rate confers on existing
capital less social in its origin than the increased value of land which results from the
growth of population? Unearned increment, indeed, but in modern society it is
found everywhere, for society does not distribute incomes after the fashion of a school-
master rewarding the most laborious or the most meritorious pupil.' Comment.
0. Give an account of the mercantilist sj'stem of the 16th, 17th, and 18tli cen-
turies, and estimate the success achieved.
7. (a) Compare the methods of safeguarding bank-notes in force in the United
States and Canada.
(h) ' Since Jan. 1 the deposits in Canadian banks have increased $50,000,000. It
is evident that the public had plenty of hard cash in pocket which it is now confiding
freely to the banks.' Discuss this statement.
8. Outline the chief methods and policies of trade-unions.
GEOGRAPHY.
Thursday, November 11th, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 11. .30 a.m.
iNoTU. — Only six questions to be answered. Two questions from each group.
GENERAL GEOGRAPHY.
1. (ii) (live in order of importance the different geographical divisions of the
globe, (h) Give the political divisions of Europe and of America, (c) Give the
approximate population of the different parts of the globe, (d) Give the approximate
population of: Canada, United States, Great Britain, France and Germany.
2. Give the names of the dilferent States of the American Republic fronting on
the great lakes.
."j. Trace the course followed by the St. Lawrence river and give the names of the
towns along its shores.
4. Classify the British Possessions according to the following: — (a) Responsible
Governments; (6) Representative Governments only; (c) Crown Colonies; (d) Pro-
tectorates; (e) Military or Naval Stations.
.'). What places have no latitude? What other places have no longitude? What
computations of longitude and time may be made, given the diiference of longitude
and time between places? Explain.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
1. Define physical .geography. Into what classes may the objects of which geo-
graphy treats be divided ?
2. What are volcanoes? Into what two classes may they be divided? Define active
and extinct volcanoes.
.'!. What are earthquakes? What three kinds of earthquake movement have ben
noted? What is the cause of earthquakes?
4. What constitutes the relief of a country? Wliat two forms of relief exist?
What influence has the relief of a country upon its climate, life and productiveness?
5. How are waters dispersed over the earth? What are the sources of rivers?
Where are springs most numerous?
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fOMMKRCIAL GEOGRAPHY.
1. Would the Georgian Bay Canal prove beneficial to Canada? Why?
2. Name tW cities in each of the followinn: countries :-England. United States,
J ranee, and tell what is the cause of their conunereial importance.
3. Name in order of commercial importanoo the provinces of the Dominion and
teil :
(''O What are the emi)loyments of their people?
(b) Wlwt are their chief exports?
(c) What are their principal industries?
(d) What are their sources of wealth ?
4. What are the chief imports of Canada from Eno-land, the Fnite.l States and
r ranee ?
5. Why are following: cities grreat commercial centres :— Montreal, Toronto Win-
nipeg and Vancouver?
CIVIL LAW.
Friday, Xoveinber 12th, 1909. from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Is OTE.— Candidates will answer 8 questions onlv.
1. By whom are the Registers of Civil Status kept in the Province of Quebec?
2. VV hat IS the meaning of Separation from bed and board (Separation de Corps) «
3. Give a definition of Ownership in law.
4. Mention certain methods or titles by which ownership is acquired
5. What is a Contract?
6. What persons are incapable of entering into a contract?
7. What is the distinction between Community of Property and Separation as to
property between Consorts?
8. Give a definition of the Contract of Partnership.
9. Discuss whether Gaming contracts are permitted by law.
10. What is Prescription?
TYPEWRITING.
Same paper a« for Third Division Examination. (See page 115.)
BOOKKEEPING.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 118.)
SHORTHAND— Eighty Words a Minute.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 117.)
SHORTHAND— 100 Words a Minute.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 117.)
SHORTHAND— 120 Words a Minute.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 118.)
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VII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL PROMOTION EXAMINATION, DEPARTMENT
OF TRADE AND COMMERCE, NOVEMBER. 1909.
SPELLING.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 120.)
DICTATION.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 121.)
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 121.)
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 123.)
ARITHMETIC.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 124.)
FRENCH ANB ENGLISH.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 124.)
ALGEBRA.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 125.)
GEOGRAPHY.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 132.)
DUTIES OF OFFICE.
GENERAL PAPER.
Values.
20 1. State in detail the various duties attached to the vacant post for which
this examination is held.
20 2. State in detail the system in force in recording and filing the general
correspondence of the Department.
15 3. When letters received are filed on the respective files, vphat instruc-
tions are to be observed before they are returned to the filing cases?
15 4. Describe the course of an official communication de.spatched from the
Department of Trade and Commerce at Ottawa to H. M. Foreign Office at
London, England.
15 5. State briefly the branches of the Government Service administered by
the Department of Trade and Commerce.
15 6. In what way does the filing of the Trade Inquiries differ from the
general files of the Department?
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DUTIES OF OFFICE.
SUBSIDIES PAPER.
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Values.
15 1. State what delays from the elapsed time of voyages on the Canada-
Great Britain Steamship Service are usually made.
10 2. Wliat delays are always allowed with the present contract for the
Canada-Great Britain Steamship Service in calculating the subsidy payable
for each voyage?
10 3. What delays are always allowed in the discretion of the Minister in
the Canada-Great Britain Steamship Service when calculating- the subsidy
for each voyncp?
15. 4. What time is used in calculating the elapsed time of a voyage for
the purpose of arriving at the subsidy payable in the case of the Allan
Steamships ?
(a) How is the difference in time between Liverpool and Montreal
eliminated from the computation?
(b) Why is it necessary to ascertain the time of each voyage?
(c) From what documents is the elapsed time checked?
10 5. What documents are required to be filled with steamship subsidy
claims by all the more important subsidized steamship lines?
20 6. What subsidy under the present contract would be payable to each of
the undermentioned steamships for one round voyage, say from Liverpool to
Halifax, under the conditions stated below and allowing all detentions: —
Steamship. Elapsed time of Voyape. Distance run.
Corsican 14 days, 11 hrs., 15 min 5,272 knots. •
Empress of Ireland.. .12 days, 1 hr., 15 min 5,125 "
Virginian 13 days, 2 hrs., 36 min 5,358 "
20 7. What steamship companies are at present performing subsidised ser-
vices to the following countries : —
(a) England, (/) Ti-oland,
(b) Mexico, (g) South Africa,
(c) British Guiana. (h) Jamaica,
(d) China, (0 Australia,
(c) France. (,;') Scotland.
DUTIES OF OFFICE.
CHINESE PAPER.
Values.
10
15
10
1. State in detail the system in force in the Department in dealing with
the C. I. 4 Statement and Declaration in connection with Chinese Immigra-
tion.
2. What details are recorded on said Statement and Declaration ?
3. What is the purpose of and what are the details entered on ('. I. 5
Certificates ?
4. In view of the law limiting the number of Chinese Immigrants ac-
cording to the tonnage of the steamship upon which they arrive, what is the
system adopted to observe the requirement of the Act should a person of
Chinese origin desire to pay the tax at an interior point in Canada when ex
Steamship Vancouver?
5. Under the Chinese Immigration Act, how many capitation-paying
Chinese may land in Canada per ton of the steamship on which they arrive?
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15 6. What form is necessary to be filled out by the Chief Controller, of
the Chief Clerk of the Department, acting for him when a Chinese merchant
desires to visit the United States ?
(a) State generally what particulars are entered on the form.
10 Y. After form referred to in Question 6 is completed in behalf of the
Canadian Government, before what official of the United States is it neces-
sary for the bearer of the certificate to appear ? In what way is the document
then completed?
20 8. Under the most recent regulations how are the two chief classes of
students treated in being admitted to Canada ?
VIII.— PAPEKS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR POSI-
TION OF ASSISTANT CEREALIST, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
NOVEMBER, 1909.
SPELLING.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 120.)
DICTATION.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 121.)
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 121.)
ARITHMETIC.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 124.)
GEOGRAPHY.
Same paper as for Second Division Examination. (See page 132.)
CLASSIFICATION AND CULTIVATION OF CEREALS.
Values.
20 1. Mention the principal kinds of cereals under cultivation. Give their
botanical as well as their common names; and mention the wild plants to
which they are most closely related.
10 2. In what group can the various kinds of wheat be placed? Give the
distinguishing characteristics of each group.
12 3. Describe in detail a fully matured, ripe plant of wheat (any variety)
and one of oats (any variety).
8 4. How can one distinguish between wild and cultivated oats?
12 5. Mention the advantages and disadvantages which generally character-
ize early-maturing varieties of grain as compared with later sorts.
12 6. Give the legal weights per bushel in Canada of all the cereals com-
monly grown in this country; and state what quantity of seed per acre you
would usually recommend for sowing.
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8. 7. How would you thoroughly purify a considerable quantity of seed
wheat which contains chaff, wild oats, flax, small weed seeds and an occasion-
al kernel of six-row barley?
18 8. A farmer in the neialibourhooil of Ottawa, having harvested a crop
of barley early in August, wishes to sow oats on the same field the following
season. The land is a rich loam but contains some troublesome weeds, and
the farmer desires to produce oats for sale as seed. Give a full account of
the proper treatment of the field from the time of harvesting the barley to
the time of sowing the oats.
IX.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR POSITION
OF PATENT EXAMINER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, NOVEMBER,
1909.
MECHANICAL EXGINEERING, I.
1. Give a complete explanation of the operation of the invention shown by the
accompanying drawings, giving the proper names for each part.
2. Explain the following terms by description or illustration or both: — (1) Cam,
(2) Pawl, (3) Cotterpin, (4) Setscrew, (5) Capscrew, (6) Ratchet-wheel, (7) Spur
gear, (8) Needle valve, (9) Worm gear, (10) Mitre gear.
3. Name 6 methods of transmitting power from one shaft to another.
Draw in l^-inch squares the conventional cross-sections for: cast-iron, steel,
wrought iron, brass and babbitt.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, II.
Make an assembled pencil drawing of a connecting rod for a side crank steam
engine, complete with straps, brasses, i:c. ; using the following main dimensions and
putting in all other necessary dimensions according to your best judgment: —
Centre of crank pin to centre of crosshead pin, 28".
Diameter of crank pin, 2"; length. 2]"
Diameter of crosshead pin, Ig"; length, 2".
Connecting rod to be rectangnlar in shape; scale, J size.
Make as many views as you deem necessary.
X.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE POSI-
TION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND FISHERIES, NOVEMBER,
1909.
PENMANSHIP.
DEFENCE POLICY OF NEW ZEALAND COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE FOR INTERNAL
DEFENCE.
Value— 100.
Welltnotox. N.Z.. Nov. 10. — The New Zealand budget proposals include the
raising of a loan not exceeding $10,000,000 at 3i x>er cent, for the fulfillment of the
138 CIVIL SERVICE COMMIHSIOtf OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Dreadnought offer. The naval proposals involve a total expenditure of $125,000 an-
nually; $750,000 towards the cost of a Dreadnought and $500,000 as a contribution
to the admiralty to cover the difference between the Imperial and the local rates.
Kegarding internal defence it is proposed to reorganize the present system on the
lines approved by the Imperial defence conference as applied to local conditions. All
boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will undergo an elementary and pro-
gressive training in the cadet division; all young men between eighteen and twenty-
one to two years compulsory training on stated evenings, half days and whole days,
also fourteen days annually in camp. A volunteer force of 20,000 will also be main-
tained and rifle clubs encouraged.
OETHOGEAPIIY.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled, and the duty of the candidate is to
make a clean copy with the necessary corrections. For every word wrongly
spelled 5 marks will be deducted. The improper use of capitals will also reduce
the value of the work.
MISSING GREAT CHANCES.
Itt is quoit kommon to heer people desscribe sum grate chances of geting ritch,
wieh oing too sum blonder they mist. Iff thay had onely dun diferrently, orr iS
things had turned out difl^errentley thay wood have secuered a posichun, but manny
miss grate chances of obtaning swmthing better thann gould — true wissdom.
Yong mann thare waz a peeriod in yoor life wen yoo hadd goodd oporchunities
of obtaning an edueashion and aksess to goode booker for studdy in youre eaveing
ours. Butt yoo luved pleyshure moore than studdy, and wen the tymc cairn for yoo
too engaige inn the wurk of lyfe yoo ware nott quallified for any wurk that rekwired
intoligeance and a culltivaited intellekt. Yoo mist a grate chance ov maiking a mann
ov youreself and soe yoo must taike a loer graid of wurk begaus ov yoore falure. Lett
^itli -rs talk warming.
DICTATION.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed : 30 minutes.
TO OUGANIZE FARMERS GRAIN GROWERS' REPRESENTATIVES IN SASKATCHEWAN.
Value— 50.
Eegina, Saskatchewan, Nov. 11. — President Hopkins, F. W. Green and E. A,
Partridge of the Grain Growers' Association have been touring Saskatchewan by
automobile, and holding daily meetings, for the purpose of inducing the farmers of
the province to organize, and to explain the disadvantages of not doing so. The most
important meeting of the trip was held at this place when it was pointed out that
organization is indispensable if the farmers desire to raise their position to the
dignity it deserves, as well as to take a hand in fixing the price of grain rather than
being left entirely at the mercy of the milling interests and large grain dealers.
Mr. Partridge, generally known as ' the man who fought the Grain exchange,'
explained that the object of the association, among other things, was to handle the
grain consigned to them independently of grain speculators. The first year the as-
sociation handled 2,500,000 bushels, which increased to 8,000,000 last year.
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ARITHMETIC.
Note. — Time allowed : au hour and a half.
Values
20 1. Write in figures : Five million, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand,
nine hundred and forty-nine; also thirty-two billion, sixty-one million, three
hundred and forty-three thousand, four hundred and four.
10 ^. Write in words: 8968648605; also 200798013400019.
20 3. Add the following: 81376039453065; 97653292042758; 69498764278;
8894287567321; 29356125945; 49783657427633.
10 4. Subtract 563476852 from 987654758 and multiply the remainder by 70.
20 5. Divide 64329756125945 by 937.
20 6. A lumber merchant had 2182565 feet of lumber. After selling 20 per
cent of it, he lost 15 per cent of the remainder by fire. How many feet of
lumber were burned?
XI.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE PROMOTION EXAMINATION,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, DECEMBER, 1909.
PENMANSHIP.
Thursday, December 23rd, 1909, from 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
GLIMPSES OP HISTORY — ' DARTMOUTH COMMON AND FRENCH PRISON'.'
His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Third, by indenture bearing date
the 4th day of September, 1788, transferred as a gift to the people of Dartmouth, a
large tract of land in the northern part of the town, the greater portion of which is
now known as the Common or Dartmouth Park. The land transferred at that time
extended from Stairs street north to Lyle and Jamiesou streets, and from
the Harbour east to Wilson street. The part which I propose to deal with at
present, is that running north from Stairs street to Lyle street, and lying be-
tween Windmill Road and the water. This large tract of land was divided into lots
and sold at public auction, under the authority of an Act passed in 1841. This Act,
among other things, provided that three trustees should be appointed, that the grant
to the Roman Catholics for a burying ground be confirmed, that a road sixty feet
wide, now known as Upper Water street, be constructed along the shore, and that the
section of the Common above described, should be divided up in lots and sold as the
trustees thought fit. ' and that all money derived therefrom shall be paid and applied
to the improvement of the remainder of the common and the road leading to the same
hereinbefore mentioned.' Thus it will be seen that all the money and rents received
were to be devoted to the improvement of the Common.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Thursday, December 23rd, 1909, from 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Copy the following extract, correcting the errors in spelling; 5 marks will be
deducted for each misspelled word in your copy.
Such being the reesons which make it imperetive that human beings shuld be free
to form opinions and to express their oppinions without reserve, and sutch the bain-
140 CIVIL SEKTICE COJ/.U/.S'.S'/O.Y OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
ful consequences to the intelectuel natuere and through that to the moral natuere of
man, unles this liberty is either conseded or aserted in spite of prohibision ; let us
next examine whether the same reesons do not require that men shuld be free to act
upon their opinions, to carry thees out in their lives without hinderenee, eether tisioal
or moral, frome there felow-men, so long as it is at there one risk and perral. This
last provisoe is of course indispennsible. No won purtends that actions shuld be as
free as opinnions. On the conterrary, even oppinions loose their imunity when the
circumstannses in which they are expresed are sutch as to constitut there expresion a
positiv instigation to sum mischevus act. Acts, of whatever kind, which without
justeficable caws do harm to others, male be and in the moar importent cases rekwire
to be controled by the unfaverablo sentinionjj, and when neadfull by the activ enter-
fearence of mankine.
DICTATION.
Thursday, December 23rd, 1909, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Old-fashioned people have comforted themselves with the reflection that in spite
of the overwhelming march of modern ideas some few things yet remained fixed and
immovable. One of these they supposed to be the multiplication table. Even this
comforting reliance is now denied them. Everything else having been reformed by
the modern schoolmaster, the multiplication table itself is to be simplified, and thu3
better adapted to the juvenile mind. The one great object nowadays is to make every-
thing easy and pleasant for the children. Whatever is difficult must be cut out. If
they find ' twelve times ' hard to learn, the.y must not be asked to learn it. When they
consider all the stumbling blocks that have been removed from the path of the modern
child, the old-fashioned people must often wonder at the achievements of their own
childhood. But the modern child has so many things to study — or at least to be toid
about — of which his parents never h-ard. that he really has not time to learn all of
anything. Even the multiplication table must be cut down to get it into the
' curriculum.'
COMPOSITION.
Thursday, December 23rd, 1909, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 a.m.
1. Write a letter of about 100 words to any branch of the Department of the
Interior, asking for information relating to matters dealt with b,y that branch.
2. Write a letter of about 150 or 200 words in reply to the above, giving, with
necessary details, the information asked for.
ARITHMETIC.
Thursday, December 23rd. 1909, from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
N.B. — The work of each question must be given in full. No marks will be given for
answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 that are not absolutely correct.
Values.
8 1. Add together 694785, 749776. 98767, 4897646, 879677, 987678. 7789899,
647285, 89967, 4986738, 998767, 7968579
8 2. Multiply 7689548769 by 8709.
8 3. Divide 78908699421 by 879.
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^^ T r Alf ' TV""*^ "'"T, '^^'^ ^'^ '^''^ followinK:-W. J. Thomas bought
T. G. Altou & Co., on 23rd May, 1909, 23| lbs. of sugar at 5c 18+ lbs of
tea at 37ic., 9^ lbs. of coffee at 35c., 263 lbs. of raisins at Ti' m lbs of cur-
rants at SJc. 38J lbs. of sage at 9,^ c, m Ihs. of cheese at "l2ie and 4n lbs
of^^bacon at ISJ. (It will be sufficient to compute each item to the nearesi
^^ fi , !;,^ *'"^'" ^^ yards long crossed a bridge 140 yards long in 22J seconds
find the average speed of the train while crossin"
12 6. A merchant sol.l 19 yards of silk at $1.80^a yard and thus gained the
cost price of 12 yards. Find the cost price per yard.
^^ T, ^' ^ ?" ^° "" ''"*'*'" P'''°'' °^ "^"^^ '» 10 days, working 8 hours per day
B can do the same work in 9 days, working 12 hours per day. They decide to
work together and finish the work in C days. How many hours a day musi
they work?
^* ^^J' '^^\'"*^7^* r ^270.25 for 93 days wns $4.82; to what su,„ would
!t>/25 amount in 125 days at the same rate of interest?
16 9 Find the proceeds of the following note discounted in Ottawa on the
8th May, 1909, at 6 %, exchange A :— ^
^''^^^■^^- TOROXTO, 2nd May. 1900.
Three months after date I promise to pay to the order of John G. Jones
&feons of Toronto, four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-six »9ioo dollars
at the Jiank ot Commerce. Value received.
W. G. H. ANDREWS.
BOOKKEEPING.
Thursday, December 23rd, 1909; from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
i vZlt^i\^A °^f "^ "i' """''"f'' ^^^ <'"'^' '"^ ^^f« ^500, and in bank $3,000.
$350 ^''''^''"^ ^^^^^- ^'"'^ ^'y^^' & Co., as per Inv. No. 1 and settled per ch;que
3. Prepaid rent of store for one month per cheque $50.
4. 1 aid cash for set of books for office $10.
t' A°^i ^A ^^' '^«*s°» on account 50 yards of Tweed at $1 12J
7. A. K. Stewart paid cash for 70 yd. Silk at 87Ac
8. Deposited all but $250.
10. Sold for cash 27 gro. Thread at $5.00.
If' ?°i"/i^ °l "^^r^ ^^*/°" °'' *''°°"''^ ^ "^^""^^ °f Firewood at $4.50.
$85.00 McDonald on an order from J. K. Watson goods to the value of
16. Purchased for cash an office desk $35.
ih.,^^' ^'''? '^: ^^- ^''*'?° "*' ^ '°^° "" °''''^"'' f*"" ^"^SO- He gave me his note for
that amount at one month, bearing interest at 7%.
S' Do!f^t^'''°Pr-t '''"''''.' *° .'*'"■' amounting to $75, for which he is credited.
00 T T w Christmas gift, cheque for $25.00 to General Hospital
in the'"b k ° '^"^^"^ ^'' ^''°'*™* ^^^ ''^^'^"'' ""^'"^ ^^^ immediately deposited
142 CIVIL SERMCE COMMItiSIOX OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Values.
15 1. (a) Make the necessary entries in a Cash Book with special columns
for the bank.
5 (b) Close the Cash Book showing the amount in safe and amount on
deposit in the bank.
10 (c) Open an account with J. K. Watson, make the necessary entries and
close the account.,
5 (d) Write the note of the 18th, giving due date.
5 (e) Find the value of the note at maturity.
5 (f) Write the cheque of the 2nd.
5 (g) Give in order the different events that would likely take place in
connection with the cheque.
5 2. The total cost of goods bought as per purchase book during the first
year of a business is $3,49T.75. The total sales as per sales book amount to
$2,4T0.85. The goods on hand are worth $1,875.
Open a summarized Merchandise account, make the proper entries and
close the account.
15 3. Explain fully the following terms: Net investment, journalizing, net
solvency, bill receivable, interest, inventory, wholesale, liability, joint and
several note, and acceptance.
8 4. What is a cheque? What are the advantages of making payments by
cheques ? What is the significance of the word ' order ' on a cheque ? Why
do banks generally use the word 'bearer' on their cheque forms?
10 5. Tell clearly how you would find: —
(a) The net investment.
(b) The cost of the Merchandise bought.
(c) The cost of the Merchandise unsold.
(d) The cost of the Merchandise sold,
(e) The present worth of a firm.
9 6. Give rules for guidance —
(o) In journalizing.
(b) In the use of red ink.
(c) In debiting and crediting the interest account.
3 7. An error or false entry has been made in your journal. Tell how you
would deal with it.
XII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR TWO LOWER GRADE
POSITIONS, IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF JUSTICE AND THE INTERIOR,
RESPECTIVELY, DECEMBER, 1909.
PENMANSHIP.
Friday, December 31st, 1909; from 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
ki;n/)ali, vi;in is ukii I'nonutEU.
From it Nipissing Company received over $60,000 last month.
For the past two years the Kendall vein of the Nipissing has been the great
reservoir upon which in the main the mine drew for their ore. That it is by no means
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exhausted yet is seen by the returns for November, which are higher than any pre-
vious month, with but one exception. To date the Kendall vein has produced $1,600,-
000, clear of all expenses, since its discovery in May, 1907. It shows a great exposure
of silver plate on the surface and immediately began to yield great values from the
grass roots down. This will be understood when it is pointed out that the month in
which the ore from the famous vein brought to the Nipissing $95,000 was August,
1907, or only three months after discovery. Since then it has been a steady producer,
yielding between $50,000 and $60,000 each month. Last month it came within a
thousand dollars of the record mark, the output reaching $94,000. — Cohalt Daily
Nugget.
SPELLING.
Friday, December Slst, 1909, from 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Note. — Copy the following extract, correcting the errors in spelling; for every word
wrongly spelled, 3 marks will be deducted. The improper use of capitals will also
reduce the value of the work.
In viewe of there grate importence and valu to a nashun, as an articel of food
and traid, the grate decrese in the numbers of fish in many parts of the wurld has, as
is well knowen, invocked the atention of goverments, as well as of private associations,
towerd restoreing the suply, this being capebel of acomplisment in too ways ; first, by
proteksion of the fish durring the spawneng or migrashion, and by removeing the
obstruktions to their pasage up the rivers, or elsewhare, to their spawning groundes ;
and, sekondly, by their artificial propegasion, secureing the aggs and baching these
out. and then rering the young fish to a ecrtano condicion of maturety. or else turning
them at oncee into the water. The utility of the seconde methode depends upon the
fact when fish spawn naturaly, the eggs in large part are impropperley fertelized, and
conseqiientley, do not come to maturety.
DICTATION.
Friday, December 31st, 1909, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. For every misspelled word, 3 marks
will be deducted. The impropier use of capitals will also reduce the value of the
work.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
Loudon, Dec. 25. — Although the holiday feeling was apparent on the stock
exchange the prevailing tone kept remarkably firm, on the prospects of cheaper money
in the new year. This induced the marking up of investments in gilt-edged stock,
while the dealers marked up quotations in other directions in anticipation of a broad-
ening demand with the distribution of dividends. Some option buying in anticipation
of a Unionist victory has also aided in the improvement. Fears of labour troubles and
dearer money have offset in a measure the spurts occasioned by increased dividend
announcements. Rock Island stock has been the feature on rumors of a coming deal
while Wabash issues made a sharp advance at the end of the week. Movements
generally, however, have been quiet and final quotations were two dollars higher and
two dollars lower than last Saturday. The money market has shown much irregularity.
The Bmk of England loaned a large amount early in the week, but released funds
latov, and indications point tn easier conditions with the turn of the year.
144 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
ARITHMETIC.
Fridty, December 31st, 1909, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
Values.
5 1. Write in figures fifty-seven million, three hundred thousand and forty-
six.
5 2. Write in words, 7465885306.
20 3. Add 587346321; 385869788; 643076434; 539655; 293745; 6949876427;
9356375946; 76543288; 595678; 46537.
20 4. Find the difference between 58329478121984 and 39050887355782 and
multiply the remainder by 709.
14 5. A man can buy 45 sheep for $112.50. How much will 18 sheep cost
at the same rate ?
20 6. The American Civil War began April 11th, 1861. and ended April 9th,
1865. How long did it continue? (Answer in days.)
16 7. A man bought a horse for $115, and after keeping him for 3 months,
sold him for $155. If he paid $30 for his keep and received $50 for the use
of him during that tune, how much did he gain?
XIII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR POSITION OF TRANS-
LATOR ON THE STAFF OF THE SENATE. FEBRUARY, 1910.
COMPOSITION.
Mardi, le 8 fevrier 1910.
1. Faire une composition frangaise de 300 mots environ sur le sujet suivant:
Quelles sont les qualites d'une honne traduction?
2. Write a short composition in English (about 150 words) on the subject: The
Employment of Leisure.
TRADUCTION DU FRANCAIS A L'ANGLAIS.
Mardi, le 8. fevrier.
Tradiiire en anglais:
LES ARCHIVES.
M. F. D. Monk (Jacques-Cartier) : (Te.xte.) M. le President, je ticns a dire que
nous sommes fort satisfaits des declarations que nous venons d'entendre de la part do
rhonorable ministre a la suite des observations faites par le depute de ITslct (M.
Paquet). Mon honorable ami de I'Islet a expose un point auquel nous, de la province
de Quebec, attachons une tres grande importance, et je crois qu'aucune province n'est
aussi anxieuse que la notre de veiller a la conservation et a I'installation convenablo
de nos archives nationales. Tons, I'honorable depute de I'Islet ainsi que I'honorable
ministre qui vient de parler et moi-meme tenons a ces archives.
CIVIL SERVICE COJIMISSIOX OF CANADA 145
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Je suis heureux de constater que rhonorable ministre a bien voulu rendre justice a
I'opposition en reconnaissaut qu'elle n'avait jamais repousse les demandes des sommes
necessaires a Tinstallation convenable de uos archives. Ceci a I'air de surprendre un
peu rhonorable ministre, mais Fexperience a du lui demoutrer depuis longtemps que.
lorsqu'on demande d'autoriser des depenses qui sont raisonnables, et pour le bien du
pays, le Gouvernement ne rencontre jamais I'opposition du cote gauche de la Chambre.
Nous avons dans la personne de M. Doughty un homme d'une si complete compe-
tence qu'on n'en pourrait desirer un meilleur, et je crois que nous devrions preter
I'oreille la plus favorable a toutes lei suggestions qui peuvent nous venir do lui.
Je serais reconnaissant au ministre s'il voulait nous dire de quelle facon il entend
proceder pendant I'anneo prochaine, a la collection des copies de ces immenses volumes
d'archives qui S3 trouvent actuellement en France? Quelle est la somme q^i va etre
affectee a cette partie du travail que nous faisons tous les ans? II est evident que nous
pouvons obtenir beaucoup en n'employant pour cette tache que des personnes absolu-
ment competentes. II en est un peu de cela conime de I'immigration ; mais plus encore
des archives. Pour I'immigration nous pouvons employer une quantite de monde,
comme nous I'avons fait depuis quelques annees, pour recruter des immigrants et
depenser des fortes sommes parfaitement inutiles.
Je crois qu'il serait bon que I'honorable ministre nous dise cc qu'il entend faire
avec cette somme de $28,000 ct en France et en Angleterre, pendant I'annec a venir.
TEANSLATION FROM ENGLISH INTO FRENCH.
Tuesday, 8th February, 1910.
Translate into French:
RAILW.W ACT AMENDMENT — POWERS OF RAILWAY COMMISSION.
Mr. W. B. NoRTHRUP (E. Hastings) moved for leave to introduce Bill (No. 39)
to amend the Railway Act. He said : Last session the government introduced a Bill
to amend the Railway Act so as to confer certain additional powers on the Board of
Railway Commissioners, giving the Board jurisdiction in complaints made by the
Crown or by a corporation with regard to certain specified matters. The list included
a number of matters on the face of it, but mainly matters with regard to which
negotiations are not usually conducted as contracts made between a corporation or
the Crown and the railways. I propose to add, along the same line, that the commis-
sioners should hav^e power in contracts made with regard to the operation of the road.
It is well known that contracts are made between municipalities and the government
or a railway company, and that in the overwhelming majority of cases, they refer to
the operation of the road. In consideration of the operation of the road, a bonus is
given by the municipality or a subsidy granted by parliament. Exactly in the line
with the government measure of last year, I propose to give the commissioners
authority with regard to such contracts.
In one other respect this Bill goes further than the amendment of last session.
Under that law, appeals of the kind to which I have referred can only be made in
cases between the Crown or corporation and the railway with which the contract was
made. It is well known that, in this country, there ar^' practically only two or three
railways. In the great majority of cases contracts are made between the Crown or a
corporation and some minor railway which has been subsidized for a part of the coun-
try through which it runs ; and, usually after the contract is made and the railway
constructed, this minor railway is absorbed by one of the larger railway corporations.
The result is that the larger railway has the benefit of the money which the munici-
pality or Crown has expended, while the municipality or the Crown loses the benefit
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
of the contract on account of which alone the money was advanced. The Bill which
I have now the honour to propose would allow the Board to act in such a ease, and
would provide that the railway which has possession of the property in consideration
of which the bonus is given should be held responsible for carrying out the contract
made bv the road which has been absorbed and which, having gone out of operation,
cannot be held to its contract. This, it wiU be seen, is on the same line as the govern-
ment Bill of last session, but it extends the principle a little further in the two direc-
tions I have indicated.
Motion agreed to and Bill read the first time.
THE PATRONAGE SYSTEM.
Mr. Poster. I think this is an opportune moment for finding out, if we possibly
can, what the government means and whether it is playing to the gallery and conceal-
ing what it is actually doing. In the last two or three weeks an impression has gone
broadcast, through the publication of Mr. Justice Cassels' report, that the Minister of
Marine and Fisheries had done away with the patronage system. I am not sure that
the Minister of Marine and Fisheries anywhere said that he did away with the patron-
age system. The communication, as I find it, is that he had instructed that the
present patronage lists be done away with. That has gone broadcast through the
country and the press supporting the hon. gentlemen opposite are heralding it as a
great and important reform, and now the government, seeing the error of its ways,
has determined to do the square thing and have no more of this system of patronage.
I looked at the communication which was sent by the Minister of Marine and Fisher-
ies to Judge Cassels, through Mr. Watson, and it was accorded a very prominent place
in the report, for what reason I do not know, and the essence of it, boiled down, is
simply that the Minister had instructed that the present patronage lists should be dis-
pensed with. Now, we ought to have the same method of dealing by the government
through all its departments. I think my right hon. friend the Prime Minister will
bear me out in that statement. On the question of public policy what one department
does the other department ought to do. If the patronage system is wrong and" some-
thing else should be substituted in the Department of Marine and Fisheries, the same
method of dealing should hold in the other departments. I do not think the right hon.
gentleman will controvert that statement. The Solicitor General has, by a concrete
instance, shown that the patronage list is not abolished in reference to this department.
He has not even gone as far as the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.
XIV.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR POSITION OF TRANS-
LATOR ON THE DEBATES STAFF OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
FEBRUARY, 1910.
COMPOSITION.
Mardi, le 8 fevrier 1910.
1. Fairc line eoniijosltiiju franeaisc de :!()0 mots enviniii sur le siijet auivant:
Quellcs sont les qualites d'une bonne traduction? .
2. Write a short composition in English (about 150 words) on the subject: The
Advantages of a Good Education.
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TRADUCTION DU FRANC'AIS A L' ANGLAIS.
Mardi, le 8 fevrier 1910.
Same paper as in No. XIII. above.
TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH INTO FRENCH.
Tuesday, 8th February, 1910.
Translate into French:
2. The Minister shall publish a notice in The Canada Gazette declar- ^°o°po°ation.
ing that the society has been incorporated and is authorized to commence
business, and such notice, so published, shall be evidence that the society
is regularly organized.
7. The capital stock of the society shall be formed by shares, the Capital stock.
par value of which shall be determined by the rules and regulations of the
society.
8. The capital stock of the society may be increased by the subscrip- increase and
tion of new shares or the admission of new members, or it may be dimin- capital,
ished by the total or partial withdrawal of shares paid in.
9. The responsibility of members of the society shall be limited to the J^^^y
value of the shares subscribed by them.
10. A member shall have only one vote. Proxies shall be prohibited prides'"'
for individuals, but corporations that have become members of the society
may vote by duly constituted attorney.
11. The society shall transact its business of credit, loan and savings ^^"^5^3 only
with its members only.
12. The society shall create a guarantee fund by means of an annual Guarantee
assessment amounting to twenty per cent of the net profits of the year and
levied on such profits.
2. This assessment shall continue to be levied annually as long as the Assessment
suiivantee fund has not attained an amount equal to the maximum capital amount of
paid in at any time in shares to the society. In any event, the total guar- ^^J*"*®*^
antee fund shall equal one-half of the society's assets represented by its
paid up capital and deposits. Such guarantee fund assessment shall con-
tinue in case the fund has attained the required amount, but becomes
impaired bv losses or in anv other way. The said guarantee fund shall be
■ ,. .I'll 1 r increase and
increased whenever the maximum capital paid up, or the total amount ot decrease of
paid-up capital and deposits, has increased, and it cannot be diminished fun5^°
when the said capital is reduced by withdrawals.
13. The society may invest its available funds or its guarantee fund investment
in securities of the Government of Canada, or of any province of Canada, Rules of
or of municiiialities of cities, towns or villages, or in loans made to the society,
said municipalities.
14. The rules and regulations of a society shall make provisions
respecting the subjects mentioned in Schedule B to this Act. . j . . ^ ^.
^ 6 _.,, . 1,, 1 1 • ■ ^ jL .\dmmistration
15. The affairs of the society shall be administered by — of society by —
(a) a board of administration, composed of at least five members; ^"^t^itfon";
(h) a credit commission; and commission;
(c") an advisory council. advisory
council.
31— lOi
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Number of 9. Eacli of such bodies shall be composed of at least three members.
members. ^
Members on 3. No member may be elected to more than one of the bodies men-
one only. j.Qjjg^i -jj subsection 1 hereof.
approved by 16. All loans, giving of credit, or investment of funds, shall be
commission. approved by the credit commission.
Borrowing or 17. N o member of the credit commission or of the advisory council
offiCTrs'"^ ^ may borrow, directly or indirectly, from the society, nor become an endor-
prohibited. g^^j, ^j. guavantor of any loan or advance made by the society.
Changes in ig. Every change in a rule or regulations of the society shall, in order
rules to be tit !■ i^iti.-. ti
approved. to be valid, nave the written approval of the Minister ; and the production
of such written approval shall be evidence of the validity of such change.
Copies of 2. A copy of the rules and regulations in force shall be given to every
person demanding it, on payment of the fee determined by such rules.
THE PATRONAGE SYSTEM.
Mr. Foster. I think this is an opportune moment for iinding out, if we possibly
can, what the government means and whether it is playing to the gallery and conceal-
ing what it is actually doing. In the last two or three weeks an impression has gone
broadcast, through the publication of Mr. Justice Cassels' report, that the Minister of
Marine and Fisheries had done away with the patronage system. I am not sure that
the Minister of Marine and Fisheries anywhere said that he did away with the pat-
ronage system. The communication, as I find it, is that he had instructed that the
present patronage lists be done away with. That has gone broadcast through the coun-
try and the press supporting the hon. gentlemen opposite are heralding it as a great
and important reform, and now the government, seeing the error of its ways, has deter-
mined to do the square thing and have no more of this system of patronage. I looked
at the communication which was sent by the Minister of Mariae and Fisheries to
Judge Cassels, through Mr. Watson, and it was accorded a very prominent place in
the report, for what reason I do not know, and the essence of it, boiled down, is simply
that the Minister had instructed that the present patronage lists should be dispensed
with. Now, we ought to have the same method of dealing by the government through
all its departments. I thinlc my right hon. friend the Prime Minister will bear me
out in that statement. On the question of public policy what one department does the
other department ought to do. If the patronage system is wrong and something else
should be substituted in the Department of Marine and Fisheries, the same method
of dealing should hold in the other departments. I do not thinli: the right hon. gen-
tleman will controvert that statement. The Solicitor General has, by a concrete
instance, shown that the patronage list is not abolished in reference to this depart-
ment. He has not even gone as far as the Minister of Marino and Fisheries.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF CANADA 149
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
XV.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE
POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, MARCH, 1910.
WKITINQ.
Thursday, March 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
Copy the following: —
In the year 1812 Canada was called upon to undergo a severe ordeal through th©
United States declaring war against Great Britain, partly because of sympathy with
France and partly through misunderstandings between the two governments. The
United States naturally selected Canada as the first object of their attack. The posi-
tion of the two countries was very unequal. Canada was totally unprepared for the
conflict. She had less than 6,000 troops to defend a frontier of 1,500 miles. Her
entire population was under 300,000 while that of the United States was eight mil-
lions. Despite this startling disparity, the Canadians, rallying as one man to th*»
loyal support of their government, bore themselves so nobly throughout the two years'
struggle which ensued, and when it ended the advantage lay clearly upon their side,
and the victories of Queenston Heights and Chafeauguay are to-day pointed to with
the same patriotic pride as the Englishman takes in Waterloo or the Frenchman in
Austerlitz. — ' Canada' London Exhibition, 1886.
SPELLING.
Monday, March 14th, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. Candidates are required to correct the
errors. For every mistake in spelling, three marks will be deducted.
Value— 50.
It is refresinge to find that, aniedst the cares and vexashons that atendid a gov-
erment withoute citisens or subjecks to whum it culd look for suport, a fortres whos
ramperts and lodgins were tumblin downe, or washd away by the reins of autum, — a
provence without any revinu and but littel comerce, and a garison whose suplies of
cloathing, hay or provishion were scantey and precarius, — a smal millitery comunety
pertched upon a strip of land, environed by races hostil in manny respeks, and them-
selvese not tu frindley or confidin in each other, their shuld yet exsist a spark of
helthy, cheirful ftling, and a luve of inocent recreashion. The dekay of baracks and
storhouses, the embezelment of regemental funds, the recked condision of the provin-
shal vesel ' William Augustus ' becom tedius to him who investegaits the manuscripe
records of those days.
150 CIVIL SERVIGE COMMIfiSION OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 19)1
DICTATION.
Thursday, March 3rd. from 10.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly.
Value— 50.
C.-iNADIAN FEDERATION.
The general object of the federation i^; stated to be co-operation in matters af-
fecting the interests of trade and coimiu-icc iliicivighout Canada. It is understood that
the organization looks more especially to the furtherance of measures for the ad-
vancement of the Ottawa Valley, including under that name the territory between
Montreal and Fort William. Naturally the chief practical aim so far has been to do
everything possible to hasten the construction of the Georgian Bay canal.
A permanent office has been located in the Central Chambers, where during the
past year large quantities of canal literature have been prepared and sent out all over
Canada. Among many other publications, the most notable has been a concise and
handy summary of the report of the government surveys, carefully compiled, neatly
gotten up, and illustrated, which is a mine of information on the engineering features
of the canal, and for which there has been a large demand.
AEITHMETIC.
Thursday, March 3rd, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
Note. — The work of each question must be fully given.
10 1. Write in figures : seventy-three million, two hundred and fourteen
thousand and seventy.
10 2. Write in figures : thirty-six billion, five million, four hundred and
twelve thousand and eighty-eight.
10 3. Write in words: 212375647 and 3050050183.
20 4. Add 8137603945, 9765732854, 4327568769354, 78894275386, 04278576-
543288, 876752876565, 4939849874 and 5956848759.
20 5. Find the difference between 975684532 and 563420785, and multiply
the remainder by 79.
20 6. Divide 67832075327 by 679.
10 7. A tailor having $585 wished to purchase with this an equal number
of yards of two kinds of broadcloth. One kind was worth $6 per yard ; the
other $7 per yard. How many yards of each kind could he buy?
CIVIL SERTICE COMMTSfilON OF CANADA 151
SESSIONAL PAPER No, 31
XVI.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE
POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, MARCH, 1910.
WRITING.
Monday, March 14th, from 9.00 a.m. to 0.30 a.m.
SEALERS START FOR SEALING GROUND.
St. John's, Nfld., March 11. — With 3,500 men on board, the sealing fleet of
eighteen steamers will start to-morrow on its annual cruise to the sealing grounds.
The date is two days later than last year and was fixed by an agreement entered into
by all the ship-owners involved. Because of the unusual number of immature seals
killed last year, it was deemed inadvisable to set back the date for sailing. Of the 18
ships, 14 will operate off the Labrador coast and four in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The sealing season is always awaited with great expectations by both sailors and em-
ployers, and both are determined to make this cruise the most profitable on record.
SPELLING.
Monday, March 14th, from 9.30 a.m. to 10.00 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling, 3 marks wiU be deducted.
DEATH OF henry THE 2ND OF ENGLAND.
When the French Embasaders were ushircd into his precence, sic and bed-riden
as he was, and he enquired the name of Richard's suporters, the first name on the liste
was that of his beluved John. On heerinir his name, he was seized with a sorte of
convulcive rauvement; he sat up in bed, and gasing arounde with serching and hagard
look, he exclamed, ' Can it be tru that John, my hart, the son of my choise, he whom
I have doated on more than all the rest, and my luve for whom has brought on me all
my wose, has falen away from me?' They replide that it was even so, that nothinge
coulde be more tru. ' Well, then,' he saide, faling back on his bed, ' heneforeward let
all go on as it may, I no longar care for myselfe or for the worlde.'
DICTATION.
Monday, March 14th, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly.
FINE SITE FOR GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
Pretoru, Transvaal, March 9th. — ^From the beginning of last year, when Pretoria
was selected as the administrative capital of the Union, much consideration has been
given by the Transvaal (lovernment to the selection of a suitable site for the neces-
sary public buildings.
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The site lately chosen is on a broad natural ledge midway between the edge of the
town and the summit of the highest peak of the ridge of hills encircling the city. The
position is an ideal one, overlooking the town and yet conveniently situated to the
oiRcial residences of ministers and judges, and the Government House on the plateau
above. In front and facing the town there will, in ijrocess of time, be gardens and
terraces and public statutes; and on the slopes below is ample room for additional
blocks of buildings.
The new buildings will be visible from almost every part of the town, and when
the hill is cleared of scrub and boulders, the stately buildings united by a chain of
white pillars will challenge comparison with any to be seen from any capital in tb^
world.
AEITIIMETIC.
Monday, March 14th, from ]().30 a.m. to 12 noon.
iNoTE. — The work of each question must be given in full.
Values.
10 1. Write in figures : Three million, twenty-eight thousand and twenty-
two ; Forty-seven million and sixty-seven.
10 2. Write in words: 681753027 and 500730059.
20 3. Add 67345645, 2954375, 68753254 4s,5965327S, 657592743 and 483G97854.
20 4. Multiply 482078543 by 674 and divide the product by 985.
12 5. The earth is 91,500,000 miles from the sun. How many seconds does
it take light to come from the sun to the earth, if it travels 185,000 miles per
second ?
14 6. A speculator purchased a certain number of bushels of wheat for
$8,735. He sold it for $9,215 and in so doing gained 25 cents per bushel.
How many bushels did he buy?
14 7. If 20 men can do a piece of work in 31 days, how many days will be
required to do an equal amount of work if 11 additional men are employed?
XVII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE
POSITION IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, MARCH, 1910.
WRITING.
Tuesday, March 22nd, from. 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
CANADIAN AGRICULTURE.
The Canadian agricultural belt extends across the continent. It forms a tract
about 2,500 miles long and several hundred miles wide. The area now under cultiva-
tion amounts to more than thirty million acres. There remains a larger area un-
marked by the plough. Virgin land is to be had in all the provinces, but especially
in the West.
Altitude has an important bearing on agriculture. The nearer to the sea level the
better for farming. Europe has a mean elevation of 671 feet above sea level and
North America 748 feet, while that part of North America occupied by Canada is 300
feet.
CITIL SERVICE C0J1MI8SI0X OF CANADA 153
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It is estimated that the annual vaUie of all farm crops and products in Canada is
upwards of $363,000,000. The total value of farm property, lands, buildings, and farm
implements is $1,500,000,000.
SPELLING.
Tuesday, March 22nd, from 9.30 a.m. to 10.00 a.m.
Note. — Copy the following, correcting the misspelled words. For every mistake in
spelling, 3 marks will be deducted.
Value— 50.
M.\TERIAL PROGRESS.
In erlier pereods of the historic of mankinde, when the strongir rases dommin-
ated the earth, the uper clases were stronger than those at the botome of the sosial
scale. Amung the aristokratic sexions the burth rate was probebly higher, but in
moderne sosiety the case is quite utherwise. The clas in which phisieal strenth and
a culltivated intcligence are heredetary incrcses more sloly and it is fortunat that the
lines of distinxion betwcn the uper and lower clases are comeing to be much les sharp-
ly drawne than they were a fu senteries ago. Stil we have a new cans which may tend
to depres the avarage level of humane capasity. There has been an extrordinary im-
provmcnt in the matter of food, cloathing and houzing. These are the things most
comand of natur ashur us that their will be an incres in inteligence, in vertu and
comand of natur ashur us that their will be an incres in inteligence, in vertu and
ill all that is coverd by the word Happincs.
DICTATION.
Tuesday, March 22nd, from 10.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly.
Value— 50.
SIR ERNEST SH.^CKLETON OPENS NEW SCIENCE LABORATORIES AT ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND.
An important chapter in the history of that well-known school for girls, St.
Leonards, was marked yesterday by the opening of new science laboratories by Sir
Ernest Shackleton. A large and distinguished company assembled to do honour to
the famous explorer and to show their interest in the work and progress of the school.
The pupils, teachers and a large number of friends gathered round the platform
erected outside of the laboratories to witness the opening ceremony.
Miss Smith, headmistress of the school, warmly thanked Sir Ernest Shackleton
for the honour he had done them by giving up some of his very valuable time to per-
form a ceremony which marked a new era in their school life. She then presented
him with a silver key with which to carry out the duty imposed upon him.
Addressing the gathering, the explorer said that this was a new thing for him to
receive, — referring to the key, — but that he would do his best in the duty that fell to
him. He spoke of the value of being trained in the study of seieiicp, which helped
human knowledge of the conditions in which they lived.
154 CIVIL SERTWE COMIf r.s'.S/O.V OF C iXAD.i
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
AEITHMETIC.
Tuesday, Marcli 22nd, 1910. from 4.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Note. — The word of each question must be given.
Values.
10 1. Eead the following : MDCCCLXXX ; and write the following :
Twenty-six billion, eighty-five million, one hundred and sixteen thousand and
twenty-two.
10 2. IIow many days from January 13th, 1848. to Septenibor 17th of the
same year?
15 3. Add the following: 58329478121984, 69257884535872, 763574,
58334968765932, 654257862, 739453635763, 897198966599.
15 4. Subtract 81376039453963 from 97650092742356 and multiply the re-
mainder by 764.
15 5. Divide 1234567895437 by 6357.
18 6. A starts on a journey at the rate of 3 miles an hour; 6 hours after-
wards, B starts after him at the rate of 4 miles an hour. How far will B
travel before he overtakes A?
IT 7. If a man takes two steps of 30 inches each in three seconds, how long
will it take him to walk a mile?
XVIII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF
ACCOUNTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR, MARCH, 1910.
BOOKKEEPING, THEORETICAL.
Thursday, March 29th, 1910, from 9.30 a.m. to noon.
1. Define: — Double entry bookkeeping, Accounts receivable, Accounts payable,
Fixed assets. Mortgage, Bill of sale. Bond, Debenture, Coupon, Cheque, Draft, Note,
Trade discount. Cash discount. Bill of Exchange.
2. Write a cheque complete, also a draft and a note and state various forms in
which a cheque may be made payable.
What eii'ect has the endorsation of a note by a third party?
3. (a) For what purpose is a bill protested?
(b) When is it not necessary to protest a bill?
(c) What parties to a bill are liable for the protest fees?
(d) Wliat is a holder in due course?
(e) What is the effect if a party becomes the holder of a bill after maturity?
4. A block of debentures for $10,000.00 paying interest at 4% semi-annually for 20
vears is bought by an investment company at $96.65 and accrued interest, thus yield-
ing the purchasers 4J% on their investment. Interest accrued at time of purchase is
$100.00. Show by Journal entries the necessary record of this purchase, as well as
entries when first interest payment is received by the company.
If same debentures had been bought at $103.50, yielding 3S per cent, with $100.00
accrued interest, show corresponding entries.
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5. (a) In the case of a loss by fire iu a business owning its buildings, plant, furni-
ture and stock, what disposition would you make, upon the books, of the insurance
money received, and why ?
(6) By what method would you arrive at the approximate value of stock on hand,
for the purpose of assisting in the adjustment of a loss by fire in the middle of a
financial year?
6. (a) What are estimates of revenue and expenditure, and how are they prepared?
(')) What are parliamentary appropriation and departmental appropriations?
7. If yi)\i had npjiropiiatioiis inider ton headings say. Salaries of deputy head,
chief clerks, three classes of clerks, travelling expenses, contingencies, agents, &c.,
how would you keep ledger accounts showing the monthly expenditure and unexpended
balances in each account? What books of original entry would be required, and how
would they be used? Draw plans of the ruling of each book and illustrate the opera-
tion of the system by entries of your own, using one item under each heading to repre-
sent a number of items.
8. Wiiat i-i the nature of a vouchor you would require to satisfy yourself and the
auditor that the payments you have made are properly authorized and legally re-
ceipted ?
Draw up a sample of such a voucher.
0. After what time is an ordinary debt unsecured non-collectable under the
Statute of Limitations, also a promissory note and a mortgage?
What circumstance can renew a debt?
10. Make a statement of unearned fire insurance premiums as on December 31,
1909, on the following policies: —
Atlas, dated May 15. 1909. one year premium $ 72 50
^<^tna, " June 1. " " " 86 45
Manchestei-, " July 20, " " " 138 60
L. L. & G., " Aug. 4, " « " ! 75 00
Phdiiix. " Sept. 18. " " " 125 00
Hartford. " Oct. 17, " " " 67 50
Royal, " Nov. 3, " " " 87 00
BOOKKEEPING, PRACTICAL.
Tuesday, May 29th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
1. A partnership printing business shows the following Statement of Assets and
Liabilities on December 31st, 1908: —
ASSETS.
Plant $14,600 00 $
Land and Buildings 19,700 00
Ofiice Furniture 500 00
Mdse. per inventory 12,900 00
Accounts Receivable 10,000 00
Bills Receivable 2,000 00
Bank of Montreal, bal 600 00
Cash on hand 100 00
60,400 00
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
LIABILITIES.
Bills Payable $ 2,000 00
Accounts Payable 6,980 00
Bank of Montreal loan 5,600 00
Plant, reserve for depreciation 3,000 00
Bad debts reserve 1,000 00
Eobertson, capital a/e 20,000 00
Thompson, " 20,000 00
58,580 00
Surplus 1,820 00
$60,400 00
Make entries in Journal and Cash-book to cover the following changes in the ac
counts between the beginning and the end of the year: —
Purchased Plant from Accounts Payable $ 139 19
" Office Furniture from Accounts Payable. . . 59 69
Eeceived Cash from Bank of Montreal on loan 868 43
Deposited Cash in Bank of Montreal 200 00
Received note (Bills Rec.) from Aects. Eec 281 51
Accepted draft on Accts. Payable for 500 00
Purchased from Accounts Payable goods valued at. . . . 11,67Y 85
Sold to Accts. Rec. goods valued at 42,108 92
Received from Accounts Receivable, cash 41,778 09
Paid Accounts Payable for goods, cash 10,841 35
Paid in Cash accounts chargeable under the following
headings : — ■
Plant repairs $ 129 64
Light, Heat and Power 702 08
Cartage 22 10
Insurance 546 30
Advertising 283 09
Office salaries 933 00
Interest and exchange 1,300 96
General expense 570 50
Office " 604 97
Travellers' expense 1,223 77
" salaries 1,683 30
" commission 2,339 25
Rent and taxes 1.301 07
Factory expense 814 64
« wages 16,114 30
Partners' salaries 3,006 02
31,574 99
Allowed discounts to customers (Accounts Receivable). 66 79
Earned discounts from creditors (Accounts Payable) . . 66 79
Draft a Cash-book providing columns for Bank and Cash accounts, Discounts
allowed, Discounts earned, Merchandise, Expense, Bills Receivable, Bills Payable and
Sundries. Arrange for posting totals of columns and for balancing the cash by the
addition of one column on each side of the book, and balance the Cash-book.
Inventory of Mdse. on hand Dec. 31, 1909, is valued at .$17,910.41, and Insurance
unearned premium, $235.00.
Open Reserve account for depreciation of Plant and Machinery, and allow 5 per
cent.
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Open Reserve account for loss on Accounts Receivable, allowing 5 per cent.
Write off 10 per cent for depreciation in value of OiSce Furniture.
Close the accounts and prepare a balance sheet, including a trading and profit
and loss account, distributing the net profit equally between the partners.
2. How would you make an entry for three days' wages accrued at the end of the
year but not due, so that Factory Wages would be charged with the amount, and it
would also appear as unpaid?
What entry would be made for the full week's wages when due?
3. What is the cost laid down of the following invoices of goods: —
4 doz. pans @ $4.80; 5 doz. pails @ $21.50; 7 doz. pans @ $9.75; dis-
count, 75%, 12^%, 10% and 5%; duty, 30% of invoice price; add
freight, $1.78. To the cost add 33i% to find selling price.
Also: 3 doz. Jap. pans @ $1.30; 2J doz. Jap. pans @ $1.65; 7A doz. Jap.
pans @ $2.40; discount, 50%, 12J% and 5%; duty, 30% of invoice
price; add freight, $1.06. To the cost add 50% to find selling price.
4. Give a sample of a ledger account in which you would keep a record of a loan
secured by a mortgage, showing all information necessary as to amount, time, rate of
interest, due dates, having principal and interest separated.
5. Draft a form of pay-roll which will provide columns for name, amount earned,
net amount due, amount paid, deductions for goods and Accident Insurance, rate per
day or week and time, arranged in their proper order. Fill in six names and amounts
in their proper columns, and prove the correctness by vertical and cross additions.
COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC.
Wednesday, March 30th, 1910, from 9.30 a.m. to noon.
Note. — The work of each question must be given.
1. R. D. Stewart, Ottawa, bought of Heintzman & Co., of Toronto, March 1st,
1910, on account 60 days, 5 per cent 10 days: 5 pianos at $450, 6 pianos at $575, 4
pianos at $250, less 40 per cent from each list price; 10 organs at $125. less 25 per
cent and 10 per cent.
Prepare in good form an invoice for the above, and properly receipt it in full on
March 7th, 1910.
2. A\liut is the face of a seventy-day note bearing interest at 6 per cent which,
when discounted on the day it is made, at 8 per cent, yields $622.38?
3. An agent sold a consignment of 200 barrels of apples at $3:50 a barrel on a
commission of 3 per cent. He paid freight at 20 cents a barrel out of the proceeds.
After deducting his commissions and reserving a sufficient sum to prepay freight at
12i cents per cwt., he buys sugar at 6^ cents a pound on a commission of 2 per cent.
Find the number of pounds of sugar bought.
4. On a bill of $380, a buyer is offered (1) four successive discounts of 10 per
cent each, or (2) 35 per cent discount. How much does he gain by accepting the
better offer?
5. A Montreal merchant orders from Liverpool sufficient Axminster carpet to cover
a floor 27 feet long and 20 feet wide. The carpet is laid in the most economical
direction ; it is 27 inches wide, and it has a complete pattern every 7 feet. The price
of the carpet is 6s. lOd. a yard. Find the cost of the draft mailed to Liverpool to pay
for the carpet, sterling exchange being at 9^ per cent.
6. Given (1-07)9 equals 1-83846, find what $500 will amount to in 18 years at 7
per cent, compound interest.
7. Find the date when the balance of this account should be paid :
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Macdonald & Co.
1910. 1910.
Jan. 3. Mdse. 10 days 450 Jan. 13. Note 1 lucmth. .300
Jan. 29. Mdse. 1 month. ..220 Feb. 20. Cash 200
Feb. 17. Mdse. 45 days. . . .475 Mar. 3. Cash 250
8. A man has $25,000 stock which pays a dividend of 8 per cent. When money is
worth 7 per cent, he sells out and buys 12 per cent stock at 205. Find the change in
his income, after allowing i per cent brokerage for each transaction.
9. A man lends $4,800, part of it at 7 per cent and the remainder at 8 per cent.
His annual receipts from both investments are $359. Find the sum lent at each rate.
10. Three merchants enter into partnership. The first. A, puts in $960 for 6
months; the second, B, a certain sum for 12 months; and the third, C, $640 for a
certain time. When the accounts were settled, A received $1,200 for his stock and
profit, B $2,400 for his, and C $1,040 for his. What was B's stock and C's time?
EXGLISII COMPOSITIOX.
Wednesday, March 30th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Values.
30 1. Write an essay of about 400 words on one of the foll(Jwiiig snUjocts: —
(a) The Canadian Navy.
(b) The Rivalry between Britain aud (ierinany.
(c) United South Africa.
(d) Aerial Navigation.
(e) The Reformed British House of Lords.
(f) The American Invasion of the Canadian West.
25 2. Fifty English teachers are soon to visit Canada, and they purpose
spending two or three days in your city. The head of the party has written
to you, the secretary of the local board of education, requesting information
on the following: — the names and rates of a few local hotels; the places in
and about the city of interest to tourists; the names of the chief educational
institutions and of the leading educationists of the city.
Write the letter and give the required information. Promise that the
visiting teachers will be taken charge of by a committee of local educationists.
25 3. Write a dignified reprimand to one of your subordinates who has for
some time shown gross carelessness in his work, a lack of punctuality in his
attendance, and a general indifference or negligence in the observance of his
duties. Tell him that, unless a marked improvement takes place, he will be
dismissed from the service.
10 4. Show by examples of their use or by precise definition that you are
able to use the following pairs of words with discrimination : —
anticipation and expectation;
precedence and precedents;
federation and confederation;
attorney and barrister;
pronunciation and articulation.
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10 5. Criticise the form of the following: —
(a) I like Canada as well if not better than England.
(h) He don't care for those sort of apples.
(c) Neither the first nor the second series are required.
(d) Whom do men say that I am?
(e) The equanimity of mind of that young widow woman was most
admirable.
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FRANQAIS.
Mercredi, le 30 mars, de 4.30 p.m. a 0 p.m.
1. Traduisez en FriUKjais la lettre siiivante: —
Audit Office^ Otiawa, September 11, 1909.
Sir, — At the time the account for 1907-8 was closed, there was an amount out-
standing of $2.34.98 for fees for inspection of staples at Toronto.
During the year 1908-9, $93.62 came to account for these arrears, leaving a bal-
ance yet outstanding of $141.36. This calls for explanation.
In my letter of August 28, 1908, I called attention to the small amount accounted
for samples sold at Montreal ($13.40) compared with the amount from same source at
Toronto ($192.72.)
During the year 1908-9, the receipts from this source were $47.72 from Montreal
and $408.59 from Toronto, still a large disproportion.
The receipts from all sources in 1908-9 were $1,961.92 from Montreal, compared
with $2,743.30 in previous year, while the receipts from Toronto increased from
$1,633.22 in 1907-8, to $3,898.91 in 1908-9.
The returns furnished to this office do not furnish any means of determining that
all the fees collected are accounted for. Wiat means has your department of doing so ?
Have you considered the advantages, if it is practicable, of using stamps for the
collection of revenue? If the inspectors were required to aflSx stamps covering the
fees, on the certificates or receipts they issue, it would insure complete supervision of
the revenue.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. FRASER, A.G.
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce.
2. Ecrivez une lettre de reproches pleine de dignite a I'un de vos subordonnes qui
depuis quelque temps a fait preuve d'une negligence grossiere dans son travail, a man-
que de ponctualite et montre une indifference generale dans I'accomplissement de ses
devoirs. Dites-lui que si sa conduite ne s'ameliore pas, il sera renvoye.
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XIX.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE
POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, APRIL, 1910.
WKITINCl.
Tuesday, April 5th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 9..30 a.m.
MANUFACTURES IN CANADA.
The manufactories are increasing in Canada in a surprising manner. The rapid
growth and the prosperity of the agricultural population, particularly in the west, has
made an extensive market for factory products. The capital and the energy of Eastern
Canada are now largely devoted to meeting the demand for manufactured goods.
Wlien Canada made the first display of products before the world at the Paris
Exposition of 1855 she could only tell of 28 or 30 different manufactures established
in the country. There were saw-mills, grist-mills, carding-mills, woollen mills, distil-
leries, tanneries, breweries and foundries of small size and number.
The whole industrial class numbered a little over 71,000.
By the year 1891 the 30 manufactures of 1851 had expanded to 300, and the num-
ber of the industrial class to 370,000.
SPELLING.
Tuesday, April 5th, 1910, from 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Note. — Rewrite the following, correcting the mistakes in spelling. For every mis-
spelled word, three marks will be deducted.
Value^50.
THE CANADIAN WEST.
In the yere after Ruepart's Land and the Indianne terettores were transfered to
Canada it was the fortun of the riter to tak up his aboad in Winipeg, as the vilage in
the neghborhood of Fort Garry was then cald. The ralwa.v was in that yere stil four
hundred miles from Winipeg. From the termenus in Minesota the stage coch drawn
by four horsis, with relais evry twenty miles, sped rapedly over praries smuth as a Ion
to the cite of the f utur city of the planes. The fort was in its glorie ; it was stil the
seen of gaety, as the better class of the old setlers united with the leders of the new
Canadien sosiety in soshial joys under the hospetabel roof of the guverner.
DICTATION.
Tuesday, April 5th, 1910, from 10.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge
will read over each section slowly and distinctly.
NEW SETTLERS WELL SUPPLIED.
Montreal^ April 1st. — Seventeen special trains from Halifax and St. John are
due at Montreal this week with over six thousand emigrants, this big rush ending the
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biggest week in the immigration line tliat Canada has had for a good many years.
Over twelve thousand settlers have reached this country during the week. In this
party there are six special trains from the Empress of Britain and several from other
boats, while six specials laden with immigrants are coming in over the Intercolonial
and Grand Trunk.
Most of the settlers are bound for the far west. That they are well laden with
supplies is shown by the fact that the C.P.R. had to send fifteen baggage cars to tst.
John to bring forward the effects of the people coming over that line. Included in
the party are thirty families comprising about one hundred and fifty people who are
going to Calgary to take up farms for the settlers in the irrigation districts.
ARITHMETIC.
Tuesday, April 5th, 1910, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
Note. — The work of each question must be given in full.
N'alues.
5 1. Write in figures: Twenty-six million, twenty-six thousand and
twenty-six.
5 2. Write in words: 59075364S5, 270547896, 12345678975.
10 3. Add 5926431643, 14293624675, 56243121685, 92348726897, 786935846-
378, 9681395784.
10 4. Subtract 7401517938694 from S113C48539687 and multiply the re-
mainder by 97.
10 5. Divide 6654664123612 by 708.
20 6. A man being asked how many sheep he had, replied, 'If I had 3 times
as many as I have and 5 sheep more, I would have 185.' How many sheep
had he?
20 7. Mr. A. sold a farm of 325 acres at $65.50 per acre, and received in
payment 345 sheep at $3.25 per head, a note for $2,684.95, and the remainder
in cash. How much cash did he receive?
20 8. If 20 men can do a piece of work in 31 days, how many days will be
required to do an equal amount of work if 11 additional men are employed?
31—11
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XX.— PAPERS SET AT GENERAL EXAMINATIONS FOR LOWER GRADE
OFFICES, MAY, 1910.
WRITING.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Value— 100.
DOCTORS DIFFER.
The charge which has become crystallised into the saying ' doctors differ,' cannot
be denied even by the most ardent champion of the medical profession. And as there
is no doubt that on all these questions regarding which differences are exhibited there
must be one right opinion, as distinguished from the others which are wrong, it only
the first place humaniim est errare, and among creatures so prone to error as men it
remains to explain how it is that these unfortunate differences of opinion emerge. In
would be wonderful indeed if unanimity could be always or even as a rule attained;
and in the second place, although doctors may expound divergent and contradictory
views on a given subject, this is possibly due simply to the fact of the particular sub-
ject being viewed from different stand-points, appearing thus in entirely different
aspects. The disputants are talking of the same thing while really thinking of quite
different things, and may really be perfectly in accord were the different points of
view discounted. Thus, misunderstanding may explain much of the difference of
opinion.
SPELLING.
Tuesday, iMay 10th, 1910, from 10.30 a.m. to 11.15 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 3 marks will be deducted.
Value— 50.
BATTLE OF HASTINGS.
Perceving that oppen atacks were of no avale, the Duk of Normandy, after having
restorred order, had recorse to one of his fa\'oryto strattegems. He ordered a genarl
atack on the positions of the English, by his whol line, but aded secrete instruekshons
that, in the heate of the strugle, his soldyers shuld again retreet; arid on this last
ocashion Harold could no longer restrane the impetuossity of his troups. Of a franc
and nobel spirite, their adrant hop of victorry caried them awa. They fel into the
snair. The Normans, in compakt order, turned upon their purshuers, who had broken
rank, and seezing the advantagge, perccd their squarres on all sides and made a cruell
butshery.
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DICTATIOX.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 11.15 a.m. to 11.45 a.m.
XoTE. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The Examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed, 30 minutes.
Valu(^-50.
AGRICULTURE IN CANAD.'i.
The chief industry of the country is farming. It engages the efforts of more peo-
ple than all other industries combined, and the value of its products is greater than
the annual aggregate of the other industries. Mature has arranged that Canada shall
be one of the greatest agricultural countries. The vast territory, the fertility of the
soil, the rainfall of summer, snow and frost of winter and all elimatic conditions tend
towards the production of grains, roots and fruits. As land can be obtained for prac-
tically nothing, and as possession of a farm protects a man against poverty, it is not
6urprising that Canada is attracting thousands of settlers from Europe. The settle-
ment of the vacant land is heartily encouraged by the government, because a fertile
soil and great natural resources are of no benefit unless people are there to cultivate
and develop them.
ARITHMETIC.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 1..30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Note. — The work of each question must be given.
Values.
10 1. Write in figures: Seventy-three million, forty-five thousand and
twenty-seven.
10 2. Write in words: 865479365 and 20756530064.
10 3. Add 8756326, 987654321, 583758647, 684735279 and 87657943275.
10 4. Multiply 97546587 by 807, and divide the product by 947.
20 5. If a man takes 2 steps of 30 inches each in 3 seconds, how long will it
take him to walk 10 miles ?
20 6. A starts on a journey at the rate of 3 miles an hour; 6 hours after-
wards B starts after him at the rate of 4 miles an hour. How far will B
travel before he overtakes A?
20 7. How many days will it take 30 men to do a piece ot work which 20
men can do in 45 days?
100
31— lU
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XXI.— PAPERS SET AT COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR CLERKSHIPS IN
THE THIRD DIVISION. MAY. 1910.
SPELLING.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 4 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Note. — Tliis exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 5 marks will he deducted.
The deth of Nelson was phelt in Ingland as sumtliing moare then a publique
kalamaty; men started at the intellegence an turnd pail as if they had herd of the
loss of a neer frend. An ohjeckt of our admirashun, of our pried and of our hoppes
was sudenly takin from us and it seamed as if we had never untill then reelizid howe
deaply we loved and reverrensed him. What the cuntry had lost in it's grate navel
heraw was skarsely taken intwo the ackowart of greef. So perfeckly iudede had he per-
formed his parte that the maretyme war after the battl of Trafalgar was koncidered
at an ende. The fleats of the eneme ware not mearley deefeated, they ware distroyd,
new navees muste be bilt and a new rac of seemen rered for them befoar the posibillity
of theie invadeing our shoars cood agen be contemptlated. It was knot theirfore from
anny sellfish reflexun upon the magnetud of our loss that we moarned for him : the
jenerel soro was of a hier karackter. The peopel of Ingland greeved that tlie funerel
seremones and publique monuments and posthumous rewards ware awl that they cood
now beestow upon him horn the kyng, the legislatur and the nashun wood have alike
deeliteJ to honor, horn everi tung wood have blesed. The vi'3ture of Trafalgar was
sellebrated indede with the usule forms of rayjoysing but they ware without joy, for
such all redy was the glorie of the British navey, threw Nelson's sirprsing geneus,
that it skarsely seamed to receive enny adishun from the most signel victure that ever
was acheeved upon the sees.
DICTATION.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 4.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
XoTE. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed, 30 minutes.
The beginnings of commerce and intercourse among people of diilerent nation-
I'lities were undertaken originally by land. Merchants assembled to consider the most
I'xpeditious ways of conveying bulky commodities. Finally a temporary association,
known afterwards as a caravan, was formed, subject to regulations which experience
had taught them as being essential to safety and utility. But notwithstanding every
improvement that could be made in the manner of conveying the productions of one
country to another by land, the inconveniences which attended it were obvious and
iiiiavoidable. It wa? often dangerous, always expensive and both tedious and fatiguing.
A method of communication more satisfactory was sought, and the ingenuity of man
yr adually discovered that the various bodies of water were destined to open and facili-
i:itn communication with various regions between which these waters appeared as in-
Minountable barriers. Navigation and ship-building are such complicated sciences
iliat they require the talents as well as the experience of many successive generations
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to bring them to nny degree of perfection. Prom the raft or canoe which first served
? TlZsllTaZri' ''' " •" ''''' °'^*"'°^"' ^^" ■'^ '""^ ''^-^- ^° ^^- construe ton
ot a vessel capabe ot conveying a numerous crew and a considerable cargo of goods
to a distant coast, the progress of improvement is imm.ense. Many efforts had to be
made, many experiments tried and much labour and ingenuity employed before the
arduous and important undertaking could be accomplished. The Egyptians were
ITZ lf%™r* '""'"* T'f^'>'' mentioned in history, and their voyages were made
on the Mediterranean. By degrees they extended the sphere of their commerce and
maritime operations, initil they actually opened up trade with the countries of South-
ern Asia. . ui _ uiii
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Thursday, May litli, 19I0, from 0 a.m. to 11.30 a.r
Values.
50 1.
50
Write to a friend a letter of about 400 words describing a journev
which you have taken, by rail or water. The following plan is suggested as
tlie basis of such a description : —
1. Circumstances leading up to the journey.
2. Scene at the point of departure.
3. Nature of the landscape en route.
4. Impressions produced upon you by fellow-travellers.
5. Noteworthy incidents on the way.
fi. Scene at the terminus of the journey.
7. General conclusion.
2. Make a synopsis of the following correspondence which will give in a
clear and concise form the important points in it. This synopsis should not
exceed two pages of foolscap. Candidates are requested to give attention to
spelling, writing, punctuation, grammar and style.
100
Letter from Sir John Pender to Mr. SanJford Fleming.
'The Eastern E.xtension Australia and Ciuva
' Telegraph Company, LiMrrEn.
' Winchester House, 50, Old Bro.\d Street,
London, E.G., 22nd July, 1890.
'Dear Mr. Sandtord Fleming,— I have read your circular letter of the IStli
instant, together with the annexed correspondence with the Colonial Office on the suL-
.lect of the recent unfortunate interruption of telegraphic communication with the
Australian Colonies, and the establishment of an alternative route via the Pacific,
andif the various Governments interested are determined to have a line across the
Padfic, and are prepared to incur the requisite expenditure for the purpose, I am
quite ready as I have always told you, to co-operate in carrying out the work on fair
and reasonable terms, and in this way the object might be attained more easily and
economically than if third parties were employed. But if it should be decided to
establish a Pacific communication as a separate and distinct undertaking, from the
existing lines, it must not be forgotten that two cables across the Pacific will be re-
quired, which, according to your own figures would cost £3,600,000, or £108,000 iier
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annum, as one line could no more be relied upon in the Pacific than in the Java seiis,
where all our three cables between Java and Australia were suddenly and simultan-
eously interrupted by earthquake a few days ago.
' Fortunately, however, this is a very rare occurrence, only one previous inter-
ruption of the kind having occurred on our system during a period of over twenty
years. Moreover, the Java seas are mostly shallow, so that repairs can be easily and
l>romptly made, as in the present instance, while the Pacific Ocean is not only subject,
perhaps in a greater regree than the Java waters, to volcanic disturbances, but the
depths are so great that repairs would be most difficult and costly when an interrup-
tion occurred.
' The cost of maintaining the present system amounts to over £100,000 per annum.
' I am looking forward, if spared, to visiting Hong Kong next year, travelling
through Canada by the Canadian Pacific line, when I hope to inspect that wonderful
undertaking in which you have played such a prominent part, and at the same time
discuss with you the best means of establishing closer telegraphic communication be-
tween Canada and the Australian Colonies when the time is ripe for carrying out the
work.
' Faithfully yours,
' JOHN PENDER.
' P.S. — ^Tour letter to Lord Knutsford ignores the fact that there is at present an
alternative line to India via the West and East Coasts of Africa quite independent of
the Red Sea route.'
Letter from Mr. Sandford Fleming to Sir John Pender.
' 17, VicTORU St., London, S.W., July 24th, 1890.
' Sir John Pender,
'50, Old Broad St., London.
' Dear Sir John, — I received late last evening your favour of the 22nd, and desire
to thank you for it. I am very glad to find you are coming to realize that it is abso-
lutely necessary to have an alternative cable to Australia by way of Canada and the
Pacific. I have always held and I now hold that the means taken to establish the new
telegraph connection is entirely secondary provided tliat the new line be sfH^ured. Its
establishment by whatever means is the primary consideration, and it is for the Gov-
ernments concerned to decide how it is to be done. In my humble judgment, if they
consult economy and desire to secure cheap telegraphy, they will act wisely in making
the work a public undertaking and in retaining it in their own hands under an effi-
cient management.
' I notice what you say about having two cables across the Pacific on account of
possible interruptions, but it seems to me this conclusion on your part is scarcely
logical, if, as you say, interruptions are so exceedingly rare. A breakdown once in
twenty years would not of itself justify the laying of a second cable at an additional
cost of £1,800,000.
'Are you, however, quite accurate? Is it the case that interruptions on your
cable are so infrequent? I have a list before me by which it would appear that the
Eastern Extension cables between India and Australia have broken down thirty-six
times within the last eighteen years, and of these fourteen breaks were between Port
Darwin and Banjoewangie, the nearest sections to Australia. I notice also that one
of the fourteen breakdowns referred to caused an interruption of four months, and
another of three months and a half. The other interruptions were generally for much
-liortcr periods. It is quite true that you now have more than one cable on th.nt sec-
tion, but I do not see that duplicating, even triplicating the cable on the sae route is
!in absolute security from interruptions, as shown by the Rinuiltaneons breaking down
of all three cables for a period of ten days during the present month.
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' Be all that as it may, my contention is simply that a line from Australia to
England by way of Canada would be a great advantage all round. That to
Australia and New Zealand it would be better than relying wholly on the one existing
route. To these colonies it would give two strings to their bow, and that is commonly
held to be an advantage. You say that under certain circumstances two cables across
the Pacific will be required. In this I am not disposed to disagree with you, as I be-
lieve more than two will eventually be required, but let us have one at a time, and the
sooner we get that one the better. In after years other cables can be laid as they are
required to meet the demands of a wonderful development of commerce which I am
satisfied will come in the not distant future.
' You suggest that repairs in the deep water of the Pacific would be most difficult
and costly. Let me remind you of the fact established by experience on the line be-
tween Lisbon and Pernambuco, passing through waters about the same depth as the
Pacific, that no repairs of any consequence have been found necessary in the deep-
water section of that line, since it was laid some thirteen years ago.
' Referring to the postscript of your letter, there is indeed a cable laid round the
west and east coasts of Africa connecting England with Aden in that way, but that
line of cable passes through no less than ten foreign ports, beginning with Lisbon and
ending with Mozambique. You are aware, too, the existence of that line did not
obviate the necessity so recently as the month of May last of sending Australian mes-
sages through Russia, Siberia, China and French Cochin-China, when two of your
cables east of Aden broke down. I still think I was strictly correct in my statement
to Lord Knuteford respecting the proposeii Pacific cable: 'It will indirectly give a
new means of communication with India should the lines through Europe and the
Red Sea become through war or other cause unusable'
' Receive my thanks for your friendly letter and for the evidence it conveys to
my mind that you are prepared to accept the conviction that Canada and Australia
must be connected telegraphically. In this you merely evince your usual wise dis-
cernment, and few men have it in their power in a larger degree than you to hasten
the advancement of a public undertaking fraught with so many advantages to the
Colonies and the Empire.
' Yours faithfully,
'SANDEORD FLEMING.'
TRANSCRIPTION AND WRITING.
Wednesday, May llth, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The candidate is required to make a neat, clean and correct copy of the manuscript
handed to him with this slip, writing out all abbreviations at full length, and correcting
any misspellings. The words scored through are to be omitted, and the interlineations
and the marginal and other aditions are to be inserted in their proper places as indi-
cated. All changes or corrections, other than these, will he counted as errors. Thi«
paper will be taken as a test of writing also.
TYPEWRITING.
Thursday, lLay 12th, 1910. Time allowed, 30 minutes.
Report of the nature of the country and soil through that part of New Brunswick
trovcrsed by the Transcontinental Railway.
Generally the soil is fairly good and the country well fitted for agricultun''
From Moncton to Chipman, mile 0 to .59, about 10 miles is through a cultivated
region, and the balance is fairly well wooded, with a mixed growth of soft and hard
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wood, soil for the most part fairly good. From Chipman to the crossing of the Canadu
Eastern Branch of the Intercolonial Railway, mile 57 to 97, about 10 miles through a
cultivated country, the balance fairly well wooded with a mixed growth of soft and
hard wood, soil for the most part fairly good.
From the Canada Eastern Railway to the Tobique, mile 97 to 165, thrnush a
heavily wooded country, with soft wood in the low lands and heavy hard wood on the
ridges. These ridges are good farming land, and the hard wood of value as soon as thf>
railway is built. From the Tobique to Grand Falls, mile 165 to 197, about 12 mile
through farming lands or skirting along the edges of farms, the balance through hcav.v
timber and land of mixed growth, the most of it excellent farming and grazing liin-l
From Grand Falls to the boundary of Quebec, mile 197 to 266, mostly in the Sf
John River valley, through a well-settled country, with good soil.
This report is based on the personal knowledge of the writer, who has travellei*
over nearly every foot of thevline in New Brunswick.
Very respectfully submitted,
(Signed) C. O. FOSS,
District Engineer, District A
PRIVATE BILLS
Considered in Committee — Third Readings.
Bill (No. 158) respecting the Bank of Winnipeg. — Mr. Molloy.
Bill (No. 177) respecting the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Company, and to
change its name to the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Company of Canada.^M".
Sutherland.
Bill (No. 103) respecting the National Accident and Guarantee Company of
Canada. — ]\Ir. Pardee.
Bill (No. 169) respecting the Patents of Washington McCloy. — Mr. Rivet.
Bill (No. 182) for the relief of Fleetwood Howard Ward. — Mr. Lewis.
Bill (No. 18.3) for the relief of Aaron William Jlorley Campbell— Mr. W. II.
White.
The Canada Lifp,
Dear SiRj — Thanking you for the stand you havn taken in re ' Canada Life Bill '
in opposing the same, I am persuaded three-fourths of the Canadian policy-holders will
appreciate the efforts of the members opposed to it, and would show a united front in
a strenuous opposition to it, if the Bill could be laid over for another session.
I beg to inclose you a protest mailed to Jno. IToskin, Esq., vice-president of the
Canada Life, which has received the endorsation of every policy-holder here to whou'
it has been submitted. If desirable you are at liberty to make use of the same.
1 remain, yours truly,
laiED. MASON.
Summary of Expenditure — Total Expenditure, 1890 to 1908.
On consolidated revenue fund account $625.7.35,490
On capital account 119„386,830
Railway subsidies and bounties. &c 43.838,70.')
$788,961,035
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For the year ended March 31, 1909, per budget —
On consolidated revenue fund account 84,500.000
On capital account and for railway subsidies and bounties. . 46,000,000
$919,461.02.n
GEOGEAPHY.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 10 a.m. to noon.
XoTE. — Onlj- five questions to be answered.
1. Draw a contour map of your own province, indicating where the most important
towns or cities are located. Tell also in which county such places are.
2. Group the following places according to provinces : — Renfrew, Dundas, Sorel,
Bathurst, Kamloops, Eegina, Arnprior, Annapolis, Brantford, Brandon, Three Elvers.
St. Stephen, Edmundston, Owen Sound, Kenora, Palmerston, Prescott, Antigonish,
Edmonton, Levis, Chatham, Perth, Sherbrooke, Victoria, Summerside, Yarmouth.
Westminster, Berthier, Granby, Winnipeg, Gananoque, Windsor, Joliette, Esquimalt,
Selkirk, Mattawa, Hamilton, Charlottetownj St. Hyacinthe.
3. Name the thirteen (1.3) original States of the United States and give their
capitals.
4. Name the leading mountain ranges of the world, and tell where they arc
situated.
.'>. Name tlv fmir M-) largest islands of the world, and tell where they are to be
found.
0. Draw the outlines of the Great Lakes and of the St. Lawrence River, indicating
the geogrnphicn] position of the following cities: — Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
Duluth, Sarnia, Sault St°. Marie. Hamilton. Toronto, Prescott, Kingston. Three
Rivers, Tadousac. Quebec, Montreal.
ARITIDIETIC.
Wednesday, ^lay 11th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — Candidates are to do the first thi-ee and any other five questions. Not more
than eight questions to be attempted. The work of each question must be given.
Value
10 1. (a) MuHiply 5829TS by 427964.
(b) Divide 218860161 by 689.
10 2. An agent walked 1511 miles on ifonday, 12* miles on Tuesday, 16J
miles on Wednesday, Hi miles on Thursday, ISJ miles on Friday, and 14-125
miles on Saturday. How much less than 100 miles did he walk during the
week?
10 3. Divide -14 by 7; 140 by -07, and -014 by 7000; then add the three
quotients.
14 4. K a clerk spends in four months as much as he earns in three months,
how much can he save annually if he earns $420 in six months?
14 5. A offers for a house $5,000 payable at the end of three years. B offers
$2,000 cash and $1,000 payable at the end of each year for three years, and
C offers $4,500 cash. Wliieh is the best offer, money being worth 6"^ simple
interest ?
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14 6. A sixty-day note for $1,200 -with interest at 6% is discounted on the
day it is made, at 6%. Find the proceeds.
14 7. A merchant borrowed a sum of money on April 17th, agreeing to pay
6J% interest. On December 3rd his debt amounted to $3,338.50. Find the
sum borrowed.
14 8. A labourer received $1.25 a day and his board every day he worked,
but had to pay 80c. every day he was idle. At the end of 75 days his wages
amounted to $69.15. How many days was he idle?
14 9. A house that cost $15,500 rents for $155 a month. It is insured for
$10,850 at 1% yearly, the taxes are 15 mills on the dollar on an assessment
of $12,450, and $346.45 is spent each year on repairs. What rate of interest
is cleared on the investment ?
14 10. A building lot was sold for $2,500 at an advance of 25% on cost.
What would have been the gain per cent if it had been sold for $2,800?
What would have been the loss per cent if it had been sold for $1,800?
HISTORY.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Note. — Six questions only to be attempted.
1. Write briefly on the discoveries made by each of the following: — Jacques
Cartier, Sir Francis Drake, La Salle and Henry Hudson.
2. What work was accomplished by each of the following for the advancement of
Canada: — Bishop Laval, Frontenae, Lord Selkirk, Lord Durham?
3. Give an outline of the events that preceded the Canadian Confederation; also,
give the date and chief terms of the Confederation Act.
4. Sketch the career of any one of the following: — Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, Hon.
Joseph Howe, Lord Strathcona, Sir George Cartier, Hon. William Macdougall.
5. Write brief notes of any four of the following: — Earl of Strafford, Francis
Bacon, Thos. Cromwell, Rowland Hill, Richard Cobden, Lord Rosebery, Sir Robert
Peel.
6. Outline the political condition of England at the beginning of Queen Victoria's
reign.
7. Outline the important events during the reign of either Louis XIV. or Louis
XV.
8. Write briefly on any four of the following topics :— The Fronde, The Reign of
Terror, The Coup d'Etat of Louis Napoleon, The Jansenists. Congress of Vienna,
Peace of the Pyrenees.
SHORTHAND— Eighty Words a Minute.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910.
(To he Dictated in Five Minutes.)
I want to be as brief as possible, but I desire to put this matter on record in such
a manner that the minister and this House will understand something about the con-
ditions which have prevailed on Lake Winnipeg during the last fifteen or eighteen
years ; and to do so, it will be necessary for me to give a short resume of the opera-
tions of these commercial interests since their establishment. As I have said, this
lake was depleted right under the eyes of the departmental officers. Any one, having
as much experience as I have had on this question, would almost think that these men
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had been hypnotized by these great interests and were consequently unable to realize
V/hat was actually taking p^ace. In 1881, Messrs. Reid and Clark, two fishermen
from Collingwood, started to fish in the extreme southern part of the lake, right oppo-
site Big island. At that time that part of the lake abounded in fish. Its waters
were teeming with magnificent specimens of whitefish, by long odds the best ever taken
from any waters on this continent. Right alongside where they were fishing was a
settlement of some 3,000 Icelanders that settled there early in the seventies. These
Icelanders expected that they would be allowed to carry on a great industry and reap
the reward which would have been theirs had these commercial interests not been
allowed to come in and practically steal what really belonged to our own people. This
great settlement had no difficulty up to 1890 in obtaining all the fish they required in
the southern part of the lake, not only for their own use but for the Manitoba mar-
ket, which was not then very large. In 1882, Reid and Clark moved their plant a
little farther north to Bull Head, still in the south end, and caught an abundance of
fish there. In 1885 they put on the first steam tug that was ever used in these waters
and put up 150 tons of fish. This was the commencement of the export trade of
whitefish from Manitoba to the United States. Soon the wealth of this lake became
known and in 1886 the Manitoba Fish Company — Canadian in name only, 96 per cent
of its stock being held by Americans — began operations on Lake Winnipeg and built a
large plant at Swampy island. Reindeer island, and the Little Saskatchewan.
SHORTHAND— One Hundred Words a Minute.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910.
(To he Dictated in Three Minutes.)
But even in the case of any protectionists that there are in Nova Scotia, I fear it
will be found to be true, if we examine it carefully, that their outlook is narrow, sec-
tional and provincial, rather than national. I fail to see how protection ever works
in any other way, and I fail to see that its outlook ever entitles it to the high-sounding
name of national policy. Show me where it is a national policy in its operation as
between the various classes of a country. It is constantly happening in the high pro-
tectionist countries of the world, that goods are sold in enormous quantities more
cheaply abroad than they are in the country in which they are produced. A well
informed American, intimately acquainted with the iron trade, told me the other day
that in Pittsburg, in the monlh of January, 1908, steel rails were sold to the American
people in pursuance of a national policy at $28 a ton, and on the same date were sold
in Middlesborough, on the north-east coast of England, for $19.50 a ton. Now, if it
be a national policy to rob your own people in order to sell cheaply to foreigners, with
the incidental advantage of building up a few millionaires in your country, then a
policy of high protection is a national policy, but otherwise it is not. Not only in its
outlook but in its operation and its effects the National Policy in Canada proved to be
no national policy because it failed to build a nation. When I was pursuing my cam-
paign last year, I invested a modest sum in the purchase of the Canadian Almanac,
and I found the trade figures of this country, which were there given, most instructive.
BOOKKEEPING.
Friday, May 13th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
1. Define: Commission, percentage, invoice, freight inwards, freight outwards,
accommodation paper, insurance.
2. A note dated January 1st, 1910, at 90 days for $645.00, with interest at 5%,
was discounted at a bank on January 21st at 7%. Find the rate of interest made by
the bank on the amount advanced.
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3. Journalize tlie following transactions : —
Sold goods to John Smith valued at $430.00, terms 2% 10 days or net 30 days.
Made sight draft on him in 7 days.
Gave draft to the hank for collection, which they placed to your credit, charging
25 cents collection. Tlie draft was dishonoured upon presentation and charged back
by the bank.
Smith paid $100.00 on account, on which he is allowed the cash discount. Twenty
days later you received a cheque for the balance of the aecovmt.
4. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE.
Black & White invest $20,000.00 each in a partnership business on May 1, 1910.
Black invests cash, which is deposited in the Bank, and White transfers to the firm
four properties valued at $40,000.00, on which there are mortgages amounting to
$20,000.00.
Property ' A ' is worth $10,000.00. Mortgage on it is dated Apr. 1, $6,000.00.
'B' " 8,000.00. " " " Mar. 1, 4,000.00.
•" 'C " 6,000.00. " " " Jan. 1, 3.000.00.
'D' " 16,000.00. " " " Dec. 1, 7,000.00.
The taxes on the property in each case are 2% of the assessed value, which is
three-quarters of the above valuations. Interest on the mortgages is at the rate of
6% per annum payable half-yearly. The firm assumes all liability on the property
from May 1, and pays the interest and taxes when due, charging Wliite the portion
accrued to May 1, which he pays in cash. The interest runs from the dates of the
mortgages, and the taxes are from Jan. 1, payable in May and November, with a dis-
count of 5% if paid during those months.
The firm representing the Mercantile Fire Insurance Co. places a risk on each
house to the extent of two-thirds of the value of the house, which is four-fifths of the
total value of the property. The premium is 76c. per $100.00, and the firm's commis-
sion is 15CJ.
Sold property ' C ' to Smith for $7,000.00 cash, and the firm pays off the mortgage
July 1. How much do they make out of property ' 0 ' ?
Commission earned on the sale of properties are as follows : —
Lot 40, James Street $ 25 00 cash.
" 17, Albert " 47 50 "
" 33 Queen " 135 50 "
" 24 King " 175 00 "
Sundries 2,000 00
$2,383 00
Deposit in bank all cash received.
Commissions paid to agents $ 250 00 by cheque.
Salaries paid 1,150 00 "
Office expenses 225 00 "
$1,625 00
Record all transact ions for one year, and take off a trial balance.
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XXII.— PAPERS SET AT COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR CLERKSHIPS
IN THE SECOND DIVISION. MAY, 1910.
SPELLING.
Monday, May 9tb, 1910, from 4 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 5 marks will be deducted.
Of all the arts, skullptur and arkitectoor, from their durebillitie and exellense,
have the most powerfull clames to the proteckshun of a grate nation. They aford the
only meens of shedding an indureing intrest and a nevar-faling luster over the historic
and acheevments of a peeple. They are truely nashional arts. What imperrisheble
faim and glory have they reflekted on the nations of antiekwitty for a long sucession
of ages! Had the monnuments of these arts not remaned to us, ruened and deefased
as they aie, could we have formed so high an estemate of the nationale power and
glorie of Egypt, Greace and Rome? The finest panetings, wheather in fresko or oil,
cannot retane their koloring beyond a sertane lapse of time, shuld they even eskape
the numberless axidents to which they are ourly exposed. Yet a few revolveing ages
and the greater number will no longer exist, posterrite will know them only by copys
and engraving?. When after a few floating scnturees, the admired produxions of the
great master.s shall have pereshed with those of antickwitty, the works of the skullptur
and arkitekt will kontinu to blum in all their freshness and vigar, and even when
mutelatted, deefased and in ruens, remane objeks of interast and admerashun to a
distent posterrite. If rome and the serounding nations of antickwitty wear indetted
to Greace for their nollfge of clasic art, the moderns owe her a eimilar dett of
grattitud.
DICTATION.
ilondaj-. May 9th, from 430 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed; 30 minutes.
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature
are the materials of art. Lender the Roman Empire, the labour of an industrious and
ingenious people was variously, but incessantly, employed in the service of the rich.
In their dress, their table, their houses and their furniture, the favourites of fortune
united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance and of splendour, whatever could
soothe their pride or gratify their sensuality. Such refinements under the odious name
of luxury have been severely arraigned by the moralists of every age; and it might per-
haps be more conducive to the virtue as well as the happiness of mankind if all pos-
sessed the necessai'ies and none the superfluities of life. But in the present imperfect
condition of society, luxury, though it may jiroceod from vice or folly, seems to be the
only means that can correct the unequal distribution of property. The diligent
mechanic and the skilful artist, who have obtained no share in the division of the
enrth. receive a voluntary tax from the possessors of the land, and the latter are
prompted, by a sense of interest, to improve those estates, with whose produce they
may purchase additional pleasures. In the Roman world the provinces would soon
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liave been exhausted of their wenlth, if the manufactures and commerce of luxury had
not insensibly restored to the industrious subjects the sums which were exacted from
them by the arms and authority of Rome. As long as the circulation was confined
within the bounds of the empire, it impressed the political machine with a new degree
of activity, and its consequences, sometimes beneficial, could never become pernicious.
ENGLISH COilPOSITION.
Tuesday, May 10th, ]910, from 9 a.m. to noon.
ESS.W WRITING.
1. Write an essay of from 300 to 400 words on one of the following subjects : —
(a) The British Empire.
(h) Canada in 1950.
(c) The Commonwealth of Australia.
(d) Your Favourite Character in History.
(e) The Characteristics of a Satisfactory Employee.
(f) ' The high cost of living is due to the cost of high living.' — J. J. Hill.
CORRESPONDENCE.
2. You have been requested to resign from the situation which you have held for
the past three months, the reason given being that your qualifications are believed to
be inadequate to deal with the duties of the position.
Write a vigorous but respectful protest, and request that your capabilities be thor-
oughly tested for a few weeks longer.
PRECIS WRITINC.
3. Write in concise, well-constructed sentences and in carefvdly chosen words the
salient points of the following evidence. Construct the synopsis so as to present the
leading ideas in consecutive and readable form. Supply a suitable title to each of
your paragraphs. Attend to spelling and punctpation : —
The Chairman. — Gentlemen, as you will see by the notice calling the meeting, we
have with us to-day Prof. John Macoun, Naturalist and Botanist, who has been engaged
in the western part of our great Dominion during the past season, and who will address
us upon what he has seen there during that time. I have much pleasure in calling
upon Prof. Macoun to address you.
Prof. John Macoun. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, before entering upon a
drseription of the country, permit me to make a remark or two in connection with the
past. I want to say to you at the start that I am not a tyro in the examination of the
country, and therefore my statements to you to-day you can take, not perhaps as Gospel
truth, but scientific truth.
Wlien many of yon. gentlemen, were much younger than .you are now — 31 years
ago, in fact — Mr. Sandford Fleming invited me to accompany him across the prairies
when he made his great trip in 1872. On that occasion I acted as a botanist to his
party. Next year my report of that trip was published, and it was the first revelation
of the possibilities of the Northwest. In 1875 I was invited by Dr. Selwyn to go with
him to make an examination of British Columbia and the Peace River country, espe-
cially the b'ttpr, and Mr. Ma'^'lcenzio, who was at that time Premier,' appointed me to
that expedition, I returned through the prairie country and afterwards made another
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report on the immense west. Again, in 1877, Mr. Mackenzie, when he was pushing, as
much as he could, the construction of a railway through to the west, asked me to write
a report on the interior plains. I did so, and it was published in the year 1877 in the
Eailway Report. Afterwards, when the new government came in under Sir John
Macdonald, ten parties were fitted out in the spring of 1879 to go and examine the
whole of the Northwest. I was invited to take charge of one party and made oidy
slight objection. They sent me to the south, and I came through this country (point-
ing to the map). I started from Winnipeg and went right through to the head of
Long Lake, then to the Saskatchewan, passed along here to the Hand hills, next south
to tlie rila''kf(iot oro^siiiff. then up into the mountains by the Bow Kivev piiss, and then
north to Edmonton, and eastward to Batteford and Winnipeg. My report of the jour-
ney in that one season did more than anything else to wake the people up. It set them
on fire.
By an hon. Member:
Q. W^ould you tell lis your mode of travel? — A. I was the first man that took iron-
bound carts on to the prairie. The opinion up to that time was that an iron-bound
cart used on the prairie would shrink up and fall to pieces. When I reached Winni-
peg a gentleman who is there yet and has charge of the Canadian Pacific Railway was
selling carts to anybody who would buy them. I said: ' I will take them; they are the
best carts that are going.' I took those carts and travelled with tliem 1.800 miles.
Two of them especially went 2,500 miles that year, and I brought them back to Winni-
peg perfectly sound and good. They were from London, Ont., and were the first iron-
bound carts that were on the prairie.
By Mr. Jackson (Selkirk):
Q. What year was that? — A. That was in the year 1879.
By Mr. Barr:
Q. Crossing the slough, would the carts sink? — A. There were manj' persons who
would get stvick in the sloughs because they had not the sense to do as we did. When-
ever we came to a slough, we put one wheel in the slough and the other on the hard
ground, and we got through without any trouble. This was when wc travelled on a
trail. When there was none, we went around or crossed it boldly. We did that last
v'ar, and we never got stuck in a slough but once, although we travelled nearly a
thousand miles last year with light wagons without roads.
By Mr. Staples:
Q. Why not have both whesls on the hard ground ?
By Mr. Barr:
Q. If there was hard ground. — A. That is it, if there was hard ground. If not,
you would get into a worse difficulty.
Q. How did you overcome the big sloughs? — A. In the early days we pulled the
carts out by hitching a rope on to the tail of the horse. We took the horse through
the slough and hitched its tail to a rope and the rope to the axle of the cart. Then two
or three of \is would get to work, and we would soon draw it out. We have done that
repeatedly.
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By Mr. Smith (Wentworth) :
Q. That was pretty hard on the tail of the horse. Did you never pull the tail out ?
— A. Xo, we did not i^ull the tail out. I will not spend any time on this, but to show
you the difficulties that had to be overcome.
The government instructed me, in 1879, to go up past the head of that lake. Long
lake (indicating on the map). Before I started out from Fort Ellice, the Hudson Bay
people said: 'You cannot go there; we do not go that waj'. Go by the foot of the
lalje.' I said : ' I must go there, because I am ordered to do so.' They brought out a
guide, and he said that I could not go by the head of the lake, as there was no trail. I
told them : ' I was instructed to do certain things, and I am going to perform them.'
I asked: 'Am I going to submit my brains to that man? No, sir.' I had two sur-
veyors, and we did our own guiding. Then I was instructed by the government to
go here, elbow of South Saskatchewan (indicating on map). Now, to show you tha
fallacies that were prevalent long ago. This is the Qu'Appelle (pointing to map). It
was believed at that time that you could dig a canal from the Saskatchewan into the
head nf the Qu'Appelle. We measured it and found the distance to be 11^ miles.
We also took the levels, and we found the Saskatchewan was 85 feet lower than the
Qu'Appelle, and that settled the canal question. Then we went west and finally went
up into the mountains, and it was late in the winter when we returned to Winnipeg.
Upon returning to Ottawa, I saw Colonel Dennis. He was at that time Surveyor
General and had a whole series of maps ready to be issued showing 30,000 square miles
of our grand Northwest to be part of the American desert — that is this section of
country down here (indicating on the map). I said: ' There is no desert, it (Southern
Saskatchewan and Alberta) is all fertile.' Colonel Dennis suppressed the map, and
there are houses in this city that are lined with those maps on the inside as a substi-
tute for felt. That was how the issuance of a map, showing a great part of the Cana-
dian West to be desert land, was stopped in 1879. Then, in 1880, they said: ' Professor
Macoun has got to go to the plains again.' This time Col. Dennis took a map and
placed a blue line on it and said : ' Macoun, you have got to follow that line.' The
blue line started south of Brandon and passed through all the bad spots, as then under-
stood. That year I travelled 1,800 miles, following the blue line, and discovered no
desert.
Gentlemen, since that time we have learned more than was known then. With
all the information that has since been obtained, I undertook my journey last year
joyfully. Why? Because I said: 'Now I shall know whether my ideas of twenty-five
years ago are right, and if they are not right, I will try and put them right.' When
we went the first time, I had a nephew with me, and I directed my nephew every half
hour on the journey to dig into the ground to the sub-soil, and we did that for over a
thousand miles that season. There was much discussion as to the character of the soil,
and some said it was this, that and the other thing. It was maintained by some that
this country about Long lake (indicating on the map) was all gravel and of n-o use.
the reason was, the men who examined the country had not the sense to know that the
strong winds that blow over the prairie had blown away the fine particles of dust. Of
course, where badgers had made holes in the ground, earth and gravel were thrown up,
the lighter ma'erial being blown away and the gravel remained. Because of this, these
wiseacres said : " The whole country is gravel, and it is not fit for anything." '
Now we know that the Long Lake country is first-class. Well, as I say, on a former
occasion we dug into the soil. This year we had nothing of that to do, and why?
Because the people were on it and had cropped the land. I am giving you an account
of the country now and am not guessing at it. I can tell you, all I thought about the
country before and all that I formerly said is nothing in comparison to the reality.
There is a country that is nearly a thousand miles wide, and there is little of it that
will not grow first-rate crops. It may be sandy, but it will produce crops. For nearly
a thousand miles we have a country that is almost fit now for the plough, going west
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and going north. We have a country 500 miles deep, and we do not know it — we have
not touched it yet. I left this point (indicating on the map), Portage la Prairie, on
June 11, 1906, and we passed through Macgregor and Sydney and up on to the Big
Plain north of Carherry.
The Grand Trunk Pacific passes through the centre of the plain ahout ten miles
north of Carberry, and goes through a better country east of the Assiniboine than the
Canadian Pacific Railway traverses, by a great deal. The former will pass through
the centre of a first-class country, whereas the other line goes along the face of the
sand-hills. Away back of the sand-hills the country ten miles north of Carberry is as
fine a country as you ever looked at. Well, the line passes through this country nearly
up to Birtle. It then descends to the valley of the Assiniboine. This point is Fort
Ellice, and after we pass here the line begins to go up to the north. You will notice
the points that I have marked on the map. This point is the Touchwood Hills post.
All this section of country is pretty well settled. It consists of forest, prairie and
sloughs and ponds. The country through which we passed this year from Haniiota
up towards Yorkton and from Yorkton in the direction of (indicating on map) Beaver
Hills and Touchwood Hills, is an exceedingly rich country, and the farms everywhere
were first-class. The country was not like the prairie country where you could break
up 100 or 200 acres, or a square mile, without any interruption whatever. There was
a lot of sloughs, growths of poplar, and clumps of willow, but everywhere the soil was
good. Then, when we come to the Touchwood Hills, do you notice the bend there, on
the road? Now, it is about 25 miles from Touchwood to that point, but there was, as
you can see, a difference. The prairie commenced about there, a little over 20 miles
west of the Touchwood post. In the Touchwood and in the Beaver Hills, the country
is not very much elevated, and the hills are not high, but as you go west the country
begins to flatten out as it were, that i'^, the hills are less high and less high, and soon
they are quite low; the fires from the west long ago seem to have cleaned off the
trees, and before you reach the prairie you come to a district where the little undula-
tions are beginning to pass away, and then you strike the prairie without a bush or a
tree; so that 25 miles west of Touchwood you strike the prairie.
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Monday, May 9th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Note. — Seven questions only are to be attempted.
1. Explain carefully the terms ' epic,' ' lyric ' and ' dramatic,' as applied to peotry;
and give several examples of each kind of poem.
2. Why is Chaucer sometimes called ' the father of modern English poetry ' ?
Why are the Canterbury Tales so called? Give some account of the matter and of
the language and style of the Prologue to these Tales.
3. Explain the term ' allegory.' Name some of the best-known allegories in Eng-
lish and give a brief account of the meaning or purpose of any one of them.
4. What is Marlowe's importance in the develepment of the English drama?
Name three of his principal plays. Give the plot of one of these, and briefly indicate
the superiority of Marlowe's work to that of preceding or contemporary dramatists.
5. Into what periods is Shakespeare's life usually divided? Give the principal
plays belonging to each period, and note the general characteristics that distinguish
the plays of one period from those of another.
6. Give an account of the plot and the chief character in one of Shakespeare's
plays.
Y. What is meant by the Renaissance? How is it distinguished from the Reforma-
tion? Compare the forms taken by the Renaissance in Italy, Germany and England.
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8. Name some of the later Elizabethan and early Stuart dramatists and lyric
poets. What are some of their characteristics, both of matter and of style?
9. What were the literary ideals, both in matter and in style, of the school of
Waller, Dryden and Pope? How far are these ideals set forth in Pope's lines:
' True wit is nature to advantage dressed ;
What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed ' ?
Into what faults did the poets of this school fall, and who were the chief names
of the Nineteenth Century movement towards a more natural style of writing?
10. Give a clear, intelligible account of the substance and the style of (1) an
essay of either Bacon, Addison, Macaulay, Arnold or Carlyle; and (2) a poem of
either Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson or Browning.
11. Who were the three greatest novelists of the Nineteenth Century? Name six
cf the best-known works of each. Of these, give the one you like best, and justify
your preference. Wliat constitutes a good novel?
12. Name three of the most important writers of English History in the Nine-
teenth Century; and give some account of any one of their works.
AEITHMETIC.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Note. — Six questions only to be attempted. The details of the work must be given.
^ _ l-086i X 753 , .
1. Jixpress ^/ rinoai — correct to the nearest integer.
2. In a rainfall of 1 inch find the weight in tons of water which falls over an
area of 28 acres, taking a cubic foot of water to weigh 62J lbs.
3. Express 5 yds. 2 ft. 4 in. as the vulgar fraction of a mile; also, as the decimal
of a mile.
4. A person watches a train and finds that it takes 17 seconds to pass him. The
train is 374 feet long. At what rate in miles per hour is the train travelling?
5. A biU of $730.92 is drawn on January 5th for 5 months and is discounted on
March 9th at 5%. What sum does the banker charge?
6. Eind the compound interest on $360 for 3 years at 4i%. How much greater is
it than the simple interest for the same time?
7. A man buys $2,000 of a certain stock at 875 and $2,500 of another stock at
104J. He afterwards sells them at 89J and 106 respectively. Find his gain and his
gain per cent.
8. The incomes of two men would be equal if one were increased 7% and the
other diminished 7i%; the sum of their incomes is $2,094.75. What is the income
of each?
9. A person borrows $1,000 and at the end of each year pays $250 to reduce the
principal and to pay the interest at 4% on the sum which has been standing against
him through the year. How much will remain of the debt at the end of 3 years?
(Answer to the nearest cent.)
10. A minute of latitude contains 6,080 feet, and a metre is the ten-millionth part
of a quadrant of the meridian. A kilogramme is the weight of the one-thousandth
part of a cubic metre of water, and a cubic foot of water weighs 1,000 oz. Express a
kilogramme in ounces to two places of decimals.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
FRE^^CII AND EXGLISH.
Saturday, May 14th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
Translate into French : —
THE SECRET OF YOUTH.
The mind which retains to the last youth's quick susceptibility to disgrace and
to glory, retains to the last the power to resume the shaps that it wore in youth.
Cynicism is old at twenty. Impudence has no elasticity. If you care no more than
the grasshopper for the favour of gods and the reverence of men, your heart has the
age of Tithonus, though your cheek have the bloom of Achilles. But if, even alone in
your room or a desert, you could still blush or turn pale at the thought of a stain on
your honour — if your crest still could rise, your pulse quicken, at the flash of some
noble thought or brave deed — then you have the heart of Achilles, though the age of
Tithoiuis. There is a certain august shamefaeedness — the Eomans call it Pudor —
which, under hairs white as snow, preserves the aspect of youth to all personations of
honour, of valor, of genius.
— Lord Lylton (Caxloniana).
Traduire en anglais: —
AVANTAGES DE l'iNSTRUCTION.
Rien n'est plus ordinaire que d'entendre des gens du mondc, qu'une longue expe-
rience et de sfirieuses reflexions ont instruits, se plaindre amerement de ce que leur
:education a .eta negligee, et regretter de n'avoir pas ete nourris daas le gout des
sciences, dont ils commenccnt trop tard a connaitre I'usage et le prix. Us avouent que
CO defaut les a eloignes des cmplois importants ou les a laisses fort au-dessous de leurs
charges, ou les a meme fait succomber sous leur poids. Lorsque, dans de certaines
occasions d'eclat et dans des places distinguees, on voit ain jeune magistrat, cultive
par les belles-lettres, s'attirer des applaudissements du public, quel est le pere qui ne
desirat pas un tel succes? Tous alors s'accordent a sentir I'avantage des sciences.
Tous comprennent combien elles sont capables d'elever un homme au-dessus de son
ago, et quelquofois meme au-dessus do sa naissance. ilais quand cette etude ne ser-
virait qu'a acquerir I'habitude du travail, a en adoucir la peine, a arreter et a fixer la
legerete de I'esprit, a vaincre I'aversion pour une vie sedentaire et appliquee, ce serait
deja un tres grand avantage. ^Rollin.
Pour les candidats de langue anglaise.
Ecrire une composition frangaise d'au moins 200 mots sur un des sujets suivants:
Developper cette maximc de Franklin: " Avant de consulter sa fantaisie, consulter
sa bourse.
Dites ce que vous inspire ce vers de Lamartine : " Heureux I'homme a qui Dieu
donne une sainte mere! "
De tous les gouverncurs du Canada, quel est celui que vous preferez? Pourquoi?
For candidatex who take the general examination in French.
Write an English composition of not less than 200 words on one of the following
subjects: —
"Write a composition on Franlclin's maxim : ' Before consulting your fancy, consult
your pocket.'
Write a composition on the following line from Lamartine: 'Happy the man to
whom God has given a holy mother ! '
Which do you prefer of all the Governors of Canada? Give reasons.
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ALGEBEA.
Wednesday, May lltb, 1910, from 1 p.m. to .3.30 p.m.
Note. — Seven questions only are to be attempted.
1. Multiply .'(-•"'2 - 3a;'- + 5 x" hy 3 x"'^'^ + 5x~'^ - 7 x '- + x'^.
■2. Factor (a + l)^ + c^, and x- + px + q.
-, . a c . I /a-
'■'). It -;- = -; , prove that each is equal to \/l
3 ac - c^"'
- 3hd- 3? J
4. Find what values you must assign to - ■, - , - , and a", a being any number.
a 'J 0
-% _ ^''
Find the value of 3 .r + 5 a; ' - T.v " + x" - .t", -o'lien x - 9.
5. Solve (a) (m^ - n-)^^ + 2(?n2 + n^)^; + m- - ri^ = 0.
(b) x3 + 2/3 = 35^ a;j^2 + y^i = 30.
0. Find a number such that when it is added to its square root the sum is 72.
'low many such numbers are there?
7. The distance one can see over a lake varies as the square root of the height of
the eye above the water. If the distance is 3 miles when the height of the ej'e is 6
feet, find the distance seen from a point 100 feet high.
8. A city borrowed %A, and agreed to pay it back, principal and interest, in <
equal annual payments. Find the value of the annual payment, money being worth
lOOr^J, per annum. \
9. Out of 12 flags of different colours, how many signals can be formed, each to be
composed of 5 flags in a horizontal row? How many of these signals contain the flag
of a specified colour?
10. Write out the expansion of {x + a)°, giving the general term. Use this expan-
sion to find (1 - o.t) ^ to 5 terms, and verify your result by ordinary division.
GEOMETRY.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Note. — Seven questions only are to be attempted.
1. If two angles of a triangle are equal, the sides opposite to them are equal.
The two straight lines which bisect the base angles of an isosceles tri-
angle form with the base a second isosceles triangle.
2. If the side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle shall be equal to the
sum of the two interior opposite angles; also, the three angles of a triangle are to-
gether equal to two right angles.
Every right-angled triangle is divided into two isosceles triangles by a
straight line drawn from the right angle to the middle of the hypothenuse.
3. Define the tangent to a circle, and deduce from your definition that the tan-
gent is perpendicular to the radius at the point of contact.
Give, without proof, a construction for the tangents to a circle from a
given external point, and for a pair of tangents that include a given angle.
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4. The angle at the centre of a circle is double the angle at the circumference
which stands on the same arc; and two angles at the circumference standing on the
same arc are equal.
AB is an are of a circle (less than a semicircle), AD and BC, perpen-
dicular to the chord AB, meet the circumference again in D and C; prove
that the arc DC is equal to the arc AB.
5. The opposite angles of any quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are together
equal to two right angles.
What is the converse of this proposition? Is the converse true?
6. If the line joining two points on a circle pass through the centre, the lines
joining these points with any third point on the circle contain a right angle.
Construct on a given base a right-angled triangle having its vertex on a
given line intersecting the base.
7. In any triangle the sum of the squares on the two sides is equal to twice the
square on half the third side together with twice the square on the median which
bisects the third side.
Obtain a theorem for the difference of the squares on the two sides.
8. Show how to find a mean proportional between two straight lines.
The base BC of a triangle ABC is divided at D, so that BD is a mean
proportional between BC and DC, and through D a line is drawn parallel to
CA to meet BA at E; show that the triangles BDE, ADC are equal in area.
9. Equal triangles which have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the
other have their sides about the equal angles reciprocally proportional.
Describe an isosceles triangle equal in area to a given triangle and having
its vertical angle equal to one of the angles of the triangle.
10. On a given side to draw a rectilineal figure similar to a given rectilineal
figure.
What are the conditions for the similarity of rectilineal figures? Are the
conditions for similarity of triangles sufiicient for similarity of other rectilineal
figures?
PHYSICS.
Friday, May 13th, 1910, from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Note. — Seven questions only are to be attempted.
1. How can it be shown that the atmosphere exerts pressure? Explain the prin-
ciple of the barometer.
2. Falling bodies are said to have a acceleration of 32 feet per second per second.
What is meant by that statement?
A stone is dropped from a bridge. It strikes the water in the river below
in 3 seconds ; find the height of the bridge.
3. Suspend a weight by a string and attach to the bottom of the weight a piece
of the same string. If the lower string is pulled with a sudden jerk i-t breaks, but
if the pull is steady the upper string will break. Explain.
4. Distinguish between evaporation and boiling. What is meant by the boilinsr
point of a liquid? How would you show that heat is required to produce evaporation?
5. Give reasons for believing that heat is a form of energy.
6. In what respects may two musical sounds differ? Explain.
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7. Explain clearly the principle of the telescope.
8. Explain how a room whose window faces north, is lighted by sunlight.
9. What proper! ies manifest themselves in a wire carrying an electric current?
10. Explain the principle of the storage cell.
A storage cell has an E.M.F. of 2 volts, an internal resistance of -25 ohm.
Its terminals are connected by a wire whose resistance is -5 ohm. Wliat is the
strength of the current in the wire?
CHEMISTRY.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Note. — Seven questions only are to be attempted. Definite chemical reactions de-
scribed should be expressed by equations.
1. What is crystallization? Give the processes to crystallize bodies.
2. Divide compounds according to their properties and give each group its dis-
tinctive properties.
3. Make the synthesis of water.
4. Carbonic acid, its properties, preparation and uses.
5. Describe the preparation of chlorine from sea-salt.
6. Give a chemical process to prepare pulp.
7. What are amines or compound ammonias?
8. State and explain what takes place when an electric current passes through an
aqueous solution of potassium sulphate.
9. Describe the reactions in the transformation of sulphurous acid into sulphuric
acid.
10. Mercury, its properties and uses.
GEOLOGY.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Note. — Six questions only are to be attempted.
1. Describe the geological work of snow and ice, explaining the formation and
motion of glaciers. What is meant by moraines and boulder clay? Where can ex-
amples be found in Canada?
2. What are the causes of earthquakes? How are earthquake waves transmitted,
and at what rate? Describe an instrument adapted to record these motions, and give
an account of the effects of some American earthquake.
3. Sketch and describe various kinds of mountain folds. How are folds produced?
Give Canadian examples of folded mountains.
4. What is meant by stratification and lamination? In what rocks are these
structures found, and how were they produced ? Wliat kind of rocks is not stratified ?
5. Mention the gases and liquids which are given oil by volcanoes. Give an ac-
count of (a) an explosive eruption, (6) an eruption where lava flows without explo-
sions. What causes the difference between these types of eruptions?
6. Describe the rocks characteristic of the Huronian. How were they formed,
and what were the conditions as to temperature, life, etc., at that time? Where is the
Huronian found in Canada?
7. Describe the rocks and give some characteristic fossils of the Silurian in
Canada, and show the distribution of these rocks in the Dominion.
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8. Give an account of the Carboniferous of Nova Scotia, describing and sketch-
ing some important plants of the time, and showing the relations of the coal seams to
these plants and enclosing rocks.
9. What type of animals is of most importance in Cenozoic (or Tertiary) times?
Mention and describe some extinct types, and show the changes in the life of the
world during the Cenozoic.
10. Where are old marine beaches found in Canada? When were they formed,
and why are they now above sea level? Mention some marine animals whose remains
occur in these beaches. Suggest a cause for the change of level.
BIOLOGY.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
(Candidates are requested to observe the regulations strict!}/.)
XoTE. — Three questions only arc to be attempted out of each division.
1. Compare the vegetation of the sea with that of the land.
2. Distinguish between self- and cross-fertilization in flowering plants, and de-
scribe tlie different ways in which the latter may be effected.
3. Describe the structure and mode of reproduction of one of the Fungi injurious
to cultivated plants.
4. Compare the structure of the flower in the following plants: — Tulip, Orchid,
Buttercup, Primrose, Sweet Pea, Dandelion.
5. Describe the fertilization of the egg in a fern and in a seed plant.
6. What is the morphology of the seed? Describe different methods of distribu-
tion of the seeds which occur in nature.
nrvisioN n.
7. Compare the processes of nutrition in a plant with those in an animal.
8. Discuss the dentition of the Mammalia, and the relation of the form and ar-
rangement of the teeth to the different kinds of food.
9. Describe the chief modifications of the anterior limb in Vertebrates and the
relations of these to the different methods of locomotion.
10. Describe the structure of the fresh-water Mussel. Mention other Mollusca
which are found in fresh water and on land.
11. Describe the structure of the Crayfish, and mention other Crustacea which oc-
cur in fresh water and on land.
12. Mention four Insects belonging to different orders which are injurious to
cultivated plants. What are the distinguishing features of these orders?
LATIN.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Note. — Of the three following extracts candidates are expected to do two only, viz.:
either the first and second or second and third, taking with the extracts selected the
questions thereon immediately following.
1. Translate: — Principle ipse mundus deorum hominumque causa f actus est,
quaeque in eo sunt ea parata ad fructum (vse, enjoyment) hominum et inventa sunt.
Est enim mundus quasi communis deorum atque hominum domus aut urbs utro-
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rumque. Soli (from solus) eiiim ratione utentes jure et lege vivunt. Ut igitur
Athenas et Lacedaemonem Atlieniensium Lacedaemoniorumque causa putandum est
conditas esse, omniaque quae siut in his uribus eorum populorum recte esse (belong
to) dicuntur, sic quaecunque sunt in omni mundo, deorum atque hominum putanda
sunt. (Cicero, Be Nahira Deorum, II., 62.)
2. (a) Account for the case of principio, ratione, jure, (h) Write the genitive
singular of ipse, soli, (c) Compare recte. (d) Parse factus est.
3. Translate: — M. Petronius, ejusdem legionis centurio, cum portas excidere (hew
down, demolish) conatus esset (attempt) a multitudine oppressus et sibi desperans,
multis jam vulneribus acceptis, manipularibus (comrades) suis, qui ilium secuti
erant, ' Quoniam,' inquit, ' me una (at the same time, together) vobiscum servare non
possum, vestrae quidem certe vitae prospiciam (provide for, consult for), quos,
cupiditate gloriae adductus, in periculum adduxi. Vos data facultate (chance, op-
portunity) vobis consulite.' Simul in medios hostes irrupit, duobusque interfectis,
reliquos a porta paulum submovit. Conantibus auxiliari suis, ' Frustra,' inquit,
'meae vitae subvenire (rescue, save) conamini, quem jam sanguis viresque deficiunt.
Proinde (therefore) abite dum est facultas, vosque ad legionem recipite (betahe).*
Ita pugnans post paulum concidit ac suis saluti fuit. (Caesar, Bellum Gallicum,
VII., 50.)
4. (a) Excidere, concidit. What in each case is the simple verb here compounded?
(h).Qiios, quem. What are the antecedents of these relatives? (c) How often does
the ablative absolute occur in this extract? (d) Give all the persons, singular and
plural, of inquit.
5. Translate: Atque equidem Teucrum memini Sidona venire
Pinibus expulsum patriis, nova regna petentem
Auxilio Beli : genitor turn Belus opimam
Vastabat Cyprum et victor dicione tenebat.
Tempore jam exillo casus mihi cognitus urbis
Trojanae nomenque tuum regesque Pelasgi.
Ipse hostis Teucros insigni laude ferebat,
Seque ortum antiqua Teucrorum a stirpe volebat.
Quare agite o tectis, juvenes, succedite nostris.
Me quoque per multos similis fortuna labores
Jactatam hac demum voluit consistere terra:
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.
Virgil, Aeneid, Bh. I., 619-30.
G. (a) Parse expulsum, laude, tectis. (h) Give the principal parts of venire,
petentem, tenebat, cognitus, ferebat, volebat, disco, (c) Syntax of auxilio, dicione,
terra.
7. Candidates are expected to take only one of these groups of questions:
(a) Give the gender of pax, legio, mamis, salus, pes, and write the genitive
singular and genitive plural, (b) Compare ingens, similis, sacer, vetus. Compare
the adverbs made from malus, bonus, felix. (c) Write the future indicative and
present subjunctive of sxim, eo, possum, caveo, malo.. (d) Wliat is the Latin for five,
fifth, five times? (e) Wliat case or cases follow infero, poenitet, fruor, parco, in, ante
suh?
(a) Decline vir, vis, vulnu^, animal, (b) Write all the tenses of the infinitives
of these verbs, both in the active and passive : scribo, colo, fero. (c) Give three im-
portant rules for the ablative without a preposition, illustrating by examples, (d)
How is the agent expressed after a passive verb?
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(a) Write the genitive plural of civis, urbs, mare, dux. (h) The principal parts
of paro, pareo, pario, redeo, reddo, snrgo. (c) Write all the participles, active and
passive,' of the second of these verhs and the last, (d) How does a gerund resemble
a noun? How a verb? (e) Write short sentences illustrating the various ways of
expressing purpose in Latin.
8. Translate into Latin any six of these sentences:
The enemy came with a large army to attack the camp of the Romans.
We learn to write by writing, to speak by speaking.
This happened one hundred years before the founding of the city.
The safety of the country is much dearer to you than life.
There were at that time many orators in Rome, but Cicero was the most eloquent
of all.
Many states sent ambassadors to Rome to establish (confirmo) peace and friend-
s-hip with the Roman people.
In the same year died Mcnanius Agrippa, a man through all his life bi'Lned by
the people and by the senate.
The consul will shortly return from Asia, whither he went last year.
Evander, a venerable man, who had come from the Pelopponnesus, was then
governing those regions.
Marcus set out for Spain because he feared the citizens would kill hiin.
The boy was sent home by his father because he had lost all his books.
They all went to the shore to see the ships coming into the harbour.
GERMAN.
Friday, May 13th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 3..30 p.m.
I.
1. Translate into German :
(a) How long have you been studying German? About three years. It is a very
interesting language, is it not?
(h) What time is it? A quarter past ten o'clock. Then I must not stay much
longer, as I leave by the e'even-o'clock train.
(c) Good morning, Mrs. Brown. What do you wish to-day? I would like some
coffee, two pounds of black tea and a few pounds of sugar.
(d) The month of June is generally the pleasantest of the whole year. The days
are longest, and the nights are shortest then.
(e) He has been. If he had been. He might have been. If he could have been.
(/) H« opened (auf-machen) the door. The door was opened. He has opened
the door. If he could have opened the door.
2. Translate into German:
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Ottawa, April 15th, 1910.
Dear Charles,
Is it not really wonderful how many immigrants (Einwanderer) are coming to
our country now from all parts of Europe, especially the British Isles, and also from
the United States? The ships that carry our grain, apples, meat, cheese and other
products over the Atlantic Ocean return laden with men, women and children who
are seeking a new home in our western land. Every steamship line (Linie) seems to
have as much as it can do, and the railways are naturally also very busy. You could
scarcely have believed that the stream of immigration would become so large in the
few years that have passed since you went over to Europe. The 19th century, per-
haps, belonged to our southern neighbours ; but, as has been said, the present century
belongs to Canada.
Hoping to see you before the year is over.
Yours sincerely,
J.
3. Write a composition in German, of not more than twenty lines, on either of
the following subjects: —
(a) The books you have read in German; or
(&) A description of the place where you were born.
II.
4. Translate into English:
(a) Wenn wir die Dinge betrachten, die uns taglich umgeben und fiir unseres
Lebens Notdurft und Nahrung unentbehrlich sind, so werden wir finden, dass keines-
wegs alle innerhalb der Grenzfiihle unseres deutchen Vaterlands gewachsen und
hervorgebracht sind. Die Seife, mit der wir uns waschen, enstammt den Palmen
Afrikas oder der Siidsee, der Kaffee, Kakao und Tee kommt aus Brasilien, von den
Sundainseln, aus China und neuerdings aus den deutschen Kolonien, der Reis ist
chinesiseher Herkunft oder wurde in Siam geerntet, das Petroleum unserer Lampen
wurde aus Amerika iiber das Meer gebraeht. Auch das Leder zu unsern Stiefeln, die
Wolle in unserer Kleidung, das Holz in unseren Mobeln sind nur zura Teil deutscher
Abstammuug, und selbst das Brotgetreide, das Obst und andere Friichte sind vielfach
jenseits des Ozeans gewachsen und auf Schiffen zu uns heriibergefiihrt worden.
Allerdings wiirde vielleicht, wenn man aUe nutzbaren Fliichen in Deutschland,
die Moore, Heiden und Kiefernwiilder unter den Pflug brachte, der heimische Acker
in der Lage sein, alle Bewohner des Vaterlandes mit Brot zu versorgen ; aber Angebot
und Nachfrage regeln den Markt kraftvoller als fromme Wiinsche, und solange es,
rein vom Standpunkt des Gewinns aus betrachtet. vorteilhafter ist, Getreide iiber die
deufschen Grenzen hereinzubringen, so lange wird die Ernahrung unseres Volkes
weiter vom Seeverkehr abhangig bleiben.
(h) Eulenspiegel ging einst iiber Land, da kam ein Wandersmann, der ganz
ermiidet war. ' Guter Ereund ! ' sprach ihn dieser an, ' wie weit ist's noch bis zur
Stadt?' 'Geh!' — antwortete Eulenspiegel. — Der Wanderer dachte: Dieser Mensch
muss ein Narr sein ; denn dass ich gehen miisse, um in die Stadt zu kommen, weiss
ich ohnehin.— Er ging also und verdoppelte nach Krnften seine Schritte. — ' Freund ',
rief ihm nun Eulenspiegel nach, ' wenn du so fortgehst, wie du jetzt angefangen
hast, so kannst du die Stadt in zwei Stunden erreichen.' — 'Aber', sagte der Wan-
derer, ' warum hast du mir dies nicht vorher gesagt?' — Eulenspiegel erwiderte: —
' Ich wollte zuvor sehen, wie schnell du zu gehen im Stande wiirest, denn friiher
konnte ich nicht bestiramen, welche Zeit du branchtest, um nach der Stadt zu
kommn.'
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, s Heimkehr.
An die Heimat kam ich wieder,
Es war die alte Heimat noch,
Dieselbe Luft, dieselben Lieder,
Und alles war ein andres doch.
Die Welle rauschte wie vor Zeiten,
Am Waldweg sprang wie sonst das Keh,
Von fern erklang ein Abendlauten,
Die Berge gliinzten aus dem See
Doch vor dem Haus, wo uns vor Jahren
Die Mutter stets empfing, dort seh
Ich fremder Menschen, fremd Gebahren,
Wie weh, wie wch mir da geschah!
Mir war, rief es aus den Wogen:
Fiieh, flieh, und ohnc Wiederkehrl
Die du geliebt, sind fortgezogen,
Sie kehren nimmer, nimmermehr.
MODERN HISTORY.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
NoTE.-Eight questions only are to be attempted.
1. Indicate what you consider the most important features in the policy of Queen
""""a' Whl — led to the union of Great Britain and Ireland, and how was i^
'7iS:^:ir?:rre=;vr:^^^^^^ - the
^"f G^faV^cSlnfoV the most important events during the administration of
""" mthow how the Confederation of Canada was brought about.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Wodnesdny. M^y 11th, 1910, from 3.30 r-m. to 6 p.m.
Note.— Six questions only are to be attempted.
1 State very concisely a few of the most famous theories regarding the origin of
^^TSe^t^^t^ K^t°^^^^^-> Oovernment, Constitution, Oligarchy.
'"^^^^r^rriw It'rSfv^Hous methods of constructing the Upper House
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4. What is meant by the Separation of Powers? Tell anything you know in regard
to the history of political theoiy on this point. To what extent is the principle applied
in the Federal Government of the United States?
6. Explain very clearly the principles on which Cabinet Government operates and
the relations which it establishes between the legislature and the executive.
6. Indicate the various gradations into which the governments of the British
colonies a^nd dependencies may be classified. What other colonies will fall within the
same group as the Dominion of Canada ?
7. Explain the constitutional position occupied by —
(a) the President of the United States;
(b) the President of France;
(c) the German Emperor.
8. Indicate the division of legislative power between the Dominion and the Pro-
vinces of Canada.
9. Tell what you can of the chief political theories associated with the names of
any four of the following writers : — Jean Jacques Rousseau, Herbert Spencer, John
Austin, Edmund Burke, Machiavelli, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Sir Henry ]\[aine.
ECONOMICS.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 3.30 p.m. to G p.m.
Note. — Seven qurvstions only are to' be attempited.
1. What are the advantages of (a) large scale production, {h) international trade?
2. In the trade of the United Kingdom, of the United States, Canada, is the
balance of trade in each case ' favourable ' or ' unfavourable ' ? Explain why in each
case, and comment on the propriety of the terms ' favourable ' and ' unfavourable.'
3. (a) Wliat is a revenue tariff? a protective tariff? What do we mean by our
preferential tariff and our intermediate tariff? (h) What caused our surtax upon
German goods ? What conditions led to the recent difficulty in our tariff relations
with the United States?
4. State and appreciate Malthus' law of population.
5. State and appreciate the reasons that have been given in the press to explain
the increased cost of living, especially the high prices in foodstuffs.
6. How does the Canadian Banking System attain (a) elasticity in its note circu-
lation and (b) security to its note-holders ? Compare with United States methods.
7. What are the functions of money? Why has gold been accepted by practically
all the nations of the world as a money standard ?
8. What, in brief, are the main arguments for and against public ownership of
public utilities?
9. Explain what is meant by (o) partnership, (h) joint-stock company, (c) a
trust? What are the advantages of each as a form of business organization? What
charges have been brought against the trust?
10. What are the evils of child labour? Mention the chief forms of legislation
regarding woman and child labour in England, United States and Canada.
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GEOGRAPHY.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
Note. — Six questions only are to be attempted : two from each group.
GENERAL GEOGRAPHY.
1. (a) What are, politically, the most important provinces of British North America?
Why?
{h) Of what divisions does Central America consist?
(c) What are the divisions of South America?
(d) Which is the most important country of South America?
2. (a) Loca'e the following cities (naming the State or the province for places in
North America) : — Montreal, Philadelphia, Charlottetown, Saskatoon,
Guelph, Three Eivers, Toronto, Mobile, Baltimore, Albany, Troy, Duluth, ,
Bogota, Butnos Ayres, Santiago, Kio Janeiro, Sheffield, Southampton,
Leicester, Glasgow, Queenstown, Lyons, Moscow, Breslau, Rouen, Mar-
seilles, Lisbon, Brussels, Madrid, Cork, Vienna, Liege.
(1) Name eight in order of importance.
3 (a) Locate the following rivers: — Fraser, Ottawa, Red River, Churchill, St.
Maurice, ^liramichi, Potomac, Mississippi, Missouri, Hudson, Saguenay,
Rio Grande. Amazon, La Plata, Volga, Seine, Thames, Rhine, Rhone,
Tiber, Danube, Euphrates and the St. Lawrence.
(&) Name five of the above in order of magnitude.
4. (a) Locate the following mountains: — The Cascades, the Rockies, Sierra Nevada,
Alleghany, Andes, Pyrenees, Atlas, Apennines, Alps, Himalayas.
(6) Give the approximate altitude of the three highest.
rilYSICAIj GEOGKAPIIV.
1 (a) Wl:at is the peculiarity in the distribution of volcanoes?
(fc) What relations are there between earthquakes and atmospheric conditions?
2 (a) Define: — river basin, water-shed, deltas, estuaries, canyons.
(b) Explain the formation of valleys, plateaus, lakes and oceanic islands.
3. (o) Describe waves.
(6) What causes the advance of waves?
(c) Describe tides, flood-tides, ebb-tides.
COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY.
1 (a) What are the five greatest powers of Europe ?
(6) Compare them from a commercial point of view,
(c) Give the reasons of supremacy.
2. What does Canada import from Europe, and what does it export to Europe? Ex-
plain why Canada imports more than it exports.
3. (o) How does Ontario compare with Quebec as to inland commerce?
(6) Which of the two provinces offers the greater facilities of transportation? Ex-
plain your answer.
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GENERAL PHILOSOPHY.
Friday, May 13th, 1910, from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Note. — Eight questions only are to be attempted.
1. Sketch the differences between deductive and inductive Logic, and discuss the
assumptions of induction.
2. Discuss the statement that the syllogism is a petitio principii and that the
inductive methods assume what they are supposed to prove.
3. What are the qualities of sensations? Explain the statement that all our
senses aro modifieationi! of touch
4. \Vliat is memory? And why do we trust memory? And vphat are the condi-
tions of a good memory?
5. Sketch the secondary laws of suggestion or association and the so-called law of
inseparable association.
6. Discuss the statement that the one universal motive of action is pleasure, and
that wherever any other motive operates, it is because of the laws of association.
Y. Give an account of either Plato's theory of ideas or Aristotle's doctrine of the
souL
8. Sketch the theories of Hume concerning the origin and validity of human
knowledge.
9. What is the import of each of the following words : — suhstance, causality,
freedom, and personality?
10. What is tho meaning of tho teleological argument for the existence of God,
and how is that argument affected by the theory of Evolution ?
11. Kant asked where a place can be found for ' God, Freedom, and Immortality,'
consistently with the universal reign of law in the natural world. How did he answer
the question?
12. Sketch the main principles of any of the following schools of thought: —
Agnosticism, Idealism, and Pragmatism.
TYPEWRITING.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. {See page 167.)
SHORTHAND— Eighty Words a Minute.
Same paper as for Third Division E.xamination. {See page 170.)
SHORTHAND— One Hundred Words a Minute.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. {See page l7l.)
BOOKKEEPING.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. {Sec page 171.)
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XXIir.— PAPEBS SET AT PRELIMINARY AND aUALIFTING EXAMINA-
TIONS FOR THE OUTSIDE DIVISION OF THE POST OFFICE DEPART-
MENT, MAY, 1910.
Preliminary Examination.
WRITING.
Same paper as for Lower Grades, Inside Service, (^^ee page 162.)
SPELLING.
Same paper as for Lower Grades, Inside Service. (See page 162.)
ARITHMETIC.
Same paper as for Lower Grades, Liside Service. (See page 163.)
Qualifying Examination.
SPELLING.
Same paper as for Third Division E.xnmination. (See page 164.)
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 165.)
TRANSCRIPTION AND WRITING.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 167.)
GEOGRAPHY.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 169.)
ARITHMETIC.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 169.)
HISTORY.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 170.)
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Thursday, May 12th, 1910, from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Values.
' Certain it is that he was a great favourite among all the good wives
of the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all family
squabbles, and never failed, whenever they tallied those matters over in their
evening gossipings, to lay all the blame on Dame Van Winkle.'
17 1. Write out in full all the clauses in this sentence; tell the kind of each
and the relation of each subordinate clause.
21 2. Parse (a) certain, in their evening gossipings, and to lay, in the sen-
tence quoted above, and (b) the italicized words in the following sentences: —
(i) An aristocrat by birth, he became the leader of the Liberals,
(ii) Disraeli ivill he remembered by this achievement,
(iii) The spirit in which this must be taken is clearly indicated.
15 3. Point out and correct the errors in the following sentences, giving
reasons for the changes you make : — (o) Let me say that if any one thinks it
an easy task to act as manager of a baseball team, they will change their mind
as soon as they try it. (6) Thus a fair knowledge of arithmetic, algebra and
geometry were obtained by him. (c) I wanted to have taken all the high
school courses in science and to have done the laboratory work as well, {d)
Elder Jones has done more than any member of his church for the extension
of its work, (e) To the west extends a range of hills covered with home-
steads, and which present scenes of ever-changing beauty.
12 4. Give the plural of moihcr-in-law, spoonful, phenomenon and ierminus
Give the positive degree of first, next, and last. Give the past tense and per-
fect participle of lead, read, ride, rise and drinh.
12 5. Name four kinds of adjectives that do not admit of comparison, and
give an example of each kind.
12 6. Explain clearly the difference between active voice and passive voice.
Show by two examples that active voice may be changed to passive and
passive to active.
12 7. Of the two words in brackets in each of the following sentences, select
the correct one, and give reason for your opinion: —
(a) He selected the man [who, whom] he thought was best fitted for the
position.
(b) '[Shall, Will] I fold this paper before handing it in?
(c) I came at last to a large tree [lying, laying] across the road.
(d) Suddenly the reel begun to hum as though it [was, were] run by
machinery.
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XXrV.— PAPERS SET AT PROMOTION EXAMINATIONS FOR THE OUT-
SIDE DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CUSTOMS, MAY, 1910.
SPELLING.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 164.)
AKITmiETIC.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 169.)
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Same paper as for Third Division Examination. (See page 165.)
D I- TIES OF OFFICE— CHIEF CLERK OR SURVEYOR.
1. State what proportion of the cost of production must be produced in the coun-
try of origin, in respect of articles entitled to entry in Canada under the British
Prefeiential Tariff.
2. What percentage of the duty on imported materials is allowed as drawback on
articles manufactured from such materials and exported?
3. In respect of what markets are goods subject to an ad valorem duty to be
valued for duty purposes?
4. State the countries, if any, to which the Customs Surtax is now applied in
Canada.
5. Within what time after importation are goods required to be entered at the
Customs House after being conveyed to a Customs Warehouse, and how may they
be then dealt with in default of entry?
6. Are duties payable on the quantity and value of goods in the Warehouse as
originally warehoused, or as found at the time of ex-warehousing?
7. Whenever any difference arises as to the rate of duty payable on particular
goods, state how such rate of duty may be declared or decided.
8. At 15 per cent ad valorem, what is the amoimt of duty upon a shipment of
Crockery valued at £125 6s. 8d. sterling?
9. What is the duty on a consignment of Watches valued at £1,528 8s. 6d. sterling
at 20 per cent ad valorem?
10. At 62J cents per hundred pounds specific duty what is the amount of duty
■upon a consignment of Glucose Syrup weighing 25,875 lbs.?
31—13
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XXV.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR
CLERKSHIPS IN THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS BRANCH OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. MAY, 1910.
AEITHMETIC, LOGARITHMS AND ALGEBRA.
Monday, May 9th, 1910, from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.
1. The numerator of a certain fraction is a fifth as much again as the denomin-
ator and the sum of the numerator and denominator is 352. Find the fraction.
2. Interest at 8% per annum, payable quarterly, is equal to what rate per cent
when paid annually?
3. A vessel has three taps, A, B and C. By A it is emptied in 5 hours, by B in
7 hours, while C takes two-thirds as long as A and B together. In what time can the
vessel be emptied by the three taps together?
4. Find by logarithms the value of (93.285)-^i x (0-85)"* x (0-0035)i -h (107-34)^ .
5. Divide 40 into two such parts that the sum of their squares shall be 818.
6. Give first five and last five terms of expansion Ca' + a)" where ?! is a positive
integer.
PLANE GEOMETRY.
(1st Paper.)
Monday, May 9th, 1910. from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
1. In any triangle prove a^ + J^ - 2ah . cos C = c-.
2. If a straight line is divided equally and also unequally, the sum of the squares
on the two unequal parts is twice the sum of the squares on half the line and on the
line between the points of section.
3. ThQ opposite angles of any quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are together
equal to two right angles.
4. The straight line drawn through the middle point of a side of n triangle
parallel to the base, bisects the remaining side.
5. The bisectors of the angles of a triangle are concurrent.
6. In any triangle, the sum of the squares on two sides is equal to twice the
square on half the third side together with twice tke square on the median which
bisects the third side.
7. Given the base and vei'tical angle of a triangle, find the locus of the inter-
section of the medians.
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PLANE GEOMETRY.
(2nd Paper.)
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.
1. Angles in the same segment of a circle are equal.
2. In equal circles, angles, whether at the centres or at the circumferences, have
the same ratio as the arcs on which they stand.
3. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous
sides.
4. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a
circle is equal to the sum of the two rectangles contained by its opposite sides.
5. The locus of a point, the ratio of whose distances from two given points is
constant, is a circle.
6. Find the locus of points from which the tangents drawn to two given circles
are equal.
PLANE TRIGONOMETRY.
Tuesday, May 10th, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
1. Show that sin ^ ^^ \j -^ '-■
^ ' he
2. Given a = .35-3, 6 = 54-7, 4=33° 25'.
Solve the triangle.
3. Given 6 = 17-34, c = 29-85, 4=125° 43'.
Find o.
4. Given 4 = 25° 33', B = 117° 08', o = 125-33.
Find c.
5. Given o = 32-54, 6 = 38-91, c = 43-82.
Find the angles.
NoTK. — Do not use natural trigonometric functions in the solutions of triangles.
PENMANSHIP AND ORTHOGRAPHY.
Tuesday, May 10th, from 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Write out correctly the following: — i
From these definnicion it apears that the saiutral problame in geeologie is the
rues, and of the agcrsii s wieh have pmdust that (Icvelupciiiout. i;
From these definnicion it apears that the saintral problame in geeologie is the
dcciicriiii: of the earth's liystovy, and that the hystorrical stanpoiut is the doniiunant
one. Geeologie deels with the earth as a kosmikal younit and is a great sintesis of
of all those siences wich thro lite upon the struckture of the glaub, and wich may be
used in enterpretting its ricords. Astronommy, fisics, quemistry, minralogie, lisical
geeografy, zoeologie, and botny are all drawne upon for this perpose. The gaul of our
inquireis is the hystory of the earth as a whoal, ant not of a singel continant meerely.
We -ihnrld eiidevor to irnnp a troo insite intoo those great prossesses of developement
wich eontroll the whol vesible unnivers, and wich egsibit in the most imprescive way
the great prinsipels of order and of uniformely acting laws.
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In the works of sirtain elassigal aud medieval righters we find som descripsioiis of
geologogal fenommena, and sound infrences were somtimes drawn from the faes. But
no attempt was made to gather an extensieve seerays of obsirvations or to construck a
harmonnious sistem of faes and infairenses, and no one imageened that a conected
hystory of the earth was whithin the bounds of himien atanement. Befor it could be
writen, it was necessairy that the other fisical and natural siences should have reeehed
a considerable degrie of perfecsion. It was only in the latter part of the oigtheenth
saintury that this other brenches of noledge had so far been perfaicted that they could
ofer to tlir" gpcolngisst a ferm foundasluiu upon wieh to bild the strucktnr of his own
gience. The early workers hardely atempted mor than to asertane the matteriels of
wieh the earth is composd. and the way i" v ■ ' tliose mntteriels rrc imt 1op:nth(>v. .
SPHERICAL TRIGQNOMETRY.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
i;l. Deduce cot a sin h = cos b cos C + cot A sin C. j
2. Deduce sin ^ {A + B) tan jc
sin \i {A ~ B)" tan- i {a - h)
3. In a spherical A; Given h = 99° 41', c = 100° 50', A = 05° 33'. Find side a.
4. In a spherical A; Given a = 124° 10', & = 89° 00' 15", c = 108° 40'. Find angle
A.
5. In a spherical A; Given a = 119° 21', 6 = 50° 26', A =108° 35' 30". Find
angle B.
Note. — Do not use natural trigonometric functions in the solution of triangles.
MENSURATION.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
1. The sides of a triangular field are 3-54, 12-62 and 11-38 chains (66 feet). Find
-the area in acres.
2. Wliat would be the diameter of the circle to contain the above area?
^3. The perimeter of a field which has the form of a triangle similar to that in
question (1) is 41-31 chains.
What is its area?
4. On a certain map it is found that an area of 16,000 acres is represented by an
area of 6-25 square inches.
Determine the scale of the map in miles to the inch.
5. How many yards of canvas are required for a bell (conical) tent 12 feet high,
10 feet in diameter, and having a 3 foot wall?
6 The area of a field determined by chain (66 feet) is afterward? found to be
greater than it should be by one-fortieth part. What was the true length of the cham
-with which ihe first measurement was made?
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XXVI.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE
POSITION OF DRAUGHTSMAN IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE ANB
FISHERIES. MAY. 1910.
MATHEMATICS, MENSURATION AND TRIGONOMETRY.
Monday, May 9th, 1910, from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.
MATHEMATICS.
1. Give a general definition of a logarithm.
2. Give several examples of the application of logarithms to mathematical pro-
cesses showing the connection with the theory of indices.
MENSURATION.
3. Give several methods of finding the area of an irregular plane figure. As
many as possible.
TRIGONOMETRY.
4. Show by means of a figrure the relations between the trigonometrical functions
of two angles and their sum, the latter being less than 90°.
5. Explain clearly the ambiguous case met with in the solution of triangles.
6. What precautions are necessary in taking out the sine of a very small angle?
7. Solve: SC = 75.
B = 53° 10'. C = 69° 16'.
8. Solve: AB = 93-2. AC = 127-8.
4=74° 21'.
Solutions to be in neat, concise form suitable for checking and using the fewest
processes possible.
STATICS, GRAPHIC STATICS, AND MECHANICS.
Monday, May 9th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
STATICS AND GRAPHIC STATICS.
1. Give the conditions that must be fulfilled in order that a structure may be in
equilibrium.
2. Show by means of a diagram the meaning of the statement that the moment
of a force about any point is equal to the intercept with respect to that point multi-
plied by the pole distance.
3. What is a moment?
What is a couple?
4. How would you find the resultant of two parallel forces acting in opposite
directions?
5. Give in your own words the practical meaning of the theory of virtual veloci-
ties.
6. Find graphically the centre of gravity of a plane figure composed of 3 irreg^i-
lar triangles in juxtaposition.
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MECHANICS.
7. State the 3 laws of motion.
8. Show by examples what you understand to be the meaning of the third law.
9. What is friction? On what does the friction between two surfaces depend?
What is meant by angle of friction?
SURVEYING.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 9.00 a.m. to 12 noon.
1. Assume an irregular four sided area. Show the steps to be taken in making
a chain survey of the same.
2. How would you prolong a transit line beyond a building which obstructs the
line of sight?
3. Before proceeding to use a transit in the field what tests would you mal^e as
to its adjustment?
Assuming any one of these (ests as showing a defect, what steps would you take
to remedy the same?
4. Before proceeding to use a sextant in the field what tests would you make as
to its adjustment?
Assuming any one of these tests as showing a defect, what steps would you take
to remedy the same?
5. In locating a position by sextant using 3 points, what conditions would you
endeavour to obtain as regards the points? Under what conditions would the observa-
tion leave the position indeterminate?
6. In taking a round of angles from a station would you have any preference in
selecting a zero?
DESIGN AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.
Tuesday, May 10th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
1. What are the essential el<ements of a building from n structural point of view?
2. Name as completely as possible the points that should be considered in design-
ing a small dwelHng in an isolated locality.
STRENGTH OF MATEIUALS.
3. Define : Bending moment. Moment of inertia. Moment of resistance.
4. 100 70 100 90
I i i i
y^5 20' 15' 10' I 10'
A beam is loaded as above. Neglecting the weight of the beam
Find the point of max. B.M.
" " min. B.!\r.
" " min. shear.
5. Show any recognized method of reinforcing a simple concrete beam.
0. Show any recognized method of reinforcing a continuous concrete beam.
Y. State the purposes for which the steel nminbora are in'^orted.
S. What are the practical considerations governing the percentage of steel used?
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APPLIED MECiIANIC8 AND PRACTICE.
Wednesday, May 11th, 1910, from 9 to 12 uoon.
APPLIED MECHANICS.
1. Give two methods of trausmittiug motiuu from one shaft to another, both being
in the same plane but at right angles to each other.
2. Wliat is a cam ? Under what conditions would a cam be used ?
PRACTICE.
3. A crib 40' x 20' and 10' high is to be built of square timber in -V of water. The
site is 100 yds. from shore in a slight current.
What would be an economical gang of men for this work? How would they be
divided? and what tools and equipment should be provided? Ballast procurable on
shore.
4. In locating a dam on a small stream to develop about 50 IT.P., what points
should be specially looked into ?
5. Draw a free hand sketch showing an eave with gutter and connection to down
pipe. Give figured dimensions.
6. Wliat special precautions should be taken in preparing moulds for re-inforced
concrete columns and beams?
7. In erecting a structure of re-inforced concrete exposed to severe storms, what
steps should be taken tn have weather tight walls?
DR.VFTING.
Wednesday, .May 11th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
1. A rectangle is to be drawn with great accuracy close to the edges of a .-^lieet of
paper. How would you proceed?
2. A triangle of which all the sides and angles are known is to be plotted with
gieaf accuracy. How would you proceed?
3. How could you represent a plane on a sheet of paper, the plane having no
dtfinite limits?
4. Draw the plan and elevation of a regular octahedron resting flat on one of its
faces.
5. Draw to scale a fished joint in heavy timber, with every dimension a: id note
that would be needed by the man in charge of the work.
6. Tklake an isoinetrical drawing of a triangular pyramid.
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XXVII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR
POSITIONS AS DRAUGHTSMEN IN THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS
BRANCH OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, JULY, 1910.
MENSURATION.
Wednesday, July 6th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
1. Make drawings of the following figures and give rules for finding the area of
each: triangle, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, pentagon.
2. How many acres of laud are contained in a triangle having sides of 20, 30 and
40 chains?
3. A cylindrical vessel one foot high and 5 inches in diameter contains 5 inches
of water. A metallic sphere 4-5 inches in diameter is placed in the vessel. To what
height in the vessel will the water rise?
4. A horder of trees 22 feet wide is planted around the inside of the outer edge
of a square ten-acre field. Find the area of the remainder of the field.
5. A right cone whose height is three times its diameter contains 81 cubic inches.
Find the area of its curved surface.
6. Find the circumference in feet of a circle whose area is 1^ acres.
7. What is the area in acres of a triangle where a = 14-68 chains, 6 = 17-32 chains
and (7 = 57° 42'?
PENMANSHIP AND ORTHOGRAPHY.
Wedm-sday, July 6th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
(To he Dictated hy the Examiner.)
Difi[ereuces of temperament between nations are commonly to be noticed ; for
instance, in comparing the shy and grave Malays with the boisterous Africans. It is
an interesting but difficult problem how far such differences are due to inherited race-
character, and how far to such social influences as education and custom, and to the
conditions of life being cheerful or depressing. Nor has it yet been determined how
far emotions are differently expressed by different races, so that it is worth while to
notice particularly if their smiling, laughing, frowning, weeping, blushing, etc., differ
perceptibly from ours. The acuteness of the senses of sight, hearing and smell, among
wild peoples is often remarkable, but this subject is one on which many accounts have
been given which require sifting. The skill of savages in path-finding and tracking
depends in great measure on this being one of their most necessary arts of life to which
they are trained from childhood, as, in an inferior degree, gipsies are with us. The
native hunter or guide's jnethods of following the track of an animal, or finding his
own way home by slight signs, such as bent twigs, and keeping general direction
through the forest by the sky and the sheltered sides of the trees, are very interesting,
though when learnt they lose much of their marvellous appearance. The testing of
the mental powers of various races is an interesting research, for which good oppor-
tunities now and then occur. It is established that some races are inferior to others
in volume and complexity of brain, Australians and Africans being in this resper-t
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below Europeans, and the question is to determine what differences of niiud may
correspond. Setting aside the contemptuous notions of uneducated Europeans as to
the minds of ' black-fellows ' or ' niggers ', what is required is, to compare the capacity
of two races under similar circumstances. This is made difficult by the fact of differ-
ent training.
MAP-DRAWING.
Tuesday, July 5th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
The candidate is to draw either a part or the whole of the map represented by the
sketch herewith.
The names in the part selected must all be written.
The candidate is to select the colour scheme which he considers appropriate.
Neither the sketch nor the drawing is to be taken out of the examination room by
the candidate.
XXVIII.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR
CLERKSHIPS IN THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS BRANCH OF THE DE-
PARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, JULY, 1910.
ARITHMETIC, LOGARITHMS AND ALGEBRA.
Tuesday, July 5th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
1. The assessed value of a town is $7,286,400. The total taxes to be raised are
$12i>,250, of which the school tax exceeds the combined municipal and special tax by
20 per cent, the municipal tax exceeding the special tax by 40 per cent. What is the
rate of taxation for the special tax?
2. Find the value of (1-307 x -560 x .34) -;- (-91 x .09 x 4-12). Give the result in
a vulgar fi-action reduced to its lowest terms.
3. What power of .01837 is 1.08?
Find the value of (0004,372)^ and of (2.063)-'"'.
4. Find the numerical value of Tan A + Cot B Cosec C when
A = 92° 17' 10", B = 111° 15' 20", C = 18° 40' 30".
5. Solve
(a) 1^ (.T + 1) -Vi (2x2 + a; - 1) = %3 (x + 1).
(b) x^ + y- = 65.
xy = 28.
6. Gold is 19i times as heavy as water and silver lOJ times. A mixed mass of gold
and silver weighs 4,160 ozs, and displaces 250 oz. of water. Find the proportion of
gold and silver in the mass.
7. Insert four arithmetical means between 1 and - 1.
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PLANE GEOMETKY.
(1st Paper.)
Tuesday, July 5th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
1. From one extremity of the base of an isosceles triangle a perpendicular is
drawn to the opposite side of the triangle. Show that the angle made by this line
with the base is half the vertical angle of the triangle.
2. Given the area and hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. Construct it.
3. To divide a given straight line in medial section.
4. Prove that the square on any straight line drawn from the vertex of an isos-
celes triangle to the base, is less than the square on a side of the triangle by the
rectangle contained by the segments of the base.
5. In a circle the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a
right angle.
6. To describe an isosceles triangle having each of the angles at the base double
of the third angle.
Y. To describe a rectilineal figure which shall be similar to one and equal to an-
other given rectilineal figure.
MENSURATION.
Wednesday, July 6th, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
1. The diameter of a circle is 760 feet. Find the length of an arc of this circle
which contains 27° 18'.
2. In a flume 30 feet deep and 250 yards wide the water flows at the rate of four
miles an hour. How many tons of water does it discharge in an hour?
3. Deduce the following formula; for the area of a triangle : —
A = i he sin A.
,„ sin A sin C
A = 4 62 . „ - .
sin n
4. Find the area in acres of a triangle where a = 29-36 ch., & = 34-64 ch. and
C = 59° 21'.
5. An equiangular triangular plot of ground was laid out to contain six acres.
It was afterwards found that the hundred-foot tape which was used was three inches
too long. What was the true area of the plot of ground?
6. From a solid metallic cone 12 inches in diameter at the base and 15 inches
high, a hollow sphere is made. The thickness of metal in the sphere is one-eighth of
an inch; wliat is its outside diameter?
7. The scale of a recent map of Ontario is given as ..„■-.. Express this in
z50,0vv
chains to an inch.
PENMANSHIP AND ORTHOGRAPHY.
Wednesday, July 6th, I'.llO, from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
(To he Dictated by the Examiner.)
Differences of temperament between nations are commonly to be noticed; for
instance, in comparing the shy and grave Malays with the boisterous Africans. It is
an interesting but difficult problem how far such differences are due to inherited race-
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character, and how far to such social influences as education and customs, and to the
conditions of life being cheerful or depressing. Nor has it yet been determined how
far emotions are differently expressed by different races, so that it is worth while to
notice particularly if their smiling, laughing, frowning, weeping, blushing, etc., differ
perceptibly from ours. The acuteness of the senses of sight, hearing and smell,
among wild peoples is often remarkable, but this subject is one on which many ac-
counts have been given which require sifting. The skill of savages in path-findiii-i-
and tracking depends in great measure on this being one of their most necessary arts
of life to which they are trained from childhood, as, in an inferior degree, gipsies are
with us. The native hunter or guide's methods of following the track of an aniuinl,
or finding his own way home by slight signs, such as bent twigs, and keeping general
direction through the forest by the sky and the sheltered sides of the trees, are very
interes'ing, though when learnt they lose much of their marvellous appearance. The
testing of the mental powers of various races is an interesting research, for which
good opportunities now and then occur. It is established that some races are inferior
to others in volume and complexity of brains. Australians and Africans being in tliis
respect below Europeans, and the question is to determine what differences of mind
may correspond. Setting aside the contemptuous notions of uneducated Europeans
as to the minds of ' black-fellows ' or ' niggers ', what is required is. to compare the
capacity of two races under similar circumstances. This is made difficult by the fact
of different training.
PLANE GEOMETRY.
(2nd Paper.)
Wednesday, .July 6ih, 1910, from 2..30 p.m. to 5..30 p.m.
1. Construct a triangle of given perimeter, having its angles equal to those of a
given triangle.
2. Prove geometrically (o-h6)2 + (n-&)2 = 2(a^ + h-).
3. Find the locus of the centre of a circle whose circumference passes througli
two given points.
4. If a straight line cut two .•^ides of a triangle proportionately, it is parallel to
the third side.
5. If two triangles be equiangular to one another, they are similar.
6. In a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular be drawn from the right angle
to the hypotenuse, the triangles on each side of it are similar to the whole triangle
and to one another.
7. If two straight lines cut one another within a circle, the rectangle contained
by the segments of one of them is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of
the other.
PLANE TRIGONOMETRY.
Thursday, .Tuly 7th, 1910. from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Note. — Do not use natural trigonometric functions in the solution of triangles.
.1 .1
1. Show that sin .1=2 sin ., cos ., :
, A
cos A = 1 - 2 siu- ., ;
A cos A + 1
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h - c
2. Prove tan A (S - C) = ,- cot J A.
0 + c
3. The sides of a triangle are 17, 19 and 34. What are the angles?
4. Given 0 = 93-6, 6 = 35-2, (7 = 110° 32'. Find c.
5. Given 4 = 50° 44'; S = 60° 02'; a =618-67. Find c.
6. Given a = 26; b = 24; c = 10. Find 0.
7. A pole 20 feet high subtends an angle of 12° 30' at a point that is 6 feet higher
than the foot of the pole; find the horizontal distance from the point to the pole.
SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY.
Thursday, July 7th, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Note. — Do not use natural trigonometric functions in the solution of triangles.
.„ . „ (I 003 8 cos (S-A)
1. Prove sm'' x = - -. — ^ — : — 7t — .
2 sm B sin C
2. Prove that in a spherical triangle the sines of the sides are proportional to the
sines of the opposite angles.
3. What is a quadrantal spherical triangle? Give a method of solving such a
triangle.
4. Given A = 135° 05' 29", 0 = 50° 30' 08", h = 69° 34' 56" ; find a and B.
5. Given A = 120°, B = 130°, C = 80° ; find c.
6. Given 4 = 60°, B = 75°, and c = 22°; find C.
XXIX.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS FOR LOWER GRADE
POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE INTERIOR AND MINES,
JULY, 1910.
WRITING.
Thursday, .July 14th, 1910. from 9.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
Value— 100.
READY FOR TJIE HARVEST.
Now that the objected-to auditing clause in the Publicity Department agreement
is killed, and all the money is in hand, it would seem that the last ob3tacle to the
immediate organization of the department on a permanent basis was removed.
Hardly a week passes without the announcement being made that some large
American company lias decided to establish a branch factory in Canada. Ottawa has,
in combination, the conditions which these firms require, namely, cheap power, good
shipping facilities, central geographical location and the workmen both skilled and
cheap. The claims of Ottawa, placed before the management of these coming in-
dustries, should do much to secure several of them for the city.
Thus, the field is white, ready for the ind\istrinl harvest. Tt is \ip to the Publicity
Df-partment.
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SPELLING.
Thursday, July 14th, 1910, from 9.30 a.m. to 10.00 a.m.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. The candidates are required to correct
the errors. For every mistake in spelling 3 marks will be deducted.
Value— 50.
THE NATION.AL TR.\N"SC0NT1-NENT.\L.
When the contrakt for the contruxiun of the westerue halfe of the National
Transcontinental Ralway and the operashun of the whol of it was maid with the
Grande Trunck Ralway Companie in 1903, it was asumede that the work of explore-
ing the root, locoating the line, and construkting the road, eoud be compleated by 1908.
The knolege obtaned durin the year folowing the conklusion of the agrement of 1903
maid it evedent, however, that the five yeer intervail was to shorte, and it was ex-
tendid to 1911. Even that seamed breaf to those who new the dificiiltys to be over-
cum, and the delais to wliich such a grate undertakeing is almost inevitebly sub-
jecked.
DICTATION.
Thursday, July lltli, 1910, from 10.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner will read over
each section slowly and distinctly. Time allowed, thirty minutes.
Value — 50.
TECUMSEH.
The finding of what are alleged to be the remains of Tecumseh in a neglected
grave revives the memory of the must faithful and valiant ally England ever had.
lie was chief of an Indian tribe, originally of Virginian stock, which, owing to the
aggression of American colonists, had been driven back from the sea-coast until they
found themselves in the territory of Michigan, under British protection. From his
youth up, Tecumseh showed remarkably qualities. Devoid of education, in the
European sense of the term, he had learned to control himself. He despised plunder and
abjured the use of fire-water. His conduct on the battlefield was only exceeded by his
eloquence in council. This combination of the head and hand won the hearts of the
tribe and of their savage allies, and his influence extended over the warriors of many
other Indian nations. With the skill of a statesman, he appeased all dissensions, re-
conciled all interests and united all min<ls in one common alliance against the Ameri-
cans, or Long Knives, as the Indians called them.
ARITHMETIC.
Thursday. July 14th. 1910, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
N.B. — Give the work of each quest ii>n in full.
1. Write in figures, one million, one hundred thousand, seven hundred
and one.
2. Express in letters, 37567089 and 270526391.
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12 3. Add 297563, 875296, 397567, 26975, 789573, 6876358, 9378567, 763879,
689537, 865729, 6754856, 285439, 8320765.
12 4. Subtract 3754396275 from 4532684072.
12 5. Multiply 7856302785 by 708.
12 6. Divide 42507639485 by 879.
20 7. How many days will it take 30 men to do a piece of work, which 20
men can" do in 45 days?
20 8. A is 20 years of age; B's age is equal to A's and half of C's; and
C's is equal to A's and B's together. What are the ages of B and C?
XXX.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR TWO
POSITIONS OF ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
NAVAL SERVICE, AUGUST, 1910.
BOOKKEEPING (Theoretical).
Tuesday. August 2nd, 1910, from 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
1. State whether a bill is or is not invalid :
(a) If it is not dated.
(&) If it does not specify value given.
(c) If it does not state the place where it is payable.
(c^) If it is dated on Sunday or other non-juridical day.
2. ^^^lat (if any) days of grace are allowed:
(a) On bills payable on demand.
(fc) On bills payable at sight.
(c) On bills payable after a specified time.
3. Should bills under discount appear on the balance sheet of a business; if so,
how and why? If not, why not?
4. Explain the use and method of treatment of the following accounts: —
Incorporation, Keserve for Bad Debts, Depreciation of Plant, Dividend, Bills
Payable, Bills Receivable, Good-will, Collateral, Reserve.
5. Describe a convenient method of entering cash discounts on accounts receiv-
able and bills receivable. Distinguish between cash discounts and trade discounts.
6. How should inventories be treated in closing the ledger at the end of a fiscal
year? Is the common practice of adding the inventory of goods on hand to the credit
side of the merchandise account theoretically correct? Explain fully and concisely.
7. On what basis should the following Assets be valued to ascertain the profit or
loss at a fixed period:—
Raw Material, Furniture and Fixtures, Product in Pi'ocoss of Manufiieture,
Stock Investments. Manufactured Product?
8. Describe the old method of keeping the .Merchandise Account. Exiilaiu the
modern method, and point out its advantages.
9. Rule up an Accounts Payable Register with a teu-coluinn distribution, filling
in the headings, figui-es and references necessary for a complete voucher record.
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BOOKKEEPING (PRACxrcAL).
Tuesday, August 2nd, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
1. A firm manufacturing but one grade of cloaks, insured against burglary,
claims to have been robbed on the night of June 15th.
The proof of the loss filed by the assured contained two items, viz. : — 600 cloaks,
$12,000, and silk, 1,000 yards, $1,500.
An inventory of stock on hand, consisting of cloaks, cloth and sillv, had been
taken on January 1st, amounting to $118,500, the details of which have been lost or
destroyed.
An analysis of the firm's books produced the following information:—
Purchases of cloth, 37,500 yds. @ $1.00.
silk, 10,000 " 2.00.
6,000 cloaks were manufactured, consuming
cloth, 40,000 yds. @ $1.00.
and silk, 10,000 " 2.00.
9,000 cloaks were sold between January 1st and June 15th.
Cost of sales per cloak, for material $10 00
" " " labour and sundries. ... 7 00
Total $17 00
Inventory, June 16th : 2,500 cloaks @ $17 00
12,500 yds. cloth @ 1 00
5,000 yds. silk @ 2 00
Prepare a report proving or disproving the claim.
2. Hart and Eoss start a partnership business on January 1st, 1907. Upon closing
the bookg, December 31st, 1907, an examination of the accounts revealed the following:
Januarv 1st, 1907, Hart invested $9,000
May 1st, " " " 2,400
June 1st, " " withdrew 1,800
Sept. 1st, " " " 2,000
October 1st, " " invested 800
January 1st, " Ross " 3,000
March 1st, " " withdrew 1.600
May 1st, " " " 1,200
June 1st, " " invested 1,500
October 1st, " '■' " 3,000
Merchandise account: Dr., $32,000: Cr., $27,000.
Stock on hand per inventory, $10,500. Cash on hand, $4,900. Bills Receivable,
$12,400. G. Gray owes $250. F. Drain owes $700. W. Clark owes $650. F. Ham owes
$850. The firm owes on notes $1,890. They also owe A. Read $240. They owe C.
Smith $500, and A. Grain $100.
The Profit and Loss account before closing shows on the debit side, $866, and on
the credit side, $1,520.
Expense account debit, $2,520. Commission account credit, $2,760. Interest
debit, $480. Credit, $950.
The loss or gain is to be divided in proportion to each partner's capital, and in
proportion to the time it was invested.
Prepare a statement consisting of the Merchandise account closed, each partner's
account closed, Profit and Loss account and a Balance Sheet.
3. Rule up a cash-book, providing special columns for accounts having a large
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number of items which it it not necessary to post to the ledger more often thiui once a
month. Write up the following items and balance the cash-book, making a reconcilia-
tion account, showing bank balance and cheques outstanding: —
Received from Johnson investment $5,000 00
" " Brown on a/c 745 00
" " Roberts on a/c 232 00
" " Jones in full 24 50
" " Cash sales 50 On
" '• " 50 items equal 833 00
Received from Bills Receivable, paid 45 00
" " " 35 notes paid equal... 946 00
" " Mason on a/c 300 00
'■' " Branch Store on a/c 30 00
" " 25 daily returns 1,249 00
Discount allowed Brown on a/e 16 00
"' " Roberts on a/c 4 SO
'■ " Jones 0 50
" Mason 6 00
Deposited in Bank of Montreal 5,000 00
1,001 50
" 883 00
991 00
330 00
1,249 00
Paid by cheque Robertson & Co 426 00
'' " Thompson & Co 750 00
" " Salaries and Wages, 5 items 834 00
" " Merchandise, 46 items 1,455 00
" " General Expense, 32 items 273 00
" " Bills Payable, 75 items 3,833 00
Discount earned from Robertson & Co 22 50
" " Thompson & Co 37 50
Cheques issued and not presented 350 00
4. Draw up a plan for keeping a stock-book of general stationery by means of
which you can at all times tell what quantity of stock of any special class you have on
hand. Fill in the names of articles and quantities to such an extent as to show clearly
how the system works out.
5. Explain a system by means of which you may keep a record of your liabilities
on regular accounts payable without keeping a ledger account with each creditor.
Illustrate by means of forms and record-book.
6. The balance sheet of a joint stock company, January 1st, 1909, was as follows:
Real Estate $ 30,000 Creditors' open a/c $ 16,000
Plant and Machinery 45,000 Bills Payable 30,000
Horses and Wagons 5,000 Profit and Loss a/c 30,500
Patents and Good- will 20,500 Capital Stock 100,000
Inventory of stock 39,000
Accounts Receivable 25,000
Cash on hand and in bank 12,000
$176,500 $176,500
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On January 1st, 1910, the balance sheet was:
Eeal Estate $32,000 Creditors $17,000
Plant and Machinery.. ..$15,000 Mortgage 15,000
Less depreciation 4,500 Bills Payable 10,000
40,500 Profit and Loss-
Horses and Wagons $5,000 Last year $30,500
Less depreciation 500 Profit this year. . . . 24,150
4,500 • 54,650
Patents and Good-will 20,500 Capital Stock 100.000
Inventory of stock 55,000
Accounts Receivable 23,000
Investment 10,000
Cash on hand and in bank 11,150
$196,650 $196,650
From the foregoing it will be seen that for the year a net profit of $24,150 has
been earned, while the accounts receivable are less and the cash balance is less than at
the beginning of the year, though no dividend has in the meantime been paid. Pre-
pare an account showing what has become of the profits earned.
ARITHMETIC.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 1910, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
N.B.— The line of reasoning by which results are obtained must be clearly indicated.
Values.
10~ 1. A contractor, who pays $18.00 a thousand for his inch lumber, uses
the waste as fuel. How much does this firewood cost him a cord ?
10 2 In what ratio must two kinds of coffee, costing respectively 50c. and
65c. per pound, be mixed, so as to yield a profit of 161% by selling the mix-
. ture at 63c. per pound? . . xi. *
10 3. An agent charged 5% for selling wheat, and 2% for investing the net
proceeds in sugar. His two commissions amounted to $140. Find the selling
price of the wheat.
5 4. Find the dates on which the following notes matured:—
Date of Note. Time of Note.
L Aug. 22, 1909 4 mouths.
2. Apr. 28, 1910 2
3. Nov. 28, 1908 3
4. Dec. 31, 1908 2 '|
6. Feb. 21, 1910 3
10 5. On a bill of $384.00 a buyer is offered (o) one discount of 33i%, or
(b) three successive discounts of 12J%. How much does he gain by accept-
ing the better offer? . .a
10 6. By purchasing 3% stock, a person clears 5i% on his investment, alter
paying an income tax of 20 mills on the dollar. What was the market price
of the stock, brokerage being i% ?
10 7. A and B both of Montreal, owe £30 and £30 respectively to a merchant
in Liverpool. A purchases sovereigns at go^ par and transmits them by ?i
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
friend, who delivers them personally without charge for his services. B
transmits a bill of exchange purchased at 110. How much Canadian cur-
rency is required in each case to settle the two accounts?
10 8. The terms of a purchase amounting to $450.00 are: Net, 40 days; 3
per cent, 10 days. The date of the invoice is June 24th. On July 3rd the
buyer pays cash $200 and gives his note for the balance, taking advantage
of all the time to which he is entitled. Find the face and the time of the
note.
10 9. The stocks of three partners are $4,000, $6,500, and $3,500, respec-
tively; their gains are $960, $2,340 and $1,400 respectively. If B's stock is
in trade three months longer than A's, what time was each stock in trade?
15 10. The following payments have been made on a demand note for $2,750,
drawn Aug. IS, 1908, bearing interest at 7% :— April 9, 1909, $75 ; July 3,
1909, $400; Dec. 5, 1909, $150. How much will be due on August 21, 1910?
100
ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 1910, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Note. — Candidates are requested to give attention to their penmanship.
Values.
20 1. Write a description uf an important event of the Twentieth Century
that has affected the British Empire.
The essay should show that the candidate has a working knowledge of the
principles governing paragraph construction.
10 2. You are treasurer of the Canadian Association of Accountants. Write
a letter to the secretary at Ottawa, tendering your resignation as treasurer.
Give reasons for resigning.
10 3. As secretary of the local horticultural society, you have been requested
to prepare a resolution reconmiending that the City Council appoint a com-
petent person to supervise the planting of trees on the city streets. Write
the resolution, supplying a suitable preamble.
50 4. Write in concise sentences and well-constructed paragraphs a synopsis
of the following evidence. Supply a suitable title to the extract as a whole
and to each of your paragraphs. Construct your precis so as to present the
salient ideas in consecutive and readable form. Attend to spelling, punctua-
tion, and literary style.
Q. What kind of trees have you for distribution?
A. The principal varieties are the Manitoba maple, the green ash, the cotton-
woods, and in certain cases the Russian poplar and some elms. The main object is to
assist the settler in growing shelter belts on his homestead. We do not aim at furnish-
ing all the trees that we hope will be grown in the Northwest eventually, but we are
doing an educative work and, at the same time, giving a shelter belt or fringe to the
more delicate shrubbery and coniferous trees, and it is expected that the settler will
follow up the work in this direction.
Q. From what parts of the West are these applications coming in?
A. The applications are general from all parts of the prairie between the Rocky
Mountains and the Red river. But I want to say this, that we do not supply trees to
any one who is living where they have trees growing naturally. That is not the object.
Our desire is to encourage the growing of trees where they are not grown now.
CITIL SERVICE COMMISSIoy OF CAXADA 2X1
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
Q. Have you any trees for distribution in Ontario and Quebec?
A. No. In fact, the distribution is only made on prairie lands.
Q. Have you any statistics to show what proportion of these trees live?
A. That is a very important question, and I am glad it has been asked. I had our
inspectors, when they were going around, make an estimate, and although I have not
yet had the estimate for this past year tabulated, but for the year before, going over
the inspector's reports and taking the list of all that we had furnished during the
years that the distribution had been in progress, and taking the number then living as
estimated by the inspectors, the record shows that about 85 per cent were then living,
that is 85 per cent of all that had been sent out were living in the summer of 1905.
Q. How old were these trees when sent out?
A. The seed of the Manitoba maple is planted in the spring, taken up and heeled
in the fall and sent out the next spring. The ashes take two years, and the elms, of
course, take much longer.
At the present time I might say that the applications are coming in at a much
greater rate than in previous seasons ; we have an average of about fifteen applications
received at our office each day, and they will increase much faster from this on until
the first of March, when we cannot receive any more for this year.
Q. Where do you get your supply of trees from?
A. I have placed on the wall here a photog:raph of trees growing in our nursery.
We grow them at the Forest Nursery Station which we have established at Indian
Head. At first when the work started the Agricultural Department was kind enough
to allow us to use a portion of their land at the experimental farms at Brandon and
Indian Head. The work, however, got so large, and we required so much land, that
it was impossible for them to give it to us, so we took IGO acres just south of Indian
Head, albout IJ miles from the station, and we have concentrated the whole work
there. The trees are nearly all grown from seed, with the exception of the cottonwoods.
The cottonwoods arc difficult to grow from seeds, but cuttings can be got from along
the river banks. We have got most of them from the river of Dakota near Bismark,
the Missouri river; they grow along the bars there. We could not get them any
other place as well or as cheaply as we do from that point. Nearly all we have are
brought from there.
Q. Do you own that 160 acres?
A. Yes, we have taken that over; it was Indian lands. We are now acquiring
320 acres; there were IGO acres taken at first, but we have now enlarged it to 320 acres.
I have some photographs of the buildings that we have erected there which will bo
passed around for the inspection of the members. We arc not only growing trees for
distribution there, but there will also be a permanent nursery; we are trying to fin<l
out what imported trees will grow in that climate under forestry conditions.
Q. Did you ever try walnut?
A. No, but they have been tried at the experimental farm ; we do not attempt to
do anything that has already been proved a failure when it has been tried at the ex-
perimental farms. It is beyond the range of walnut or hickory. There was a question
asked once before about hickory, but it is useless, I think, to try it in that climate.
The objects aimed at in starting this system of co-operation were, first, to assist
the settler on the bare prairies in growing a forest plantation on his homestead, and
second, by so doing to educate not only the individual so assisted, but his neighbours,
in the work of sylviculture. Here is an object lesson all over the plains of the North-
west. It may be perhaps only one or two in one township, but if the settlers there
see how those trees have grown, how they have been cultivated and under what condi-
tions they have grown, they can go on and do the work for themselves. Many of them
we hope will do so. More than that, tlioy will be able to grow fuel as well. If I had
time, I would be able to give figures to show thnt it will be profitable for them to grow
a certain qunntity of timber for fuel.
212 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Q. In regard to Manitoba maples, have you any definite idea how long they will
live?
A. How long they will live?
Q. There has always been an idea in the country that the Manitoba maples are
not long-lived?
A. I think we had one on exhibition which was eighty years old.
Q. There is quite an impression in the West that the lives are from fifteen to
twenty years ?
A. I do not think they are long-lived trees by any means, but it is a capital tree
for shelter purposes even if we only get it for a few years. Within that shelter other
trees can be grown, thus serving the desired purpose. The green ash is a much-
favoured tree in the West.
Q. So is the elm?
A. And the elm, too, but the ash is easier grown there.
Q. What is the difference between the Ontario maple and the Manitoba maple?
A. The Manitoba maple does not grow to the size that our maples do. It is not
as hard as the hard maple. There are many points of difference between them.
Q. Is the Manitoba maple as hard as our soft maple?
A. I think it is quite as hard as our soft maple.
Q. I saw a few of those trees growing opposite the Surveyor General's office that
were 10 or 12 inches in diameter?
A. Oh, yes.
Q. Where do they call it box elder?
A. They call it box elder in Dakota. Our own maples are far better, and we
should never bring Manitoba maples here. But they are very hardy, and they answer
the purpose on the plains in a way that no other tree does.
Value.
10 5. Select, from the foregoing evidence, five or more expressions that are
open to criticism, and state clearly your reasons for objecting to the forms
employed.
CIVIL l^ERTICE COMMISSION OF CANADA
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
XXXI.— PAPERS SET AT SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR A LOWER GRADE
POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, AUGUST, 1910.
WEITING.
Wennipeo, August 11. — The presence in Winnipeg of four British noblemen and
a number of prominent British financiers, who are awaiting the arrival of Norton
Griffiths, the great British railway contractor, who is coming here direct from Chili,
has led to rumors that they are plaiming an enormous new railway project. It is said
a new transcontinental is being projected. Lord Dunlop and Lord Dunmore have
been here several days and Lord Vivian and Lord Clinton came in last night.
SPELLING.
Value— 50.
Note. — This exercise is purposely misspelled. Candidates are required to correct the
errors. For every mistake in spelling, 3 marks will be deducted.
IMPERRIALL EXIBISIOX.
The schem for a grate impcrriall cxibision to be held in Londouu, whitch was ex-
planed resentley, has met with harty aprooval, not onley in England, but in the Col-
lonys also. Such welnown gentlemen as Mr, Chamberlain, the Erl of Selborne, Mr.
Churchill, Lord Strathcona and otheres have cxpresede their hop that the enterpris
will meet with the succes it deserves.
It is propossed that the exhibision shall be the greatest that has ever been helde
in anny countrey. The date at present propozed is durin 1914. The mane objecte of
the undertacking is to shew exactlcy what is posibel to produse and manifactur with-
in the empyr, by means of confcrrencies, a closer unyty arnung comershial, agricul-
turel, shiping, edukashionel and other enterests in all parts of the empyr.
DICTATION.
Tuesday, August 16th, 1910, from 10.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Note. — This paper is not to be seen by the candidates. The examiner in charge will
read over each section slowly and distinctly.
Value— 50.
LITERARY NOTES.
Believers in the theory that Mr. Andrew Lang is a syndicate will find some sup-
port to their belief in the fact that Messrs. Longmans announce for early publication
no fewer than three books from his prolific pen. The subject of the second of the
volumes is announced as ' A Defence of Sir Walter Scott and the Border Ballad.' If
Mr. Lang has a favourite subject it is surely the ballads. In a lecture before the
British Academy Professor W. P. Ker remarked — ' In this country the folklore of
ballads has been described by Mr. Andrew Lang in essays to which more readers and
214 rrVIL fiERVICE COMMTSSION OF CANADA
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
writers are iudebteJ thau ever liave been able to express their thanks properly.' Con-
sidering also his intimacy with the life and works of Scott, the volume should be both
instructive and fascinating. Finally, we come to ' The Lilac Fairy Book,' the usual
Christmas volume. Even Mr. Lang's ingenuity must by-and-by fail to find a dis-
tinctive colour for the annual volume of fairy tales.
AKITHMETIC.
Tuesday, August 16th, 1910, from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
Values.
10 1. Write in figures : Seventy-five million, two hundred and two thousand
and seventy-six. Two hundred million, seventy-five thousand, three hundred
and four.
10 2. Read the following numbers: CCL, XCIX., DCC, MM.,
MDCCCLXXX.
10 3. Add 343367, 568427, S9567305, 78567432, 2957385, 9765327, 493256,
87567824, 6783275, 2S47592.
10 4. Subtract 49683975163 from 692348726045 and divide the remainder
by 679.
10 5. Multiply 78567853289 by 79.
16 6. It required 4375480 bricks to build a bouse. How many days did it
require 5 teams to draw the bricks if they drew 5 loads per day and 1,250
bricks at a load?
16 7. How many days will it take 30 men to do a piece of work which 20
men can do in 45 days?
16 8. How many tiles 14 inches long will it take to make a drain i of a
mile long?
100
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
DKPA.RTME^T
PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
ANNUAL EEPOET
Foirriii-: fiscvVL vkar kndki) maikmi ;;i mho
I'RINTKD liV ORDKIi OF I' A R LI AM EXT
OTTAWA
rRTNTEl) liV CIIAKLKS HK.NKV PARMKLKK. I'HINTKi; To TIIK Kl.\(;s MOST
[No 32— 1911J
KXCELLEXT M A.I ESTY
1910
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Tn lI'iK E.icelhnr.y the Right llummrable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Grey, Vi/icovnl
//o/ricA-, liaron Grey of Houick, in the County of Northumherland, in the Peerage
III' the I'nited Kingdom, and a liaronel ; 'Knight Grand Cronx of the Moxt
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, iw^ dix., <fr., (/vvernor
General, of Canada.
M \\ IT Pt-KASR YOIK EXCKM.F.NCY,
The undersigned lias the lionour to present to Your Excellency the Annual
Report of the Department of Fuhlic Printinj; nnd Stationery, for the year ended March
;il, 1910.
All \v!iich is respectfully suhniitted.
C1IAHLE8 MURPHY,
Secretary vf Slate.
Ottawa, Noveniher, 1910.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Dkpartment of Public PniN'TiNr; and Statiokeky.
Offick of the Kino's Pkintek and Controller of Stationkkv,
Ottawa, November!*, 1910.
The HoiKiuiable Charles Murphy, P.C, M.P.,
Secretary of State.
Sir, — r have tlie honour to .submit herewith the Annual Report of this Depart-
ment for the fi.scal year ended March .31, 1910. The details are ffrouped under their
proper head.s in the reports of the .several branches under the Accountant, the Superin-
tendent of Printing and the Superintendent of Stationery, respectively.
The printing charged to Parliament and the various Departments amounted to
i?46.'),4.35.63 as against .l!t72, 420.63 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of
the goods issued by the Stationery Branch shows a decrease of $20,613.90, the figures
being: 190.S 9, it;613,.516.4.5 ; 1909-10, $592,902..5r).
The surplus on account of the Canada Gazette amounted to •1f4,037.20.
The totals of the accounts dealt with by the Audit Branch are as follows : —
Amount of advertising accounts audited ... $102,841 15
M lithographing and printing accounts 300,613 26
II Intercolonial Railway accounts 87,270 47
The number of advertising accounts audited was 5,660.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
C. H. FARM E LEE,
King's Printer and Controller of Stationery,
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
ACCOUNTANT'S BRANCH.
Ottawa, September, 1910.
C H. Parmelee, Esq.,
King's Printer and Controller of Stationery.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following report of the transactions of this
branch of the department for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910.
The following general statement of receipts and expenditure for the fiscal period
shows the financial operations of the department as a whole. The usual detailed state-
iuents are al.so appended.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.
Statement of Receipts and E.xpenditure for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910.
Receijits.
Civil Government —
Salaries
Contingencies "
Cleaning
Letter of credit —
Canada Gazette, appropriation
Distribution of parliamentary docu-
ments, ai)propriation
Plant, appiopriation. .
Printing, binding and distributing
the laws, appropriation
Miscellaneous printing, appropria-
tion .
Franchise .\ct, appropriation
King's Printer's advance account. .
Stationery stock
Bills of exchange —
Sterling — Importations of stationery
IT M bindery stocli
General revenue —
Parliamentary publicatioms, pro-
ceeds of sales to departments and
parliament •
Parliamentary publications, pro-
ceeds of all other sales
Canada Gazette, proceeds of sales,
subscriptions and advertisements.
"V oters' lists, proceeds of sales ...
Casual revenue, proceeds of sales of
waste paper, &c
Linotype dross, proceeds of sales . . .
Priming, work performed for depart-
ments and parliament
Paper used on above work
Lithographing, stamping, ifec
Stationery, books, &c.. supplied to
departments and parliament. . . .
Refunds —
Civil government contingencies. . .
King's Printei's advance account..
Total 3,381,595 53
83,522 34
3.600 (ID
3, SCO 00
11,000 00
2,300 00
7,000 00
10,000 00
55,000 00
8,000 00
984,500 87
577,697 00
23,739 PO
2,237 39
4,230 24
6,641 27
14,994 66
91 14
1,162 .tO
528 60
465.435 63
222,880 69
300,613 26
11 85
5 74
E.xpenditure.
Civil Government-
Salaries
Coutingencie.s
Cleaning
Miscellaneous —
Canada Gazette, printing, paper, &c.
Distribution of parliamentary docu-
ments
Plant....
Laws, printing, binding and distri-
bution
Miscellaneous printing
Franchise Act, printing, salaries, &c.
King's Printer's advance account
Stationery stock, purchases, salaries,
&c
Dominion Government, deposited to
the credit of the Receiver General
Balance une.\pended on appropriations
as follows : —
Civil government —
Contingencies
Cleaning
Franchise Act
Plant....
Distribution of parliamentary docu-
ments
Miscellaneous printing
Canaia Gazette
Laws
Amount.
83,522 34
3,569 79
3,499 67
1,29) 89
6,995 43
9,999 02
54,998 82
2,.529 31
986,738 26
601,436 80
,009,498 13
30 21
0 83
5,470 69
4 57
1,004 11
1 18
42 54
0 98
32—1
2 DEPATiTMEyr OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
CA.YADA GAZETTE'.
The following is a detailed statement of expenditure and receipts on account of
Canada Gazette, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910 : —
RECEIPTS.
Advertisements and sales $■ 14,219 41
Subscriptions ' ' 5 25
$ 14,994 66
EXPENSES.
Paper used
Printing and distribution
Translation, &c
$ 2,158 56
7,983 10
815 80
I 10,957 46
The number of copies issued in the last week of March was 1,900, of which 208
were sent to paying subscribers, and the remaining gratis to judges, public departments,
exchanges, &c., &o.
I also subjoin a statement of receipts and expenditure on account of Canada
Gazette from the year 1875 to the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910, inclusive : —
1875
1876
1877
1878
1870
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1890
1891
189-2
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
•1907
tl908
n909
1910
Expenditure.
1,077
1,049
1,084
1,108
1,115
1,170
1,215
1,2".8
1,250
1,290
1,321
1,318
1,366
1,3G9
1,367
1,429
1,436
1,439
1,426
1,418
1.4-.'5
1,428
1,428
1,438
1,486
1,529
1.528
1.553
1,545
1,559
1,573
1,559
1,616
1,625
1,665
1,692
88
81
79
85
70
68
92
109
85
69
77
84
81
83
71
84
86
84
82
75
72
72
87
59
96
97
97
105
116
177
191
184
200
185
Paper.
.? ots.
1,177 17
1,195 98
1,292 25
1,016 05
1,195 21
1,208 48
1,197 38
1,360 61
1,414 24
1,428 16
1,404 76
1.683 88
1,797 22
2,164 85
1,883 80
1,758 50
1,492 62
1,480 79
1,485 71
1,183 66
1,153 87
1,129 52
1,229 52
1,450 21
940 43
1,092 72
1,347 79
1,430 89
1,315 56
1,427 48
1.684 85
1,629 58
1,322 63
1,805 72
2,053 45
2,158 56
Printing
and
Distribution
$ cts.
2,414 00
2,301 51
2,323 45
2,139 48
2,203 81
2,357 81
2,132 20
2,261 85
2,181 48
2,219 00
2,243 43
2,241 65
•2,537 79
2,933 57
2,859 19
3,128 36
2,060 55
2,069 30
2,826 07
2,485 08
2,704 36
3,997 00
3,003 51
3,803 11
3,273 01
3,640 17
4,287 81
3,758 22
3,999 78
4,368 81
6,125 m
6,909 57
4,248 17
7,484 48
7,319 99
7,983 10
Transla-
tion.
$ ots.
242 80
181 80
141 89
125 80
123 90
123 90
147 40
197 00
215 30
148 24
169 45
62 20
389 10
349 80
103 00
204 00
211 85
188 98
240 54
265 10
232 50
256 75
245 40
337 10
255 30
289 50
256 GO
284 00
2.53 60
309 80
364 80
460 85
329 20
709 80
587 60
815 80
$ cts.
242 80
241 80
224 75
268 40
246 50
243 90
3.53 65
378 4'i
367 25
414 !>/
289 35
290 70
321 40
316 85
308 60
487 95
324 18
313 47
306 50
298 73
281 65
276 65
298 55
312 70
329 65
350 00
329 65
361 80
371 85
430 40
604 12
750 00
524 27
762 15
721 20
775 25
843 74
.578 41
681 62
683 47
739 82
865 38
1,028 04
2,706 28
2,181 53
6,658 12
1,264 05
2,020 82
2,831 04
2,909 72
4,637 49
2,777 03
■ 3,309 61
3,436 32
3,612 37
3,545 87
4,015 64
4,673 69
4,992 94
5,574 40
3,948 65
4,679 98
4,370 82
4,451 39
5,667 65
4,523 25
6,997 50
7,644 35
6,821 20
8,472 51
8,684 40
14,219 41
$ cts.
2,636 13
2,830 11
2,743 13
2,318 53
2,613 00
2,538 09
2,085 29
735 34
1.262 24
1,727 48
2.263 14
1,676 21
1,571 66
2,231 15
1,825 88
331 70
29 47
11 26
89 24
366 65
206 56
559 07
913 51
190 14
296 73
1,173 73
759 92
7 59
1,152 44
.57-< 60
005 65
76534
555 44
470 56
'1,445 47
4,037' 20
To March 31, 1907. t To March 31, 1908. + To March 31 1909.
REPORT OF THE A'-COUyTAXT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
THE STATUTES.
The detiils of e.Kpenditure on account of statutes are as follows : —
Paper § 1,628 42
Printing and binding 7,806 26
Distribution, itc 564 34
$ 9,999 02
The particulars of distribution, number of copies issued, Szc, will be found in table
annexed, in report of Superiniendent of Stationery.
PKINTIiSG AND BINDING.
For the charges against the several departments, the House of Commons and
Senate, for printing, binding, lithograpliing, stamping, &c., I have tlie honour to refer
you to the subjoined tabular statenient.s. A, B and C.
A comparative statement for the past five years, from 1905-6 to 1909-10, for
both printing and stationery, is subjoined — tables D and E.
ADVERTISING.
The total amount certified by this department for government advertising during
the fiscal year ending March .31, 1910, wa.s SlOJ.Sil . 15, the details of which are set
forth in statement F. These accounts being paid by the several departments for which
the advertising is done, the amour^t is not included in the statement of receipts and
expenditure of this department.
The number of advertising accounts audited was 5,660; circulars issued, 5,181.
There was, moreover, a considerable amount of correspondence in connection therewith.
I also subjoin a statement of the total amount of advertising accounts, audited by
this office from the year 1876 to the fiscal year ending Marcli 31, 1910, inclusive.
CALENDAR Years.
1876 $ 12,529 27
1877 12,751 56
1878 20,-583 77
1879 29,676 60
1880 63,092 50
1881 30,015 44
1882 50,605 71
1883 30,149 31
1884 39,401 48
1885 33,782 53
1886 25,102 83
1887 48,596 03
1888 44,520 30
1889 .35,939 47
1890 26,102 48
1891 27,519 59
1892 24,819 54
1893 26,704 27
1894 26,423 22
1895 $ 27,424 68
1896 30,760 76
1897 ■.. 35,138 54
1898 (6 months to
June 30, 1898). 16,312 58
1898-
1899-
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908-
1909
Fiscal Yea
-1899 27
-1900 46
-1901 50
-1902 53
-1903 .... 41,
■1904 57,
-1905 102,
1906 107.
-1907(Mch31)89
-1908 ... 141
-1909 .. Ic6
-1910... .. 105
RS.
,699 72
317 74
,790 40
850 75
078 02
898 72
848 11
812 56
339 77
,200 45
,675 f;o
,8<1 !S
32- 1^
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
KING'S PRINTEIl'S ADVA^■CE ACCOUNT.
The following is the state of this account on March 31 last : — •
Expenditure for the year f 980,738 26
Credit balance brought forward from previous year. . . 93,833 02
Credit balance to carry to 1910-11
$ 889,905 24
99,552 94
$ 989,458 18
Charged out to the Departments and
Parliament * 988,9:^9 58
Proceeds of sale of linotj'pe dross. ... 528 60
-6 989,458 18
TABLE A.
Comparative cost of Departmental and Parliamentary Printing, itc, by Departments,
for the fiscal years ending March 31, 1909, and March 31, 1910.
Department.
Agriculture
Auditor General,
Civil Service Commission
Clerk of Crown in Chancery
Commission of Conservation
Customs
Departments Generally
Exchequer Court
Experimental Farm
External Affairs,
Finance
Governor General's Secretary
House of Commons
Indian Affairs,
Inland Revenue.
Insurance Branch
Intercolonial Railway
Interior
Justice
Labour
Library of Parliament
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Mines
Miscellaneous Printing
Penitentiaries
Post Office
Privy Council
Public Printing and Stationery,
Public Worki
Railways and Canals.
Railway Commission
Royal Mint
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Secretary of .State
Senate of Canada
Supreme Court
Trade and Commerce
Transcontinental Railway
REPORT OF THE ACCOUNTANT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
TABLE B.
Cost of Parliamentary an'l Departmental Printing, &c., by quarters for the fiscal
j^ears ending March 31, 1909, and March 31, 1910.
C^uarters.
Printing and Binding.
l'a|x-r.
1908 1900.
1909-1910.
1908-1909. 1909-1910.
$ cts.
114,817 17
77,277 74
104,026 07
176,290 65
472,420 63
$ cts.
121,809 40
88,716 20
116,728 2.T
138,181 78
8 cts.i $ cts.
48,296 80 02,20.S 06
Septeuilwr 30
43,461 30 ! 49,714 05
54,691 13 1 41,474 89
March 31
58,380 22 02,488 69
Totals,
465,435 63
201,829 45 1 222,880 09
TABLE C.
Cost of Lithographic Work, Printing, Stamping, Engraving, etc., itc, ordered through
the Department of Public Printing and Stationery during the fiscal year ending
March 31, 1910.
Department.
Agriculture ....
Auditor General
Civil Service Commis.sion
Clerk of Crown in Chancery
Coinmisaion of Conservation
Customs
Departments (Jenerally
Experimental Farm
External .\ffairs
Finance
Governor General's Secretary. , . . .
House of Commons
Indian Atfairs
Inland Revenue
Insurance Branch
Intercolonial Railway
Interior
Justice
Labour
Library of Parliament . . -
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Mints
Miscellaneous Printing
Penitentiaries
Post Office
Privy Council ...
Public Printing and Stationery. . . .
Public Works
Railways and Canals
Railway Commission
Royal Northwest Mounted Police .
Secretary of State
Supreme Court
Trade and Comtueree
Total 300,613 26
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26,405 70
166 67
1,271 66
38 70
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13,924 45
31 00
2,9.'8 65
282 15
534 14
416 00
26,632 60
1,220 30
2,998 03
470 30
667 62
938 01
634 02
660 79
31 00
989 64
414 10
384 64
792 99
224 59
601 88
31 ?0
540 19
279 27
134 85
434 34
396 33
410 85
16 75
670 85
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1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
PRINTING BRANCH.
Ottawa, September, 1910.
C. H. Parmelee, Esq.,
King's Piinter, itc, itc,
Ottawa.
Sib, — I have the honour to submit a report of the work executed for Parliament
in the Printing Branch of the Department during the session of 1909-10, and also of
the departmental work for the fiscal period ending March .31, 19]0, contained in the
following taV)ulated statements : —
1 . Annual reports.
2. Supplementary reports.
3. Routine Parliamentary work.
4. House of Commons and Senate Debates.
.5. Statutes.
6. Pamphlets and miscellaneous book work.
7. Canada Gazette.
8. Voters' Lists.
9. Letterpress departmental work.
10. Summary of Letterpress departmental work for the twelve months.
11. Plates contained in annual and supplementary reports.
12. Books bound.
1-3. Summary of books bound for the twelve months.
14. Perforating, nunil)f'ring and packing.
1.5. Pad-making.
16. Summary of Pads for the twelve months.
17. Making, printing and stamping of prepaid Post Office envelopes.
18. Die stamping of not« heading.s, letter headings and envelopes.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. McMAHON,
Superintendent of Printing.
10
DEPARTMENT OP PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
Table No. 1.-
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
-Annual Reports to Parliament, Session of 1909-10.
Title of Document.
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Pages.
Parlia-
ment.
DiSTKIBCTION.
l^^P'^f'- Stock,
ment.
Second Session — Eleventh P.\RLi.iJiENr.
Adulteration of Food FrMieh
Agriculture {vrS
Auditor General {f rench'
Bank Shareholders | Fr^gji
Civil Service Co
I English
I French
Criminal Statistics | f^^^^^^
Estimates of Canada, 1910-11 | French'
Estimates of Canada, Supplementary, / English
1910-11 ... IFrench
Estimates of Canada, Further Supple-/ English
meutary, 1909-10 \ French
Estimates of Canada, Further Supple- ( English
mentary, 1910 I French
Estimates of Canada, Supplementary, 1910 j x^.^ "u
Experimental Fai-ms | p"^^^^^^
Fisheries \v"^^''t
\ h rench
Inland Revenue -Part I { y^^^^^^
Interior | f;"S
Insurance Abstract -f ^"S'lsh
I r rench
Library of Parliament, Supplementary / English
Catalogue ! French
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Mounted Police {f^^^
Postmaster General | f "jjefj"
Public Accounts {vrS
Public Printing and Stationery {French'
Public Works {FreS
Railwav.^ and Canals | S"^''!*"
1 b rench
Railway Commission { f^^^^
Secretary of State. . . , | p,"^]jrh'
Trade and Commerce {prS
Trade and Navigation { §'^«^'^^
Unclaimed Bank Balance.s | §"^^^^
Weights, Measures and Lighting— Part/ English
II, Inland Revenue \ French
3,685
990
4,110
890
5,490
1,245
3,470
5,185
1,235
■ 4,835
3,885
835
3,885
835
3,885
835
3,885
835
3,885
835
58,010
14,890
4,110
845
3,855
990
3,635
950
10,285
740
500
3,800
945
3,610
955
3,620
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3,735
815
3,610
790
3,335
765
3,835
940
4,385
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3,885
995
3,635
2,595
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3,885
770
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990
468
464
176
184
2,702
2,702
674
384
176
362
104
104
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12
2
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22
24
424
452
406
496
224
248
504
504
96
96
630
640
416
416
396
410
380
380
1,418
1,418
824
816
784
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,22;j
2,325
475
2,700
2,425
47i
2,425
475
2.425
475
2,425
475
2,425
475
2,725
635
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
500
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,425
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,425
475
2,375
475
2,250
475
2,225
2,225
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2,475
475
2,225
2,225
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50
500
50
500
.50
500
50
55,000!
14,000
1,000,
lOO'
750
250
500
200
700
750
200
500
200
500
300
400
75
500
.50
250
30
500
250
1,000
100
750
2.50
500
100
1,000
50
.500
25
92,005
1,.510
500
REPORT OF THE SUPERjyTEXDEyT OF PRrKTIXG
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Table No. 2. — !>u[ipiemeiitary Reports to Parliament, Session of 1909-10.
Title of Document.
Dairy and Cold Storage { f^f^^^J'
Geographic Board { ^^^^^^
Railway Statistics { ^^^ii^^
Topographical Surveys {frS'
Analytical Index, Conuiious Debates ■ French
L-'"fVessels {f^^^^^
Canal Statistics (f*
Summary of Mines . ". { ^'^^^^
Kvideuce of Experimental Farm Ofticers given be-
fore S.S. Committee on Agriculture and Coloniza-
tion : —
Dr. Wra. Saunders.
Dr. C. G. Hewitt
H T. Gussow
C. E. Saunders .
Felix Charlan
G. H. Clarke
Trade and Commerce Bulletin-
April, 1909
May, 1909
June, 1909
July, 1909
August, 1909
September, 1909
October, 1909
November, 1909
December, 1909
January, 1910
February, 1910
March, 1910
I English
• l French
/ English
■ I French
/ English
t French
I English
■ ( French
/ English
\ French
t English
' 1 French
>famber Number
Trade and Navigation, Unrevised Monthly State
ment —
April, 1909
May, 1909
June, 1909
July, 1909
August, 1909
September, 1009
October, 1909
November, 1909 . .
December, 1909
January, 1910
February, 1910
March, 1910
Totals 271,355
of
Copies.
25,100
10,735
3,900
725
4,125
460
8,590
985
2,925
485
3,600
725
3,800
735
10,600
15,000
4,825
1.5,000
4,825
15, (WO
4,S25
1.5,00(1
4,825
15,000
4,825
15,000
4,825
3,590
3,590
3,590
3,690
3,590
3,590
3,590
3,690
3,590
4,040
3,590
S,590
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
2,775
of
Pages.
Parlia-
ment.
Distribution.
Depart-
ment.
504
504
504
496
504
504
500
504
506
506
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,225
2,225
475
2,825
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
2,225
475
13,275
4.425
13,275
4,425
13,275
4,425
13,275
4,425
13,275
4,425
13,275
4,425
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,175
2,174
2,175
2,175
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
2,075
12,596 178,925
22,000
10,000
800
5,500
200
5,500
250
7,500
250
1,725
400
1,725
400
1,725
400
1,725
400
1,725
400
1,725
400
1,400
1,400
1,400
1,500
1,400
1,400
1,400
1,400
1,400
1,850
1,400
1,400
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
15
10
15
10
100
10
25
Session'l
Pajwrs
Bound.
200
200
200
200
200
200
200
200
200
200
200
200
300 2,895 7,700
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table No. 3. — Statement showing the Routine Parliamentary work,
Session of 1909-10.
TiTLK Of DOCUMKNT.
Second Sessio7i — Eleventh Parliavunt.
Votes and Proceedings [rrench
Orders of the Day {fS
Senate Minutes \ p^l^^^.^
Public Bills (Commons) { French'
Public Bills (Senate) {frend»'
Private Bills (Commons) -j p^^Jfj^
Private Bills (Senate) {IS
Third Reading Bills (Commons) ... - x^ .^ 'i.
Third Reading 6ills (Senate) | French'
Returns (for distribution or Sessional Papers, / English
either or both) 1 French
Divorce Cases (40(i copies each of 10)
Journals —
House of C.mmons (frenoh'
AppendixNo.l JF^em^l'
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
Senate .^"■.!': :::' .:::::::::::: .^ ^ ^ ^ :{fS'
Appendix No. 1
Totals
81,096
Number
of
17,935
Dl.'^TKIBCTION.
2,276
421
790
191
2,001
357
2,345
505
2,345
505
1,045
285
1,045
285
470
165
640
200
27,490
6,965
4,000
2,700
800
2,225
2,425
7,22o
2,325
1,150
73,176
200
70
Hi50
250
900
250
850
250
850
850
850
850
900
250
850
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PRINTING
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Table No. 4. — Statement showing the work on the House of Commons and Senate
Debates, Session of 1909-10.
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Pages.
Distribution.
Title of Docuuifcut.
House
of Com-
mons.
Senate.
Binding
Stock.
Sejond Skssion— Eleventh Parli.mikxt.
Hoiise of Commons—
Daily Debates {f»S
3,535
350
1,516
307
250
30
2,420
210
424,350
4,520
3.035
500
4,744: 325
25
Book Form Debates { f °«J'^(|>
The Senate—
DaUy Debates {f^^t!"
4,422
4,650
1,044
1,102
1,008
1,040
1,682
600
100
225
25
690
150
226
57
25
5
Book Fonn Debates { y"^^^^'
1,850
500
200
70
111
Extra copies of speeches ordered by Members and
Totals
432,968
24,212
4,060 2,100
1,540
918
Table No. 5. — Statement showing the work on the Statutes, 190?'-1909.
Title of Document.
Number
of
Volumes
Number
of
Pages.
Stock.
The Statutes.
>i-9 Edward Vll-ht Session, llth
Pnrliamcnt.
1 English
6,350
1.650
5,650
1,000
46,500
61,1.50
408
412
400
400
3*2
1,962
6,350
Volume 2
\French
/Englisli
1,650
5,650
Sp])arate Chapters. Public .and Private Acts (Engl
Totals
! French
sh and French aggregate). .
1,000
46,500
61,150
14 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIOXERT
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table No. 6. — Retuiu of Pamphlets and .Miscellaneous Book-work for tlis Yoar
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pa-es aggregate)
Description.
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Pages.
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Pages.
Aijricullxtrc —
Canadian Patent Office Record
Index to Canadian Patent Office Record
Statistical Year Book, 1908 (English)
" 11 1. (Frencii)
Census and Statistics' (English)
" 11 (French)
Fruit Cro|j Reports
Circular re Trade Mark and Design Act
Journal of the Yukon
Hull and Outfit for Steel Steamer
Act re Infectious or Contagious Diseases Affecting
Animals
Inventory of Military Papers
French-Canadiau Cattle (French)
Report of Canadian Seed Growers' Association (English).
11 11 11 .1 (French)..
Canadian Archives Report (English)
II 11 11 (French)
Cattle Trade of Western Canada
Report of Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner (English)
11 11 11 11 (French).
Distribution "f Farm Weeds ,
Report of Live Stock Breeders' Association
French-Canadian Cattle (French) . .
United Empire Loyalists
Quarantine Regulations
Summary of Results re Seed Grain (English)
(Fr-eneh)
Swine Husbandry (Englisli)
II 11 (French)
Summary of Results re Seed Grain
Construction of Steel Steamer at Gro.sse Isle
Prize Winnings, &c., at Seed Farms
List of Seeds of Canadian Wild Plants
Bulletins : —
Tuberculose-Bovine (French)
Beet Sugar Industry (French)
Ginseng, Mushroom and Melon Culture (English)
11 11 i: (French)...
Red River Settlement
Potato Diseases (English)....
11 " (French)
Crop (English) ...
« (French)
Cooling of Milk for Cheese-making (English)
11 1. 11 (French)
Cold Storage, &c
Real Estate Owned in Canada
Growing and Using Corn, &c. (English)
11 11 11 (French)
Cream Separators, &c. (French)
Rabies (English)
Tobacco ( English)
.1 (French)
A Kilitor General—
Index to Appropriation Acts.
Civil Service Commission —
Civil Service E-xaminations ...
Regulations of Civil Service CommisRion (English).
11 1. II .1 (Flench).
Information for Candidates (French)
Information re Competitive Examinations
Carried forward
14,400
1,2(10
8,050
2,011)
74,U00
]4,(J0U
.■)S,000
2,500
1,000
100
1,000
1,000
1,000
20,000
5,000
110
7f0
20,000
10,000
5,000
10,000
2,500
5,000
100
5,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
14,000
2'.',000
100
25,000
500
10,000
2,000
10,000
2,000
1,000
25,000
10,000
55,000
14,000
50,000
50,000
4,0(j0
2,500
70,000
29,000
10,000
10,000
14,1 00
12,000
5,000
3,000
2,000
3,000
5,000
3,870
160
596
602
266
2.«2
40
28
180
32
376
20
IKi
132
24
24
24
112
120
232
148
36
32
28
61
64
96
96
32
64
116
8
16
82
740,460
8,508
32
46
8,086
REPORT OF THE SUPERIXTENDEXT OF PRINTINO ]
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Table No. 6. — Return of Pamphlets and Miscellaneous Book-work, for the Year
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pages aggregate) — Continued.
Description.
Brought forward .
Customs —
Classification of Imports
List of Ports
Customs Tariff
Departmental Tariff Rulings
List of Forms
Financial Report
Classification of Countries
Index to Customs Tariff, 1907 (French).
Memo. 1566-B
Customs Tariff
Exchequer Court —
Report No. 4, Vol. XI
.. No. 1, Vol. XII
.. No. 2, Vol. XII
Experimental Farms —
How to Make and Vae a Hotbed
Preparing Land for G rain Crop
Asparagus, Celery and Onion Culture (English).
n .t i. M fFrencli, .
.Serious Potato Diseases (English). .
M II u (French)
Poultry Report (French)
Thirteen different Reports . . ... .
Finance —
Trade with Germany
Supply Bill
Budget Speech, 1<H)9 (English).
1909 (French). .
Act respecting Insurance.
Insurance Bill
Railways Subsidized since 1899
Supply Bill No. 2
Contracts with American Bank Note Co, .
Report of Trust and Loan Companies
Insurance Short Reimrt
Railways Authorized to receive Subsidies.
Act respecting Insurance
Memorandum re Insurance Bill
Budget Speech, 1909 (English)
1909 (French)
Act respecting the Currency
Tariff Schedule ■
Trade Relations with Germany
Supply liiU .\o. 1 '. .
House of Commons —
Schedule of Civil Service Act
Memorandum re Insurance Bill
Report, &c., on Bill No. 108
Sessional Papers 215 and 215a
Rules of the House of Commons (English),
■I M " (French) .
Inde.x to Parliamentary Procedure
List of Committees
Members, 1909-10
11 Repoi ts and Returns
11 Members ....
Insurance Bill (English)
•1 (French) ...
Select Standing Committees. .
Carried orwaid
2,000
2,000
3,000
5,000
1,500
100
2,000
1,200
26,000
3,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
10,000
10.000
10,000
2,000
30,000
4,000
1,000
13,000
1,000
500
8,5>iO
1,500
200
500
200
250
200
3.000
7,000
500
500
500
10,000
2,500
30
ifSOO
2,00o
' 300
Number
of
Copies.
321
176
240
500
14
500
16
2,000
28
850
16
750
96
250
104
10
12
25
12
200
28
300
8
2,250
28
500
100
100
104
500
12
759,160
44,800
28
52
80,000
16
48
44
32
100
16
8
28
16
184
216
8
100
64
36
40
Number
of
10,9tO
16 DEPARTilEXT OF PLBLIC PJHyjlXG AXD STATlOyERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table No. 6. — Retuiu of Pampblets aud Miscellaneous Book-work, for the Year
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pages aggregate) — Continued.
Description.
Brought forward.
Home of Coriimwis — Concluded.
Extra Copies of Various Bills (English)
,1 M (French) . .
List of Committees ....
Unrevised Debates Feb. 3, 1910 (French). .
Commander Wakehani's Report on Lobster Fisherj-
Official Postal Guide (English)
„ n (French)
Indian Affairs —
Regulations of Chippewa Indians
Extract from Auditor General's Report
De.-icription of Land in Museowpetung Indian Reserve.
Indian Act
Calisthenics and Games, Indian Schools
Inland Revenue—
List of Licensed Manufacturers
Official List of Bulletins Issued
Bulletins :
Tincture of Ginger
Mustard
Commercial Cream of Tartar .
Arsenic (as an Impurity in Drugs)
Standard Fertilizers
Ground Ginger
Tea
Infants' and Invalids' Foods
Fertilizers as Sold
Distilled Liquors
Liquor Picis Carbonis
Cream
Ice Cream
Beans, Shorts and Chopped Feed. .
Copper in Vegetaliles
Lard
Fruit Jams
Cieam of Tartar
.\le and Lager Beer
Lime l'"ruit Juice
Lemon Flavouring Extracts
Higlily Colov.red Confectionery
Friar's Balsam
Extract of Vanilla
Borax • ■
Canned Soup
Pepper
JnUriur—
Summary of Homestead Regulations
Report ou Forest Conditions, &c
.\ct re Public Lands of the Dominion
Forest Fires in Canada during 1908
Report on Hiding Mountain Forest Reserve
Number
of
Copies.
4,550
fiOO
25
300
1,000
l!,50
108
300
500
200
200
2,000
Number
of
.\lberta Red The Winning Winter Wheat
immigration I'acts and Figures
Report of Convention of Western Canada Immigration
epor
Association
Regulations re Disi^sal of Mining Rights
Canada as Seen Through Scottish Eyes . .
I Jescription for Deeds
Immigrant Children
Carried forward ,
30,000
5,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
100,000
2,000
2,000
500
111,600
2,000
1,000
Number
of
Copies.
282
122
2
5G
12
496
508
20
KiO
4,000
10
600
12
4,000
24
4,000
28
5,000
32
4,000
20
4,000
18
4.000
16
5,000
16
4,000
16
4,000
12
5,0ti0
10
4,000
16
5,000
50
4,000
12
4,000
16
4,000
24
4,000
26
4,000
20
4,000
16
4,000
16
4,000
16
4,000
10
4,000
10
4,000
16
4,000
16
4,000
32
Number
of
15,968
10,950
2,05G
1,0.56,758 I 1.^876
REPORT OF THE SVPERiyTENDEyT OF PRINTING 17
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Table No. 6. — Return of Pamphlets and Miscellaneous Book-work, for the Year
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pages aggregate) — Continued.
Description .
Brouglit forward
Interior — Concluded.
The Country Called Canada ...
Immigration
K.\tract from Interior Reijort, ia08-09
E-xtract from Rejxjrt of Cnmmissiuner of pJational Parks.
Summary of Regidationc- rcsi^cting ^fomiuion Lands
(French)
Summary of Homestead Regulations
Seismology and Magnetic Work
Astrophysical Work
Meridian Work
L.->titude and Longitude
(ieodetic Survey
Regulations re iDominion Lands Surveyors
Coal Mining Regulations
The Country Called Canada
Homestead Regulations ( English)
.. (French) •.••.••
Report of Convention of Western Canada Irrigation
Association
Forest Prixlucts of Canada ( English)
II (French)
Summaiy of Regulations
Regulations respecting Quartz Mining
Regulations for the Disposal of Tar Sands, Alberta
Insanity in Immigrants ....
Regulations for the Disposal of Petroleum and Natural
Gas Rights, Manitoba
Classes Canada Calls For
The Country Called Canada
Lists of School Lands
Justice —
Rules of the Supreme Couit
Shawinegan Carbide Co. vs. Doucet
Small Claims Against Government Railways
Labour —
Coal Fields in Nova Scotia . .
Combines Investigation Act
Technical Education
Special Report
Marini and Fisheries —
Monthly Weather Review
Lists of Lights and Fog Signals
Tide Tables
Supplements to List of Vessels
Index to Notices to Mariners
Decisions of the Geographic Board
Directory of Canadian Ports
International Rules of the Road (English).
.. .. (French). .
Regulations re Shipping of Live Stock . . . .
Re|x>rt on Naval Defence
Cold Storage for Fresh Fish, &c. (English)
it M (French).
Meteorological Tables, 1908
Naval Act
Report on Lobster Fisheries
Interim Report of Fish Commission
Instructions to Registrars of Shipping :
Hague Fisheries Arbitration
Report on Lobster Fisheiies
Carried forward
48
112
96
54
216
36
24
12
24
12
48
4
16
48
186
144
450
104
80
20
56
216
16
24
12
10
4
4
18
6
32
20
48
52
12
1,056,758
1,848,558
Number
of
Pages.
13,8T6
.32—2
18 DEI'AIiTilENT OF PCBLIC PBiyTiyO JL_VD STAT10^^ERT
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table No. 6. — Return of Pamphlets and Miscellaneous Book-work, for the Year
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pages aggregate) — Continued.
Description.
Brought forward.
Number
of
Copies.
Marine and Fisheries — Concluded.
Specification for a Twenty-ton Bait Freezer .
Special Fishery Regulations, Ontario
Rules of the Road for the Great Lakes
Extract from Fisheries Report (English). . .
M .. (French). .. .
Militia and Defence —
Establishment of the Canadian Militia
List of Changes in War Materiel
Construction of Strathcona Trust
Extract from Syllabus of Ph}'sical Exercises
Regulations re Clothing of Canadian Militia
Regulations for the Royal Military College
Memo, for Camps of Instruction (French)
Standing Orders, R.M.C
Regulations for Supply, Transport and Barrack Services.
Regulations re Clothing of Canadian Militia
Report on Examinations for Admission to Royal Military
College
Regulations re Equipment of the Canadian Militia
Ways of Obtaining a Commission
Advantagss of the Permanent Force (English)
" (French)
Local Forces in Canada
Extract from Auditor GeneraFs Report
Amendments to Rules re Canadian Ordnance Service . .
Memorandum re Militia Estimates
Extract from Rejxjrt of Royal School of Artillery .
Estimates of the Canadian Militia (English)
.1 M (French)
Amendments to Training M.inual
Regulations re Equipment of Military Buildings
Instructions re Clothing Allowance
Memo, re Training of Canadian Militia
Regulations for Medical Services »
Instructions for Practice, &c
Quarterly Militia List
Militia General Orders (English)
>' II II (French).
Index to Militia General Orders, 1908 (English)
II .1 II M (French)
1909 (English)
II II II ti (French)
Militia Council Minutes
Index to Milicia Council Minutes
Mines —
Coal Fields of Manitoba
Production of Cement in Canada.. . .
Electric Shaft Furnace
Schedule of Charges for Chemical Analysis
Reconnaissance of Region Traversed by National Trans-
continental Ky
(Jeology of the St. Bruno Mountains
Reconnaissance Across the Mackenzie Mountains
Bituminous ov Oil-Shales of New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia
Production of Chromite
Production of Iron and Steel
Production of Asbestos
Production of Coal, Coke and Peat
Production of Natural Gas and Petroleum
Carried forward
500
1,500
1,000
950
150
2,250
29,350
1,000
250
1,200
1,000
500
500
500
500
600
1,200
l,OtiO
2,250
250
250
50
600
500
300
2,550
300
1,500
600
800
3,800
1,000
500
12,000
96,400
14,100
2,550
400
2,550
300
775
25
4,000
],0(KJ
4,000
1,IX)0
4,000
4,0.50
4,000
4.0C0
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
Number
of
220
12
68
74
74
12
32
24
10
16
16
14
160
12
36
30
52
52
24
^2
16
72
66
52
1,760
484
484
20
24
12
12
296
24
112
4
44
Number
of
Copies.
1,848,558
40,125
Number
of
Pages.
.16,034
1,632
2,072,983 22,
UEl'OIir OF THE sUPFRiyTEXDEXT OF FRIXTIXG ]
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Table No. 6. — Return of Pamphlets and Mi.scellaneous Book-work, for the Year
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pages aggregate) — Continued.
De.'cription.
Brought forward
Mines — Concluded.
Iron Ore Deixjsits of Vancouver and Texada Islands, B.C.
Electric Shaft Kumace
Preliminary Report on Mineral Productions of Canada . .
Post Office—
Official Postal (iuide, UHO (Kngl'.sh)
(French)
Abridged Postal Guide, 1910 (English)
(French)
(List Part)
Quarterly Supplement, Postal Guide (English)
.1 ■. M „ (French)..:
Monthly Money Order Circular (EnRlish)
" n i. .1 (French)
Schedule of Mail Trains
Nova Scotia fjistribution List
Appendices— P. M. G.'s Report
Instructions to Letter Carriers (English)
M " .. (French)
Rural Mail Delivery in Canada
British Columbia and Yukon Territory Distribution List.
Distribution List for Manitoba, &c
Distribution List of the State of New York
Privy Council —
Ireaty re Boundary .
4,0f)0
2,500
5,000
14,407
2,494
2,000
550
50
()3,550
10, TOO
S'J.OOO
9,550
4,200
700
247
600
200
5,000
750
1,500
4lX)
Pnhiic Priiitinfi find Stationery —
Price List of Government Publications.
Criminal Code with Amendments (English). . . .
II IT M (Flench)
List of Printing Bureau Kmp'oyees
Debate on N'av.il I ),.f ^nce
Revised Hansard ..f I )eo. 9, 1909
Revised Hansard of Dec. G, 1909
Revise<i Hansard of Jan. 28, 1910
Otticial Po.stal Guide, 1910 (English)
<\ II II (French)
Quarterly Supplement, Postal Guide (English)
.. (French). .
Extra Copies of Bills .
Various Chapters ( English)
II (French)
Puhli-: Works-
Catnlogue of Pictures in Art Gallery
Regulations re Maintenance of Slides and Booms on St.
Maurice River
Decisions of Judicial Commission
General Duties of Caretakers (English)
(French)
Report on Telegiaijhic Service
Report of Chief Architect
Appendix R— Georgian Bay Canal Re|iort
H'tilways mul Cnnnts —
Rules respecting Government Railways
Canal Regulations (French)
Hailicay Commission- ■
Carriage of Explosives
Rules and Reguhtions (English)
" II (French)
49(i
508
176
1S8
320
120
120
150
150
724
2as
G14
18
IS
20
120
210
IG
500
72
3,000
724
1,000
748
25
20
75
36
20
96
40
96
250
80
1,000
496
100
508
1,600
60
1(X)
60
3,100
1,054
20,800
2,032
7,050
218
500
100
200
100
100
25
100
3(!0
1,000
2,000
200
32-
Carried forward.
-■2h
Number
of
Copies.
155,048
4,125
1,300
2,320,666 33,606
Number
of
6,330
20 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTIXQ AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 191t
Table No. 6. — Return of Pamphlets and Miscellaneous Book- work, for the Year
ending March 31, 1910 (copies and pages aggregate) — Concluded.
Description.
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Pajres.
Brought forward.
Raihvay Cornvtissioit — Concluded.
Section 24G of Railway Act.
Rules and Regulations (French)
Roijal Northwest Mounted Police —
Regulations and Orders
.Sccrcta rii of Stu te ~
Act respecting Companies
Treaty between Great Britain and United States
Newspaper List
Provisions of Companies' Act re Granting of Letters
Patent
Senate —
Forms of Proceedings of Senate (Fiench)
List of Senators
List of Senators and Committees
Senators' Passes
Suggested Amendments to Bill A
Insurance Act
Act respecting Intoxicating Liquors ....
Trade and Commerce —
Sjiecial Grain Report
Rfjiort on Progress of Canada
Li^t of Klevators
Instructions for Canadian Trade Officials..
Weekly Report
Index to Weekly Report
S|)ecial Supplement to Weekly Report
. . . , ! 189,725
Totals '. ! 2,523,366
2,000
200
2,000
.500
100
100
300
1,500
1,200
100
150
500
125
500
800
800
50
180,300
3,450
3,825
16
1,610
56
33,600
1,916
36,904
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Table No. 7.— -Statement showing the work on the Canada Gazette, 1909-10.
Title
Aggregate
Annual
Issue.
Number
of
Pages
Volume.
Distribution Weekly.
King's
Printer.
Mailed.
159,775
4,712
50
1,75
Table No. 8. — Statement showing the work ou Voters' Lists for 1909-10.
—
Number
of
Copies.
Number
of
Pages.
Voters' Lists
1,030
•11
22 DIU'Ah-TMENf OF PUBLIC I'RlXTiya AXD STATIOXERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 191 1
Table No 9 — Statement showing Letterpress Departmental Work from April 1,
1909, to March 31, 1910.
Agriculture .
Auditor General ... . ....
Civil Service Commission
Clerk of Crown in Chancery
Customs
Experimental Farms
Finance
Governor General. . .
House of Common!
Indian Affairs. . . .
Inland Revenue
Interior
Intercolonial Railway
Justice
Labour
Library of Parliament
Marine and Fisheries.
Militia and Defence.
Mines
Post Office .
Privy Council
Public Printing and Stationery
Public Works
Railways and Canals
Railway Commission,
Royal Mint
Royal N. W. Mounted Police
Secretary of State
Senate
Trade and Commerce
147,24S
50
2,000
400
319,; 50
l."),500
72,595
1,000
2,483
50,800
85,060
852,855
Totals,
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Table No 9. — Statement showing Letterpress Departmental Work, &c. — Continued.
Envelopes. Copies.
Agriculture
Auditor General
Civil Service Commission
Clerk of Crown in Chancerj- . . .
Customs
Experimental Farms
Finance
Governor General . .
House of Commons
Indian Affairs
Inland Revenue
Interior
Intercolonial Railway
Justice
Labour
Library of Parliament .
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Mines
Post Office
Privy Council
Public Printing and Stationery.
Public Works
Railways .ind Canals
Railway Commission
Royal .Mint
Royal N. W. Mounted Police. .
Secretary of State
Senate
Trade and Commerce
115,000
107,000
1,500
250
10,000
f>,000
6,500
407,250
99,986
1,075
2,000
6,250
4,00)
10,000
25,000
1,332,500
1,250
21,000
366,080
11,000
9,125
1.300
1,251)
22,800
23,6.-.5
1,678,960
Envelopes. Copies. Envelopes. Copies.
31,500
22,000
55,000
5,000
27,000
2,000
1,000
4,600
300[
14,500
5,000
398,130
381,075
12,135
4,139,790
ssiisoi
83,135
12,920
1,0001
24,250
102,500
90,250
' i,m
10,000
1,000
66,700
25
838,178
7,500
39,845
610
1,200
91,990
483,845
2,000
2,400
153,725
151,950
6,500
1,830,422
13^652
27,195
25,520
10,000
8,000
4,0001
15,.525
6,495(
800
174,250
Totals 2,065,500 7,530,536
10,000
___! 1.
471,500'
2,000
154,150
1,170
275
213,100
4,112,9.52
41,;>00
23,000
9,.')00
500
16,000
17,000
72,250
301,200
4,500
39,000
120,000
250
305,750
500
19i266
400
63,000
1,033,550
110,648
9,700
28,000
604,575
9,000
30,015
2,100
4,255
11,900
349,260
198,830
15,366
2,000
221,620
141,255
9,750
2,323,805
6,300
5,795
160,810
15,400
24,306
75
3,425
2,010
2,710
51,100
4,344,0.55
24 DEPARTMEM' OF PUBLIC PPINTING AND I^TATIONERT
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table No. 9. — Statement showing Letterpress Departmental Work, ifec. — Continued.
Agriculture
Auditor General
Civil Service Commission
Clerk of Crown in Chancery
Customs
Experimental Farms
Finance
Governor General
House of Commons
Indian Affairs
Inland Revenue
Interior
Intercolonial Railway.. . ...
Justice
Labour
Library of Parliament
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Mines
Post Office
Privy Council
Public Printing and Stationery.
Public Works
Railways and Canals
Railway Commission
Royal Mint
Royal N. W. Mounted Police. .
Secretary of State
Senate
Trade and Commerce
Totals
Envelopes. Copie;
77,000
2' 000
75,000
3,000
5,300
42
20,000
29,000
16,500
C,000
53,500
105,000
462,2.50
0,600
20,000
10,000
3,000
ilooo
12,000
226,86;
17,300
2,500
1,226,380
24,000
22,725
1,165
2S,586
23,200
44,135
453,899
24,700
3,000
24'9,.53.5
217,105
4,100
14,408,335
300
.39,515
26,995
26,360
13,608
13,000
5,885
7,075
40,300
907,192 17,150,570
Envelopes. Copi^
5,000
10,000
.56,000
7,500
1,600
5,200
6,000
102356
11,000
500
30,500
12,000
.5,000
13,750
.500
11,350!
11,000!
Envelope.*. I Copies.
94,822
J,400
10,3.50,
206,315;
129,825',
9,747
939
32,207|
29,8751
19,905'
e.59,059!
14,825
13,500
117,625
120,800
]5,.500
1,317,115
355
132,145
29, 4 10!
71,500
16,.500
6,500
7, COO
2,808
7,636
5.S200
429,650 3,118,938
2S,O0O
5,000
2,000
4.5,000
1,000
16,000
.50
10,000
81,000
62,000
6,7.50
12,000
9,.500
19,000
;86,.500
8,000
61,900
0,500
8,000
1,168,200
3,010,672
10,220
1,000
3,000
.571,674
3,000
7,115
1,110
14,180
4,575
10,386
302,130
7,690
500
71.225
174,625
14,650
3,746,286
290
24,325
165,005
42,950
22,125
52,550
3,225
1,850
69,817
8,342,175
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Table No. 9. — -Statem.mt showing L-tfcerpress Departmental Work, tfec. — Concluded.
Department.
.J.\NUAHV.
Febrcary.
March .
Envelopes.
Copies.
Envelopes.
Copies.
Envelopes.
Copies.
Agriculture
.50,500
112,405
4,.595
500
34,.">00
73,700
50
1,250
:yO,<m
32,300
200
Civil Service Commission
4,000
4,200
Customs
Experimental '''arms
Finance
Governor General
40,000
(!,000
1,750
500
4!)6,8fl6
8,000
6.5,610
137
49,160
38,535
32,335
455,375
86,500
212,000
2,000
500
2,.-)00
14,000
■ 3,000
35,.50i>
55,400
1,000
5,000
291.500
206,000
10,000
611,500
463,y00
8,300
7,815
2,188
17,517
8,355
180,550
335,340
80,000
1,465,975
9,000
72,440
1,000
16,.593
5,000
'7,406
5,000
302,000
Indian Affairs
Inland Revenue
11,500
7i>|6oo
305,000
2,300
29,700
320,075
1,096,732
Intercf)Ionial Railway
.lustice
9,200
14,375
2,675
" ioi',67.5
109,100
10,675
3,620,310
2,000
99,885
69,r)05
20.400
28,5(X)
2ro
.S,270
17,100
1,625
8.350
15,580
6,205
" ■ ■ 'l2ii,296
359,100
11,400
4,.558,473
1,000
11,650
4,000
Library of Parliament
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Mines
Post Otiice
46,500
35,000
5,oon
651,025
2i;666
2,000
2,000
1,000
51600
2,000
276,000
" " 28,656
20.000
1,1971500
600
11.3,475
443,072
500
3,117,860
Privy Council
Public Printing and Stationery
PublicWoiks
I3I366
JL.OOO
2I666
" ' 15,666
12,280
33,770
15,625
28,410
260
33.020
4,200
3,145
24,500
7,750
11,000
2.000
145,880
23,464
Railways and Canals
88,660
7,000
Royal Mint
Royal N. W. Mounted Police . .
1,500
150,000
7,bm
1,877,700
1.875
10,846
Senate
38,925
2,58,675
Totals
1,543,075
5,403,307
1,340,200
0,330,879
7,325,397
5 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PIUXTIXG AND STATIOXERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 191 1
TABt,E No. 10. — SoMMARY of Letterpress Departmental Work for Twelve Months.
April
May
June
July
August . . .
September
October
November
December .
January . . .
February ,
March
Month.
Envelope.s.
410,936
843,225
492,750
OB5,fiOO
471,500
033,550
907,192
429,6,50
,168,200
543,075
340,200
,877,700
Copies.
6,236,570
9,164,050
4,941,221
7,530,536
4,112,952
4,344,055
17,150,570
3,118,938
8,342,175
.5,403,307
6,330,879
7,326,397
Totals 14,583,478 I 84,000,650
Table No. 11.
-Statement .showing the Number of Plates in Annual and Supple-
mentary Reports for Year 1909-10.
Title of Document.
Number
of Plates.
Number
of Copies
E. and F.
Total.
Dairy and Cold Storage
14
3
13
32
32
35,850
4,845
1,585
4,805
4,655
501,900
14,635
Interior
Marine •
Mounted Police
Totals
13,755
153,760
148,960
94
4.5,315
818,375
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Table No. 13. — Surumaiy of Books bound during the Twelve Months.
Month.
Calf.
Roan.
Sheep.
Skiver.
Cloth.
April
703
697
48
3,984
3,251
May
636
555
556
187
3,5911
June
440
491
831
922
9,985
July ».
.'521
815
455
2,516
2,966
August
583
151
184
390
1,378
September
1,024
412
101
2,426
14,758
October
1,381
1)09
4.36
287
416
2
335
2,467
10,494
November . .
28,818
December
827
521
2
989
3,366
January
859
316
10
3,486
6,297
February
361
873
72
3,293
2,969
March
708
8,657
1,251
6,805
237
2,914
611
2,265
Totals,
21,526
89,137
Table No. 14. — Statement showing the Perforating, Numbeiing and Packing
during the Fiscal Year 1909-10.
April
May
June
July
August ....
September .
October . . . .
November
December
January . .
February . .
March...
Perforating.
263,250
192,900
269,200
421,850
519,100
711,650
718,220
414,900
273, 20M
732,400
818,4.W
170,550
5,505,670
Numbering.
(■40,560
431,200
218,000
655,100
788,800
218,400
538,000
545,250
381,400
796,650
1,071,200
182,200
6,466,760
7,638
31,867
11,763
6,912
6,489
7,417
12.225
10,598
13,014
14,319
8,288
15,753
146,283
Maps and plans, mounted
Total squari" feet.
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Table No. 1-5. — Statement showing the Number of Pads made during the Fi.scal Year
of 1909-10.
1909.
1910.
Department.
Apiil.
May.
June.
July.
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
PostOffice
Public Printing and
Siationery
700
422
5')0
26
160
180
16,710
300
200
694
50
200
2,310
1,240
356
4,000
874
70
.520
100
4
320
130
270
51
2,082
120
;
515
60
200
401
125
110
36
10
155
10
75
360
22
6
20
44
74
296
210
30
25
74
425
268
30
20
10
277
5
118
700
25
200
lOO
121
Inland Kevenuf
20
72
150
125
48
lOO
Interior
1,192
800
1,066
2,980
809
410
210
445
286
2,876
97')
884
Justice »
30
80
4
30
149
150
105
207
50
85
10
166
200
225
45
10
Royal Mint
Royal North West
600
5
50
11
212
100
CO
50
384
34
12
1,010
15
448
95
125
58
475
50
760
95
Railways and Canals. .
100
Railway Commission. .
Secretarj' of State . . .
Civil Service Coininis-
10
200
100
50
200
40
50
in
25
400
55
25
90
20
10
15
370
300
Senate
Library of Parliament.
100
Militia and Defence. . .
485
450
60
350
350
140
50
10
250
270
Trade and Commerce. .
70
70
20
210
30
160
60
110
30
34
100
Totals
3,592
2,743
3,328 22,956
3,726
2,716
4,049
2,976
6,385
3,995
3,849
2,538
32
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND .STATIONERY
t GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table No. 16. — Summary of Pads for the T elve Months.
April
May
.fune
July
August . .
September .
October. .
November.
December.
January . . .
February. .
March ....
Month.
Total .
Quantity.
:-<,592
2,743
3,328
22,956
3,726
2,716
4,049
2,976
6,385
3,995
3,849
2,538
62,853
Table No. 17. — Showing the Making, Printing and Stamping of Prepaid Post Office
Envelopes, &c.
One cent..
Two cents
Totals,
Quantity
Made.
1,152,000
2,844,000
3.996,000
Quantity
Stamped.
1,152,000
2,844,000
3,996,000
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PRINTING
33
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Stationery Office,
Ottawa, September, 1910.
C. H. Pakmelee, Esq.,
King's Printer and Controller of Stationery.
Sir, — I ha\c the honour to submit for your information a general statement of the
accounts of tliis branch from April 1, 1909, to March .SI, 1910, as follows, viz.: —
Value of goods brought forward April 1, 1909 $ 243,258 43
received April 1, 1909, to March 31, 1910. 599,276 80
Wages, A'c, cliarged against stock 2,160 00
Balance, i)rofit 4,904 73
$ 849,599 96
By goods issued to departments, inside $ 118,824 90
outside service 251,635 03
King's Printer's work account. Printing Branch . 222,442 62
Stock on hand, verified, March 31, 1910 256.697 41
$ 849,599 96
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36 DEPlRTMEyT OF PUBLIC PRIXTING AND STATIONERT
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The Comparative Statement ' C ' shows the following increases, viz. : —
454 06
360 63
364 54
457 02
166 51
Agriculture
Trade aud Commerce
Finance — Insurance Branch
Royal Mint
Charges of Management
Governor General's Office
Inland Revenue
Justice
Solicitor General
Kingston Penitentiaiy ■ ■ ■ ■ ,•
Dorchester Tenitentiary •• ■ • • •
Manitoba Penitentiary
Alberta Penitentiary
Dominion Police
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Public Works „ „,„ „
Railways and Canals. \ A075 41
Railway Commission
Labour
Secretary of State
High Commissioner for Canada
External Affairs
Public Printing and Stationery
Mines— Geological Survey
Interior
$ cts.
444 28
18 23
Immigration
Indian Affairs
School Supplies
Departments (xenerally
Auditor General's Office
Northwest Mounted Police.
Commission of Conservation.
The comparative statement shows also the following decreases, viz.:—
Agriculture
Customs
Finance
Government House
Justice— St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary
British Columbia Penitentiary
Regina Jail
Supreme Court
Exchequer Court
Marine and Fisheries
Privy Council
Public Works
Railways and Canals
Intercolonial Railway
Transcontinental Railway
Post Office.-
Secretary of State— Civil Service Commission
Public Printing and Stationery
Work Book Account
Mines '
Interior
Library of Parliament
House of Commons
.Senate of Canada
1,615 73
350 74
41 63
1,148 84
1,002 05
44 36
8 42
633 94
3,050 11
12,242 50
494 91
852 96
83 75
485 39
903 83
371 83
759 01
4,122 49
.S88 45
1,033 90
2,514 80
^ cts.
1.538 99
435 50
19 34
1 64
13] 09
643 57
11 65
53 58
51 15
162 80
112 14
122 78
3,054 80
117 97
2,377 25
1,911 46
4,8(59 98
619 16
519 04
370 02
75 54
37 14
80 39
66 91
5 34
4,591 40
7,910 62
2,506 74
1,037 58
3,734 34
3,065 61
117 49
12,744 (16
4,656 03
41,013 16
REPORT OF THE SVPERIXTENDENT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
37
A. — Statement of Expenditure for, and Issue of, Goods in each Month for the Year
ended March 31, 1910.
April
May
June
July
August ....
September
October . . .
November .
December
January . .
February
March
Paid in currency .
Paid in .sterling . .
Total expenditure.
Value of goods brouglit forwar<i April 1, 1909
Wages charged against stock
Balance profit
Total goods issued
Stock on hand, verified, March 31, 1910,
Goods Issued.
cts.
50,903 19
44,677 32
45,808 71
47,231 46
43,510 32
44,200 19
46,337 23
61,798 45
55,245 95
46,476 03
40,841 18
65,873 62
592,902 55
256,097 41
849,599 96
38
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND HTATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
B.^Statement of Value of Goods issued to the Civil Service from April 1, 1909, to
March 31, 1910.
Departments.
"By Afjriculture
Customs
Trade and Commerce
Finance ....
II Insurance Branch
II Charges of Management
II Royal Mint
Governor General's Office
Government House
Inland Revenue :
Justice
•1 Solicitor General ...
II Kingston Penitentiary
•1 St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary
ti Dorchester Penitentiary
II Manitoba Penitentiary
•I New Westminster Penitentiary
II Alberta Penitentiary
■I Supreme Court
II Exchequer Court
II Dominion Police
Marine and Fisheries
Militia and Defence
Privy Council
Public Works
Railways and Canals
II Intercolonial Railway
II Railway Commission
II Transcontinental Railway
Post Office
Labour
Secretary of State
.1 High Commissioner for Canada in London .
Civil Service Commission
!• External Affairs ."
Public Printing and Stationery
■I II Work Book Account
Mines
II Mines Branch
Interior.. ....
H Dominion Lands
II Immigration
Indian Affairs
II Indian School Supplies
Departments Generally
Library of Parliament
Auditor General
Northwest Mounted Police
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Senate of Canada
House of Commons ■ . . .
Commission of Con.servation
Stock on hand, verified, March 31. 1910.
$ cts.
4,853 87
1,124 02
1,878 28
1,954 54
931 03
998 91
1,717 43
3,690 09
489 04
7,199 38
3,482 24
1,486 03
3,682 3;^
7,851 99
16,819 64
3,704 54
2,614 07
167 08
1,003 11
1,148 84
3,148 9',
3,709 16
'34! en 64'
3,132 68
Sie 47
3,482 9G
"3i6'45
3,050 11
118,824 90
12,193 39
17,193 82
1,912 95
637 71
671 65
243 63
3,834 89
391 09
638 61
697 13
219 95
265 35
285 77
112 14
963 51
226 94
260 90
17,705 11
22,503 49
17,523 73
3 84
19,476 57
5,232 07
3,891 70
41,223 56
5,922 81
222,442 62
2,.586 07
19,347 44
5,806 31
2,229 47
4,258 30
366 99
8,893 97
7,377 28
26,536 89
474,077 65
118,824 90
592,902 55
256,697 41
849,599 96
REPORT OF THE i^UPHRINTENDENT OF STATIONERY
39
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
41
D. — Comparative Statemest of Business transacted in the Stationery Office from
1886-7 (the first year that the Bureau was handed over to the King's Printer)
and subsequent years up to 1909-10.
Packages
de-
spatched
by
Mail.
Packages
Papers and
envelopes
Years.
Goods
jeceived.
Goods
sent out.
Demands.
Letters
received.
Letters
sent out.
cases de-
spatched
by rail.
supplied to
Printing
Branch for
work.
$ cts.
.9 cts.
$ cts.
1886-7
128,463 16
1.32,313 88
10,297
948
3,243
4,389
102
64,528 18
1887-8
183,731 61
186.832 56
11,2.51
958
3,712
3 7.33
168
65,264 38
1888-9
192,101 36
185.895 04
11,.591
1,174
4,020
3;979
185
87,384 95
1889-90. . . .
180,747 41
176,273 58
13,708
1,411
5,939
3,330
244
88.651 46
1890-1
185,089 2!)
193,035 51
15,220
1,547
6,483
3,967
463
92,994 87
1891-2
218,495 69
219,749 90
17,694
1,827
6,711
4,728
1,794
118,964 74
1892-3
228,100 38
225,401 37
17,855
2,403
6,869
5,317
2,118
118,983 22
1893-4
191,838 69
205, S73 33
16,901
2,488
6,951
6,153
2,111
101,315 59
1894-5. . .
190,840 65
195,769 83
17,857
3,404
8,178
5,883
2,017
97,100 88
1895-6
197,. 592 91
199,538 62
18,899
3,675
9,132
6,730
1,469
98,045 34
1896-7. ...
20.5,051 35
214,061 82
20,756
3,804
9,406
9,244
1,122
93,114 84
1897-8
2.SO,497 W
22.">,116 44
21,772
.5.367
11,457
12,521
1,170
117,312 10
1898-9
218,088 17
2a;,988 62
21,047
4,640
13,059
11,343
1,217
113,706 19
1899-1900. .
237,017 96
2,52,10(1 23
21,928
5,983
13,277
14,129
1,060
110,049 48
1900-1
302,766 26
301,495 95
23,227
6,856
13,689
16,382
1,03S
142,421 20
1901-2. ....
296,721 64
288,782 90
23,086
6,204
15,292
1.5,191
805
11.5,597 91
1902-3. ....
280,414 42
3(J3,100 80
23,148
6,707
15,360
16,288
412
122,530 50
1903-4
353,810 93
352,993 61
25,752
8,639
19,289
21,263
089
140,772 33
1904-5
438,232 96
427,783 74
28,003
8,439
19,229
22,822
1,102
162,787 26
1905-6....
463,388 08
444,515 73
28,808
7,851
18,459
29,653
1,182
157,823 76
9 months
1906-7
390,043 40
3()9,,592 34
22,355
6,979
15,363
27,403
(»1
120,308 65
1907-8
588,786 87
680,027 75
31,848
11,007
23,115
45,628
3,129
216,093 73
1908-9... .
635,3i0 20
613,.516 45
.■5.3,298
12,539
23,059
21,247
864
225,.508 23
1909-10...
599,226 80
592,902 55
36,164
13,801
23,260
53,723
1,011
222,442 62
42 DEPARTMENT OF PCHLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
E. — Distribution of the Statutes of Canada; being 9-10 Edward VII., Second
Session, Eleventh Parliament, 1910, English and French, bound half sheep.
To whom sent.
Volumes 1 and 2.
English.
His Excellency the Governor General .
Honourable Cabinet Ministers
.1 Senators
Members House of Commons
Total
Departments.
Judges, clerk and offices, Supreme Court. . . .
.1 II Exchequer Court.
Law clerk, Senate
Law clerk and assistant, House of Commons .
Offices, Senate
11 House of Commons
Library of Parliament
Departments
Department of Justice, for agents
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Total.
3
32
165
551
14
112
REI'Oltr OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
DisTKUiC riov of Statutes, 1 ',i 10 — Continued.
43
To whom sent.
Volume 1.
Volumes 1 and 2.
English.
French.
English.
French.-^
Province of Ontarin.
17
19
2
4
20
48
27
142
44
3
48
47
62
29
52
1
10
287
422
Honourable Judges, High Court
.Judge and Clerk, Admiralty Court
Registrars of Courts
Officials, Osgooile Hall
Judges, County Courts
Junior Judges, County Courts
Police Magistrates
Sheriffs
County Attorneys
Clerks of the Peace
Clerks, County Courts
Registrai-s
Libraries and Colleges
Commissioner of Police
Mayors of City Corporations
City, Town and County Corporations
Newspapers . .
Municipalities
566"
!
Total
500
1,283
«
Proi'inm of Qiichcc.
Provincial Government
15
6
Honourable Judges, King's Bench
42
5
2
2
Judges, District Court
Judge and Clerk, Vice- Admiralty Court
.Judges' Chambers
0 9
Advocates' Libraries
15 1 15
Le Commiasaire d'Kxtradition
I I
Judges and Clerks, Sessions of the Peace
Recorder.s and Clerks
Stipendiary Magistrates
5 ia
Sheriffs
4
7
5
16
12
6
17
14
Prothonotaries
Clerks of the Peace
54
Universities and Colleges
23
City, Town and County Corporations. .
2 '
Clerks, Circuit Courts
17
1
3
1
1
36
65
Clerk, District Court
Clerk of the Crown
3
Le C'onseil d'Hygiene
Crown Lands Agent
1
Municipalities
ioo"
645' '
.58
Totdl
190
645
244
1
439
IlEIWRTMEXT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Distribution of Statutes. 1910 — Continued.
Volumes 1 .\nd 2.
English.
French.
Province of Nora Scolia.
Provincial Government
Judges, Supreme Court
■1 County Court
16
7
8
20
2
18
1
18
20
S6
1
6
1
2
24
52
.1 Probate Court
and Registrar, Vice- Admiralty Court
1
Sheriffs
Clerks of the County Courts
City, To%vn and County Coriwrations
Libraries and Colleges
Police Magistrate
Stipendiary Magistrate
Total
Province of New Brunswick.
232
16
9
7
10
2
2
1
10
9
2
9
5
16
14
26
5
34
1
Judges, Sujireme Court
Clerks, Supreme Court
1
Registrars
Sherififs .....
2
Total
177
3
Province of Prince Edward Island.
14
3
3
6
3
3
1
1
3
1
3
i
57
.Judges, Supreme Court
Sheriffs
1
Clerks of County Courts
City and Town Corporations
Clerk of the Crown
Law Society
Total
1
2
REPORT OF TEE Hll'ERiyTE}; DETiT OF fiTATIO^ERX
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Distribution of Statutes, 19-10 — Continued.
To whom sent.
Province of British Columhi
Provincial Government
Judges, Supreme Court
ir Court of Appeal
II County Court
Clerks, County Court
Registrars, Supreme Court
Juages' Chambers
Mayor of City
Registrars
City and County Corporations.
Police Magistrates
Stipendiary Magistrates
Sheriffs. ...
Libraries and Colleges
Newspapers
Total.
Province of Afaniloha.
Provincial Government, .
Judges, King's Bench . .
■• Court of Appeal
1. County Court. . .
Clerks, County Court. . .
Court of Appeal
Police Magistrates
Sheriffs
Volumes 1 .^nd 2.
Registrars
6
4
1
2
8
80
Prothonotary
Mayor and Clerk of City ....'.'.
Libraries and Colleges
.,
Newspapers
^
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Total
Province of Alberta.
Provincial Government
168
14
5
4
G
4
2
6
42
1
3
8
Judges, Supreme Court
Clerks „
Judges, District Court
Sheriffs
Registrars .' .... ...............!!
Libraries and Colleges
Newspapers
1
City Corporation
Police Magistrates
Total
87
1
46 DEPARTMt:\T OF PCHLIC PlilNriyO AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
UisTitlBUTlON of Statutes, 1910 — Contiaaml.
To whom sent.
Volumes 1 ani> 2.
English.
Province nf Saskatchcimn.
Provincial Government. .
Judges, Supreme Court. .
Clerks
Judges, District Court. .
Judges' Chambers.
Sherififs
Registrars
Libraries and Colleges . .
City Corporation . .
Police Maeistrates.
The Commissioner . . .
Judges ■ . •
Officer Commanding .
Sheriff
Clerk of the Court. . .
Officials
Newspapers
Total
Yukon District.
REPORT OF THE &UPEBiyTENDENT OF STATIoyERT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Distribution of Statutes, IdlO—Continiied.
List No. 2. — Bound in Full Calf.
To Whom Sent.
Volume 1.
VoLlJiK 2.
Volumes 1 AND 2.
English
French.
English
French.
English. French.
HiB iCxcelk-iicy the Governor General. . .
3
9 2
Their HonourB the Lieut. -Governors
The Cr»Ionial Secretary
The Registrar General
1
1
.... ^.
1
1
i'
Cabinet MinisterH
32 3
Privy Councillors, not otherwise entitled.
Clerk, Privy Council
Officers, Privy Council (half calf)
1
5
16
5
1
Deputy Ministers (half calf)
I
2
Judges and Registrar, Supreme Court
Library and Judges' Chambers, Supreme Court
Judge and Registrar, Exchequer Court
?' I
1 ' 1
2 1 2
2 2
2 2
2 1 2
2 ; 2
1 1
Keeper of Records, Dept. of Secretary of State
^ . " '• Agriculture
Librarians of Parhament
The Clerk, Senate
.1 House of Commons
The Speaker, Senate
II House of Commons
Deputy Clerk ,i
Law Clerk „
Assistant Law Clerk »
1 !
Law Clerk, Senate
■
I
I
63
8
38
20
2
1
1
1
12
f Uerk's Secretary, House of Commons
Honourable Senators
19
8
12
Legislative Libraries
Reliffioua bodies
British (Jovemment
.1 Museum
Canadian Agency, Paris
United States, Secretary of State
1
1. Attorney General
Library of Congress
Foreign .Affairs
The Prefect of Propaganda
Canadian College, Rome
I
1
Canadian Law Library, London
24
1
1
1
.... ^.
8
British Library of Political Science, London..
Society of Comparative Legislation, London
. " " M Paris
British Legation, Washington
1
2
3
Foreign Consuls
2
Totals
i
2 1
1
289
....
85
48 DEPARTMEXT OF PUBLIC PRINTIXG AXD STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Distribution of Statutes, 1910 — Concluded.
RECAPITULATION.
Volume 1.
Volume 2.
Volumes 1 and 2.
English.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Bound in Half Sheep.
751
251
1,283
244
134
43
505
190
6
645
439
232
177
57
164
1
3
2
1
168
87
117
31
910
1
8
Alberta ,
1
1
Cash Sales
3
1
695-
2
645
1
4,473
289
643
Copies Bound in Calf.
Per list No. 2
2
1
87
697
3
646
4
2 j 1
4,752
975
61
730
306
Calf
13
1
700
650
2 1
5,798
1,049
REPORT OF THE .SUF'ERINTENDENT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
F. — DiSTRiuuTiON and Sales of Revised Statutes, 1886, i&c.
49
Biniing.
On hand
July 1,
1909.
Cash sales.
Orders of
Secretary of
State".
Orders
in Council.
Total
sent out.
On hand
March 31,
1910.
"3)
1^
a
£
"Si
1
S
J3
.2
i
"3)
1
£
"Si
a
s
1
Full sheep
616
164
61
107
96
41
1
5
6
1
610
163
61
107
Halfcalf
1
96
Full „ :
41
ACTS OF THE PROVINCES AND OF CANADA, NOT REPEALED, 1887.
Full sheep
Halfcalf
422
198
101
107
100
58
" i
1
5
6
9
416
197
101
107
99
Full
68
!
CRIMINAL CODE, 1906.
Half sheep *2,307 tl.OOO 197 66
619 n 818 67 1,489 933
REVISED STATUTES 1906.
Cloth.
Calf..
1,101
207
128
2
893
201
752
29
• 2,000 reprinted,
t Reprinted.
32—4
DEPARTMENT OF Pl'BLW PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
G. — DiSTEiBuriON of Yearly Statutes of Canada.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
Sent out.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
Title.
English.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
22
22
200
2
2
20
Tables „ „ 1845
20
Edits M „ (3 vols.) 1854
198
Index to Statutes, Upper Canada, 1856
50
50
50
50
Table of Statutes „ „ 1856
50
50
Revised Statutes, Upper ., 1843
24
2
22
M Lower .r 1845
24
20
2
22
20
35
35
Upper Canada, 1859
17
2
15
Lower .. 1859
199
2
197
Statutes, Province of Canada, 1851
59
50
2
57
50
iBtpt., 1852-55
0
49
6
49
2ndpt., 1852-5r)
47
47
Istpt., 1854-55
96
49
2
94
49
2nd pt. , 1854-55
96
48
3
93
48
1856
95
48
5
90
48
1857
96
49
3
93
49
1858
94
48
3
91
48
1859
96
48
3
93
48
1860
95
49
3
92
49
1861
95
49
2
93
49
1862
89
49
3
86
49
Istpt., 1863
93
49
3
90
49
2ndpt., 1863
94
49
2
92
49
1864
93
49
3
90
49
1st pt., 1865
94
49
3
91
49
2nd pt., 1865
95
49
3
92
49
1866
91
49
6
88
49
■1 Dominion of Canada. 1867
194
100
5
189
100
1868
194
100
6
188
100
1869
192
6
186
1870
194
97
6
188
97
1871
192
100
6
186
100
calf, 1871
15
193
12
lOo
15
188
12
1872
5
100
1873
193
100
7
186
100
1874
191
100
5
lfc5
100
.vols. 1&, 2, 1875
194
100
6
188
100
M (calf) ,. 1875
16
16
1876
i94
100
7
187
100
1877
194
100
6
188
100
1878
55
100
6
49
100
1879
188
100
6
182
100
1880
193
100
7
186
100
1881
193
98
7
186
98
vol. 2, 1882
200
7
193
vols. 1 & 2, 1882
100
100
100
11 1883
100
vol. 2, 1883
200
7
193
vols. 1 & 2, 1884
189
99
7
182
99
(calf) .. 1884
16
194
11
99
16
187
11
vols. 1 & 2, 1885
7
99
(calf) .. 1885
43
5
43
5
1886
16
99
7
9
99
(calf) ., 1886
29
3
137
29
3
vols. 1 & 2, 1887
137
vol 2. 1887
50
185
.50
175
vols. 1&2, 1888
137
10
137
1889
29
137
8
21
134
1890
189
118
7
182
118
1891
184
142
5
179
142
M (calf) .. 1891
12
196
12
132
12
188
12
1892
8
132
1893
186
11
8
178
11
1894
15
15
REl'ORT OF THE .^VPERiyTEyOEyT OF SlATIOyERT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
D.sTR.mTioN- of Yearly Statutes of Cans^deL.-Conduded.
51
Statutes, Dominion of
Irtt si'(?sion
2nd session
Canada, vols. 1 & 2, WJ5 .
1896..
"18%. .
1897. .
1899
I'JOO
IWJO (calf).
1901 1
1901 (calf).
1902
1902 (calf).
1903
IWS(calf).
I'.NH ...
1;hh (calf).
liXJo
1905 (calf).
1906...
190C(,alf).
UW7 ..
l'J07(calf).|
1908... .
1908 (calf).
1909
1909 (calf).'
Bonn I with 1S97.
On hand,
March 31, 1909.
•Sent out.
]
On hand,
March 31, 1910.
English
French.
English
French
English
French
43
181
72
100
""72"
53
107
108
14
119
14
127
16
144 1
10 1
143
5
163
•1
147
12 1
177
11
142
13
167
13
6
9
37
172
72
100
■■■■J2"
53
107
108
14
119
14
127
16
144
10
143
5
163
11
147
12
168
10
134
7
157
13
16
16
50
HI
29
116
33
204
42
204
41
208
47
235
46
137
48
310
40
121 i
37 ;
318 1
49 1
57
119
29
7
8
126
33
10
214
42
10
212
41
8
218
47
10
248
47
155
49
522
47
317
43
482
."53 '
13
1
18
1
182
196
6
169
4
9"
1
8
6
10
32- 4i
DEPARTMENT OF PVBLIO PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
H. — Sales of Departmental Reports.
On hand
Sales.
On hand
Title.
March 31, 1909.
March 31, 1910.
English.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Agriculture —
Mortuary Statistics, 1883
1886
9
3
6
1887
14
2
12
1888
14
17
25
2
2
3
12
15
22
1889
1890
13
2
11
1889
25
2
23
1890
20
2
18
1891
20
24
2
18
22
1892
1893
14
2
12
1894
24
2
22
„ 1895
14
25
2
2
12
23
1896
1897
25
2
23
„ 1898
25
25
2
2
23
23
1899
1900
25
2
23
1901
25
2
23
R«i)ort of Minister, 1886
6
15
2
4
15
1888
25
25
... ^^..
9
10
15
10
15
15
2
2
23
23
1889
15
1890
9
1891
15
14
13
13
13
2
2
2
2
2
13
12
10
1892
15
1893
11 10
1894
11
11
15
1895
15
1896
15
15
2
15
1897
1898
2
15
18
21
15
15
2
2
16
19
15
1899
15
1900
20
15
2
18
15
1901
22
21
19
21
21
15
15
15
15
15
2
2
2
2
2
20
19
17
19
19
15
1902
15
1903
15
1904
15
■ 1905
15
1906.
23 I 15
23 15
2
2
21
21
15
1907
15
1908
24 ! 10
2
22
10
1909
25
4
10
15
1
2
24
2
10
Archives, 1886
15
1887
4
2
2
1888
14
2
12
1889
13
19
2
11
i9
1890
11
24
2
9
24
„ 1891
12
12
5
15
2
10
10
5
1892
15
1893
4
11
15
15
2
2
2
9
15
1894
15
1895
8
25
2
6
25
1896
16
15
2
14
15
1897
16
15
2
14
15
1898
14
15
2
12
15
13
15
2
11
15
1900
18
15
15
15
2
16
15
1901
15
1902
18
2
16
15 ■
1903
21
15
2
19
15
1904
17
2
15
1905
9
2
7
1906 ;
21
2
19
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Sales of Departmental B,eports~ Continued.
53-
AgTicuhure— Continued,
Experimental Farms, 188'J.
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900..
1901.,
1902.,
1903..
1904 .
1905.
1906. .
1907. .
Dairy Commissioner, 1892.
1893. .
1897..
Statistical Abstract, 1886. .
1889 ...
1894.. .
1895. . . .
1901
1902 .
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
Census of Can.-ula, Vol. 2, 1891
3, 1891.
4, 1891.
1, 1901.
2, 1901
3, 1901 .
4, 1901
Auditor General's Report, 1887
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903
1904 ,
1905.,
1906..
1907..
1908..
1909..
On hand
March 31, 1909,
English.
25
3
25
19
17
25
20
22
24
23
26
21
22
20
14
14
23
25
23
23
15
20
4
3
7
30
22
51
125
French. I English.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
English. French
2
2
2
5
114
25
10
15
15
15
15
5
13
15
15
15
14
16
14
10
10
16
15
16
15
15
10
12
10
18
15
23
23
27
20
15
25
15
25
26
6
20
11
14
15
15
24
22
23
24
12
15
15
15
15
DEPARTMEyr OF PVBLIC PRIXTIXG AXD .STATIOyERT
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Sales of Oepartmental Reports— Continued.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
S-,1pe O" '»*"'l
•^"■'^^ March 31, 1910.
Title
1
Engli.sh. French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Customs-
Trade and Navigation, 1888
1889
25 25
25
19 23
9
2
23
25
25
1890
1891
2
17
23
9
1892
1893
25
25
24
24
24
24
24
24
31
24
2
27
14
9
24
24
24
25
25
25
25
24
25
24
25
15
14
15
15
15
15
15
'2.5' '
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
23
23
22
22
95!
24
24
1894
24
1895
25
1896
25
1897
\ 22
. . 29
25
1898
25
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
22
29
22
24
25
24
25
25
12
7
15
1904
1905
„ 1906
14
15
If.
1907
1908
12
33
50
8
25
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
4
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2 "
10
31
6
23
15
15
1909
13
Finance-
Public
Accounts, 1887
1888
hk '
1889
25 48
23 48
1890
1891
1892
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
. 25
25
41
35
17
20
8
25
9
9
5
25
8
25
25
6
4
23
25
25
25
25
25
14
15
15
15
14
15
15
15
14
14
15
15
15
10
i) "
6
25
23 25
23 25
23 25
1893
23 25
1894
23 5.1
1895
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
39
33
15
18
6
21
3
23
G
23
23
4
2
21
14
26
14
14
20
17
13
17
12
14
1896
15
1897
1898
15
15
1899
14
1900
15
1901
15
1902
1903
1904
1905.
15
14
14
15
1906
15
Loan C
Insurar
1907
1908
ompanies and Building Societies, 1887. .
1892..
1894..
1897..
1898..
1900..
ce Retort, 1889
1890
15
9
9 "
1891
1892
6
25
1893
16 8
8
1894
1895
28
16
16
22
19
15
19
14
9
13
15
25
25
14
18
15
9
13
1896
16
1897
26
1898
25
1899
1900
1901
14
18
15
REl'ORT OF TUI-: .SIJ'EUl XTEXUKXT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
TlfU
On hand
March 31, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
English.
French .
English.
French .
English. French.
1
Finance — Co
Insuranc
List of
ntinued.
e Rerwrt, 1902
1903... .
9
10
15
14
10
15
" "io"
.......
2
2"
2
2
2
18
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
7
2"
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
7
8"
16
10
15
1904
2
18
20
7
25
11
25
25
6
6
10
10
25
23
23
25
25
25
25
25
25
14
19
10
16
20
50
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
23
8
14
.. 1905.
10
1906
1907.. .
1908
18
5
7
15
io
Shareholders of Banks
1887
1888
1889
9
23
93
"
1890
1891
.......
4
4
8
8
23
21
21
23
23
23
23
23
23
12
17
8
14
18
37
„
1892
,,
1893
1894
II
1895
1896
„
1897
„
1898
1,
1899
„
1900
II
1901
"
1902
1903
II
1904
II
1S05
"
1906
1907
1908
ed Balance.^, 1891..
23
1893 .
1894
1895
23
23 [
23 1
1896
23
1897
23 ■
1898
23
1899
23
23
23
23
21
6
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
16 ....:..:
20
20
25 1
14
1906
18
1907
18
1908
18
Geological S
Summar
urvey—
y Roiwrt, 1890
10
""ii"
11
7
6
10
18
23
15
17
13
9
12
21
19
10
22
10
1891
13
1892
13 10
10
1894
9
10
10
1895
8
12
20
24
17
19
15
11
14
15
15
15
15
15
15
10
10
10
15
1896
15
1897
15
1898
16
1899
16
1900
15
1901
10
1902
10
1903 .. .
1905
10
23 ' 10
10
1906
21
12
1907
1908
25
56
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
Title.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
Englisli.
French .
Engli.sh.
French .
English.
French .
Indian Affairs —
Report of SufiKrint^nHpnt.. 1 887
12
25
25
25
9
22
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
5
21
25
21
20
23
24
23
23
25
18
24
24
24
19
23
24
24
20
20
6
21
20
""u"
25
25
10
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1894
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1899
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1900
1901
15
15
1902
15
1903
15
1904
15
1905
15
1906
15
Inland Revenue-
Report of M
1907
1908
1909
inister 1887
1888
15
10
10
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23
1890.: ..
1891
1892
2S
10
14
1893
1894
1895
8
15
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1897
1898
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9
14
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1900
15
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20
24
21
11
7
15
19
22
25
20
20
10
12
18
20
20
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20
20
20
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20
20
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15
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1905
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15
10
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15
9
1909
10
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1889
5
1890
1891
6
5
1892
14
1893
14
1894
15
1895
1896
1897
1898
15
25
25
15
1899
14
1900
1901
1902
1903
1901
14
15
10
10
10
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Sales of Departmental Reports— Continued.
Inland Revenue— COTiciudfrf.
Adulteration of Food 1905
1906
1907.
Inspection of Weights, Mea-
sures and Gas 1889.
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1896.
1896.
1897.
Interior —
Report of Minister
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1905.
1906.
.1887.
1888.,
1889.
1890.
1891
1893.
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Surveyor Ueneral's Rei^rt 1906 .
Justice —
Report of Minister 1887
1888
1890.
1891
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900..
1901 .
1902..
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On hand
March 31, 1909
English. French
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
English.
I
French.
English.
French .
English.
h'rench .
Justice— Concluded.
Report of Minister 1904
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Marine-
Report of
Vlinister 1887
1S88
1889
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1891
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1896
1897
1898
15
15
15
15
1899
, 1900
14
13
10
9
34
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9
15
19
24
25
40
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4
20
40
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32
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1901
1902
1903
, 1904
15
15
' "io '
1905
1906
10
15
1907
10
1908
10
Fisheries —
Report of
1909
Minister 1888
1889
1890
10
9"
9
1891
18
38
1892
, 1893
10
15
1894
1895
39
23
32
24
25
25
12
8
36
27
37
13
7
17
45
25
12
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25
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14
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24
24
25
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2
2
2
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2
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3
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2
2
2
2
2
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2
37
21
30
22
23
23
10
6
34
25
35
11
5
15
43
20
10
23
23
10
15
1896
1897
15
23
1898
15
1899
16
1900
1901 . .
1902
13
15
15
, 1903 . .
, 1904
10
, 1905
10
■ 1906
1907
1908
1909
15
15
9
10
Fishery
Fishery
Fisliery
Herring
Lobster
Steambc
Protection Service, 1887
1888
1889
1890
r,
12
19
14
5
22
22
23
1891
1892
Industry Ontario, 1892
British Columbia, 1902
■ ■23'
Industry
at Inspection Report, 1889
9
REI'OHr OF THE .SLI'ERiyTENDENT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Sales of Departmkktal Reports — Contiimed.
Title,
On hand
March 30, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
English
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Fishenea— Concluded.
Steamboat Insi)ection Report, 1890
1891
4
26
15
23
24
24
24
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
6
10
25
25
16
8
10
25
25
20
20
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2
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26
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
List of
1902
Militia aiic
Re(X)rt
Mines Dep
Northwest
1895
1898
1901
1902
1, 1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
Defence —
of the Minister, 1888
1889
1890
25
5
1891
1892
1893
9
12
25
26
11
8
25
19
22
21
15
21
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2
2
2
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7
10
23
23
9
6
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17
20
19
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20
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47
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1896
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1900
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1908
Mounted Police, 1888
1889
1890
6
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1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
15
1898
14
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17
23
8
8
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15
1899
1900
15
15
1901
1902
15
15
1903
1904
15
10
60
DEPARTMENT OF POBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
Marcli 31, 1910.
English.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Northwest Mo
Post Office-
Postal Gtii
jnted Police . . 1905
14
12
9
24
95
206
1,000
23
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25
10
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7
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1907
1908
1909
10
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1910
55«
21
18
14
23
8
23
10
6
11
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Report of
the Minister, 1888
1889
1890
10
19
20
1891
1892
10
14
1893
1894
1895
13
14
14
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
14
15
4
5
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19
23
25
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1901
1902
15
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1903
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1904
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1906
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1907
25
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7
19
23
10
22
23
47
48
48
47
48
48
48
15
1908
8
1909
10
Public Printing
Report of
Hansard,
and Stationery—
the King's Printer, 1888
1889
25
25
1890
25
1891
26
1892
25
1893
1894
1895
25
26
26
1896
26
1897
1898
25
25
1899
25
1900
25
25
25
25
25
25
25
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1902
26
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1903
1904
25
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1905
16
1906
16
Senate, 1891
1892
189rf
1894
1895
1896— 2nd
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
REPOUT OF TEE srSFERIXTENDENT OF STATIONERY 61
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
Title
On hand
March 31, 1909.
I Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
English
French
Engli.sh
French
English
French.
Public Printing and Stationery— Coiic/wrfcd.
Hansard, Senate, 1905
1906
17
6
17
25
25
222
95
286
73
179
206
103
113
21
55
68
85
63
3
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105
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1881
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1884
1885
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1887
1888
1889
1890
29
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47
1892
1893
1894
1895
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1897
48
48
48
47
17
22
1898
17
21
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903 . . .
1904
1905
1906
1907
22
19
20
21
40
8
19
20
1908
24
1909
24
Royal Commission on Civil Service, 1892
Labour Commission Report
'1 !• Evidence
Liquor Commission
163
98
21
100
100
Lower Canada Repoi t. Seigniorial Question, 3
vols.. 1856
99
99
Civil Code, Lower Canada, 3 vols
25
200
200
25
25
100
100
183
78
25
25
22
8
25
200
200
25
25
100
100
183
1866
Analytical Index to Civil Code, 1867
Election Returns, 1896
1900
Remedial Bill, Debate on— Part 1
„ 2
Royal Insurance Commission
Quebec Bridge Enquiry
25
24
25
5
5
78
2
2
2
2
Public Works-
Report of the Minister, 1888
23
23
20
6
25
1889
24
1890
1891 Ist part
18912nd
25
5
5
62
DEPARTMEXT OF I'l JiLIC PRiyTISG ASD STATION ERT
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
Title.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
English.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Public Works — Concluded,.
Report of the Minister, 1892
1893
3
7
9
15
10
10
15
25
20
15
14
14
15
13
15
10
10
10
10
10
25
25
25
10
10
25
15
25
25
24
25
25
25
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15
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15
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16
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15
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1894
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10
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1896 ....
18
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23
22
20
24
11
41
21
21
12
24
25
50
25
25
25
7
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2
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33
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18
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9
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19
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23
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15
14
7
26
1897
20
1898
15
1899
1900
1901 .
1902
1903
14
14
15
13
15
1904
10
1905
10
10
1908
1909
10
10
Railways and Canals-
Report of the Minister, 1888
,, 1889
25
25
1890
25
1891
10
„ 1892
10
1893
25
1894
1895
1896
1897
30
17
16
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2
32
16
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26
22
5
11
41
25
25
25
6
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25
25
25
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25
25
25
25
24
25
18
15
25
25
24
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25
1899
30
13
25
1900
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25
25
1902
1903
1904
1905
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
11
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
11
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
20
10
3
3
2
9
24
20
3
9
5
39
14
23
23
4
6
13
15
15
15
15
1906
15
1907
15
1908
1909
10
10
Railway Statistics, 1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
5
15
1905
15
1906
1907
18
24
24
14
23
8
12
22
23
23
23
5
15
21
22
16
1908
1909
Canal Statistics, 1889
24
1890
1891
1892
5
5
15
1905
15
1906
15
1907
15
Railway Commission, 1907
1008. . .
Secretary of State—
Refiort of the Minister, 1887
1888
1889
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REPORT OF THE SVPERIXTENDEKT OF STATIONERY
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 32
Sales of Departmental Reports — Continued.
Xitlf
On
March
English.
land
31, 1909.
Sales.
On hand
March 31, 1910.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Secretary of State — Continued.
Report of the Minister, 1890
6
18
4.
4
14
4
15
15
15
15
15
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15
15
15
15
10
10
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100
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100
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23
23
23
15
24
15
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2
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399
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268
257
2
2
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66
17
64
22
15
2
3
16
" "io"
18
22
19
23
23
23
21
19
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11
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7
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4
1892
14
1893
12
20
24
21
25
25
25
23
21
25
21
17
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24
25
25
24
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15
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1896
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15
15
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15
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1901
15
15
15
1902
15
1903
15
1904
1905
10
10
1306
1907
10
10
1907-8
10
1908-9....
Civil Service List, 1885
10
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
23
1897
24
1899
1900
(i
1901
20
1902
1903
9
19
22
47
29
1904
1905
1906
1907
25
1908
1909
546
1,500
15
500
Civil Service Examimrs. 1904
1905
1900
"iil
742
743
23
23
23
23
2i
1907
650
1,000
1,000
25
25
25
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78
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15
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1895
15
1896
15
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15
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23
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25
25
11
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64 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND tiTATIONERT
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Sales of Depahtmental Reports — Concluded.
Title.
On hand
March 31, 1909.
«-^' ""t- MardTsi! mo.
English.
French.
English.
French.
English.
French.
Secretary of State— C'o?ic/«d<;d.
10
19
47
25
29
10
10
10
10
25
2
2
2
3
2
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2
8
17
45
22
27
10
1907
1908
„ 1909
8
8
10
25
The expenditure of the Department shows a decrease of $20,613.90 compared with
that of 1 908 09. (See statement C). During the year demands on the oflBce have
reached 36,164 ; 13,801 letters were received and 23,260 were mailed ; packages des-
patched by mail .53,723, and packages and cases despatched by rail, 1,011.
J. O. PATEN AUDE,
Asf!isfant &upt. of Stationery.
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1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 3ijU
REPORT
MINISTER OF JUSTICE
PENITENTIARIES OF CANADA
FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31
1910
PRINTED BY ORDER OF PARLIAMENT
OTTAWA
PRINTED BY C. H. PARMELEE, PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST
EXCELLENT MAJESTY
19 10
[No. 31—1911.] Price 25 cents.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Grey, Vis-
count Howick, Baron Grey of Howick, in the County of Northumberland, in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom and a Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of Our
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, &c., &c., Governor
General of Canada.
May it Please Your Excellency:
I have the honour to submit herewith, for the informntion of Your Excellency,
the Annual Report of the Inspectors of Penitentiaries for the fiscal year ended
March 31st, 1910.
I have the honour to be,
Your Excellency's most obedient servant,
A. B. AYLESWORTH,
Minister of Justice.
Department of Justice,
Ottawa, November loth, 1910.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CONTENTS
Inspectors' Report 1 — 7
Appendix A. — Dominion Parole Officer's Report 11 — 19
" B.— Wardens' Reports 23— 33
C. — Surgeons' Reports 37 — 50
D.— Chaplains' Reports 53— 61
E. — School Instructors' Reports 65 — 70
F. — Matrons' Reports ... 73 — 75
G.— Crime Statistics ... 79—134
H.— Labour Statistics 137—141
I.— Cost Per Capita 145—147
J. — Revenue Statements 151 — 199
K. — Expenditure Statements 203 — 244
L.— List of Officers 246—254
M. — Farm Reports 256 — 265
X. — Yukon Penitentiaries Report. . 269 — 275
0. — Reports re Classification and Segregation 277—330
P. — Report of Delegate to International Prison Congress . . 333 — 356
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31. A. 1911.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Inspectors of Penitentiaries
FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 1909-10
To the Honourable
A. B. Ayleswouth, K.C,
Minister of Justice.
Sir, — We have the honour to submit herewith reports and statistics, with
reference to the six penitentiaries of Canada, for the fiscal year ended ilarch 31 st,
1910. In Appendix "N" will be found separate reports regarding the operation
of the penitentiaries in the Yukon territory. Appendix "0" has been added in
order to give the public the benefit of the reports of wardens and prison chaplains
with reference to the classification and segregation_of convicts.
POPULATION.
The average daily population of the penitentiaries for the past five years
has been as follows: —
1905-6 1,407
1906-7 1,433
1907-8 1,418
1908-9 1, 625
1909-10 1,824
The continually increasing population makes it again necessary to call attention
to the fact that the work provided and available is not more than one half of the
labour that is necessary in the interests of the convicts and that the value of the
work that could and should be done, but is not provided, is a direct loss to the country.
The fact that eighteen hundred labourers —wards of the government — who are able
to work and who are under sentence of hard labour, are kept at public expense in
semi-idleness involves a serious expense to the tax-payers and loss to the revenue.
Apart from the financial view of the question, the lack of work is an injury to the
convicts. Industry is largely a matter of habit and convicts like other individuals
will by years of enforced idleness acquire indolent habits that follow them after
their release. If the term of imprisonment and the expense that is incurred to
provide technical instructors are intended to fit the delinquents for future useful-
ness, the hope is rendered nugatory by the failure to supply adequate labour.
31-1
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
The statement of a difficulty without the suggestion of a solution seems useless,
and in this connection we can only endorse the remarks contained in the following
extract from our report of last year:
"The rapid increase in population intensifies the labour difficulty and makes
it necessary to decide upon some solution without delay. The question of prison
labour is not one of policy. Labour is imposed as a part of the sentence
and is as obligatory as detention. The only question of policy involved
is that of determining the kind of labour to be adopted. The work required to
maintain the institutions provides employment for about one half of the prison
population. If the other half is to be employed, as the sentences require, what em-
ployment shall be adopted?
"So far as we can see, there are but three courses open for consideration.
" (1) To maintain the convicts in idleness or semi-idleness, in defiance of the
sentence and at the expense of the tax-payers.
' ' (2) To establish industries and dispose of the products on the open market.
' ' (3) That the government shall utilize the labour of its wards in providing
foi- its own requirements.
' ' The objections to the first and second proposals are obvious, but we can see
no valid or reasonable objection to the suggestion that articles required for the va-
rious departments of the government should be provided by the labour of those
who are maintained at public expense. In a previous report (1905) we called
attention to the policy adopted by the Legislature of the State of New York and
subsequently embodied in the constitution of that State.
' ' We understand that the statute was drafted after consultation with, and
with the concurrence of representatives of the manufacturing and labour interests
and that its operation is entirely satisfactory to both.
"The present condition of our penitentiaries makes the question an urgent
one and we re-speetfidly submit it for your consideration."
MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.
Kingston.
St. Vincent'
de Paul.
1
Dorchester.
Manitoba.
British
Columbia.
Alberta.
Total.
Id custody April 1. 1909
Received —
From jails
Paroles forfeited
570
180
5
510
1
1
246
116
2
2 '
144
79
5
204
90
91
103
1,765
790
13
1
29
2
43
1
10
1
8
1
32
1
3
I
5
3
18
114
3
68
12
15
20
Discharges —
Expiry of sentence
Pardon - -
101
5
65
5
11
11
42
6
56
4
6
1
1
28
322
17
22
9
1
1
1
286
24
54
20
5
Retumed-insane when received
3
1
4
1
3
1
O^der 01 Minister o us
;:;;:::;::
1
1
■
1
In custody March 31, 1910. . . .
558
533
246
165
209
148
1,859
REPORT OF IXSPECTORS OF PEXITEXTIARIES 3
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
The marked increase of population at -Manitoba and Alberta penitentiaries
may be considered as due to increase of population generally in that part of Canada
and does not indicate anj' exceptional increase of criminality.
'i he large number (322) who have been relea.sed by expiry of sentence suggests
the query as to how many of that number are really prepared to exercise the duties
of citizenship and become industrious and law-abiding, and what proportion is
merely given an opportunity to prey upon society and continue a criminal career.
The paramount object of imprisonment is the protection of society and it is
obvious that the existing system of fixed sentences is inconsistent with that prin-
ciple. Society is not adequately protected by a system that is based on the theory
that a delinquent can be cured of his criminality within a definite period — fixed
in advance. Under existing circumstances the only thing that society can do for its
own protection is to get a hold upon individual convicts as they are released and
endeavour by assistance, employment and friendly advice to encourage the unfor-
tunate in self-sustaining industry. It is gratifying to know that there are indi-
vidual citizens and organizations engaged in this work and that their number
and their usefulness are increasing year by year. Financial assistance to a released
convict, unless combined with employment, reduces him to the position of a
mendicant and lowcis him still farther in the social scale, 'i he organized and sys-
tematic work of the Salvation .Arm}' and kindred organizations has, however,
done much for many of those w ho ha\'e regained their freedom by expiry of sentence.
It is to be regretted that numbers, on their release, do not desire to avail themselves
of assistance, but avowedly prefer their old associates and their former haunts.
These are the men who, under an indefinite sentence system would still remain
in safe custody.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PAROLES AND PARDONS.
Paroles.
Pardons.
1899-0
71
122
157
113
122
126
179
157
215
244
286
70
lBOO-1
36
1901-2
43
1902-3
35
1903-4
31
1904-5
50
1905-6
1906-7
29
1907-8
29
1908-9 . . .
14
1909-10
17
It will be observed by the report of the Dominion Parole Officer that the re-
sults of the parole system continue to be satisfactory, and fully justify the methods
adopted and the discretion e.vercised in its administration. In this connection
we have to repeat the opinion, expressed in our report of last year, that the time
has arrived when the oversight by the Dominion Parole Officer should be restricted
to those released from federal institutions. Some of the western provinces have
already appointed parole officers to look after the interests of prisoners released
from provincial jails and reformatories, but the eastern provinces have so far ne-
glected to make the necessary provision. It would seem to be the right as well
as the duty of each province to supervise its prisoners while serving sentence
under license, 'ihe concession of this "provincial right" would be mutually
advantageous, and enable the Dominion officer to give his entire time and energies
to those duties which rightly belong to his position.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE V^ A. 1911.
British:
Foreign:
Nationality (Place of Birth).
Canada 1 ,071
England 208
Scotland ' 39
Ireland 50
Other British countries 24
United States 184
Italy. 98
Austria 36
Russia 36
Germany 32
France 23
China 13
Other foreign countries 45
— 1 ,392
467
1,859
In view of the vast influx of foreign immigrants during the past decade.f^it
is worthy of note that while the number of foreign born convicts, generally, has
increased from fourteen per cent in 1£00 to twenty-five per cent in 1910, those
born in the United States have increased less 'than two per cent and still con-
stitute less than 10 per cent of the penitentiary population.
Creeds.
Roman Catholic 931
Church of England 344
Methodist 199
Presbyterian 1 83
Baptist 72
Lutheran 51
Other Christian denomination 21
Buddhist 17
Hebrew 17
Unitarian 2
No creed 22
1 ,859
FINANCIAL.
EXPENDITURE, 1909-10.
Gross
Expenditure.
Net
Expenditure.
Kingston
St. Vincent de Paul
Dorchester
Manitoba
British Columbia. . .
Alberta
Totals
I
$ 148,141.69*
123,857.09
79,548.79
58,47.3.3l|
73,972. Ill
52,332.79
26,978.67$ 121,163.02
4,450.70, 119,406.39
4,395.90
6.551.91
S. 374. 07'
935. 51 1
75.152.89
52,921.40
70,598.04
51,397.28
536,325.78 45,686.76 490,639.02
REPORT OF INSPECTORS OF PENITENTIARIES
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NET OUTLAY.
1907-8
Kingston
St. Vincent de Panl
Dorchester
Manitoba
British Columbia
Alberta
Average daily population
% 143,503.55$ 131,712.87$ 121,163.02
111,426.431 107,976.95 119,406.39
72,362.09 71,655.03 75,152.89
59.815.94 53,756.18 52,921.40
68,434.38 77,120.36 70,598.04
44,963.48 46.767.82 51,397.28
$ 500.505.87 $ 488.999.21 $ 490.639.02
OOMPAHATIVE STATEMENT OF COST PER CAPITA.
Kingston.
St. Vincent
de Paul.
Dorchester.
Manitoba.
British
Columbia.
Alberta.
Sta£f
$ 137.39
52.83
6.19
25.94
57.95
6.79
1.76
S 120.39:
50.61
4.66
36.58
3.89
15.82
1.53
$ 187.78
53.06
8.49
39.02
11 96
49.30
5.10
$200.88
57.87
5.09
47.78
31.89
42.56
S.99
$ 153.37
52.85
6.09
66.13
19.89
59.94
2.61
$ 226.07
83.29
10.06
36.25
16.79
Lands, buildings and equipment
110.23
21.50
288.84
47.24
233.48
8.30|
354.71
18.79
392.06
35.29
360.88
15.84
504.19
8.35
241.60
226. 18 j
335.92
356.80
345.04
495.74
COST PER CAPITA FOR PAST THREE YEARS.
1908
1909
1910
$ 264.38
281.04
352.67
409.40
493.73
637.08
$ 221.01
248.69
310.66
425.56
433.38
339.89
$ 241.60
225.18
335.92
356.80
345.04
495.74
Actual cost —
Supplies on hand April 1st, 1909 $ 199,333.00
Gross expenditure 1909-10 536,325.00
$ 735,658.00
Deduct —
Supplies on hand March 31, 1910. . .$ 179,436.00
Estimated value of labour employed
in the production of revenue and
capital 75,000.00
$ 254,436.00
Net actual cost 481 ,222.00
Cost per caput. 263 .83
Cost per caput, per diem .72
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMPARATIVE SUMMARY.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Gross expenditure
Net expenditure
Actual cost
Cost per capita
Cost per capita, per diem
Average daily population
S 584,061.92
500,505.87
477,499.00
336.74
.92
639,436.00
488,999.00
450,687.00
277.35
.76
S .'536 325.00
490,639.00
481,222.00
2o3.83
.72
CLASSIFICATION AND SEGREGATION.
In pursuance of the resolution of parliament, adopted at the recent session,
we issued a circular asking the views of the officers referred to.
In this circular we called attention to certain points that in our opinion
are important, and also supplied the officers with a copy of Hansard containing the
debate on the resolution, so that each officer would be in a position to deal with the
question in an intelligent manner. The circular and the reports will be found in
appendix "0."
A classification of the convicts in the penitentiaries was made, about twenty-
five years ago, under the direction of our predecessor. The convicts were graded
in three classes according to the record of prison conduct, and individually graded
up or down thereafter in pursuance of a system of "rewards and punishments."
The classes were distinguished by separate clothing, the first class wearing ordinary
civilian clothing of dark grey, the second or intermediate class wearing checked,
black and grey, and the third grade a distinctive "tourists' check" material of red and
grey. The system was introduced for the encouragement of industry and good
conduct and was carried on for about ten years without any appreciable results
that would warrant its continuance. A very small percentage were in any way
influenced beneficially, while those who wore checks were apparently hardened and
embittered at what they persisted in believing to be partiality and unfair discrim-
ination on the part of the wardens. Their objection was not to the clothing but
to the discrimination that it represented. The period was also marked by an in-
creased number of escapes and attempts to escape, especially by convicts of the
highest grade whose civilian clothing seemed to suggest greater possibilities of
success in evading recapture. I'he failure of the attempted reform was perhaps
due to the fact that it was founded on two fallacious theories, namely, that prison
conduct is a safe indication of real character and that the average convict cares
anything about the pattern of his clothing— except in so far as it may facilitate
or prevent escape. Manhood or self respect constructed on the basis of clothing
is no more durable than the material on which it rests.
In our opinion classification, unless accompanied by absolute segregation,
is more injurious than beneficial. Such segregation within each individual insti-
tution is not practicable. There remains the suggestion that the prisons should
be classified, each penitentiary containing a distinct class of delinquents. In
densely populated countries such as England, France and Belgium, where there are
a number of prisons within a comparatively restricted radia, this system has been
found practicable. In Canada, however, the distances are so great that the
enormous cost of transportation and the increased risk of escape incurred en-route,
make it extremely doubtful that the adoption of the system would result satisfac-
torily.
The principal difficulty connected with the proposal is that the classification
must necessarily be arbitrary and usually based on an entirely inadequate know-
ledge of the antecedents and environments of the men to be classified. The casual
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knowledge of the convict which the judge acquires during tlie trial is more likely
to be misleading than otherwise— the opinions of the different judges would be
more varied than the characters that they may be called upon to classify and the
practical result would be that in a few years each institution would contain as
many varieties of character as are to be found in any penitentiary^ to-day. The
penal institutions of Canada are already classified into reformatories, county jails,
metropolitan prisons and penitentiaries. If thei'e are accidental criminals associated
with habitual criminals in the penitentiaries, the same condition will be found to
exist to a greater or lesser extent in the reformatories and jails.
In our opinion the solution of the difficulty rests with the judicial criminologist
rather than with the administrative penologist — with the judiciary and the penal
code rather than with prison officials and prison administration.
Respectfully submitted,
DOUGLAS STEWART,
G. W. DAWSON,
Inspectors.
Ottawa, July 12th, 1910.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER
No. Zi4~
APPENDIX A.
DOMINION PAROLE OFFICER'S REPORT.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
A. 1911.
The Honourable A. B. Ayiesworth, K.C.,
Minister of Justice,
Dominion Parole Office,
Ottawa, July 1st, 1910.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit to you the report of the parole system for
the fiscal year ended .March 31st, 1910.
PENITENTIARIES.
Number of prisoners released on parole from Kingston 68
" " " St. \ incent de Paul 65
" " " Dorchester 58
Manitoba 22
British Columbia 43
" " " Alberta 33
Total from penitentiaries 2S9
PROVINCIAL AND DISTRICT PRISONS, JAILS AND REFORMATORIES.
Number of prisoners released from reformatories 44
" " " prisons 43
jails 190
Total, reformatories, prisons and jails 277
Total number of prisoners released on parole for year ended March 31st, 1910 564
The following tabulated statement, submitted by the Commissioner of Dom-
inion Police, giving the figures of the parole system since its inception in Canada,
is an accurate account of the great good accomplished, and shows a very small
percentage of cancellations and forfeitures.
PENITENTIARIES.
1899-
1900-
1901-
1902-
1903-
1904-
1905-
1906-
1907-
1908-
1909-
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
71
122
157
U3
122
127
181 IRR
215
245
287
Licenses cancelled for non-com-
1
pliance with conditions
5
9
19
11
16
161 7
4
5
5
4
Licenses forfeited by subsequent
1
convictions
7
8
6
2
0
11 8
1
2
19
8
Sentences completed on parole.
59
141
189
124
9«|
481 206
147
140
348
440
Sentences not yet terminated . .
'
17
32
41
77
157 72| 138
254
121
124
PRISONS, JAILS AND REFORMATORIES.
Paroles granted .
65 67 95
Paroles granted from penitentiaries, as above 1803
" " " prisons, jails and reformatories, as above. . . . 1276
3079
Licenses cancelled, as above 103
forfeited, " 62
Sentences completed, " 1915
" not " " and still reporting 999
3079
11
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Note. — A difference of two in the count from the penitentiaries' reports, shows
a difference from last year's parole register. This is due to the fact that the Dom-
inion Police record the date at which the license is granted, and the date on which
a license is actually cancelled. The penitentiary returns are based on the dates of
actual release and return to the penitentiary, respectively.
Also, last year's figures of the Dominion Police revealed 19 forfeitures. Many
of these prisoners served terms in jails and prisons, and were returned to
the penitentiaries for the completion of sentence this year, consequently the
returns of forfeitures from the penitentiaries show an increase for the year, in
comparison with those published for the past fiscal year by the Dominion Police.
THE PAROLE SYSTEM. — A REVIEW.
On research, for the beginning of a "conditional liberation" I find that
adult criminals seem to have been under a "ticket of leave" system as far back as
the year 1666, in the reign of Charles II, when a statute was passed giving judges
power of sentencing oflenders to "transportation to any of His Majesty's dom-
inions in North America." This authority was re-affirmed by another statute
passed in the year 1718, during the reign of George I. In England and France, at
that time, adult criminals, also juvenile or minor offenders, were placed on a sort
of parole, and given over to societies, or orders, for supervision, while the state still
held custody of them to a certain extent, which custody was relaxed as the good
effects of their being thus placed became more apparent. The ticket of leave
system grew out of the transportation of criminals by England to her colonial
possessions. Transportation ceased temporarily in 1775, because of the war with
her American colonies, but it was revived in 1786, and a consignment of convicts
was also sent in this year to New South Wales.
The control of this colony, established by this consignment, was not regulated,
it appears, by statute, but it was left to the wisdom of the colonial governor. The
necessity of raising crops for their sustenance, the construction of buildings, and
the making of homes for the colonists, induced the governor to greatly modify the
sentences of the well-disposed prisoners, in order that he might have a needed
moral and possibly a physical support from them in his administration. It is
recorded that he set many of them free, and gave them grants of land, and after-
wards assigned to these men, thus free, other convict labourers who were being
received from the mother country. Following this precedent it seems to have
become the custom for the governors of different penal settlements to manage each
according to his own ideas, and the custom developed into granting such liberties
as have been included in the ticket of leave system.
Under these conditions, the holder of the ticket of leave, which was granted to
the convict who had satisfactorily fulfilled a certain period of his sentence in the
cellular prisons then adopted in the penal settlements, would be granted the freedom
of the colony during the remainder of his sentence, but he was placed under certain
restrictions, such as being confined to certain districts unless he received a pass to
go elsewhere, and also being obliged to present himself for inspection to the authori-
ties monthly, quarterly or yearly, as provided for in his license, and being pro-
hibited from carrying fire-arms or weapons of any kind, except under special
permission. The ticket of leave was first legalized during the reign of George IV,
between 1820 and 1830, and in 1834 it was regulated by a statute, which defined
the minimum periods of sentence by which a ticket of leave could be gained. For
example, it required a service of four years for a seven year sentence, six years for a
sentence of eight, and fourteen years for a life sentence, in what was termed "as-
signed service or government employed." These periods could be increased by
the slightest misconduct on the part of the prisoner.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Under this law a convict who had held a ticket of leave without having been
guilty of misconduct, and who was recommended bj' responsible persons in the dis-
trict T\here he resided, could have his application for a full pardon transferred by
the governor of the colony for the consideration of the Crown, but Sir Robert Burke,
in a report made by him in 1 838, intimates that convicts were granted ticket of leave
to some extent at the discretion of the home government upon application of influ-
ential persons in England. Under this system the convict on ticket of leave was
entitled to his earnings. In case of misconduct, the employer could complain to
the nearest magistrate, who could order the convict to be flogged, condemned to
work on the roads, or in the chain gang. Any magistrate could order 150 lashes,
until the year 1858, when they were limited to 50. A convict, if ill-treated, might
lay a complaint against his master, but for that purpose he must go before a bench of
magistrates, the majority of whom were owners of convict labour and masters of
assigned convict servants. Such abuses grew up under this system as to make
life a living hell for the convicts.
In the year 1838 a committee of parliament condemned the system of trans-
portation, with its attached evils, as "being unequal, without terrors to the crim-
inal classes, corrupting both the criminal and colonists, and very expensive." 1'hey
recommencled the establishment of penitentiaries instead. It was then ordered
that no convicts should be assigned for domestic service, and in the year of 1840,
transportation to Australia was stopped entirely.
Another advance was made in the year 1842, which was called the "probation
system " It was founded on the idea of passing convicts through various stages
of control and discipline, by which it was hoped to instill a more progressive form
for their improvement. Probation gangs were established in Van Dieman's Land,
through which all convicts for transportation were to pass. 'I'hesc gangs were
scattered through the colony, and were employed on public works under the con-
trol of the government. A school master or a clergyman was to be attached to
each gang. From the probation gang, the convict passed into a stage during
which he might, with the consent of the governor, engage in private service for
wages, but he was required to pay the government a part of the wages, which was
retained as security, and forfeited if the convict was guilty of an\' misconduct.
Next followed a ticket of leave \\ ith the same privileges, save that the freedom of
the convict was greatly enlarged. The last stage was that of a conditional pardon.
This probation system failed, as Sir Edmond Ducaine stated, for several reasons:
1st —that suitable means were not provided for insuring proper order or discipline
in the probation gangs; 2nd -that the officers of the gangs were generally brutal
men of inferior qualifications, and the gangs were characterized by insubordination
and vices, unnatural crimes being proven to e.xist to a terrible extent; 3rd —that
the demand for labour was found to be very insufficient to employ the ticket of
leave portion of the men, so that idleness soon destroyed all the good that had been
accomplished under the probation system. 'I'he difficulty may be summed up in
one or two words— the\' did not get to the root of the matter as regards di.scipline
and laliour, and there was an entire absence of mental and moral training.
It has been the result, from the accumulative experiences taken from past
centuries, that the ranks of the criminal classes are recruited from the unemploy-
able and the idle, and as a result, our modern institutions are rapidly providing for
instruction in almost every branch of labour, whereby habits of industry may be
taught to the convicts, in order to draw away their minds from human vices. The
corrigible criminal cannot be reformed without industry, and labour has often rend-
ered the incorrigible criminal in our penitentiaries self-supporting, to a certain ex-
tent, 'j he theory is gaining ground that all who can be should be reformed by the
general treatment, administered in our institutions for prisoners of to-day. How
is this to be accomplished if the industries, the greatest factors in the reformation
and rehabilitation of the convicts, are to be impaired or reduced to the most menial
14 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
of labour, or (such as given in tliis l^rief review of systems, carefully gleaned from
the history of the past) we are allowed to drift backward to vindicti\'e punishment,
rather than an administration of just principles, giving hope to the fallen in our
penitentiaries, by fitting them to earn an honest living when the time comes for
them to face life on the daj^ of their discharge? You cannot open a door of hope to
the prisoners by shutting them up in idleness. That was the most stupid experi-
ment ever made by the authorities anywhere, and it was never made at the dictation
of men \\ho sought the best interests of their country. The idle method of treat-
ment defeats every possibility of improving the moral state of the convict, and at
the same time it most irrationally and cruelly aggravates his humiliation and
wretchedness. AMth nothing to do and nothing to hope for, you have put a living
soul into an unnecessary state of suffering, mentally and physically. Yet I know
of institutions in Canada where boys and men herd together like cattle, and where
they have no occupation whatever during their detention.
I am strongly of the opinion that whatever stands in the way of the criminal
who seeks to re-establish himself through industry and frugality, and thus win back
for himself his lost status among his fellows, is a danger and a menace to the state,
and it is for those in authority to establish every possible industry in our peniten-
tiaries, in order to give every prisoner a fair chance to redeem himself, and to be-
come, eventually, a useful and law-abiding citizen.
In the year 1846, J\Ir. Gladstone decided that all transportation of convicts to
the outside colonies must be suspended, and in 1847 the present system of im-
prisonment was adopted, under which convicts must pass through the prisons before
a conditional release will be granted. Under the present system of penal servi-
tude in England, there are three distinct stages of operation. During the first,
which generally lasts nine months, the prisoner passes his whole time, except
meetings and exercise, in his cell apart from all other prisoners, working at some
employment, but always kept separate and alone. During the second stage he
eats and sleeps in his cell, but works in association with other prisoners. During
the third period he is conditionally released, but is kept under the surveillance of
the police, reports at stated periods, and is returned to prison for any infraction of
his license. 'I'he s,ystem is altogether automatic in its operation, and as far as I
can ascertain about one-half of the entire number released on ticket of leave,
lapse into crime again.
The "Prevention of Crimes Act" passed in 1871 provides that any person
convicted a second time of an indictable ofience may be sentenced to be subject to
the supervision of the police for seven years after the expiration of his sentence.
The system of conditional liberation was adopted by the King of Saxony, in
1862. In the same year it was adopted by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, by the
Canton of Sargovie in Switzerland, in 1868, the Kingdom of Servia, in 1869, the Ger-
man Empire, in 1871, Denmark, in 1879; the Swiss Canton of Vaud, in 1875, also
in the same year, the Kingdom of Croatia in Hungary, the Canton of Unter \\'al-
den, in 1878, the Netherlands, in 1881, the Empire of Japan, in 1882, the French
Republic in 1885, and since these dates it has been adopted in Austria, Italy and
Portugal. The system of parole, or conditional liberation, is also now in vogue in
several of the United States.
I'he Canadian parole system, first adopted for the penitentiaries in the year
1899, and since extended to the jails and reformatories, differs from any system
now in operation in the entire world, and will compare favourably with any of them.
There is nothing automatic in the operation of this system, and it does not conflict
with the remission earned in the penitentiaries, which applies to all prisoners whose
conduct and industry merit consideration.
What, then, is the parole system? I do not like the general term "ticket of
leave," which has been the outcome of many failures, and resulted in the abuse of
many systems, for the term ticket of leave is one which handicaps the prisoner, who
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
carries this synonj'in of "jail bird" printed in large letters on his license, but the
word parole, ' ' my word of honour," is a much better term, and more within the true
meaning of a conditional release.
It can be said, in view of the various methods adopted in many coimtries, that
these systems all acknowledge the principle of conditional liberty to the citizen who
has forfeited it by crime, and that a gradual restoration and rehabilitation is not
only feasible, but is expedient to the higher and bests interests of the state. It
is a system which strengthens the weak, and fits them again for contact with
society, and when they are sufficiently strong, restores them to full liberty and
good citizenship. H he parole system of Canada not only gives the released prisoner
police supervi-sion, whicli is an absolute necessity in keeping in touch with them,
but it makes provision for a parole officer, as Sir Charles Fitzpatrick demonstrated
to the House of Parliament, as a "go-between" the police and the prisoner, giving
the prisoner protection, sympathy and care in a time when he most needs a helping
hand.
The parole system came in vogue in Canada under the late Honourable David
Mills, then Minister of Justice, in the year 1899. He was followed by Sir Charles
Fitzpatrick, who not only took a deep interest in the system, but he placed it on a
well-organized plan of operation, and the present Minister of Justice, the Honour-
able A. B. Aylesworth, has been working out this organization with splendid success.
The Minister of Justice occupies a unique position, having at his command the
reports from the trial judges, the parole officer, the wardens and jailors of the in-
stitutions, and the Dominion Police, for the investigation of complex cases. His
position is a much stronger one than that of a "Board of Pardons," or any local
sj'stem operated in other countries, and it would be a step backward to even con-
sider an alteration of our Canadian system. The Minister of Justice considers
every application for a parole on its merits, and free from local prejudice or in-
fluence.
It has also been demonstrated that tiio Canadian parole system is working
harmoniously with the principles of law and order in every community in which it is
in operation, and that it has never been governed b\' that mawkish sentimentality
which would convert a penitentiary into a summer resort, with perfumed baths,
carpets, paintings, or orchestras for the prisoners. The administration realizes
that the inmates are criminals, sentenced to confinement on account of crime, and
to convert a penitentiary into a place of recreation and amusement would be to
pervert the purposes for which it was instituted. In our Canadian institutions,
men are punished for criminal offences, and on this fact or basis opl}' the mercy of
a parole can be .safeh' administered. One fact I desire to lay stress upon is that
our convicts receive a wholesome, humane treatment which leads to the beneficial
results of our parole sy.steni.
OBSEKVATIONs: THE rRIM]\.\L .-VND LABOUR. THK CRIMI.N'AL AND THE MARRIAGE
LAW.
The criminal lacks in moral storage capacity. His normal compartments are
not built for heavy seas. He is an ethical puzzle which mathematical demonstra-
tion can never solve. His spiritual architecture needs not only remodelling, but it
needs to be re-made, if any lasting reform is to be accomplished.
The ranks of criminals are generally recruited from the unemployable and the
idle. Habits of industrj' draw the mind away from human vices. It is unsafe to
take cognizance of agitators, who seem to take satisfaction in crushing out the hope
and prospect of doing something better in the industrial world among our unfortu-
nate and criminal members of society. Governments maintain a bureau, and em-
ploy scientific experts, often regardless of expense, to hunt out and destroy diseased
horses and cattle. Their agents may invade anybody's premises for this purpose,
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and they rightly make it a crime for the owner to resist. But when a viciously
diseased man or woman applies for a legal permission to taint whole generations
with their criminal spawn, it asks no questions, extends no protection for individuals
thus infected, or to the general public which are made to suffer this great wrong.
It simply grants a hcense on the most easy terras possible. Is the jjrotection of
horses and cattle of more consequence than that of human beings?
We have no records in Canada on criminological research to give us data on
this subject, yet it is generally known that whole generations, in some communities,
are affected with criminal instincts, and these instincts are handed down from one
generation to another. Take the notable illustration of the much-talked-of family,
the "Jukes", of New York. Six or seven generations ago there were five sisters
born (between 1740 and 1770) of whose mother nothing is known except that she
was a thoroughbred criminal. From this origin springs a line of 834 persons whose
public record is well known, besides several hundred whose history is lost. Of
these 834 persons 206 were paupers and received assistance amounting in the
aggregate to 830 years. Seventy-six were convicted of 115 crimes, and served
terms in prisons amounting to 116 years. In this family were no less than 128
prostitutes. These records do not date back over the year 1830, and they only
include the records for one county. It is estimated that this family cost the state
of New York over one million dollars.
Our marriage law is faulty in respect to the criminal. It is simply a civil
contract, an arrangement for better animal enjoyments, which would be well
enough if no living issue resulted; but it is one of these cases where the law cannot
give compensation for the injury it authorizes, nor ameliorate the evil resulting.
It recognizes business and ceremonial forms in making this contract, keeps a record
and issues the permit to all applicants over a certain age, and makes it an ofience to
omit any of the forms. Under special circumstances it will annul this contract,
but this is seldom, if ever, sought for by the criminal. No matter who comes for
a license, the strong or the weak minded, the sound and the healthy, the deformed
and constitutionally diseased, the scrofulous, the syphilitic, the moral, the orderly,
the miUionaire, the pauper, the vicious and confirmed criminal, the progenitor of
the best of the race, the idiot, the sane, the hereditarily insane, if favoured with
lucid intervals, are all treated alike and given a license without question. Even
in the police courts we have an occasional marriage, sometimes at the instigation of
the officers of the law, generally the contracting parties being delinquents or moral
perverts.
If a man wants to run a locomotive engine, or practise medicine, or stand in the
sacred desk and speak on theology, or teach a school, or run a pilot boat, or even
secure a petty clerkship in our civdl service, he has to undergo a rigid examination
as to his fitness for the position before he is able to demonstrate his merit, but when
one comes forward to get a permit that places him under solenm obligations, and
demands of him duties of the most responsible character, the most sacred that can
be assumed anywhere from the cradle to the grave, that vitally affects all organi-
zed society, social or politic, not a word is said. All are licensed.
Nature seems to produce in itself the principle of "the survival of the strong-
est," but this principle is based on the law'of extermination. Man in the higher
order appears with a plan of co-operation and not of a destructive competition,
the order not of elimination, but of redemption. Human society, as it becomes
more and more human, seeks also to make the weak survive. 'J'he higher order in
man proposes the work of redemption as the chief occupation of life, and the main
function of Christianity is to answer first this question: What is to become of the
weak, the criminal and the outcast? Shall this wreck and waste abide forever to
mar the harmony of society, the home and the universe? This is the problem
which redemption seeks to systematically solve in eflorts to rehabilitate the weak
and the fallen members of society, and everywhere, with the advance of civilization,
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comes the effort, through various means, to protect the weak and care for the de-
fective members of society. While the situation is hopeful in some aspects, yet we
must not be blind to facts. Crime is increasing, especially violent crimes, and the
epidemic of crime is very widespread. Concurrently, interest in efforts to re-make
the criminal are also increasing, and it is noteworthy that a large percentage of the
crimes of violence in Canada are committed by foreign born subjects, demonstrat-
ing that our home life is still held sacred by a large majority of the Canadian people.
We should have a better care and a proper protection of our marriage lav.s, which
now produce a vast amount of hereditary crime. With it our country would be
filled with clean living people, the mental and physical life developed, producing a
strong nation, for which we are all striving in advocating the moral and social re-
forms which uplift the people.
PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMINALS.
The habitual and the professional criminal represents a degree rather than kind.
The former is inferior to the latter mentally, in culture, and in knowledge of social
forms, and he usually follows some trade or calling to mask his criminality. The
latter takes up criminality as a business. To him it is a profession or a fine art,
and he is susceptible to divisions and specialties. He is a student of the ways of
the world and of men, frequently polished in manners, and I have often found him
even aesthetic in tastes.
Ihe instinctive criminal, or as Lombroso prefers to call him, tlie "born or
congenital criminal," is truly a social parasite. It is not always possible to estimate
the congenital element, but the conclusion is irresistible that he is organically
morbid. His pathology may not be microscopic, and the degeneration which con-
signed him to a low plain of humanity, if revealed at all, will only be revealed under
the searching eyes of the microscope. Generally the sensual impulse and those
centering about it are hyper-developed. For the gratification of his exaggerated
impulses he w ill proceed to any extreme, and life and property separating him from
the accomplishment of his desires, are but barriers to be overcome. The peculiar
mutilations of the bodies of the victims of the Whitechapel tragedies a few years
ago, also in the cases of like character in Berlin last year, were committed by
pathological sectuals wlio resort to crime to gratify their morbid and perverse de-
sires. \\ e have in the Dominion this class of criminals, but not so fully developed
as those found in the older countries.
The occasional or accidental criminal is largely a negative creature who yields
himself to temptation. The stimulus of opportunity generally exceeds his resistive
force or power. Save for this great weakness, he would pass muster as no unusual
personage. He is neither a victim of self-exaltation nor exaggerated instincts.
Physical necessities may be operative in the production of this type of criminal,
and the common jail, by the facilities it offers through direct contact and associa-
tion with thie\-es and criminals of a recidivist type, is always ready to give this class
of criminals instruction in the theory of criminalit}', and often succeeds in trans-
forming the occasional into the habitual criminal.
The victim or subject of an uncontrolled temper is another dangerous type of
criminality. Smarting under some real or fancied injurj', he will seek to assume
the office of the avenger, and visits with violence the doer of the wrong to him.self
or his friend. He cannot be said to possess from nature criminal instincts, but
under the stimulus of anger his power of self-control is gone and resistance is over-
come.
Not included in the above classification is the criminal insane. Kingston
penitentiary has a ward devoted exclusively to this dangerous class, and when
prisoners in the other penitentiaries give evidence of this type of insanity they are
transferred to this institution for treatment. The delusions and hallucinations,
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that to him are realities stern and resistless, may impel him to the commission of
crime, or he may be in a state of alienation and considered harmless until, as the
result of a concealed and unsuspected delusion, his resistive forces yield before the
fancies and impulses of his morbid mind, and he lays violent hands on those about
him, often committing the most revolting of crimes. Criminals of this class should
be cared for before they develop the dangerous symptoms which precede all such
crimes of this character. For obvious reasons the insane criminal occupies a place
peculiarly his own, and he should be described by the ahenist rather than the
criminologist.
The true criminal question demands the study of mental pathology, and the
establishment of such laws as practice and experience may demonstrate in securing
the best pathological results from the treatment of the criminal. It is not so much
a question of punishment, but a punitive treatment which will correct and cure
him of criminalit}'.
We live in an age in which the same legislative wisdom which enacts laws for
the protection and the support of the pauper and the imbecile criminal, enacts other
laws to license paupers and imbeciles to marry and to propagate the criminal breed
which replenishes the prisons and fills our country with a taint of vicious blood and
diseased brains that centuries can never eradicate.
It is not uncommon in our larger Canadian cities to see an habitual law-breaker
tried and sentenced thirty, forty and even fifty times during his life, at a great
expense to the country, and apparently to no purpose. I'he time of sentence in
each case is generally so short that it afl'ords but little opportunity for the better-
ment of the prisoner, and it would almost seem that none was expected; yet a fixed
sentence can hardly be considered rational except on the ground that the prisoner
will become a better citizen on his discharge. \Mi ether judges or magistrates are
able to determine by observation, and the previous records of the prisoners, how
long it will take to change their habits and make them better citizens, is a vital
question ; and if this cannot be determined by the Court, then we have an absolute
need of other systems which will give light on this important subject.
Let me quote from the pen of Dr. ^^ ines, an eminent authority on this subject :-
"Retribution. — All the old codes are founded on the principle of I'etribu-
' ' tive justice. They have in mind not the future of the criminal, but his crim-
"inal act, a thing of the past. The past is irrevocable; the future is on the
"knees of the gods. These codes have been adjusted to the act, not to the
"actor. Their notice has been to make the punishment fit the crime; to
' ' measure the guilt of the offender, on the one hand, and, on the other, the de-
"gree of liis merited suffering, and to establish an equilibrium or balance
' ' between the two. There is not a code in Christendom which has succeeded in
"this attempt; and there never will be one, because the problem of equali-
' ' zation of penalty and guilt is in fact insoluble by any but infinite intelligence.
"Who but the all-wise God can measure guilt? ^^ ho but He can measure
"suffering? How can an equation be formulated between two unknown
' ' quantities ?
' ' Moreover, the effect is essentially immoral, since vengeance belongs to
' ' God, and He has not delegated to mortal hands, not even to church or state,
' ' the right to usurp and exercise His divine prerogative.
' ' All thoughtful and right-minded men must see, upon reflection, that this
"is true. If so, all criminal codes have been founded upon an unsound basis,
"and the time has arrived at which we should liuild upon a new and more
"stable foundation."
There can be no nobler work than that which is founded in efforts to purify
and elevate all things in life, and whatsoever creates a healthy moral force in the
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operation of laws, which have for their foundation the protection of society, and
the prevention of everything possible in our nation that can develop weakness,
physical or mental deformity, is worthy of the approbation and thoughtful consid-
eration of every citizen of our Dominion.
Respectfully submitted,
W. P. ARCHIBALD,
Dominion Parole Officer.
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APPENDIX B.
WARDENS' REPORTS.
WARDEXS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. Zij^
KINGSTON.
(Report not received.)
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ST, VINCENT DE PAUL.
St. Vincent de Paul 1st April, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries.
Ottawa.
SiEs; — I have the honour to submit you my seventh annual report for
the fiscal year ended 31st JIarch 1910, and its usual statistical statements of the
different departments of the St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.
Population remaining at midnight, March 31st, 1909. . . . 510
Received from common jail during the year 212
Parole forfeited 1
Parole revoked during the year 1
214
724
Discharged by expiry of sentence 101
" pardon 5
" parole 65
" transfer 4
" death 5
" deportation 11
191
Remaining at midnight, March 31st, 1910 533
Increase of 'population. — Notwithstanding the considerable increase of our
population during the year, discipline has been very well observed and is at present
most satisfactory.
We became so overcrowded that we were obliged to construct seventy-two
temporary cells in the building adjoining the work shops, which had been erected
for the storage of farm vehicles. Until the new permanent cells have been complet-
ed in the construction of the north wing, these seventy-two temporary cells will
be occupied by convicts with sentences about to expire in a very short time and
whose conduct has been most satisfactory. The cells are well ventilated and afford
the same security as the permanent cells; they are heated by steam the same as
all the other buildings.
The increase in our population consists largely of youths from 1 6 to 20 years of
age, which is not a very encouraging indication for the future. As far as possible
we are obliging these youths to learn a trade, that they may derive some benefit
through their detention, which may later enable them to secure employment and
make good use of what they have been taught, provided they have otherwise
appreciated the lesson of their imprisonment.
Farm. — The returns from our farm have been very satisfactory the past year
the ground having been well prepared and in good condition for seeding. A very
large part of it has been well ploughed during the past autumn in preparation for
this season. We have the necessary fertilizing material to put it into good condition
and with the indications we now have of an early spring, we arc in hopes of securing
the largest crops ever obtained, providing the temperature is favourable during
the season.
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Quarry. — The work at the quarry was very satisfactory, the quantity of stone
taken out being double that of preceding years. I'he fine weather this season has
permitted our beginning work a^month earUerthan usual, which with the advantages
of the new horse-power derrick just installed, wUl make it possible with facility,
to again double the quantity of stone taken out over that of the past year. 'I'his
will give a sufficient supply to enable between 30 and 40 convicts to labour at stone
cutting during all the winter months, which will mean a considerable advance in
our construction work for the following spring.
Construction work thisyear. — The principal work to be carried out during thepre-
sent spring and summer will be the erection of the new residence for the warden,
which is to be built of cut and dressed stone; completion of the new hospital to
be ready for occupation in the spring of 1911 ; the rebuilding in stone and cement of
a guard pier, the old one having been carried away by the ice in the spring of 1909;
this work involves some danger and considerable labour but it is necessar}' to en-
sure the protection of the main pipes of our aqueduct system; also the completion
of the cement sidewalks, work upon which was commenced during the past autumn,
and which when completed will be 1 ,800 feet in length by 4i feet in width. All
of this work is very urgent and should bo completed before the cold weather sets
in. As soon as the summer work is completed we will immediately continue the
reconstruction of the north wing; as we shall probably have the necessary stone
all prepared, this work will, if not completed, be at least well advanced towards final
completion during the year of 1912.
During the past ten years we have always had from 50 to 7.5 convicts employed
at work levelling the prison enclosure; this work will be finished this autumn,
possibly by mid-summer; it has been the longest work ever undertaken, or which
will ever again be undertaken. Earth and rock of an average depth of between
four and five feet over a superficial area, at least 300,000 feet, had to be removed.
Thousands and thousands of loads of stone have been carted out and used for road
making, repairs, etc. 1 he prison enclosure previously very hilly, full of excavation,
and unsuitable in every way is now almo.st all levelled properly from end to end
and covered with gravel. Ornamental flower plots have been laid out upon several
parts of the enclosure, greatly adding to the artistic appearance oflered the eye,
also being of very good effect upon the morals of the convicts. Now that it is
almost completed, 1 am asking myself, at what labour shall we employ the number
of convicts who have been at this work for the ten years past; it is essential that
some other occupation be provided, idleness is impossible, it would be too grave a
menace to the maintenance of discipline. 1 would, therefore, ask that the inspector
should suggest some form of labour suitable for the employment of those having
no trade, who do not desire to learn one, or who are too advanced in years. I would
ask that some attention be given to this subject at as early a date as possible.
Work done. — A large amount of structural work and general repairs have been
executed during the year.
During the season 1907-1908, 357 tramway loads of stone were extracted from
the quarry. Last season, 607 loads were taken out, and this was not yet sufficient.
A new derrick with horse-power equipment has been erected at the quarry, and
I hope that by this way the quantity of stone will be doubled.
The stone for the rest of the outside walls of the new hospital is all dressed,
so is the largest part of the stone for the warden's house.
Fourteen hundred tons of limestone have been sold and taken out of the yard;
200 loads of mason stone have been hauled to the river bank in view of the recon-
struction of the ice breaker.
Nine hundred and fifty loads of rubbish have been drawn out of the yard,
and put on the road from the new bridge to the C.P.R. tracks, thus raising the
road 18 inches ; 350 loads of macadam stone were also taken out for the roads.
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In conclusion, I desire to express my sincere thanks to yourselves for the uni-
{oTXn courtesy and assistance which you have so wilUngly extended to me in the
direction of the affairs of this institution, and also thanks to the general staff for the
respect and devotedness, which they all have accorded me in the discharge of my
duties.
Respectfully submitted.
OSCAR BEAUCHAMP,
Ward fit.
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DOnCUESTER.
Dorchester, N.B., May 14, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa,
Sirs, — I have the honour to submit my report consisting of the usual statisti-
cal returns and reports of the officers of the different departments of the Dorchester
penitentiary for the year ended JIarch 31, 1910.
movement of convicts.
There were remaining at midnight March 31, 1910, 229 males and 17 female
prisoners, a total of 246. There were received from common jails 104 males and
7 females; from military court 1 male; from forfeited licenses, 2 males, and from
reformatory 4 males, a total of 118.
And there were discharged by expiration of sentence 35 males and 7 females,
by parole, 53 males and 3 females, by pardon, 6 males, by deportation, 6 males, and
by death, 4 males, by order of Court, 1 male, by order of Minister of Justice, 1
female, sent to other penitentiaries, 2 males, a total of 118, leaving a total of 246
convicts at midnight of 31st March 1910, the same as last year.
The daily average was 234 as against 240 last year. On the 17th September
last, two convicts, who were engaged on the farm ploughing on the side hill near the
prison enclosure in charge of a guard, made a dash for liberty and got clear away.
The alarm was at once given, the prison closed and a search instituted. After
nine days' search by practically our whole staff, the men were recaptured
near Port Elgin (in the woods). These convicts were brought before the court
at Dorchester and the Judge gave them six months additional to their sentence.
With the above exception the conduct and industry of the convicts have been
all that could be desired.
As the duty of reporting upon the progress of building operations has been
placed upon the architect, I need but refer to it here to say that the work has been
progressing quite satisfactorily.
The foundation for the new wall was partly laid last fall, the building
of which will be commenced early in spring, for which a large gang of convicts
has been at work all winter perparing stone.
The farm produced a fair average crop last year. Owing, however, to the ex-
ceedingly wet weather during the harvesting season much of it was secured in a
damaged condition.
I'he discipline of the prison has been fair and the officers have been faithful
in the discharge of their duties.
Respectfully submitted,
J. A. KIRK,
Warden.
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MANITOBA.
Stony Mountain, April 22nd, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sirs, — I have the honour to submit my annual report, together with crime sta-
tistics and other reports in connection with this penitentiary, for the year ended
March 31st, 1910.
Remaining at midnight, March 31 st, 1 909 144
Received since from common jails (1 female) 79
Received since by forfeiture of license 5
84
228
Discharged —
By expiration of sentence 28
By parole 22
By escape 1
By deportation 9
By death 1
By transfer to Alberta Penitentiary (female) .... 1
Released by order of Court of Appeal 1
63
Remaining at midnight, March 31st, 1910 165
The daily average for the year was 158 against 129 for the previous year.
A large volume of building and extension work has been done during the fiscal
year.
New shops. — Work was resumed on this building in the early spring, and it
has now been brought to a point nearing completion. The carpenter's shop — a
fine, large, bright room — was occupied before the winter set in. In other portions
of the building, which include engineer's and blacksmith's departments; a hall for
fire-fighting apparatus; deputy warden's, and chief trade and mason instructor's
offices; all interior finishing has been completed, such as second flooring, mouldings,
frames, casings, and metallic ceilings over all shops, offices, etc., on the second floor
as well as over the large main vestibule and deputy warden's office.
New store room building. — Work on this building was well advanced before the
winter. All excavating and foundation work is completed and considerable out-
side brickwork has been laid. During the winter all necessary windows, door
frames, sash, partitions, doors, etc., have been completed preparatory to resuming
work on the building as soon as the weather will permit.
New pump house. — The excavation and foundation have been completed and
a large portion of the carpenter's and mason's work prepared.
Other buildings and extensions. — Excavations for soil pipes and water mains
are completed and ready for the'piping. All necessary repairs to the prison build-
ing have been carried out, the warden's deputy, warden's and other officers' quarters
have been put in good repair, the boundary wooden fence and the fences on the
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road leading to the station have been repaired and painted. A large quantity of
stone for the boundary waO and buildings has been quarried and dressed during the
winter, and many minor repairs have been attended to.
Farm. — I'he yield from the farm crops was good and prices received something
above the average. As stated in my last report, our farm work embraces much
that is commendable in that it is conducive to general health and shows profitable
results. A larger portion of our land should be brought under cultivation, as before
recommended by me, but in order to accomplish this, immediate provision is ne-
cessary for more up-to-date and commodious farm buildings. 1'hese now in use
are quite inadequate either to provide stable room for the additional horses, which
would then be required, or for the storing of an increased yield in crops.
1 he importance of procuring efficient and reliable men as guards plays so large
a part in directing the discipline of a penitentiary that I cannot too strongly recom-
mend that the rate of pay for such service should be increased. IMen ^\ho can be
absolutely relied upon to do their duty, and in no case to betray their employer's
trust, find many occupations open to them in the development of this country,
offer better remuneration than is embraced in the present scale of pay in institutions
of this kind. So much power for either good or evil is in the guard's hands that I
cannot feel that the best results can be looked for without ample provision for the
emploj'ment of the best men.
Respectfully submitted,
A. G. IRVINE,
Warden.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA.
New Westminster, B.C., April 30, 1910.
Sirs, — I have the honour to submit my report for the year ended March 31,
1910, together with statistical and other statements.
In contrast with the large increase in prison population noted in my reports
for last year and the year before, the slight addition to the closing figures of last
year, shown by this report — 209 as against 204— is cause for congratulation. It
is true that the number of discharges in the closing days of the year was unusually
large, and also that during the year we discharged 27 more than in the previous
year, but the number received during the year was 17 less than in 1908-9. This
is the more noteworthy because there has undoubtedly been a considerable increase
in the population of the province, and is I think, mainly due to the fact that the
demand for unskilled labour has been large during the whole year, urgency in rail-
way and municipal work inducing contractors to keep their men employed through-
out the winter. A considerable percentage of the prisoners received during the
period of about 15 months which ended with the close of the fiscal year 190S-9
were young men, who, being strangers in the country, destitute, and unable to obtain
work, resorted to theft, 'i he imprisonment of a number of these was shortened
under the parole system, and I am glad to be able to say that many of them now
give fair promise of becoming useful citizens. The readiness of the penitentiary
chaplains and of the Salvation Army to help in obtaining work for all discharged
prisoners who show a desire to help themselves, has contributed to this gratifying
result.
One prisoner died during the year. He contracted pneumonia and died after
a few daj's' illness. One lad was transferred to the industrial school, and a man
who turned out to have been insane when admitted, was returned to the provincial
authorities.
Ten prisoners were deported during the year, some when they had served
their full term and the remainder (men whose good conduct entitled them to con-
sideration), before their time had fully expired.
The disaster in the piggery has, of course, inflateil the balance on the wrong
side of our farm account, \\hich is further prejudiced by the fact that two years'
supply of chemical fertilizer (1909-10, 1910-11) was purchased during the fiscal
year covered by the report.
Discipline has been fairly well maintained during the year, notwithstanding
the numerous changes in the police staff, due to the fact that more remunerative
employment is easily obtained. There were several attempts to escape, but these
were stopped in the initial stages. One of the men who escaped from Wright Is-
land in 1907 returned voluntarily, in Februar}', to serve out his term.
Detailed reports having been sent to you from time to time during the
year; I may here confine myself to the statement that the work of modernizing
the prison and its surroundings has been pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
During the latter half of the year the weather was unusually unfavourable to out-
door work, the rainfall being a good deal over the average and fog being of frequent
occurrence.
Last summer we were compelled to slaughter the whole of our herd of swine,
hog cholera having broken out among them, 'i'he loss was the more unfortunate
as pork has gone up greatly in price. The piggery has recently been restocked,
and it is hoped will supply the prison before the close of the current year.
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I wish to commend the vigilance of the deputy-warden and the loyal assistance
given me as a rule by all members of the staff in the discharge of my duties. Spe-
cial mention should be made of the good work done by the chief trade instructor,
whose position, as the distance of this penitentiary from Ottawa makes frequent
visits by the architect impracticable, is one of peculiar responsibility. The im-
provements in progress involve construction and fitting of buildings, road making
(entailing cribbing work as well as cutting and filling), changes in sewerage and
electric systems, and so forth; and for the proper execution of all work, the chief
trade instructor is responsible.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN C. BROWN,
Warden.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa, Ont.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Edmonton, April 30th., 1910.
Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa,
Sirs, — I have the honour to submit my annual report, embracing detailed
reports from the various departments of the Alberta penitentiary, for tlie twelve
months ended March 31st, 1910.
I beg to call your attention to the large increase in the prison population during
the past fiscal year. This was due probably to the farge influx of foreign immigrants
and the desire to get rich quick in this land of wonderful opportunities. Jhere
has also been a very unsatisfactory increase in the number of immoral and indecent
crimes committed.
I am pleased to be able to report a very satisfactory year in building operations.
The exterior of the central hall is finished and the inside work is rapidly nearing
completion. Owing to the splendid architectural features, this will be a \ery
imposing centre around which the cell block wings and other buildings will be
grouped. The east wing of the cell block is now well under way and we fully
expect to have the roof on this fall and to finish the inside work in the coming
winter. This will make 216 cells, which are badly needed.
Our brick yard is supplying all the brick necessary for our extensive build-
ing operations. I'his brick is of a very superior quality. The wood used for firing
the kilns is cut from the farm, which is being cleared for agricultural purposes.
As usual our farm has been a great success and has given a good supply of vege-
tables for the prison, and hay for the horses.
The conduct of the prisoners has been good and the trade instructors have
been successful in getting the maximum amount of work out of the convicts in
their charge.
I regret to say that two of our convicts made good their escape in full view
of two. temporary guards. It is needless to say that the guards were discharged
forthwith and more vigilant men engaged.
It is wdth the deepest feelings of sorrow that I report the murder of the late
Deputy Warden Stedman by a life convict. This convict whose previous life has
probably blunted his sensibilities, had been reprieved from the gallows and had
become morbid during his incarceration and by a foul and dastardly act deprived
a very useful man of his life.
Deputy Warden Commings is deserving of great credit for his thorough grasp of
the situation. He is a young man and has not had a very large experience in prison
work, yet I am convinced he. has made good and I am satisfied that as his experience
widens he will continue to be a credit to the institution. The matron has thrown
herself into her work, and the cleanly appearance of the female ward, the amount
of work accomplished and the apparent goodw ill existing while discipline is main-
tained, bear very satisfactory evidence that she is doing good work, 'j he trade ins-
tructors have done splendidly and all officers have been on the alert and have been
very successful in maintaining discipline.
I would strongly support the suggestion of Warden Irvine, quoted by Warden
Brown in his report of last year, regarding the flogging of prisoners in the peniten-
tiary when so sentenced by the court.
WAHVEXS' HEPOR'l'S 33
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Owing to the fact of higher wages being paid, and tlie greater opportunities
for advancement, all around us, it is a matter of regret that so many of our be.st
officers leave us for outside employment.
In conclusion I wish to thank the officers one and all for their hearty support.
Respectfully submitted,
M. j\Ic('A[ LEY,
War din.
31-3
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 3t.L
APPENDIX C.
SURGEONS' REPORTS.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINCiSTON.
To the Warden,
In accordance w ith tlu; statutory requirements, 1 herewith submit my regular
annual report of tjie operations of the medical department of the Kingston peni-
tentiary, for the year ending -March 31 , 1910.
1 he heating in the various parts of the prison has been carefully looked after,
thus affording comfort and also promoting health amongst the pri-son population,
which has visibly increased during the past year.
The food, as regards quality and quantity, has been all that could be desired
in the view-point of healtli, and the cooking has been well done. 1'he dishes in
which the food is served are kept as clean and sanitary as it is po.ssible to keep them.
I am of the opinion that agate ware would be much more sanitary, or some species
of crockery; the cracking off in the one, and the perishable nature of the other, on
accbunt of i)eing easily bi-oken, might be more than countervailed by the sanitai-y
problem.
The water used for drinking purposes retained its reputation for its superior
finality, and several examinations of it made by me during the year failed to reveal
the presence of any organic matter or other deleterious substance.
The hospital has been thoroughlj' renovated, and is always kept clean and
sanitary and ready for the reception of patients. During the past year there has
been more than the usual amount of sickness amongst the convicts, and I am
pleased to say that all the directions prescribed for them were rigidly carried out by
the hospital overseers, who are at all times ready with their orderlies to make those
who are invalided feel that they are not neglected. The number of patients re-
ceived in the hospital for the twelve months, was four hundred and thirty, and its
average daily population was twelve, 'ihe number of days spent in the hospital
was four thousand, four hundred and thirty-two. .\ large number of patients
required day and night attention for some months. Pneumonia appeared to be the
disease which had a particular selection for our charge, but 1 am glad to say that
the care and attention bestowed on these cases, as well as on all the others, pre-
vented many fatalities. 'J'he deaths which occurred were principally those suffer-
ing from chronic diseases and paralysis. A few cases of tuberculosis, a disease from
which we are comparatively free, in consideration of the class of prisoners which
reach us, developed; the germ of the disease no doubt being in the system before,
and only required some favouring influence to develop it.
The operation of vaccination has been performed on every prisoner who did
not show a satisfactory mark, either of a previous vaccination successfully per-
formed, or of the true small-pox itself. As a rule the greater number present evi-
dence of vaccination, many of them having it done in the jails where they have
been detained for some time previous to trial or commitment to prison.
One prisoner attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself out of the win-
dow, but he was not successful in his attempt, and does not appear to be anything
the worse after his general shaking up by falling on a pile of stones.
'ihe sanitation in certain parts of the prison required a little prompting during
the year. In these matters, which are of so much importance to the health and
comfort of the prisoners, cleanliness, as in other spheres of life, is next to godliness.
Where proper and timely precautions are taken in these matters, and the judicious
employment of disinfectant material intelligently carried out, the danger of infec-
tious diseases is reduced to a minimum.
Ihe ventilation in the dormitories, workshops and other parts of the prison
has been carefully looked after by tho.se in charge of this important matter, and the
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38 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
sewerage works have been kept entirely free from objectionable odours which might
affect the health of the prisoners.
There were one hundred and thirty-one cases of officers on the sick list, many of
them being seriously ill. For these officers, the hospital overseers prepared six hundred
and sixty-two prescriptions, and I made eleven hundred and two visits during their
illness. On one officer I performed a serious operation, and he is now as well as
ever, though he was a long time on the sick list. The officers are returned to duty
as soon as possible, but never until they have entirely recovered and have regained
strength. Many of them who thought themselves strong enough to take up duty,
were unable to do so on attempting it. Complete recovery from disease to which all
of us are Uable, is very deceptive.
Insane Ward. — The inmates have been well looked after and have been made
very comfortable. A few cases of sickness prevailed amongst the inmates, and
when found necessary, the patient was taken to the general prison hospital for
treatment for his intercurrent disease. Two hundred and thirty-one prescriptions
were prepared for the inmates, by the hospital overseers for this ward. A large
number were discharged and were returned home in good health, and many others
were again admitted into the general prison community, to engage in their usual
employment. This has been the best evidence of their restoration to health.
Many of those sent to us from other penitentiaries appeared to be more incorrigible
than mentally enfeebled.
Female Ward. — The Matrons have well looked after the cleanliness of this ward,
and the inmates are kept clean and tidy. Considerable sickness prevailed, as the
class appeared to be below the average in physical and mental health. The hos-
pital overseers prepared for the sick, at various times, tw-o hundred and sixty-two
prescriptions.
There was no accident amongst the prisoners during the year. The usua)
returns of the hospital overseers are transmitted herewith.
DANIEL PHELAN,
Surgeon .
SURGEONS' REPORTS 39
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
RETURN OF SICK TREATED IN HOSPITAL FROM APRIl/ 1, 1909 TO MABCh 31, 1910.
, Remainnd.
AbrasioH
Abscess
Abscess of liver. . , .
Aphthae
Appendicitis
Asthma
Attempted suicide.
Biliousness
Bronchitis
Bullet wound
Cephalagia
Cholera Morbus. . . .
Cirrosis of liver. . .
Colic.
Confinement
Constipation
Contusion
Cramp
Cripple
DebiUty
Diabetes
Diarrhoea.
Eczema
Epilepsy
Erysipelas.
Febricula
Fever
Furunculus
Glands enlarged. . . .
Hsemoytysis
Hjpmorrhoida
Heart disease
Hernia strangulated.
Tncontineace
Indigestion
. InHuenza
Injury to eye
Jaundice
Lumbago
Malingering
Mania
Marasmus
Melancholia
Meningitis
Migraine
Myalgia
Neuralgia
Ophthalmia
Paralysis
Paresis
Peritonitis
Phimosa operation. .
Phthisis
Pneumonia
Retention
Rheumatism
Scleritis
Sprain
Syphilis
Tonsillitis
Trachoma
Tuberculosis
Ulcer
Uraemia
Urticaria
Vaccinia
Valvular disease heart.
Variocele
Wound
40 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
STATKMKNT OF EXPENDITURE FOR DRUGS .\ND MEDICINES.
Stock on hand, March 31, 1909 $338.94
Drugs and medicines purchased 471 . 57
$810.51
Drugs on hand, March 31, 1910 $347.46
Received foi- medicines supplied officers 1 1 3 . 99
■ $461.45
Net expenditure for drugs $349.06
Per Capita cost ,60
CONVICTS .^DMI1'TED INTO THE INSANE WARD, KINGSTON.
Dat«of
Admission.
From Whence Received.
How Disposed of.
La
sea,
.11 T-
ri
N.4MES.
CO
Dorchester.
.\lberta.
Discharged
Cured.
Improved to
resume work.
li
Remarks.
1 Windsor, Wm
April 19, 1909
21. "
21 . "
1
1
1
2 Williams, Frank
1
1
1
::;:::
1
1
1
1
1
Aug. 11, " 1
June 12,
17. "
28, "
July 22
30, «
Sept. 16, "
Aug. 5, "
16, "
19, "
Sept. 28, "
Aug. 19. "
20, "
26, "
27, "
Sept. 24. "
Oct. 8, "
15
r s
1
1
1
1
1
I
Improved.
1
I
1
Improved.
Improved.
10 Rilev, John
11 Tativo, Guido
1
1
12 Tetrault, Amedee .
1
1
1
Improved.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
17 Reid, George
18 Wiight. John B
19 Stags, Thomas
'
1
1
1
19
Feb. 25
Mar. 21
23 Halter, John
1
1
1
20 3
2
2
3
9
3 12
SURGEONS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ANNUAL RETURN OF CRIMINAL INSANE CONVICTS IN THE INSANE WARD.
Distribution.
Remained under treatment on March 31, 1909.
Since admitted —
Kingston Penitentiar>-
St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary .
Dorchester Penitentiary
-Mborta Penitentiary
Total number under treatment for above period.
I>i8charged — ■
Cured
Improved to resume work
Transferred to Provincial Ai»yluni ou cxpiratioa of sentence.
Died
Remuiuing'undpr treatment March 'M, 1910.
Age.
Reg. No.
[ Duration of
Date of Death. Insanity.
Proximate Cause
of Death.
30
E. 647
Mnv 14. ig09! 322(lavs.
Paralysis
44
E. 132 May 28, '1 3 years 278 days.
D. 619 July 31 , " 1 6 years 323 "
37
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
St. Vincent de P.\ul, 1st April, 1910.
To the Warden, —
I have the honour to submit to you my annual report for the fiscal year 1909-
1910.
Nothing extraordinary has occurred in the medical department during the
course of the year, except the increasing number of consultations at the dispensary.
The officers have paid a quite heavy tribute to illness, some having been absent
for over four months.
The health of the prisoners, in general, was quite satisfactory, for the patients
admitted to the hospital during the year is not alarming, basing ourselves on the
population.
There have been 62 patients who have made a more or less considerable so-
journ at the hospital for the following illnesses.
Diseases.
No.
Diseases.
No.
Abscess
2
1
1
4
7
1
. 1
1
1
2
8
1
\
2
Ataxia
1
Asthma
Colitis
Heart
Cystitis
Debility
Dysentery
4
Diabetes
1
1
i
James Nevin, pneumonia and typhoid.
Percy Brown, tuberculosis.
William Larocque, syncope of the heart (one hour after hie arrival.)
Benjamin Lamont, suicide by hanging.
Magloire Hogue, gastro-enteritis.
Consultations during the course of the year, either from officers or prisoners,
1 2,555.
During a certain time the sick were so numerous that places could hardly be
found to lodge them. That is the time a comfortable hospital is found necessary.
The quicker we will have it, the better it will be for the comfort of every one.
AD. ALLAIRE, M.D.,
SvTg(on.
SURGEOXS' REPORTS 43
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
STATEMENT OF MEDICINES, ETC.
Amount of Drugs on hand, March 31st, 1909 $206.75
" " purchased during the year 1 909-1 0 . . 351 . 33
S;,^,1S.0s
.\raount of drugs sold to officers during the year $60.61
" " issued to convicts " " ■ . • 1 99 . 34
259.95
Drugs on hand $298 . 1 3
Cost per capita 37
D. O'lSHEA,
Hospital (hrrseer.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE V^ A. 1911.
DOKCHESTER.
To the Warden, —
I have the honour to submit mv annual report for the vear ended March 31st,
1910.
CASES TREATKD AT THE DISPENSARY.
Diseases.
Remained.
Admitted.
Discharged.
Remainiug.
12
45
6
15
8
12
14
35
40
13
75
28
26
82
112
15
12
40
6
15
8
12
14
39
40
13
75
28
26
82
92
15
9
65
15
10
7
3
5
16
12
40
35
2
15
1
28
60
24
15
2
8
37
1
56
12
38
3
2
137
45
4
9
Boils . .
Catarrh (nasal)
10
6
Chills
Colds
Colic
20
5
4
65
15
10
6
5
5
16
12
41
35
2
15
4
3
2
1
2
2
1
28
62
24
15
2
8
34
2
56
12
38
5
2
137
44
3
2
36
2
5
2
1
2
3
2
2
1
3
1
36
1
SVRGEOXS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CASES TREATED IN THE HOSPITAL.
Diseases.
Admitted.
Total.
i
1
Discharged.
Died.
Remarks.
2
1
1
1
Debility
Wrist caught in clothes
wringer.
Paroled
2
1
Brought on by hia own act.
15
15
H
1
4
■
EXPENDITURE FOR DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
.Stock on hand, March 31st, 1909 S396.42
Drugs and sundries purchased 291 .92
$688.34
Less:
Drugs, etc., on hand, March 31st, 1910 S323.78
Rccci\ed for medicines supplied officers 49.79
Drugs to chief keeper's department 2 . 25
$375.82
Net Expenditure for drugs $312.52
Per capita cost $1 . 34
E. T. GAUDET,
Surgcoti .
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
M.\NITOBA.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
To the Warden,—
I beg to submit my report for the fiscal year ended ^larch 31st, 1910.
With the exception of the last month of the year, the health of the convicts
has been fairly good. During that last month nearly all the prisoners, as well as
officers, suffered from influenza.
There was one death from consumption. There were no accidents. All con-
victs were vaccinated, who had not been recently done.
The number of days lost on account of illness, by officers, was 168^.
The usual statements are appended.
Respectfully submitted,
R. W. NEILL,
Surgeon
CASES TREATED AT THE DISPENSARY.
Abscesd
Acnse
Ague
Adenitis
Alopeia ,
Ansemia
Anorexia ,
Ansesthesia of liands . .
Appendicitis
Biliousness
Bleeding of nose
Boils
Bright's disease
Bronchitis
Bruises
Catarrh of ears
Catarrh, nasal
Chaffed hands
Cold
Constipation
Corns
CystitiB
Dandruff
Diarrhoea
Eczema
Endocarditis
Falling hair
Foreign body in eye. .
Frost bite
Goitre
Gonorrhoea
Gravel
Headache
Heartburn
Hemorrhage of lungs.
Hives
Indigestion
Influenza
Ingrowing toe nails . . .
Insomnia
Laryngitis
Lumbago
299
176
Malaria.
Neuralgia .
Night sweats.
Opthalmia .
Pain in chest.
Pain in side.
Palpitation of heart.
Pediculi pubis
Pharangitis
Piles .
Pin worms
Pleurisy
Poison ivy
Prairie itch
Psoriasis
Rheumatism
Ring worms
Rupture
Sciatica
Seminal emissions.
Sore lips
Spermatorea
Sprains
Strains
Stye
Syphilis
Synovitia
Tape worms
Tonsilitia
Toothache
TuberculoBis
Tumors
Ulcer of lips
Ulcer of mouth
Ulcer of penis
Varicose veins
Vertigo
Warts
Wax in ears
Worms
Wounds
Teeth extracted. . .
SURGEONS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CASES TREATED IN THE HOSPITAL.
Diseases.
Bemuned. . Admitted. Discharged.
Abscess
Anseioia 1
Appendicitis
Biliousness
Boils
Bronchitis
Bruise 1
Bums
Cold
Constipation ;
Corns
Diarrhoea
Eczema
Endocarditis
Epilepsy 2
Erysipelas
Frost bite
GooorrhcEa I
Gonorrhdal Rhem
Headache
Hemorrhage lungs
Indigestion 1
Insanity
Insomnia '
Jaundice
Lumbago .'
Malaria
Neuralgia
Old wound |
Opthalmia ' 1
Pain in side
Piles
Pleurisy
Rheumatism
Rupture
Sciatica
Sore eye
Sprain
Strain
Stricture
Stye
Synovitis
Syphihs
Tape worms
TonsiUtis
Toothache
Tuberculosis 2
Ulcers
Whitlow
Wound
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE FOR DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Stock on hand, March 31st, 1909 $202.13
Drugs and sundries purchased 125.24
■ $327.37
Drugs on hand, March 31st, 1910 178.61
$148.76
Drugs sold to officers $24 . 28
Drugs sold to stables .15
24.43
Net expenditure for year $124.33
Cost per capita .78
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
New Westminster, B.C., 30th April, 1910.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit my annual report as surgeon of this peni-
tentiary, for the year ended 31st March, 1910.
The health of the convicts during the year may be said to have been good. A
large number of cases have been treated, but mostly of a trifling nature —many of
them so trifling, in fact, that if the men were at liberty they would not think of
consulting a physician.
Among the hospital cases there were only three that were serious. One was a
case of appendicitis, the man being paroled; one was a case of pneumonia which
terminated fatally, and the third was a case of rheumatism.
The usual tables are appended.
W. A. DicWOLF SMITH,
SvrgroJi.
CASES TREATED IN HOSPITAL.
Hemaining.
Abcess
Amaurosis
Anorexia
Appendicitis.. ..
Bronchitis
Diarrhcea
Dyspepsia
Fistula in ano. .
Haemorrhoids. .
Indigestion. . . .
Insane
La grippe
Pharyngitis . . . .
Pleurodynia. . . .
Pneumonia. . . .
Rheumatism. . .
Ulcer of leg. . . .
Wound of eye. .
** of head.
DEATHS DUrUNG TIIK VEAll.
Name.
Age.
Cause of death.
Date of
Admission.
Date of Days in
Death. Nativity. ' Hospital.
1
20
1909
1st Nov
1909
12th Nov.... Kanaka 1 12
1
SURGEOXS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DISPENSARY CASES.
Abrasion of akin
Abscess
Acne
Adenitis
Anorexia
Asthma
Astigmatism
Biliousness
Blepharitis
Bruises
Bullet wound
Catarrh
Chafing
Chapped hands
Chapped lips
Colds
Conjunctivitis
Constipation
Coryza
Cough
Cramps
Cut hand
Cystitis
Dandruff
Diarrhoea
Dizziness
Earache
Eczema
Emesis
Enlarged thryoid
Elongated uvula
Epistaxis
Fatty tumour
Foreign body in eye.
Fumucle
Ganglion
Gingivitis
Gleet
Gonorrhoea
Gravel
Gumboil
Hsfmorrhoids
Headache
Heart disease
Hernia
Herpes labialis
Herpes zoster
Hives
Hordeolum
Hydrocele
Indigestion
Insomia
Irritable bladder. . . .
La grippe
Laryngitis
119
17
Liver disease
Lumbago
Lye in eye
Melsena
Morphinemania . .
Myopia
Xer\'ousnes.*
Neuralgia
Numbness of thigh .
Ophthalmia
Otorrhoea
Pain in abdomirn.. .
" in chest
" in back
" in side
Parenychia
Pediculi
Pharyngitis
Phimosis
Phthisis
Pruritus
Psoriasis
Rheumatism
Scald of face
Sciatica
Sore back
** eyes
** finger
" gums
" band
" leg
" tongue
Spermatorrhcea. . . .
Sprains
Strains
Swollen glands
" testicle ....
Tionia capitis
" tarsi
Teeth extracted
Toothache
Torticollib .
Tumours. . . .
Ulcers
Vaccination
Varicocele
Varicose veins
Warts...
Wax in ears
Weak eyes
" wrist
Wound of eye
of hand
of head
" of leg
Total number of days spent in hospital .
" " of dispensary cases
" " of prescriptions filled
1,028
2.601
4.655
STATEMENT OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Value of drugs on hand, March 31, 1909 $2-17 .20
" purchased, 1909-1910 531 .16
Received for medicine supplied officers S23 .71
Value of drugs on hand, .March 31 , 1910 296.90
31-4
$778.36
Net Cost of drugs
Cost per capita . . .
320.70
$457.66
$2.14
50
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
To the Warden,—
Edmonton, March 31st, 1910.
I have the honour to submit my annual report for the year ending March 31 st,
1910.
I am pleased to report that the health of the prisoners during the year, has
been, upon the whole, good. There were no very serious diseases. One convict
died by order of the court, for murdering the late deputy warden.
The officers have not been absent on account of sickness to the same extent
as any former year.
Two insane convicts were removed to the Kingston penitentiary.
There were no serious accidents during tlie year.
The sanitary condition of the prison is good.
Ansemia
AjBthma
Blood poisoning
Boils
Bronchitis
Catarrh
Colitis
Conjunctivitis
Constipation
Crushed toe
Crushed finger
Cystitis
Debility
Diarrhcea
Dysentry
Dressing wounds
Bczeina
Gastritis
Gonorrhoea
Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia.
Goitre
Hemorrhoids
Hysteria
Indigestion
laOuenza
Insomnia
Insane
Injured knee
Ingrown toe-nail
CASES TREATED.
ALEX. FORIN,
Surgeon.
Lumbago
Neuralgia
Otitis
I Pediculosis corporis
; Pharyngitis
i Rheumatism, muscular
, Rheumatism, inflammatory
Rupture
Removal of cyst
• Scabies
! Sprain
Stomatitis
Sypliilis
^ Sciatica
■ Teeth extracted
TonsiUtia
Torpid liver
Tuberculosis
, Tubercular peritonitis
j Tubercular abscess
Tubercular glands
Ulcer
Operations:
' Removing growth under eye
] Tieing artery, and sewing up wound.
Removing piles
Sewing scalp woiinds
Total .
Drugs, instruments, etc., on hand, March 31st, 1909. . . . 397.12
Purchased during the year 136.87
$533.99
Drugs, etc., on hand, .March 31st, 1910 S388.00
Sold to officers during the year 3.90
Used by convicts " " 142.09
$533.99
Average population for the year, 112.
Average cost per capita $1 27
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. zi^ A. 1911.
APPENDIX D.
CHAPLAINS' REPORTS.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Kingston, March 31st, 1910.
To the Warden:
I beg herewith to present to you my report as Protestant chaplain of the
Kingston penitentiary, for the year ended March 31st, 1910.
The number of convicts accounted for in my register on that date is 375 —
-^67 men, and 8 women — classed as follows, with respect to their religious belief: —
Church of England 121
Methodist 115
Presbyterian 72
Baptist 25
Lutheran 19
Jewish 6
Greek Catholic 2
Salvation Army 4
Quaker 2
No Creed 2
Unknown (Insane) .... 4
Menonite 1
Free Thinker 1
Church Worker 1
Total 375
This number is twelve less than that of last year.
We have been favoured during the last year by visits from the following
gentlemen: Professors Kniglit and Dupuis, of Queen's College, who gave lectures;
Mr. Archibald, who preached; Mr. D. Treneer, a blind organist, who played at the
service, and also rendered some fine organ solos and delighted us with his music;
Mr. D. Couper, Mayor of Kingston, paid us two visits, took part in the service, and
charmed. everybody by his rich solo singing; Mr. Birmingham, the General Secre-
tary of St. Andrew's Brotherhood, gave a most helpful address on the work of that
Society. While Dr. Crawford, a medical missionary from eastern equatorial
Africa, deeply interested us in his work in that far-off land.
'•:'' _The prisoners again and again expressed their thanks to me for the pleasure
and^the profit these visits afford them.
The platform for the choir has been enlarged to seat thirty, about the number
of our present choir.
I desire to state that a member of the choir, who is also organist, has composed
an oratorio, "David," which has been sung by the choir several times, and which
two competent musicians of Kingston, who examined it and played it through,
pronounced to be a work of merit.
The week-day classes have been regularly held as heretofore, and the other and
many sacred duties have, one trusts, been faithfully performed.
With sincere acknowledgment of the kindness and courtesy of the officers of
the institution, I am,
Yours respectfully,
A. W. COOKE,
Protestant Chaplain.
53
To the Warden:
DEPAHTMESr Of JUSTICE
1 GEOROE v., A. 1911.
Kingston, April 1st, 1910.
I beg leave to report for the year 1910. During the past twelve mouths 1 have
been in faithful and regular attendance at the penitentiary, and had constant
association with its inmates in the discharge of my duties as Roman Catholic
chaplain of the institution.
To-day I find enrolled on the chapel register, 171 men, three less than last
year; and sad to saj', 12 women, eight in excess of last year, the majority of them
coming from the province of Quebec, giving us 183 as a total.
The words of Holy Writ, as found in St. Luke: ' ' Be ye also ready, for at what
hour you think not, the Son of Man will come," are as applicable to the inmates
within the walls of the Ivingston penitentiary as they are to the men li\ing along
the busy and broad road of life. Nothing so nearly touches man as his mortality.
Daily he meets with objects that remind him of the frailty of human life and death.
Those living inside prison walls are no exception to the rule, and from time to time
the Angel of Death makes his periodical visit to our midst, in order to remind its
inmates that "it is appointed for men once to die, and after this, judgment;" for
during the past twelve months no less than six men of the catholic congregation
were called to give an account of their stewardship before the throne of the Eternal
Judge of the living and the dead.
The entire staff of officers are to be commended for having laboured so efficient-
ly for the interests of the institution, and have been a source of great aid to me. for
which I am exceedinglv grateful.
M. McDonald,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
April 1st, 1910.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
To the Warden:
I have the honour of submitting mv report for the fiscal vear ending March 31st,
1910.
A striking feature of the year is the large number of con\icts received — larger
than for any year during my connection with the institution, with the exception
of the year 1903-1904; but in that year a large proportion of those received were
sent here from the Stony Mountain penitentiary, and, therefore, could not be
regarded as new convicts. The increase is, I fear, largely due to the "drug habit"
which is alarmingly on the increase amongst the younger men and boys. A few
years ago an occasional "drug fiend" would be met with amongst the new-comers;
but he was usually of mature age, and had begun his downward course by using
liquor; now, it is a common occurrence to be told by the youthful criminals that
not liquor, but morphine, cocaine, etc., caused their downfall. When asked how
they obtained the drug, the law being so strict, they reply that there is no diffi-
culty in getting all they want of it. But while they are (juite frank up to this ])oint.
I have never been able to get the names of those who sell it. The evils of the liquor
habit are, indeed, deplorable, but those cons(!quent upon the use of these drugs, are
mentally, morally and physically more appalling.
The illicit vendor deserves to be treated as a criminal of the worst type. It is
my melancholy duty to report the death of one of those under my care, which was
directly caused by the "drug habit".
And now to turn to a more cheerful subject. It is a source of gratification to
me to be able to report the contiimed good behaviour of the men in chapel, and to
.'jtate that the number of those who kneel during the prayers has increased con-
.liderablv.
CHAPLAINS' REPORTS 56
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
On the 19th of January we had the pleasure of a visit from the Lord Bishop of
Montreal who came to hold a confirmation, when eight of the inmates were con-
firmed. His lordship's eloquent and eminently practical address, was listened to
by the men with marked attention; and his lordship was much pleased with the
reverent deportment and hearty singing of the congregation.
The library has been augmented by the addition of over 500 volumes, and
is well patronized by the men.
I hail with great pleasure the prospect of system of classification and segrega-
tion of the prisoners, as that means the protection of first offenders and the young,
against the evil influence of the more abandoned and hardened criminals.
In concluding my report, I wish to tender to the warden and officers generally
my sincere thanks for their courtes}% and the kind assistance rendered me in the
discharge of mv duties.
JOHN ROLLIT,
Protestant Chaplain.
April 1st, 1910.
To the Warden:
I beg to present my annual report about the Roman Catholic chapel and its
concerns.
In spite of the notable increase in the number of Catholics, originally coming
from all parts of the world, and some at a long wilful loss of practical godliness, the
religious service is always orderly and even edifying to occasional outside witnesees.
Singing helps worship and does credit to our chanters, but mostly to our
organist, worthy of every gratitude and encouragement from the Department of
Justice.
In the present most special Eucharistic year for Montreal, I have, thanks to
God, most happily observed a great zeal for communions more numerous than pre-
viously.
Four hundred and twenty-two men attended our religious services on the 1st
April, 1909. Since, 172 have come from courts of justice. ' One has been trans-
ferred from the Protestant chapel. One hundred and fifty-nine have left us, vi3. :
55 hcensed, 6 pardoned, 3 died, 2 transferred to King.ston, 8 deported, 85 releas-
ed; bringing an increase of 14, and a total of 436.
Oblige me in expressing my thanks to the inspectors of the penitentiaries for
their benevolence towards our Catholic congregation, and accept my gratitude for
the kindness and help I have received from you and your staff.
L. O. HAREL, Priest,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
March 31st, 1910.
DORCHESTER.
To the Warden:
As required by the Department of Justice, and in conformity with the pre-
cedent of previous years, I have the honour to herewith submit to you my fourth
annual report as Protestant chaplain of the Dorchester penitentiary, for the year
ending March 31st, 1910.
By consulting the registration table included in this report, it will be observed
that we have a total of 125 Protestant prisoners, this year, as against a total of 133
on the coiTesponding date of the previous year.
The following table, itemized as to creed, will give the total admissions for the
year: —
Church of England 25
Baptist 16
Presbyterian 14
Methodist 6
Lutheran 2
Disciple 1
Unitarian 1
: fi-^
The following list gives the record of the movement of prisoners for the year,
included in this report: —
Discharged, by time expiration 25
Discharged, by parole 39
Deported 6
Died ^
Transferred to Kingston penitentiary 2
Total 76
SUMMARY.
In custody, March 31st, 1909 133
In custodV, March 31st, 1910 125
Church of England 46
Baptist ^3
Presbjrterian 23
Methodist 19
Lutheran 2
Disciple J
Unitarian 1
Total 125
'^^In the above list, sixteen are females, the largest number of this class, dur-
irj;"^the incumbency of the present Protestant chaplain.
CHAPLAINS' REPORTS 57
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
We regret to state that death, the grim officer of God, has thrice invaded our
Protestant ranks during the year.
On May 9th, 1909, John Francis, from St. John city, died, the body was for-
warded in charge of an officer, to the relatives at St. John, for interment.
On May 20th, 1909, George Morton, of Yarmouth, N.S., passed into the beyond,
and was buried in the government burial plot; brief religious exercises were held by
the chaplain, the prison clioir assisting.
On November 14th, 1909, Joseph Lewis, after a protracted illness, died, and
was buried in the burial ground of the institution. This prisoner steadfastly
refused to disclose any facts connected with his Hfe historj- ; it was, therefore, quite
impossible to locate friends or relatives. He belonged to England.
The religious exercises of the institution have been carried forward throughout
the year, with the utmost regularity, and in some instances we have been im-
f)ressed and encouraged with the evidences of good being accomplished.
It is noteworthy that a very high .standard of deportment is maintained. The
disciphne of the institution certainly reflects much credit upon the officers having
this important matter in charge.
We note with unfeigned gratitude, the co-operation of all the officers; making
the discharge of our duties a pleasure and in no sense irksome.
We find ourselves at the opening of the new fiscal year, still possessed with an
intense desire to do good among the classes placed under our religious care.
We look for help from eternal sources.
Respectfully submitted,
BYRON H. THOMAS,
Prnteslant Chaplain.
Dorchester, N.B.. March 31st, 1910.
To the Warden:
I herewith submit my twenty-first annual report for the fiscal year ending
March 31st, 1910, on which date I had 108 males, and four female convicts, a grand
total of 112, as against 113 last fiscal year.
I have to report one death during the year just elapsed.
I have nothing further to report.
A. D. CORMIER, Priest,
Rowan Catholic Chaplain
To the Warden:
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE V, A. 1911.
MANITOBA.
Stony Mountain, March 31, 1910.
I beg leave to submit ray third annual report as Protestant chaplain.
In the work for the reformation of the men who have been assigned to my
care, I have been greatly encouraged by the response they have made to lead a
better life. They have been very attentive listeners at all the services, and many
of them have become interested in bible study and prayer.
At the services each sabbath morning, a scripture subject is announced for
the men to study in their cells during the week, and also a subject of prayer in
connection therewith.
Many of the men have expressed their appreciation of these helps and have
grown quite interested in bible study. This taste for bible study is creating a
taste for pure literature, which is a very hopeful sign. This, with a training to
honest toil, and a firm but kind enforcement of discipline, is sure to make for
future good character.
In this latter respect, it is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when
there will be a moral, as well as a physical and intellectual, standard for all posi-
tions on the staff.
The movement of prisoners during the past year has been as follows:
Number on register, March 31, 1909 99
Received during the year 54
Discharged: — 153
By expiration of sentence 17
" parole 14
" transfer to Alberta penitentiary
" deportation
" escape
" order of court
" death
— 42
Remaining on register March 31, 1910 HI
S. W. L. STEWART,
Protestant Chaplain.
Saint Boniface, April 13, 1910.
To the Warden :
I have the honour to report that I have fifty-four convicts in my care at the
penitentiary.
It is unnecessary for me to state the opinion, which is that of the public
generally, that a large proportion of these convicts have arrived in this country
within the past few years.
A more efficient control of the class of immigrants is evidently necessary and
I am glad to see that efforts in that direction are being made this year.
ARTHUR BELIVEAU,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
CHAPLAINS' REPORTS 59
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
New Westminster, May 5, 1910.
To^the Warden:
I have the honour to present my report as Protestant chaplain of this peni-
tentiary for the year ended March 31, 1910.
Convicts remaining March .31, 1909 131
Convicts received during fiscal year 58
Total ministered to during the year l.Stf
Discharged by expiry of sentence 24
Paroled 29
Pardoned 1
Deported 8
Transferred to provincial authorities 1
Transferred to industrial school 1
Tran.sferred to Roman Catholic church 1
Total 65
Total under my charge March .31, 1910 124
Creeds :
Church of England 40
Methodist 2.3
Presbvterian 23
Buddhist 17
; Baptist 5
Jewish 2
Methodist Episcopalian 1
Reformed Episcopalian 1
Congrcgationalist 1
Lutheran 7
No creed 4
Total 124
It is gratifying to note that out of si.\iy-Hve men received onlj- four of these
were below the age of twenty-one, and one of these was transferred to the in-
dustrial school.
A decrease in the number of men received, and an increase in the number of
men paroled and deported accotints for a smaller number of men being under my
charge at the close of this year than la-st.
As the good times continue and work is plentiful this happy condition of af-
fairs will, I believe, be maintained.
Services have been held regularly. The sick have been constantly visited.
The sacrament of the Lord's supper was dispensed once during the year.
I hnve to thank you and all the officers for courtesy extended to me in the
discharge of my duties.
Yours respectfully,
ALBERT EDWARD VERT,
Protestant Chajilain.
60 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
New Westminster, April 2, 1910.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to present my report as Roman Catholic chaplain, for the
year ending March 31, 1910.
There were at that date 85 convicts inscribed as Catholics, an increase of more
than fifteen per cent on last year's number.
A deplorable fact, to which attention has been called again and again is the
number of j'oung men under twenty years of age; one of those under my care is
hardly fourteen years old.
Another notable fact is the high percentage of Italians, (nearly eighteen per
cent of the whole Catholic population.) The percentage of Indians has decreased.
Out of the 33 convicts received during the year, I found that only three, or
at the most four, had made their Easter duties last year, while about the half had
not entered a church for some ten years. As to education, five had not had any
schooUng at all; only three had been a year or more in a Catholic school.
The services have been held regularly and the behaviour of the men has been
good. Quite a number receive the sacraments regularly. Many derive a real
benefit from their stay in the penitentiary, but there is a certain class of men to
whom the penitentiary does not do any good, and who are sent out worse than they
were when they entered. I have met with a few of those cases during this last
year.
I take this opportunity to thank you and all the officers for constant kindness
iind courtesy.
Yours respectfully,
E. LAMBOT, O.M.I.,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
CHAPLAINS' REPORTS 61
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Edmonton, April 12, 1910.
To the Warden:
As Protestant chaplain, I have the honour to present to you my annual
report for the year ending March 31, 1910.
At the close of the last fiscal year there were in confinement, fifty-three male
and three female Protestant convicts. During the past year there were admitted
seventy-two male and two female prisoners. There were discharged during the
same period thirty-one males and three females. This left us ninety-four males
and two female prisoners under the care of the Protestant chaplain at the close of
the year.
Religious services have been held regularly every Sunday morning during
the year and visits have been made during the week when required.
The Church of England clergyman asked for the privilege of holding a monthly
service on Sunday afternoon, and it was granted. The Woman's Christian Tem-
perance Union under the direction of the chaplain have held a weekly service on
Sunday afternoons among the female prisoners with marked results.
One hundred and four volumes have been added to the Ubrary which is well
patronized by the prisoners.
Wc are looking forward wth pleasure to the completion of the chapel now
in course of erection, and which will add to the comfort and convenience of our
services.
In conclusion, I must thank you, sir, as warden, the deputy warden, the
matron and other oflScials for the uniform courtesy and kindness extended to me
while in the discharge of my duty as chaplain.
D. G. McQueen,
Protestant Chaplain.
Edmonton, April 1, 1910.
To the Warden:
I beg to forward the usual report concerning the Roman Catholic chapel
for the year ending March 31, 1910.
Although I have been unable to discharge by myself, during the greater part
of the year, the duties which were coming to me as Catholic chaplain of this in-
stitution, yet the spiritual welfare of the convicts belonging to the Catholic church
has not been neglected. Under the care of the Reverend Father Desmarais and
Rev. Father Vantighem, acting successively as chaplains, services were held
twice every Sunday of the year. Mass was also given on holidays of obligation,
and visitations often made during week days.
In the month of October, I resumed my duties as chaplain and I had then
the opportunity of appreciating the effective work done by my two predecessors,
among the convicts. Since that time, I have conducted the services as usual on
Sundays and holidays, visiting also the convicts on week days whenever it was
needed. I am pleased to acknowledge that the behaviour of the men in the chapel
is commendable. Moreover a great number of convicts, who before coming to
the penitentiary had been neglectful of their religious duties, have come back to
the practice of religion, which in my estimation is the best proof of improvement
that can be shown.
Allow me, sir, to offer all my gratitude to you and such as have helped me
in the discharge of my duties.
P. COZANET,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER
No. liu^
APPENDIX E.
SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS' REPORTS.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON.
Kingston, April 1, 1910.
To the Warden.
I have the honour to submit my fifteenth annual report of the school in this
penitentiary-, for the year ended March 31, 1910.
The total number enrolled during the year was 67. Of this number, 33 passed
out capat^le of reading and writing, antl with a fair knowledge of the elementary
rules of arithmetic. Two retired at expiration of sentence.
The present attendance is 32. The studies of these arc as follows: —
Reading in Part I 7
Reading in Part II 13
Reading in second book and writing 7
Reading in third book, writing and arithmetic 5
Mr. Begg has conducted the school in a very satisfactory manner,
and application of the pupils has been excellent.
The conduct
W.
\. GUNN,
School Instructor.
LIBRARY RETURNS.
Total
Number of
Volumes
in
IJbrary. i
Number
added
during
Year.
Average
Number of
Convicts
who used
Works.
Total
Number at-
Issues
during the
Year.
<ieneral library
4.574
.■J37
336
315
.550
119
64
49,141
9,390
6 573
Tolnl
5.247 '
315
733
65,104
110 volumes of magazines bound in the prison are incUicIed in llip .'JI.j volumes added during the year.
!1 ')
UKPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE V,
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
To the" Warden:
I have the honour to submit you my annual report of the English sciiooi -f
this penitentiary, for the fiscal year ending IMarch 31st, 1910.
During the year forty pupils were admitted to school. Their conduct in class
was very good, and their progress was satisfactory. Many of them when ad-
mitted did not know their alphabet, and before the end of the year could read and
figure fairl}'^ well.
They were taught reading, writing, spelling and also arithmetic.
Books, copy-books, slates and pencils were furnished to 173 convicts to study
in'their cells.
D. O'SHEA,
English School Instructor.
To the Warden'
I have the honour to submit to you my fourth annual report of the French
school and library, for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1910.
During the year twenty-six convicts were registered to follow the French
course. At the end of the year, the attendance was twelve, and they were taught
reading, spelling, writing and arithmetic.
The conduct of the convicts has always been exemplar)' and attendance very
regular. I am ^'ery much satisfied by the progress made by each of them.
Boolvs, slates, slate pencils aad copy books were supplied by Mr. O'Shea and
myself to one hundred and seventy-three convicts for studying in their cells.
I beg to offer my sincere thanlcs to my superiors for their kind assistance in
the performance of my duties.
G. J. RENEAULT,
French School Instructor.
LIBRARY RETURNS.
Number of volumes in library 4 , 1 66
" " added during the year 1 60
" convicts who have used books 460
" books issued during the year 47 , 840
D. O'SHEA,
Librarian.
SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
87
DORCHESTER.
Dorchester, N.B., April 1st, 1910.
To the W arden:
I have the honour to submit my annual report of the school and library in
this penitentiary, for the year ended March 31st, 1910.
At the beginning of the year, the school was attended bj- fifty-two pupils.
The present attendance is fifty-six, divided as follows: —
Reading, writing and arithmetic 30
Reading and writing 18
Reading only 8
Eight were reading in the fifth English reader; ten, in the fourth; twelve,
in the third; eight, in the second; ten, in the first; and eight, in the primers.
I am pleased to say that the majority of those attending school are making
good progress, and their conduct and attention while at school has been very good.
In conclusion, 1 beg to express my sincere thanks to you and other officers for
the assistance given me in the discharge of ray duties.
C. B. PAPINEAU,
School Instructor.
LIBRARY RETURNS.
Tot.lI
Number of
VolumC3
in
Library.
Number
added
during
Year.
Average
Number o(
Convicta
who used
Works.
Total
Number of
Issues
during the
Year.
939
165
112
72
189
19
24
19,659
494
624
T»lml
1.216
72
232
20,774
68
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE V^ A. 1911.
MANITOBA.
Stony Mountain, March 31st, 1910.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to submit my annual report of the school of this institution,
for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1910.
Of the 22 pupils on the register during the year, 9 were Austrians, 2 French
half-breeds, 3 Italians, 4 Russians, 1 Greek, 1 Findlander and 2 English.
The attendance at the close of the year was 14, classified as follows: —
First reader. Part 1 4
First reader, Prat II 4
Second reader 6
All are given lessons in arithmetic. One hundred and thirty convicts are at
present supplied with school books and slates for the purpose of studying in their
cells.
I am pleased to say that those attending school are making good progress, and
their conduct and industry while at school have been most satisfactory. My con-
vict monitors also deserve much credit for their help.
In conclusion, I beg to express my sincere thanks to yourself and my other
superiors for the assistance given me in the discharge of my duties.
J. H. DAIGNAULT,
School Instructor.
library returns.
Number of
Volumes.
Condemned.
Received.
Number of
Convict.s.
Using Books.
Ciroulation.
027
9
82
160
11 S60
<m;
Total
1,061
'.»
82
160
11,360
SCHOOL IXSTRUCTORS' REPORTS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
6!»'
lUUTISH COLUMBIA.
To the ^^'ardcn:
I have the honour to submit my annual report of the school in thi.s penitentiary
for the fiscal year ending; March '.ilsX, 1910.
At the bcginninf; of the year the school was attended by thirty-eight pupils,
the average attendance throughout being thirty-seven. The total number enrolled
during the period was eighteen; seventeen pa.ssed out, leaving a present attendance
of thirty-nine, classified as follows: —
Arithmetic, spelling and writing.
Arithmetic, onl\'
Reading, spelling and writing. . .
Reading and spelling
Reading, only
Total.
•.i
I
14
l.'i
6
39
Height are reading in the fourth reader; fourteen in the third; nine in the
second and four in the primers. Ninety-seven are supplied with slates and books
for the purpose of studying in their cells.
I am pleased to state that good progress has been made by my pupils, and their
conduct has been very satisfactory.
In conclusion, I beg to express thanks to you and other officers for the assist-
ance given me in the discharge of my duties.
F. STEWART,
School Instructor.
LIBRARY RETURN.S.
General library
Prot«3tant library
Roman Catholic library.
OflRcera' library
Total Volumes
imber of added
Volumes. durine Year.
1.496
308
207
Convicts
using
Books.
F. STEWART,
Librarian.
70 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Edmonton, March 31st, 1910.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to submit my report of the school of this institution, for the
fiscal year ended March 31st, 1910.
At the beginning of the year there were seventeen pupils on the roll. Eleven
were discharged during the year, and fourteen names added. The number of
pupils at the end of the year was twenty.
The conduct of the pupils was good, and very fair progress was made in read-
ing, writing, spelling and arithmetic.
Owing to my time being taken up in my various other duties, most of the school
work was done in the cells, and help given from time to time.
I beg to express my sincere thanks to yourself and the other officers for assist-
ance given.
SIDNEY J. TRUSCOTT,
School Instrvctor.
LIBRARY RETURNS.
Volumes in library at beginning of year 740
Number added during the year 104
" on hand at close of year 844
Total issues during the year 6,724
Number of monthly magazines 8
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
APPENDIX F.
MATRONS' REPORTS.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON.
Kingston, March 31, 1910.
To the Wanlen:
I have the honour to submit my report of the ward for female convicts for
the year ended March 31, 1910.
There are at present twenty women in the female prison. During the year
eight were discharged. I am pleased to state that their industry was fairlj-
good, and their conduct with few exceptions, has been very satisfactory.
Respectfully submitted,
R. .V. F.VHEY,
Matron.
WUKK UONK IN FE.M.VLK \V.\UI).
Number
of
Articles.
Equal to
Days.
Rate per
Day.
Amount.
Total.
80
For Male DrparlmenI:
Night shirts
80
57
1.432
113
195
78
g
7
41
.20
20
.20
20
20
20
20
20
20
$ ct».
16 00
11,40
286.40
22.60
39.00
15.60
1.80
1 40
8.20
72,00
41.63
« Ct8.
682
1,432
451
2.341
615
119
Napkins
98
82
Bed ticks
Keeper's hall. North I/idse and office laundry
For Female Prison.
MalcinK rlothinfZ, washing, rooking, cleaning, etc
Totals
208
1.413
.20
$ 516.03
282.60
282.60
3,633
$ 798.63
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
£3
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
DORCHESTER.
To the Warden:
I have thg honour to present my report of the female department for the
year ended March 31, 1910. On March 31, 1909, there were seventeen female
prisoners. Since then seven have been discharged by expiration of sentence,
three paroled, one transferred, and seven received, leaving thirteen at present in
this department. 4
I am pleased to say that the industry of the women has been very satisfactory
and their conduct fairly good.
Yours respectfully,
E. McMAHON,
Matron.
return"of;,work done in female ward.
Number
of
Articles.
Equal
to
Days.
Rate
per
Day.
Amount.
Total.
404
6,731
726
200
For Male Departmenl:
Pairs socks
" socks, repaired
Towels
Sheets
264
1.246
72
47
50
14
103*
$ cts.
20
20
20
,20
20
20
20
20
20
20
$ cts.
52 80
249 20
14 40
9 40
10 00
10
30
20 70
12 00
238 20
S ots
2
Table cloths
S3SG 90
[i^or Female Prison:
60
1 191
Making clothing, washing, cooking, etc
Total
250 20
$607 10
MATRONS' REPORTS
75
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ALBERTA.
Edmonton, April 1st, 1910.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to present the annual report of the female ward fm- the
year ended March 31st, 1910.
During the year the movement of convicts was as follows: —
Remaining in ward, March 31st, 1909 4
Received from Manitoba 1
Received from British Columbia I
6
Released on parole 1
Deported 1
Released by order of the court 1
By expiration of sentence 1 4
Remaining in ward, March 31st, 1910 2
I am pleased to say that the conduct of the women has been good, and their
industry very satisfactory.
ELIZABETH CUMMINGS,
Matron.
RETURN OF WORK DONE IN FEMAIB WARD.
Number
of
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Equal to
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Rate per
Day.
AmouBt.
Total.
5G
Work done far Male Prison.
15i
43
i
96
8
2i
2i
18
9
4
16
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211
9
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2
2
30
498
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20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
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1 60
50
60
3 60
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10
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10
42 20
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Shirts. .
2
96
204
100
72
216
432
6
370
24
Mufflprs
5,498
CutUmiert:
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16
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60
10
40
40
46
6
4
2
Work done /or Female Ward.
3 30
3
0 00
99 60
105 60
$193 45
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
APPENDIX G.
CRIME STATISTICS.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
MOVEMENTS OF CONVICTS.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
In custody, March Slst, 1909
557
187
13*
16
Received since —
174
8
5
107
2
68
12
14
3
6
10
180
18
5
114
3
68
12
15
3
7»
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DischnrRcd since —
744
206
29
9
773
i
215
In custody March 31st, 1910
538
20
558
^Including one in an outside asylum.
er. VINCENT DB PACL.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Grand Total.
I> cnstodv, March 3!3t, 1909
510
212
1
1
510
222
1
1
10
7»4
Discharged during the year —
101
5
65
11
6
4
10
191
10
301
.
la matedir Ifarch SIH, 1910
S38
79
80
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
DORCHESTER.
Male. Female. Total.
j
Male.
Female.
Total.
Remaining at midnight, March 31st, 1900
1
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104 : 7 111
342
107
24
11
1
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53
6
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1
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3 1 56
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t 6
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' 2
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^^ orrter o
1 1
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2
233
13
246
1
MANITOBA.
Remaining at midnight. March 31st, 1909 144
Received since: —
From coramom jails (one female) 79
Forfeiture of license ■''
84
Discharged : —
By expiration of sentence 2S
" parole ^2
" escape 1
" deportation ^
" death 1
" transfer (female) 1
■' released by Order of Court 1
63
Remaining at midnight, March 31st. 1910 Ifi-'i
CRIME STATISTICS
81
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Remaining at midnight, March 31, 1909.
Received since —
From common jails
Parole revoked
Returned after escape
Discharged since —
By expiration of sentence
" pardon
" parole
" death
" deportation
" sent to industrial school
" returned to Provincial authorities (insane when
received)
transferred to other penitentiaries.
Remaining at midnight, March 31, 1910.
Remaining at midnight, March 31, 1909 .
Received since —
From common jails. .
Revocation of parole .
Other penitentiaries. .
Discharged since —
By expiration of sentence
" pardon
" parole ,
" deportation
" order of court ■
" death (hanged) '
" escape
" transferred to other penitentiaries
In custody March 31st. 1910.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
RECOMMITMENTS.
1 GEORGE v.,
Frank Murray (Jas. Smith) .
John Hyde
Gilbert Oliver
James Gullett
Frank Hetherington
Mark Tompkins
John Riley
And. McDonald
Nick Kayak
David Irving
Wm. Pepper
H. B. Hamilton, (Foster,
Shaver, Stirling, Shaw,
Seymour)
Jos. Twamley
Sam'l J. Mines
Edward Hewson
Frank CahiU
Mathew Sims
Armand Davling
1 'Shop-breaking and theft. . . . .
1 'Forgery
1 IManslaughter
1 Obtain goods by false pretena
1 Forfeiture parole
1 Assault with intent to rob. . .
1 '.Stealing
1 Forgery and false pretense, . .
1 Assault and attempt to stab.
3 Assault with intent to rob . . .
1 I Forfeiture parole
Horse stealing. . . .
Theft
Stealing.
Forgery
Forfeiture parole.
Forfeiture parole.
Forfeiture parole.
Where Sentenced ! Date
I of Sentence,
Ottawa
Hamilton. . . .
Toronto
Belleville
Guelph
Hamilton ....
North Bay. . .
Chatham. . . .
Fort WiUiam.
Hamilton . , . .
Berlin
Cornwall. . . .
Stratford . . .
Chatham. . .
Whitby
London
St. Thomas.
Guelph
Apr.
7, 1909
12, 1909
May 13, 1909
27, 1909
25, 1908
27, 1909
28, 1909 4
Sept. 11, 1909:
.\ug. 18, 1909
.Sept. 24, 1909
Dec. 29, 1902
Jan.
Jul.
3i
Nov. 3,
Dec. 21
Feb. 2
Mar. 7
Dec. 22
Jan. l.T
1909 :
1909 ;
1910
1910
1899 :
1904
1908
CRIME STATISTICS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Where
Sentenced.
Date
of Sentence.
Bradley, John 4 I Burglary and theft
Belanger, Edouard 1 Theft from the person.
Bedford April
Montreal Sept.
Barbeau, Flavien 1
Bourque, Joaeph 2
Couture, Joseph 2
Champoux, J. Adolphe. • - ■ ^ 1
Coat,e8, Sydney ] 1
C6te, Charles I
Cadieux. Henri
DeRepentigny, Victor. . .
Duquette. Joseph
Dubois, Oneaime
Desmarteau. Eugfene.. . .
Elliott. Robert
Gauthier. Arthfeme
G^nereux. Alexis
Girard. Guillaume
Gagn6. Albert
Hammond. Charles
Hubert. William
Jarry. Ulderic
I^gault, No6
Ijcmay, Wilfrid
Longprd, Pierre
I-^br^che, Xapol^on. . . .
lupine. Joseph
Larocque. William
I-^marche, Henri. . . .
Lortie. Jean
I^chapelle, Henri. . .
lyetourneau, Geoi^e..
Nelson, John
Perreault, Andr6
Perron . Samuel
Pelletier, J.-Bte
Paquette, Autoine. ..
Paquette, Arthur. . .
Renaud. George
Rj'an, William
St. Pierre, Henri. . . .
Sylvain, I^uia
Tremblay. J. Arthur.
Shop-breaking Montreal March 8
Receiving stolen goods , " March 21
Theft and house-breaking St. Francis Sept. 2
Uttering forged documents.
Theft and shop-breaking.
Theft
Montreal Sept. 3
Sept. 3
St. Francis January2
Montreal Feb. 5
" May 11
Bedford August! 9
Ottawa . Sept. 10
Montreal . Sept. 9
St. Francis April
Attempt of arson
Theft
Shop-breaking
Theft
Burglary JMontreal May
Theft and receiving Quebec . July
" from the person Ist. Francis January21
Receiving stolen goods Montreal April
Assisting escape |Bedford Sept.
House-breaking iMontreal May
Theft I " April
Receiving stolen property " April
Shop-breaking
-Aggravated robbery.
Theft
" from the person " ....
" Quebec
" Montreal. . . .
" Quebec
Receiving stolen goods Montreal
Arson i Bedford
Shopbreaking and theft Three Rivers.
*' Montreal ....
Theft I "
I Forgery, etc "
JTheft
I " Rimouski .
I " Quebec. . .
False pretenses Montreal. .
Sept.
October 16,
Sept. 27.
Feb. 15.
26.
April 27,
May 27 .
June 4 .
OctoV>er21,
Feb. 17.
March 22 ,
April 20,
Sept. 7 .
Nov. 15.
Sept. 27.
April 20,
1909; 14 years.
1909| 4 years.
Ill months.
I 8 days.
1910j 3 years.
1910 4 "
1909 4 "
1909 5 "
1909 3 "
,19101 5 "
1910
1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
,1910
1909
1909 _
1909 4
1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
1900
Balance 14
years term.
3 years.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
DORCHESTER.
Where Sentenced.
Date
of Sentence.
Wallace Foster
Patrick McEvoy
Joseph Sheppard
Clifford Ackeraon
Florence Davidson
Martin Tracey j
Frank Drake I
James Walsh
James Rogers
Stephen Buchem
David McDonald
James Schrum
Wm. MoFarland, alias Mc-
Varish !
Thomas Long
Pliilip McDonald i
WiUiam Connelly 1
Robert Moore
John Jamieaon, alias Bom-
barshio
Stealing i Yarmouth, N.S. . .iMar. 30, 1909 7 years.
do JHaUfax " 15, 1909 3
Stealing a horse and prison!
breaking Queens, P.E.I Jan. 25,1909 10
Assaxilt, occasioning actulb'dily; i
harm Halifax Sept.
Stealing 'St. John Aug.
Stealing and robbery Col. Co., N.S Sept.
Theft from I. C. R HaUfax Oct.
2, 1909, 2
17, 1909 5
16, 1909 4
13, 1909| 2yrs. 6
montlis.
13, 1909 4 years.
27, 1909 2
28, 1909' 2 "
.. Nov. 6, 1909, 4 "
4 years
. . . Dec. 6. 1909 8 month.*
1 day
Stealing North Co., N.B . . . Jan. 25, 1910 3 years.
House breaking and theft Cape Breton Feb
Brealdng, entering and stealing, j " ....
Stealing |Cumb. Co., N.S.
Arson A.bert, Co . . .
Receiving stolen goods iHalifax
Obtaining goods by false pre-
tences " ....
Theft from the prison barn. ...
Assault, occasio'ng actual bodily
harm
1 'Assault occasioning actual bodily
1 Receiving stolen goods (York Co., N.B. ...
7, 1910 3 years
1 10 months
13 diiys.
3, 1910 3 years.
22, 1910 2 "
2 years
3, 1910 11 monUis
[15 days.
I 4 year.".
26, 1910, 3 montL..
16 days
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
UANIXOBA.
s|
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Where Sentenced.
Date.
of Sentence.
J. Manley
E. Murphy
J. B. Faucheneuve
J. F. Black
A. Marcotte
D. Etienne
J.Thompson
J. G. Stirling
L. Lafoutaine
T. W. Brown
K. Cyncar
M. Tomaraa
N. Heritage ;.
J. AUan
G. Carter
J. Brennan
G. Reddler
J. Ijiwrenco
R. Armetrong
J. Massey
J. McVicar
D. E. Best
A. Langton
H. McCoU
T. Collins
I. Nickel
3 Shop-breaking and theft
I Shop-breaking
1 Stealing a horse
1 Forgerj' and uttering
2 Robbery
2 Shop breaking
3 House breaking and theft
1 (House breaking and theft
1 [Horse steaUng
3 iTheff. obtaining signature by
t false pretences
1 Shop breaking and theft; and
forfeited license
Red Deer.
Brandon. .
Macleod . .
Winnipeg.
Winnipeg.
Winnipeg.
Winnipeg.
Winnipeg.
Morden . . .
Winnipeg .
1 Revoked hcense.
2 Forgery and uttering
1 Forgery and uttering
1 Theft
1 Theft
2 Receiving stolen goods
1 Robbery and forfeited license.
1 Forgery i
1 Forgery and uttering and for-
feited license i
1 Theft and forfeited license.
1 Theft and forfeited Ucense.
1 Forgery; fraud; theft i " ...
1 Theft and forfeited Ucense Ft. William .
2 Attempt to rob 'Winnipe
2 Arson; theft; assaulting pohce'
I and escape iMorden .
May 31 .
Oct. 9.
Oct. 20,
June 25,
Oct. 26,
Nov. 1 .
Nov. I ,
May 14,
Sept. 7,
Mar. 12,
May 12, 1908
July 25, 1908
1905 5 years.
1905^14 "
190-.llO "
1906[ 5 "
1908 7 "
1906 5 "
19061 7 "
1907 24 "
1907 5 "
1908
, Sept. 8,
Nov. 13.
Dec. 21,
Jan. 5,
Jan. 14,
IFeb. 6,
'Mar. 30,
I July 7,
Sept. 23
I
Sept. 24
1908
1908
1908
1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
26
: years
months.
) days, g
' years.
1 months
I days.
I years.
months
days
years.
years.
months
days.
Nov. 30,
Dec. 10.
1909 4 years
10 months
15 days.
J; 2 years.
I 4 months
28 days.
1909j 3 years.
1809,
1909
1910
2 years.
417 days.
2 years.
27, 1910 10 years.
92
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
BHITI3H COLUMBIA..
Sook Siaa
Duteau Alex
Spuzzum Jimmy. .
Wah Sing
.Stone, George
Plump, Fritz
Shay, Michael
Nelee, Joseph* . . .
KUey, Morrice. . . .
Willsie, R
McCormick, Angus
Smith, Thomaa
Saao, S
Murphy, Samuel. .
Where Sentenced.
Date
of Sentence.
Murder
House breaking and stealing.
Rape
Unlawful possession
Stealing and assault
Rape
Stealing
House breaking
Breaking and entering
Attempt to utter
Stealing
Unlawful carrying concealed
weapon
Obtaining money by false pre-
! tense
1 House breaking
Vancouver Oct. 2,
Vernon " 9,
New Westminster.! " 23,
Vancouver Feb. 5,
" jMarch 25,
Nanaimo Oct. 22,
Golden " 13,
Lytton ; " 13,
Vancouver jjan
Feb
Victoria
April 13.
1906 Life
1906i 7 years.
1906! Life.
1907 5 years.
1907112 "
1907 15 "
i90S| 2 "
19081 11 years,
' 2 months,
'10 days.
1909! 5 years.]
1909 3 "
1909 2 "
Jan. 19, 1910
Nanaimo 'Feb.
Vancouver "
1910
1910
♦Cancellation of license and five-year term.
ALBERTA.
William L. Duff. .
Alonzo D. Smith.
Charles Roske. . . .
William Morgan..
Charles Mclveod. .
i'^mest Therreault
Horse stealing and breaking
prison
Horse stealing
Horse stealing
Entering and stealing
Assault and theft from person
assaulting police while under
arrest
Getting security by false pre-
tense
Where Sentenced.
Date of
Sentence.
Moosejaw, Sask.. . iJune 3, 1909
Battleford, Sask. . I June 16, 1C09
Lethbridge, Alta.. Sept. 16, 1909
Macleod. Alta. . . . Oct. 27, 1909
Calgary, .\lta. . . . ; " 29, 1909
Regina, Sask ]Dec. 28, 1909! 3
CRIME STATISTICS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
WHERE SENTENCED.
Where Senteoced.
Fe-
Male. male.
Where Sentenced.
Fe- i
male. Total.
Algon
Brant
Carleton
Dufferin
Elgin
Essex
Frontenac
Grey
Haldimand
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Kent
l^imbton
I.aDark
lyppds and GrenviUe
Ijennox and Addington
Lincoln
Middlesex
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland and Durham ....
Ontario
Oxford
Parry Souad
Peel
Perth
Peterl>oro
Prescott and Russell
Rainy River
Renfrew
Simcoe
5<torniont, Dundas and Glengarry
Sudbury 16
Thunder Bay ' 10
Victoria 2
Waterloo 12
Welland 10
Wellington 7
Wentworth 41
York 94
Lytton, B.C ' 1
Montreal, Que , 6
Portage la Prairie, Man j 1
Kamouraska, Que > 1
Pontiac, Que 1
St. Hyacinthe, Que 1
Brandon, Man I 2
Winnipeg, Man j 4
Amherst, N.S 1
Halifax, X.S 2
Golden, B.C 1
New Westminster, B.C 1
Dawaon, Y.T i 1
Beaiihamois, Que [ 1
Antigonish, N.S 1
Bo'aon, Que 1
Montgomery, Que 1
Queljcc 2
Dorchester, N.B 1
Woodstock, N.B 1
Sherbrooke, Que
Hull, Que ,
Bnttlcford, Saak 1
Wolseley, Sask 1
Swcet.sburg, Que 1 1
Total 538
ST. VIKCENT DB PACL.
County or District.
Arthabaska.
Beaiiharnois.
Beauce
Bedford
Gasp6
Iberville. . . .
Joliette
Kamouraska
Montmagny.
Montreal
Ottawa
2
371
19
County or District.
Pontiac
Quebec
Richelieu
Rimouski
St. Francis. . . .
St. Hyacinthe.
Terrebonne . . . .
Three Rivers. .
Winnipeg
Total
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Antigonish 1
! Annapolis 8
iCumberland ' 10
jColchester 13
ICape Breton I 40
jDigby ' 6
Guysboro I 3
Hants 3
HaUfax 1 41
ilnvemess [ 5
Kings [ 6
Lunenburg ] 4
Pictou i 6
^Shelburne ! 2
lYarmouth ) 11
j I
Total Il59
2
P. E. Island.
Totals by
Provinces .
County.
New Brunswick.. . Albert
Carleton".
Charlotte
Gloucester
I Kings
jMadawaska
j No rth u mb erland .
Restigouche
[St. John
Sunbury J 3
Victoria ! 4
Westmoreland I 9
York I 5
Total : 66
Kings. .
Queens.
Prince. .
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick. . .
P.E.Island
8 167
5 71
Total 233 I 13 ,246
MANITOBA.
Manitoba —
Brandon
Morden
Minnedosa
Portage la Pr^rie .
Winnipeg
Ontari<y —
Fort Frances
Fort William
Kenora
Port Arthur
Rainy River
Alhertn —
Red Deer. .
Calgary ....
Macleod. . . .
Saskatchewan—
Regina
Totals. . . .
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
BRITISH COLUMBIA
District.
No.
District.
No.
4
1
5
5
2
3
16
5
2
1
15
Michel
1
5
Nelson
7
14
4
I
6
82
21
7
Total
Lytton
209
District.
Fc-
Hale. male.
Total.
District.
Male.
Fe-
male.
tTotal.
Alberta—-
I 1
23
1
23
1
16 1
6 1
7 :
30
6
1 1
2 1
7
10
.. 7
10
7
I
15
6
7
1
3
1
1
1
3
1
I.cthhri.lgc
1
30
British Coluvibia —
Mnlicine Hat
6
1
2
7
. . . .
47
i *'
Wctiuskiwin
1
1
"i'
I
1
Ontario —
se
99
Saskatchewan —
1
5
1
1
12
4
1
5
1
1
12
4
Totals by Provinces:
99
47
99
Maple Creek
47
1
1
146
2
148
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CRIMES COMMITTED.
KINGSTON.
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911.
good:
Abduction
" girl under 16
Abortion
Aiding escape from jail
Arson
" assault and bringing stole
to Canada
" and forgery
" and theft
" and seduction
Assault
" and causing bodily harm
" on peace officer
" and robbery
" " and shooting with intent
with intent to murder
" " " rob. . . .
" " " " shooting with
intent, etc
" " " do great bodily
harm
Att-empt to have carnal knowledge ofgirl
under 14 years
" have carnal knowledge of
female idiot
murder
" and robbery with
violence
" and horae stealing .
*' and rape
commit rape
*' incest
rob, and shooting
set fire to lock-up
Bigamy
" and theft
Breaking, entering and stealing
Breaking jail
Bringing stolen goods to Canada
Buggery
Burglary
" and escape
" larceny and rape
" and receiving
" and theft
" theft and highway robbery ....
Carnal knowledge of girl of 4 years. . . .
5 "
" " under 14 yrs.
Causing grievous bodily harm
Causing explosion likely to endanger life
Conspiracy to defraud
Counterfeiting
Defiling child under 14
Extortion
" of money by threats of violence
False pretenses ■
" and forgery
Forgery
" and uttering
Gross indecency
Having explosives
Having burglary tools and explosives,
and forgery
Having revolver, and assault with intent
to rob
Horse-stealing
Horse-stealing and breaking jail
House-breaking
" and shop-breaking. . . .
" and theft
" and having explosives.
" theft and receiving
" and theft
" with intent
Incest
" and carnal knowledge of girl of 14
" house-breaking and theft
Indecent assault
" and burglary
" and carnal knowledge
of girl under 14
Involuntary homicide
Killing horses
Making false document
Making false entry, and theft
Making false statement
Manslaughter
Murder
Obtaining money by false pretenses. . . .
" goods " " ....
Perjury
Procuring girl, etc
Rape
and breaking jail
" and attempt to murder
Receiving stolen goods
Resisting peace officer
Robbery
Robbery and indecent assault
" with violence .
Seduction
Sheep-stealing
Shooting with intent
" to maim
" to murder
Shooting and wounding with intent, etc
Sending menacing letter
Shop-brealdng
'* arson and forgery
" stealing and escape .....
" " and attempt to
escape
" and theft
" theft and escape
Sodomy
Stealing
" and conspiracy
" copper wire
" horse and buggy
" cattle..
CRIME STATISTICS
97
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON. — {Continued)
Stealing: from person
" from dwelling
" from railway car
" post letters
Subornation of perjury
Theft
and assault
of grain
of cattle
of harness and grain
and incest
and forgery
and having offensive weapon.
and receiving
from dwclhng house
1
1
10
6
Theft from the person
Unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman
Using forged document 1
Uttering "
Willfully causing explosion
Wounding
" and robbery
" with intent
" with intent, receiving stolen
goods and seduction. .
" with intent to maim..
** "to murder.
" with knife
Total.
1
2
....
1 i
2
3
3
1
2
3
1
1
2
.... 2
'd
1
1
1 ....
1
1 ....
1 i
5 ....
5
538
20
568
ST. VINCENT DB PAUL.
Aggravated assault
" robbery
Assault causing bodily harm
" with intent to rob, carryinga weapon. .
Assisting escape, and burglary '
Attempt to commit murder
" steal from the person '
" utter forged notes '
" poison ,
" commit robbery i
" steal from railway car
" arson I
Arson '
" and theft
Bigamy |
Breaking a dwelling-house with intent to steal
" and entering a bank house ,
" ft railway station and stealing
" a warehouse '
Burglary
Bringing stolon goods into Canada I
Conspiracy to defraud '
Forgery
" and theft
" and circulation of false notes
False pretense '
Gross indecency '
" with and by other persons. . .
House-breaking
" and stealing
" and wounding
Horse stealing t
Highway robbery I
Incest I
" and escape
" and rape |
Indecent assault on female
Intent to carnally know girl under 14 years. . .
31-7
1
Crimes.
Male.
Making false report of Bank to the Govem-
4
Possession of counterfeit Bank notes
1
Rape
Robbery
21
Sending letters demanding money with mena-
. Shooting with intent to murder
2
" " grievous bodily harm
Shop-breaking
3
83
and theft
Theft in church
10
" " conspiracy and damage. . .
]
Uttering and counterfeiting tokens of value. .
1
Total
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
DORCHESTER.
Abduction
Attempt to obtain goods by false pre-:
tenses
Attempted rape ;
Act of gross indecency
Arson j '•
Assault, with intent to rob, and shooting
with intent
Assaulting peace officer
Assault occasioning bodily harm 1
" with intent to rob
" and robbery
Bigamy
Breaking, entering and stealing 3
" " with intent, and es-
cape
" entering with intent and arson
" entering and attempt to break
jail
jail
" and entering
Burglary and attempt to rape
Carrying offensive weapons for the pur-
pose of intimidating
Carnally knowing girl under 14
Concealment of birth
Committing an act of violence, and steal-,
ing I
Deserter \
Escaping from custody ■
" jail
Fraudulent conversion of money
Forgery
House-breaking i
" and theft
" theft and rape
" and horse-stealing
Having sexual intercourse with own
daughter
Having unlawfully dealt with forged
document
Indecent assault.
" causing bodily harm. .
Incest
KiUing a horse ,
Manslaughter
Murder i
Making a false document |
Malicious injury, arson and theft >
Marrying a woman knowing she had a'
husband
Obtaining goods under false pretences .
" money under false pretenses .
Obstructing railway
Perjury i
Putting obstruction on I.C.R
Robbery and wounding
Robbery
Rape
Ravishing and carnally knowing girl
under 14
Receiving stolen money
Stealing and theft
" horse, wagon and harness
" and robbery
" and attempt to break jail. . . .
" and unlawfully wounding. . . .
" with violence
" Post Office bag
Shooting with intent, and wounding. .
" to murder
" vrith intent to disable
Theft from the person
Uttering forged bank-notes
Unlawfully wounding.
and shooting. . .
" with intent. . . .
Wounding and attempt to murder.
Totals 233 13 246
CRIME STATISTICS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
MANITOBA.
Arson
" theft, assaulting police and escape
Assault and occasioning bodily harm
Attempt to maim and disfigure
Bigamy
Blackmail
Buggery
" attempted
Burglary
" and house-breaking
" and shop-breaking
" and theft
Carnal knowledge of girl under 14
" " " " attempted .
Forfeited license (jail con\'iction)
Forgery
" and fraud
" and horse-stealing
" and uttering
and uttering, attempt to escape
Fraud
Horse-stealing
House-breaking and theft
Incest
Indecent assault
" act
Intent to do grievous bodily harm
Manslaughter
Murder, attempted
** latent to
Perjury i
Rape 4
" attempted 2
Receiving stolen goods 3
Robbery 3
" attempted 1
" and forfeited license 1
" highway 2
Shop-breaking 4
" and forfeited license 1
" and theft l-l
" and theft and attempt to break
jail -. 1
Sodomy, attempted i
Stealing horse l
" post-letter 3
*' registered letter l
Theft 24
" and forfeited license 2
" and false preten.^es 1
" from a railway vehicle 1
" from a dwelling-house 4
from the person 7
" of a post-letter 1
Wounding and causing bodily harm 1
" unlawfully l
with intent to cause bodily harm 1
Total 165
DRITISH COLUMBIA.
Administering poison with intent
Arson
Assault. .
" causing bodily harm
Attempt to break prison
" to commit rape
to steal
carnal knowledge girl under 14. .
to obtain money by false preten
" to utter forged document
Breaking, entering and stealing
Buggery
Burglary
BestiaUty
Carnal knowledge of girl under 14
Cattle stealing
Corruption and extortion
False pretenses
Forgery
" and uttering
Fraud
Gross indecency
Highway robbery under arms
Horse-stealing
House-breaking
Indecent assault
Incest
Manslaughter
Murder
Obtaining money by false preten-'es. .
Opening railway switch
Obstructing railway
Possession of stolen goods
Rape
Robbery
Robbing H. M. Mail
Robbery with violence
Stealing
'* from the person
" with violence
" post-letters
Shooting with intent
Shop-breaking
" and theft
Theft
'* from person
Threat by letter to kill
Unlawfully carrying offensive weapon
Unlawful conspiracy
Uttering
Wotmding
" with intent
Total..
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
ALBERTA.
Attempt to cause one to utter
" to commit suicide
" to murder
" to rape
Arson
Assault and bodily harm
" and theft from person
Burglary, theft and attempt to escape .
and theft ! 4
Buggery 1 3
" and rape ! 1 !
Carnal knowledge of imbecile j 1 1
Cattle stealing 11
Defamatory libel I 1
Escaping from custody i 4
Entering and stealing 3
Forgery | 9
" and uttering | 5
" uttering and jail-breaking j 1
" and causing one to utter | 1
Falsif jing books | 1
False pretence I 4
Horse-steaUng 28
" burglary and theft 1
■* burglary, theft and as- ,
sault on police officer, j 1
Horse-stealing, false pretense and per-
jury
and escaping from cus-
tody
Incest
Incite to perjury
Indecent assault on male person ....
Manslaughter
Murder
Perjury
Permitting prisoners to escape
Robbing the mails
Robbery with violence
Rape
Shooting with intent
Theft
" and escape from custody. . . .
" forgery and uttering
" and forgery
" with violence, and resisting arrest
Using instrument and drug to procure
miscarriage
Wounding a police constable
CRIME STATISTICS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DURATION OF SENTENCE.
Fe- I I
male, j Total.!
Fe-
male. Total.
75
113
Two years
Over two yeara and under three
Three yeara
Over three years and under four
Four years
Over four years and under five . . . ' 1
Five years 1 . . 91
Over five years and under six . . . . , 1
Six years [ 10
Seven years 56
4
1.
38
Eight years
Nine years. .
Ten years.. .
Eleven years
Over eleven years and under|
twelve
Twelve vears
Over twelve years and under
thirteen
Fourteen years
Over fourteen years and under
fifteen
Fifteen years
Sixteen years
Eighteen years
Twenty years
Twenty-three years
Twenty-eight years
Life
Total
ST. VINOBNT OB PAOI,.
Two years 152
Over two years and leas than three 6
Three years 128
Over three years and less than four 2
Four years 57
Over four years and leas tlmn five 3
Five years 62
Over five years and less than six 1
Six years 13
Over six yeara and less than seven 5
Seven years 33
Over seven years and less than eight 1
Eight years 6
Over eight years and less than nine 1
Nine years
Over nine years and leas than ten 3
Ten yeara 19
Twelve years 3
Thirteen years 1
Fourteen years 8
Fifteen years 5
Over sixteen yeara and less than seventeen .... 1
Nineteen yeara 1
Twenty years 4
Over twenty yeara and loss than twenty-five. . . 1
Twenty-five years 2
Life 13
I
Total 633
DOBCHESTBB.
1 Fe-
Mole. male.
Fe-
Male. male.
Underoneyear
Over one year, under two . .
Two years
Over two years, under three . .
Three years
Over three years, under four
Four yeara
Over four years, under five.
Five years
Over five years, tmder six, .
Six years
Over six, under seven
Seven years
Eight years
Over eight years, under nine. .
Nine years
Ten years
Twelve yeara
Fourteen years
Fifteen years
Eighteen years
Twenty years
Life
Total
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Two years
Over two years and less than three .
Three years
Over three years and less than four
Four years
Over four years and less than five . .
Five years
Over five years and less than six . .
Six years
Over six years and less than seven .
Seven years 11
Eight years 3
Ten years "
Fourteen years : 2
Fifteen years \ 2
Twenty years ! 4
Twenty-four years 1
Total 165
COLUMBIA.
Two years
Over two years and under three years.
Three years
Over three years and under four years .
Four years
Over four years and under five years . .
Five years
Over five years and under six
Six years
Over six years and under seven
Seven years
Nine years
Ten years
Twelve years
Fourteen years. . . .
Fifteen years
Seventeen years.. .
Twenty years
Twenty-one years.
Twenty-five years .
Life
Total 209
ALBBBTA.
Fe-
male.
Fe-
I Male. male.
Two years 51
Over two years and under three . .
Three years 31
Four years
Over four years and under five.
Five years
Six years
Over six years and under seven
Seven years. . .
Eight years. . .
Nine years. . . .
Ten years ....
Twelve years.
Fifteen years,
life
Total I 146
CRIME STATISTICS
103
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
OCCUPATIONS.
KINGSTON*.
■ tanner
(tardencr
Ho
Harness makers
Hotel keeper
Housekeepers
Hotrl derk
Hotel
shoer
Labourers
I,aund
Litliographcr
Liveryma»
Machinists
Machinist's apprentice
Machise haad
UanaxtT loan company
Murine eM^aeer and electrician
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BT. TINCBNT DE PAUL..
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Occupation.
Artist
Assesser
Advocate
Accountants
BeU-boy
Bookkeepers
Blacksmiths. . . .
Bookbinder
Butchers
Barbers
Book agent
Bartenders
Brass finisher . . .
Bakers
aerks
Canvasser
Carters
Carpenters
Cooks
Cigarmakers . . . ,
Constable
Confectioner. . . .
Chief of Police..
Contractor
Carriagemaker. .
Conductor
Doctors
Decorator
Drivers
Electricians
Kngineers
Farmers
Farmer's hand . .
Furrier
Firemen
Gardener
Hamessmaker . .
Inn-keeper
Insurance agent
Leather cutters.
Lithographer . . ,
Labourers
1 IMail carter
1 Moulders
1 MiUman
6 Masons
1 Merchants
5 Newspaper agent
8 I No trade
1 '^Notary . . .
2 I P. O. clerks
11 Piano teacher
1 Piano maker
4 Priests
1 Painters
3 Printers
17 Plumbers
1 Plasterers
1 1 Quarry men
14 Railway employee
14 Railway fireman
4 Restaurant keeper
1 S\\itchmen
1 Sailors
1 Station agent
1 Storeman
1 Salesman
1 Students
2 Shoemakers
1 Stonecutters
3 Steamfitters and machinists.
7 Sadlers
4 Travellers
20 Typographers
2 Traders
1 Tinsmiths
7 Tailors
1 Trunk maker
1 Veterinary surgeon
1 Waiters
1 Watchmaker
9
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
DORCHESTER.
Agents
Bookkeepers
Barbers
Bakers
Blacksmiths
Butchers
Blast furnace helper.
Carpenters
Clerks
CookB
Candy maker
Cloth finisher
Draughtsman
Domestics
Engravers
Engineers
Fisherman
Firemen
Farmers ,
Gardeners ,
Glass blower ,
Ifouse keepers
Hostlers
Lumbermen
Labourers
Longshoremen
Linemen
F
5
5
1
i 1
4
1
2
1
1
6
3
1
1
1
6
7
1
6
1
2
1
5
21
1
1
1
2
1
6
21
1
1
7
2
2
88
2
2
2
2
88
2
2
Miners
Merchants
Masons
Machinists
Painters
Peddlers
Plasterer
Plumbers
Pit drivers
Shoemakers
Stonecutters
School teacher
Store keepers
Stewards
Sailors
Soldier
Tailors '.
Teamsters
Type and stamp maker
Trader
Well borer
Weaver
Waiter
Wheel wright
Jeweller
Total
HANITOIJA
Occupation.
Male.
Occupation.
Male.
3
3
2
1
S
2
3
1
2
3
1
121
2
1
2
1
1
2
1
Clerks
1
1
2
1
2
1
Labourers
Machinists
1 Total
16S
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Architect | 1
Baker I 3
Bookkeeper 2
Brewer ' 1
Barber i 4
Butcher ' 4
Blacksmith 2
Cook 10
Clerk I 11
Carpenter 7
Contractor j 1
Cabinet maker 1
Collector 1
Cowboy i 3
Engineers ' 3
Firemen 4
Farmer 15
Freighter 1
Fisherman 3
Horseman 1
Hotelman j 1
Labourer I 59
Logger 6
Lineman 1
Occupation.
Miner | 13
Machinist j 5
Master mariner > 1
Painter j 6
Plasterer 1
Rancher i 1
Real Estate dealer | 1
Shoemaker \ 3
Sailor j 8
Stationary engineer I 1
Stonecutter 3
Soldier i 1
Sur\'eyor ' 1
Salesman j 1
Tailor | 8
Trader | 1
Teamster - 2
Telegraph operator ' 2
Undertaker 1
Waiter ■, 2
Weaver | 1
Reporter > 1
Total I 209
ALBERTA.
Architect
Baggage man . .
Baker
Banker
Barber
Blacksmith. . ..
Bookkeeper. . ..
Brakesman
Brick maker...
Butcher
Carpenter
Clerk
Collector
Contractor
Cook
Cowboy
Dairyman
Druggist
Electriciam ....
Eagineer
Farmer
Farm labourer.
Hotel maa
Honse'keeper. .
Male. male. Total.
Occupation.
Hunter
Interpreter
Labourer
Land guide
Liveryman
Machinist
Mail clerk
Mason
Miner
Mining engineer
Painter
Physician and farmer.
Rancher
Railroad men
Sailor
Salesman
Shoemaker
Street car conductor. .
Teacher
Teamster
Telegraph operator . . .
Waiter
male.
Total .
CRIME ST A TISTICS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
NATIONALITY (Place of Birth.)
Fe-
Male. i male. Total. 1 1
Fe-
male. Total.
Canada
England
United States.,
Germany
Australia
Italy
Belgium
New Zealand . .
Ireland
Austria
Scotland
339 1 Denmark...
76 ■' Russia
44 '! West Indies.
6 t ' Sweden
4 I France
27 I Turkey
1 .Sn-itzerland.
1 India
16 Spain
7 II
10 Total...
3
3
12
12
1
1
1
1
2
2
4
I
4
1
2
2
1
1
j 638
20
558
ST. \1NCENT DE PAUL.
Male.
Male.
American
Australian
Belgian
Canadian
English
French
Qorman
Irish
28
3
4
405
23
13
4
13
Italian
Russian
Scottish
Turkish
Swedish
&-
24
8
! 5
1
2
Total
533
DORCHESTER.
Fe-
Male. male.
Fe-
Male. male. Total.
Austria 1
Canada 162
England 16
France 3
Ireland 2
Italy 22
Newfoundland 7
Scotland 2
Sweden
Spain
Turkey
Switzerland. . .
United States.
West Indies . . .
ljl.
1
l?l.
1
211 .
1 .
2
1
12
1 '.
2
14
1
Total .
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Male.
1
Male.
17
16
4
39
3
43
1
9
1 Irish
Austrian
7
Belgian
Canadian
g
Danish.
7
English
1 Welsh
French
German
Greek
1
Total
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
—
Male.
Male.
Austria
5
.1
13
2
31
1
7
10
Italy
16
Australia
6
Canada
1
209
i
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.
56
38
1
"i"
::::::
56
39
19
6
7
3
3
4
4
Italy
2
2
United States
19
1 S
7
Scotland
3
3
4
4
Total
Ru5.sia
146
2
148
AGE.
KINGSTON.
Fe-
Age.
Male.
male.
Total.;
24
240
4
4
28
Over 20 years and under 30
244
" 30 "
40
142
9
151
,. 40 „
50
86
2
88
" 50 "
60
25
1
26
: Age.
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.
Over 60 years and'under 70
" 70 " years
16
5
16
5
Total
538
20
558
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL,
Age.
Under 20 years ; 88
Over 20 yeare and less than 30 242
S" 30 " " 40 104
" 40 " " 50 1 52
" 60 " " 60 34
Over 60 years aud les** than 70 11
70 " " 80 Jl
80 " " 85 j gl
Total 533
DORCHESTER.
Age.
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.;
Age.
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.
Under 20
34
112
43
22
1
6
3
1
1
35 1
118 1
46 1
23 1
50 to 60. .
15
7
2
17
20 to 30
60 to 70. . .
17
Total.
233
13
MANITOBA.
Age.
Under 20 years
20iycars and under 30 years
30 • " [40 "
40 " " 50 "
50 years and under 60 years .
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Under 20 years
Over 20 years and under 30 years
" 30 " "40 "
Age.
Over 50 years and under 60 years , 10
" 60 " "70 " 2
Total i 209
Age.
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.
Age.
Male.
Fe-
male.
Total.
18
72
31
18
1
1
18
72
32
19
Over 50 years and under 60
7
7
Over 20 years and under 30
- 30 " " 40
" 40 " " 50
146
2
148
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v.,
EDUCATION.
KINGSTON.
Male. Female.
Can read and write. .
Cannot read or write
Can read only
Total
440 16
85 3
13 1
538 20
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Cannot read or write
Can read only
Can read and write .
Total.. ..
DORCHESTER.
Can read and write . .
Can read, only
Cannot read or write .
170
5
58
MANITOBA.
write English
" and Danish . .
" and French . .
and Galician.
and German .
and Greek . . .
and Italian,
and Polish. . .
write French only
Galician only
" German only
Hungarian only
Italian only
Polish only
Russian only
,d or write
Total
SESSIONAL PAPSR No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Can read and write. .
Can read, only
Cannot read or write .
Tatal
Male.
Female.
Total.
127
1
18
2
18
146
2
SOCIAL HABITS.
KINGSTON.
Abstainers. . -
Temperate . ,
Intemperate. . . .
Total
127
127-
234
177
12
8
246
185
538
20
558
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Intemperate.
Temperate. . .
232
301
DORCHESTER.
Male.
Female.
Total.
77
76
80
6
1
6
S3
86
Total
233
13
246
112
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
MANITOBA.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Abstainers. . .
Temperate. . .
Intemperate.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Total abstain
Temperate. . .
Intemperate .
Female. 1 Total.
Total abstainers.
Temperate
Intemperate. . . .
Total
CIVIL CONDITION.
KINGSTON.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Single
361
172
5
9
9
2
370
181
7
538
20
558
SESSrONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Married . .
Single. . . .
Widowed .
121
390
DORCHESTER.
Male.
Female.
Total.
85
158
10
7
6
1
73
163
11
Total
1^33
13
246
MANITOBA.
Married . . .
Single
Widowers.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Single. . . .
Married . .
Widowed .
Married
.Singl.
Wido
Divo]
31-8
1
Male.
Female.
Total.
ed 51
2
53
1 86
86
wed 1 8
8
1
Total
j 146
2
148
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
RACIAL.
KINGSTON.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Male.
Female.
Total.
i
514
6
18
19
i
533
\ 6
1
19
Total
538
20
558
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Coloured
White
Total.
DORCHESTER.
White....
Coloured .
Indian. . .
. MANITOBA.
Male.
15S
g
Half-breed
4
Total
16S
CRIME STATISTICS
115
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
White
Indian
Indian half-breed.
Coloured
Mongoliaa ....
171
11
6
Tatal.
Male.
Female.
Total.1
White
121
11
9
4
1
2
123
11
9
4
1
Total
146
2
148
PARDONS.
Where Senteaeed.
Melaine Goulet. .
Wm. G. WUliama
Wilfred Biahop .
Neglect in child-birth JThetford Mines. Que.
Abduction of girl under 16 Toronto.
Theft of post-letter ;Ottawa.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Where S«mtoaoed.
Fitzgerald, Johm. . .
Gaucher, Joseph. . .
r^palme, Magloire .
McMiLlaa. Hmgh.. .
I^eguia, Aipkoase. .
Wounding with intent to murder.
Housebreaking
McLeod. (Fort)
Montreal.
Montreal.
Manslaughter Ottawa.
Housebreaking i Montreal.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
John T. Smith. . .
Earl R. Ritch. . . .
Raymond Newell.
Thomas Domingo
John Fraser
William Stewart..
Bigamy
Obtaining endorsement of
valuable security by false
pretences
Uttering forged documents. .
Assault, [occasioning actual
bodily harm
Theft
Stealing and personal violence
WTien Released.
October W. I'JO'J
February 3. 1910
5, 1910
March 28. 1910
30, 1910
Where Committed.
St. John, N.B.
Amherst, N.S.
Halifax, N.S.
Sydney, N.S.
HaUfax, N.S.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
Unlawful use of instruments
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
CRIME STATISTICS
117
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
PAROLES,
KINGSTON.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
James Wadaworth. . .
Thomas Rozelle
A. Stephenson
John F. Uoss
William Pelletier
Joseph Heno*
Charles Burke
Daniel Murphy
John Guthrie
Patrick Laughlin
Fred. Marsh
Christopher McGrain.
Daniel Sharpe
John Lynch
Walter Urnke
Fred. Piper
Joseph Teeft
John Armstrong
Henry Thomas
John AUis
William Jar\*is
William Ezzard
John Hall
Roderick Kyre
St. Catharines.
Woodstock.
Toronto.
Brockville.
Ottawa.
London.
Lindsay.
OrilUa.
Toronto.
Sault Ste. Marie.
Toronto.
Toronto.
Toronto.
Sault Ste. Marie.
idsor.
Wni. Denmrai»
Edward Barnhart...
Philip Low
Sam. McWilliams. . .
Joseph D. Morin. . . .
Maurice Foley
David 10. Wilson.. . .
Henry Cook
Patrick McIIugh. . . .
Allan .Stapeley
Meyer Silverman
Harry Syinonds
George Brenner
Frank Smith
James Bilheck ,
Francis C!oote ,
Kli Jame.s
Jame.s Burley
Frank Anderson
Frederick Yokom. . . .
James Hetu
W. J. LeRoy
•■Mbert J. Love
Charies Mitchell
William McCormack..
James E. Harris
]':arl Licht
Fred. Bartle
Wesley Husband
Benson Dick.son
Charles McGill
Charles Troitter
Thoma.s Humphrey.
(_"harleM Thompson.
Herbert Mee
Chnrlr^ Sf^lls
Receiving stolen goods
Forgery
Wounding with intent
Shop breaking and theft
Horse stealing
Theft
Having counterfeit money
Theft of $60
Rape
Forgery
Burglary
Manslaughter
Wounding with intent
Theft from the person
Burglary
Theft - I I^)ndon.
Horse stealing Cayuga.
.■>hop breaking and stealing Perth.
Horse stealing. Orangevillc.
Murglary .-^andwich.
Horsestealing. Barrie.
Knpe Owen Sound
Stratford.
Brockville.
Ot tawa.
Brockville.
Cornwall.
Ailsa-Craig.
Ottawa.
Brockville.
Cornwall.
Theft
" from railway car and shop
breaking
jAison
Stealing
Theft of po8t letters
Shop breaking and theft.
Bigamy ■ ■ ■ •
Breaking railway car and stealing..
Belleville.
Belleville
Sudbury.
Belleville.
London.
Whitby.
London.
Cobalt.
Samia.
Chatham,
iiilton.
odstock.
Ottawa.
Toronto.
Toronto.
I Peterboro.
. " jIx>ndon.
. i ** of post letters iToronlo.
. iShop breaking and theft Gait.
. [Burglary and attempt carnal knowldge. Kenora.
. iCamal knowledge girl under 14 Samia.
. iTheft from railway ear and shop!
breaking., Brockville.
. Making and signing false statement. . . Toronto.
. Perjury North Pav-
. House breaking and theft ICayuga.
. Shop breaking, theft and false pretense Sarnia.
. Theft Jxmdnn.
. Highway robbery Woodstock.
Perjury
Horse stealing
House breaking and theft . . .
Assault
Bigamy
Robbery and shooting
Perjury
Wounding
Theft from the person
Highway robbery
Shop breaking and theft
Stealing post letters and bag.
Theft of post letters
Toi
nto.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
iaNGSTON .—Concluded .
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
Carnal knowledge girl under 14
Napanee.
Napanee.
T^h° T
Seduction girl under 16
Horse stealing and theft from person . .
Brockville.
Toronto.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
119
Where Sentenced.
Belanger, Alfred
Burns, Patrick
Bourgeois, Alcide
Baxter, John
Bergeron, Fred
Boyer, Arthur
Brault, Armand
Bouchard, Edouard. . .
Charest, Auguste
Costin, J. Eugfene
Converse, Fritz
Charron, D6sir6
Campeau, Louis R. . . .
Contant, Hector
Charlebois, Henri
Dragon, Pierre
Dorfnian, Charles
Dowd, William
Dul>ord, Patrick
D6n6chaud, Gustave. .
Dubois, Dieudonnfi.. . .
Dion, J. Bte
Fortin, Wilfrid
Faribeault, C. Eugfene.
Fortier, Hugo
Gagnon, Majorique.. . .
Groulx, Alexis
Giasaon, Simeon
Gagn6, Adolphe
Hamilton, Robert R...
Hucglovitz, Adolf
Hamelin. Henri
Kemp.-ton, Samuel
Laurin, Damase
Lapninte, .\lbert
Lessard, Eugene
Lapointe, Fred. E
I^veill^. Alfred
I.afortune. Hector
Mann, Elzear
Morel. Philip
Marcoulx, Moise
Michaud, Wenceslas.. ..
Martel, Eugene
Morelli. Frior A
Metard. Jos. Oct
Michaud, J. Bte
Normand, Th6ophile. . ,
Ouellette. Alex
O'Brien, Patrick
Page, Arthur B
Paulin, Arthur
Paradis, Oscar
Poirier, Richard
Pattissou. Octave
Quenneville, Henri
S4guin, Ix)ui3
Sanderson, William. . . .
Simard. Charles
St. Jean, RaoiJ '.
Trottier, L. A. T
Vaudry. Arthur
Viens. Geo. D
Villemaire, Antonio
Wilson, Edward
Aggravated robbery Montreal.
Theft from engine **
" . Pontiac.
Arson Bedford.
Aggravated robbery Montreal.
Shop breaking "
Theft and forgery Ottawa.
Obtaining money by false pretense. . . . Montreal.
Forgery ■ "
House breaking !St. Francis.
Theft t Terrebonne.
of post letter Montreal.
Attempt to commit murder. "
Theft by a servant "
Shop breaking and theft "
" |St. Francis.
Theft Terrebonne.
and shop breaking Quebec.
Indecent assault on female Montreal.
Theft Terrebonne.
." Chlcoutimi.
and forgery Montreal.
Receiving stolen goods ; "
Forgery jOttawa.
Shop breaking Quebec.
Theft jOttawa.
Robbery i Winnipeg.
Theft 'St. Francis.
Aggravated robbery |Montrenl.
Having obscene picture for sale | **
Theft from the person i
Stealing with violence , Quebec
Shop breaking Montreal.
Aggravated robbery
Shop breaking
Murder
House breaking
Horse steaUng
Theft
Manslaughter
Forgery
Theft
Incest and indecent assault.
Shop breaking
St. Hyacinthe.
Terrebonne.
Ottawa.
Montreal.
Arthabaska.
Montreal.
Theft ;
Horse stealing {Bedford.
Theft JMontreal.
Burglary and theft iBedford.
Forgery.
Theft.
Theft from the person
Attempt to commit murder.
Arson
Theft by servant
House breaking
Theft by servant
Quebec.
Montreal.
Ottawa.
Montreal.
Quebec.
Montreal.
St. Hyacinthe
Montreal.
120
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
DORCHESTER.
When Sentenced.
Where Sentenced.
Charles Umlah ....
Ralph Casby
Heber Buffett
Robert Richards. . .
Bert Law
William E. Clarke.
Octave Basse
John Bambashio. . .
Inflicting grievous bodily harm
Committing an act of gross indecency.
Indecent assault
Harry Sprattey [Stealing.
Setting fire to a barn
Brealiing, entering and stealing .
Philip Perry
Herbert Morrison
Jas. S. McDonald
John O'Brien
Augustus King
GarBeld Crofton
James Riley (alias Jas. Carter)
Alexander Scott IBreaking, entering and stealing.
Theft.
Stealing
Theft post letter bag containing money
Escaping from custody
Theft
Stealing
Francis Dinetti.
Wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm
Forgery
Breaking, entering and stealing
Robbery
William Johnson
Winbum Archibald
James Flavan
Jane Paris
Asa Paris
Antonio Constantino. JTheft and unlawful escape from custody
John Kervin | Breaking, entering and stealing
Alexander Barclay
Thomas Long
William Nicholson
William' J. Rogers
Stealing a watch
Robbery
Breaking, entering and stealing
Obtaining goods by false pretense and
theft
SteaUng. .
Robbery.
Arson. . .
James Schrum
John McVicar
Henry Await
Edgar Wentzell Theft
William Higgins Breaking jail
James Nicholson 'Assault and stealing
Fred. McKenzie Breaking, entering and stealing
Jas. E. Riley iStcaUng
Michael Bradley jCarnally knowing girl under 14
George Horseman [Theft
Ainsley Wentzell [stealing
William Murphy : Breaking, entering and steaUng
James W. Little Bigamy
Vernon Frizzell Uttering a false cheque, and breaking,
entering and stealing
Wm. J. Lairette Stealing from the person
Alfred Trott 'Committed an act of gross indecency. .
Chas. DeBoer [Stealing
Herbert Downey Theft
John White (alias Westman).. . Escape from custody
Robert Wilson Uttering forged cheque
Henry Lavesque Breaking, entering and stealing
Mamie Ferrish Theft
Norman Kelly Breaking, entering and stealing, and
receiving stolen goods
John D. Brown R()l>bpry watch and chain
Geo. Lowder Stealing
Morton Hawes Theft from I.C.R. freight car
Ernest Wilson Stealing
July
May
July
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October
August
May
November
March
November
May :
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November :
September ;
December I
August
October ;
June '■
December
June :
June
August ;
June. i
Octolier ;
June :
April ;
July
May .
February
jJune
lApril. :
October
November S
August. . '■
March '.
.Oecember
August :
August
November
November !
March
November :
March '.
January
June
September
September
May :
August ;
January ;
October
November
190S Hahfax, N.S.
1906'Digby, N.S.
laOS'Sydney, N.S.
1908
1908
1907 St. John, N.B.
1907 Madawaska, N.B.
1907 .Sydney. N.S.
1907 Halifax, N.S.
1907 Sydney, N.S.
1908;Halifax, N.S.
1907 Svdney, N.S.
1908 ;St. John, N.B.
1907'Sydney, N.S.
1908 Lunenburg, N.S.
1907.Halif.ax, N.S.
1907 .Sydney, N.S.
1908 Queen's, N.B.
19081 Lunenburg. N.S.
1908[Hants. N.S.
1908 West. Co.. N.B. '
1907'Sydney, N.S.
1907
1907
1908!Pictou, N.S.
1908 Restigouche, N.B.
1907[Sydney, N.S.
1908 Pictou. N.S.
1908 St. John, N.B.
1908;Halifax, N.S.
1908'Sydney, N.S.
1902 Halifax, N.S.
1908 Amherst, N.S.
1908 King's. N.S.
1908 York, N.B.
1908 Pictou, N.S.
1907 Halifax, N.S.
1908
1908 Victoria, N.B.
1908 Lunenburg, N.S.
19071 Restigouche, N.B
1907[Gagetown, N.B.
1907 Colchester, N.S.
1908 Dorchester, N.B
190S[Shelburne, N.S.
1908; Restigouche, N.B.
1909 St. John, N.B.
1909[ "
1907, Halifax, N.S.
1908' Madawaska, N.B.
1907 St. John, N.B.
1903 King's, N.S.
1908 Pictou, N.S.
1906!charlottetown,P.E.I'
1909' Halifax, N.S.
1907[St. John, N.B
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
MANITOBA.
Where sentenced.
Thosteinson, C.
Tillett. G
Turner. E. S...
Willcox, J. H..,
Bigurski, J Manslaugbte:
Bush, H Forgery.
Duv^, G Theft from the person.
Fagan, P jlndecent assault.
Gordon, S
Hamilton, C. A
Harris, J
Hawkins. A. R. C
Hunt. W. A
Lear. P. A
Mercier, J
Morris, L. L
O'Brien, J
Sangret, L
Simon, A. J
Sioux, J
Smith, F
Smith, W
Theft from a railway vehicle
Bigamy
Procuring and keeping a post-letter. . .
Forgery and uttering and theft
Conspiracy to defraud
Obtaining money by false pretenses. .
Bugger>-
Sodomy
Stealing a sum of money
Horse stealing
Stealing a mare and buggy
Forgery and uttering
Theft
Attempting to know, and knowing car-
nally, a girl under 14
Shopbreaking and theft
Theft
False pretenses
Stealing a poatrletter
Winnipeg. Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Kainy River, Ont.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg. Man.
\\ innipeg, Man.
Winnipeg. Man.
Macleod, Aha.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Moosomin, Sask.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg. Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Winnipeg, Man.
Regina, Snsk.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Where sentenced.
Hercules Hayward Theft IVemon.
Donald Fraser , ! ** jNew Westminster.
Patsey '.Cattle stealing iAshcroft.
Angus Willison jBreaking, entering and stealing | Vancouver.
Alex. Tommy 'Horse stealing Kamloops.
Fillipo Janessi Unlawful wounding Femie.
Patrick Flaharty iTheft with violence Vancouver.
S. Ralph Gross indecency jRevelstoke.
Frank Collins Breaking, entering and stealing Femie'
Charles Stevens Perjury Fort Simpson.
John Wilson Stealing Vernon
Max. Weil Forgery Vancouver.
.Foe. Mattera Breaking, entering and stealing Vancouver.
Sum Stealing Vancotivcr.
Patrick House breaking ; Ashcrof t,
.Iame.<» Milne Stealing. j Vancouver.
Frank Wilson Stealing from the person Femie.
H. A. Gerrard .A-ssault with intent jVancouver.
Chas. Otondorf Theft from the person
.la.s. Donald Theft
Michael Maloney Stealing from the person.
John Loney Stealing
.Tames Horsland ' Wounding with intent
.Iiiiiips Morgan j Receiving stolen money.
Fred McNutt. . . ~"
David McNabb.
Robert Walker..
David Harrison.
Porrv I.eveck . . .
O. Miura
Wib.
Victoria.
Nelson.
Femie.
Vancouver.
Victoria.
Golden.
Vernon.
Vancouver.
Theft
Breaking, entering and stealing
Aiding and abetting Vancouver.
Assault causing actual bodily harm. . i Vancouver.
Horse stealing New Westm
Manslaughter jNanaimo.
Gross indecency iVictoria.
William Murphy Breaking, entering and stealing Femie.
A. K. Hr-idler Fraud Rossland.
Thos. Hicks Possession of stolen goods New Westni
W. J. Thompson :Stealing Fernie.
Al-T. D'^war 'Theft Vancouver,
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Concluded.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Chas. Wood. . . .
Irwin Neeley. . .
J. Rice
Geo. Macdonald
D. Langley
F. King
Edgar WUcox . .
Stealing
Stealing from the person
Unlawful carrying an offensive weapon
Gross indecency
Shopbreaking and stealing
Shopbreaking and stealing
Robbery
Fernie.
Fernie.
Nelson.
Victoria.
Greenwood.
Greenwood.
New Westminater.
\Miere senteaeed.
Albert Paul
John Brint
Rudolph Evera
James C. McLaughlin
Philip Butler
WiUiam J. Davis-alias O'Malley.
Solomon Pritchard
Wesley. J. Upton
Fred Peabody
Andreas Zippel
Gabriel Levielle
August Neuman
Aaron Dunning
Sidney A. HoUoway
Edwin Henderson
Hans Hering-alais Schafer
George G. Brown
Thomas Percell
Frederick Burk
N. A. McEachem
Charles Arrance
Fred Heginbotham
Jame.s Kennerley
Poxshew or Small-face
Joseph Convery
Henry T. Crannura
WiUiam Hayes
Ole Bratten ,
Gustav Marianow3ki ,
Wil
Mo
Henry Vanderberg
Female convict:
Myrtle May Fettermaa.
[Burglary with intent. . . . .
i Horse steaUng
Burglary and theft
Burglary
Theft
Theft of horse and buggy.
Cattle stealing
Theft and forgery
Theft.
Poisoning horses.
teaUng.
I Perjury.
Burglary and theft.
Rape
Horse stealing
Horse stealing
Horse steaUng
Burglary and theft
Theft
Theft of grain
Misappropriating money.
Theft from the person . . .
Horse stealing
ult <
Indecent
Theft
Bigamy
Manslaughter.
Horse stealing
Theft of grain.
Attempt to murde
JMaple Creek. Sask.
iRegina, Saak.
,Regina, Sask.
iCalgary.fAlta.
, Calgary. Alta.
Regina, Sask.^
Maple Creek, Sask.
Regina, Sask.
Moosomin. Sask.
Edmonton, Alta. .
Wetaskiwin, Alta.
Medicine Hat, .\lta
Calgary, Alta.
Areola, Sask,
. jYorkton, Sask.
, lEdmonton, Alta.
. iMedicine Hat. Alta.
, IMacleod, Alta.
, I Regina, Sask.
lEdmonton, Alta.
I Regina, Sask
iBattleford, Sask.
Regina. Sask.
^Macleod. Altk.
iMoosejaw, Sask.
'Calgary, AJta.
IMedicine Hat, Alta.
Saskatoon, Saak
Edmonton, Alta
'Wetaskiwin. .\lta.
I Regina. Sask.
'Macleod, Alta.
CRIME STATISTICS
123
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DEATHS.
Where sentencea.
George Slack
Edward Schufelt. .
George Riggs
Yarko Bovkinsya .
David Sutherland.
Albert Stewart....
Wm. Seay
John Doraey
Thomas Noah. ...
Albert Butterfield.
Geroge Brett
Salem Assaly
Robbery
Retaining stolen property
Threatening to kill
Obstructing railway
Attempt to murder
Wounding with intent
Attempt to murder
Shop-breaking and theft
Manslaughter
Forgery
Indecent assault and burglary.
Murder
Toronto.
Regina.
Fredericton .
Sudbury.
Montreal.
Owen Sound.
Toronto.
Toronto.
London.
Stratford,
Brampton.
L'Orignal.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Where Sentenced.
BrowB, Percy. ,. . .
Larocque, William,
Lamont, Benjamin
Hogue, Uagliore. . ,
Nerin, Jamefi
Attempt to steal from the person.
Theft
Assault with intent to rob
Miirder
Shop breaking
DORCHESTER.
\\'here Sentenced.
Digby, N.S.
John Hamilton (alias Geo. Morton) . , Breaking, entering and stealing.
Joseph I>ewis Forgery, and theft of two express
I cheques
Luigi DiPalma Stealing j Amherst, N.S.
John Francis 'Receiving stolen money St. John, N.B.
Halifax, N.S.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
Fiddler. J. (alias "Pasequan")
DEPAHTMEXr OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced-
*Gary, Richard Biirret..
.Murder
*Hanged for the murder of Richard H. Stedman, Deputy Warden.
CRIME STATISTICS
125
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
INSANE.
KING.STON.
(See Surgeon's Report.)
ST. VINCENT UE PAUL.
Name.
Crime.
Term.
Remarks.
Theft from person
Theft
5 ea«
Tranal^rrfA tn Kinouton Iiine l7 1<in<l
2 " " '■ "17, 190U
3 ■• • ■■ March 21, 1910
5 •■ " •■ October 15, 1909
Staggs, Thomas
Assisting escape. .
DORCHESTER.
Date of .Sentence.
When Pronounced When
Insane. Transferred.
Frank WilUams.
Fred Ivey
2 years
3 "
August 10, 1008 Arson
January 8, 1907iTheft.
April 8, 190U April 19. 1909
S. 1909 " 19, 1909
MANITOBA.
Name.
Crime.
Term.
Where Sentenced.
Langton
Nickel. I
A. .\
Forgery, fraud
and theft
Arson, theft, as-
saulting police
and escape ....
3 years
10 "
1 Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Morden,
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
(None.)
Name.
Crime
Term.
Remarks.
Murder
Life.
Remo
ved to Kingston, August 14, 1909.
August 14, 1909.
"
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
PUNISHMENTS.
KINGSTON.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Number of
times
Administered.
Number of
convicts
Punished.
Remission forfeited
Punishment-cell, on bread and water.
Deprived of cell light
Reduced in grade
Reduced rations
Deprived of library privilege
Deprived of writing privilege
Dungeon, on bread and water
Corporal punishment, paddle
Corporal punishment (per Court sentence) .
176
38
Number of (
Number of (
victs who received one nr more punishmenta.
victs who received no punishment
312
461
Number of convicts in custody during the year 773
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Mode of Punishment.
398
284
169
105
Application of the hose
Bread and water (meals)
Bread and wat«r (days)
Deprived of remission
Deprived of bed
Deprived of books for one month I
Dungeon '
Punishment-cells, bread and water I
Shackled to cell gate during working hours I
Convicts punished during the year 341
Convicts not punished during the year 383
Convicts in custody during the year 724
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
DORCHESTER.
Punish m en ta.
Number of
times
Administered.
Number of
different
Prisoners who
were Punished.
Dark cell, on bread and water
Dark cell, shackled to cell gate during working hours.
Bread and water
Deprived of remission time
Deprived of books
Deprived of cell light.
To'wear Oregon boot
100
100
Number of convicts punished
Number of convicts not punished.
Total number in custody during the year .
272
364
Penalty.
Number o
times
Administered.
dumber of
different
convicta
pHDished.
Bread aad water, six consecutive meals, with hard bed
Bread and water, nine consecutive meals, with hard bed
Bread and water, twelve consecutive meals, with hard bed
Bread and water, twenty-one consecutive meals, with hard bed
Bread and water, nine consecutive meals, with hands tied to eel! gate during
working hours
Bread and water, twenly-one consecutive meals, in penal cclU, with hands
tied to cell gate during working hours
Corporal punishment, ' ' paddle"
Deprived of library privileges
Probation term extended -
Loss of remission
NumbRr of convicts who received one or more punishments.
Number of convicts who received no punishments
Number of convicts in custody during the year.
153
228
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Number of
tiraea
Punishment
was
Administered.
Bread and water
Confined in punishment^cell.
Deprived of privileges
Dungeon
Probation term extended. . .
Remission forfeited 9. . .
To wear Oregon boot.
Number of convicts punished 72
Number of convicts not punished 225
Total in custody during the year 297
Punishmeata.
Number of .
times
Adminiatered.
Number of
convicts
Punished.
5
24
27
10
2
1
3
18
10
2
Number of convicts punished
Number of convicts not punished .
Convicts in custody during the ye
170
108
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CRIME STATISTICS
ACCIDENTS.
KINGSTON.
(None.)
ST. VINCENT DE P.A.UL.
(None.)
129
DOKCHESTER.
Date.
Name.
1
Where Employed. Nature of Accident.
Cause of Accident
Day?
in
Hospital.
July 12, 1909
S. lacapita
Laundry Dislocation of right wrist. .
Wrist caught in
clothes wringer.
&8
MANITOBA.
(None.)
BRITISH COLUMBI-A.,
'None.)
ALBERTA. "1
Name. Where Employed.
Nature of Accident.
Cause of Accident.
Da:-
in
Hospital.
January 31 :Jame.s L. Holt.
1910 I
In Ceiitrttl Hall.
Ligaments of feet strained.
Jumping on to ce-
ment floor to
Prevent falling.
.31-9
DKl'ARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
CREEDS.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Church of England.
Roman Catholic.
Methodist
Presbyterian
Baptist
Lutheran
Jewish
Greek Catholic
Salvation Army.. . .
Quaker
Mennonite
Church Worker. . . .
No Creed
Unknown (Insane).
Total.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Roman Catholic . .
Church of England.
Presbyterian
Methodist
Lutheran
Baptist
Congregationalist. . .
Unknown
Jews
Total.
DORCHESTER.
Baptist
Church of England.
Methodist. .
Disciple
Lutheran
Preabyterian
Roman Catholic
Unitarian
Total. . .
CHIME STATISTICS
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
12J
Roman Catholic. . . .
Church of England.
Preabyterian
Methodist
Lutheran
Baptist
Congregationalidt. . .
Unitarian
Jewish
Total . . .
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
RomaQ Catholic
Church of England. . . .
Methodist
Presbyterian
Bapti&t
Lutheran
Buddhist
Jew
Methodist Episcopah^D.,
Reformed Episcopalian..
Congregationalist
No creed
Total..
Roman Catholic. .
Church of England
Methodist
Preabyterian
Lutheran
Baptist
Mennonite
Congregationalist. .
Salvation Army. . .
No Creed
Total..
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
ESCAPED.
KINGSTON.
(None.'
.ST. VINCENT DE P.4UI..
(None.)
DORCHESTER.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Term. Date of .Sentenre.
Crime. I Date of Escape. Date of Rocapiuri
Donald Keaoedy.
Olaf Taraea
I
3^ years {June 26, 1907 Abduction. .. |September 17, 1909
2 " iNovember 2. 1908 Theft 17. 1909
7 months {
24 days. '
September 26 190U
26. t'.W.t
Name.
Date Sentenced.
Term.
Crime.
Date Escaped.
ster Hansen
November 12, 1906
14 years
Horse steal! nK, arson, killing
animals.
May 24, 1909
Crime. Date of Sentence.
Jack Johnson (alias Jackson).
Jame* C. Atkinson.
Theft December 2. 11108
Horse slealinR.. .. Ijune 7, 1909
Sentence. Date of Kjioape.
2 years jJuly l:t. lOOit
S " July IS. I9W>
CRIME STATISTICS
133
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DEPORTATIONS.
Wha« So&teaced.
Roidoa Freeman
Andrie Chomats. .
L. L. M. Bryan. .
Thomas Powell. -
Edvas Lahti
Adolphus Baker.
Charles Serop.. . -
William Joues. . .
Walter Lewis. . . .
Y, Bowauak
Ray H. Giiflfin.
Guido Caota
Charles Xorth. . .
Walter Weim^
Lewis Thomas - - .
Burglary and house breaking
Stealing
Foi^ery
Shop breaking and theft
. Foi^erj'
Obtaining money by false pretenses .
House breaking and theft
Robbery and shooting
Attempt to break jail
Elscape from jail
Theft
Assault and wounding.. .
Shop breaking and theft.
Forgery and uttering
Montreal.
, Pembroke.
Belleville,
Oriilia.
Sault Ste. Marie.
Toronto.
Fort William.
Cobalt.
Sault Ste. Marie.
Sault Ste. Marie.
Kenora.
Sault Ste. Marie.
Windsor.
Ottawa.
Samia.
ST. VI^'CE^'T DE PAUL.
Where Sentenced.
Boccacci Dominico
Burton, Felix (alias Boutin) .
Gass, Frank
Garbutt. Thomas
Italiano, Guiseppe
Lambert. Auguste
Lennox. Frank
McCargar. L. B
StrifozanakLs, Janey
Williams, James
Wilbur. George
Perjury |Ottawa.
Horse stealing jlberville.
Atiempt to steal from person Montreal.
Bigamy Quebec.
Aggravated robbery Montreal.
Theft and breaking Terrebonne.
Attempt to steal from person Montreal.
Theft jlberville-
Wounding Quebec
Theft {Montreal.
Shop l^reaking Bedford.
DORCHESTER.
When Sentenced.
Where Sentenced.
James Graj-.. . .
Wm. Iliompson
George Lee
Thomas Marr. , .
Early Givens. . .
Ewart Hare. . . .
Stealing.
Hieft. ..
Stealing.
jXovember
Februar>'
jjime
September
Mav
L\pril
6. 1907 Mctoria'Co.. X.B.
24. 190SSt. John. X3.
23. l90SSt. John. X.B.
30. 190S Restigouche. N.B.
21. 190S Lunenburg. N.S
7. 1909 Sydney. X.S.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
Thefl
Winnipeg.
Falkeaberg, D
Harvey. C. T
Theft from a railway vehicle
Obtaining money by false pretenses , . .
King, J
«
Parsons, C. A
ScaiT, D. L
Walker. A. W
Obtaining money by false preTenses
Attempt to murder
Theft
Brandon.
Winnipeg.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Where Sentenced.
W. W. Barrington
John Ward
Frank Mason. . .
Fred. Wells
Frank Brown
Steve Bridges. . . .
Makami
Frank Bonney
W. B. Richardson.
Geo. Christopher..
I Breaking, entering and bteallng .
Stealing
Burglary
Theft
Breaking, entering and steaUng.
Manslaughter
Breaking, entering and stealing
Indecent assault
Nelson,
Vancouvei:
Nelson.
Clinton.
Nelson.
Fernie.
Ro&sland.
Name.
Crime.
Where Sentenced.
Burglary o
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPIR No. si-f, A 1911.
APPENDIX H.
LABOUR STATISTICS.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPIR No. 31.
LABOUR STATISTICS.
(JarTJeuter,
Chunge room and laundry
Clerka
Kngirieers,
Farm and atables
Hospital
Loom,
Mason
Printing
Quarry
Shoe
Steward and kitchen
Stone cutting
Stone-pile, wood and coal
Tailoring
Tin and paint
Wint? and cells
Female prison
137
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT^UE PAUL.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Departments.
Bookbindery
Teaiubters, hauling freight, etc..
Masons
Change room
Steward
Bakerv
Carpenters
Tailors
Shoe shop
Stonecutters
Engineers
Tinsmiths
Blacksmiths
Stonebreakers i 30
Dormitories (cleaners)
Farm, piggery and stables
Quarry
Clerks
Library
Chapel caretakers
Hospital orderlies
Barber shop
Messengers
Yard
Brickyard
Sewerage
Excavation
Electrical department
Laying tramway track
Digging post-holes for telegraph poles
Shovelling coa!
Building new bridge
Making cement sidewalk
Shovelling snow
Cutting and packing ice
Loading lime stone
Odd jobs
S28
,112
,3.36
,071
,354
,250
,437
,634
.350
, 585
,143
,371
,082
,644
734
986
714
202
706
299
903
301
525
903
253
468
183
,549
569
165
370
Total 151 , 649
s
cts.
248
40
333
60
2., 500
80
1,821
30
1,90S
20
375
on
3,131
10
1,996
20
1,905
00
3,775
50
1,842
90
1,011
30
1,818
ao
9,193
20
3,820
20
2,993
80
1,714
20
360
60
211
80
89
70
270
90
90
30
457
50
270
90
75
90
140
40
2,031
90
213
00
41
10
7
50
.54
90
164
70
170
70
49
.50
111
on
174
30
118
80
845,49
70
LABOUR STATISTICS
139
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DORCHESTER.
DepartmentB.
Boiler room
Barbers
Bakery and kitchen
Blacksmith shop
Breaking stone
Carpenter shop
Cell wings
Cutting ice
Clearing land
Cleaning water tank
Cutting wood in woods
Clerical stafl
Digging foundation, new building.
Digging foundation, new wall
Farm, stables and piggery
Hospital orderly
Laundry an.1 repairing clothing. . .
Library
Masons
Machine shop
Ornamental grounds
Prison orderiy
Polishing cell gates in hospital. . . .
Quarry
Repairing roads
" cottages
" stockade
" bridge
Stonecutters
Shoe shop
Sawing wood
Shovelling snow
Tailor shop
Unloading conl
" stone
sand
Yard
Female prison
1,093
590
3,980i
l,703i
2,280
3,875
4,117
68
223
40
378
585
12
516
5,529
365
1,688
300
6,480
2,340
194
295
35
1,723
90
710
23
8
9,637
1,684
260
23
3,229
301
298
38
4,090
3,035i
Total ' 61,837i
30
0 30
S cts.
327 90
177 00
1.194 15
511 05
684 00
1,162 50
1,235 10
20 40
66 90
12 00
113 40
175 RO
3 60
154 80
1.658 70
109 50
508 40
90 00
1.944 00
702 00
58 20
88 50
10 50
516 90
27 OO
213 00
6 90
2 40
2,891 10
505 20
78 00
6 90
968 70
90 30
89 40
11 40
1,227 30
607 10
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Steward.
Tailor
Baker
Shoemaker. ... ' . .
Mason
Carpenter
Engineer
Change roon^
Blacksmith
Farm
Hospital (waiters) ....
Custom
Bookbindery
Surroundings, cutting wood, etc
Cell wings (cleaners)
Barbers
Basement
Garden
Main hall and office orderlies. .
Hauling
Sawing wood
Extra gangs, cleaning up, etc
Quarry and new road .
1.770
3,S5S
624
1,487
12,661
3,112
1,672
1,221
519
3,948
306
152
93
2,051
6,541
418
S eta.
531 00
1,157 60
187 20
446 39
3,798 32
933 84
501 75
366 50
155 70
1 , 184 40
91 SO
45 65
27 9C
615 30
1,962 30
125 55
86 70
104
30
31 20
888
30
266 40
238
30
71 40
221
30
66 30
457
30
137 25
276
30
82 80
42,910
$ 12,873 25
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
LABOUR STATISTICS
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Departments.
Days.
Accountant's ofcce
Alterations deputy's quarters.
Bakery
Blacksmith
brickyard
Carpenter
Clearing land
Farm
Fire loss, repairing
Fencing
I- ire protection
General library
Halls
Hospital (waiters)
Laundry and barber shop. , . .
Maintenance of buildings
" of roads
New roacs
" ^alls
" inside fence
^ '■ hay bam
Protestant chapM
Romaa Catnolic chapel
Quarry
Shoe shop
Steward
Storekeeper
Tailor shop
Temporary cells
Wing
Total.
605
30
S 181 50
105i
30
31 65
924
30
277 20
3,3094
30
992 85
5,080i
30
1.524 15
3,98H
30
1.194 45
1804
30
54 15
5,569i
30
1,670 85
684
30
20 55
5704
30
171 15
44
W
1 35
607
bO
182 10
302
30 •
90 60
4."io
30
136 50
:i.2.57i
I 30
977 25
1,5444
30
463 35
340
30
102 00
I.filli
30
483 45
8,0234
30
2,407 05
1464
30
43 95
114
30
34 20
150
30
4.i 00
147
30
44 10
3,698
30
1,109 40
3,277
30
983 10
1,827
30
548 10
575
30
172 50
5,9184
30
1,775 55
350i
30
105 15
2,672
30
801 60
55.416
$16,624 80
Brickyard
Carpenter
Clerks
Cleaning land
Coal mine
Engineers
Farm work
Laundry, wings and cells
Masons
Shoemakers
.Steward
Tramway, brick, clay, sand and gravel.
Tailors
Female ward r
3.200
2.532
997
292
735
1.6954
1.1354
7.284
6.893
1,2574
1,890
7014
1,738
498
Total
$ ct.s.
960 00
759 60
299 10
87 CO
220 50
508 65
340 65
2,185 20
2,067 90
377 25
567 00
210 45
521 40
99 60
$9,204 90
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 3li A. 1911.
APPENDIX I.
PER CAPITA COST.
143
1 GEORGE V.
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APPENDIX J.
REVENUE STATEMENT.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPZR No. 31.
SUMMARY OF REVENUE.
Kingsloa
St. Viucent de Paul.
Dorchester
Manitoba
British Columbia. . .
■\lherta
Tolal. .
$26,978.67
4, 4;. 0.70
4,395.90
5,551.91
3.374.07
j 935.31
■345.686. 7f.
DETAILS OF REVENUE.
KINGSTON.
Alex. Atkins.
Making cushion . .
Repairing clothing; ....
Making pair boota
L Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. ,
tinware
Lime
Brooms
Printing
Lard
Sand
Condemned articles
Medicine
Stone.
Robt. Aiken.
Making flag
" boots
Repairing hoots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
" " blacksmiths
Making tinware
Bread
Meals
Hay
Brooms
Razors, honed.
Medicine
Alberta Penitentiary.
Brooms . .
Printing .
60
I 90
1 99
4 13
3 36
3 59
iO
20
2 40
1 85
S 16
5 72
1 37
1 44
2 64
33 00
$ 27 00
22 76
(?. O. Aiken.
Making clothing
Ucpairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing svmdry articles, carpenter
Making sundry articles, blacksiuith
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmi
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
Bread
Meals
Hay
Vegetables
Straw
Condemned articles
Medicine
th.
$ a 79
79
1
97
3
33
16
10
6
61
2
1.1
1
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3
93
2
87
29
88
66
2
no
74
1
50
50
82 08
S. Anglin <& Co.
Stone
% 20 Ol)
IF. P. ArchibaUI.
Andre .t Dixon.
StOKe. ...
3 60
Miss. H. A. Asselttina.
Skis
2 00
E. J . Adams.
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter ....
2 86
DEPARTMEXT OF J L STICK
myGSTOS—Comtinutd.
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911.
T. W. B^mie.
Making dotliiixs
Rcfhairine dothine
M&km£ boots
Rgyairing boots
Makiiif tinware
Meak-
Rfaabaib
Brooms
6utioaery
Molasses. -
Medicine
3S
1 33
P. Af . Beamprr.
Afftk-ing do thing ..- -..._-.
Repairing dothing
boots
Making handsl^gh
R^uuiing sundry- arddes, caipeater.
Scissors repaired
Making tinware
Bread
Brooms.
Stones lettered
Razors boned
Medicine
3 50
24 12
H. S. Btm
Ref»iiing dothing.
BepairxDg boots
Making and repairing frames.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware.
Printing
Condemned artides. . .
r. Baglii.
Making doihing .
Ref>airiag boots
Making sundry artides. caipenter. .
Ref>airing sandr>- artides. carpenter
MaJdn? sundr>- artides. black^nith
R^kaJrizig 5andr>- articles
Making :9mdry artides. tinsmith . . .
Refkairing sundr>- articles tznsnith .
Meals
Storage batxerr. charged . - .
Lard.
Rope
Ho>5f>itnL
Raaors hon€<l
1. J. B\mj,
Making dothing
Bepuring dothing. ....
Making boots
Repairing boots.
M^dng sondry artides, carpenter. . .
Repairing sandrr articles, carpenter
Drill point
-Stites !*harpeaed
Making tinware -
Repairing tinware
Bread
Meah
I.ard
M -■dicing
2 3S
2 99
4 67
1
60
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45
30
17
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1
75
10
2
44
13
2:2
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.33
34
1
60
lO
40
67
72
C. Bc^tridffe.
Making clothing
R^>airing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry artides, carpenter. , .
Repairing sundry articles, carpeater .
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Brooms ..,..
Putty :
Printing
Medicine '.
Jho. Bannister.
Making boots
R^>airing boots .
Cart repidred
Making sundr>' artides, blacksnuth . . .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith.
Galvanised iron tub
Bread.
Hay
Straw
Socks knit
Medicine.
Sto ze. . .-.,..---.
Binder twine < sundry customeis)-
1 66
6 19
6 36
1 59
3 SI
10
1 47
26 63
12 30
31.S151b«.
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2.735
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73.770
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13.270
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9.615
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10
200
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101
50
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PrcMr«e<ld from sale of rope. . -
Rebate rn
Sbrr
S2.05O 42
126 35
3.157 12
218 SO
6.270 45
I.IW 30
a.3;i6 40
961 .V)
21 V>
5 30
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Jos. Bennett.
flaking clothing
Saw sharpened
Bread
Vegetables
Broom?
Medicine
J. Berrigan.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry- articles, carpenter. . . .
Saw sharpened
Repairing sundry articies, blacksmith.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Veeetables
Brooms
Paint '.
Wood Htairs.
I.ard
Condemned article*.
Medicine
8 06
4 40
1 30
1 44
So
1 88
R. A. Caughy.
^ilaking clothing
Repairing clothing
boots
Making siindry articles, carpenter.
Repairing chair
Making tinware
Repairing tinware ....
Bread
Meala
Brooms
Printing
Razors honed
Medicine ....
RepairiniS boots
MaJdng sundry articles, cazpcoter.
Saw sharpened
Casting
Lard
Brooms
Medicine. . .
Repairing boot>
Handle repaired .
Making tinware.
Repairing tinware.
Broom.
Condemned article?
British Columbia Penx
Brooms..
Printing.
R. Ctftby.
Repairing boots
Making foundry articles, carpenter.
Repniring lawn rnower
Making tinware
Meals
Medicine
30
3 96
8 55
U. ( urtu.
$ 4 00
S 43 20
73 »*
Bread
Straw
IT. U. Compton.
Balance of account for »tone. .
4 86
5 40
14 26
117 14
$ 06
CereaU, Limited.
Rer. A. W. Cooke.
Saw sharpened.
Medicine
CampbeU Uilting Co.
154
DEPAHTMICST OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
KINGSTON— Con^mweri.
R. R. Creighton.
Small stand
Making tin boxes
Meals
Cleaning and pressing clothing
R. Campbell.
Stone
E. Cowan.
Rep^ring boots
Making window frame and i
Sharpening skates
Making tinware
Straw
Medicine
W. J. Calvert.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Vegetables
Lard
Condemned articles
Medicine
W. H. Derry.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing chair
" sundry articles, blacksmith.
Making tinware
Meals
Brooms
Lard
Razors honed
Medicine
F. W. Dickinson.
Repiuring clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundrv articles, carpenter
Iron rods made
Skates sharpened
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Meals
Brooms
Condemned articles
Medicine
1 65
1 24
3 01
10 37
9 47
3 07
13 65
Thos. DariftsoTi.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing door
Making tinware
Medicine
J«*-. Doylr.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Making tinware
Bread
Meals
Hay
Razors honed
Medicine
Stone
E. It. Daiis.
Repairing clothing
boots
Making sundry articles, farpenter.
Chair repaired
Making tinware. .
Bread
Broom
Medicine . .
1 05
I 42
19 62
1 37
3 06
Geo. Doyle.
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Brooms
Lard
Medicine
R. D. Dowsley.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Window screen repaired
Painting shutters
Paint
Medicine
Sharpening lawn mower
R. M. Daoi-s.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpentei
Repairing tinware
Bread
Brooms
Razors honed
Medicine
Stone ,
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
KINGSTON — Continued.
J. DoTiaghue.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Kepairing lawn mower
Heals
Razor honed
Medicine
DoTchester Penitentiary.
Printing.
Brooms..
O. W. Dawson.
Making boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
S 21 9S
23 88
S 3 13
16 74
Frank Doyle.
Repairing clothing
" hoots
Making sundry articles, carpenter, .
Repairing undry articles, carpenter
Sharpening scissors and skates
Making tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Paint
Brooms
Razors honed
Packing CH.se
Medicine
A. Demill.
Making tinware
Douglas & Mcll^uham.
Stone
J. R. Forster.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
.Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpente;
Repairing cot
Skates and scissors sharpened.. .
Making tinware
Bread
Vegetables ".
Com stalks
Hay
Printing
B ooms
Meat
Paint
Pasture
Condemned articles
10 27
2 59
4 45
7 02
10
4 12
1 60
1 48
25
20
2 72
97
30
2 00
3 00
1 41
1 00
Miss R. A. Fahey.
i 75
Making sundry articles, carpenter
6 70
Lard
SO
10 54
C. H. Penning.
S 2 4S
2 54
Ma ing sundry articles, carpenter
2 45
30
16 56
Lard
25 93
Thos. Fowler.
» 7 87
41
13 04
2 15
Making sundry articles, carpenter
3 08
10
10
1 05
Meals
66
Lard
1 60
62
1 85
Bread
17 19
49 72
Mrs. Forsythe.
S 48 00
Fronlenac, County 0/
$165 56
/. A. Fegg.
S 4 43
75
Making sundry articles, carpenter
8 10
10
6 00
34
20
22 30
W. A. Gunn.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
boots
Chair repaired
Lard
» 2 55
3 90
82
10
84
60 00
Laundry
12 00
85
71 06
DEPARTMh'XT OF J VST ICE
Making rlothiug
Hepairiug clothing
MakiDg boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Uepairing tjundrj* articles, carpenter.
Pair hinges
Sharpening skates
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Hay
Vegetables
Paint
Books bound. .
Brooms
Cloth
Lard
Condemned articles.
Medicine
Stone. .
D.
Making clothing
school bag. . . .
strap
Repairing boots
i Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
Making sundry articles, blacksmith . . .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith .
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Straw . .
Hay. . .
Pasture .
Condemned articler*.
Medicine
1 GEORGE v..
10 69
6 92
6 67
3 20
2 45
1 75
43
2 59
13 04
3 32
1 18
1 40
1 24
1 70
22 86
7 50
Tr. xS. Hughes.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith.
S. hooks
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Meals
Straw
Books bound
Razors honed
Rope
Laundry
Lard
Printing
Paint
Brooms
Glass
Kitchen refuse
Condemned articles
Medicine
Stone
Hu
Rei)aii'infi l)oots
Making picture frame.
Repairing furniture.. .
Making tinware
Repairing tinware.. . .
BrooiiLS
Printing
Medicine. .
r. //. Gray.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making tinware. .
Paint
I-ard
Modirino
N. drer.t.
1 50
4 56
1 92
44
I 60
Making elothint:
Uepairing elothi
Making huols,.
Hepa
Making Ninidry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter .
Making sundry articles, blacksmith. . .
Repairing .sundry articles, blacksmith.
Making tinware
Hav
Bread
Paint.
Lime. . . .
Stone. .. .
Medicine .
Straw
K(L (h
Co:d Hcuttle
Razors honed. .
.Mwlirine
^
40
1(1
:iO
Sundry ;it
Medir-i.ii'.
Isaac lluaillUn
ticlcH repuircd, c
arpentor. .
S
1 57
2 .■■iS
80
1
4 12
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
HEVESUE
K I NGSTON— (-*«n(mweJ.
J, J. Hughes.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making tinware'.
Bread
Tomatoes.
Brooms
Book bound .
Razor honed
Medicine
T. E. Hennejisey.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Sickle sharpened '
Making coal scuttle. . -
Bread
Broom
Lime.-
Medicine.
Indian Affairs. Dent, of
Making clothing. . . .
" boots and belt.s
Hutton it- Becktvorth.
S 1
05
3
46
4
74
37
1
95 1
19
62 ij
69 1
10
20 ,
2
53 i
34
96
$
15
1
09
10
■10
45
19
10
1
28
4
36
1
P Johnston.
Making pair trousers, boy's
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Making sundry articles, blacksmith. . ,
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Straw
Hay
Paint
Lard ...
Lime.
Stone ... . .
Razors houeti. .
Condemned boiler tube
Medicine
*1 .019
79
221
45
1,241
24
S 7
00
S 5
00
S
66
24
3
23
7
11
4
33
3
44
1
48
1
93
3
57
2
98
6
45
12
60
6
46
96
20
1
10
10
75
2
03
59
62
i
T. A. Keenan.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
flaking tinware
Meals
Broom
Condemned pails . ,
Medicine
M.J. Kenn^iJ, .
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
flaking boots
Repairing boots
ilaking sundry articles, carpenter. . , .
Repairing sundr>' articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware.
Bread
Straw
Brooms
Razors honed
Lime
Mortar
Pasture
Medicine .
10
.56
10
.50
6
13
1
24
2
38
3
45
r<\
67
6
09
Jno. Ktuvah,
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Wheelbarrow repaired
Brace repaired ,
Skates sharpened
Making stove pipe safe
Repairing tinware . .
Paint
Broom
Medicine
Saw sharpened
Wm. Kenneu-
Making vest
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing tongue for wagon.
Shovel repaired
Door painted and furniture varnished.
Painting
Medicine
1 94
1 46
1 S3
•2 37
88
1 48
K. P. &. C. Electric Railway.
DEPARTMEST OF JUSTICE
KINGSTON— C'«n(inu€d.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Kingston Hosiery^ Co'y,
Lawrence Kenny.
Repairing boots.
Meah
Medicine
J. Lawless.
R^p^ring boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Axes sharpened
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith.
Coal scuttle made
Meals
Brooms
Medicine
s
4 28
S 44 92 !
S
1 33
1 32
15
2 80 1
Major J, N, Lesslie.
W, J. MacLeod.
Making clothing
Repniring boots
Making simdry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
Making sundry articl<-8, bhicksmith . . .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith
Bread
Tomato plant
Razors honed
Piping
Glass
Molasses
Lard
Condemned jam
Medicin*
P. J. Madden.
Making clothing
Repniring clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making picture frame
Pkntffl shftrpened
Making tinware
Bretid
Knitting mitts
2 97
2 23
2 74
7 04
4 38
1 22
34
10
1 26
26 64
15
37 78
W. Macdonell.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing curtain pole
Iron work repaired
Skates sharpened
Making tinware
Razors honed
Book bound
Paint
Lard
Medicine
Medicine .
Stone ....
W. H. Mathews
Making window sash
Repairing road cart
" sundry articles, blacksmith.
Straw
Lard
Razors honed.
Brooms . .
Medicine.
Manitoba Penitentiary.
Wm. Morrison,
Rev. M. McDonald.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. ,
" blacksmith
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmi
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
Making sprinkler
Laundry
Printing
Wood stain
Paint
Medicine
REVEXUE
159
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31
Kl'SC.STi)^— Continued.
R. McDonald.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
" blacksmith. .
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Boiler tube
Galvanized iron r)ipp-
Bread
Paint
Mortar
Broom
Stone.
Condemned artirh'-.
Medicine
D. Mcl'arUinr
R. McGeein.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing skates
Making tinware
Bread
Paint
Broom
Hospital.
4 66
3 07
7 25
J. McWaters.
Repairing boots
Making simdry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . .
" " blacksmith .
Making stove pipes
Repairing tinware
Bread
Plants
Brooms
Razors honed
Lard
Condemned articles
Modirino
E. McLanghlv
Condenmed iron tank
*S. A. McCojrmack.
F. McGeein.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Eye bolts
Repairing sink trap
Making elbows
Bread
Brooms
Paint
Razors honed
Lard
Condemned pipe fittings
Medicine
J. A. McCaugherty.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing.
Making boots
Repairing boots
" sundry articles, carpenter. .
" blacksmith.
Making bolts.
Painting cutter and buggy
Bread
Hay
Rent
2 23
2 29
1 67
20
27 00
1 88 ;
41 ;
20 \
32 1
62
60
37 84
S
4 42 1
30
2 00
3 38
Repairing boots
Making bread box.
B ead
Brooms
Medicine
3
38
3
93
2
48
10
5
76
2
70
37
20
100
00
1
3.5
1
13
164
75 i;
Wrti. McCartneu.
J. McQiiade.
Sharpening saws
Repairing lawn i
Medicine
^ J. Mcpherson.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter..
" blacksmith
" tinsmith . . .
Razors honed
Brooms
Medicine
1 19
3 28
160
DEFARTMEXT OF Jl'STICF
1 GEORGE v.,
KIXdSTON— r«n/(i
E. I. McCue,
Making boots . . . .
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpente
brackets
ash sifter. - .
Bread
Medicine
Gen. McCauleu.
Repairing boots
Window covers
Bread
Brooms
Razors honed
Medicine
.4. McCo
'tile.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
" black.smith.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware. .
Meals
Paint
Medicine ...
-4. Maclean.
Dressed pork fibs. 30.763).
W. Nolan.
Repairing boots
G. Xolan.
Making boots
" sundry articles, carpenter
Sharpening scissors
Medicine
G. Xortkmore.
Repairing clothing
>raking boots
Repairing boot^
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundrj* articles, blacksmith .
SharpeninK saws
Making tinware
Bread
BrooniH .
Razors honed
Medicine
s
3
13
14
-
79
66
74
-
26 1
70 1
10
41
$
1
40 1
78
24
30
38 1
20
2
30
29
36
s
2
15
32
1
38
83
1
1
60
85
64
■i
96
6
1
71
08
24
73
^
$2,877
96
29
S
6
51
2
1
31 jl
20
45'
10
47
s
20'
68
4
55 '
"
83
39
30 '
RepiiiriDg clothinc
S 1 37
Making boots ....
2 45
Repairing boots . . .
96
Making wardrobe
fi 51
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
68
sewing machine
10
Repairing tinware
in
Plants
21
Laundry
12 00
Ice
1 20
Lard
1 12
Medicine .
1 03
J. O'Dri
oil.
Juo. OXcH.
Making boots . .
Repairing boots. . .
Making sundry articles, carpeut
Sharpening saw
Making stovepipes
Paint
Medicine .
Dr. J. M. Plait.
Making clothing.
Repairing clothinc
Making boots. . .
Repairing boots. . . .
Making sundry articU-s, carpenter. . ,
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter .
" grass liook
Making tinware .
Repairing tinware.
Bread
Straw
Hay
Corn stalks and ears
Vegetables
Meat
Paint
Kindling wood. . .
Brooms
Cord wood
Making canvas belt . .
music roll
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing screen door
Making iron stand
Meals
Brooms
Paint
Condemned articles
Medicine
Making scoop
52
78
1 33
7 73
S
1 67
.-> 66
5 78
2 82
Lard
Medicine.
From ston-
_'J 01)
1 00
7 10
.! 90
1 61
i 86
1 3,S
2 10
1 10
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
KINGSTON— Condnued.
Dr, D. Phelan,
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Broonas
R. Paynter
flaking clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making tinware
Lard
Condemned articles
Medicine
J. A. Potter.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Sharpening skates
Making tinware . . ^
Bread
Brooms
Razors honed
Lard
Medicine
//. J. Powell.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making clevises
Sharpening skates
Making tinware
Paint
Brooms
Pipe and fittings
Medicine ,
Vegetables ,
Jos. Potter.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Making iron hoop
Making tinware
Bread
Medicine
J. Polly,
1
S 10
5 61
85
60
7 16
S 4 53
56
3 53
9 08
3 29
74
80
50
80
23 83
S 1 95
3 02
9 28
10
40
5 76
98
10
3 20
1 95
26 74
S 6 87
1 08
5 87
2 03
Oak blocks .
Stone
Partamouth, Corporation of
Cinders
G. A. Pratt.
Penitentiary Branch.
Major H. A. Panet.
Queen City Oil Co'y.
Empty barrels
J. A. Rutherford.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
" pair creepers
*' tinware
Bread
Tomatoes
Lard
Medicine
23 67
1 30
2 58
3 83
1 55
22
1 01
17 80
50
2 40
5 81
Jos. Redden & Co.
$ 17 32
Wm. Ryan.
7 09
Making sundry articles, carpenter
95
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith . . .
60
78.
26
10
95
Lard
80
60
15 35
Rockwood Hospital.
Stone
31-11
$ 3 33 Stone.
162
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Klf^GSr ON— Continued.
J. Saunders.
Repairing boota
LawQ mower repaired
Lard
Medicine
Miss Mary Smith.
Pressing clothing
Lard
Medicine
P, Stovi
Making slippers
Repairing boots
Lard
Medicine
Sitsman <fc Cohen.
Scrap iron \ 1 20 lbs.)
Old rope (545 lbs.)
Rags (5580 lbs.)
Bones (4 tons))
'St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.
Beds (50)
Printing
Brooms
Rope
Geo. Sullivan.
Making clothing
liepairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpentei
Repairing sundry articles
Hoops made
vSickle and skates sharpened. . . .
Making tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Paint
Razors honed
Brooms
Condemned pail
Medicine
Medicine
Repairing boots
Making skis. . .
$
2
I
62
10
40 1
80 !
3
92
S
40
80 j
15 !
1 35
S 1
04
38
1
68
35
3
45 '1
$
50
5
45
55
80 1
40
00
101
75
S 242 24 1
11
67 1]
154
65
9
60
418
16 1
S 1
28
47
1
89
1
42
1
62
37
20
20
1
12
7
29
60
17
20
57
10
1
90
19
40
S 4
95
1
89
18
00
24
84
Stone
Straw (1.'"" tons)
Hay (l.'^° tons) . .
Jos. Tweddell.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boota
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Springs repaired
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Paint
Razors honed
Brooms
Lard
Medicine
IVm. Tatton.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Brooms
Paint
Lard -.
Condemned articles
Medicine
Thorn Cement Company.
H. L. Walker.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
Making sundry articles, blacksmith...
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith.
Meals
Paint
Brooms
Medicine
17 42
12 96
1 95
1 13
REVENUE
163
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON.— CoBcJaded.
Jaa, Weir.
Repairing boots
Making oil cans
Making ironing board
Vegetables
Brooms
Lard
C. S. Wheeler.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Saws and axe sharpened
Making sundry articles, blacksmith
Stove door repaired
Making tinware
Bread
Meals
Printing
Brooms
Lard
Condemned articles
Medicine
J. .4. WiUon.
Suit pressed
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
bolt
Bicycle repaired
Meals
Waterworks Department.
5 99
20
41
10
36
7 11
4 65
25
1 14
1 60
1 20
90
24 74
S. N. Walta.
Repairing boots
Making frame
" spuds
Sharpening skates and scissors
Making tinware
Paint
Rope
Old pipe
Medicine
1 02
20
Repairing clothing
" boots...
Medicine
Chan. Walker.
Sherman Wartman.
Rope.
$ 10
67
46
F. a. Wallact.
Straw (1 ton).
R. B. Watson.
Repairing boots
Making picture frames. . . .
Iron mat
Hinges
Broom
Medicine
Vegetables
S 2 14
4 17
l1 42
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
W. Avbe.
Making clothing ,
Repairing boots -
Making boots,,
Making sundry ymall articles, carpenter.
Repairing sundry- small articles, carpenter
Making sundry small articles, tin, paint.
Repairing sundry small articles, tin, paint
Plants 1
Paint I
Books bound
Sundry small condemned articles
Medicine
Dr. Allaire.
Repairing clothing
Making loots
Repairing boots
Making sundry small articles, carpenter.
Repairing "
Making " blacksmith
Repairing " " j
Making " tin and pjunti
Repairing "
*' " engineer
Plants
Vegetables
Mortar
Cement
Binding books
Lime
Water account
Ice. . -
Gravel
Lime
Sundry condemned articles.
R. Auclair.
Sundry condemned articles.
A. Archambault.
Sundry condemned articles.
Lime
O. Archambault.
Lime..
F. Archambault.
Stone
E, J. Adams.
Meals f
Repairing shoes
$
1 05
2 60
3 65
S
20
6 70
$
2 00
16
£fn. Auclair.
Vegetables j $ 3 40
Lime 2 40
Water account ' 10 00
Cement i 33 30
Mortar ; 45
Pork barrels ' 7 50
Sundry small articles bought at auction . 6 75
Old buggy " "8 50
Alberta Penitentiary.
Blue prints
Hair-seal caps
Hair-seal skin
E. Bertrand.
Making shoes
Repairing shoes.
Making refrigerator
Repairing in carpenter shop.
Making tinware
Plants
Vegetables
Medicine
A. Bezeau.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
shoes
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Repairing "
Making tinware
Repairing clock
Binding books
Condemned articles
Medicine
V. Bisson.
Making clothing
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing " " . .
" " blacksmith...
Making " tin and paint
Repairing " " . .
Plants
Small pig
Vegetables
Clock repaired
Ice
Medicine
4 89
9 00
5 50
1 58
2 60]
2 10
REVENUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 34.
ST. VINCENT DE VXV^ I.— Continued,
T. J. Byrne.
Repairing clothing
Making slippers
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
" " blacksmith
Repaiiing ' "
Medicine
E. Bouchier.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
" " blucksmith
Vegetables
Lime
Medicine
E. Briaebois.
Making school bags
Repairing clothing
" hoots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Making tinware
Repairing "
Vegetables
Repairing clock
Condemned articles
Hospital
E. Barbeau.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Making t^undry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing " blacksmith.. .
Making " tin and pmnt
Vegetables
Rent
Binding books
Ice
Medicine
P. Blondin.
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.. .
Repairing " blacksmith. .
Making " tin and paint
Repairing " "
Plants
Paint
Mortar
Fire-clay
Book bound
Condemned articles
Medicine
2 71
48
0. Beauchamp.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.. ..
Repairing " ** . . .
" " blacksmith...
Making " tin and p^nt.
Vegetables
Grain
Plants
Horse labour
Convict labour
KindUng wood
Coal
Books bound
Watch repaired
Ice
Condemned articles
Sundry small articles from stores. . . .
Stone
Medicine
t 26 10
3 31
17 46
5 94
5 60
1 10
65
1 36
2 87
5 42
24
2 80
1 80
1 00
3 51
1 92
50
6 00
55
6 07
1 00
2 87
98 07
Ume
t
1 00
C. Bis8<m,
20
Condemned goods bought at auction
1 04
10
10 00
1 50
35
1 30
2 27
16 78
P, Beauchamp.
S
%
11 25
Dr. Beaudoin,
1 36
10 00
11 36
British Columbia Penitentiary.
S
65
F. X. Baslien.
3 45
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE PAVh.— Continued.
1 GEORGE v.,
Mrs. M. Bastien.
AValer account
Rent
Paint
Books bound. .
Water account
Clock repaired.
Ice
Medicine . . .
E. Belanger.
Making clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Making " " blacksmith .
'* " " tin and paint.
Repairing "
Plants
Vegetables
Hospital
G. Charbonneau.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots ■ ■
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles carpenter . . .
" " " blacksmith .
Making. " " tin and paint,
Repairing
Paint
Water account
Ice
Clock repaired
Book bound
Medicine
Stone
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing
Making sundry small articles, carpenter.
Hospital
U. Chartrand.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpente'
Making " " tin shop .
Repairing " " " •
Manure
Plants
14 34
1 02
10
00
■z
00
10
11
40 1
1
15 1
54
40
$ 5
07
50
2
42
97 \
75
1
65 i
11
36
$
26
A
81
1
46
IC
19
20
2
■'"
54
50
56
Repairing pipes .
Lime
Tile pipe
J**. Clermont.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter,
Making sundry repairs, tinsmith . . .
Repairing "
Plants
Vegetables
Lime
Cement
Books boxind
Medicine
Stone
A. Charbonneau.
Making boots
Repairing boota
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter,
Making sundry articles, blacksmith.
" " " tinsmith
Mortar
Lime
Books bound
Condemned windows and doors. . . .
Articles purchased at auction
Medicine
Plants •
5
80
$ S
17
25
16
22
3
72
8
37
86
79
52
25
63
30
72
99
40
5
00
47
19
$ 3
80
3
45
Ed. Charbonn
Lime
Water
Medicine
Chair repaired
IS 00
8 23
REVEXVE
167
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VIN'CENT£DE VKV I.. —Continued.
T. Cloutier.
Making boota
Repairing boots
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Vegetables
Water account
Ice
Condemned articles
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Medicine
Mde. A. Charbonneau.
Vegetables
Cement
Water account
A/rs. /. Cherron.
Lime
Water account .
Alf. Chartrand.
Vegetables
Water account
Rent
Repairs, blacksmith
Stone
F. Charbonneau.
Articles purchased at auction.
A . Chartrand.
Water account
A/r«. J. Charbonneau.
Water account
Repairing clothing.
Xfeals
S4
1 67
1 23
1 15
18 33
3 00
3 00
2 30
40
25 00
5 00
23
6 00
O. Deguire.
Making shoes
" sundry articles, carpenter .
" blacksmith
" tinware
Repairing tinware
Meals
Lime
Condemned articles
Medicine
K. Desjardins.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boota
Sundry articles made, carpenter ....
Sundry articles repaired, carpenter . .
Repniring sundry artirlr:-, l.hicksmith
Mnkiag tinware
Repairing tinware
Vegetables
Fire-clay
Pig •;
Medicine
Stone
F. Desormeau-
Making shoes
Repairing shoes
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making sundry articles, blacksmith.
" " " tinsmith . .
Plants
Vegetables
Medicine
C. Desjardins
Making 8hoo3...
Repairing shoes .
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Making boota
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . . .
Repairing sundry articles, " . ■ ■ .
Making " " blacksmith .
Repairing " " " . . .
Making " " tinsmith .
Repairing *'
" " " engineer . .
Plants
Vegetables
Paint
Water account
Cement
Fire-clay .
Rooks bound.
Medicine . . .
From stores.
2 44
I 32
DEPARTMEXT OF ^JU ST WE
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL— Confinued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Joa, Desmrdxn
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boota |
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter |
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . , . j
" " blacksmith . .
Making sundry articles, tlnsnuth j
Vegetables I
Books bound
Medicine
A. Desjardins.
Making clothing
Making shoes
Repairing shoes
I Sundry articles made, carpenter. . .
" repaired, carpenter
" made blacksmith. .
" repaired blacksmith
made, tinsmith. . . .
PlanU
Ice
Mortar
Paint
Condemned articles
Medicine
Stone ,
3 00
1 61
18
1 60
80
4 00
25 84
46 1
3 26
1 20 1
20 57
$ 2 92
4 50
24
3 58 ,
21 ,
37
13
2 46
24
G. W. Dawson.
RepairijQg boots
Repairing clothing
Making sundry articles carpenter
" " tinsmith .
MeaLs
Articles bought at auction .
Lime
4 13
10
6 25
Dorchester Penitenliary.
Articlee bought at auction .
Puncheon
Joa. DageruM.
lime.
Stone
D. Dajardina.
Water service
s
1 75 ;
50 j
2 25 f
$
3 75
1 00
4 75 1
*
1
10 00
Jos. David.
Making boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
[ Making sundry articles, tinsmith
Medicine
Geo. Forest.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making clothing
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . . .
liepairing, sundry articles, carpenter .
" " " blacksmith
Making sundry articles, tini^mith. - . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith. . .
Making sundry articles, engineer
Plants
Lime
Water
Ice ....
Medicine
Stores. .
Stone . .
5 4 40
1 08
15
4 68
30
10 70
4 70
5 30
3 68
3 48
63
20
12 25
13 76
3 00
REVENUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCENT DE TAVI^-Continued.
169
P. Forster.
Making clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter .
Making sundry articles, blacksmith..
Making sundry articlesi tinsmith. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Plants
Vegetables
Rent
Repairing clock
Ice
Condemned articles
Medicine
Stores
J.D.Fitzgibhon.
Making clothing.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sujidry articles, carpenter . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making sundry articles, blacksmith.
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmit
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . .
Suet
Vegetables
Lime
Books bound
Paint
Repairing clock
Ice
Paper
Hospital
Stores
H. C. Fall.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter,
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . .
Vegetables
Rent
Books bound
Ice >• ■ ■
Condemned articles
Medicine
Articles from stores
N. Fileatreaull.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
5 04
1 25
6 39
2 69
Making sundry articles, blacksmith. . .
Repairing sundry- articles, blacksmith.
Making sundry repairs, tinsmith
Plants
Medicine
F E. Former.
1
37
50
s
13
97
20
5
00
32
1
30
53
46
35
S
89
15 ■
S.S 1
SO
41 [
2
?.•?.
1
50 j
50
00
10
6
00
30
67
1
64
66
56
$ 3
24
1
23
6
25 '
20
A Frappit
Repairing clothing .
Making boots ....
Curtain poles
Chair repaired
Medicine
Articles from stores
Freres Maristes.
Making boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
" " " blacksmith . .
Making boiler, tinsmith
Vegetables
Water service
Books bound
Cement
W. Gibson.
Making clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter .
Screen door repaired, carpenter . . .
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith,
Vegetables
Water service
Ice
Medicine
Jean Guimond.
Pump repaii ed
Tin ware repaired
Lime
Articles bought at auction . ,
9 17
14 31
7 73
2 71
52
7 95
20 00
25 44
2 54
90
37
$ 1
70
1
35
4
09
1 4
25
1
18
1 3
29
15
no
9
17
2
00
60
27
28
$
18
18
3
75
1
70
6
81
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE PAUh.—Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
W. Grece,
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Sundry articles repaired, carpenter.
Making tinware
Vegetables
Mattress made and filled
Medicine
$
74
47
1
27
2
93
3
30
62 ,
51 1
3
79 !
50 :
14
13 1
D. Hogue.
Making caps
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Making saddle bench
Pc. brass cut
Making tinware
Brass mouldings
Meals
Plants
Brooch repaired
Piece brass
Sundry condemned articles.
Medicine
6 47
90
2 20
Repairing clothing.
Making slippers . . . .
Medicine
J. G. Heroux,
Articles bought at auction.
Vegetables
Condemned files
Fuse
lime
Water service
Rev. L. O. Harel.
Making chimney cap
Books bound
Water
Ice . . ,
A . Jubinville.
C. Gascon.
$ 15 76
S 1 05
2 00
J. Galarneau.
3 05
Lin Guin.
Water sen-ice
S 10 00
Making clothing . . .
Repairing clothing.
Making boots
Repairing boots . . .
s
1 13
1-48
10 00
6 00
18 61
S
2 16
27
7 20
9. 47
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Making sundry articles, tinsmith
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
U 51
37
1 05
10
1 00
26 37
£. Jobin,
$ 57
Making svmdry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
" " " blacksmith . .
Making sundry articles, tinsmith
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
26 53
10
15
2 92
76
36
10
Ice
8 00
2 80
41 13
E. Jolicoeur.
S 62
1 74
4 02
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Making sundry repairs, tinsmith
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
Meals
52
1 46
2 75
30
4 00
17
Lime
13 15
6 66
80
30 19
E. Jdly.
J 1 15
f.Joubcrl.
i 40
R. Joict.
$JTI«
REVEXUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VIN'CENT DE PXVL.— Continued.
N. Kisitsky.
Scrap iron
Rags
Empty bags
Junk
Rev. Kavanagh.
Water service
Ice .
Making sundry email articles, tiasmith .
Jas. Ki
Pipe rack made
$ 106 79
15 45
10 00
7 42
139
66
s
10
6
1
00
00
43
17
43
Kingston Penitentiary.
Scrubbing brushes 12 70
Hair seal caps 72 00
Onions 24 47
Repairing clothing
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing articles, tinsmith
Plants
Mortar
Lime
Sundry condemned articles
Medicine
V. LoTtie.
Making clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making iron rings, Macksmith
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Vegetables
IJme.
Water rate
Condemned articles
Stone
E. Leblanc.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . . .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith .
Making sundry articles, tinsmith
Repairing sundry article-s, tinsmith. . .
Plants
Lime
Medicine
2 94
12 56
5 02
I 52
10
64
J- LaiLzon.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . . .
Hospital
S 12 02
2 93
6 47
F. W. Laskey.
Repairing boots
P. Lunch.
Making slippers
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
" blacksmith .
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Plants
Vegetables
Mortar
Cement
Ice
Condemned articles
Medicine
Geo. Leger.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpente
Making sundry articles, tinsmith.
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
Plants
Vegetables
Lime
Water service
Ice
Books bound
Iron pipe
Medicine
Sundry condemned articles
$ i
69
25
7
84
2
17
IS
69
46
1
06
45
38
.50
20
10
00
4
00
52
.53
1
03
4
38.
M
15
DEPARTMEXr OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE PAVl^-Continwd.'
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
E. Leclair.
Making clothing
Repairing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Piece stove cast, blacksmith
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
Vegetables
Water service
Ice
Condemned articles
Medicine
H. Leonard.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter .
" " blacksmith
" " tinsmith . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith.
Lime
F. Lesage.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Malting sundry articles, carpenter .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter,
Making sundry repairs, tinsmith . . .
Plants
Vegetables
Rent
Watch repaired
Ice
Medicine
P. Lachapellle.
J. B. Labrecque.
Pressing suit
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles carpenter .
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . .
Vegetables
Ice
Medicine
34
4 00
$ 7
I
11
8
75 j
85 t
2
5
29
62
3
15
78
10
25
5 00
3 00
5 GO
40 1
42
30
35
12
37
87
3
06
1
40
6
IS
28
2
00
! 36
50
S
29
3
49
71
3
13
10 i
4
58
25
1
17
50
00
10
3
00 1
1
05 1
67
87
A. Lahaie.
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boots
Sundry articles repaired, blaclrsu
" made, tinsmith. .
Plants
Vegetables
Medicine
.4. Lac
Iron rings repaired.. .
Lantern made.
1 23
4 03
1 95
D. Leduc.
A. Larire.
Water service
A. Leduc.
Lime
It
90
A. Lafrance.
33
■ A. Leonard.
$ S 02
fi2
a
32
6 6S
A. Lacombe.
t 1«
REVEXUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
riT. VINCENT DE FAVh— Continued.
L. Marchand.
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boota
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing " " . .
Making " blacksmi
Repairing " "
Making " tinsmith.
Rent
Books bound
Light
Ice
Medicine
Fire-clay
G. S. Malepart.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing " "
Skates sharpened
Making sundry articles, tinsmith.
Vegetables
Books bound
Ice ■
Clock repaired
Condemned articles
Medicine
Sundry stores
Making chair... .
" tinware. .
Medicine
Montreal Lime Company.
Geo. Meunier.
Articles bought at auction.
Lime
TUe-pipe
Manitoba Penitentiary.
Blue prints.
Seal caps. . .
U. Maisonneuve.
Water Bervice
16 44
3 27
1 10
1 30
2 22
50 00
26
10 80
1 50
Stone
Water service. .
il 67
1 28
1 02
1 19
1 97
30
10
2 38
44
2 04
6 00 ;
10
.4. McDonough.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Repairing, "
Making iron rods
tinware
Repairing tinware
Meals
Vegetables
Clock repaired
Lime
Ice
Condemned articles
Medicine
L. Normand.
Making clothing
Rt'pairing clothing ;
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
" poker
" sundry articles, tinsmith..
Plants
Vegetables
Ice
Mortar
Condemned articles
Medicine
Sundry stores
D. O'Shea.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Jlepairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making " 'tinsmith...
Vegetables
Rent
Books bound
Ice
Lard pails ,
Medicine ,
Geo. Nixon.
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boots
Vegetables
3 50
2 37
4 20
1 78
2 70
5 22
4 09
1 46
12 14
3 76
4 58
50 00
7 76
2 00
174
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE V.r A. 1911.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.-
D. Ouimet,
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Planks planed
rftove-pipe
Articles bought at auction
Medicine
Mortar
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter..
Repairing "
Making " tinsmith. . .
Repairing "
Plants
Vegetables
Water ser\'ice
Stone
Medicine
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Medicine
Flower stand
Length stove-pipe
Medicine
A. Proulx.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Small table
Repairing tub
Making tinware
Medicine
W. Prevost.
A. Pepin.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making stmdry articles, carpenter
Tinware repaired
Meabf
Rent
Medicine
$
2 25
$
15 ;
1 25
30
1 70
$
28
10
20
58 ;
s
1 44 1
45 li
55 1
15 ,;
1 30 1,
20 1,
4 09 :i
s
1 73
3 03
1 92
6 99 1
7 01
41
10
25
25
10 00
2 75
1 05
35 49
S
1 97
1 02
75
12 1
20
50 00 ;
53
54 59 ll
ll
O. Papineau.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Straps made
Repairing boots
Violin repaired
Skates sharpened
Making tinware
Plants
Vegetables
Lime
Condemned articles
Jos. Paquette.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boota
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing " "
Making " blacksmith,
Repairing " "
Making " tinsmith...
Repairing " " . . .
Vegetables
Lime
Water
Ice
Condemned articles * .
Medicine
A/. Proulx.
Coat repaired
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing " " .. .
" blacksmith. ,
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Plants
Vegetables
Lime
Condemned articles
Medicine
G. A, Pratt.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing "
Making tinware
Brass cast and turned
Meals
Vegetables
10 00
3 00
3 05
Coal.
Carpet cleaned.
Ice
8
32
2
85
»
89
1
9S
7
90
2
27
50
2
30
5
94
Packing cases
Old buggy bought at auction.
Medicine
From stores
REVEXUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
17S
J. B. Prevost.
V. Paquette
A. Pelleticr.
Articles bought at auction
A. Paquette.
Articles bought at auction
E. Prevost.
Water service
Lime
Brick
Stone
Cemeat
Gravel
A/. Parudis.
L. H. Packard.
Articles bought at auction.
L*Abb€ Pare.
liooka bouad
M. Papineau.
Stone
JJme
Jos. Peltier.
Lime
Mortar
Providence Nunnery.
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
" " blacksmith
Mortar
Water service
Cement
Lime
Iron pipe
$ 8 35
15 00
5 72
2 02
30
15 00
2 04
1 80
3 79
Alex. Pare.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making simdry articles, carpenter.. .
Chair repaired
Making sundry articles, blacksmith.
Washing machine repaired.
Making tinware
Books bound
Condemned articles
Medicine
Albert Prevoai.
Making tobacco cutter.
Making tinware
$ 10 00
32 75
8 25
18 70
2 58
3 75
Lime
Water
Puncheons.
U. Roucr
Cap made
Repairing clothing
Making Iwots
Repairing boots
Making sundrj- small articles, carpenter
Repairing
" " blacksmith
Making " tinsmith
Repairing "
Plants ...
Vegetables.
Lime
Ice
Condemned articles
Medicine
From stores
G. J. Renault.
t
58
63
1 21
S
4
.5.5
10
00
5
00
19
55
$
:'5
15
1
1
.(
1
.{7
85
38
50
15
19
47
25
48
20
00
00
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing " " . . ,
Making " blacksmith.
" " tinsmith • • •
Vegetables
Straw
Ice
Books bound
Lime
Medicine
'
29
14
23
$
20
2
6fi
3
.i«
4
85
20
53
98
70
10
«
00
5
2il
10
80
25
97
176
DEPARTiMEXT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL— CotUmwcd.
J. R. Robertson.
Violin case..
Medicine. . .
E.' Rodier.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter..
Repairing " " • •
Making tinware
Plants
Medicines. .
Rex\ J. Rollit.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing.-.
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing " blacksmith. .
Vegetables
Books bound
Medicine
W. H. Russell.
Repairing clothing
Making slippers
" sundry articles, carpentei
Repairing "
" stove.
Making tinware
Coal
Wood
Medicine
N. St. Germain.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
" " blacksmith..
" " tinsmith
Repairing " "
Books bound
Stone
Lime.. ..
Water
Cement walk
Medicine
D. St. Martin.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing.. .
Making boots
Repairing boots
Picture frame made.
Tinware
1 z^
^■■j
s L
79
10
89
S
•!0
33
3
86
1
91 i
36
25
25
^ )IA. Smecal.
.1^ td
$ 2 74
Making sundry articles, carpenter
6 05
10
Making tinware
1 73
25
10
10 97
U. Soril.
Lime
$ 9 37
Chair repaired.
Water service. .
Jos. Stafensky,
1 38
1 45
3 00
20
10 00
12 05
88
76
10
00
10
76
i
4
50
3
20
i
1
20
10
00
11
20
Leon S
Knife stand made.
Knife made
Tinware made
Medicine
A . Trudeau
10
8 75
4: 24
..- 67
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
" " tinsmith . . .
Repairing " " . . .
Vegetables
Condemned pipe
Medicine
Water service
$ 1
87
5
66
2
24
1
92
1
91
1
14
1
31
7
70
60
4
17
28
52
REVENUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL— Concluded.
P. Therien.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boota
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing " " . .
Making *' blacksmith.
" '* tinsmith...
Vegetables
Books bound
Water service
Ice
Lime
Condemned articles
Stores
Geo. Therien.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots. . . ,
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing "
Making " tinsmith..
Repairing " " . .
Making iron rods
Plants
Vegetables
Clock repaired
Book bound
Condemned articles
Medicine
C/mw. Taillon.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Music rack
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making " tinsmith. . . .
Repairing " "
Vegetables
Rent
Medicine
1 $ 3 16
25
4 32
58
29 93
41
9 58
3 96
1 09
73
9 17 :
6 00
1 20
8 97
42
78 77
.? 4S
13 59 i
1 64
16 86
1 19
8 54
61
49
40
3 29
20
15
2 00
80
50 24
% 3 16 ,1
54 ,,
1 82
20 1
73
30
99
50 00
1 00
58 74
Em. Thorei.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
" " tinsmith. .
Repairing " " . .
Clock repaired
Medicine
Water service. .
2 61
1 82
1T8
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
A.A.Allain.
Bepalring clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing Biindrj' artjclea. carpenter.
" " tinsmith ....
Rent
Grease '.
Small pigs
Pigs butchered
Coal
Electric fitting
Milk
Medicine
E. J. Adams.
Repairing clothing.
VaUse repaired
A. L, Belliveau.
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles carpenter.
Rent
Coal
Medicine
Repairing boots.
Vegetables
1 25
3 60
9 65
2 64
1 30
TT. Alexander.
Reparing clothing , S 75
boots 1 20
Making sundry articles, carpenter i 1 85
Con\'ict labour I 2 10
Water service ■ 6 GO
Coal i 4 51
Condemned articles i 25
N. A. Burden.
Repairing clothing % 10
boots 1 40
Making sundry articles, carpenter 3 64
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith ... 25
Rent I 8 34
Pigs, small | 6 00
Medicine I 1 65
Glass 14
3 00
65
60 00
7 04
D, P. Belliveau.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Washer repaired
Making tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Rent
Glass
Coal
Medicine
S. BrownweU.
Cattle, (23 head)
3 85
30
5 58
IS 38
2 00
50 00
15
M. Bourgeois.
Small pig .
W. W. Broumell.
H. Bowser.
Condenmed pipe
L. A. Buck.
Hay press repaired
a. W. Bishop.
Repairing boots
" furniture
Condemned lumber
Medicine
Repairing boots .
Bolts threaded. .
Malting tinware.
Vegetables
Rent
Grease
Coal
Labour, convict.
Milk
Medicine
$ 6 00
10
99
60
50 00
15
4 61
1 65
10 91
95
76 96
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
DORCHESTER-
IT. B. Bvm9.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making tinware
Rent
Coal
Convict labour
Medicine
Jno, Corcoran.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Repairing boots
Horse labour
Rent
Condemned articles
2
25
4
80
62
50
00
16
76
15
4
10
86 58
50 00
80
W. p. Crostnum.
16
3 70
3 86
A. W. Chapman.
Calf
$
5 00
Mr». E. Cole.
1 00
2 00
3 00
R. Cook.
$
7 00
Chapman <fc Co.
S
C. Chapman.
Bull Mrvice
B. Cook.
Condemned pipe
R. R. CreighUm.
Clothing repaired
D. Grossman.
Condemned horse
Rev. A. D. Cormier.
Making sundry articles, carpenter
" " tinsmith .
Copper Mining Company.
Pipe threaded .
Bushing
Chas. Card.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Vegetables
Rent
Clock repaired
Medicine
Meals
L. H. Chambers.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles "
" " blacksmith
Making tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Rent
Coal
Milk
Condemned articles
Medicine
P. Connell.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Repairing " "
Making " tinsmith.
Vegetables
Rent
Small pigs
Pigs butchered
Milk
Medicine
1 76
4140
10
80
4 04
45
50 00
30
1 20
38
67 27
10
3 25
1 00
4 12
25
15
3 20
2 40
50 00
16 78
1 40
2 40
2 52
1 87 57
1
t I 60
40
69
2 65
3 68
50
58
80
45 87
6 00
70
84
75
64 96
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER --Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
A. B, Cumminga.
Repairing clothing.
" boots
Miss CuTnminq.
Making clothing. . ,
Repairing clothing.
boots....
Skates sharpened . .
Glass
Bread
Rent
Coal
Milk
Medicine
Rent
Medicine .
A. S. Biter.
Balance due on ace. for beef.
H. R. Emerson.
Bull service
Pipes threaded .
50 00
4 33
1 40
C S. Eltdon.
Making clothing $ 1 50
Repairing clothing 30
" boots 6 95
Making sundry articles, carpenter 1 55
" " tinsmith ' 16
Bread 19 83
Vegetables 1 00
Rent ' 50 00
Coal I 15 79
Pork 1 40
Lumber ' 20 '
Glass : 15
Drippings 48
Laundry 25
Condemned articles i 25
Medicine 35
Small pigs . .
Bull service.
IF. J. Friel.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Window screens
^Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Skates sharpened
Making tinware
Meal
Coal
Dripping
Condemned articles
Medicine
Albert Friel.
Repair
I clothing
i)0ots
Making sundry articles, carpenter . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Bread
Vegetables
Rent
Coiil
Small pigs
Wood
Meat
Labour
Pigs butchered
Condemned articles.
Medicine
T. F. Gillespie.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Window screens
Furniture repaired
Sundry repairs, blacksmith.
Making tinware
Bread
Meat
Small pig
Wood
6 00
1 00
1 12
45
2 09
2 35
M 00
25 12
fi 00
2 25
2 20
90
2
60
45
B5
.-!5
60
2
20
13
in
3
00
3
26
as
85
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
DORCHESTER.- -Continued.
S. H. Getson.
Repairing^boots
Scantling
[ Saw sharpened
Boiler repaired
Rent
[Coal
[ Labour,*convict
Condemned articles
Medicine
Dr. E. T. Oaudet.
Horseshoeing.
Small pig
Jno. Hebert.
Making clothing
Repairing lx)ota
Window screens
Sundry repairs, carpenter.
" tinsmith...
Bread
Vegetables
Rent
Labour
Kindling wood
Coal
Milk
Medicine
/. H. Hickman.
$ 1 75 Bull service.
50 00
21 73
A. T. Hicks.
1 90
2 15
1 99
1 40
62 47
• L. S. Hutchinsc
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Saw sharpened
Sundry repairs, carpenter,
Lawn mower repaired. . . .
Making tinware
Bread
Horae labour
Vegetables
Coal
Milk
Small pig
Water service
Cord wood
Cement
Pig butohered
Paint
Condemned articles
F. W. HoHfif'toti.
Hay press repaired
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Strap made
Repairing boots
shafts
Sundry repairs, blacksmith .
Making tinware
Sundry repairs, tinsmith
Clock repaired
Coal
Small pigs
Putty
Sand paper
Lime
Cement
Medicine
J. J. Ka
1 00
2 45
3 90
4 40
10
1 35
40
3 15
2 40
38 18
4 48
3 00
6 00
8 00
52
35
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
I Repairing boots
, Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
.Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . . .
Ilepairing
Bread
Meals
Vegetables
Lard
Coal
Wood
Lumber
Pork
Condemned articles
Medicine
J. A . Kirk.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
** boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Iron pails
Skates repaired
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Horse labour
Vegetables
Meat
Milk
Laundry
Brooms
ANood
Flour
Medicine
10 58
15 00
18
12
4 S3
3 OS
2 55
19
08
1
91
9
75
11
88
60
118
97
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.— Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Jos. Leblanc.
Repairing clothing
" boota
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making key
Making sundry articles, tinsmith . . .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith.
Crushing grain
Vegetables
Coal
Rent
Small pigs
Wood
Glass
Milk
Medicine
B. A. Lawerison.
Repairing clothing
* boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter. . .
Knife made
Skates sharpened
Repairing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Rent
Wood
Coal
MUk
Medicine
Jas. Luther
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter
Making tinware
Rent
Clock repaired
Coal
Glass
Milk..
Medicine
Vegetables
W. E. Lawrence.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter. . .
" blacksmith . .
Making stove pipe
Sundry repairs, tinsmith . . .
Bread
Hay
Vegetables
Rent
Glass
Captain Lockart.
3 65
7 56
1 20
10
3 47
1.15
50 00
11 50
6 00
14
1 40
2 65
1 45
3 55
1 80
1 82
12 26
60
50 00
3 00
14 10
1 20
1 65
91 68
4 00
3 00
39 98
J. S. Milton.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter. . .
" blacksmith. .
Bread
Horse labour
Crushing grain
Vegetables
Rent
Medicine
Condemned lumber
93 85 ' Boar service .
C. H. Martin.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . , .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
Making sundry articles, blacksmith.. .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith
Making tinware
Repairing "
Electric wire
Bread
Meals
Vegetables
Rent
Putty
Medicine
From stores
Miss E. McMaho
Skirt pressed
Repairing boots. . .
" furniture
" tinware.
Vegetables
Milk
Meat
Medicine
Sinclair McDonoa U.
Repairing clothing
" boota
Making tinware
Vegetables
Rent
Medicine
83
1 85
1 00
60 00
4 05
1 36
19 82
1 83
1 55
1 23
50 00
1 02
REVENUE
183
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DORCHESTER.— ConU'nued.
li§: Jno. McCaull.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
" " blacksmith..
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Rent
Paint
Watch repaired
Laundry
Wood
Hospital
Jno. McLeod.
Kepairing clothing
" boots
" cart
Horseshoeing
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Hay
Grain crushed
Medicine
D. H. Mclsaac.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Medicine
/. D. McDonald.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Medicine
3 00
1 75
Mrs. L. MeGraih.
Water service.
L. A. McDonald.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Rent
Meat
Coal
Convict labour
Glass
MUk
Condemned articles
Medicine
E. McCauley.
t
5
50
4
50
le
00
i
35
1
30
1
25
a
79
24
8
27
50
00
9
20
30
56
Alex. O'Brien.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Making tinware
Bread
Rent
Milk
Medicine
10
2 35
3 27
41 66
A. M. McDonald.
Making slippeiB
Repairing boots
Making tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Coal
Water service
Mortar
Kindling wood
MUk
Stone
35
18
2
07
1
30
35
37
6
00
35
2
60
3
68
2
50
55
25
Q. B. Papineau.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making tinware
Vegetables ,
Rent ,
Convict labour
Coal
3t
1
08
50 00
30
13
59
67
57
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BOBCBESTER— Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
J A. Piercy.
"Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Rent
Coal
Milk
Meat
Medicine
A. B. Pipes.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing.
Horse labour
'Laundry
Coal
Milk
Bread
Amos Robinson.
Repairing clothing.
" boots ....
Making screens
Bread . . . .
Hay
Rent
Coal
Mjdicinp.
S. A. Palmer,
$ 1 25
20
10
80
50 00
2 00
Meat
1 10
Milk
70
1 50
35
15
58 IS
■
S. Pullman.
Scrap iron O.'"" tons)
P. J. Palmer.
S 73 69
1 00
50 00
18 71
13 04
10
1 40
4 80
38 78
3 60
1 65
51 83
1 20
50 00
A . n. Richard.
W.A. Sherard.
Repairing boots S 90
Meals S 75
Medicine 15
6 80
W. Styles.
Bull service £* 1 00
C. S.rstarratl.
Making clothing .$ 2 35
Repairing " 10
Making boots 2 15
Repairing ** 3 80
Making sundry articles, carpenter 1 40
Repairing " " .... 2 87
Making " blacksmith 20
Repairing " " , , . . 35
Making " tinsmith 1 22
Repairing " " 25
Meals 1 62
Vegetables 2 35
Coal 19 52
Lime 33
Wood 2 65
Convict labour 75
Condemned articles 25
Medicine 1 00
43 16
/. R. Taylor
.Small pigs $ IS 00
.1. Taylor.
Boar service aO
S. W. Tinghy
Pipes threaded . SO
J. P. Tover.
iShaft repaired 40
W. Tritea.
Pipe threaded and cut 1 -'6
F. Tail.
Lever made i .SO
Repairing gasoline engine 1 2.S
Small pigs , 6 00
Bull service 2 00
9 75
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVEXUE
DORCHE,STER— Concluded.
Rev. B. H. Thomas
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making tinware
Press repaired
Rent
Convict labour
C. W. J. Upham.
Beef hides, (862 lbs.)
Calf skin
Thos. Walah
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter. . . .
" blacksmith . . .
Meat
Vegetables
Rent
Coal
Milk
Medicine
$ 2 50 Wheat.
9 87
2 40
s
98 36
1 00
99 36
S
1 20
2 70
2 45
90
75
1 00
40
50 00
Bull service. .
Boar service.
8 87
2 64
2 90
S4,305 90
MANITOBA
W. C. Abbott.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Sundry articles repaired, carpenter
iMaking pail, tinsmith
Repairing tinware
Bread
Horse labour
Meat
Vegetables
Rent
Milk
Night latch
Convict labour
Medicine
W. P. Archibald.
Meal
D. Ashworth.
Boar 8*>r\"ices
W. Andrews.
Boer BPrvires . .
$
iS")
I
0.5
41
1
m
8
98
1 1
50
13
99
30
36
00
7
14
1
40
2
40
30
76
64
$
25
1
50
1
1
."0
W. Botting
Repairing clothing
bicycle
Lumber
Lettering
Bread
Medicine
ir. Burt.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Repairing " " . .
Making " tinsmith...
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Convict lalwur
Horse labour
Bull service
Medicine
Grain
8 10
36 00
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
MANITOBA. — Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
G. B. Brooks.
Repairing clothing
* boots
Laundry
Medicine
C. Bishop.
Shirts made
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Medicine
Gun repaired
E. Bvrdett & Sons.
Buck & Braden.
Cattle'(ll head)
Sheriff Baker.
Live hogs. .
Hog.
J. Brutan.
Making shirts
Pair braces made
Making picture frame. . . .
Repairing chair
Repairing boota
E. Chapman.
Potatoes
Pork
Book bound
1 58
20
7 56
38
R. Downie.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots ^
Making table
Repairing chair
" tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Grain
Rent
Labour
Books bound
Fish
Mediciae
J. Dou^la
Stocking knitted
Clothing repaired
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing " " . . .
" " blacksmith. .
Making " tinsmith
Repairing " " . . .
Bread.. . .
Grain
Vegetables
Meat. .
Rent
Labour
Milk
Bull service
Medicine
D. H. DaiffnauU.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making music cabinet
Bookcase repaired
Repairing tinware
Bread
Meal
Vegetables
Meat
Convict labour
Glass
Socks knit
Milk
Medicine
Rent
G. H. Dawson.
20
10
34 9S
4 80
12 92
42 00
2 30
61
SO
5 72
97
20
4 35
1 82
14 98
8 00
3 20
2 42
48 00
1 85
3 05
1 00
46
2 30
7 30
1 75
Boar service.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
MANITOBA.— Con(mu«d.
187
T. Douglas. i^j
, . - . f •■ '
Making clothiDg
Kepaihiig clothing
** boots
Sleigh repaired
Mailing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Horae labour
Convict
Medicine
Jos. French.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making buggy box
Chair repaired
Tinware repaired
Bread
Meals
Grain
Vegetables
Rent
Convict labour
Paint
Horse labour
Fish
Medicine
E. Freeman.
Making cap
Repairing clothing
Making hoots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing " **
Making tinware
Repairing "
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Fish
Horse labour
'Convict labour
Ice
Milk
MediciDe
Urs. D.'Farguhar
1 19
SO
93
16 81
2 40
1 85
36 00
63
1 20
29
25
3 37
6 61
24
21
15 48
1 40
18 50
20
48 00
2 40
30
W. B. French.
75
6 22
3 45
30
10
18 26
10 50
6 00
7 22
48 00
66
1 25
PipeVepaired.
Boar services.
1 10
6 20
85
41
2 43
48 00
17 55
4 80
76
11
38
W. R. Grahame.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing " " . .
" " blackamith,
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Meat
Rent
.MUk
Convict labour
Horse labour
Paint
Glass
Ice
Medicine
L. Qauthitr.
Repairing clothing
Maidng boots
Repairing boots
" chair
Brace for stove
Repairing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Labour
Medicine
Gordon & Ironsides.
Hog3 (15,125 lb. live weight) ; bull, $64.22^ $1,222 12
13
20
31 66
14 35
37 53
30 00
2 30
19
W. V. B. Goff.
Making shirts
Repairing clothing
" boots
Pieces wood
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Horse labour
Fish
Medicine
I8.S
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
MANITOBA -
Mrs. Henderson.
W. Hubbard.
A. G. Iri-i
llepairing clothing
Making shoes
Making sundry articles, carpenter..
Repairing
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Milk
Ice
-Medicine
A. Johnston.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing bicycle
Bread
Vegetables
Laundry
Medicine
H. Keech.
&f aking clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
" tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Milk
Rent
r'onvict labour
Horse labour
1 60
1 75
19 80
25 28
3 00
39 00
19 05
3 70
10
2 40
1 60
2 25
50
84 00
2 85
3 25
A. R. Mitchell.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Repairing " "
Making " tinsmitli . .
Repairing " " . .
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
MUk
Rent
Convict labour
Horse labour
Lumber
Medicine
C. P. Kelpin.
2 42
9 34
1 U
2 89
10
28 44
15 50
8 20
13 41
5 89
60 00
3 65
1 00
A. Lindsay
t& Son
A. Manseau.
$ 68
Making sundry articles
Repairing "
Bread
, carpenter.
tinsmith
1 36
1 6.5
10
6 03
30 25
Vegetables
1 45
Meat
12 24
Milk
Paint
.11
141 74
REV EM' E
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
MAXITOUA
W. J. Mitchell.
Repairing Ijoots
W. B. Macdonell.
Repairing clothing
" boots
" carpenter
" tinsmith
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Con\'ict labour
Horse labour
Bull 8er\-icc
Medicine
T. Miller.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boota
Saw sharpened
Rtovo-pipes made
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Milk
Bull service
Horse labour
Medicine
llooaomin Jail.
J. McCullough.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter, ,
Repairing " "
Bread
Grain
Vegetables,
Meat
Rent
Convict labour
Horse labour
Mrs. McLean.
11 35
4 15
Making wagon-pole
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith .
88
1 00 1
87
66 43
S 2 05
1 35
4 88
1 55
10
1 57
30 90
11 50
7 20
94
48 00
15
1 00
1 00
62
112 81
$371 04
2 40
$ 2 56
5 49
8 05
M. MeVillie.
D. C. McLagan.
Making clothing
E, Newbury.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
" " tinsmith..
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Moat
Rent
Horse labour
Convict labour
MUk
Medicine
Dr. R. W. Kdll.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
Stove shaker made
Repairing tinware
Making tinware
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Labour, convict
Bull service
I-abour, horse
Cord wood
Medicine
62
26 45
5 00
9 80
20 05
48 00
1 80
1 00
10
J 1
00
»;7o
s
25
78
1
92
3
29
15
95
6 00
2
40
49
90
48
00
75
1
60
40
20
131
44
1 95
3 90
28
11
2 99
19 56
35 00
8 40
13 26
60 00
.5 65
1 00
1 63
5 50
10 04
173 13
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A, 1911
H. F. Norman.
Hepairing clothing
" boots
Bread
Vegetables
Rent
Convict labour
Paint
Condemned articles
Medicine
E. C. Ridley.
Repairing clothing
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
" " tinsmith . .
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent ."
Milk
Horse labour
Convict labour
Oil
Medicine
O. Richmond.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Repairing " "
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Paint
Horse labour
Condemned articles
Medicine
Rifle Club.
Reffina Jail.
Geo. Reid.
Boar service
John Smith.
Repairing clothing
Making raitta
Repairing boots
Sundry repairs, carpenter.
" blacksmith,
" tinsmith . . .
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
2
67
58 ,
15
14
3
30
9
09
24
00
13
15
50 :
80
21
31
70
50 !
S 2
35
67
6
23
15
10
16
5
05
7
65
36
00
20
63
50
10
69
69
$ 1
45
133
92
75
$'
65
95
3
15
28
10
32
19
66
1
50
7
50
4
32
54
00
Convict labour
[^^ Horse labour. .
Braces
Fish
Medicine
John Snell.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Razor strop
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing " "
Maldng " tinsmith..
Repairing " " . .
Bread
Meals
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Milk
Labour, convict
" horse
Paint .-.
Glue
Lumber
Door latch
Medicine
T. Scott.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
" carpenter
blacksmith... .
Maldng tinware
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Meat
Rent
Horse labour
Convict labour
Medicine
Rev. S. W. L. Stewart.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
" " tinsmith . .
Repairing, tinsmith
Bread
Grain
Vegetables
Straw
Meat
Rent
Milk
Ice
Labour, convict
" horse
S 4
86
1
50
35
50
68
99
81
$ 1
90
1
75
22
1
39
55
1
25
15
11
74
4
60
14
00
10
95
1
98
32
00
10 35
4 40
2
50
43
35
1
30
30
49
102
60
$ 9
93
1
80
3
05
20
30
3
28
27
00
4
00
16
40
10
53
54 00
23
1
25
48
132
45
S 2
10
70
7
56
2
71
12
48
10
10
12
66
18 00
10
1
00
14 68
84 00
17
60
2
25
2
15
3
50
181
69
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
MANITOBA.— Concluded.
W, Skeoch.
S 54
75
15
55
1 99
D. Stewart.
Meala
$ 75
A. Smith.
7 50
Stony Mountain School District.
30 00
F. ThornhiU.
t 2 75
61
4 82
43
35
11
45
Bread
11 94
4 50
1 55
17 82
42 00
1 25
Fish
1 29
20
90 06
0. Talbot.
Grain
$ 7 00
1
Toronto Hide Company.
F. Taylor.
H. Wood».
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boota
Making aundry articles, carpenter
Repairing " "
Making " tinsmith..
Repairing " " . .
Bread
Vegetables
Meat
Rent '.
Laundry
Horse labour
Convict labour
Cord wood
Medicine
Sundry stores
A. E. Whish.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making pipe-rack
Medicine
1 72
92
1 73
18 35
36 00
25
88
40
5 50
68
21
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Auction 8ale» (Stmdry Ctutomen.) I
Revolvers (32)
Rifles (14)
Ammunition
Military saddle
Old ea-sh
Scrap iron
Gladstone buggy
Cast iron pipe
Engine
Sundry small articles, under $10
Loss auotioneer's charges
[-
$117 90
86 40
6 57
17 00
16 00
13 00
20 00
15 00
10 00
38 75
340 62
AgrieuUure, DepartTnent o/
Half valueof hogs slaughtered on account
of cholera
J. J. Bushell.
Repairing boots
Small bolts
MakinR tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Meals
Brooms
Boiler fitting
Hard oil finish
1 19
14 58
16 90
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA— Continiwd.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
J. C. Brown,
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Waking boots
Repairing boots ,
Making sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Repairing sundry articles, carpentei
Bread
Vegetables
Repairing typewriter
Glass
Paint
Sundry stores
W. Boiling.
Repairing boots
rifle
Bread
Meals
Horse labour
Vegetables
Rent
Coal
Medicine
s
20
55
6
25
1
48
1
96
50
\ 30
84
2
65
60
47
08
2
48 ;
Making boots.
Meals
P. Bums dt Co.
Dressed pork (1.416 Iba.)
W. Currie.
Repairing clothing ,
Making boots
Repairing boots ,
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Making sundry articles, blacksmith. .
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith
Bread
Meals
Coal
Medicine
Sundry stores
\V. A. Cameron.
Repairing clothing S
boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
" blacksnuth . . .
Bread
Meals 1
Mortar ,
Medicine I
Making tinware
5
43
9
90
4
82
30
a
51
13
a
23
28
70
8
25
20
2
50
88 39
r. Cooper.
Repairing boots
Bread
Meals
Rent
2 70
1 23
5 75
11 00
2 60
3 00
ff. H. Clark.
Brunette Saw Mills Co.
Hay, 3.='''' tons
Repairing boots.
Bread
Meals
Repairing boots .
Meals
W. J. Carroll.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Picture frame made
Furniture repaired
Repairing tinware
Bread
Vegetables
Brooms
Condemned articles
Medicine
2
30
4
12
1
14
7
91
10
29
76
90
55
32
3
72
53
69
H. Disnei/.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Stove repaired
Bread
Meals
Vegetables
Rent
Binding books
Hf)r.so lal)OUr
Convict labour
Coal
Brooms
Medicine
Sundry stores
« 19
2 20
1 51
4 16
39 66
12
24 71
4 90
2 70
45 00
1 80
2 30
1 20
9 90
55
40
REVENUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Conftnucd.
R. Dynes.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter.
blacksmitt
" tinsmith. .
Bread
Rent
Brooms
Paint
Medicine
0. W, Dawson.
Meab
Trousers pressed.
P. Devine.
Making pair trousers
Repairing hoots
Horse shod
Meals
Sundry stores
James Doyle.
Straps made
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Phites weldrd
Making tinware
Repairing tinware
Bread
Rent
Coal
Horse labour
Brooms
Electric lumps
Medicine
D. Exley.
Repairing clothing ,
" boots
Bread
Meals
Pr-int
Furniture stain
Axe handles
Medicine
31-13
5 05
1 03
6 60
9 67
12 15
6 37
6 24
2 95
33 25
60 00
55 00
61
50
A. V. Olenn.\
Making clothes rack
Wat«r key
Bread
Meals ,
r. R. Gray.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making ladder
Lawn mower sharpened . . . .
Paint
Bread
Meals
Coal oil
Sundry stores
P. Qaynor.
Repairing clothing
Tops for posts
Shears sharpened
Paint
Bread
Kleals
Sundry stores
Meals.
Rent. .
A. Qrundy.
Bread.
Meals.
1
S 50
30
3 72
90
5 42
1
S 3 70
3 25
2 41
10
1 31
19 10
29
1 20
45 74
t 55
1 26
15
3 91
2 37
2 10
5 07
15 41
J. W. Harvey.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Bucket
Repairing tinware
Bread
Plants
Vegetables
Books bound
Coal
Brooms
Horse labour
Medicine
Sundry stores
» 3 00
1 00
1 76
90
t 13 35
1 55
3 04
6 37
1 22
3 93
44
3 86
11 07
1 00
2 03
6 26
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLVJABIA.— Continued.
1 GEORGE v.,
A. Healeu-
N. Mathewson.
Repairing boots.
Meals
Medicine
Repairing boot
Bread
Meals
lime
Brooms
Medicine
Sundry stores.
Repairing clothing.
" boots. . .
Picture framed
Meals
Medicine
P. J. Keenan.
Repairing boots.
Meals
Medicine
M. Lavell.
Screen door and windows
Repairing closet
Bread
Rent
Cutting archway in quarters.
Rev. E. Lambol.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Meals
Books bound
R. Morrifton.
Meals. . . .
Rent. . . .
Medicine .
1 42
20 72
28 10
12 50
60 00
2 30
5 50
1 80
5 91
2 70
2 25
18 16
2 00
1 00
45
D. C. McKemie.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. .
" blacksmith.
Making thimbles
Bread
Meals
Electric supplies
Medicine
Sundry stores
P. McGrene
Suit pressed
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Paint
Meals
Rent
Electric lamps
Wood stain
Coal
Axe
Vegetables
Trousers cleaned ....
Repairing, carpenter.
Meals
Rent
Hugh McGill.
D. McTavish.
Meals .
Rent. .
W.A. McCallum.
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter .
Bread
Meals
Horse labour
Rent
Paint
Coal
Convict labour
Medicine
96
24
12 88
22 60
2 62
1 53
15
2 30
18 74
18
4 00
7 00
2 53
r 48
[6 60
1 10
90
2 70
2 00
S 4 50
2 00
30
2 00
3 28
60
22 91
2 50
1 90
12 00
2 05
23 10
I
REVENUE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Continued.
Geo. McKemie.
Making clotbing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Ilepairing boots
sundry aiiicles, carpenter
** tinsmith .
Bread
Meaia
Hay
Rent
Coal
Horse labour
Electric lamps
Broom
Naila
Condemned articles
Medicine
Sundry atorei
A. McDonald.
Repairing clothing
** boots
Ueals
Rent
Medicine
Bread.
Meals.
R. F. AfcVittie.
Repairing clothing ,
Bread ,
Meals
Rent
Medicine
New Westminster, City of
R«nt, right of way
S 60
3 00
Makins; sundry articles, carpenter
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
$ 3 52
20
1 43
1 90
50
Meals
7 55
IF. A. Patchell.
Repairing clothing s 1 00
Making boots 1 85
Making sundry articles, carpenter 2 09
Bread 25 73
Vegetables 2 70
Rent 60 00
Coal 1 6 60
Horse labour 1 00
Medicine 10
I 20 ; .Meals
11 10
9 00
20
W. Regan.
Repairing boots.
Meals
H. Phillips
Repairing boots
Meals
Medicine
$
17
SO
25
18
30
s
20
fi. J. Robertson.
Repairing clothing
Strap
Repairing boots
Axe handle
Repairing buggy
Horse shod
Repairing coil and standard.
Bread
Hay
Potatoes
Rent
Brooms
Serge
Medicine
Sundry stores
Dr. W. A . de Wolfe Smith.
Repairing clothing
** boots
Making simdry articles, carpenter.
Iron rings
Cutting and drilling iron
Bread
s
15
1
15
5
20
34
1
03
45
87
23
94
18 00
2
70
60
00
27
2
88
5,5
2
60
119
13
S
60
2
50
3
10
t
35
1
25
35
52
17
10
1
69
39
08
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Conc/uded.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
P, Smythe.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Bread
Meals
Sundry stores
Repairing boots
Bread
Horse labour. . .
Manure
Rent
Coal
Medicine
G. L. Saunders.
Bread, .
Meals. .
T. Sampson.
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
Repairing chain
Paint
Bread
Meals
Potatoes
Rent
Brooms
Serge
Coal
Horse labour
Candles
Medicine
Sundry stores - ■ ■
8 12
17 70
1 84
6 85
1 50
50
60 00
13 20
1 28
3 70
3 36
5 56
12 96
1 65
W. J. R. Smith.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Bread
Meals
Repairing boots
Bread
Meals
Rev. A. E. Vert.
Making clothing
" boots
Repairing boots
Making cabinet
Medicine
W. Walsh.
Making clothing
Repairing boots
Boiler repaired
Rent
Brooms
Hard oil finish
Medicine
Sundry stores
50
3 6U
2 26
2 10
12 30
20 76
1 50
8 63
10 32
2 50
2 45
13 83
F. Watt.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Bread
Meals
Rent
Medicine
Sundry stores
60 GO
1 02
15 20
10 00
1 20
REVENUE
197
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
A. G. Champion.
Repairing hoota
R. Chambers,
Making boota.
Socks
Wm. Coward.
Coal scuttle.
Storm door. ,
/. B. Dharty.
Repairing clothing
Makinq bootj*
Reptiiring hoots
Making sundry articles, tinsmith.
Mealfl ^
Potatoes
Medicine
Dr. A. Forin.
Making pair mitts
" boota
Repairing boots
" sundry articles, carpenter,
Soap dish
Potatoes
/. /. C ashman.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Iron braces
Tungsten lamps
E. H. Cummings.
Making clothing
Making boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . .
" blacksmith.
" tinsmith. . . .
Potatoes
1 59
1 61
S 6 01
1 66
10
3 55
30
1 07
19 50
75
10
20
6 89
1 30
3
00
11
74
J. R. Gemon.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boota
Meals
G. P. Halley.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter.
Axe repaired
Making sundry articles, tinsmith. .
Repairing sundry articles, tinsmith
Meals
Paint
Medicine
Galv. iron pail
Meals
Cement foot scraper
R. C. A f orris.
Making boots
Water barrel • • •
.Making sundry articles, tinsmith
Meals
Potatoes
Repairing boots,
Meals
Roofing felt
1
s
15
-
SO
.S9
17
SO
21
14
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making atindry articles, carpenter.
Bolta
Coal scuttle
Brick
i 38
5 00
1 14
10 30
25
A. D. Mallandaine.
Making boota
Repairing boota
Meals
T. May.
$ 3 58
54
20 30
198
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ALBERTA.— Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Jno.lMcDotigall.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articlea, carpenter. . .
Repairing model
Making sundry articles, blacksmith .
" tinsmith. . .
Meal
Cement roller and scraper
Iron pipe and fittings
Bricks
Cement
Turpentine
Varnish
Wood stain
Boiler plate
Medicine ■
.1/. McCauley.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Wash tub
Boot scrapers
Sprinkling can
Tungsten lamps
Medicine
Rev. D. G. McQueen.
Making boots. . -
Repairing boots.
P. M. Oldroyd.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
" quoits
" tinware
Meals
Potatoes
F. Pope.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Making sundry articlea, carpenter. .
Repairing saw
Making sundry articles, blacksmith
" tinsmith. ..
Meals
Paint
Cement roller
Mat
Medicine
16 89
5 93
6 48
2 05
148 75
25 18
14 90
2 50
1 02
3 99
2 57
22 60
/. Pollard.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
" boots
Meals
Medicine
/. Scliell.
Repairing boots
Making vest
Water barrels
Meals
Condemned articles
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith,
Making sundry articles, tinsmith
R. H. Stedman.
Coal
R. Srnith.
Pressing clothing
Meats
Making boots.
Meals
H. E. Smith.
Making pair child's shoes. . .
Repairing boots
Water barrel
Maldug tinware
Meals
M. J. Salzl.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter
Making sundry articles, blacksmith.
" tinsmith . . .
Meal
Potatoes
Cement roller
Mortar
Varnish
Boiled oil
Socks
Turpentine
Paint
Mats
Pipe 6ttinga for stove
Medicine
s u
10
41
29
10
lo
40
9S
S 1
1
71
6
59
41
30
3
15
29
75
55
56
$ 3
58
15
40
55
$ 2
80
6
70
9
50
S
27
41
1
3!
65
5
20
7
84
S 7
99
25
ir>
73
11
3
46
30
1
66
4
44
10
2
50
86
10
1
45
22
67
50
32
1
26
94
45
44
31
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
REVENUE
AI:BEKJ:A.— Concluded.
Jno. Shearer.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Meala
C. Turgeon.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter. . . .
Repairing sundry articles, carpenter. ,
Making sundry articles, blacksmith. . ,
Repairing sundry articles, blacksmith,
.Making sundry articles, tinsmith. . . . .
Repairing sundry articles, tlosmith. . ,
Meals
Potatoes
Cement roller and scraper
Mortar
Mitta
Tungsten lamps ,
Sundry stores
S. J. Trmcott.
Making clothing
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter,
blacksmith
Repairing sleigh
Making tinware
Sundry stores
Making boots. .
Repairing boots
Meals
s
7 01
95
3 46
68
37 10
49 20
$
32
14 31
2 51
2 51
30
2 51
30
1 95
18
1 43
1 40
25 10
2 00
1 65
10
25
1 80
51
56 32
S 2 50
I 07 :
1 05
1 20
65
13
2 33
3 28
12 21
$ 2 80
49
17 60
20 89
1
F. Urquhart.
Making clothing ,
" boots
Repairing boots
Making part of bed
Straw hats
Mattress
Repairing boots
Making sundry articles, carpenter
Meals
C*. A. Wooton.
Repairing clothing
Making boots
Kepaiiiiig boots
Making sundry articlefl* blacksmith
Meals
Medicine
Repairing clothing
" boots. ..
Meals
$ 15 21
9 78
99
65
69
3 44
30 76
$ 32
70
36 80
37 82
$ 30
10 60
73
1 12
13 20
25
26 10
i 32
43
1 50
2 26
1935 51
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPIR No. 3^1 A. 1911.
APPENDIX K.
DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON.
SiArr.
Salaries:
General
Warden, 1, 12 m $2,600 00
Surgeon and Med. Supt. Insane, 1, 12in 2,400 00
Chaplains, 2, 12 m., @ $1,200 2,400 00
Accountant, 1. 12 m 1,700 00
Engineer, 1, 12 m 1,200 00
Warden's Clerk, 1, 12 m 900 00
Storekeeper, 1, 12 m 1,000 00
Asst. Storekeeper, 1, 12 m 700 00
Steward. 1, 12 m 1,000 00
Asst. Steward 1, 12m 700 00
Hospital overseer, &c., 1, 12m 900 00
Asst. Hospital overseer, Ac, 1, 12 m., @
S700, less deductions 698 06
Matron. 1, 12m 600 00
Deputj Matron, 1, 12m 450 00
Electrician, 1, 12m 900 00
Asst. Electrician, 1, 12 m 700 00
Asst. Engineer, 1, 12 m 700 00
Messenger, 1, 12 m 600 00
Firemen, 2, 12 .,©$600 1,200 00
Induetrial,
Chief trade instructor, 1, 12m 1,00000
Supt. binder twine, 1, 12 m 1 .200 00
Asst. Supt. binder twine, 1, 12 m 800 00
Trade instructors, 5, 12 m., @ $800. . . . 4,000 00
2, 12 ro., @ $800, less
deductions 1 , 591 40
Asst. Farm Instructor, 1, 12 m 700 00
Stable guards, 3, 12 m., @ $600 1.800 00
Police.
Deputy Warden, 1, 12 m 1,500 00
Chief Keeper, 1,12 m 1,00000
Keepers, 10, 12 m., @ $700 7,000 00
2, broken periods 649 96
Chief Watchman, 1, 12 m., ® $800, less
deductions 793 48
SVatchmen, 2, 12 m., @ $650 1 ,300 00
3, 12 m., @ $650, less de-
ductions ' 1,919 68
" 4, broken periods , 1 ,212 90
Guards. 17, 12 m., @ $600 10,200 00
19, 12 m., @ $600, less deduc-
tions 11,338 02
4, broken periods 1,140 06
Temporary police officers 1 , 217 13
71,710 69
Rttirino Allotcances.
E.C.Walsh S 298 47
Thos. Marsh 559 99
E. R. Davis ■. 1,020 82
F. W. Dickenson 483 33
2,362 61
Uniforms.
Anti-squeak, 36 lbs
Buttons, dome, 4 doz
" gilt, 11 gross
Blacking, 6 doz
Braid, tracing, i gross
Boot ink, 4 quarts
Canvas, 357i yds
Caps, hair-seal, 2 doz
" wires for. 8 doz
" peaks, 2i doz
" sweatbands, 5.5 doz .
Cheese cloth. 167 yds
Cleaning fluid
Channel cement, 2 gals. ...
Denim, 82 yds
Drilling, ISli yds
Duck, 57 yds
Dress goods, 10 yds
Eyelets, 19u
Frieze. 122J yds
Felt, boot, lii lbs
" padding, 47i yds
Hair cloth, 51 J yds...'
Hooks and eyes, 1 gross . . .
Khaki, 207 yds
Lining, sleeve, 199i yds...
overcoat. 72 yds..
Itahan, 1781 yds-
I^eather, welt, 83} lbs
box-calf, 436i lbs.
wiUow caU, 453 ft
" dongola, 191 lbs..
" beading, 431 lbs..
sole, 963 lbs
patent, lOJ lbs.. .
Laces, 4 gross
Linen, 49i yds
Mitts and gloves, 88 pairs.
Nails, zinc, shoe, 25 lbs. . . .
" iron " 104 lbs
Badges for uniforms
PoUsh, tan, 18 doz
Padding, 43i yds
Rubber tissue, 2 lbs
Serge, 340i yds
Thread, linen, 18 lbs
" silk sewing, 2 lbs.
" " twist, 2 lbs. . .
" shoe, 9 lbs
" hardash, 2 lbs ....
Tacks, shoe, 25 lbs
Trimmings, sewing
Wax, shoe, 5 lbs
Webbing gaiter, i gross. . .
Containers
Freight and express
Mess.
Apples, evaporated, 500 lbs. .
" tinned, 7 doz
" fresh, 6 bbls
Beef, 9,557 lbs
Butter, 1,322 lbs
Baking powder, 42 lbs
" soda, 20 lbs
Cheese, 333 lbs
Currants, 438 lbs
Com starch, 102 lbs
Cream of Tartar. 8 lbs
2 60
29 00
5 40
9 88
1 40
56 20
72 00
1 55
6 25
4 08
5 85
1 80
2 50
8 81
18 93
8 55
8 00
10 75
107 40
15 95
11 88
13 91
35
217 35
41 50
46 SO
91 12
27 75
100 69
144 96
4 81
5 19
211 86
4 84
4 70
7 39
89 00
3 25
5 20
2 60
16 80
10 88
2 50
408 60
36 00
16 00
9 50
7 65
10 00
3 75
1 74
50
1 SO
35
7 87
1,948 57
S 37 50
16 80
11 00
521 79
323 93
16 80
40
39 96
26 28
6 63
1 80
203
204
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
KINGSTON— Conimued.
Meat. — Continued.
Cinnamon. 5 lbs... .
Cloves, i tt) W
Carraway seeds, 1 lb
Eggs, 477 dot
Essences. 8 doz
Fish, fresl), 1,020 lbs..
Figs, 165 lbs
Ginger, 12 lbs
Lard, 778 lbs \',
Lemons, 28 doz
Milk, 369 gills .
Mustard, 20 lbs
Mutton. 100 lbs
Macaroni, 95 lbs
Mint, 1 tin.
Nutmegs, 3 lbs
Prunes, 200 lbs
Raisins, 388 lbs
Sugar, granulated, 2,300 lbs.
Sage. 15 tins
Savory, 12 tins
Sago, 35 lbs .' .'
Tapioca, 65 lbs
Tomatoes, canned, 4 doz ....
1
50
20
30
95
40
5
20
102
00
8
25
2
IB
99
23
4
20
58
40
4
00
5
46
12
03
Maintenance of Convicts.
Rations.
Alum, 1 lb
Beef, 124,915 lbs .,'.
Barley, pot, 5,034 lbs
Bacon, 12,253 lbs
Beans 25,1.54 lbs
Ba ing soda, 15 lbs
Cabbage, 303 ll)s ....'.
Com. cracked, 500 lbs
Flour, 3,490 bags...
Figs, 100 lbs
Herring, 22 bbls
Lard, 468 lbs '.'.'"
Milk, skimmed, 96,450 lbs..!! !!
M ola.sses, 2.782 gals | i
Mutton, 771 lbs
Onions, 3,897 lbs I
Pea,se, split, 4,420 lbs. ....!.!
Potatoes, 1.804; bags 1
Pepper. 287 lbs. .... ;
p.ice, 11,000 lbs .'.';;
Rolled oats, 35.551 tba
Sugar, bro«Ti, 30,414 lbs. 1
SaU, fine, 70 bbls '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.
coarse, 54 bags
Spice, mixed, 20 lbs
Tea, 817 lbs '.'.','.
Vinegar, 815 gals..
Yeast, 405 lbs
Christmas extras
Freight and cartage. .................
6
,820 54
138 45
1
,409 U
786 10
30
4 55
8 75
8
329 80
5 00
93 50
59 70
241 13
1
335 36
115 42
121 57
,127 00
40 18
330 00
924 30
254 70
89 70
27 40
3 20
290 72
139 57
121 50
106 99
110 00
I.ess refund of expenditure.
24,076 74
97 84
23,978 90 J
1 05
11 52
25 52 Ij
03 01
1
1 50
1 20
2 10
1
3 90
3 60
Prison Clothing.
Batons, coat, 36 gross
" trouser, 110 gross. .
bone, shirt, 3 gross.
Binding, stay, 5 gross
Buckles, trouser, 12 gross. . . .
Boots, rubber, 3 pairs
Cotton, 1,845 yds " . '
Cottonade, 51i yds '.
Camphor, 25 lbs
Duck, 210* vds
Denim, 4,398 yd.s
Drilling, 305 yds
Eyelet-s, 18.« '.'.'.
Galatea shirting, 2,238] yds.. .
Flannel, shaker, 16 yds
Hats, straw, 25 doz
Leather, sole, 4,283 lbs '.
upper. 837 lbs
" sheepskins, 28 lbs. . . ,
russets, 15 doz
Laces, 45 gross
Moleskin, 114i yds ]
Nails, shoe, iron, 75 lbs
Oil, neatsfoot, 20 gals
Prison cloth, 1,465 yds
Pegs, shoe, 4 bushels
Pins, safety, 1 gross
black, 6 packages
Rivets, shoe, 50 lbs
Suspenders, 40 doz
Shawls, 1 doz
Shirtin •, 54 yds
Thread, shoe, 30 lbs ] . .
" linen, 81 lbs
" hardash, 1 lb
TaUow, 8 1b-
Underclothing, 184 doz
Webbing, 1 gross
Wax, shoe, 10 lbs .....
Yam, 997 lbs
Containers
Freight and cartage
Hospital.
; Alum, Jib
i Butter, 213 lbs
Biscuits. 127i lbs
Brandy, 1 bottle
Batts, 8
Corn starch. 20 lbs
Drugs
Eggs, 216 doz
Essences, 1 doz
Envelopes. 1 box
Grape juice, 1 quart. . . .
Glasses, repairs to. . . .
Lard, 21 lbs
Milk, l,425igals
Sugar, 120 lbs
Service of nurse
Tapioca, 200 lbs
Tobacco, 137i lbs
Towelling, 52 yds
Whisky, 4 gals
Keep of insane prisoner.
Nutmegs, J lb
Oranges, 34 doz
8 19
10 35
13 50
143 02
8 86
10 60
33 69
934 58
29 53
4 14
237 85
3 40
25 GO
940 06
371 70
12 59
162 SO
45 00
47 75
3 75
16 00
1,267 22
4 20
24
45
7 70
95 00
12 00
7 29
24 00
14! 72
5 00
64
775 60
1 85
1 00
371 39
45
40 96
52 19
12 47
1 35
69
1 30
473 63
43 20
2
07
228
08
5
40
20 00
12
00
87
75
6
55
11
00
87
45
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
EXPEXDITURE
KINGSTON— Coniinufd.
Discbarge Expenses.
Freedom Suits and Allowances.
Buttons, coat, 11 gross
" vest, 11 gross
" trouser, 36 gross
" collar, 1 gross
Braces, 15 doz
Braid, 2 bunches
Canvaa, trench, 394i yds
Collars, 6 doz
Coats, women's, 4 only
Caps, 10 doz
Dress goods, 53 yds
Flannellette, 40 yds
Gloves, 6^ doz
Hats, women's, 9 only
" mens, 7 doz ,
Handkerchiefs, 16 doz
Jean, 112 yds
Leather, Canadian kip, 333i lbs
sole, 500 tlis
Linen, stay, 95 yds
MuQiers. 4 doz
Shirts, top, 20 doz
Silesia, 501 yds
Stockings, 2 doz
Satin, farmer's, 5551 yds
Thread, linen, 3 Iba
Ties, 17 doz
Tweed, 980J yds
Tacks, shoe, 15 lbs
Tape, 38 gross
Under-clothing, 34 doz
Wadding, 2 bales
"Xarn, 10 Iba
Freight and cartage
Transportation and allowance, 193 men
Tranxfei
Working Expenses.
Heal, Light and Water.
Burners, lamp, 4 doz
Coal, egg, 3 tons
" screenings. 4.276-1890 tons
Carbons, 300 only
Coal oil, 40.3-40 gals
Globes, Auer, 48 only
Matches, 10 boxes
Lamps, Tungsten, 300 only
" Westinghouse, 200 only.
Custom entries
Duty on coal
Containers
Freight and express
3 30
1 98
2 85
1 75
15 00
30
26 62
6 00
11 00
30 00
25 05
5 00
19 50
15 00
29 40
9 60
7 84
220 77
120 00
10 93
8 00
120 00
41 15
4 80
41 65
4 44
25 50
324 56
2 25
1 14
140 80
10 50
5 00
3 59
M23 15
s
3
70
20
25
9
366
.W
9
50
58
.50
8
1
30
16
218
00
33
00
2
25
710
57
45
7
17
10
439
35
17
42
15 00
46 05
7 00
8 50
5 20
12 96
6 00
6 75
3 00
16 20
5 46
7 56
12 73
1 50
16 85
4 88
Working Expenses. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Aluminum ferric, 10" tons $164 90
Adapters, 160 only 3 00
.\labastine, 100 tbs 7 00
Brass, sheet, 3i tbs 1 40
" "2 pieces 5 75
" bar, 11 tbs 2 75
Batteries, 1 doz 6 00
" zincs, 100 only 4 50
Baize, 1 1 yds 5 50
Bushings, 160 only 5 92
Basin, 1 only 1 SO
Bolta, stove, 200 only 65
" car, 200 only 72
" stove, 100 only
Bricks, stove. 6 tbs
fire. 500 only
Colours. 313 tbs
Cord, sash. 20 tbs
" fie.\ible, electric, 200 yds
Cable, electric, 6 ft
" duplex, 600 ft
Chloride of lime, 200 lbs
Closet connections, 3 doz
" rings. 3 doz
Discs, Jenkens, 22 doz
I^lbows, 8 doz
Electric fittings, sundry
Flower seeds
Fly-paper, 3 boxes
Glass, 5 boxes
•' 36 lights
Hinges, narrow, 2 doz 54
" brass, 2 doz 2 10
Iron, bar. 2,631 tbs 63 08
" hoop, 53 tbs 1 67
" galvanized. 506 tbs 2100
Insect powder 4 40
Intake pipe, repairs to 90 00
Japan, 46 gals 17 35
Kreso, 233 gals 152 45
Keys, 4 only 1 77
Lumber, maple, 367 ft 17 43
pine, 4,695 ft 145 93 '
hemlock, 864 ft 24 19
Lead, white. 2,200 tbs 125 40
Lawn seed, 20 tbs 4 00
Lye, 6 tins 45
Nails, wire, 9 kegs 21 90
" moulding, 20 lbs
Nuts, tapped, 2 lbs
" " 24 only
" hexagon, 10 tt>s
" lock, 150 only
Oil, linseed. 43i gals
Polish, metal, 100 tbs 20 00
Rivets, 194 tbs 9 45
Range, parts for 2 15
Rosettes, 1 doz 2 74
Rubber, 3 tbs 1 .TO
Soap, laundry, 11,075 tbs 346 11
" olive oil, 11.146 tbs .5.57,30
Soda. w.Tshing, 20,625 tbs 202 50
Sapolio, 72 doz 76 80
Steel machine, 109 tbs 3 27
Services, caretaker of grounds 75 00
Shutter springs and parts for 7 65
Sash fasteners. 1 doz 75
Shingles, metallic, i square 1 42
Sand. 64 yds 70 40
Sink, enamel, 1 only 3 .50
Sockets, lamp, 200 only 30 00
206
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
KINGSTON— Condnued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Working ExpbnsbiJ. — Ciontinued
Maintenance of Buildings.
Sal ammoniac, 50 lbs
Toilet paper, 42 boxes
Turpentine, 104i gala
Telephone, repairs to
Tape, electric, 10 lbs
Traps. 3team, 6 only
Valves, rubber, 30 only
Wire, duplex, 1,500 ft
" solder, 30 lbs
spring, lOi lbs
" electric, r. c, 900 ft
Washers, bibb, 9 doz
Putty, 463 lbs
?enoleum, 200 gals
Customs entries
Duty
Containers
Freight and express
Maintenance of Machinery.
Asbestos, 502 lbs
" plaster, 5 bags
Anti-friction metal, 101 lbs
Belting, leather, 26 ft
Boiler, repairs to
compound, 1 ,089 lbs
" inspection
Brushes, flue. 4 only
Brass bushing and nut
" bolts, 24 only
Castings, brass, 35^ lbs
grate bar, 1,491 lbs
stoker, 36 lbs
iron, assorted, 107 lbs
Clay, fire, 7,032 lbs
Couplings, steam hose, 1 only
Crank shaft
Frictionless metal, 28 lbs
Gauge glasses, 1 doz
Grease, cup, 212 lbs
Grinder plates, 3 seta
Labour
Mica cement, i gal
Oil, cylinder, 126 '70 gals
" engine, 127 gals
" machine, 52 gals
Packing, spiral, 61 J lbs
asbestos, 300 ft
" pluml>ago, 28 lbs
" metallic, 2 lbs
Plumbago. 37 lbs
Plungers for pump, brass, 2 only
Piston and ring
Repairs to pyrometer
Rubbers for extractor, 1 pair
Steel, tool, 12 lbs
Soda, washing, Wyandotte, 1,400 lbs.
Valves, pump, 20J lbs
" globe, 3 only
Waste, 743 lbs
Wick, candle. 15 lbs
" asbestos, 9 lbs
Containers
62 70
2 50
7 50
60 00
9 90
24 00
7 50
3 68
10 00
4 50
8 57
150 00
50
35 50
26 20
6 25
19 37
6 76
69 62
108 73
40 00
9 75
7 50
12 00
11 15
59 64
1 44
3 82
42 18
75
50 00
7 00
58
16 96
4 20
25
4 25
66 61
47 00
14 04
42 79
25 50
9 80
2 50
11 45
50 00
1 12
3 50
5 00
1 20
25 73
19 75
184 60
69 66
3 75
3 60
25
Working Expenses. — Continued.
Chapels.
Floats, 14 boxes
Wine, altar, 9 bottles
Prayer beads, 60 pairs
" books, i doz
Hymn books, 436 only
Scapulars, 10 doz
Olive oil, 2 gals
Candles, 48 lbs
Incense, 1 box
Batting, li lb
Organist's salary
Slates, 1 doz
Copy books, 12 doz. .
Books and magazines.
Freight
Ofice Expenses.
Premiums on officers' bonds
Ink, 10 gals
Keg, 1
Postage
Telegrams
Telephone, long distance. . .
exchange
Stationery .'
Printing
Subscriptions to papers
Freight and express
Industries.
Farm.
Axle grease, J gross
Brushes, horse, 1 doz
Bran, 1 cwt
Barley, feed, 100 bushels
Boar pigs, 2 only
Bags, 3 only
Corn, 104 bushels
Forks, manure, i doz
Horses, 3 only
Harness, parts bf
" dressing, i doz
Implements, repairs and parts,
Paris green, 25 lbs
Pigs, 47 only
Palm for ice-cutting
Runners for sleigh
Seeds, assorted
Scythe, 1 only
" atones, 1 doz
6 00
4 00
24 00
i 1 20
9 60
24 00
13 50
1 50
230 08
16 90
19 85
96 50
371 03
248 29
12 00
20 82
$ 2 75
4 05
5 75
62 00
27 50
75
85 43
4 20
695 00
50
3 00
27 50
5 00
314 00
1 00
2 45
155 70
1 00
1 00
EXPENDITURE
207
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON— Con(mued.
Inoubtbieb. — Continued .
Farm.
TrBveliing expenses buying horses $
Threshing grain
Servicer of veterinary surgeon
Weighing hogs
Containera
Freight and express
Trade Shops.
Awls, pegging, 6 gross S 558
" sewing, 6 gross 14 40
" stitching, 3 gross 6 05
stabbing, 2 gross 2 18
Acid, oxalic, 2 Itjs - 30
" muriatic, H gals 70
A.xlcs, 104 tt)S 7 02
Augers, 2 only 2 25
" points for 30
Benzine, 1 5 gals 3 75
Brushes, kalsomine, 2 doz 15 12
fitches, 1 doz 1 19
" varnish, 1 doz 4 54
" paint, 0 doz 4 25
assorted, 2 doz 13 0-1
Buttons, gilt, IS 11-12 gross 75 66
coat, 1 gross 1 20
Beaver, 47^ yds i 130 63
Bluing. 6 lbs 1 1 20
Borax, 50 lbs ' 2 50
Broom com, 3,301 Iba 324 38
Binders' cloth, 1 1 rolls 48 05
Bristles, 2 lbs 13 00
Bill-heads, 6,000 only 4 75
Bronze, 5 packages 1 00
Brass, sheet, 19} lbs 5 S3
Binding, stay. 14 packages 6 16
Buckles, 2 gross 2 00
Bolts, carriage, 2.100 only 12 00
machine, 350 only 3 66.
" tire, 400 only 71
fasteners, 100 only 3 90
Burning kiln 20 ,50
Coal, smith's, 5 — 300 tons 34 75
" screenings, 807 — '1680 tons 1,769 17
Colours, assorted ' 9 88
Castings, malleable, 2,930 lbs 161 72
" iron, 131 lbs 5 64
brass, 92i lbs j 37 00
Chalk, tailors, 10 boxes 7 50
lump, 30 lbs 45
Cleaning fluid 1 80
Cement, channel, 5 gals 6 25
leather, 1 doz 2 50
Charcoal. 102 bushels 18 36
Canvas, French, 167} yds 27 00
Chloride of lime, 100 lbs 4 00
Copper, 42; lbs 12 60
Clothes pins, 6 doz 30
Crayons, tailors', 1 doz 75
Coilers, 3 only 4 50 i
Cylinder, brass 6 50
Corundum wheels, 6 only 18 87
Drilling, 234 yds 27 07
Drills, twist, 85 only 25 94
" s, 8., 24 only 1 66
" t. 3., 9 only 3 78
Dressing, boot, 5 gals 3 75
Dyes, 13 packages 5 25
Zndttsthxes. — Continued
Lib.
t ^- Trade Shops,
Emery cloth, 2i reams
" powder, 380 tbs
" wheels, 58 only
" cutters, 2 sets
Eyelets, 6m
Ears, pail, 3i gross
Files, assorted, &4 doz
Fuse, 500 ft
Flannel, 710 yds
Face cogs, 2 only
Force cup, 1 only
Gasoline, 35 gals
Glass, 2 boxes
Glue, 170 lbs
Glass cutter, 1 only
Handles, hammer, 3 doz
awl. 8 doz
" pick, 7 doz
" broom, 1,100 only. . .
" sledge, 2 doz
Hats, felt, 12 doz
Handkerchiefs, silk 3 only
Hair cloth, 50i yds
Hinges, spring, 1 doz
Hickory logs. 192 ft
Heelshave blades, 1 doz
Hon*eshoes. 3 kegs
Hooks, boot, 3m
Iron, bar, 18,396 lbs
" tinned, 583 Ibe
" galvanized, 1,630 Iba
" Russian, 89 lbs
" sheet, 804 lbs
" band, 685 tbs
** hammered, 2 pieces
Ink, boot, 15 gals
*• printers. 12 lbs
Knives, skiving, 1§ doz
" F. W. C. 3 doz
Knitting machine, parts for
Knobs, earring**, 2 gross
Leather, harness, 59^ lbs
box-calf, 97 i lbs
welt, 106 lbs
French kip, 114} lbs..
pebble. 150 lbs '..
" sole, 655 lbs
lace, 7i tbs
belt, 250i ft
Locks, desk, 1 doz
Lumber, assorted. 1,476, ft. . . .
hemlock. 2.000 ft
elm, 2,500 ft
" hickory, 166 ft
ash, 40 ft
" pine. 60 ft
IJne, masons', i doz
" sturgeon, 4} lbs
I,amp black, 22 lbs
Lasts. 12 pairs
Linen yam. 1.014 tbs
Millboard, 14 bundles
Measures, shoe, i doz
" tape, i doz
Mallets, stone cutters', 3 doz.. .
Nails, horse, 70 lbs
" chair, 1 box
" broom, 20 lbs
" shoe, iron, 100 tbs
" zinc, 25 lbs
Nuts, hexagon, 25 tba
$ 38 63
19
00
53
85
90
f ri 38
1 r 2 98
18
99
' 15 00
' 241
40
U 1
05
■■ 1
90
1 l«
75
< 6
.50
1 15
30
'■- 1
50
t i6
75
3
30
' 21
15
: 24
75
' f4
50
144
00
r2 70
11
62
1
00
19 20
4
SO
13
25
13
75
413
04
67
30
73
85
11
.57
26
13
18
23
4
75
6
00
5
18
4
00
4
20
13
77
1
50
16
06
25
73
39
22
113
60
19
50
134
10
5
63
67
.58
7
75
44
28
35
00
SO 00
13
28
3
20
4
80
1
00
2
64
2
42
6 00
206 33
21
00
42
50
40
.50
7
45
75
2
40
5
00
3
25
3
00
208
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
KINGSTON— Condnaei.
Inddstries. — Continued.
Tradt Shops.
Nuts, untapped, 50 lbs
Needles, harness, 6 papers
" darning, 3 papers
" collar, 3 only
" knitting, 6 sets
" sewing, 190 papers
" machine, 60 doz
Neck yokes, 3 only
Nippers, jaws for, 1 pair
Oil, Cuban. 2 quarts
" sperm. 1 gal
Powder, blasting. 6 kegs
Paper, printing, 65 reams
" wrapping, 1 ream
" Empire Bond, 19 reams. .
" Kton Mills, 6 reams
" Eamscliff, 25 reams
" Pentland, 15 reams
" Crown l.iaen, 20 reams. . .
" Colonial White, 10 reams.
" blue print, 4 rolls,
drafting, 1 roll
" sand, 2 reams
" Eddystone Mills, 60 lbs. . .
Half Moon, 160 lbs
Picks, 1 doz
Pulp board. 2 bundles
Pumice stone, 10 lbs
Pegs, shoe. 1 bushel
Rasps, shoe, 4 doz
Rules, 2 foot, 7 doz
Rivets, Norway, 226 lbs
" round head, 85 tbs
" shoe, .50 tbs
" tinned, 19 lbs
Rubber tissue, 3 lbs
Rotary float faces and screws
Rubber, sheet. 51 lbs
Screws, wood, 58 gross
Scoops, 1 doz
Shovels, 9 doz
Steel, tool, 309 tbs
" rods, 410 lbs
" toe calk, 12 tbs
" angle, 5,024 tbs
" barrier, 27,307 lbs. .*.
" milled, 6,306 lbs
" cfust, 1,211 lbs
" core, 1 ,146 lbs
" machine, 3,296 lbs
" pine, 1,002 lbs
Silk, machine, 5 tbs
" twist, 4 tbs
" sewing, 1 lb
« B. H. twist, 2 lbs
Staples, iron, 10 tbs
" coooered, 20 lbs
Sewing machines, parts for
Saws, hack, 3 doz
Suhscrintions to trade journals
Socks, 12 J doz. pairs
Size stick, 1 only
Scissors, tailors', 1 doz
Sponges, 1 doz
Shellack. 5 gals
Snliammoniac, 2 lbs
Snips, tinners 2 pairs
Starch, laundry, 45 11)3
Tacks, cut, 5 do
" shoe, 15 tbs. . .
Thread, linen, 33 lbs..
3 SO
12 00
90
60
1 80
2 00
14 40
127 88
8 40
51 75
13 20
81 20
25 60
55 00
20 00
2 95
3 95
8 71
1 80
6 00
5 00
3 00
80
1 05
9 40
30 80
11 05
5 48
6 00
3 68
3 75
1 85
38 25
9 27
10 73
83 05
30 90
13 14
36
90 43
,225 13
108 20
111 10
91 68
109 07
277 45
27 50
18 00
5 50
9 00
1 50
3 00
1 45
2 70
4 15
37 00
25
10 00
12 50
26
5 00
3 60
1 20
2 25
66 00
Industries. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
Thread, shoe, 20 tbs
" cotton, 7 gross
Tin, pig, 107 tbs
" block, 57 tbs
. . sheet, 12 boxes
Twine, broom, 34 tbs
" bookbinders'
Tongues, 14 only
Thimhlea, 3 doz
Taps, hand, 2 sets
Type, 7 fonts
Varnish, 10 gals
Wax, shoe, 5 lbs
Washers, 33 tbs
Wrenches, parts for
Wire, iron, 470 lbs
" cloth, 150 yds
" steel, bed, 3,682 tbs
" rope, 200 ft
" broom, 99 tbs
" screen, 27 sq. ft
" stove pipe, 3 tbs
" tinned, 1 spool
" cotter, 100 tbs
Wood, soft, 71 cords
Welding compound, 131 tbs
Wicks, oil stove, 3i doz
Warp, 4,060 yds
Wadding, 4 bales
Webbing, gaiter, i gross
Customs entries
Duty
Containers
Freight and express
Binder Twine.
Advertising
Telegrams
Postage.
Hessien, 106* yds
Shipping tags
Suhscriptiono to trade journals
Printing
Freight
S 16
00
35
70
37
46
19
96
52
45
12
24
1
70
10
50
57
1
64
36
04
20
00
.50
1
89
77
13
50
5
00
282
10
4
00
6
74
7
80
21
05
7
00
301
22
13
10
80
118
15
21
00
1
.50
2
00
73
30
3
35
250
86
10,442
34
Tntergating watt meter. .
Freight
6 40
16 68
15 07
55 31
S104 00
1 10
EXPENDITURE
209
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
KINGSTON— C<m(inu«d.
Prison Equipment. — Continued. I
Prison Furnishings.
Blankets. 479 tbs S 189 20
Cotton, twill. 79U yds 81 91
grey, 1156 \ yds 115 65
Duck, 12 yda 3 00
Eyelets, large, 1 gross 75
Felt, hair, 3,600 aq. ft 198 00
Marking ink 25
Linen, table. 20 yds 1 1 00
Oil cloth, 5 yds 1 45
Soap, castile, 3,500 lbs 280 00
" barbers, 40 tbs 14 00
Ticking, 1.154J yda 163 01
Freight and express 8 40
1,086 62
Prison Utensils.
Ammuaition, 3,300 rounds. .
Brushes, shoe, I Hoz
" scrubbing, 22 doz.
" banister, 1 only
Broom, hair. 1 only
Blower,
Burners, oil stove, 1
Bricks for range '. . ,
Bathbricks, 2 doz
Crockery
Clippers, toilet, 1 pair
" repairs to
Cups, agate, 7 doz
Clothes pins, 12 doz
Casting for range
Chimneys, lamp, 6 doz
Combs. 1 doz
Force cup, 1 only
Ferrule, I only
Frying pan, 1 only
Grease catcher, 1 only
Grate for oven. 1 only
Gloves, rubber, 1 pair
Iron, Russian, 113 tbs
Kettles, agate, 5 only
Knife, bread. 1 only
butcher. 6 only
Lawn mower, parts for
Milk can handles, 1 doz
Molasses gate, 1 only
Oil for riles. 3 bottles
Padlocks, i doz
Print, 18 yds
Potato parers, and parts for.
Pots, enamel, 2 only
Rakes, garden, 12 only
Razors. 1 doz
" repairs to
Razor hones. 2 only
Rat traps, 2 only
Scoops, si doz
Spoons, 2 only
" table, 2 gross
Sponge, 1 only
Saw blade, butchers', 1 only.
Shovels, 2 doz
Tin, 20 boxes
Thermometers, 2 only
Washboards, 3 only
31—14
1
25
3
10
70
14
73
3
38
1
00
11
00
60
3
80
4
50
1
80
75
35
45
1
00
1
50
1
00
14
69
6
05
2
GO
1
74
4
13
2
50
35
75
5
10
1
80
23
70
2
40
5
87
14
00
2
00
1
50
1
20
33
78
15 73
130 00
30
Pkibon Equipment. — Continued.
Prison Utenails.
Wringer, 1 only
Wire cloth, 5i ft
" iron, 187 tb3
Duty
Freight and express
S 00
2 20
4 78
jMTid and Buildings.
Bends, 4 only
Boxes, outlet, 4 only
Ba-sin, 1 only
Bolls, expansion, 250 only
Castings, 198 lbs
CVmf^nt, 575 barrels
Couoliogs, 2\ lbs
Conduit, 680 ft
Condulets, 22 only
Chimney cleanouta, 4 only
Electric fittinits, sundry
Klectroliere, 6 only
Duplex cable, 105 ft
Iron conduit, 1,150 ft
Key socket"), 57 only
Condulet, 76 ft
Cable, 610 ft... ^
Elbows, M only
Furnace, 1 only
Fasteners, window, 1 doz
Glass. 144 lights
Hair, plasterers', 105 lbs
Hinges, 4 J doz
Iron, bar, 14,414 lbs
" Ridvanized, 1,344 lbs
sheet, 81 1 lbs
Lumber, hemlock, 3,763 ft
pine, 29,760 ft
maple, 2,538 ft
spruce, 8.984 ft
Lead, pis, 1,199 lbs
" red, 25 lbs
** pipe, 8 lbs
Nuts, hexagon
Nails, wire, 7 kegs
Pipe, iron, 1,737 lbs
" " galvanized, 107 J ft
Profe-ssional services re purchase of land
Paper, building, 10 rolls
Plaster pans, 1 barrel
Pulleys, sash, 10 doz
Lime, 23 bushels
Lath, metal, 750 sq. yda
Locks, mortice, 7 doz. . . .-
Reducer, 1 only
Radiators, 12 only
Registers, 2 only
Steel, sheet, 376 lbs
" reienforcing, 717 bars
" 109 fbs
Sand, 6791 yds
Steam hose clamps, 24 only
Speaking tube whistles, 2 only
Staples, 115 tbs
Screws, wood, 2 gross
" coach, 300 only
Switches, ceiling, 3 only
T's, 10 only
Traps, soil, 1 only
Tanks, closet, 3 only
S 1 50
80
85
8 00
6 76
914 25
35
86 27
14 28
9 20
81 92
54 17
27 64
lis 15
8 55
26 26
13 36
4 74
125 44
1 26
43 06
6 00
16 72
322 32
61 94
36 50
79 01
1,020 96
109 13
227 58
47 96
1 25
56
7 74
17 95
110 87
13 95
36 35
6 00
2 25
6 80
6 90
109 80
8 15
26
200 50
1 80
9 40
435 00
3 27
592 47
2 22
70
11 50
30
2 13
4 35
4 24
1 25
22 50
210
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
KINGSTON— ConcJuded.
MisOELLANEODs. — Continued.
Land and Buildings.
Tile, 45 ft
S 5 40
15 05
1 25
20 00
8 88
50
95 57
75 41
MisOELLANBons. — Continued.
Travelling Expenses,
Departmental Officers:
G. W. Dawson
$ 52 05
i.i e,n
Y's, lidoz
R. R. Creighton
G. A. Pratt
Penitentiary Officers:
D. Phelau, M.D
26 67
Duty
Freight and express
R.J. Burns
G. Sullivan
Return of prisoners
11 95
3 55
102 80
5,317 43
135 85
5,181 58
Special-
Frizes for rifle and revolver practice. . .
.Salary of purchasing agent
Total
753 80
$24 30
MiaOELLANEOnS.
$ 50 00
175 00
225 00
Advertising
8148,141 69
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
EXPENDITURE
KINGSTON.
Recapitulation .
Salaries and retiring allowances.
Uniforms and mes3
74.073 30
3.503 09
Maintenance oj Convicts —
Rations
Clo tiling and medicines.
.23,978 90
6,853 57
Discharge Expenses —
Freedom suits and allowances.
Transfer and interment
3,418 42
11 80
Working Expenses —
Heat, light and water
Maintenance of buildinga and machinery.
Chapels, schools and library
Office expenses
10,439 35
4.336 65
436^05
1.054 47
Industries —
Farm
Trade shops. .
Binder twine.
1.551 33
10.442 34
239 51
Prison Equipment —
Machinery
Furnishing ,
Utensils and vehicles
Land, buildings and walls
105 10
1,066 62
446 51
5,181 58
Miscellaneous —
Advertising and travel.
Special
778 10
225 00
DEPARTMEMT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Statp.
Salaries.
General.
Warden, 1, 12 m
Surgeon. 1, 12 m
Accountant, 1, 12 m
Chaplaina, 2. 12 m., @ $1,200.
Warden's clerk, 1, 12 m
Engineer, 1,12m
Storekeeper, 1, 12 m
Asst. torekeeper 1, 12 m
Steward, etc, 1. 12 m
Asst. teward, 1,12 m
Hospital overseer, etc., 1, 12 m
Electrician, etc., 1, 12 m
Asst. lectrician, 1, 12 m.'
Gate-keeper, etc., 1, 12 m
Fireman, 1, 12 m
1,1m
Messenger, 1, 12 m
Industrial. |
Chief trade instructor, 1, 12 m
Trade instructors, 7, 12 m.. @ $800
" 1, 12 m. less deduct. .
1, 3 m, f" $800 I
Stable guards, 2, 12 m., @ $600 \
Police.
Deputy warden, 1, 9 m., @ $1,500..
Chief Iceeper, 1,12m
Chief watchman. 1, 12 m
Watchmen, 3. 12 m., @ $650
" 4. broken periods
Keepers, 7, 12 m., @ S700
Guards, 19. 12 m., # $600
" 7, 12 m., (n> $600, less deductions
" 13, broken periods
Temporary police officera
82,400 00
1,600 00
1,400 00
2.400 00
1,000 00
1,000 00
900 00
700 00
1,000 00
700 00
900 00
816 66
516 66
700 GO
600 00
50 00
600 00
1,000 00
5,600 00
799 00
200 00
1,200 00
1,125 00
1,200 00
800 00
1,950 00
1,570 79
4,900 00
11,400 00
4.193 00
3,912 74
1,857 97
58,991 82
Retiring A Itowances.
F. W. Laskey S 87 50
H. Leonard I 388 18
Geo. A. Pratt 1 1,013 89
T. J. Bryne 97 91
A. Pepin I 452 32
Uniforms.
Braid, tubular, 5 yds
Badges, gold, staff, 4 only.
" cap, 13 doz
" crosses, 2 pairs. . .
Buttons, gilt, 18 grs
" panta, 48 grs. , ..
•* barrel, 1 ;*i grs. .
Cheviot, black, 61 yds. . .
Coat, leather, 1 only
" waterproof, 1 only..
Cheese cloth, 200 yds
Cotton, grey, 317i yds
75
8 00
26 75
2 00
47 00
3 72
1 42
17 54
5 39
15 00
7 00
31 75
Staff, — Continued.
Uniforms.
I Canvas, 400 yds
I Cleaner, russet, 11 gals
Crowns, bronze, 3 pairs
" gilt. 1 pair
Caps, khaki, 4 only
" .'itaff, 1 only
Duck, 2671 yds
Eyelets, russett, 2 boxes
1 Farmer's satin, 191 yds
Felt, scarlet, 4 yds
" shoe, 5 yds
" tar, 5 sheets
Frieze. 100 yds
Gloves, 70 pairs
Hooks, 7m,
Heel ball, 24 doz
Hooks ■ nd eyes, brass, 4 doz. . . .
Hair seal skins, IS skins
Holland, brown, 98 yds
Ink, shoe. 4 gals
Khaki cloth, 325i yds
Laces, russett, 4 grs
" mohair, 3 grs
Lining, sleeve, 156i yds
Lining, overcoat, 146^ yds
" mohair, 36 yds
Leather, welt, 25 lbs
sole, 1,000 lbs
Box kip, 2731 ft
Box calf, 30' ft
" Canadian calf, 100 feet.
Willow calf, 326 ft
Mitts, 9 prs
Nails, iron, 20 lbs
Persian lamb skins, 9 skins
Paste, tan, 1 1 doz
Peaks, cap, 13 doz
Rivets, wire, 60 lbs
Stars, 3 paifs
Sweat bands, 72 only
Sheeting, 114j yds
Straps, 13 doz
Serge, blue, 259 yds
Silesia, fancy, 253 yds
Scarlet cloth, 2 yds
Steel shanks, men's, 1 doz
Tacks, shoe, lO lbs
Tape, 5 grs
Thread, Barbours, 15 lbs
" cotton, 6 grs
machine, 22 5-3 2 lbs
" Hardash, 2 lbs
silk, 4 lbs
" twist, 2 lbs
" Yellow hemp. 2 lbs
Varnish boot, 3 gals
Wire, cap, 100 only
Wadding, 450 yds
Wadding, tailors', 30 doz
Web, boot, 8 pes
Wax, shoe, 20 lbs
Containers
Freight and e.\presa
Apples, evaporated, 100 lbs.
Butter, 1,302 lbs
$ 9 00
363 42
EXPENDITURE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.— Continued.
213
Staff. — Continued.
Beef, 3,248 lbs
Baking soda, 112 lbs
Coffee, 25 lbs
Corn, 10 tbs
Carraway seed, 1 lb
Currants, 83 tbs
Canned salmon, 111 tins.
Extracts, lemon, 2 tbs. - .
Eggs, 140 doz
Fish, B. Cod, 580 tbs
" haddoct!, 423 lbs. .
Ginger, 5 lbs
Mustard, 36 lbs
Millt, 197; gals
Nutmegs, 1 lb
Rolled oats, 1 pckg
Raisins, 84 lbs
Sugar, 1 bag
Freight and express
Maintenance of Convicts.
Rations.
Barley, 500 Iba
Beans, 13,935 lbs
Beef, 74.163 lbs
Christmas extras
Flour, 2.540 bags
Herrings, 47 bbls
Lard, 320 lbs
Mutton, 225 lbs
Molasses, 2,435 gals
Pepper, white, 221 lbs
Potatoes, 75,045 tbs
Pork, 113 bhls
Rolled oats, 4,950 lbs
Rice, 3.000 lbs
Sugar, 8,696 tbs
Salt, coarse, 19.100 lbs
.Split peas-, 4,500 lbs
Tea, 1,100 tbs
Vinegar, 184 gals
Yeast, 208 lbs
Freight and expi esa
15 00
487 73
.434 96
43 32
.126 00
282 00
44 80
13 50
925 49
44 20
772 42
.881 50
173 25
97 50
347 84
133 70
157 50
176 00
40 50
62 40
16 34
Convict Clothing,
Buckles, black, 2 grs $
Boots, ruhber, 3 pairs.
Buttons, 35 grs
Burrs, 3 ihs
Cotton, grey, 304 yds
Cheese cloth, 120 yds
Denim, 9,915 yds
Gingham, 115 yd.^
Laces, leather, 35 1 grs
Leather, upper, 574 lbs
** sheep skin. 165 lbs.
sole, 3, 630 lbs
split, 303 tbs
welt, 49 Iba
5
81
18
81
2
00
39
25
37
70
33
84
1
25
7
20
39
67
40
15
5 04
4
60
5
07
776
50
13
20
7
00
2
25
23
56
4
20
2,034
92
13
80
40
,50
241
08
74
25
798
60
66
66
18
13
Maint£nance of Convicts. — ConUnued.
Convict Clothing.
Nails, iron, 60 lbs
" ahoe, 10 tbs
Oil neatsfoot, 20 gals
Prison cloth, l,613i yds? j
Pegs, 3 bush I
Rivets, ateel. 100 lbs i
Rivets and b'lrra |
Straw hats, 15 doz I
Shirting, galatea, 3,534i yds
Tape, 15 grs
Tacks, shoe, 52 lbs
Thread, Barbours, 25 lbs
wax machine, 39 lbs i
" cotton, 8 ers
50 lbs '
" white, 1 grs
" linen, 10 boxes
" linen, 6 lbs
Underclothings, 263i doz
Wax, shoe, 15 lbs
Yarn, 600 tbs
Baling, containers, etc
Freight and expressage
Less refund of expenditure
Medicines and Medical Comforts.
Apples, 2 doz
Bovril, 5 cans
Bananas, 2 doz
Biscuits, soda, 6 boxes
tea, 2 lbs
Butter, 297 lbs
Cornstarch, 25 lbs
Drugs
Eggs. 27i doz
Felt, green, 1 yd
Flour, buckwheat, 5 lbs
Hot water bags, 2 only
Ice bags, 3 only
Jam, 2 boxes
Lemons, 2 i doz
Mustard, 16 lbs
Milk, 726^ eels
Medicial instruments —
Pulverisator, 1 only
Gum lancet, 1 only
Forceps, 3 pairs
MethylatAi spirits, 10 gals
Nutmegs, 1 tb
Professional services, (twice)
Spectacles, 4 pairs
Sherry, H gals
Tomatoe.s. 2 cans
Tapioca, 2 lbs
Tobacco, 91 tbs
Postage
Freight and express
18 00
,395 48
3 15
8 00
6 00
15 00
375 51
6 75
7 80
20 00
39 45
40 80
17 50
4 80
14 80
8 88
,101 43
1 50
223 61
1 95
22 40
6.676 10
1,796 34
1
25
40
1
75
32
83
16
2
50
364
74
8
51
20
1 50
3 00
3 20
146 05
6 35
6 50
40
250 00
4 00
6 00
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DElFAVL.— Continual.
1 GEORGE v.,
DiaCHAROE Expenses.
j'^reedom Suits and^ Allowances.
Allowances and travel (171 men).
' Buttons, 72 grs
[ Braces, 12 doz pairs
Canvas, 445 yards
Cheese cloth, 240 yds
Cotton, grey, 304 yds
Eyelets, 6m
Farmer's satin, 88 yds
Flannel, grey, 1,552 yds
Gloves, 8 doz
Handkerchiefs, 12 doz
Hats, felt, 10 doz
lak, 2 gals
Leather, sole, 800 lbs
" wax split, 165 Iba
buff, 486i feet
Rivets, steel, 10 lbs
Silesia, 277i yds
Sateen, 299 yds
Tweed, 637} yds
Ties, 10 doz
Thread, cotton, 6 grs
" shoe, 15 lbs
"Wadding, 450 yds
Can, 1 only
Express charges
930 60
9 72
12 00
30 04
8 40
25 85
1 38
6 60
232 80
17 66
7 20
42 00
80
176 00
36 30
72 98
80
20 10
22 42
217 60
15 00
30 60
12 00
10 13
35
30
"OBKINQ ExPEHSES. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Transfers and Interments.
Digging grave, 1 only
Transfers to Kingston, 8 females.
Transfers to Kingston, 6 men. . . .
Freight and express
WonKJNG Exi'ENSES.
Heat, Light and Water.
Burners, 4 doz $ 3 11
Batteries, 12 only 2 88
Carbons, solid, 500 only 13 63
24 only 4 32
Cordwood, 681 cords 394 00
Coal, screenings, 4,246,360 lbs 7 ,324 96
" egg, 301,620 lbs ' 919 95
- stove. 56,560 lbs 172 51
Coal oil, 269 gals 43 04
Globes, 48 only 11 40
Electric lamps. Tungsten, 200 only 158 00
600 only 102 00
Matches, telephone, I'caae I 4 65
7.inc8, 24 only ! 72
freight and express i 14 02
9,169 19
Les? refund of expenditure 18 70
S 4 00
194 65
140 80
2 25
341 70
9,1.52 49
Actinolite, 1,000 lbs
Alphaduct, 50 ft
.\luni powder, 5 lbs
Acme holders, 1 doz
Battery zincs, 36 only
Buddies, 14i doz
" turn, 2 only
Branch headers, 8 only
Blue-glass commutator, 12 lbs.
Blocics, comer, 3 only
Bends, 14 only
Bolts, assorted, 4.800 only
B.abbit metal, 52 tbs
Brackets, adjustable, 2 only. . .
Basin, 12 inch, 1 only
" enamel, 1 only
Bibbs, comp., 2 only
Brass, sheet, 106 lbs
Bushings, 11 doz
Batteries, dry, 72 only
Bulbs, 41 J doz
Bronze powder, 2 tbs
Chain, sash, 400 ft
C'loset, Richelieu, 1 only
Closet bowl, 1 only
Closet cistern. 1 onlv
Colours, 1,283 lbs
Caps, 1 inch, 2 doz
Couplings, 5 doz
Crosses, 6 only
Castings, 31 lbs
Disinfectant, 40 gals
Deck, Tuyeres, 28 only
Emery powder, 50 tbs
Elbows, 18§ doz
Electric fixtures, 5 only
Flanges, 1 doz
Fire clay, 1 ton
Fire bricks, 5.000 only
Flower pots, 8 inch, 200 only. .
" seeds, 12 packages
Gra.s3 seed, lawn, 17 tbs
Glass, 24 cases
" decorated, 1 piece
Gasoline, 5 gals
Glue, 250 lbs
Gauge glasses, 4i doz
Gaskets, copper, 8 only
Hose, cable, 24 ft
Hinges, 1 2 doz
Heating cord, 60 ft
Hooks and eyes, 1 gross. ......
Hooks, Jap, 1 gross
Hard oil, finish 15 gals
Hair, plaster, 50 lbs
Insulators, 25 only
Inspection of scales
Increaser, 1 only
Iron, bar, 4,223 lbs
" scrap, 707 lbs
hand, .•i40 lbs
" Swedish, 421 lbs
" round, 3,023 lbs
" 7,617 tbs
Japan, brown, 50 gals
Knobs, baby, 100 only
split, 300 only
Key.'?, 3 only
Lumber, blue oak, 1 piece
pine, 15,308 ft
spruce, 31,593 ft
2 25
3 75
40
4 82
1 40
32 00
4 14
7 50
3 65
29 45
7 28
2 48
63
7 85
1 20
20 14
3 66
16 68
15 20
1 30
7 60
8 15
3 60
6 75
156 90
68
3 46
1 32
2 40
28 00
28 00
2 .50
13 57
13 00
3 24
7 00
115 00
10 00
1 20
4 25
77 40
87
1 25
28 00
4 62
0 10
1 94
3 08
3 60
1 34
2 .50
15 00
2 00
42
14 75
75
89 01
Xi 11
7 65
15 15
60 46
151 42
20 50
41
1 50
2 30
10 00
.589 65
683 95
EXPEXDITURE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCENT DE F Wh.—Conlinued.
215
Working Expenses. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Working Expenses. — CoDtinued.
Maintenance oi Buildinos.
Lavatory, with tittings, 1 only.
Lamp black, 50 lbs
Locks, pad, 6 doz
" Yale, 1 1 only
Lye, 80 doz..
Lead, pig, 634 lbs
" white, 7,450 lbs
" red, 1,269 tbs
Millboard. 'J6i lbs
Mothballs, 25 lbs
Mall knees, 2,627 tbs
Nipples, radiator, 2 doz
Nails, wire, 33 kegs
OflFsets, soil pipe, 2 only
Oil, linseed, 217 J gaU
Pulleys, sash, 3 doz
Paper, fly, 6 boxes
" wall, 230 pieces
" border, 192 yds
Plants, mixed, 200 only
Posts, cedar, 54 only
Putz pomade, 5 gross
Poison, rat, 1 doz
" roach, 1 doz
Plugs, 14 5-12 doz
Pipe, 3804 lljs
" black iron, 2,714 tbs
1,930 ft
" " 3 lengths
" soil, 6 lengths
'•400 ft
" galvanized. 1,116 ft
" lead, 68 lbs
Paste, 2 doz boxes
Rivets, 1 tb
Rope, wire, 500 ft
" galvanized, 1,500 ft
Salt, fine, 1 bag
Size, 25 tbs
Screws, log, 200 otdy
" 171 gross
Switches, 2 doz
Sockets. 9 doz
Sand paper, H reams
Soap, laundry, 10,200 lbs
Steel, machine, 909 tt)3
" scrap, 35 tbs
" 290 lbs
" core, 2,776 lbs
" cast, 868 tt)8
Shades, 2i doz
Splicing compound, 10 tbs
Solder, 25 tbs
Tape, white, 16 rolls
" 20 tbs
Telephone set, 1 only
Toppins, 192 only
Turpentine, 320 gals
Tin, ingot, 233i tbs
Toilet paper, 30 boxes
Traps, 7 only
Tar, coal, 15 barrels
Tacks, cut, 7 doz
T's, 7i doz .'
Tuyer blocks, 18 only
Tap, i. 1 only
Telephone receivers, 3 only
Unions, 8 doz
Valve. 19 only
Varnish, white, 2i gals
" wearing, 5 gala
S 14 r,-,
5 50
111 40
13 70
36 00
24 41
469 35
62 18
4 83
1 00
157 62
2 16
83 75
4 20
139 09
4 80
2 10
50 69
9 07
15 00
235 00
22 50
1 75
1 75
9 08
26 62
58 76
142 72
91 i
7 65 1
156 73
75 59
4 08
3 00
20
47 50
136 39
1 35
50
2 97
43 74
3 84
15 66
5 63
408 00
30 50
93
7 25
222 OS
84 39
5 45
5 20
4 88
80
18 80
11 00
2 30
247 00
77 06
190 30
4 42
51 00
1 87
14 13
18 00
50
5 25
13 83
36 55
6 25
13 75
Valv
: cylinder for flushometer.
diocs, 91 doz
Whiting, 1,344 tbs
Wire,'r. c, 5,031 ft
■' steel, 24 ft
cord, 598 ft
spring, 2| tbs
25 tbs
" galvanized, 288 tbs
" cloth, 23 pieces
Y's, 3Jdoz
Zinc, white, 100 lbs
Duty on steel
Coutainers
Freight and express.
Maintenance o/ Machinery-
Anti-friction metal, 273i^tba
.Asbestos cement, 16 bags
Belting, 9 ft
leather, 100 ft
Comp. bibbs, 6 only
Carbon, brushes, 34 only
Glasses, for oiler, 1 doz
Graphite, powder, lOtbs
Inspection of boilers, 1 year
I.ace leather, 13i lbs
Lubricator, i pint. 1 only
Nuts, 115 ttw
Oil, cylinder, 273 gals
" dynamo, 47^ gals
" machine, 468 gals
Oakum, 100 lbs
Parts of machinery, 54 only
Packing, spiral, 31 1-6 tbs
" rainbow, 25 9-16 tbs. . .
" sheet, 15^ tl>s
Pipe, brass, 6 ft
Rivets, 1 gross
Sal ammoniac, 50 lbs
Steel, machinery, 203 lbs
" cast, 256 lbs
.Soda, ash, 600 tbs
Steam traps, 3 only
Screen, 1 only
Valves, air, 2 only
" Jenkins, 19 only
Washers, rubber, 4 doz
" hexagon, 1 doz
" 50 tbs
Containers
Postage
Freight and express
Chapels, Schools and Libraries.
Books, copying, 24 doz
" arithmetics, 1 doz
" readers, 3 doz
" spelling, 2 doz
" French course, 3 doz
" Roman Catholic chapel, 14 doz
9 92
6 65
45 16
35
6 13
1 01
1 25
9 50
11 50
14 95
8 76
19
130 40
2 75
125 83
S 4 95
20 00
13 32
75 46
2 91
17 91
1 80
1 20
40 00
9 45
8 00
6 15
103 74
23 75
117 02
3 50
133 71
17 08
IS 92
2 56
45
70
4 75
5 58
21 71
6 12
39 94
7 00
86
21 10
60
1 20
2 90
1 15
$ 19 20
2 25
8 00
96
15 00
52 20
216
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORaE v.,
ST. VINCENT DE PAVh.— Continued.
WoHKiNG Expenses.— Continued.
Chapeh, Schools and LibraTies.
LJooks, Mission, 3 doz
" dictionaries, 3 doz
" library, 600 only
Charcoal, 8 boxes
Care of chapel and linen
Chaplets, 2 gross
Church register, 1 only
Hosts, 2 only
Incense, 4 boxes
Organist'b salaries, 2 for 1 year
Repairing organs, 2 only
Scapulars, 3 gros3
Sanctuary oil, 10 gals
Slates, 3 doz
Slate pencils, 5 boxes
iSubscriptions to magazines, 12 only.
Tapers, 50 lbs
Wine, 3 5-8 gals
Containers
Freight and expresij
O^ce Expense!^.
Clock dials, 1,000 only.
CertiOcate of baptism. .
Premium on officers' bonds for 1910.
Printing
Stationery
Telephones and connections
Telegrams
Repairs to typewriter
Subscriptions to papers
Freight and express
Farm.
Axle nuts, union, 4 only..
Barley, 50 bushels
Bran. 4 tons
Buckwheat, 325 lbs
Brass rings, i gross
Buckles, tug. 6 pairs
" double, ^ gross. .
Binder twine, 100 lbs. . . .
Boar pig, 1 only
Baskets, 2 doz
Camphor. 1 lb
Clippers, horse, 1 pair.. . .
Curry combs, fi only
Castings, 28 lbs
Examining hordes. 2 only
Feed, Eureka, 10 tons. . .
" barley, 20 tons. . . .
" com, 2 tons
Grain. 47'.1 bushels
Grindstones. 74 Itw
Hay seed, 400 lbs
" 1 bush
Horses. 2 only
Horseshoe nails, 50 lbs. . .
Horseshoes, 100 lb»
Horse medicine
S 10 80
24 00
50 00
3 60
54 65
14 40 I
2 25
6 66 I
4 00 j
100 00 j
69 05 I
4 50
14 50
4 32 I
80
26 55
20 00
4 65
1 70
4 35
518 29
1 8 00
25
123 37
24 00
362 90
295 37
112 10
35 56
50
20 00
15 11
75
41 50
91 60
4 88
3 61
3 00
8 40
10 00
15 00
6 00
60
1 25
1 25
1 12
8 00
255
00 j
.548
00 !
5H
00 t
59
89
74
37
53
2
50
405
00
4
50
3
50
4
20
Industries. — Conliiiued.
Farm.
Hose, rubber, SO ft
Hoea, 1 doz
Harness dressing, } gal
Handles, fork, 1^ doz ,
Leather, harness, 100 tbs ,
" collar, 57^ lbs ,
Lentils, 2 bushels ,
Mower, 1 only
Manure, 30 cars
Oats, 3,570 lbs
Ploughs, 3 only
Parts of machines,
Pease. 50 bushels
Paris green. 175 lbs
Potash, 10 lbs
Rubber, 4 pieces
Repairs to plows, 2 only ; .
" seeder, 1 only
" niower, 1 only
Scythe stones, 4 only
Shears, grass, 1 pair
Snaiths, ^ doz
Scythes, 1 doz
Straw, 9,300 tbs
Soap, harness, 1 doz
Screens, potato, 2 only
Seeds
Tar, .pine, 2 gals
Veterinary services
Wooden frame saddles, 2 only. . .
Containers
Freight and express
Trade Shops.
Awls, li gross
" stabbing, 1 gross... .
" sewing, 1 gross
" strip, ^ doz
" brad, 2 sets
Acid, oxalic, 2 lbs
Architects' triangle, 1 only,
Axes, 3^ It)., 6 only
Buckles, black, 2 gross
Boot tree stogie, 1 only. . .
Brass, sheet, 24 lbs
Bristles. 1 lb
Beeswax, 50 lbs
Brushes, paint, lOi doz. . .
" kalsomine, i doz.
*' sash tools, 1 doz.
Bolt clipper, 1 only
Bracerf, 3 only
Bolts, carriage, 700 only.. .
" stove, 600 only
" sticker, 2 doz
Bits; auger, 18 only
" 4 sets
Bell, magneto, 1 only
Cardboard, 75 sheets
Coloura, 127 tbs
Charcoal, 54 bags ,
Chatk, marking, 10 lbs
" tailors, 7 boxes
Chain, 19 lbs
Casters, 24 seta
Chisels, 3 seta
" 22 only
15 20
4 50
75
2 75
27 00
13 51
3 50
47 50
635 00
55 78
37 00
57 10
70 00
31 60
2 00
16 00
2 25
1 50
19 36
23
1 50
4 06
9 60
26 98
5 00
3 25
2 53
80
1 41
50
60
1 3
12
2,630 79
« 3
90
' 1
25
1
65
i 1
00
90
20
23
45
1
68
8
00
1 •''
28
6
50
22
50
49
66
12
47
1
12
6
00
5
88
3
77
1
46
4
SO
2
60
9
00
7
25
16 20
BO
4 75
1 90
8 82
10 25
0 65
EXPENDITURE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCENT DE PAJJh.. —Continued.
217
Industribs. — Continued ,
Trade Shops.
Canada Plate, 6 boxes
Copper, square, 62i tbs
Cement roller, 1 only
Coal, smiths'. 77.400 lbs
Chair webbing, 72 yds
Carbon, Bisnep, 7 lbs
Drills. 3i doz
Dies, 1 set
Duck, black. 12 yda
Drawknlfe, 4 only
Drawing pins, 24 doz
Emery straps, 1 doz
" flour, 100 tbs
Emery wheel dresser, 1 only.
Emery wheels. 9 only
Emery cloth, 1 ream
Elastic. 1 yd
Felt buffing wheels. 4 only. .
Files, 69i doz
Force cups, 2 only
Gauges, 7 only
Gloves (electricians'), 1 pair.
Glazier's diamonds, 2 only.. .
Gasoline, 23 j gals
Glue. 100 tbs
Glass, 2 cases
Gutta percha, 19 J ozs
Gauges, carpenters', 2 only. .
" surface, 1 only
Grindatoae, 122 lbs
Hammers. I only
Heater coils, 6 sets
Hinges, brass, 16 doz
" spring, 2 doz
" 2 doz
Handles, awl, 7 doz
" bureau, 3 doz
Hickory, li cord
Hooks and eyes, 2 gross
Hoes, mortar, * doz
Hair seal skins, 12 skins
Hoist, horse power, 1 only.. .
Ink, printers', 20 tbs
Iron, galvanized, 2,564 Iba.. .
" 50 tbs
Knives, shoe, 2 doz
" pocket. 2 only
Leather, buffing. 10 sides.. . .
dongola. 117t ft...
box-calf, 150 ft
" roan skins, 8 skins.
Level glasses. 2 doa
Lasts. 82 pairs
Lumber, basswood. 1.028 ft..
hickory. 125 ft
Locks, Yale, 5 doz
" common, 1 doz
" cupboard. 3 doz
Millboard. 13 bales
Mason's lines. 73 tbs
Moss. 312 tbs
Nail sets. 1 doz
" puller, 1 only
Nails, chair, 6m
Nippers, 2 pairs
Needles, 15 papers
" bent. 2 only
" 16 doz
600 only
Oil, sewing machine, 4 gals. .
" hard, 5 gals
$ 15
00
12
50
5
50
194
66
1
75
2
10
10 85
5
25
4
08
1
81
57
1
65
5 00
40
52
53
17
10
3'J
60
152
78
1
50
1
03
3
50
13
00
6
00
10
00
7
SO
4
87
71
2
50
1
53
46
28
10
7
97
1
70
IS
2
40
2
34
30 00
2
27
3
75
66 00
175
00
6 80
98
00
1
40
2
80
82
43
20
29
71
40
92
14
16
65
47
00
33
92
26
04
28 00
2
00
9
10
20 04
2
56
31
20
80
85
3
00
1
35
1
50
05
5
70
8
60
3
95
5
00
Industries. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
Oil stone. 3 only
Pincers, 6 only
Planes. 23 only
Pencils, carpenters', 18 doz
Parts of tools
Paper, blue print, 61 rolls
drafting, 1 roll
" " 58 lbs
" tracing cloth, 1 roll
Pliers, 2 pairs
Pumice stone. 20 lbs
Plug taps. 7 only
Putty knives. 6 only
Plug and die, 1 only
Punch, spring roll. 1 only
Polarity indicator. 1 only
Rasps. 10 inch, 2 doz
Rubber cement, 1 doz. cans
Rules, 4 1-12 doz
Rope, 662 tbs
" wire, 180 ft
Repairs to shuttle
" derrick winch, 2 only
Shoe for derrick, 1 only
Step for derrick, 1 only
Shellac, white. 5 gals
Shellac, brown, 5 gals
Subscription to Sartorial Art, year .
" Clay Worker, 1 year,
Screw eyes, 1 gross
Sponges, 2 doz
Scraper, 1 only
Sea grass, 390 tbs
Screw drivers, 3 only
Snips, 4 pairs
Steel, cast. 1,486 tbs
" plate, 1 piece
Saws, jewellers', 1 doz
" hack, 9 doz
" circular IS-inch^ 1 only
" band, 120 ft
" 14 only
" panel, 1 only
" buck. 2 only
" keyhole, 3 only
" jig. 1 only
" web, 2 10-12 doz
Solder, silver, 2 boxes
Scoops, 2 doz
Shovels, 3 doz
Steel squares, 19 only
Spring scale, 1 only
Screws, coach, 100 onlv
" 35 gross
Spoke shave, 4 only
Sand paper, 5 reanai*
Shears, tailors'. 1 pair
Saw set, 1 only
Scissors, 1 pair
Tin, 3 boxes
" ingot, 111 tbs
Tape line, steel. 1 only
Tapes, tailors', 1 doz
Thimbles, 1 gross
Trowels, J doz
Turn-screws. 3 only
Tacks, gimp, 1 doz
Thread, bookbinders. 3 tbs
Vise, 3 only
Varnish, car. 5 gals
Wood filler, 1 gal
DEPARTMEST OF JUSTICE
ST. VINCENT DE FAUL.— Continued.
1 GEORGE v.,
Industries. — Continued
• Trade Shops.
Welding compound, 90 lbs.
Wire netting, 447 ft.
Wire, stove pipe, 20
tinned, 10 lbs
" r. c , 504 ft,
" iron, 142 It,
Wrenehes, monkey, 2 only
Yard stick, 1 only
Postage
Containers, cans, 3 only
Freight and express.
Pkison Equipment.
Machinery.
Tube boiler, 1 only
Fitting and installation
Oil filter, 1 only
Flanges, 9 only
T's, 2 only
Valves, 2 only
Bolts and nuts, 122 only
shings.
Blankets. 1.743 lbs
Beds, iron cot, 50 only
Cocoa mats, 2 only
Carpet, 13 yds
Casters, 6 sets
Crash, 2,079 yds
Clock, 1 only
Drawer pulls, 2 doz
Felt, 3 yds
" mattress, 600 ft. ...
Forfar linen, l,S88i yds. . .
Gimp, 18 yds
Hooks, brass, cup, i gross.
Hinges, brass, 1 doz
Leather, furniture, 15 ft.. .
Musk, net, 5 yds
Mirror, 1 only
OU cloth, 58 yds
Soap, shaving, 40 lbs
" castile, 1,890 Iba
36 doj
Ticking, 5281 yds
Towels, 5 doz
Whisks, 1 doz
Freight and express
S2,500 00
187 24
45 00
20 05
25 00
65 00
6 32
2,848 61
Vtenails and VehiclCK.
Anti-friction raetal, 27i lbs. . . .
Barbers' duster, 1 only
Brooms. 71 doz
Bolts, tire, 300 only
Burrs, copper. 1 lb
Butcher's knife, 1 only
Bucket ears, 77 lbs
Bath bricks, 10 doz
688 47
242 24
2 40
14 30
2 40
280 66
4 56
96
1 65
31 50
476 55
90
1 15
1 75
4 50
25
25
20 30
13 65
160 65
7 20 !
84 52
4 85 I
1 25
33 44
165
15
1
76
39
49
11
9.';
3
50
Phibon Equipment. — Continued.
Utensils and Vehicles.
Cartridges, 2,100 rounds
Cups and saucers, 1 doz . . . .
Crock, 4 gal, 1 only
Colours, 45 lbs
Coal sifter, 1 only
Clippers, toilet, 2 pairs
" springs, 3 doz . . . .
Clock, 1 only
" parts for
Casters, 12 sets
Duster, feather, 1 only
Faucet, 1 only
Flower pots, 200 only
Hone, razor, 2 only
Iron, tinned, 159 lbs
Russian, 152 lbs
" hoop, 830 lbs
" galvanized, 2,593 lbs.
Knives and forks, 1 J doz. . .
Locks, 7 only
Lawn mowers, 2 only
Lumber, elm, 1,500 ft
Pot, 3-Kallon, 1 only
Potato knives, 1 doz
Pearline, 12 boxes
Plates, dinner, 2i doz
" butter, i doz
Razors, i doz
Rivets, copper, 2 lbs
" tinned, H lbs
Rice root, 50 lbs
Rubber tubing, 7 ft
Scissors, 1 pair
Spoons, table, 2 gross
" tea, 3 doz
Scoops, 3^ doz
Shovels, 4 doz
" snow, 3 doz
Top for range, 1 only
Tape, metallic, 1 only
Tumblers, 1 doz
Tin, 35 boxes
Whisks, 1 doz
Whip, 1 only
Wire, tinsmiths', 577 lbs
" annealed, 10 lbs
" bright. 366 lbs
Freight and express
J.ands, Buildings and Walls.
Brackets for electric poles, 75 only.
Buckles, 75 only
Blasting powder, 10 kegs
Cement, 620 barrels
Electrical equipment, new cells
Iron, galvanized, 2,104 lbs . . .
Lumber, spruce, 4,150 ft
oak, 2,265 ft
pine, 5,502 ft
Pipe, black, 206J ft
Sash, pulleys, 6 doz
Screws, coach, 500 only
Sand, 16 cars
Steel, soft core, 31,750 lbs
" wire ply, 687 lbs
Saw dust, 75 bags
Ventilators, 12 only, 115 lbs
6 00
4 00
1 00
15
10 00
1 54
13 91
17 49
30 71
98 83
2 60
2 50
13 50
53 GO
1 55
90
70
57
5 SO
1 49
40 50
46 80
13 50
3 78
2 80
80
197 59
1 25
2 50
13 97
1 00
. 9 52
13 26
946 77
$ 15 00
2 25
25 00
818 40
121 79
81 00
91 30
144 96
187 07
6 91
8 40
5 99
128 00
2,587 77
54 96
3 00
4 33
EXPEXDITVRE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
ST. VINCEXT DE PAUL.-
Prison Equipment. — Continued.
Lands. Buildings and Walls.
S 7!i 56
248 00
279 67
'M18CEI.LANEOU8. — Continued.
1
] Special.
Salary of purcliasing agent, 1 montli . . .
Prizes for rifle and revolver competition.
S175 Go
50 00
Leas refund of expenditure
4.889 36
173 20
Rent of railway siding
11 54
4,716 16
MlSCELLANEOOa.
Adiertisino and Trarel.
$ 16 20
202 60
325 71
34 90
Travel, penitentiary officers
** departmental officers
Expenses, return of paroled convict
579 41
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Recapitclation.
Staff-
Salaries and retiring allowances.
Uniforms and mesa
Maintenance of Conncls —
Rations
Clothing and medicines.
Diaeharge Expenses —
Freedom suits and allowances.
Transfer and interment
Working Expenses —
Heat, light and water
Maintenance of buildings and machinery.
Chapels, schools and library
OflSce expenses
Industries —
Farm
Trade shops.
Prison Equipment —
Machinery
Furnishing
Utensils and vehicles
Land, buildings and walls.
Miscellaneous —
Advertising and travel.
Special
61,031 62
3.078 12
17,275 95
5.836 28
1.939 63
341 70
9.152 49
7,242 44
518 29
997 16
2,630 79
2,399 78
2,848 61
2,080 35
946 77
4,716 16
579 41
241 54
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.
1 GEORGE V, A. 1911.
Staff.
Salaries.
General.
Warden. 1, 12 m
Surgeon, 1. 12 m
Accountant, 1, 12 m
Chaplains, 2, 12 m., @ $1,000.00
Storekeeper, etc., 1, 12 m
Steward, etc., 1, 12 m
Engineer, 1, 12m
Hospital overseer, etc., 1, 12 m..
Matron. 1, 12 m
Deputy matron, 1, 12 m
Meaaenger, 1, 12 m
Fireman, 1, 12 m
Industrial.
Trade instructors, 6, 12 m., @ $800.00 . .
Trade instructors, 3 broken periods
Stable guards, 2, 12 m., @ S600.00
Police.
Deputy warden, 1, 12 m
Chief keeper, 1, 12 m
Keepers, 4, 12 m., @ S700.00
Chief watchman. 1, 12 m
Watchmen, 2, 12 m., (?» S650.00
Guards, 17, 12 m., @ S600.00
Guards, 1, 12 m , @ $600.00, leas deduc-
tion
Guards, 2 broken periods
Temporary police officCiS
Retiring Gratuities.
Instructor .John Downey
Guard, D. H Mclsaac
Instructor Hicks
Uniforms.
Boot polish, 3i doz
1 gal
Buttons, vest, 2i gross
" coat. 2 gross
Badges, Red Crosa, 1 pair. . .
Cloth, Italian, Ufii yds
Canvas, 150 yds
Frieze, 63 yds
Gloves, 38 pairs
Hata. cowboy, 2? doz
" felt, i doz
Lining, sleeve, 129 yds
I.aces, 2 gross
I^cather, welt, 2 aides
solo. No. 1, 823 lbs
Mitts, 10 pairs
Pocketing, .5.5 yds
Rubber heels, 1 pair
Scarlet cloth. 21 yds
Stay linen, 95 yds
Sileaia, fancy, 63i yds
$2,200 00
1,500 00
1,200 00
2,000 00
800 00
900 00
1,000 00
900 00
600 00
450 00
600 00
600 00
4,800 00
1,440 79
1,200 00
1,600 00
900 00
2,800 00
800 00
1,300 00
10,200 00
595 00
577 42
499 10
$2,570 14
77 21
390 10
$ 6 13
1 75
5 20
6 00
1 00
52 43
24 00
55 13
39 00
59 03
11 25
20 64
2 25
11 00
181 06
10 00
11 00
50
8 13
15 20
10 80
Staff. — Continued
Uniforms.
Serge, 2121 yds
Serge, khaki, 181i yds
Tweed, 18 yds
Thread, shoe, 3 tba
" twist, 1 lb
Uppers, tan, 48 pairs
Uppers, ladies, 8 pairs
" balmoral, 46 pairs. .
Postage
Containers
Freight and express
Apples, evaporated, 150 lbs,
Biscuits, soda, 1 box
42 tbs
Baking powder, 12 lbs
Butter, 747i tbs
Canned tomateos, 6 doz. . . .
Colee, 30 lbs
Eggs, 16 doz
Ginger, ground, 10 lbs
Lemons, 4 doz
Lard, 100 tbs
Mustard, 15 tba
Onions, 100 tba
Pepper, white, 20 lbs
Prunes, 25 tbs
Raisins, 112 tbs
Spice, mixed. 4 tbs
Sugar, g.'-anulated, 641 tbs. .
yellow, 586 lbs
Freight and express
Maintenance of Convicts.
Rations.
Barley, pot. 588 tba
Beans. 6,700 tbs
Beef. 34.184 tbs
Commeal. 3.136 tbs
Christmas extras
Flour, 610 barrels
Fish, cod, 4,870 lbs
Herring, 21 barrels
Mola-sses, 972 gals
Mutton, 420 tbs
Onions, 1,099 tbs
Potatoes, 98} buahela
Pepper, white, 35 tba
Rice, 448 tbs
Rolled oats, 9,900 tbs
Salt, fine, 5,073 tbs
" coarse, 2,514 tba
Split pp.Tse. 1 ,764 tbs
Sugar, 7„597 tbs
Tea, 5.50 tbs
Vinegar, 37 gala
Yeast, 260 lbs
Freight and express
$ 254 70
190 31
18 00
2 10
4 50
77 55
17 40
59 80
07
25
8 28
13 50
1 27
2 74
5 00
192 97
6 48
8 40
3 10
1 80
88
13 76
3 30
3 50
4 00
1 63
8 40
80
32 05
26 46
71
S 20
,58
251
25
2,351
86
62
72
18
97
3,346
00
194
SO
105
00
340
20
28
90
36
38
39
60
7
00
14
56
346
50
50
73
12
59
57
33
341
80
88
00
9
25
91
00
3
68
7,818
70
EXPENDITURE
221
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
DORCHESTER. — Continued.
Maintsnancb or Contiotb.— KHontinued.
Clothing.
ButtODS, pant, 4 gross
Cottonade, 120i yds
Checked rloth, 615J ydj
Denim 27U yds
Flannel, 124 yds
Freize, 31 yds
Galatea shirting, l,089i yda
Handkerchiefs, 34 doi
Hats, straw, 108 only
Laces. 7 gross
Leather, wax, 222 fcs. .
sole, 1,085 lbs
" upper. 268 lbs
Moccasins, 2 doz. pairs
Nails, Hungarian, 20 tbs
• zinc, 25 ttw
Rivets, shoe. 30 lbs
Underclothing, 80 doz
Yarn, 750 tbs
Freight and express.
Uedicina and Medical Comforts.
Apples, 4 doz
Biscuits, soda. 43^ tbs
Bread, pilot, 52i tbs
Drugs and medicines
Canned tomatoes. 2 doz
Professional assistance, 2 operations.
Eggs. 21 doz
Lemons, 7 doz
Oranges, 8 doz
Freight and express
DiscHARGS Expenses.
Allowances and travel, 110 convicts. .
Braces, fi doz
Cotton shirts. 1 doz
Canvas, 111 yds
Handkerchiefs. 6 doz
Hats. 6 doz
Holland, 5i yds
Neckties. 6 doz
Leather, sole. No. 2, 350 tbs
" wax, 71 tbs
Shirts, top. 5 1-6 doz
Outfits for females, 12 only
Silesia, fancy. 70 yds
.'?atpen, black, 131 yds
Tweed. 565» yds
Thread, twist. 1 lb
Underclothing, 12 doz
4 80
20 49
532 19
57 69
13 64
27 13
129 35
13 60
8 64
14 00
97 68
227 85
117 92
36 00
1 60
3 25
2 25
334 40
279 38
18 89
S 55
2 83
2 89
292 65
2 24
15 00
4 86.
1 62
2 90
7 38
332 92
11,007 05
7 50
3 75
7 49
2 40
28 50
94
6 00
73 50
31 24
20 45
88 37
6 12
10 72
152 69
4 50
53 88
1.505 10
' Maixtesance of Convicts. — Continued
Transfers and Interments.
Expenses escort to Halifax with convict
Domingo
Transfers to Kingston, 2 only
Parts for coffins
Services of coroner
Freight and express
WoKKiNG Expenses.
Heat, Light and Water.
Coal, egg, 75 tons
" slack, 38C'^fiii; tons
round, l,034iSA tons
Coal oil, 331 gala..".
Ijimps, Tungsten, 199 only
lantern, globes, 2 doz
Electric current, 1 year
Matches, 10 boxes
"W icks, m. r., 1 doz
Maintenance of Buildings.
Batteries, complete, 36 only
Bushings, 1 doz
Bibbs, tirass, 1 doz
Cornice for roof, 240 ft
" 20 comers
Cocks, stop, 6 only
Castings, 178 tbs
Chloride of lime, 150 tbs
Colours, 100 tbs
" 5 gals
Disinfecting fluid, 80 gals
Door knobs, 2 doz
Flbows, cast iron, 3 doz
Fire-clay, 500 tbs
Fire-brick, 300 only
Glass, 4 cases
" 1 light
Iron, flat, 790 tbs
" galvanized, 1,123 tbs
" sheet, 1,126 tbs
I.ead, black, 1 gross
" red, 25 tbs
" white, 100 tbs
Locks. 2 doz
Latches, thumb, 2 doz
Oil. boiled, 45S gals
Nails, wire, 20 kegs
" clout, 200 tbs
Putty, 355 tbs
Plaster, Calc. 8 barrels
Paper, building. 230 rolls
" fly. 1 case
Pitch, 30 casks
" 2.403 tbs
Pipe, lead. 265 tbs
Roofing, 760 bq. ft
Shingles, 30m
Soda, washing. 4,704 tbs
Soap, chip, 1,000 lbs
" P. Y., 1,500 tbs
Sink, enamelled, 1 only
Sal ammoniac, 50 lbs
DEPARTMEXr OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.-
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Working Expenses. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
T*s, cast iron, 3 doz
Tin, block, 112 lbs
Toilet paper, 6 cases
Varnish, 10 gala
Valves, globe, 16 only
" cylinder, 1 only
Wire cloth, 3 yds
Wall paper. 397 rolls
Cartage
Poftstr'
Customs dui>.
Freight and expre«a
Maintenance of Machinerjj.
Belting, leather, 4-inch, 22 ft
Glasses, water, 2 doz
Inspection of boilers, 1 year
Oil, machine, 92^ gals
" cylinder, 42 gals
Parts for machines
" boilers
Packing, canvas, 3 J lbs
" rubber, 12J lbs
Waste, cotton, 128 lbs
Freight and express
Chapels, Schools and Library.
Altar decorations and fittings
Books, school, 6 doz
" chapel, 7 doz
" library, 1,047 only
Organists* salaries, 2 for 1 year
Surphce, 1 only
Subscription to Labour Gazette, 1 year.
Slates, 6 doz
Slate pencils, 10 boxes
Tapers, wax, 1 box
Freight and express
Office Expenses.
Buyers' Guide. 1 only
Premium on officers' bonds, 1 year
Postage, 1 year
Printing, 1 year
Stationery, 1 year
Subscriptions to papers, 1 year.. . .
Telegrams, 1 year
Telephones, 9 months
Freight and express, 1 year
Bran, 2 tons
Brooms, push. 1 do
2 70
39 20
68 75
12 00
19 12
2 25
128141
1 S 36
1 15
40 00
30 11
21 00
12 82
22 45
2 93
6 25
12 16
10 80
168 03
S 14 50
13 23
49 34
110 94
100 00
2 50
20
7 20
1 60
$ 5 00
24 00
100 00
89 88
75 32
29 20
15 50
53 55
28 16
420 61
Industries. — Continued.
Farm.
Brushes, horse, 1 doz
Baskets, potato, 2 doz. . . .
Chain, 91 lbs
Curry combs, 1 doz
Cornmeal, 12,740 lbs
Cultivator, 1 only
Disc drill, 1 only
I Forks, hay, 1 doz
Grass seed, 1,200 lbs
I Horcs • 1 if^ani , - . . .
Hoes, 1 doz
Handles, fork, 1 j doz
" axe, 2 doz
Horse cards. 2 doz
Iron, flat, 418 lbs
Medicine. .
Middling, 1 ton
Oats, 807 bushels
Phosphate, 3 tons
Parts for machines
Potato hooks, 1 doz
Rugs, horse, 6 only
Rivets, 7 lbs
Rings, bull, 2 only
Shafts, 2 pairs
Spades, dyking, 1 doz
Steel, toe calk, 40 lbs
" flat, 55 lbs
Seeds
Travel expenses of warden .
Whip sockets, 2 only
Whips, carriage, 6 only. . . .
Wire, hay, 90 tba
Containers
Telephone tolls
Veterinary services
.Customs charges
Freight and express
Less refund of expenditure.
Trade Shops.
Awls, pegging, 1 gross
" sewing, 1 gross
Anvil, 254 lbs
Bolts, car, 750 only
Brushes, kalsomine, 4 doz . .
" tar, 1 doz
" white wash, i doz
Blasting powder, 4 kegs. . . .
Bristles, 1 oz
Button hole cutter, 1 only. .
Blocks, 4 only
Bits, auger, 2 sets
Braces, 1 doz
Cotton, grey, 923 yds
twilled, 119 yds. . .
Cottonade, 117 yds
Colours, 150 lbs
Copper, bar, 6 J lbs
Clips, J-inch, 6 only
Canvas, 100 yds
Coal, blacksmiths', 21 tons. .
Draw knives, i doz
Derrick booms, 2 only. .....
4 20
4 00
4 32
1 50
254 80
11 70
80 00
5 72
107 00
430 00
30 00
4 95
2 98
2 00
2 10
10 66
17 48
28 50
492 68
89 25
34 58
6 74
16 50
1 05
50
3 00
16 50
94
4 13
20 62
10 80
28
2 89
2 70
7 74
1 00
3 00
1,790 41
31 88
1
35
26
67
5
3B
55
76
3 00
9
60
11
00
41
2 CO
3
86
6 00
1
78
32
51
12
79
19
89
7
35
2
03
1
31
6
75
84
00
3
50
SO 00
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
EXPENDITURE
DORCHESTER.— €on!inued.
In-dcstsibs. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
UriUs, twist, 57 only
Emery cloth, 10 quires
Eyelets, black. 5m
Fuse, 4 coils
Files, 17 doz
Force cup, rubber, 1 only
Gasoline, 961 gals
Hooks, shoe, 6 lbs
Handles, awl, 2 doz
" pick, 2 doz
Hammers, 1 doz
Handles, aledge, 6 doz
" hammer, 6 doz
Hard oil finish, 10 gals
Iron, flat, 959 lbs
" square, 239 lbs
" Russian, 132 lbs
" galvanized, 787 lbs
" sheet, 440 lbs
Japan, brown, 5 gals
Lasts, 8 pairs
I«ead, black, 2 doz
Leather, sole, No. 1, 67 lbs
Canada calf. 21 lbs
" sheep skins, 52 lbs
Lumber, white pine, 7,440 ft
Mason lines, 1 doz
Nails, shoe, 12 lbs
Hungarian, 120 lbs
" horse shoe, 50 Iba
Needles, machine, 156 only
3 doz. papers
Oil, sewing machine, i gal
Oil stones, 1 i lbs
Plumbers'Jfumace, 1 only
Parts for tools
Pliers, cutting, 1 pair
Rivets, 10 lbs
" tinned, 12m
Rope, 237 lbs
wire, 150 ft
Rules, boxwood, 4 doz
Rubber cement. 1 doa
Squares, steel, 1 doz
Saws, buck, ^ doz
" disc, 1 only .
" hack, 1 doz
Screws, 6 gross
.Shellac, l^al
Steel, tool, 32 lbs
" octagon, 342 lbs
" mild, 186 lbs
Shovels, 1 doz
Scoops, i doz
Stocks and dies. 2 sets
Stock, hand, 1 only
Snips, tinners, 2 pairs
Sal ammoniac, 25 lbs
Sand papers, 20 quires
Subscriptions to trade journals, 2 only
Tire binder, 1 only
Trowels, ma-sons, 1 doz..
Thread, cotton. 7 gross
" linen, .30 lbs
Tacks, carpet, 2 lbs
" shoe, 20 Iba
Turpentine, 47 . 02 gala
Thimbles, 2 only
Tin, black, 54 Iba
Varnish, surfacing, 1 gal
" carriage, 1 gal
, 6 00
8 91
1 00
2 60
37 87
■ 29
21 20
3 90
90
2 70
6 25
10 53
9 60
12 00
23 80
6 20
8 91
36 99
9 68
4 25
4 80
28
14 74
16 75
15 60
89 28
1 40
72
9 60
5 94
3 90
90
75
56
6
00
10
43
1
25
80
2
64
28
44
11
78
22
20
1
50
6 21
4
97
2 30
71
1
63
3
50
2
64
28
21
4
28
12
68
5
46
8
30
20 00
2
25
3
.TO
4
62
12
00
18
75
6
75
28 70
67
.50
18
2
00
27
20
24
18
90
1
40
2
70
iNDUeJTBiES, — Continued .
Trade Shops.
\'ise, trojan, 1 only
Wrenches, Stillson, 4 only
Wadding, 50 doz
Welding compound, 25 lbs
Wire, iron, 50 lbs
" stove pipe, 50 lbs
Duty on button-hole cutter
Postage
Freight and express
Axle arras, 4 only
Bunti ng, 18 yds
Brooms, 10 doz
Brushes, shaving, 1 doz
Cups and saucers, 1 doz
Clippers, hair, 1 pair
Cartridges, rifle, 1,000 rounds
" revolver, 2,000 rounds.
Coffee pot, 1 only
Crocks, 4 only
Combs, 2 doz
Double boiler, 1 only
Hand-cuffs, 3 pairs
Knives and forks, 1 doz
Mugs, 1 doz
Plates, dinner, 1 doa
" soup, 1 doa
Parts for range
Pot**, iron with covers, 2 only
Razors. 6 only
Repairing clocks, 2 only
Shovels, 2 doz
Spoons, 1 7-12 gross
Traps for barrow, 8teel,'2'only
Tea pots, 2 only
Pkison Eqdipment.
Machineru.
Mast and derrick irona, 2 sets.
Wire rope, 520 ft
Fittings for derrick
FumiJihinos.
Blankets, wool, 481 lbs. . . .
Chair, ofHce, 1 only
Crash, 540i yds
Forfar linen, 4334 yds. . . .
Linen, 645i yds
" table, 6 yds
Pillows, 1 doz
Quilts, white, 1 doz
Soap, castile, 1,121 lbs
" barbers', 20 lbs
Freight and express. . . . .
Ulauiils and Vehicles.
4 64
10 50
1 89
$6.50 00
39 00
3 60
S189 99
3 75
48 65
112 71
167 83
4 50
7 50
12 00
106 51
8 00
8 19
669 63
J12 00
3 42
23 88
1 50
1 90
3 06
30 85
21 40
80
2 60
2 50
75
14 25
1 60
1 50
1 50
1 50
5 00
1 20
5 50
24 10
24 70
5 45
11 00
1 10
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DORCHESTER.— Conciuded.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Prison Equipment. — Continued.
Utensils and Vehicles.
Tin, 8 boxes
Wire, iron, 50 lt)3
Whisks, 1 doz
Freight and express
Lands, Buildings and Walls.
Bends, 3 only
Blasting powder, 2 kegs
Blue prints, .30 only
Basin, enamel, 1 only
" lavatory and fittings, 1 only
Bushings, 3 doz
Castings, 208 lbs
Cleats, 500 only
Cock seats, 4S only
Cement, 911 barrels
Elbows, 8 doz
Electricians* services, 36 days
Electrical equipment,
Hair, plasterers', 217 lbs
Hinges, 5 doz
Iron, flat, 3,665 lbs
" round, 1,944 lbs
" galvanized, 5,635 tba
" bar, 192 lbs
Japan, 5 gals
Lime, 300 casks
Locks, dead, 1 only
" pad, 12 only
Lumber, pine. 3,000 ft
spruce, 25,928 ft
Lead, white, 500 lbs
Latches, night, 1 only
Nails, wire, 16 kegs
Pipe, galvanized iron, 267 ft
" soil, 20 ft
" black, 499 ft
Rivets, 28 tbs
.■Rawing lumber. 22,979 ft
Sand, 462J tons
Stone for wall, l,239i tons
" wing, 9893 tons
$ 46 00
1 41
2 50
1 51
254 48
1 50
5 50
4 61
4 50
13 45
80
12 36
6 00
1 00
,685 35
5 04
90 00
123 50
6 51
1 20
93 71
49 84
264 85
5 18
4 00
438 00
1 46
9 74
36 00
328 02
27
25
1
80
53
05
14
00
4
00
23
46
2
13
39
Ot
378
94
103
87
393
83
1
Prison Equipment. — Continued
Lands, Buildings aiid Walls.
Sash cord, 20 tbs
Tile, 3-inch, 600 ft
T's, 1 only
Valve seats, 4 doz
Valves, globe, 16 only
Washers, bibb, 1 doz
Cartage
Packing
Freight and express
Less refund of expenditure
Miscellaneous.
Advertising and Travel.
Advertising, 2 papers
Travel, Departmental Officers:
Adams, E.J
Creighton, R. R
Dawson, G. W '
Pratt. G. A
Travel, Penitentiary Officers:
Kirk, J. A
Sundry . . .
Expenses return of paroled convicts,
(2 only)
Special.
Salary of purchasing rgent, 1 month. . .
Prizes for rifle and revolver competition.
Commission on money orders
Expenses re escape of 2 convicts
7 00
9 00
2 64
19 12
9,341 93
105 40
104 15
92 78
50 00
3 95
311 45
5 95
$175 00
50 00
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
EXPEXDITURE
DORCHESTER.
225
Recapitclatiox.
Salaries and retiring allowan
Uniforms and mess
Maintenance of Coni'icts —
Rations
Clothing and medicines.
Discharge Expenses —
Freedom suits and allowances.
Transfer and interment
Working Expenses —
Heat, light and water
Maintenance of buildings and machinery.
Chapels, schools and library
Office expenses
Industries —
Farm
Trade shops.
Prison Equipment —
Machinery
Furnishing
Utensils and vehicles
X^nd, buildings and walla.
Miscel laneo us —
Advertising and travel.
Special
42,399 76
1,495 21
43.894 97
7,818
2,273
70
67
10,092 37
1,505
169
10
89
1,674 99
6,685
1,461
301
420
82
36
29
61
8,869 OS
1,758
1,209
53
62
2.968 15
692
669
254
9.236
60
63
48
S3
10,853 24
.3 1 -I J
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Gentral.
Warden, 1, 12 m $2,200 00
Surgeon, 1, 12 m 1,200 00
Chaplains, 2, 12 m., @ Sl.OOO.OQ 2,000 00
Accountant, etc., 1, 12 m 1,500 00
Steward, 1, 12 m 900 00
Engineer, 1, 12 m 1,000 00
Hospital overseer, 1, 12 m 900 00
Chief trade instructor, 1, 12 m
Trade instructors, 4, 12 m., @ 8800.00.
Police.
Deputy warden. 1, 12 m
Keepers, 2, 12 m.. @ $800.00
Chief watchman, 1, 11 m., @ S900.00.
Guards, 14, 12 ra., @ $700.00
Guards, 5, broken periods
Temporary police officers
81,000 00
3,200 00
1,500 00
1,600 00
825 00
9,800 00
1,986 53
525 95
Uniforms,
Buttons, 2 gross
Cap, staff, 1 only
" hair, seal, 10 only
" peaks, 6 doz
'* straps, 6 doz
Canvas, 350 yds
Coats, raccoon, 4 only
Frieze, 50 yds
Felt, insole, lOi lbs
Hair, cloth, 73 yds
Hats, cowboy, Ig doz
Hooks and eyes, 1 gross
Khaki, 210 yd'j
■ leather, waxed ctlt, 44 lbs
" French calf, 23 lbs
" sole, 197 Its
" glazed kangaroo, 53i feet
silk cordovan, 47 J lbs
moose hides, 3 only
Padding. 77 yds
Rubber tissue, 2 lbs
Serge, 177i yds
Silesia, fancy, 160i yds
Freiglit and express
MesH.
Butter, COS lbs
Beef. 2,200 lbs
Cornstarch, 12 packagfs.
Cheese, 2} lbs
Eesences, lemon, h doz. . .
r^ggs, 3 doz
Flour, 60 sacks
Nfarmalade, 1 jar
Malta vita. 1 package
Oranges, 1 doz
$ 5 35
4 50
30 00
15 00
2 70
24 94
200 00
43 75
13 45
18 25
39 19
10
220 50
35 20
31 05
47 28
21 40
14 33
19 50
19 25
2 00
213 00
15 63
12 41
S132 66
129 73
Staff. — Continued.
Mess.
Sugar, granulated, 500 lbs. . . .
Tongue, 1 can
Tea, 1 lb
Vegetables, corn, 2 cans
" pease, 2 cans
" tomatoes, 2 cans. .
Maintenance of Convicts.
Rations.
Beans, 1,822 lbs
Beef, 40,765 lbs
Christmas extras
Fish, jack, 2,258 tbs
Flour, 840 sacks
Molasses, 149 gals
Pepper, 35 tbs
Pease, ..plit, 800 Ibi
Rolled oats, 3,200 lbs
Rice, 896 Hw
Salt, 5,965 tbs
Sugar, 3,551 tbs
Tea, black, 330 tbs
Vinegar, 79 tbs
Yeast, 90 lbs
Freight and express
Clothing.
Blue, 12 tbs
Buckles, black, 1 gross
Brace elastic, 200 yds
Cotton, twilled, 178 yds
grey, 2,292} yds
Denim, 1,000 yds
Duffle, 50 yds
Duck, 96i yds
Flannel, grey, 63 yds
Hats, straw, 5 doz
Leather, mocca, 208 lbs
" moo.se hides, 7 only
" cow hide, upper, 190 tbs
sole, 850 lbs
Prison cloth, 688? yds
Silesia, black, 121 yds
Shirting, galatca, 1,0831 yds
Underclothing, 60 doz
Yam, 100 lbs
Freight and express
Medicines and Medical Comforts.
Buscuita, soda, 3 packages
Bovril, 15 bottles
Cotton truss stocking, 1 only
Drugs and medicines
ICggs, 3 doz
Lemons, H tloz
Maintenance of insane convict in Asylum,
April 1 to July 10, 1909
Mosquito netting, 5 yds
8 77 44
2,405 11
23 40
67 74
1,999 20
71 52
8 75
28 00
112 00
40 32
53 70
186 43
52 80
22 12
37 SO
5 59
5,191 92
2 -10
75
30 00
18 69
194 89
212 50
62 50
14 44
6 62
5 50
83 20
63 00
85 50
204 00
609 27
127
29
250
80
37
25
31
59
1,948
96
t
75
5
25
5
00
118
37
70
4.^
121
25
50
EXPENDITURE
227
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
MANITOBA.— Coniinaed.
Maintenance of Conticts. — Continned.
Medicines and Medical Comforts.
Sugar, granulated, 200 lbs
Tobacco, 15 tba
" 4 plugs
Trusses, 2 only
Tomatoes, 2 cans
•Postage
Discharge Expenses.
Freedom Suits and Allowances.
Allowance and travel (50 convicts) .
Buttons, collar, 1 gross
Collar^, 5 doz
Caps, 2 doz
Canvas, 100 yds
Handkerchiefs, 5i doz
Hata, 2 doz
Leather, sole, 50 lbs
box calf, 38 lbs
Mitts, wool, I doz
MuHkrs. 1 doz
Shirts, white, 5 doz
.Silesia, 214J yds
Sateen, 210 yds
Ties, 5 doz
Tweed, 287J yds
Wadding, 25 lbs
Transfers.
Female convict to Alberta Penitentiary ,
WoREiNO Expenses.
Heal, Light and lFa(«T.
Coal, soft, 5.36 tons
" egg, 92 9-10 tons
Coal oil, 2.500 gals
Lamp burners, 27 doz
Lanterns, 1 doz
Lantern globes, 42 doz
Signal oil, 5 gals
Wicks, lamp, 6 gross ■
2 rolls
Freight and express.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Annunciator, 1 only
Bushings, cast iron, 3 only
Batteries, dry, 1 doz
Bath and fittings, 1 only
Bronze. 33 lbs
Black lead. 1 gross
Bends, 2 only
Cupboard catches. 1 doz
Chloride of Ume, 1.253 tt)S
Colours, 950 lbs
Drawer pulls, 2 doz
Elbows, 3 only
Emery cloth, 10 quires
Fly poison
8 10
50
13
50
50
4
48
23
12
281
60
42
4 95
9 00
7 13
2 24
9 50
12 00
30 40
2 00
4 00
22 45
15 58
18 38
5 00
7fi 13
5 25
573 78
$3,323 20
845 40
512 73
21 45
7 00
27 00
4 25
2 00
1 30
9 00
3
60
26
15
16
75
2
00
1
00
1
65
56
38
WoHKiNQ Expenses. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Hooks and eyes, 2 doz
Heaters. 5 only
Inaect powder, 5 lbs
Ice, 60 tonfa
Japan. 20 gals
Locks, mortice, 3i doz ,
Ijabour, repairing pipe and boiler.. . . ,
lime, 288 bxiahels ,
Lye, 28 doz ,
Lath, 5.000 only
Lumber, fir, 4,960 ft
common, 4,000 ft
dimension, 2,897 ft
Lead, pure, 1,000 lbs
Moulding. 192 ft
Moth balls. 10 tbs
Nails, wire, 2 kegs
" finishing, 4 kegs
Oil, hard, 5 gals
" Unseed, 413 gals
" raw, 855 gals
" boiled. 825 gals
Putz pomade, 18 doz
Putty, 344 lbs
Plugs, bnth, 12 only
** wTought, 12 only
Parts for windmill,
" fuller bibbs
Pipe, black, 113J ft
Paper, rosinized, 16 rolls
Rivets, iron. 2m
Reducers, 2 only
Soda, washing, 301 lbs
Soap, laundry. 3.226 lbs
Services re telephones
Sink and fittings, enamel, 1 only
Seeds, flower
Toilet paper, 1.100 packages
Turpentine, 41 gals
Unions, mailable, 12 only
Varnish. 5 gals
Wall paper, 220 rolls
border, 228 yds
Wax, floor, 3 gals
Washing soda, 909 lbs.
Wire, stove pipe, 5 lbs
Postage
Containers
Freight and express
Switching charges
Less refund of eKpenditure
Maintenance of Machinery.
Boiler compound, 600 lbs
Boiler inspection
Grate bars, 1.390 tbs
Oil, engine. 49 gals
" cylinder, 48 gals
Parts of machinery
Valves. 3 only
Customs duty
Freight and express
DEPARTMEXT OF JUSTICE
-MANITOBA.— Condnued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Working Expenses. — Continued.
ChapeU, Schools and Libraries.
Books, library, 82 only
bibles, 12 only
copy, 4 doz
Care of chapel linen
Charcoal. 1 box
Candles, 48 lbs
Music. 888 pieces
Slate pencils, 3 boxes
Slates, 1 doz
Organists' salaries
Repairs to chapel furnishings
Subscriptions to magazines, 6 only. . .
Sanctuary oil, 10 gals
Wicks, 2 boxes
Freight and express
Office Expenses.
Clock dials. 600 only
Directory, Winnipeg, 1 only
Postage, 1 year
Printing, 1 year
Stationery, 1 year
Premium on officers' bonds, 1 year. .
Subscriptions to newspapers, 3 only
Telegrams
Telephones
Typewriter, balance in exchange. . . -
Freight and express
Farm .
Boar pig, 1 only
Bull, 1 only
Brushes, horse, 1 doz
Bridles. 1 pair
Binder twine. 100 lbs
Barley. 1.50 bushels
Bran. 1 ton
Disc drill, 1 only
Grain threshed, 6,341 bttshels. . . .
Horseshoeine,
Horse shoes, 6 sets
Horses, 1 team
Horse collars, 1 pair
Handles, hay fork, 1 doz
Harvest gloves, 5 pairs
Paris green, 20 lbs
Parts of machines
Shorts, 1 ton
Sweat pads, 6 pairs
Seeds
Toe calks. 50 lbs
Travel of instructor
Turnip sower, 1 only
Veterinary service and medicine..
Wagon gear, 1 only
Whiffletrees, \\ doz
Freight and express
$
20
1
50
9 00 ,
3
20
■^
50
50 j
28
6
00
4S
Industries. — Continued .
Trade Shops.
1
20
73
OS
14
45
22
50
14
90
1
50
1
20
179
29
S S
00
5
00
43
00
155
20
ISO
55
24
00
20
00
15 00
100 00
1 2S
5 00
10 00
82 50
19 00
100 00
190 23
4 00
6 00
473 20
7 50
2 28
2 60
4 60
37 91
20 00
7 00
30 70
3 63
15 05
IS 00
13 65
62 00
9 00
12 35
Axes, 1 doz
" beach, 2 only
Acid, oxalic, 2 lbs
" muriatic, 11 lbs
Ammonia, 1 gal
Buttons, vest, 8 gross
" coat, 5 gross
" trouaer, 24 gross
agate. 12 gross
Brushes, 7i doz
Icalsomine, 1 doz
" whitewash, 1 doz
Buckles, vest, 5 gross
Blasting powder, 30 kega
Button-hole cutters, 1 pr
Bevels, 6 only
Bolts, carriage, 500 only
Bench screws, 2 only
I Coal, blacksmiths', 4 tons
[ Charcoal, 24 sacks
Colours, 28 lbs
2 tins
I Chalk, tailors', 1 box
! Canada plate, 3 boxes
I Copper, tinned, 28 lbs
! Cordwood, 90 cords
i Drills, round shank, 7 only
" jobbers, 1 only
" twist, 2 only
\ Emery cloth, 20 quires
Emery wheel, 1 only
Eyelets, 9m
I Felt bottom filling, 24 sheets
! Fuse, 1,500 ft
' Files, 4 doz
I Glaziers' points, 12 packages
j Gaiter web, 24 yds
Grindstones, 380 lbs
j ■' fittings, 2 sets
Hemp, 12 lbs
Hinges, 1. p., 1 doz. pairs
! ■ " brass, 2 doz. pairs
; Hooks, 3m
Ink, burnishing, 1 doz
I Iron, galvanized, 2.305 lbs
Hammers, 1 doz
Handles, axe, 4 doz
i Leather, sole, 96 lbs
! " harness, 101 lbs
j Leather cement, 1 doz
Locks, Yale, 5-12 doz
Laces, porpoise, 1 gross
Nippers, i doz. pairs
Nails, wire, 1 keg
" iron. heel. 30 ll>s
" brass, chair. iM
" horse, 50 lbs
Needles, 30 papers
Oil, hard, 5 gala
" sewing machine
Pincers, hoof, 1 pair
Parisian paste, 30 lbs
Parts of tools
Planes, assorted, 1 doz
Pencils, carpenters', 1 gross
Rules, boxwood, 2 doz
Kiveta, copper, 3 lbs
" brass, 55 lbs
Subscription to Tailor and Cutter, 1 year
Solder pot. 1 only. ,
Soldering paste. 3 boxes
1
45
.30
3
63
1
89
2
24
1
65
2
40
3f>
15
66
4
26
2
52
75
90
00
2
20
1
60
4
89
1
05
42
40
14
70
3
82
2
2S
25
9
75
10
36
637
00
1
94
19
2
69
17
00
3
21
5
60
2
40
8
25
3
86
1
10
7
20
5
70
84
9
42
1
15
2
42
3
75
2 00
93 44
3
87
8 00
23
04
45
45
1
10
6
U)
9
00
1
00
3
80
1
95
8 75
75
1 55
15 00
5 81
28 35
2 64
7 20
96
17 60
•3 00
EXPENDITURE
229
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
MANITOBA.— C(m(inu«(i.
Industries. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
Sctldering, coppers, 2 pairs. . .
.Screen, wire, 4J yds
Stocks and dies. 1 set .. .
Steel shanks, 6 doz
.Saws, hack, 6 only
" cross-cut, 2 only
. " rip, 3 only
panel, 3 only
Squares, steel, li doz
* " try, J doz
Screws, flat-head, 18 gross..
,Sand-paper, 6 quires
Tacks. 12 lbs
lasting, ti gross
cut, 4 doz
" gimp, 3 packages. . .
Thread, cotton, 3 gross
" linen, 12] gross. . . .
" lib
" machine silk, 2 lbs.
Tin, 2 boxes
bianco. 114 lbs
Tinners' snips, 1 pair
Trowels, plastering. 3 only..
Wrenches, ytiUson, 2 only.. .
Wire, stove pipe, 5 lbs
" iron, 327 lbs
Postage
Customs duty
Containers
Freight and express. .
Phison" Equh'mknt.
yfacbineru .
Cias generators, twin set. 200 lights .
Kight h. p., engine and tlecp well cylinder
pump, coniplpte with fittings, 1 only
Combined tirn-oncine and pump, com.
plete with fiitiiiRS, 1 only
Freight and express.
/••|
nhings.
f irfur linen, 1,298J yds.
t/il cloth, 2 pieces
" table, 2 yds
Pope. 8 lbs
Shades, 4 only
Soap, Castile, 36 lbs
shaving, 64 lbs. . .
80 bars.
Towelling, crash, 258 v<l:
Ticking, 5354 yds
Freight and express.
5 00
4 50
58
6 25
5 38
3 58
12 48
75
3 90
1 36
1 44
14 40
24 23
11 50
20 40
44 46
2 50
1 65
2 05
25
10 49
05
35
4 80
29 70
800 00
939 97
2,027 97
12 00
S253
63
60
60
20
24
68
14
14
20
59
29
92
38
2
36
445
32
Prison' Equipment. — Continued.
Utensils and Vehicles.
Brushes, stove, 1 doz
Bath bricks, 4 doz
Chain tong, Vulcan, 1 only
Cupa, enamel, 2 only
Cups and saucers, 1 doz
Flat;, Union Jack, 1 only
Iron, tinned, 60 Iba
" black, 45 lb3
Plates, dinner. 1 doz
Pots, 2 only
Pans, sauce. 1 only
pudding, 72 only
Scoops, I doz
Spoons, table. A gross
Springs for clippers. J doz
Sad irons, 1 set
Tube cleaner, boiler, 1 only
Whisks, 1 doz
Freight and express
Lfinfh. liuilitinos and Walls.
Arrears of taxes
Blue prints
Crosses cast, 3 only
elbow, 16 only
Cement, 200 barrels
" sacks, 62 only
Colours, 200 lbs
Drilling and piping well, 1d5 ft.
Fire-brick, 500 only
Glass, 6 cases
" 1,500 ft
Hair, plasterers, 4 bales
Knobs, rim, 2 doz
Iron, galvanized, 1.968 Jbs
" round, 493 11)3
" flat, 2,126 lbs
Lime. 890 bushels
Lumber, spruce, 3,633 ft
pine, 5,035 ft
fir. 1,956 ft
I^cks. mortice, 1 doz
" with keys, 20 only
Metal ceiling
" lathing, 2,200 sq. yds
Nails, wire, 5 kegs
Pitch. 10 barrels
Pipe, black. 2.009g ft...
Plaster pans, 700 lbs
Pulleys, axle. 12 doz
Putty. .300 lbs
Shingles, om
Steel reinforcing, 495 bare
Sash cord, 44§^ lbs
" weights. 1,500 lbs
Wire, 5-16 inch. 200 ft
Customs duty
Freight nnd express
230
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTf^E
MANITOBA.— Concitid«d.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
MllCELLANEODS.
Advtrtisinij and Travel.
Advertisini!
i Travel:
Inipector Dawson
Inspector Stewart
Warden Irvine
Sundry penitentiary officers
Kxpenies return of paroled convict
S 10 80
85 20
50 00
316 10
52 30
6 20
520 60
MisCELXANEOOs. — Continued .
Special.
Payment in lieu of school taxes on offi-
cers, for year 1909
Rent of railway siding
Salary of purhcasiog agent, 1 month . . .
J250 00
1 00
175 00
Recapitc l ation .
Staff-
Salaries and retiring allowances.
Uniforms and mess
Maintenance oj Convicts —
Rations
Clothing and medicines.
Discharge Expenses —
Freedom suits and allowances.
Transfer and interment
Industries —
Farm
Trade shops .
Miscellaneous —
Advertising and travel.
Special
30,137 48
1,486 90
5,191 92
2,230 56
573 78
167 20
Working Expenses —
Heat, light and wat«r 4,753 33
Maintenance of buildings andlmachinery | 2,029 17
Chapels, schools and library j 179 29
Office expenses [ 561 59
Prison Equipment —
Machinery
Furnishing
Utensils and vehicles
Land, buildings and walls
1,252 48
1,463 37
3,779 94
445 32
55 61
3,218 77
520 60
426 00
EXPENDITURE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Warden, 1, 12 m $2,200 00
Surgeon, 1, 12 m 1,500 00
Chaplaina, 2, 12 m., ® $1,000 2,000 00
Staff. — Continued.
Mens,
Accountant, etc., 1,
Storekeeper, 1, 12 m
Hospital overseer, etc., 1, 12 m.
Steward, etc., 1, 12 m
Engineers, etc., 1, 12 m
Chief'trade instructor, 1. 12 m
Trade instructors, 3, 12 m., @ $800..
** 2, brolceu periods. .
Police.
Deputy warden, 1, 12 m
Chief watchman, 1 ,12 m
Watchmen, 2, broken periods. . .
Keepers, 2, 12 m., ® $800
Guards, .3, 12 m., @ $700
" 1, 12 m., less deduction
" 18, broken periods
Temporary police officers
Uniforms.
Buttons, coat, 4 gross
" vest, 2 gross
Blacking, 2 doz
Cap peaks, 6 doz
Cloth, military, 10 yds
" w. p., 46} yds
" hair, 30 yds
Canvas, 100 yds
Frieze, 30 yds
Gloves, 35 pairs
Gum boots, 12 pairs
Hardash silk, 1 14-16 lbs
Italian cloth, black, 80 yds. . .
Khaki, 1.50 yds
Leather, mllow calf, 124 ft. . .
" patent, 3 sq. ft
1 skin
chrome box, 72} ft..
Lining, mohair, .50 yds
" sleeve, 6.) yds
Padding, felt. RO yds
Sweat bands, 6 doz
Silesia, black, 57^ yds
Tailors' tissue, 1 lb
Wire, cap, 1 roll
Freight and express
1,200 00
900 00
900 00
900 00
1,000 00
1,000 00
2,400 00
1,122 23
1,500 00
900 00
173 .39
1,600 00
2,100 00
690 28
6,740 49
2,511 38
31.337 77
S 13 00
4 00
1 50
19 50
24 50
81 81
9 00
18 00
26 25
36 00
60 00
11 25
64 00
157 .50
49 60
2 50
I 75
13 82
14 75
13 00
26 23
9 05
11 50
1 00
50
20 65
Mess. !
Baking powder, 16 lbs i
Butter. 602 tijs
Beef, 4,313 lbs
Biscuits, soda, 1 tin i
$ 6 40
138 46
309 05
Barley, 62 lbs
Cream of wheat, 1 package.
Cinnamon, ^ lb
Essences, vanilla, 1 bottle. .
" lemon, 1 bottle. . . .
Eggs, 32 doz
Flour, pastry, 4 barrels. . . .
Fish, cod, 60 lbs
" salmon, 694 lbs
" halibut, 239 lbs
Lard, 100 lbs'.
Fruits, canned, 10 tins
Mvjstard, 13 lbs
Milk, 370J gals
Pepper, white, 30 lbs
Pork, 778 lbs
Salt, 400 lbs
Soda, c. b., 12 lbs
^age, 8 lbs
Sugar, 8I)U lbs
Tea, 70 lbs
Vinegar, 9 gals . . . .
Vegetables, tinned. 7 tins. . .
Yeast, 16 lbs
Freight and express
Maintenance of Convicts.
Rationa.
Apples, evaporated, 100 lbs
Barley, 350 lbs
Beans, white, 4,034 lbs
Beef, 34,003 lbs
Baking powder, R. B., 1 lb
Bacon, 4 lbs
Christmas extras
Cornmeal, 1.700 lbs
Flour, 1,400 sacks
Fish, cod, 103 lbs
" herring, 1,400 lbs
*' salmon, 5,133 lbs
" halibut, 2,117 lbs
Hops, 20 lbs
Lard, 180 lbs
Oatmeal, 390 lbs
Onions, 385 lbs
Pease, field, 2,000 lbs
Prunes, 2,250 lbs
Pork, 9,497 lbs
Pepper, white, 220 lbs
Peaches, evaporated, 1,900 Iba.
Pears, evaporated, 800 lbs
Rice, 1,680 lbs
Rolled oats, 2,532 lbs
Sugar, brown, 6.200 lbs
Salt, coarse, 600 lbs
" fine, 3,850 lbs
Syrup, 13,660 lbs
Tea, black, 330 lbs
" green, 285 lbs
Vinegar, 45 gals
Yeast, 14 doz
159 lbs
Freight and express
8 00
22
00
3
15
34 70
15
63
12
.50
2
05
5
20
148
05
4
.50
50
66
3
20
60
2
.30
44
00
15
75
2
25
85
4 80
4
10
841
86
8 00
10 '50
139 59
.446 30
40
50
29 88
42 37
.542 00
6 .50
70 00
256 65
137 59
3 00
22 50
16 54
8 03
40 00
112 50
617 27
33 35
133 00
48 00
58 56
107 48
279 00
3 90
30 90
347 47
52 80
45 60
11 25
6 40
47 70
19 34
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLVUBIA— Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Maintenance of Convicts. — Continued.
Clothing.
Buttons, 1 1 gross
Buckles, brace, 5 gross
pant, 3 packages
" 6 gross
C'loth, prison check, 400i yds. .
"(.'rash, 705J yds
"Cotton, grey, 588} yds
'Canvas, 460 yds
Drilling, 352 yds
-Denim, blue, 1,616^ yds
Buck, l,0S6i yds
Flannel, grey, 189 j'ds
Hats, straw, 32 doz
Ink, Long's, 1 quart
Jean, 114^ yds
Leather, chrome, 613i ft
sole, 2,320 lbs
kip, 144i ft
Laces, shoe, 10 gross
*' porpoise, 1 gross
Kubber tissue, 3 boxes. .•
.Silesia, black, 107i yds
shirting, l,163i yds
rftay linen, 147 yds
Stay binding, 12 gross
Tape. 6 gross
" 6 bunches
Underclothing, 143 doz. pieces.
Yarn, 250 lbs
<'u3tom3, duty
Cartage
Freight and expres.-
Medicines and Medical Comforts.
Bacon, 4 lbs
Cocoa, 14 lbs
Cornstarch, 36 lbs
Drugs and medicines
Eggs, 5 doz
Fluid beef, 15 bottles
Milk, 177 gala
Professional services, 4 times
Surgical instruments, 13 only
Sodas, 6 lbs
.Sugar, pulverized, 1 \h
Freight and express. .
DiscHAitoE Expenses.
Freedom Suits and Allowances.
Allowance and travel, 86 convicts.
Braces, 4 doz
Buttons, 12 gross
Hat.s, felt, 2 11-12 doz
Linen, stay, IOI4 yds
Ijcather. smooth kip, 54i ft
Sile.'iia, fancy. 42J yds
.Sateen. 124 yds
Ties, 3 11-12 doz
Tweed, 559 J j'ds
Tailors' tissue, 1 lb
Freight and express
3 44
15 00
60
1 20
346 22
76 44
53 77
37 50
30 80
338 17 I
147 95 1
19 85
33 60 I
4 50 '
8 30
139 37
550 80
38 76 !
17 50
9 00 I
3 00
7 80
136 71
16 90
5 04
3 30 !
3 00
597 74
93 13
1 12
.50
10 85
■ 2 34
519 95
1 25
11 30
70 80
30 00
39 15
30
10
U) 01
705 55
894 15
4 20
3 00
13 12
22 05
15 26
4 15
;o 85
6 27
194 92
1 00
Discharge Expenses. — Continued.
Transfers.
Expenses transfer of female convict to
Edmonton
^^'ousING Expenses.
Heat, Light and Water
Battery, flashlight, 1 only
Cordwood, 96i cords
Coal oil, 205 gals
Coal, nut, 222i tons
" soft, 259J tons
Lamps, Tungsten, 203 only . . .
Water, 1 year
Light (electric current), 1 year.
Matches, 3 tins
Mainlennncc of Building!^.
Asphaltum, 8 gals
Alabastine, 15 lbs
Brushes, tar, 6 only.
Boiler, range, 2 only.
" stand, 1 only.
Bibbs, comp., 2 doz.
" hose, 23 only.
Bends, 12 only
Bushings, 4 doz
Bronze, gold, 1 lb
Bolts, carriage, 175 only. .
Baths, enamel, 3 only
Basin stoppers, 1 doz
Blue, 4 doz. packages
Battery, flashlight, 1 only. .
" dry cells, 12 only
Bells, 2 only
Bracket, rosette, 1 only
Borax, lamp, 5 lbs
Cocks, bibb, 1 doz
" L. and W., 1-inch, 14 only .
" basin, 10 only
" brass, 12 only
Catches, cupboard, 2} doz
Connectors, with set screws, 2 only.
Castings for wood pipe, 145 lbs
Cleats, 100 pairs.
Cord, sa.sh, 10 lbs
Colours, IJ gals
1,267 11)8
Comrautors, 2 only
Couplings, r. and l.,16 only
Clamps, 48 only
Chain, sash, 200 ft
Crosses, black, 2 only ,
Disinfectant, 41 gals
Discs, tin, 25 lbs. . .
" Jenkins, 78 only
Elbows. 344 only. . .
Emery cloth, 3 doz , -
Flnshometer, I oidy
Filler, 1 gal
Fire-clay, 600 lbs..
Glass, 1,000 ft
Glue, 10 lbs
•S 50
144 75
53 03
1,089 00
1,.558 50
160 25
1,031 70
706 65
6 00
4,810 71
10 00
1 20
20 51
•-'(1 84
SS 50
.'i 00
1 92
12 .57
:;s S7
1 59
22 fiO
1:1 .59
1 M
KXHEXDITURE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BKITISH CULUMBIA.— Confinucd.
Working Expenses. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Gold size, 1 gal
Gutter, 458 ft
Grates for heater, 2 only . . . .
Hinges, 6i doz
Hose, fire, 1,500 ft
" fittings
Hydrant, Ludlow, 1 only.. . .
Ice, 4,600 Hj3
Insulators, 200 only
Iron, }, 38 tbs
half-round, 105 lbs.. . .
" round, 657 Itjs
■ bar, 9,844 lbs
•• band, 419 lbs
galvanized, 778 lbs.. .
•' sheet, 236 lbs
■■ Norway, 487 \ha
black, 12.^ IbH
Japan, brown, .50 gals . . .
" black, 50 gals
Keys, 3 doz
Lumber, cedar, 17,266 ft
fir, 61,111 ft
maple, 289 ft
oak, 308 ft
gutter, 266 ft
" moulding, 1,507 ft.
V joint, 500 ft
Lead, white, 4,100 lbs
" red, 163 lbs
Lime, 140 barrels
Lye, 384 lbs
Ixicks, rim, Xi only.
" pad, 27 only. . . .
night, 3 only. ,
r " Yale, 4 only , - ,
Loom, half-inch. 50 ft
Ivetter-boK plates, \\ doz.. . .
Methylated spirits, 2 quarts.
Nipples, 3 doz
Nuts, 85 lbs
Nails, moulding, 88 lbs
" wire, 15 kegs. ...
" 1,100 lbs
H. S., 15 Ib.s
cut, 8 kegs. .
700 1
Oakum, 10 lbs
f Offset, cast iron. 1 onl\
Oil, boiled, 137i gals.
" hard, 10 gals..
" white rose, 1 gal,
" lard, 4 gals
*' raw, 10 gals
" linseed, 10 gals..
Pipe, galvanized. 788 li
" iron, 1,010 ft.
10 lengths
" vitrified, 1,879 ft. . , .
" wood, 238 ft
Plaster paris, 1 l^arrel.. .
Polish, tripline, 11 doz
Pipe plugs, U doz
Puttv, 879 lbs
Plantis, 400 only..
Pipe covering, 4,')fi ft.
Paper, tar felt, 1.58 m\y.
" tanglefoot, 6 boxes..
Prisms. 1 panel
■ Rope. 1-inch, 100 ft
" 612 1tjs
S 2 00
53 28
3 00
6 87
886 04
48
43 50
23 00
2 50
2 28
3 42
19 43
281 53
15 03
46 68
11 80
21 56
6 25
42 50
40 00
1 75
329 05
1.323 01
57 80
77 00
31 92
47 50
15 90
297 60
13 04
224 00
30 72
12 25
55 58
4 50
9 17
4 00
2 81
1 50
2 92
6 69
3 60
51 50
39 21
2 25
28 90
25 10
80
1 85
101 85
13 .50
1 00
5 00
9 00
9 00
62 98
203 31
8 25
329 65
51 76
4 75
2 98
50
30 76
19 85
101 04
272 28
3 60
9 05
4 76
73 80
Working Expenses. — Continued.
Maintenance of Buildings.
Ridge roll, 200 ft
Kim knobs, 1 doz
Resin, 25 lbs
Rivets, 10 lbs
Soda, 15 packages
" 840 lbs
•SapoUo, 6 packages
Stop and waste, 1 doz
.Springs, door, 1 doz
Screws, 95 gross
" log, 25 only
" set, 6 doz
Soap, laundry, 2,082 lbs
Sink, cast iron, 1 only
Steel, 256 lbs
Shingles, 46m
Staples, coppered, 3 lbs
Shellac, white, 1 gal
Sockets, key, 24 only
Shades, 6 only
Tile, drain, 494 ft.
Tripoline, 18 tins.
T's, 45 only
Tin, 2yi lbs
Turpentine, 151 gals
Toilet paper, 500 packages
Tacks, carpet, 3 doz. packages
" gimp, * doz. packages
" cut. 2 doz. packages
Tar, 5 barrels
" 18,193 lbs
Trees, 79 only
Tubes, 24-inch, 6 only
Traps, 2 only
Unions, 47 only
Valves, rubber, 1 doz
j " globe, 11 only
[ " gate, 9 only
I Varnish, body, 8 gals
" surfacing, 2 gala
" carriage, 2 gals
hard oil, 20 g.als
Wax, floor, 15 gals
Waterclosets and flushometera, 12 only.
Whiting, 767 lt>.s
Wire, spring, 6 lbs
" brass spring, 5 lbs
" waterproof, 225 lbs
" R. C, 2,568 ft
copper, 45 I1)S . . . .
" bell, 4 lbs
I Washers, pressed, 70 lbs
I " bibb, 7 doz
" rubber, 5 doz
Wire cloth, 150ft
Wall paper, 210 rolls
232 yds
Waste cotton, 10 lbs
I Window frames, 30 only
' Y's, 2 only
I Customs duty
[ Freight and express. . . .
Maintenance of Machinery.
Belting, rubber, 60 ft. . .
leather, 244* ft.
8 00
1 50
1 06
1 50
75
21 49
60
8 40
4 20
22 81
75
1 99
104 10
4 25
34 20
92 00
45
3 00
3 21
2 30
22 23
6 68
6 62
11 80
152 71
31 70
1 00
,30
65
37 50
363 86
23 90
1 20
3 20
12 28
21 00
20 38
46 00
32 00
1 80
6 50
27 00
7 50
271 20
15 34
2 10
1 75
46 13
33 72
1 90
3 00
4 90
93
3 15
9 00
47 45
3 35
1 00
226 80
2 50
23 00
32 22
S 35 40
80 99
234
DEPARTMEST OF JUSTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Con/inMd.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Working Expekseb. — Continued.
Maintenance of Machinery.
Babbit metal, 20 lbs
Castings, 5 only
Gauge glasses, 7 only
Lace leather, 11^ tba
Lubricator, 1 only
" 1 doz. sheets
Oil, machine, 43 gals
Packing, 391 lbs
" spiral, 4} lbs
Parts for machines, 2 only
Repairs to machines,
Chapels, Schools and Libraries.
Care chapel linen
Candles
Diary
School books, Italian, 6 only
" geographies, 12 only
" dictionaries, 48 only
" copy books, 36 only
arithmetics, 48 only
Italian dictionaries, 6 only
Chapel books, Japanese bibles, 3 only.. .
" Chinese bibles, 4 only ....
testaments, 25 only
" mission, 24 only
" prayer books, 10 only ....
keys to heaven, 7 only. . .
Library books, Italian, 14 only
" 110 volumes I
Millboard, 50 sheets '
Organists' salaries, 2 for 1 year
Subscriptions to magazines, 13 only. .
Slates, 6 doz
Tuning and repairing organs
Slate pencils, 4 boxes ,
Freight and express
O^ice Expenses.
Rent of P. O. box
Postage for year
Printing for year
Stationery for year
Clock dials, 1 package
Subscriptions to newspapers, 5 only,
Telegrams for year
Telephones and connections
Premium on officers* bonds
Duty on clock dials
Freight and express
Inddstries.
Farm.
Axle grease, 24 tins
Axle arms, 3 only
Axles, wood, 2 only
Brews of grains, 89 only.. .
Bran. 2 181-2000 'ton«
$ 3 00
43 89
1 39
9 78
2 50
18 00
13 33
33 58
3 09
1 40
22 00
268 33
S 3 00
1 00
1 00
2 70
6 75
7 00
2 40
12 96
3 90
2 25
2 00
7 42
7 68
2 50
2 59
5 85
44 45
9 25
100 00
23 89
7 20
6 OO
64
5 63
I 3 75
50 00
244 57
185 70
8 00
16 25
43 73
153 70
24 00
2 80
38 97
771 47
2 50
11 65
6 00
44 60
57 50
Industries. — Continued.
Farm.
Brooms, stable, 3 only
Bolsters, oak, 2 only
Bolts, carriage, 47 only
Buckles, nickle, 7 doz
Back chain, 1 only
Curry combs, 6 only
Crude carbolic, 5 gals
Collar pads, felt, 4 only
Caldron. 60 gallon, 1 only
Drugs and medicines..
Disc harrow, 1 only.
Dressing, harness, 6 tins
Fertilizer, 4. 1550 tons
Horse shoe calks, 50 lbs
Hose, WW., 150 ft
" fittings
Horse shoes, 2 kegs
5 lbs ■
Horse collar, 1 only
Handles, hay fork, 2 doz. . . . . .
manure fork, 1 doz...
" hoe, 1 doz
" shovel, 2 doz
Hubs, wagon, 1 pair
IjUmber, oak, 837 ft
d. d. select, 47 ft. . . .
Manure, 62 loads
Neck yokes, 2 only
Oats, 15.1701 tons
Parts of machines,
Scythes, grass, 6 only
Seeds
Salt, coarse, 100 lbs
Spokes, wagon, 2 sets
Snaps, 9 doz ■ •
Spray, lime and sulphur, 1 tin.
Sows, 7 only
Tar, pine, 6 quarts
Whet screws, i doz
Wagon, 1 only
" poles, 2 only
Customs duty
Freight and express
Trade Shops.
Awls, whipping, i gross
Augers, 13 only
Axes, 1 i doz
Alum, lump, 5 lbs
Acid, oxalic, 1 lb
Blazer stove, 1 only
Bolt clippers, 1 pair
Brushes, 3S only
Bench screws, 16 only
Braces, ratchet, 4 only
" corner, 1 only
Bevels, 4 only
Bushing, 1 only
Bolts, carriage, 950 only
" stove, 100 only
" tire, 200 only
Band saw machine, with saws, Ac, 2 only
Block, sheave 7-inch, single, 1 only. .
Crayons, tailors*, 1 box
Chalk, 6 boxes
Chain, steel, 50 ft
" sash, 200 ft
EXPENDITURE
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH^COLUMBIA.— Coniinufd.
Industbies. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
Cloth, hair, 30 yda
Coal, blacksmiths, 11 tons
Chisels, 2 doz
Colours, 5 Itjs
Cordwood, slabs, 200 cords
Clamps, cabinet makers, 2 only
CoUett, 1 only
Cutters, moulding, 16 only
Dividera, wing, 13 pairs
Draw knives, 3 only
Drills, stock, 2 only
Die, 1 only
Emery wheels, 2 only
Eyelets, shoe, 10m
tan, 2m
File card , 1 only
FUes, 17 1-12 doz
Gasoline, 1 case
Glue,'50 1b3
Glue pots, 2 only
Gauges, butt, 1 only
" mortice, 2 only
Grate rests, 3 only
Goggles, wire, 2 doz
Hooks, shoe,* 2m
Handles, sledge, 22 11-12 doz
" axe, 2 doz
" chisel, 6 doz
" pick, 3 doz
Hammers, claw, 1 doz
" 7 doz
" upholsterers, 1 only
Household|Iubricant, 3 doz
Hone, 3 only
Hatchets, shingle, 6 only
Horse shoes, 1 keg
Ink, shoe, 6 gals
Knives, shoeing, 2 only
" putty, 6 only
Lathe. 11-inch, with countershaft,'! only
Lasts, IS pairs
Locks, chest, ^ doz
Leather, welt, 42 lbs
sheepskin, 1241 tbs
Levels, Stanley, 2 only
Lubricant, 3 doz. tins
Lumber, spruce, 50 ft
Mitre box. 1 only
Masons' line, 5 lbs.
Needles, machine, 6 doz
" sewing machine, 300 only. , ,
Nipple, 1 only
Nails, cut, 300 lbs
" channel, 120 lt)3
" shoe, 87 lbs
" brass, 60 lbs
" horseshoe, 70 lbs
Oil, sable, 2 gals
" white rose, 1 gal
" lard, 4 gals
" linseed, 10 gals
Oil stone, 5 only
Oilers, 9 only
Punchers, button, 66 doz
Pumice, ground. 2 lbs
Picks, R. R., I doz
Pencils, carpenters', 12 doz
Pliers, 2 pairs
Plumbers' furnace, 1 only
Parts of tools
Pulleys, 2 only
9 00
209 00
7 50
75
330 00
4 00
64
21 60
7 45
3 60
40
75
10 75
2 00
1 70
65
17 85
3 25
7 50
1 50
1 00
1 50
1 05
79
1 70
63 59
7 00
6 00
9 75
6 00
90
3 75
2 51
2 40
5 00
4 50
30
1 20
57 30
18 00
2 00
14 74
33 01
2 50
3 75
1 98
15 00
1 50
1 SO
05
11 00
16 80
6 09
19 20
10 50
6 50
1 00
.i 00
9 00
5 00
3 25
14 40
30
7 50
3 48
1 35
5 20
1 75
5 03
Industries. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
Planes, 42 only
Pins, 6 doz
Paper, marble, 2 reams
Rope, 421 tbs
Rivets, tubular, 30 lbs
Rules, carpenters', IJ doz
Repairs to tools
Shears, 3 pairs
.Sewing silk, 7 J lbs
Screw drivers, 5 only
Sand paper, 60 doz
Subscriptions to trade journals, 3 only.
Shovels, 1 doz
Sal ammoniac, 5 lbs
Service of brick burner, 47i days
Sponges, decorators', 2 only
shoe, 6 doz
Squares, 13 only
Saws, hand, 1 doz
" rip, % doz
" H. S., 1 doz
" 5-foot. 1 only
" 6-foot, 2 only
" S. & D., 2 only
Shuttle plate, 1 only
.Set screws, 1 doz.
.Springs, 1^ doz ••
Steel, tool, 42 lbs
Spoke pointer, 1 only
Saw set, 1 only
.Se\\'ing machines, 1 only
Tool baskets, 3 only
Thread, spools, 6 gross
" basting, 1 gross
" linen, 44 lbs
" silk, 4 lbs
" machine, 2 lbs
Tacks, carpet, 1 doz. papers
" shoe, 100 lbs
Toe calks, 25 lbs
Twine, sack, 12 lbs
Tube scraper, 1 only
Tailors' stove and extra grate, 1 only. ,
Wadding, 62 yds
Wrenches, 7 only
Webbing, shoe, 50 yds
Wire, galvanized, 67 lbs
Cartage
Customs duty
Freight and express
Prison Equipment.
Machinery.
Attachment for saw, 1 only
Cast-iron rollers, 23 in. diameter, 7i in
face, 2 J base, 2 only
Wire rope, J-inch, 700 ft
Duty
Freight and express
139 45
3 00
11 00
52 52
18 00
6 53
1 60
7 50
86 10
5 20
8 51
9 20
13 50
1 50
207 00
1 00
9 00
12 55
20 00
11 00
90
1 75
6 00
3 00
1 00
19
2 40
6 09
1 00
1 25
45 00
1 50
28 80
16 85
104 70
18 00
16 00
30
15 00
1 91
5 40
1 75
21 00
13 02
17 40
1 50
4 02
7 00
28 45
59 09
S 6230
40*95
47 25'
27 50
37 75"'
159 75
236
DEPARTMEXT OF JUtiTICE
BRITISH COLUMBIA.— CunfinueJ.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Prison Equipment. — Continued.
Furnishings.
Bed and spring, 1 only
Blanliets, 1,178 lbs
Duck, 201 yds
Hair felt, 1,500 sq. ft
Linen forfar, 421 yds
Pitcher, glass. 1 only
•Silesia, fancy, lOS yds
.Sateen, 65 yds
Soap, shaving, 50 lbs
" Castile, 1,260 lbs
Thermometers, 6 only
Toilet set, i oc?,"
Ticking, 109 yds ..,,,.,
Freight and express
Utensils and Vehicles,
Brushes, lather, 2 doz
tar, i doz
Buckets, granite, ^ doz
" galvanized, 20 doz
Batteries, dry cell. 1 only
' flashlight, 6 only
Bowls, mush, 1 doz
Buckles, 3 doz
Brooms, 18 doz
Basin.s, wash, 7 doz
Bath birck, 3 doz
Cuspidors, 1 doz
Coffee boilers, 3 only
Castings for hose carta
1 only
505 lbs
Cups and saucers, 2 doz
Cans, flat, 105 only
sprinkling, 1 only
Double boilers, 3pnly
Globes, lantern, i doz
Handles, mop, 1 doz
Ironwork for factory trucks, 2 only . , . .
Knives, butchers', 2 only
Ijocks, pad, 1 doz
Lanterns, c. b., i doz
Lawn sprinkler, 1 only
Mugs, 7 doz
Oil, 1 doz. bottles
" gates, 7 only
" cans, galvanized, 12 only
Plates, dinner, 4 doz
Pans, soup, 6 doz
" fry, 1 only
" sauce, 1 only
Parts for range.. . .*
rifles
" utensils
Repairs to washing machine
Razors, 1 doz
Rat traps, ^ doz
Range and fittings, including boiler and
stand, 1 only
Saucers, enamel, 2 doz
Spoons, t«a, 6 doz
" basting, 5 only
table, 14 doz
soup, 4 doz
Shovels, 4-1 doz
Tea kettles, 2 only
Wash hji.sins. granite, 2 doz ,
S 8 25
465 30
80 40
85 50
115 77
85
10 53
5 68
17 50
100 80
3 72
3 P"
lb 80
45 48
961 58
$ 4 50
2 50
1 50
128 GO
50
3 50
1 50
45
43 20
18 90
1 20
9 00
6 75
16 50
5 25
26 10
1 85
7 29
90
4 10
58
2 00
13 00
1 50
23 75
4 00
1 25
14 00
1 85
8 75
7 00
4 75
16 50
60
50
9 00
2 00
14 20
11 00
18 00
63
Prison Equipment. — Continued.
Utensils and Vehicles.
Whisks, 27 doz
Watering pot, 1 only
Freight and express
08
00
2
10
1
50
1
OS
4
on
80
58
88
3
05
4
24
Lands, Buildings and Wt
t only.
Baths, cast iron, 3 only
Bends, 6 only
" 4-inch, sewer. 5 only. . .
Couplings, 36 only
Cordwood, slabs, 88 cords. . . .
Casting and finishing pinions,
Crosses, railing, 75 only
Collar, 1 only
Cement, 976J barrels
Damper, 1 only
Elbows, 49 only
Electrical installation in tenements. . . .
Glass, 3 cases
Iron, galvanized cornice, 10,499 ft
" band, 110 lbs
" l)ar, 1,308 lbs
" Norway, 260 lbs
" sheet, 272 lbs
Keys for prison locks, 92 only
Locks, prison, 8 only
" pad, 3 doz
Lumber, 2,308 ft
flooring, 11,114 ft
cedar, 37,811 ft
fir, 23,542 ft
oak, 531 ft
Lime, 300 barrels
Nails, cut, 2 kegs.. .
Offsets, 11 only
Plugs, pipe, 12 only.
Pipe, sewer, 210 ft
" vitrified, 372 ft
" black, 3, 137 J ft
" galvanized, 1 piece
122 5-12 ft
Roofing, cornice galvanized iron, Sl'sqs
Rivets, 65 tbs
Shingles, 3m
Track for sUding doors, 50 ft
" hangers, 4 pairs
" roUera, 12 only '
" fittings, 97 only
T's, 42 only
Unions, 12 only
Valve, globe, 2 only
Waste and overflows, 6 only
Y's, sewer, 4-inch, 1 only
Cartage on lime and cement
Cartage on barriers
Freight on barriers
" sundry
S 37 80
90
3 96
S 88 50
5 75
2 50
6 48
132 00
13 16
19 86
30
2,539 55
35
11 25
203 72
41 00
401 64
3 47
36 74
12 64
13 60
18 01
49 30
33 60
31 39
649 03
461 13
132 75
480 00
7 30
14 35
29
45 90
92 72
321 22
1 01
8 82
124 70
9 70
6 00
4 00
3 60
2 00
24 63
10 OS
4 92
6 73
12 00
9 00
9 SO
064 12
3 25
EXPEXDITVRE
237
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
BRITISH COLVilBl A.— Concluded.
MlSCELLANEODS.
Advertising and Travel,
Travel of penitentiary officers . .
" Inspector Dawson
" " Stewart
Bridge tolls
Tram tickets
S 13 90
90 00
50 00
II1SCELI.AXEOUS. — Continued .
Special.
Keep of female convict in provincial jail.
15 days
Reward for recapture of convict Clark . .
Legal services re escaped convicts
Transcribing evidence re Clark
25 00
349 35
6 90
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Recapitdlation.
Staff—
Salaries and retiring allowances.
Uniforms and mesa
Maintenance of Convicts —
Rations
Jlothing and medicines.
Discharge Expenses —
Freedom suits and allowances.
Transfer and interment
Working Expenses —
Heat, light and water
Maintenance of buildings and machinery.
Chapels, schools and library
Office expenses
Industriea —
Farm
Trade shops
Prison Equipment —
Machinery
Furnishings
Utensils and vehicles
Land, buildings and walls.
Miscellaneous —
Advertising and travel.
Special
31,337 77
1.532 52
8,734 87
3,503 84
1,169 22
188 00
4,810 71
8,287 36
268 06
771 47
1,657 13
2,511 26
159 75
061 58
625 53
6,896 89
167 40
388 75
238
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Staff.
Salaries.
General.
Warden, 1, 12 m
Surgeon, 1, 12 m
Accountant, 1, 12 m
Chaplains, 2, 12 m., @ S800
Steward, etc., 1, 12 m
Hospital overseer, etc., 1, 12 m
Matron, Mrs. Stedman, April and May
" Mrs. Cummings, Nov. to March
iTiditslrial.
Chief trade instructor, 1, 12 m
Engineer, etc., 1, 12m
[Instructors, 3, 12 m., @ S800.
- " 1 broken period..
Police.
Deputy Warden, R. H. Stedman, April .
" E.H. Cummings, Octo-
ber 13 to March
Chief watchman, 1, 12 m.
Watchman, 1, broken period
Keepers, 2, broken periods .
Guards, 66, broken periods
Temporary poUce officers
** matron
XIniforms.
Buttons, gilt, 4 gross
" 1 doz
Braid, 38 yds
Beaver, 2i yds
Caps, hair seal, 3 only. . . .
" Btaff, 1 only
Cap peaks, 4 doz
" straps, 4 doz
Canvas, French, 90 yds.. ..
Cheesecloth, 140 yds
Gloves, 22 pairs
Hooks and eyes, 2 gross.. .
Hair seal, 1 skin
Hair cloth, 32 yds
Leather, calf skin, 52} ft. .
tan calf, 1081 ft.
sole, 200 lbs
Lining, oleeve, 52i yds. . . .
" silesia, 115 yds.. . .
" Italian, 27} yds...
" mohair, 25 yds.. . .
Linen, stay, 155} yds
Laces, 2 gross
Badges for uniforms
Polish, shoe, 1 gross
Persian lamb skins, 8 only
Rubber tissue, 3 lbs
Shanks, shoe, 10 doz
Freight and express
$2,200 00
1,200 00
1,200 00
1,600 00
yoo 00
000 00
83 32
208 34
1,000 00
> 1,000 00
2,400 00
719 05
125 00
695 61
900 00
375 00
1,292 45
4,258 52
2,116 38
271 46
23.445 13
10 00
1 00
3 85
15 13
9 00
4 50
8 00
1 80
17 16
5 25
22 75
20
5 50
11 20
15 30
31 47
47 00
12 24
11 22
20 81
7 38
18 69
2 50
4 50
12 60
96 00
3 00
7 80
56
Staff. — Continued .
Mess.
Baking powder, 30 lbs
" soda, 3 lbs
Butter, 453 lbs
Eggs, 70 doz
Es.sence3, 5 bottles
Currants, 40 lbs
Coffee, 135 lbs
Corn starch, 80 lbs
Curry powder, 1 bottle
Ginger, 1 lb
Flour, 5 sacks
Liver, 6 lbs
Mixed spice, 2 lbs
Mustard, 5 lbs
Mutton, 489 lbs
Milk, 255igals
Nutmegs, 1 lb
Onions, 45 lbs
Pork, 1,131 lbs
Pepper, 25 lbs
Prunes, 50 lbs
Raisins, 35 lbs
Sugar, 1,600 lbs
Tomatoes, canned, 4 doz
Tea, 130 lbs
Vinegar, 7i gals
Maintenance of CoNvicra.
Raiicms.
Apples, evaporated, 450 Iba
Beef, 34,997 lbs
Beans, 2,400 lbs
Bread, 74,076 lbs
Barley, pot, 200 lbs
Baking soda, 6 lbs
Fish, 1,186 lbs
Flour, 207 lbs
Lard, 25 lbs
Onions, 680 lbs
Pease, split, 796 lbs
Pork, 4,475ilbs
Pepper, 40 lbs
Prunes, 875 lbs
Potatoes, 124 21-30 bags
Rolled oats, 3,940 lbs
Rice, 675 lbs
■Sugar, 3,100 lbs
Salt, 2,000 lbs
Syrup, 1,040 gals
Tea, 440 lbs
Yeast, 1 1 tbs
Christmas extras
Freight
Prison Clothing.
Buttons, trouser, 38 gross . .
Buckles, " 6 gross. . .
" brace, 2"groas
Brace elastic, 200 yds
Cloth, prison, 292 yds
Cotton, grey, 122J yds
Duck, 307i yds
$ 5 40
12
133 60
20 35
2 40
5 05
47 50
8 00
50
50
10 90
30
80
2 15
61 54
82 34
60
2 25
116 43
10 00
4 00
3 95
92 00
5 75
52 00
6 30
672 73
S 52 25
2,277 68
114 00
2,777 87
8 00
60
75 37
451 26
4 25
35 25
39 80
383 28
16 00
73 25
212 44
159 10
38 50
170 50
30 25
43 28
67 20
4 GO
32 42
15 46
S 3 52
t 90
1 50
60 00
252 58
10 43
46 13
EXPENDITURE
239
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
AUBERTA.— Conhnuerf.
Maintbnance op Convicts. — Continued.
Priam Clothing.
Flannel, union, 126 yds
Galatea.ahirting, 2114 yds
Leather.'sole, 850 lbs
" upper, 107 lbs
welt, 28 lbs
Moose skina, 5 only
Nails, shoe, 8 lbs."
Rivets, shoe, 22 lbs
Underclothing, 20 doi
Yarn, 300 lbs
Freight and cartage
Iloipiial.
Butter, \:>Z lbs
Drugs
Eggs, 18 doz
Tobacco, 20 Iba
Spectacles, 1 pair
Milk, 320i gala
Professional aervicea. . . .
DiacHAROE Expenses.
Freedom Suits, and Allowance.
Buttons, collar, 15 gross
" coat, IJ doz
Canvas, French, 200 yds
Collars, 5 doz
Cap, 1 only
Coat, woman's, 1 only
Coating, 4 yds
Dress goods, 15 yds
Hats, 3i doz
Hat, woman's, 1 only
Handkerchiefs, 5 doz
Hose, 2 pairs
Leather, Canadian calf, 52 lbs
Silesia, 113 yds
Satin, farmer's, 1204 yds
Shirts, top, 5 1-12 doz
Silk, spools, 4 only
Socks, 1 pair
Serge, 9 yds
Tweed, 2264 yds
Ties, 5 doz
Freight and express
Travel and allowance to 41 men
Expenses taking discharged to train.. .
Transferring 2 prisoners to ICiogston .
Freight on returned clothing
$ 44 00
113 62
6 15
17 59
75
108 66
10 00
14 25
5 00
25
3 03
3 25
8 20
14 65
1 50
2 00
70
44 20
8 20
10 54
23 10
20
15
4 ,50
54 44
5 00
50
511 25
6 40
13
23
24
86
190
45
51
36
13
16
37
50
56
2 20 1
83 60
111 75
32 48
300 77
$415 20
3 44
Working Expenses.
Heat, Light arid Water.
Coal, 498. 1290 tons
Coal oil, 41.4 gals
Light account
Tungsten lamps, 200 only
Lamps, electric, 124 only
Lanterns, 4 doz
Water account
Maintenance of BuiUiings-
Bends, 2 only
Buttons, puah, 7 only
Batteries, 4 only
Bell, 1 only
Cord, sash, 10 lbs
Klbows, 3 only
Flushometer, 1 only
caps, 3 only. .
Glass, 69 lights
Gaskets, 2 doz
Ice, 40 tons
Insect powder, 3 lbs
Japan, 4 gals
Kreso, 80 gals
Knobs, 20 only
Lead, red, 5 lbs
Lock, desk, 1 only
Lye, 1 gross
Lumber, 235 ft
Oakum, 5 Ibs:
Plugs, 2 only
Pipe, iron, 9084 ft
Padlocks
Paper, toilet, 4 cases,
Paint, enamel, 1 gal
Soap, laundry, 5,102 lbs.. . .
Soda, washing, 678 lbs
Saw dust, 6 loads
Sapolio, 3 doz
Stoves, 3 only
Switches, 6 only
Sockets, G only
Tha^ving out water pipes. . .
T's, 3 only
Unions, 2 only
Wire, duplex, 257 lbs
" iron, 25 lbs
" electric, 350jft
Washers for spuds
Whiting, 1,008 lbs
Freight and cartage
Maintenance oj Machinery.
Boiler couplings, 2 only
Belting, 30 ft
Bricks, fire, 12 only
Graphite. 2 lbs
Cylinder oil, 1 gal
Ijard oil, 5 gals
Packing, asbestos, 23 lbs
" redstone, 34 lbs
SI. 620 55
11 39
748 95
158 00
25 40
60
267 16
2,832 OS
S 26
3 15
1 80
75
3 00
64
15 00
6 00
15 07
50
80 00
85
3 60
88 00
40
34
1 75
14 40
8 46
55
08
66 11
2 50
25 36
3 20
292 95
20 34
13 00
4 50
74 90
3 00
1 20
3 00
68
58
6 14
1 00
2 62
1 50
25 20
64 03
855 41
1 00
9 30
1 20
50
70
6 00
DEPARTMESr OF JUSTICE
AhBKRTA.—Conlinued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 191T.
WOHKINO Expenses. — Continued.
Chapeh,
Bibles, 4 doz
Hymn books, 2 doz.
School.
Slate pencils.'S doz. . . .
Books, 104 volumes.
Freight and cartage.
Office Expense)'
Printing
Postage
Stationery
Telephone exchange
Telegrams
Subscriptions to papers. . . .
India ink
Postal guide
Freight and cartage
Premium on bonds
Farm.
Buckles, trace, 1 only. .
Brush, scrub, 1 only..
Bags, 2 doz
Bran, 300 lbs
Handles, axe, 6 only. . .
Horse hire
Hay knife, 1 only
Horse shoes, 16 only.. .
Mower, 1 only
Oats, 273i bushels
Rake, horse, 1 only. . ■ ■
Rope, 12 ft
Seed, assorted
Scythe stones, 4 doz . . .
Trade Shops.
Awls, sewing blades, 4 doz.
Axle grease, 3 doz
Axes, 2 only
Acid, oxalic, 1 lb
" muriatic, 21 tb
Brushes, paint, 1 1-12 doz. .
" kalsomine, 2 only . .
" white wash, \ doz..
" marking, 3 only. . .
" sash tool, 3 only. ..
" varnish, 1 doz
" wall, 3 doz
S la 20
10 80
$ 52 00
6 40
27 52
32 00
.55 88
79 33
19 25
8 00
25
25
20 66
24 00
40
4
on
3
30
4
50
7
50
1
00
1
74
.54
00
90
87
33
30
30
10
08
50
211
64
$ 1
27
4
.50
1
20
20
79
7
80
7
67
3
00
Industries. — Continued.
Trade Shop«.
Bolts, stove, 7 1-6 doz
cupboard, 6 only. . .
Button-hole cutter, 1 only.
Bees wax, 4 lbs
Bits, 8 only
Braces, 2 only
Bristles, 1 lb
Brazmg
Bit, expansion, 1 only
Bevel machine, 1 only
Bench stops, 6 only
" screws, 4 only
Cemen t , rubber, 4 tins
" asbestos, 72 lbs
Colours, assorted
Coal, blacksmiths'. 2 1223 tons..
Chalk, tailors', 2 boxes
Compasses, 2 only
Cleaning fluid
Copperine, Si lbs
Chisels, 1 set
Discs, 1 doz
Dryer, 5 gals
Drills, 1 set
twist, 6 only. .
" machine, 4 only.
Emery cloth, 24 quires.
Eyelets, 10m
set, 1 only
Ears, pail, 5 doz
Files, assorted, 13 doz.
Felt, shoe, 10 sheets.
Force cup, 1 only
Gasoline, 30 gals
Glass, 26 lights
Glue, 50 Iba
Gauge, mortice. 2 only
Gum tragacanth, 1 tb
Hooks, boot. 2m
Hammers, 3 only
Hinges, a.ssorted
Handles, hammer, 1 doz
" pick, 1 doz..
" sledje, 1 doz
m.attock, 3 only
Hose liib, 1 only
Hoes, mortar, 6 only ■ ■
Heel balls. 1 gross
Hard oil finish, 5 gals
Iron, b.ir, 2,089 lbs
•• K:dvanized, 2.002 lt>s
■■ tinned. 38 lbs
•• polished, 225 tt>s
" angle, 63 lbs
Ink, burnishing, 1 doz
Irons, tailors' electric, 2 only.
Knives, shoe, 1 doz
Leather, calf, lU lbs
goat skin, 25 ft
" cordovan, 83 ft
" kangaroo, 783 ft
sheepskins, 75-| ft
dr.iwer, 1 doz
cupboard, 1 doz
Lumljer, assorted, 5,531 ft
I>eathcrettc, 3 yds
Lines, masons', 1 doz
I^ead, i)ig, 434 lbs
Lamp bl.ick, 10 lbs
Measures, foot, I doz
.Moose skins, 5 only
Locks
EXPENDITURE
241
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
iNDUftTRiES. — Continued.
Trade Shops.
Mattocks, 9 only
Needles, sewing
, " inattre.-^, 1 only
" machine, 4 gross
Nail sets, 2 only
Nails, moulding, 20 packages
" wire, 7 ke(i:s
" finishing, 2 kegs
Nuts, hexagon, 12i lbs
Oil, sewing machine, 1 gal
" " 2 bottles
" sperm, 1 gal
" btones, 3 only
" sUps, 2 only
" cans, 2 only
Oakum. 50 lbs
Oak stain, 1 gal
Picks, 3 only
Paint, 1 gal
Planes, block, 1 only
Stanley, 3 only
Pipe cutter and screw plate
Pulley wood. 2 only *-
Plyers, 1 pair
Plumb bobs, 1 doz
Pulls, drawer, 1 doz
Plumb and level, 1 only
Parisian paste, 1 doz
Pencils, carpenters', 5 doa
Plug, tap, 1 only
Rivets, iron. 30 lbs
" tinned, iM
Rules, 2-foot, 2 doz
Rubber, 2\ lbs
Rasps, shoe, 1 doz
Rakes, \ doz
Saws, keyhole, 2 sets
" hack, 1 doz
" band, 44 ft
Screws, wood, 209 packages
for butts, 48 doz
set, 6 only
Steel, machine, 38 lbs
" sheet, 704 lbs
spring, 24 lbs
" square,' 71 lbs
" tool, 55 lbs
octagon, 20 lbs
Sand paper, 33 reams
Sewing and knitting machine parts.
Shovels. 3 doz
Screw drivers, 1 only
Square, 1 only
Shears, 2 pairs
Solder. 100 lbs
Soldering paste, 1 tin- .
Staples. 8 lbs
Stain, wood, 1 gal
Sal ammoniac, H lbs
Thread, silk, machine, 4 tt)s
" " twist, 1 lb
" cotton, 4 gross. .
linen. 8 lt>3
fahoe. 10 lbs
Tape
Tacks, cut, 24 packages
" shoe. 10 lbs
" lasting, 1 grogs
Trowel. 1 only
Tape measures, 1 doz
Tailor and Cu((er, '"magazine
4
88
1
6o
25
12
00
1
20
2
60
25
45
8
30
1
03
1
75
50
2
50
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Trade Shops.
Tin, sheet, 12 sheets
" pig, 256 tbs
Varnish, 5 gals
Wire, iron, 423 tbs
screen, 245 ft
copper, 6 lbs
" steel, 174i lbs
Washers, 27 tbs
Wax, shoe, 3 gross
Wrench, pipe, 2 only
" monkey, 1 only
part for, 1 only
Wicli, asbestos, 3 tbs
Duty
Containers
Freight
Coal Mine.
Repairing axle
Lumber, 480 ft
Labour
Slabs
Seal oil
Cartage
Pbison Eqoipment.
Furnishing.
Bunting, 5 yds
Blankets, 1 pair
471 lbs
Cotton, grey, 300 yds
Chairs, 2 only
Hair felt, 2,100 sq. ft
Linen, forfar, 102 yds
Soap, castile, 392 tbs
" shaving, 18 tbs
Ticking, 107} yds
Freight and cartage
Utensils and Vehicles.
2 70 1 Ammunition, 1,000 rounds.
shes, shaving.
Brooms, 12 doz
Bath bricks, 4 only
B:i3ting spoons, 2 only. .
Crockery
Clocks, repairs
Clothes line
Clippers, toilet, 1 pair. . .
Castors, 1 set
Jug. 1 only
Knives and forks, 1 doz..
I^antern globes, 1 doz.. . .
Pepper boxes, 1^ doz. . . .
Pails, fibre, 4 only
Razors, i doz
Rifles, 6 only
Ranges, parts for
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11 25
19 20
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ALBERTA.— Concluded.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Prison EauiPUENT. — Continued.
Utensila and Vehicles.
Spoooa. tea, I doz
*' table, 12 doz
Scales, 1 set
Tea pot, 1 only
Wash boards, 3 only
Containers
Freight
Buildings, etc.
Burning kiln (labour)
Blue prints
Bushings. 2 only
Benda, 7 only
Bell, call and fittinga
Cement, 837 J barrels
Colours, assorted, 10 lbs. . .
Central hall heating plant. .
Conduit pipe, 540 ft
wire, 60 ft
Coupling, 1 only
Cord, electric, 5 yds
Crosses, 100 only
Clean out, 1 only
Cord, sash, 10 lbs
Chain, 100 ft
Doorbell, 1 only
Elbows, 4 only
Electric fittings
Grease intercepter, I only . .
Gravel. 847 yds
Gong trip, 1 only
Graphite, 3 lbs
Iron, bar, 25,628 lbs
" angle, 207 lbs
" sheet, 613 lbs
Tx>ck3, pad, 4^ doz
" rim, i doz
I/ead, pig, 175 lbs
" red, 5 lbs
Lumljer, assorted, 43,856 ft.
lime, 672 bushels
Legal expenses
f.,ath, 1m
r«ad, white, 1,000 lbs
Man-holes, 2 only
XaiU, 10 kegs
Nipples, 8 only
Plaster pans, 6 barrels
Putty, 100 lbs
Pidleys, 2 doz
Pipe, soil, lOOi ft
" sower, .527i ft
" iron. 1,,533 ft
•■ steel, 5,812Ht
Hoofing felt, 5,152 lbs
" pitch, 20 barrels. . .
nails, 15 lbs
discs, 10 lbs
'■ paper, 4 rolls
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4 10
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158 25
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BuildinQS. |
Radiator valves, 2 only 1 % 3 75
Rope, asbestos, 1 i lbs 51
Rivets, 10 lbs ' 65
Roofing Haiiges, 2 only 1 18 00
Sand, 98 yds ; 71 00
Steel, 4 bars 9 50
" sashes, 4 only \ 53 36
" beams, 3,014 lbs j 128 10
" channels, 1,575 lbs 70 87
Sink and fittings, 2 only 70 33
Sockets, electric, 9 only 3 60
Steam trap, 1 only j 1 33
T's, 50 only | 5 00
Trap, 1 only 2 56
Valve, gate, 1 only 3 1.^
Wire guard, 1 only 75
" tinners', 255 lbs 9 41
" roof guard, 1 only 7.0
Y's, 6 only 8 87
Freight and cartage 80 31
Miscellaneous.
Advertising. .
Travelling Hxpenst's.
Departmental officers:
G. W. Dawson i $ 90 00
D. Stewart 50 00
Returning paroled convict 28 27
Special.
Carriages to attend funeral of deputy
warden j S 12 00
Bus to Covirt with prisoners 3 00
Expenses in connection with escape 66 00
Rifle and revolver practice , 50 00
Gratuity paid Mrs. Steadman (special
vote) I 1 , 500 00
Warden's re.-*idence, allowance j 600 00
EXPENDITURE
243
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Recapitulation.
Staff—
Salaries and retiring allowancea
UQiforms and mess
23,445 13
1,079 14
Maintettance of Convicts —
Rations
Clothing and medicines.
7,082 01
1,236 98
Diacharse Expenses —
Freedom suits and allowances.
Transfer and interment
722 59
418 64
Workino Expenses —
Heat, light and water
Maintenance of buildings and machinery.
Chapels, schools and library
Office expenses
2,832 05
877 44
88 65
267 14
Industriei —
Farm
Trade shops.
Coal mine...
211 64
1,497 05
131 40
Prison Equipment —
Furnishing
Utensils and vehicles
Land, buildings and walls.
480 93
227 13
9,326 40
Miscellaneous —
Advertising and travel.
Special
177 47
2,231 00
244 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
EXPENDITURE.
Penitentiaries — Generally.
As3i3tance to paroled convicte, 3 men S 32 00
Office disbursementa of purchasing agent II 42
Sundry printing 8 35
Travel of Parole Officer Archibald 1 .237 17
Travel of Inspector Stewart 228 30
Travel of Purchasing Agent Pratt 359 65
S 1,876 89
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31,'
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FARM PRODUCE.
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To Steward.
Pork, 22,023 lbs.,® 8o
Pork, 11,894 lbs., @ 9o
Potatoes, 137.784 tbs.. ® ia
Cabbage, 7,184 heads, @ 2o
Tomatoes. 143 baskets, @ 20o
Turnips, 15,509 lbs., (a 5-12o
Turnips, 390 bdls., @ 2o
Beets, 1,539 lbs., (3) ?c
Beets, 200 bdls., ^ 2c
Onions, 31 44-50 bushels, @ 50c
Onions, 3,989 tbs., @ lie
Onions, 1.898 lbs., @ Jc
Onions, 800 lbs., @ 13-15C
Onions, 1,002 bdls., @ 2c
Carrots, 5,869 lbs., @ 3c
Carrots, 533 bdls., @ 2c
Callions, 430 bdls., @ 2
Hay, 125,430 tbs., @ S9.00 per ton..
Straw, 24,170 tbs., ® $4.70 per ton..
Oats, 33,190 tts., @ $1.00 per 80 lbs
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Straw, 65,840 lbs., @ ?4.70 per ton
Potatoes, 100 bass, ^ 25c
Oats and pease, 33,600 11,3.. @ ?1 .00 per 80 lbs.
Buckwhn.it, 19.760 lbs. (ffl Sl.OO per 80 tbs. . .
Barley, 33.070 lbs , (a $1 00 per 80 lbs
Lentils, 8,000 I1>s., Wi ?9 00 per ton
Turnips. 50 tons, (Si S6.00
Carrots, 5,810 Iba.. (» ?8.00 per ton
Beets, 130 tons, @ 88.00|per ton
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Turnips, 10 bdls., (» 2c
Turnips, 73 15-17 bushels, @ 17o
Carrots, 28 bdls., (3 2c
Carrots, 44 6-27 bushels, @ 27c
Onions, 270 bdls., <a 2c
Onions. 55 22-50 bushels. © 50c
Onions, 41 i bushels, @ 44o
Beets, 16 bdls., (a 2c
Beets, 30 19-27 bushels, @ 27c
Cabbage, IS hds., (a 2c
CabbaRc, .506 hds., @ Ic
Oats. 1 bae
Potatoes, 80 lbs., © lo
Straw, 2 lidls., (» 5c
Mixed Erain, 2 bags
Barley, 2 bushels
Plants
Grand Total
1.761
84
1.070
46
1.033
38
143
68
28
60
64
62
7
80
10
26
4
00
15
91
59
83
6
33
6
93
20
04
39
13
10
66
8
60
564 44
99 10
414 88
l.M 72
25 00
420 00
217 00
413 3S
36 00
300 00
23 24
1,040 00
5 06
1 00
2 47
1 66
9 46
4,292110
O. PAPINKAU,
Farm Inittrucfor.
FARM REPORTS
259
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
General Statement of Farm.
Stock on hand, March 31st, 1909
Implements, teed, manure and horses pur
t chased
Shop work and horse-shoeing
Old blankets, stores
Salt
Kitchen refuse, for piggery
Macadam stone, for farm roads
Convict labour, on farm, 6,2sr, days @ 30c
stable, 1,94-1 days, @ 30c
" piggery. 1 ,573 days, @ 30c
Instructor's salary. 9 mos., @ $50.00, S450
Instructor's salary, 3 mos., @ $66.66, $200
Teamster's salary
Balance, March 3l3t, 1910. (Profit).
S8.894
i
67 !
2,671
84
606
08
9
75
5
96
192
93 1
61
65 1
1885
80
584
20
471
90
650
00
600
00
454^6
17,089 04
Cr.
By Steward: —
Pork, 22.023 lbs.. @ 8o S 1,761 84
Pork, 11,894 lbs., @ 9c 1,070 46
Potatoes, 137,784 lbs., @ jc 1,033 38
Cabbage, 7,184 hds., @ 2c 143 68
Tomatoes, 143 baskets., @ 20c 28 60
Turnips, 15,509 lbs., @ 5-12c 64 62
Turnips, 390 bdls., @ 2c 7 80
Beets, 1.539 lbs., @ Sc 10 26
Beets, 200 bdlcs., @ 2c 4 00
Onions, 31 44-50 bushels, @ 50c 15 94
Onions, 3,989 lbs., @ He 59 83
Onions, 1,898 lbs., @ Jc 6 33
Onions, 800 lbs., @ 13-I5C 6 93
Onions, 1,002 bdls., @ 2c 20 04
Carrots, 5.869 lbs., @ Sc 39 13
Carrots, 533 bdls., @ 2c 10 66
.Scallions, 430 bdls., @ 2o 8 60
By sales to customers 119 77
Horse labour to other departments, 2,350i
days. @ S.70 1,645 35
Convict labour, other departments, 1,294*
days, @ S.30 388 35
Farm implements condemned 220 28
Improvements of fartn roads 61 65
" fencing and drainage ... 86 10
.Stock on hand, March 31, 1910 10,275 44
O. PAPINKAU,^
Farm tiLslruHnr.
260 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
DORCHESTER.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to submit statement of farm, for the year ending March
31st, 1910.
The annexed statements show the products of the farm for the past year, and
their disposal.
I'he cattle wintered fairly well, considering their poor condition when stabled
and the limited quantity of roots for feeding. Most of the hay was housed in good
condition, but a considerable quantity of marsh hay was greatly damaged by tides
and storms, and consequently its feeding qualities greatly impaired.
'i'he dykes which broke last fall are not repaired, and the marsh ploughed on
the Hickman lot for oats will not yield any crop this year. This will occasion the
ploughing of more upland for oats than was intended, and therefore the area under
hay will be less than last year.
An endeavour will be made to raise more root crops for stock feeding, and green
crops can be grown which may be fed the cows when the pastures get short, and the
pigs also can be fed some of this green feed.
As regards the hay crop, I have put the quantity at 350 tons. Mr. Hicks, the
retired farmer, left no data as regards this crop, and I did the best I could under the
circumstances.
'I'he oat crop was good, but what grew on the marsh was damaged, and its
feeding qualities greatly diminished. ', he potato crop was good, but a large
quantity was a.iected by rot, caused by the wet weather, and many were damaged
by cuts from the forks of the diggers, and consequently did not keep well.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN HEBERT,
For Farm Instructor.
PRODUCTS OF FARM.
350 tons, hay $2,800 00
3,096 bushels potatoes 1,393 20
300 bushels turnips 600 00
13,251 lbs. carrots 99 38
6,038 lbs. beets 45 29
1,510 lbs. parsnips 11 33
1,368 lbs cabbage 10 26
2,440 bushels oats 1,332 00
50 bushels barley 30 00
50 bushels buckwheat 35 00
100 tons straw 500 00
7,981i qts. milk 292 26
8,770 lbs. beef 603 38
8,650 lbs. pork 783 98
38 small pigs Ill 03
Hides 99 58
26 Bull services 26 00
4 Boar services 2 00
1 Calf 5 00
Soap grease 80
8.780 4 7
FARM REPORTS
261
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
FARM STATEMENT, YEAR ENDING MARCH 31. 1910.
Dr.
Stock on hand, March 3l3t, 1909
Kitchen refuse
Machine shop account
Blacksmith, account
Carpenter account
Shoe shop account
Steward, account
Masons' account
Stone cutters' account
Quarry account
Convict labour on farm, stables and pig
gery, 5529i days @ 30o
From Storekeepei —
Oats for feeding
Vegetables
Bran
Com meal
Tools
Machinery
Seed
Fertiliiers
One set harness
Drugs (horse med.)
Horse blankets
Two horses
Sundries
Stable guards (2)
Farm Instructor (10 months)
84 30
8 33
247 OS
198 54
33 99
10
10 69
28 20
64 60
362 68
287 11
87 80
284 20
47 14
96 38
257 62
89 25
30 00
19 98
17 50
430 00
104 08
1.200 00
866 87
Cr.
Supplied to Storeketper —
Carrots, 13,251 tbs
Potatoes. 164,996 tbs..
Turnips, 42,738 lbs....
Beets, 6,038 lbs
Parsnips, 1,510 lbs
Cabbage. 1,368 " ....
Pork, 8.615 lbs
Beef, 8.770 lbs
Milk, 3,400 qts., @ 4c.
Milk, 1,859 qts., @ 3c.
Straw, for beds
Sundry Customers —
Milk, 2,7224 qts
Vegetables
Bull services (26)
Boar services (4)
Soap grease
Calves (1)
Hay
Pork, 40 lbs
Fat cattle (23)
One horse sold (condemned) .
Hides sold
Young pigs (38)
Barley, 2 bushels
Labour to Storekeeper —
Horse labour, 963 days. . .
Ox labour, 389 days
Convict labour, 688 days.
[Quarry Department —
Horse labour, 295 days. . .
Convict labour, 147 days.
Mason Department —
Horse labour, 15 days
Ox labour, 36 days
Convict labour, 9i days. .
WheeU, 1 pair
Labour to other Departments —
Fence horse labour, 89i days.
Ox labour, 83 days
Convict labour, 52i days
f)mamenlal Grounds —
Convict labour, 155 days.
Flower seeds
IForit at Cottages —
Horse labour, 35 days
Ox labour, 37 days
Convict labour. 33i days.
Labour on Roads —
Horee labour. 108 days. . .
Ox labour. 64 days
Convict labour, 192 days.
Farm Improvements —
Spruce boards, 2,117 feet. .
Nails, 100 tbs
Horse labour, 4 days
Ox labour, 62 days
Convict labour, 64 days
Guard, 3 days
Messenger horse, 312 days.
General dr
Work, expense
262
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Farm Statement. — Continued.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Labour to Customers —
30
83
8 35
18
3 50
Work on dyke '
22 77
12 182 73
6
19.059 39
19,059 39
JOHN HEBERT,
For Farm Instructor.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to submit the annual farm statement for the year ended
March 31st, 1910, as follows:—
Oats 3 ,502 bushels.
Barley 2,839
Potatoes 2,000 "
1 urnips 300 "
Beets 40
Carrots 25 "
Cabbage and other green vegetables for prison
use, about 2 ,000 head.
Hay 100 tons.
The farm shows a profit of over 82,000, the increase is mostly due to the good
prices received for farm produce.
Our farm stables are the same as twenty years ago, with the exception of a
new pig-pen and a temporary cattle shed. It will soon be necessary to make some
move either to repair or replace with new and up-to-date ones.
W. R. GRAHAME,
Farm Instructor.
Farm Balance Sheet.
To Inrentory. March 31st, 1909...
To Storekeeper —
Tamarac wood, 10 cord3, @ S5
Soft roal
Veterinary services
* SO 00
7 13
13 25
15 00
473 20
100 00
Farm and garden seeds ' 113 20
Boa
Hon
■ piu. I ■
ipa. I to
Shorthorn Lull. I.
By {HtewariD Storekeejier')':- —
Milk, 1,288 gals.,- ^ 20c. . .
Turnips, 132J bhls.. @ 2.5c,
Turnips, llj bhb., ® 30c..
Carrots, 22 bhls., @ 30c. .
Beets, 54 bhls., ® .30o
Pork, 35 lbs.. @ 8ic
Pork, 3,2.54 ths., ® 9c
Pork, 98 lbs., @ 91o
Pork, 491 lbs., @ 91c
$257 60
33 00
3 53
6 60
16 20
2 as
292 80
9 31
47 87
FARM REPORTS
263
SESSIONAL PAPZR No. 31.
Farm Balance Sbeet. — Continued.
Seed drill, grain 1
Seed drill, turnip, 1
Grain threshed. 6,341 bhls., @3c
Plow. 1
Binder twine, 100 tbs
Horse shoeing
W ater trough
Harvest gloves. 6 pairs
Hay forks, 1 rtoz
Parin green, 20 tbs
Bridles, I pair
Axle grease, 1 dozen boxes
Wagon. 1
Grinder plates, 5 pairs
Repairs to implements and ma-
chinery
Sundry supplies
Bran, 1 ton
Shorts, 1 ton
To Enttineer —
Coal and repairs
To Carpenter —
Repairs
To Steward —
Refuse
Salt, 2 bbis
To Shoemaker —
Repairs
To Mason —
Lime, 17 bhls.
To Blacksmith —
Repairs and horseshoeing.
To Accountant —
Freight, express, travelling ex-
penses
Convict labour, 3,948 days, @ 30c
Farm instructor's salary
To balance, profit
100 00
18 00
190 23
15 75
10 00
10 00
9 10
2 60
2 28
4 60
5 00
1 11
62 00
5 00
25 3
19 00
20 00
56 70
5 04
27 40
1,184 40
800 00
2,002 20
Potatoes, 246 bhls., @ 60c
166J bhls., @ 40c. . .
10 bhls., @ 35c
475i bhls., @ 30c....
Beef, 1451 Iba., @ $5.90 p. 100. .
Onions, 1 bhl
Cabbage, 4,834 lbs., @ Jo
Green vegetables. 1,166 lbs., @
ic
By Storekeeper (Departments) —
Teams, 575 days, @ S1.40
Convict labour, 687 days, g 30c
Straw, 4 loads
Cement culverts, 5
Cedar posts, 5 @ 15c
By Mason —
Convict labour, 182 days, @ 30e
Teams, 1794 days- @ S1.40
By Carpenter —
Team, i day,
labour, 15c. ..
70c., convict
By Customers —
Barlev, 218^ bhU., @ 50c
Oats, 309 bhls., @ 50c
Potatoes, 10 bhls., ® 7.5c
90 i bhls., ® GOo
10 bhls., @ 50c
431 bhls., @ 40c
250 bhls., @ 30c
Pork, 1,410 lbs., ® 9c
671 lbs., @ 8ic
660lb8., ®9ic
86 lbs., @ 93c
live hogs, 7,420 lbs., @ 75c.
1,800 lbs., @ 8c..
1,635 lbs., @ 81c.
1,390 lbs., @ 7io.
1,915 lbs., @ 75o.
734 lbs., ® 8*0.
1,365 lbs., @ 83 c.
Stag hog, 1
Beef, 764 lbs., @ 9c
Beef bull. 1,835 lbs., ® 34c
Milk, 635* gals., @ 20c
Turnips. IS* bhls., @ 25c. . . .
Carrots, U bhls.. @ 30c
Beets, * bhl , ® 30e
Parsnips, U bhls., @ 30c
Cabbage, 700 His., ® Ic
Rhubarb, 230 lbs., @ Ic
Beef hides, 100 lbs., @ 7c . .
Beef hides, 150 lbs., @ 8c. . . .
Cattle, 11 head
Straw, 1 load
Teaming, S3 1.03
Livers, hearts and tongues, 4
Convict labour, 1 day
Bull services, 5
Boar, services, 9
By Inventory, March 31, 1910.
S 147
60
66
60
3
50
142
5S
85
61
60
24
17
5
8:1
805
00
206
10
4
(H)
8
21
75
54 60
251
30
85
109
•)-
154
50
7
50
54
15
5
00
29
40
75
00
126
90
57
04
62
70
8
39
537
95
144
00
134
.88
104
25
148
40
62
39
119
43
18
00
68
76
64
22
127
10
4
63
45
15
45
7
00
2
30
7
00
12
00
480 00|
1
00
31
03
1
10
30
6
00
6
75
1
264 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
To the Warden:
I have the honour to submit my report as farm instructor of this penitentiary,
for the year ended March 31st, 1910.
I'he crops were a fair average, but unfortunately, early frosts af ected some
of the potatoes, although we have ample to carry us along through the season.
The new ground purchased last year, adjoining the deputy warden's resi-
dence, is being cleared, and a portion of it will be in crop the coming season, from
which we hope to have good results.
I am sorry that last summer we lost the entire herd of pigs, owing to an out-
break of hog cholera, causing a serious loss to the farm revenue. ^^ e have now
restocked the piggery, and hope within a short time to be able to supply again the
needs of the penitentiary.
R. DYNES,
Farm Instructor.
PRODUCTS OF FARM.
57 tons Potatoes, ft $16.00 : S 912 00
7 " Potatoes. (<r $12.00 84 00
30 " Hay, @ $15.00 450 00
6 " Oats, @ $28.00 168 00
li " Pease, @ $40.00 60 00
2 " Onions, @ $25.00 50 00
5 " Red Carrots, @ $7.50 37 50
3 " White, Carrots, @ $7.50 22 50
2 " Parsnips, (n) $15.00 30 00
1 " Beets, @ $15.00 15 00
2i " Mangel beets, @ 810.00 22 60
720 lbs., Lettuce. @ io 3 60
280 " Rhubarb, @io 140
1,500 " Leek. @ Ho 18 75
1,875 25
FARM REPORTS
265
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Farm Balance Sheet.
Db.
To stock on hand, March 31, 1910|
Oata, 43,781 tba
Bran, 6,181 tba
Shorts. 2,000 Iba
Seed, oats, clover and pease. ...
Sundry seeds
Fertiliier, 7,000 lbs |
Manure, 62 loads
Loading same
108 fruit trees and 400 hedge
plants
Brewer's grains, 89 loads
Seed potatoes, 1,000 Itis
Disc harrow, 1
Democrat wagon, 1
Horse, 1
Caldron, 1, 60 gal
Sows, 7
Boar, 1
Horse blankeU, 3 i
Drugs
Sundry supplies
Shoe shop general repairs
Carpenter, general repairs
Blacksmith, general repairs.
Refuse
Veterinary services
Labour,5,5694 days, @ 30o.
Salary farm instructor.
702 81
87 50
32 00
48 30
54 83
156 93
31 00
2 75
43 75
44 50
15 00
48 00
80 00
250 GO
16 00
135 00
20 00
24 74
1 05
148 95
73 87
251 00
195 79
25 39
6 00
,670 85
Ce.
By Storekeeper —
Potaotes, 85,181 lbs.
Carrots, 6,003 lbs
Turnips, 4,039 lbs...
Parsnips, 2,799 lbs...
Beets, 2,606 lbs
Cabbage, 2,655 lbs . . .
Onions, 3,231 lbs....
Pease, 3,870 lbs
Leek, 233 ftis
Lettuce, 719 lbs
Rhubarb, 280 lbs...
Pork, 971 lbs
Hay, 6,300 lbs
By Sundry Customers —
Hay
Dressed Pork, 1,416 lbs
Cabbage plants
Potatoes I
Hauling
Carpenter, 1 grindstone I
Compensation pigs destroyed . . . [
By convict labour to other depart-
ments, 1,4531 days, @ 30c. . .
Horse labour, 1,385} days, @70c
Stock condemned !
By stock on hand. March 31, 1901
By balance (loss)
681 42
20 01
12 12
21 00
19 64
15 93
40 42
68 05
2 10
3 59
1 41
83 39
31 50
36 00
120 36
10
15 50
13 .50
2 00
362 40
436 0.-1
970 02
1,406 05
348 35
4,416 09
2,206 21
9.917 04
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAP2R No. Slj A. 1911
"t
APPENDIX N.
YUKON PENITENTIARIES.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
A. 1911.
Dawson, Y.T., April 1st, 1910.
The Honourable,
The Minister of Justice,
Ottawa.
Sir, — I beg to submit, herewith, my annual report as Inspector of Peni-
tentiaries in the Yukon Territory, for the year ending 31st March, 1910, together
with reports from the wardens at Dawson and W hitehorse.
The guard rooms operated by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at
both these points are used as penitentiaries, and the officers commanding 'B'
and ' H' Divisions, having headquarters at Dawson and ^^ hitehorse respectively,
are the wardens, while the non-commissioned officers and constables of both
Divisions act in the capacity of guards and keepers.
The sanitary conditions of the penitentiaries, and the general health of all
convicts, is under the direct supervisions of the surgeons of the police force.
During the past year the sanitary conditions were excellent, and the health of the
convicts first-class.
There has been a remarkable absence of crime in the Yukon during the past
twelve months, only one convict being imprisoned at ^^ hitehorse and three at
Dawson. The one at ^^ hitehorse was sentenced the previous year, and will
probably be released on ticket of leave shortly. Two convicts at Dawson were
serving at the beginning of the year, one being sentenced the year previous, and
the other a ticket of leave man, compelled to serve out the balance of his original
sentence. There was only one newly convicted convict during the year, 'ihe
latter was convicted and sentenced to ten (10) years imprisonment with hard
labour for stabbing a woman of the under world. He was also sentenced to an
additional year for theft, and was, in March, transferred to the penitentiary at
New Westminster.
I inspected the penitentiary at Whitehorse several times during the year,
and also the penitentiary at Dawson. The convicts had no complaints to make.
The following is a statement of con\acts handled during the year:
On hand, April 1st, 1909 3
Received during the year 1
Total 4
Discharged during the year 1
Transferred to New Westminster 1
Remaining on hand 2
Total 4
There have been no escapes, and no attempts to escape during the year. The
conduct of the convicts has been excellent.
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Z. I. WOOD,
Assistant Commissioner, R.N.W.M. Police, Inspector of Penitentiaries in Yukon
Territory.
269
270
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Dawson, Y.T., April 1st, 1910.
To the Inspector of Penitentiaries,
Yukon Territory,
Dawson, Y. T.
Sir, — I have the honour to report as follows concerning the prisoners con-
fined in the Dawson penitentiary during the 12 months ending March 31st, 1910.
We are still using the police guard-room, in which to keep convicts, com-
mon jail prisoners, and insane patients.
'Ihe east wing of the building has been closed, as, with the reduced number of
prisoners in our custody, tlie soutli wing provided all the accommodation neces-
sary. A great saving of fuel was effected by the change.
The building is old, and various repairs were made last fall, such as caulking
and pointing, etc., in order to make it habitable during the winter months.
This spring the interior has been painted and kalsomined, which has greatly
improved its appearance.
Both penitentiary and jail have been kept most cleanly at all times.
The clothing, as supplied by the quarter master store, is of good quality and
suitable for all requirements. A few articles were purchased locally at reasonable
prices.
There have been very few breaches of prison discipline, none being of a serious
nature.
The health of the prisoners has been exceptionally good during the year, no
sickness of a serious character occurring.
The prison is in a good sanitary condition.
INSPECTIONS.
The prison has been inspected by yourself, as inspector of penitentiaries of
the Yukon territory, several times during the past year.
The officer commanding ' B' Division,— the warden— makes frequent
visits, and the orderly officers make daily inspections of the guard-room, and
inquire of the piisoners, if any have complaints to make. Some have been made,
but none of a serious nature and all have been easily remedied. The orderly
officers also visit the guard-room and prisoners during the night.
I might state here, that I make it an invarialjle rule to ask prisoners on their
discharge if they have any complaints to prefer, but none have been made.
YUKON PENITENTIARIES 271
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
The rations issued to the prisoners are ample and of the best quality. All
meals are prepared in the division mess.
The staff is comprised of a provost, escorts, and night guard.
The position of provost is a permanent one and has been held during the
past year by Reg. No. 4267, Corporal Jordon, E. D., who has proved himself an
excellent man for this very responsible position.
The escorts are detailed daily from among the duty members of the Royal
Northwest Mounted Police stationed in the post.
The night guard which was formerly also a daily detail is now a permanent
position and consists of three men, one of whom performs the duty of flying sen-
try, and, during the winter months, that of night stoker.
The labour consists of levelling and grading the barrack grounds and re-
pairing buildings in the summer months, and sawing and spilling wood in the
winter. Should a convict or common jail prisoner be an artisan, he is, if possible,
given employment at his trade.
There are only seven prisoners in our custody at the present time.
Insane patients, of whom nine have been in our custody during the past
year, are also kept in the guard-room. There is no other place in which they
can be lodged, and they are a great nuisance at times, disturbing both the prison
routine and the prisoners.
One convict, who was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for wounding
with intent to kill, and to one year for theft, (eleven years in all), has been trans-
ferred to the New Westminster penitentiary.
Reading matter which consists of magazines and outside papers is supplied
by the R. N. W. JM. Pohce Library. No local papers are allowed in the guard-
room.
The Salvation Army hold service in the prison at 10 a.m., on Sunday morn-
ings.
Attached herewith, is a summary of the convicts confined at present and
also of those who have been in our custody during the past year, together with a
report from Assistant Surgeon Thompson.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
R. A. WROUGHTON,
Inspector, Commanding ' B' Division R.N.W.M. Police, Warden of the R.N.W M.
Police Penitentiary, Dawson, Y. T.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Dawson, Y. T., May 11th, 1910.
The Officer Commanding,
'B' Division, R.N.W.M. Police,
Dawson, Y. T.
Sir, — I have the honour to forward, herewith, my report for the year ending
March 31st, 1910, in connection with the penitentiary at Dawson.
I'here was no sickness of a serious nature throughout the year among the
prisoners in this department. Mild attacks of la grippe and biliousness were
the prevailing ailments. Two old men, both about 70 years old, sui ered a good
deal from chronic rheumatism, were unable to work at hard labour, but did
occasional light work. One was released about Christmas time.
The penitentiary is inspected regularly and is kept in a good sanitary condi-
tion, as is evidenced by the lack of sickness therein.
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
W. E. THOMPSON,
Assistant Surgeon.
Dawson, Y. T., May 10th, 1910.
The Officer Commanding,
'B' Division R.N.VV.M. Police,
Dav\son, Y. T.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following statement of penitentiary
prisoners confined in the Dawson jail between the 1st of April, 1909 and 31st
March, 1910.
Crime.
Sentences.
Totals.
11 yra.
3 yra.
2 yra.
1
1
Theft
1
1
1
1
■ ^
1
1
1
3
The above statement includes one (1) discharged, time expired; one (1)
transferred to the New Westminster penitentiary, and one (1 ) still serving.
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your obedient servant.
E. L. JORDON, Corpl.,
Provost.
YUKON PENITENTIARIES 273
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
RETURN OF PENITENTIARY PRISONERS UNDERGOING SENTENCE IN THE
PENITENTIARY AT DAWSON, FROM Ut APRIL, 1909, TO MARCH 3l8t, 1910.
In custc dy April 1, 1909 2
Received during the year 1
Total 3
Discharged, time expired I
Transferred ^
Still serving 1
Total 3
DURATION OF SENTENCE.
3 years P.S. (Re-vocation of ticket of leave.) 1
2 " P.S 1
11 " P.S 1
Total 3
NATIONALITY.
Canada. ^
Austria ^
Total 3
CRIMES.
Theft from a dwelling house 1
Theft 1
Wounding with intent to kill 1
Total 3
CIVIL STATE.
Married 0
Single 3
Total 3
ETHNOLOGY.
Wliite 3
CREED.
Roman Catholic 2
Pagan 1
Total 3
MORAL HABITS.
Intemperate 1
Temperate 2
Total 3
31—18
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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RETURN OF CONVICTS CONFINED IN THE ROYAL NORTH-WESTERN MOUNTED POLICE JAIL AT
DAWSON, Y. T., DURING PERIOD FROM 1st APRIL, 1909 TO 31st MARCH, 1910.
Date
Received.
Sentence
Years P. S.
By whom
Sentenced.
1908
July 7
1908
Got. 5
1910
'an 18.
.Shaw, David Riohard-
BOQ.
Theft of gold bearing
gravel and dirt, contain-
ing gold dust,
reaking and entering
dwelling house by day
and stealin(i therefrom.
Theft of gold-bearing
gravel containing gold
da-jt, value about $100.
Rosa. Thomas Anthony
Volovitch, Samuel.
Wounding with intent to
kiU.
Theft
1905
June 6.
June 6.
June 6
1908
Oct. 5.
1910
Jan. 18.
Feb. 8.
Judge Craig
(Pleaded guilty.)
Judge Macaulay.
Whitehoese, Y.T., March 31st, 1910.
To the Inspector of Penitentiaries,
Da^\6on, Y.T.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit this my annual report as warden of the
Whitehorse penitentiary and common jail up to the end of the j'ear ending Marcli
31st:
'J'he Royal Northwest Mounted Police guard-room is used as a common
jail and penitentiary at this place, for which purpose, as mentioned in previous
reports, the general arrangement of the building is not entirely satisfactory for
the proper care of all classes of prisoners.
'j'he sanitary conditions are onlj' maintained in such a condition by the most
careful attention, and are as good as can be expected in the absence- of sewerage
or water pipes. There are, at present, confined in the guard-room here:
Convict No. 46, Volovitch en route to New Westminster penitentiary having
arrived here under police escort on the 20th March, and held pending arrival
of warrant of removal.
Jo.seph Smith I'aker, undergoing sentence of eighteen months imprisonment
at hard labour, for theft of government stores, having been sentenced by .Judge
Craig on March 23rd, 1909. .limmie Stick, an Indian, undergoing sentence of
six months' imprisonment at hard labour, for breaking sliop at Champagnes'
Landing, having been sentenced by Police Magistrate Taylor on November 24th,
1909.
All clothing was supplied from our own stores, the provisions issued being of
good quality, although as mentioned in a memorandum of date, Octol^er 22nd,
last, attached to the files of the officer commanding Yukon ','erritory, I con-
sider the scale as laid down for prisoners by R.N.W.M. Police Rules and Regula-
tions 1909, as inadequate to the Yukon.
YUKON PENITENTIARIES
275
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
^The conduct of prisoners during the year has been uniformly good, no serious
breach of discipline having' occurred.
The general health of prisoners has been good. The duties of provost have
been efficiently carried out by Corporal Scott assisted by the usual escorts by
day and N.C.O. or constables detailed for night guard.
The penitentiary has been inspected by an officer and surgeon daily and
weekly by the officer commanding as warden, upon all of which occasions the
prisoners v\ere asked if they had any complaints.
I attach hereto the usual statistics required.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A. G. SNYDER, Supt.
Commanding ' H' Divison, R.N.W.M. Police, Warden of Penitentuiry at
\V hitthorse.
STATISTICS OF PRISONERS CONFINED IN THE GUARD-ROOM AT WHITEHORSE, Y.T.
During the period from April 1st, 1909 to March 31st, 1910:—
On hand April Lst, 1909 3
Received since that date 24
(Including 4 lunatics in transit.)
Discharged on payment of fine or suspended sentence 15
Expiration of sentence 3
Lunatics transferred to New Westminster 4
Lunatics discharged as sane after commital 1
Under observation and sent to hospital (since dead) 1
On hand at March 31st, 1910 3
Name.
Duration and Date of
Sentence.
Crime.
Nationality.
Creed.
Married
or Single.
Chad. W. Hall
12mo8. from April 27. inns
3 nio3. from Feb. 27. HIO'i
18 mo3., from Mar. 2:?. IDO'I
2 mo-i., from Sept. 17. IHO^I
8 tno-!., from Nov. 24 lUO'.)
11 years In transit Dawson
to .""Jew Westminster Peni-
tentiary.
Theft
Protestant. . .
Protestant. . .
Protestant. . .
Sin<'Ie.
Kth.'McIvor
Indian Act
rh»ft
Scottish
Eni;lish
J. S. Baker
Single
Jimmie Stick
Burglary
Volovitah, No. 46
Nationalities.
No.
Remarks.
1
1
I
1
Theft.
Th»ft
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 3J4. A. 1911.
APPENDIX 0.
CLASSIFICATION AND SEGREGATION.
277
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
CLASSIFICATION AND SEGREGATION.
Ottawa, November 23, 1909.
Sir, — The House of Commons, on the 17th instant, adopted the following
resolution: —
'Be it resolved. That it is desirable to ascertain by reports obtained
upon the subject from wardens, inspectors and chaplains, \\hat means
could be adopted in Canada to insure a judicious classification and segregation
of the convicts in our penal institutions and reformatories.'
^^ e inclose a copy of the unrevised record of the debate and have to request
that you will forward a full and detailed report of your views on the subject,
especially on the following points: —
(1) Is srgiegation necessary or desirable? If so, for what reasons, and
what advantages would accrue?
(2) Is segregation feasible or practicable? If so, what principle should
govern? (a) Age. (b) Class of crimes committed, (c) Prison conduct
and industry, or (d) an arbitrary selection. If the latter, by whom should
the selection be made?
(3) Are our penitentiaries structurally suitable for segregation? If so,
in what way do you suggest the segregation in the dormitories?
(4) In view of our varied industries, in what way could the various
classes be segregated during working hours?
(5) \\ ould segregation involve structural changes or additions? If so,
at what estimated cost?
(6) ^^ ould it involve an increase in the staff of police and industrial
officers? If so, at what estimated cost?
(7) If segregation should be made, is there likely to be any difficulty
« as to complaints of discrimination by convicts who may be classed in the
lower grades? If so, would such dissatisfaction interfere with discipline and
reformatory influence among those who are debarred from the preferred
class or classes?
(8) If segregation should be made, would you advise difTerent regula--
tions as to dietary, privileges, etc., for the several classes? If so, what changes
do you suggest?
We shall be glad if you find it convenient to make your report before the 15th
of January next.
Yours sincerely,
DOUGLAS STEWART,
G. W. DAWSON.
Inspectors.
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280 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
REPORT OF THE WARDEN OF KINGSTON PENITENTIARY.
Kingston, January 15th, 1910.
Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sms, —
RE CLASSIFICATION AND SEGREGATION OF CONVICTS.
Referring to the resolution adopted by the House of Commons, November
17th, 1909, and your circular letter of the 23rd of the same month, I beg to suggest
that, inasmuch as classification and segregation are not interchangeable terms,
it may be well, in order to avoid confusion, to consider the question under separate
heads.
An ideal prison system, in fact, any prison system worthy of the name in
this age of the world, not only involves the principle of segregation as necessary
and advisable, but adopts it as a leading or governing principle. The reasons for
this being either self-evident or such as will suggest themselves to any one who
gives a moment's thought to the subject. But the foregoing remark applies only
to the general prison system and not to the conduct or administration of an in-
dividual prison.
Segregation implies the absolute and continuous separation of the several
classes of convicts, which, under our present penitentiary system and our institu-
tional equipment as at present constituted, is utterly and hopelessly impracticable.
Efficient segregation can be effected only by stone walls or distance, or by both
v.-alls and distance. Structurally, our penitentiaries are not suitable for segrega-
tion nor can they be made suitable without radical and expensive alterations.
Our dormitory system would require the isolation, by impervious and impene-
trable walls, of each of the several wings; which would entail the employment of
separate police supervision for each of the several isolated sections. Additional
chapels would not be necessary, but we would be compelled to have as many
separate services as w-e would have segregated classes. Hospital accommodation
for the different classes would aflord another difficulty not easily arranged for.
But the insurmountable barrier confronts us when we consider our industrial
system. Would we be required to make shoemakers of one entire class, and
tailors of another, and blacksmiths of a third class ? Or, would it be thought better
to have as many shoe-shops and as many tailor-shops as we have classes? In
short, would we require to multiply the number of our trade-shops by the number
of classes segregated? I see no way out of this difficulty, and I see a score of other
difficulties which, combined with those already mentioned, have forced me to
conclude that segregation of classes, in any single penitentiary, is impracticable.
Vhe general tendency of prison life, or reformatory life, or boarding school
life, or congregate life of any kind, is towards the formation of mischievous if not
vicious habits; and it is a question whether or not such natural tendency is
materially influenced by arranging these congregations so that boys of about the
same age are herded together. Experience teaches that segregation, perse, will
not insure against the growth of evil where either boys or men, in any considerable
numbers, are institutionally confined in consequence of the manifestation of
moral delinquency. Nevertheless, it is but fair to assume that the separation of
the good from the bad, and the bad from the worse, aids in the application and
the effectiveness of reformatory methods, measures and influences which, after
all, must be chiefly depended upon to restore the delinquent to moral health and
vigour. Be this as it mayjjthe idea of segregation, though of minor importance in
comparison with many other steps that might well be taken in the direction of
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
prison reform, has taken up its abode in the public mind, and it is not well that it
should be abandoned or lightlj' dealt «ith. And it need not be abandoned.
Granted that segregation is impracticable in our penitentiaries, because of struc-
tural obstacles and impossibilities; granted that the overlapping of provincial and
federal jurisdictions seriously complicate the situation; still, it may be said that
our penitentiary system constitutes a prison system of itself under the absolute
control of Dominion authority. In our penitentiaries we have convicts of all
ages from the youth of fifteen years to the octogenarian; of all records from the
'first ohender' to the recidivist who boasts of a dozen convictions; of all degrees
of criminality from chicken theft to murder; of all terms of sentence from two
years to life imprisonment; of all ciualities from exceptional intelligence to mental
imbecility and lunacy'; of all physical conditions from robust health to incurable
tuberculosis; of all grades from the docile and tractable to the inveterate and the
incorrigible. We have all these classes of convicts in all our penitentiaries, and
the aggregate number is about sixteen hundred. Certainly, segregation of classes
seems necessary and advisable, if not imperative.
Where, then, and how, shall we begin? 'I'he attempt to apply the principle
in any single penitentiary as at present constituted, would prove futile and, under
existing circumstances and conditions, and after j-ears of labour and vast expense
in reconstruction, the attempt would result in dissatisfaction if not in failure.
Would it not be easier and cheaper and more sensible to reconstruct our
penitentiary system than to reconstruct our prisons? ^^'e have now six peniten-
tiaries, and we are building more and adding to those that are built. Why not
adapt, say four of our penitentiaries, each to the accommodation of one of the
following classes?
Class I. (To be under Medical Supervision and Management.)
(«) The insane and mentally imbecile.
(6) The tubercular.
(c) The epileptic.
id) 'i'he maimed and the blind.
Class II. (a) Life convicts.
(6) Rapists.
(c) Convicts sentenced to ten years or over.
Class III. (a) Incorrigibles.
(6) Recidivists.
Class IV. (a) First oflence convicts.
(b) Convicts under twenty-five years of age not included in the
foregoing classes.
(c) Females.
If considered advisable, the country could be divided into two territorial
divisions, with four prisons in each, 'i'he foregoing schedule of classes to be segre-
gated is simply rudimentary or suggestive, and may be so amended as to meet
the opinion of any competent commission.
^^hen all this is done, or, rather, while it is being done, another work of re-
construction should be carried to completion, viz.: the reconstruction of the
Criminal Code so as to empower the sentencing judge to order the imprisonment,
in any or either of the penitentiaries, of any convict whose sentence is for any de-
finite period not less than three years, or for any indefinite period not less than
two years. It is distressing to hear the presiding judge sometimes remar!v, when
addressing a convict whom he is about to sentence, ' I am sorry, but I have no
alternative. I must sentence you to the penitentiary,' which means that some
unfortunate is sent to the penitentiary for a term prescribed by statute when, in
the opinion of the judge who has heard the whole case, a shorter term or some other
prison would have served the ends of justice. Let our judges have the authority
to decide whether a convict be sent to a federal or a provincial prison, and em-
282 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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power nobodj', but judges to sentence convicts to a penitentiary. Tliere is some-
thing wrong when cases occur such as the following:
A young man, twenty-four years of age, and his sister, a mere child of less than
sixteen summers, are convicted of incest, and both, the offender and his victim,
are now in the penitentiary, each serving a four year sentence. 'I'his may appear
irrelevant, but my contention is that a careful revision of our criminal code \\ ould
relieve our penitentiaries from the care of many young ol.enders who might better
be cared for (or treated) in some other institution. Let the courts do a part of the
segregation act.
If I may be permitted to allude to the recent discussion in the House of Com-
mons, a report of which you were good enough to send me, and which I have read
with deep interest, 1 beg to remark with reference to the apparent increase of
crime which so many seem to deplore, that recorded convictions do not and cannot,
with certainty, indicate either increase or diminution of criminality, unless we
consider therewith concomitant laws and their execution. Whei'e there is no law
there can be no crime. According as laws differ at different periods and in differ-
ent countries, crime records have been found to differ in the same ratio. Crimes
which were, in times past, severely dealt with, are now unknown and many new
crimes have been added to the calendar by changes in the public sentiment and
opinion as to the requirements of modern and advanced civilization. Crim-
inality may exist in an individual, but he must be detected and convicted of some
overt act before his name can appear on the records as a criminal. Laws vary and
chango according to the changes in public opinion, and the wisdom or caprices of
legislators, thus altering the statistical records of crime. Let any person inter-
ested go carefully through our criminal cede and note the additions and amend-
ments that have been made during the last two decades, and compare the ratio
of increase in the number of such amendments and additions with the ratio of
the increase in the number of recorded convictions, and he may be gratified to find
that, though the number of convictions have increased there is but little evidence
of any alaiining increase of criminality.
Referring to the oft-repeated implication that faulty administration and man-
agement of our penitentiaries is responsible or blameable for the apparent increase
of crime and the increase in the number of criminals, I respectfully submit that
the birth-rate inside prison walls is exceedingly low. When I took charge of the
Kingston penitentiary, nearly eleven years ago, the number of convict inmates was
586. Not a child has been born within our walls within the last decade, yet our
convict population to-day numbers 572; and, during the period mentioned about
60 convicts have died, and we have discharged, conditionally and upon expira-
tion of sentence, over fifteen hundred. Whence comes the eternal procession that
keeps our dormitories filled and taxes our capacity for accommodation? A
small percentage of those discharged return to us, and a larger percentage, perhaps,
come to us from other prisons or reformatories. But the flagrant fact confronts
us that scores and hundreds are received annually who enter prison gates for the
first time. Whence come they? Not all from city slums or foreign lands or
uneducated communities. A large proportion are from refined and christian
homes and from commercial centres, and from our public schools and high schools,
and from our sabbath schools and from our church pews. Surely, the baneful in-
fluence of badly-managed penitentiaries cannot be held solely responsible for the
origin and development of this unsought and unearned increment! Somebody
other than prison wardens must rise to explain. Somebody must discover the
germ of criminality and apply the remedy. Prison officials do the best they can
with those they have in charge, and with those whom they have conditionally
released, but we cannot reach the prospective criminals who are scattered over
the country awaiting admission to our care. Keep the 'first offenders' from our
gates, and we will see to it that society will not be long troubled with recidivists.
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If segregation be the panacea, par excellence, inside our prison walls, why not try
it outside?
A large proportion of our prison population, too large a proportion I acknow-
ledge, are recidivists. Many have served several terms in the same prison, and
many can and do boast of having travelled from prison to prison over half the
continent. How can this lamentable condition be remedied? No convict should
be permitted to repeat his offence against society more than once. For the third
offence he should be sentenced to confinement for an indefinite term, and keptin
confinement until reformed or cured or buried. The law is chiefly responsible for
the large number of habitual criminals or 'repeaters' whose names appear on our
prison records. Proper prison discipline and training and skillful prison treatment,
aided by the necessary reformatory agencies ^\^th which all prisons should be
equipped, may reasonably be expected to reduce the number of recidivists to a
minimum, and in all probability would be able to make a much better showing if
proper and reasonable consideration were shown to, and reasonable assistance
afforded the discharged convict. Why, in the name of common sense, should the
paroled convict who, as a rule, has a home provided and friends to assist him, be
cared for, aided and advised by a special official of the government appointed for
that special purpose, while the other poor fellows, who have served out their re-
spective sentences, and, as a rule, have neither home to go to nor friends to meet
them, are turned out to make their way, as best they can, in a cold, heartless world?
Frequently, I discharge from this penitentiary some young fellow who has served
his time, and who, with hope and confidence, and a full determination to do right
and earn an honest livelihood, goes forth with elastic step from confinement to
freedom. He is conducted out of the prison gate by an officer of the prison, who
accompanies him to the railway station anil, as if unfit to linger a moment in the
city, he is placed in a second class coach, and watched until the train moves off.
The departure of an ex-convict is thus advertised, not exactly by a brass-band,
but by brass buttons, to the world and to the community in which he hopes to find
a home and employment. He proceeds on his journey, looked at, pointed at,
perhaps sneered at and scoffed, until he reaches his destination. He seeks em-
ployment, and honestly and truthfully tells his story from house to house, and
meets, everywhere, a cold, heartless refusal. Nobody to guide him, nobody to
assist him, he wanders from place to place, until he is penniless; and finding
social icebergs in his way in every direction, he turns his steps towards the home
of some old associate in crime, or, in utter despair, commits some crime and is
returned to the prison, looking bright and cheerful as if glad to get home again
within our hospitable walls. Thus we have a recidivist, and who, I ask, is chiefly
responsible? Surely the penitentiary is not responsible for the first ofTence, and,
except for the knowledge of the terrible ordeal that an ex-convict has to undergo
in order to gain a footing in the busy world, we would be shocked and disheartened
by his return to the prison. I am not aware that there is in active operation in this
broad, enlightened, christian Canada to-day, more than one oigunization or
society manifesting special interest in the succor and salvation of discharged con-
victs. The Salvation Army constitutes the single exception, and it is dithcult to
overestimate the extent and grandeur of the work done by this little band of
christian soldiers. They not only talk about 'uphfting the fallen' — Thet/ do it.
Parliament should vote them one thousand dollars to supplement their efforts.
There is work for agencies other than penitentiaries in the endeavour to prevent
the increase in crime and reduce the number of criminals. The proper care and
training and education of the young before they have entered upon a life of crime,
and the proper treatment of those discharged from our prisons would do more to
limit the multiplication of recidivists than all our penitentiaries can do even when
their equipment and management are made more nearly perfect than they are at
present.
284 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Of all the institutional agencies devised for the reformation of convicts during
the term of their imprisonment, I unhesitatingly give industry and industrial
training the first place. We may discipline; we may classify; we may segregate;
we may enforce physical training; we may educate; we may appoint chaplains
and build chapels and equip them with all the time honoured paraphernalia of sacred
rites and ceremonies, and yet, without industries, healthful, educational, produc-
tive and profitable, we will fail in our efforts and continue to turn out from our
prisons, boys and men unfitted and unprepared, either in habit or skill, to earn an
honest living. The employment and industrial training of convicts is, to-day,
the subject of paramount importance, the question which cries aloud for discus-
sion and action.
CLASSIFICATION WITHOUT SEGREGATION.
The classification or gradation of convicts, without segregation, is one of the
administrative devices in many well-ordered prisons. Conduct in prison is, or
should be, the basis of classification, where the sole object is to encourage good
behaviour. In a rudimentary form, the system has been operated in the Kingston
penitentiary, and with decided advantage, for the last eight years. My opinions
on this important subject, expressed in my annual report for the year 1901, have
been confirmed by experience, and I take the liberty of reproducing an extract
which covers the subject, and describes the system as it was inaugurated, and
which, with certain modifications, is still in operation:
'Classification. — Many people think it a reproach to our prison system
that we have no genuine classification of convicts; the good and the bad,
the young and the old, the first-term men and the repeaters, the accidental
convict and the hardened criminal being bundled in together, regardless of
results. The ready inference is, of course, that the predominating influence
of evil will effectually corrupt the whole prison population and insure the
graduation of expert and hardened criminals.
Those who thus criticise and condemn our congregate system never
condescend to prescribe a practicable remedy for the evil they so delight to
magnify. Separation, segregation, classification, etc., are fine-sounding
terms, but they have no meaning at all applicable in prisons where industry
is made the chief restraining and reforming influence. Even could the
separation into classes be successfully effected, if we could make shoemakers
of all the good convicts, tailors of all moderately bad ones, and stonecutters
of all the hardened and incorrigible, would it be wise and politic to do so?
What hope would there be for the worst class? Are they to be given up as
irredeemable? Are we justified in making the good better by a method
which avowedly makes the bad worse? Are we to conclude that the influence
of the righteous is without power except over those already righteous, while
the influence of evil is all powerful over both the good and the bad? Is
there no possibility of a good example, set by a convict, influencing his less
amiable fellow convict? And is it sure and certain that bad example never
fails in its power to influence?
Human nature is the same inside of prison walls as outside. The good
and the bad, comparatively speaking, are on both sides.
If it be necessary, or just and wise to separate into distinct classes those
confined inside the prison, why is it unnecessary or unjust or unwise to wall
off the good from the bad outside the prison? AH over the land to-day, good
boys and girls are playing with bad boys and girls. All over the land to-day
the righteous and the unrighteous are in constant association. It is said the
devil gets in his most effectual work during the hours of darkness and idleness.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
During those hours of danger the convict is absolutely by himself in his prison
cell. How is it in the world outside the prison?
Considerations of this kind have led me to abandon all attempt to classify
by separation of convict gangs. It is impracticable, and 1 doubt its advis-
ability. To cla.ssify upon the basis of merit is practicable in all our prisons and
can, 1 believe, by the application of the principle of rewards and restrictions,
be made to encourage obedience and industry and to inspire hope and elevate
character to a far greater extent than can be done by any system of segrega-
tion.
I submit for your consideration the following outlines of the scheme of
classification which I propose to inaugurate experimentally in this peniten-
tiary.
FIRST CLASS.
(a) All first term convicts whose records are clear of report, involving
punishment, for one year prior to date of classification, and who have earned
full remission (excepting hospital deduction) for the last six months, and
who have not been convicted of murder, rape, incest, buggery, sodomy or
indecent assault.
(';) All second term convicts whose records are clear of report, involving
puni.'ihment, for two years, and who have earned full remission for eighteen
months, and who have not been convicted of any crime mentioned in clause(a).
(c) All convicts promoted from second class for exemplary conduct and
industry.
SECOND CLASS.
(a) All convicts, upon admission, who have not previously served two
terms in a penitentiary, and not committed for heinous or unnatural crime.
{b) All convicts whose records are clear of report for six months prior to
classification, or clear of serious report, such as refusal to work, insolence,
disobedience, etc., for one year and have not served more than two previous
terms in a penitentiary.
(c) All convicts graded from first class for bad conduct or promoted from
third class for good conduct.
THIRD CLASS.
(a) All convicts not in first class nor in second class, nor in prison of
isolation.
(6) All convicts, upon admission, who have previously served two or
more terms, and not at once consigned to prison of isolation.
(c) All convicts degraded from other classes or discharged from prison
of isolation.
PROMOTIONS AND DEGRADATIONS.
Any convict may be promoted from third class to second class, or from
second class to first class, when his record comes up to the requirement of such
class, and, in the opinion of the warden, his general conduct and improvement
warrant such promotion. Provided, however, that no third term convict
shall be admitted to the first class, and that no fourth term convict shall be
admitted to the second class.
288 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Degradation from second class to third class, and from first class to
either of the lower classes, may (by direction of the warden) follow upon any
material lowering of the record of any convict or the commission of any serious
offence such as insolence, disobedience, mahngering, fault-finding, fighting, or
the use of profane or filthy language.
PRIVILEGES AND DISABILITIES.
So far as the regulations permit certain privileges will be granted to first
class convicts not bestowed upon the other classes, and second class convicts
will be relieved from many of the restrictions imposed upon the third class.
For example:
First class convicts will be considered eligible for parole at all times;
second class in special cases only; third class, not eligible. Cleiks, mes-
sengers and orderlies will be selected, as far as possible, from the first class;
none to be taken from the third class. First class may write oftener and
receive visits oftener than other classes, and second class will have more
privileges in this respect than third class. It is also intended to ask the
Minister's approval of the extension of privileges and removal of restrictions
in the case of the first and second classes.
The first class will be designated by a brass star on left side of collar.
The second class will be designated by the figure one (1) on left side of
collar.
The third class will be designated by the figure two (2) on the left side of
collar.
The prison of isolation being now practically obsolete, the three classes above
mentioned will include all our convict population, and, pending the reorganiza-
tion and reopening of the isolate or separate ward, I purpose facilitating the
achievement of the distinctive grade-marks by modifying considerably the terms
of promotion and degradation respectively. I also purpose changing the basis of
gradation, so as to make 'behaviour in prison' the sole consideration.
I would not, even if permitted by regulations, make any distinction between
classes with regard to dietary or clothing. We are bound to give every convict a
sufficiency of wholesome food; and to make plain uniforms for one class would
destroy the only argument, (which is already weak) we can present in support of
stripes and checks, and would tacitly proclaim these as emblems of degradation.
Respectfully submitted,
J. M. PLATT,
Warden.
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REPORT OF THE PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN OF KINGSTON PENITENTIARY.
The Penitentiary,
Portsmouth, Ont., January 10, 1910.
To the Inspectors,^
Dear Sirs, — The subject of the segregation and classification of convicts in
the penal institutions of this country has, for years [)ast. engaged the serious
thought and attention, not only of those \\ho are directly concerned in the manage-
ment and oversight of such places, but also, of those who take a kindly interest in
the velfare of the prisoners.
From time to time people express their views on the matter in the public press,
in public meetings and in private correspondence. It is, therefore, v ithout doubt,
regarded as a very important thing by the public. And the increase in this country
and else\v here in the number of criminal youths, has given it unusual prominence.
In proof of this allow me to give two short ([uotations, one from the report of
the Pennsylvania Prison Society, as follows: —
' It is a source of deep regret that, in some prisons, the juvenile criminals
are confined in the same part of the prison with the older law l)real<ers. It
seems pitiful that hardened criminals should have such oppoitunity to cor-
rupt the minds of the younger, or of those who have committed their first
ohence under peculiar circumstances of temptation.'
1'he other from a new spaper w hich w as sent to me w ith the w ords underlined: —
'A young man at the age of twenty may have gone far astray, but he can
scar, ely be regarded as a hopelessly hardened criminal. To put the brand of a
felon upon him, and to put him into the society of men who have grown old in
crime, docs not give much promise of his reclamation.'
The incongruity, the utter unfitness, of such a state of things is evident. So
that to bring the ((Uestion before the House of Commons was a wise and timely
movement, and will secure for it, it is to be hoped, as thorough an examination and
sifting as its importance tlemands.
And the more one understands the inner life of the penitentiary, the more
deeply one feels the necessity of 'a judicious classification and segregation of the
convicts.' And I partly expressed my views on the subject, at least in regard to
the youthful criminals, in my report of 1 008.
The whole problem is, indeed, a difficult one, and it involves and suggests,
many contingencies, side issues and probable complications. It is beset with
difficulties. It, perhaps, w ould be impossible to make any rule, to pass any meas-
ure, w hich would cover and govern the w hole situation. The law must be elastic,
not cast iron, as in the application of it so much would, of necessity, have to be
left to the discretion and the judgment of the officials. Yet it seeyis only reason-
able that something should be done to make practical the principle and the intention
of the resolution of parliament; and to recast some of the old lavs which govern
our penal institutions, and to bring those institutions under the influence of the
spirit of progress, which affects all departments of life and work in this busy age.
But now, in regard to the first (|uestion in the circular: ' Is segregation neces-
sary or desirable?' 'If so, for what reasons, and what advantages would accrue?'
This is the most important question on the list (for the two really amount to
one). It lies at the very foundation of the movement, and prompted it. The
widespread interest in which shows this, and if an affirmative answer is given to this
.question, assent to all the others should be yielded, as a matter of course.
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To put the question in another way. Is it necessary or desirable, to keep a
boy, even a bad one, away from the company of a man older and w orse, more crim-
inal and more hardened than himself? Only one answer can be given. Advice to
keep away from bad company is some of the best which can be given to anyone,
more especially, to youths. It is the bounden duty of parents and guardians, not
only to give it, but to enforce it as much as possible. And if this holds good in the
outside world, in the family, and on all occasions, it will, surely, also hold good in
the case of lads sentenced for years to the penitentiary, where they are thrown
among degraded and even desperately bad men. Such a good rule should be made
effectual eve7i there. For, although, youths are separated from 'a gang' it may be,
of bad companions, when they are sent to the penitentiary, their condition and
prospects are not improved when they mix vith greater sinners than themselves,
and tfuit day and night. For in spite of the utmost prudence and watchfulness of
the officials, next door neighbours can, and do, talk.
In order to strengthen my reasoning, and to further show ' the necessity and
desirableness of segregation and classification,' allow me to give one example, out
of many available, of the attempts made by older criminals (and 'a detailed report'
is asked for) to gain influence over, and to corrupt the younger.
This case v as brought to light by means of a letter written by a very bad man
to a youth of sixteen, from Toronto. Ow ing to the watchfulness of an official, the
letter ^\ as intercepted, and he handed it to me to read. 'I'he contents of it v ere vile
beyond measure. Such shocking depravity as that letter revealed, it is hard to
imagine. And it is likely that other letters of the same kind ^^ere written and
reached their destination. It is supposed that the object of the writer was to make
of this boy a confederate in crime, and to use him for that purpose w hen they got
their liberty. I had several long talks with this convict. 1 questioned him as to
his career of crime, as to his motives in tal ing pleasure in depraving boys, as to his
aims in life, and so forth. I found him indi; erent, callous. 'He didn't care.' 'I'he
moral sense seemed to be almost extinguished. And there are many like him, at
this moment in this penitentiary.
Imagine a boy of tender years under such influence! It would excite in him
every bad passion. To such a boy a penitentiary is a school of crime. Such a man
becomes, in a most unaccountable manner, the leader of those younger than him-
self. 'I'he law of affinity seems to draw them to one another. And there are no
doubt, cliques held together by some such bond and mutual sympathy, in every
penitentiary, '.'his is the case with respect to ' gangs' of boy burglars, as we read
continually in the newspapers. A troup of youths, who were brought here from
London a few years ago, had a ring-leader who planned their burglaries, '.'his boy
told me the history of their wrong-doings. Such boys are drawn, as if by instinct,
to such a man I have referred to. The conclusion is that such a one is not their
proper companion anywhere.
It may be said, however, that some boys may be so debased, that they can,
and do, corrupt other boys of the same age, and younger. True; but must it not be
granted that a bad boy cannot possibly corrupt another boy to the same extent that
an old, experienced criminal can. 'I'here maybe a large measure of explosive wicked-
ness in boys, but there could hardly be found in them old, settled, criminal habits.
I may say, therefore, that to my own mind, 'segregation is both necessary and
desirable.'
And this point could be further pressed by giving 'in detail' other instances,
supplied me by another officer, of the apparent pleasure it af i ords older convicts to
pollute the minds of the younger ones, ','hese two officers, one would suppose,
have the gift of intuition to discover mischief, no matter where or when it is ' brew-
ing' in this prison.
'i'he reasons, or at least some of them, '^vhy segregation is necessary or desir-
able' I have given or suggested, I think, in this carried thus far. As to 'what
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advantages would accrue from it,' I feel I have also, in some measure shown. I
venture to say they are evident and unmistakable. 'I'he reasons suggest the ad-
vantages, and in my own opinion, anticipate them.
Vo save fallen youths from further degradation by keeping them from worse
company«than their own, to check them in their career of evil, to endeavour to up-
lift the!n, to help them to turn their thoughts and intentions into higher and nobler
channels, to try to lead them to understand the motives for thus dealing 'a ith them,
and so, as far as possible, to inspire them with purer motives, and higher aspirations
in regard to life and its duties, would bring to many, if not to all, great advantages
and blessings.
^luch that has been said so far in respect to youths will hold also in the case of
men. ', here are a number of men here who are sul.ering punishment for their first
oflence. Men who are not degraded, and who have not by any means lost the
finer feelings, self-respect and honest pride of true manhood. i\Ien, w ho I believe,
will recover themselves and become again good citizens, 'i ho case is, in fact, con-
sidered already, and as a rule they are put into places of rcsponsil)ilit_y, and arc,
therefore, isolated. But often have those for \\ hom such positions cannot be found
complained to me of their unsavoury suiroundings, especially on the stone piles.
Even in the case of this class of men v. ho are not likely to contract vicious habits
from their companions and fall into their ways, it must be maintained that im-
prisonment can scarcely be regarded as reformatory, 'j he only way, in this con-
nection, in V hich it could do any good to such men is that it may ma!<e them more
and more disgusted with vicious conversation, from which they cannot escape.
But to compel them to spend day after day, it may be for years, in such an atmo-
sphere is to do them a wrong. It is an additional punishment, and each man of
this stamp should be dealt with on his oivn merits, and not from any other considera-
tion.
The second question. — 'Is segregation feasible or practicable?' ("an it be
done? It seems only common-sense to say that what is necessary and desirable
can be done, and ought to be done. A task or undertaking which cannot be accom-
plished must be one of overwhelming difficulty. V. ithout doubt, the vii.lirial
part, such as buildings, rearrangement of dormitories, and such like matters can be
provided for. And, when it is, it w ill help to the attainjnent of the desired end,
viz., the moral and spiritual w ell-being of the prisoners.
It may be maintained that the principle of segregation is already acknow-
ledged atul carried out in this prison, as far as circumstances permit. For the
deputy warden and the chief keeper do their best to isolate youths and to place
them V here thej^ can come in contact, as little as possible with older convicts. And
"the results have been, in a good many instances, satisfactory and encouraging.
Many boys, with some of whom I correspond, have profited by this careful
selection. Some of them have learned not only to read and to w rite, but also
trades, and have thus been helped in their start in life; and so imprisonment has
proved to l^e the turning point in their lives for good.
And so the action of the authorities here has, in a measure, supplied an answer
to the I uestion, 'is segregation feasible?' '/hey have set up an ideal. It surely
can be made more systcmutic, so that all youths sent here may be benefited by it.
And the state should acknowledge no difficulty where the moral health, prosperity
and happiness of the subject are concerned.
In answ er to the other part of this second question, I would say, in respect to
'age,' that boysunder twenty should form a class; those between tw enty and thirty
a class; those between thirty and forty another; those above forty might be classed
together. But, of course, those under tw.enty have the first claim on our care and
sympathy. For the years between fourteen and twenty are the most critical and
dangerous in the life of the young, since during that period character is being gradu-
ally formed. .\nd even if some are indiuerent, willful and unteachable it must be
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admitted that some of these faults are discernible, in some degree, in all youths.
But what about those whose homes, if they ever had any, have been unlovely, and
whose training, both moral and religious, has been neglected? It is, therefore, so
important, so necessarj% that lovingkindness, sympathy and personal interest
should be shown in behalf of the young. And, while they are in prison, the state
should be to them, as far as it is possible, in the room of parents and guardians.
A few words from one who knew human nature well will suit the purpose, at
this point, and will express what one wants to say in regard to the springtide of
youth.
'Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow rooted; suffer them now, and
they'll o'ergrow the garden, and choke the herbs for want of husbandry.'
As to the ' class of crimes' which should be considered in the matter of segre-
gation it would be difficult to decide, as it might be necessary to make selections of
selections. It would be difficult, because in each class, as regards age, there might
be men guilty of the same kind of crime, and to put them together, old and young,
would, to some extent defeat the chief purpose of segregation itself. So that age
must be taken into account in determining'the ' class of crime.' The settlement of
this point and the question of ' prison conduct and industry' must be mostly left
to the common-sense judgment of the officials. And as to making ' an aribtrary
selection, ' this, in my opinion, would be a grievous error, because the nature of
each man's case, as well as his temperament and disposition, his character, in short,
should be studied before a selection is made. A wide knowledge of human nature
is here necessary.
In answering question 3, 4, 5, 6, allow me to say that, in regard to the archi-
tectural requirements, I am not competent to give an opinion. And I only venture
to state that there is plenty of room on the penitentiary property for any structural
changes and any new buildings which may be required.
In regard, however, to provision for the segregation of youths under twenty, I
would quote from my own report of 1908, which reads as follows: —
'Allow me to express my agreement with the proposition which has
often been discussed, that an institution differing from that at Mimico and the
penitentiary — a kind of intermediate one — might be what is required as a
place of discipline for criminal youths.'
For an institution of this kind,thefield at theback of the warden's residence might
be suitable. Then the high wall on the north side of it could be used for a good
purpose. Such an establishment might, in the course of time, become a sort of
technical school, like some of the departments in the interesting prison of Elmira.
A movement in that direction would, I believe, result in lasting benefits to this
country. It seems to me that some thing of the kind is required.
Question 7. — This question suggests some rather difficult'points. It is, perhaps,
the hardest in connection with segregation. But difficulties arise whenever changes
are made, and so they must be expected in changes here contemplated. But in
cour.se of time, things right themselves and fall in line. Men of the lower grades
give trouble, no matter where they are, and apparently do not try to uplift them-
selves, and prove themselves worthy of any promotion. If it is decided that a man
deserves to be placed in the lowest grade, he .should be told the reason, and be given
to understand that promotion would depend upon himself. The most serious
point under this head would be the fact that all the worst men would be placed
together, and that there might be no wholesome leaven of good influence among
them to help them in any way. This is a point which needs very careful considera-
tion. Those who might complain would, perhaps, be the first to behave badly, if
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they were removed from the lower grades. General behaviour must decide. It
might be worth while to make the experiment of putting among this class ' ' trust-
ies" who might exercise some influence over them for good. This rule is in force
now in a small measure by the appointment of 'orderUes,' 'mesengers' and
"overseers" in shops. Certainly, only well-trained and experienced officers
should be put in charge of this sort of men.
Question 8 — This question suggests many complications. It may be said that
the principle here dealt with is in force now. For various regulations with respect
to 'dietary and privileges' are continually observed. Men in the cell of punish-
ment, e.g., are fed on bread and water; men who transgress certain rules are de-
prived of books, and so forth. But, of course, it would be the object of segregation
to make permanent regulations as to dietary and privileges. Official discretion
would be required in this case, and much would depend upon circumstances. I do
not hesitate to say, however, that men to whom imprisonment is no punishment,
who really make the penitentiary their home, lazy, able-bodied men who get a
better living in prison than they have ambition enough to earn outside; whose
daily work hardly amounts to exercise, who are evidently quite happy and content-
ed so long as they are freed from all responsibiltiy to gain an honest livelihood —
these men, I say, should, in some way or other, be made to feel the effect of the
discipline suggested in this eighth question. Some pressure should be brought to
bear on them, which would make prison life to such men more undesirable and
unpleasant.
In conclusion, permit me to say that although it may take"years to accomplish
the work which these eight questions bring to our notice, and which it is felt would
be fruitful in benefits, yet it is the duty of the state to set up a high and noble ideal;
to labour to attain to it, even if it does take years to carry it out.
Progress in respect to these things here discussed, the age loudly demands.
And this penitentiary, which is the largest and most important in the country,
should take the lead in the forward movement of prison reform. Such progress
would be a proof of advancement in Christian civilization in this young and pros-
perous country, which is so dear to us all.
Yours respectfully,
W. COOKE,
Protestant Chaplain.
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REPORT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF KINGSTON PENITENTIARY.
Portsmouth, January 11, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Gentlemen, —I beg leave to submit tlie following answers to the questions
proposed in your circular of November 25th, 1909, re the resolution adopted in the
House of Commons, on November 17th, as follows: —
' Be it resolved, that it is desirable to ascertain by reports obtained upon
the subject from wardens, inspectors and chaplains, \\hat means could be
adopted in Canada to insure a judicious classification and segregation of the
convicts in our penal institutions and reformatories.'
I. Most certainly I consider segregation both necessary and desirable, for the
following reasons: —
'j he very purpose of the punishment of criminals, viz., the protection of
society demands the introduction of this system. Under the conditions at
present obtaining in the class of penal institutions with which I am associ-
ated, no adecjuate provision is made for the intellectual improvement
and industrial instruction of the inmates therein confined, with the re-
sult that, ^ hile one of the purposes of incarceration, viz., vindication of the
law, is obtained, yet at the expiration of his sentence the prisoner is 'let loose' on
society less fit, perhaps, than before his imprisonment, to earn an honest livelihood.
Handicapped as he must necessarily be by the prejudice that exists quite often in
the minds of people against a man once convicted of crime, which prejudice is as
often fostered and augmented by the shameful publicity frequently given by our
uncharitable press, on the very day of his liberation, it is little wonder, in view of
the further fact that his industrial wortla hassu lered and deteriorated during his
confinement, that discouraged and disheartened by the obstacles which confront
him, he returns, in desperation, to his old life of crime. The plan of segregation has
been in operation, in the United ytates, England and elsewhere with marvelous
success, and is conceded by criminologists and sociologists generally to have fully
justified its adoption.
II. The feasibility of segregation in all our penitentiaries is as a rule conceded.
Of course, the di'greee of perfection with which it could be carried out, would de-
pend upon the extent and equipment of each of the several institutions throughout
the Dominion. The basis of segregation, I would recommend to be: (1) Age;
(2) Class of crime committed; (3) First offence. This last class comprises to-day,
in the Kingston penitentiary, '^o less than 355 persons; or 62A per cent of the total
population. In my opinion thm, the larger percentage of this number might be
regarded as probable material for obtaining satisfactory results from the segrega-
tion method of treatment. As to the selection, I would recommend that the same
be made by the waiden, on the advice of the chaplains, who would be in the best
position to judge of the moral character of the prisoner and of his fitness generally
to be admitted to the ranks of the seg-r gated individuals.
III. The penitentiaries, as at preseit constructed, are not sutiable for a perfect
system of seg'-egation; but there is nothing to prevent a g )od system being inaug-
urated at once so far as the Kingston p:ison is concerned. In reference to the
dormitories or sleeping apartments, I would recommend that the separate ward or
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isolation buildirg be set aside for segregation purposes, and tlius serve the inmates
from being contaminated through the misconduct or insubordination of the other
prisoners. As the buildirgs now stand, it is true they would not permit of absolute
segrfgatiun during workii g hours; nevertheless several of the workshops actually
in use and more that are not occupied, are sufficiently large to allow remodelhng,
and a consequent practical .segregation.
IV. The cost of these charges may entail relatively little outlay, but would of
course, necessitate an increase in the number of instructors and guards, and con-
sequently in cost.
V. Doubtless there would be some dissatisfaction among those not selected for
segregation. This is unavoidable, as it is quite natural for a person to be dissatis-
fied when he does not receive what he desires, even though he does not deserve
what he wants. Dissatisfaction, to a greater or less degree, is the normal condi-
tion of persons the world over.
VI. Different regulations as to dietary privileges would not be necessary, pro-
vided enough food is supphed.
Although no question as to the education of the prisoners, particularly of the
juvenile portion, has been proposed, it is a well-known fact that with a large per-
centage of youthful offenders the primary cause of crime is a lack of primary or
early education. Wardens, chaplains and other officers, after long years of e.xperi-
ence, have discovered that the want of proper early training, ignorance of the
fundamental principles of a moral life and neglect of intellectual development hava
always been the too apparent sources of criminal inclinations. Hence, education, I
consider, to be a most important feature of the segregation system. By education
I mean instruction by competent professional teachers in the branches that belong
to elementary and commercial education. This instruction should be given with
the working hours, and not during the noon-hour or at night, when the body and
mind, after a day of labour, are fatigued, and the person is in no psychological con-
dition to receive instruction or mental training. The educational feature of the
segregation system wherever tried has brought forth satisfactory results.
The surest guarantee of the perseverance of a discharged prisoner in right
living \\ ill lie in the fact that he has benefited physicallj', mentally and morally by
his incarceration, and goes forth from the prison precincts e- uipped v ith a trade
thoroughly learned and understood, and an education that v ill enable him honestly
to compete v, ith his fellow-tradesmen and earn a respectable living.
M. .AlcDONALD,
Roman Catholic Chaplain-
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REPORT OF THE WARDEN OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL PENITENTIARY.
St. Vincent de Paul, January 12, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sirs, — In compliance with the request contained in your circular letter of the
2c!rd November, 1909, I have the honour to present my humble opinions upon the
various questions submitted regarding segregation and classification of convicts in
this penitentiary.
1. Is segregation 7iecessary or desirable'! IJ so, Jor what reasons, and what ad-
vantages would accrue?
Yes, I believe segregation of }<juthful delinquents not only advisable, but
moreover necessary. Whilst being necessary, it may on first thoughts, appear
more or less difficult of accomplishment, and after having seriously considered the
most practical methods for attaining such a result, I am of the opinion that it is a
very complicated question for solution. Segregation is necessary, but with restric-
tions. Amidst the young delinquents from sixteen to twenty years of age, there
exists a considerable number who have previously served terms in the reforma-
tories or jails of various districts in the province of Quebec. I regret being obliged
to say, as a result of my experience, that the largest number of such arrive here
with a knowledge of vice and inclinations therefor, which are in no way surpassed
by the recidivists. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these youths have
been taught, or acquired, their disposition towards evil and vice in the reform
schools; I have too much respect for these in charge of such institutions, they are
fully competent for their work. The devotedness and knowledge with which they
endeavour to improve them and to instruct them in various trades, do those in
charge of the work very great credit and honour, and the youths under their care
sliould derive very great benefit. Unfortunately, very often these youths are poor
orphans, brought up by some person of a more or less distant degree of relationship,
and in many cases by strangers who neglect them and leave them entirely to their
ovm devices; they have not received in early life the necessar}' education and
training which will almost invariably develop the virtuous obedient youth, finding
in learning and work a pleasure which will later cause him to develop into the good
and upright citizen. With this class of youthful perverts, where the reform schools
have not succeeded in redeeming or reforming them, I am of the opinion that there
exists no danger of their being contaminated, not even by those who may have
already served several terms in the jails or penitentiaries.
It affords me pleasure to state that the greatest proportion of the youthful
offenders here — at least 75 per cent of them — have never served any term in a
reform school or jail. This has been their first offence, many of them have been
fairly well brought up, belong to good families, have some education, and in many
ways may have had the benefit of care and watchfulness on the part of their parents;
notwithstanding which, they have been wayward, have persisted in some bad habit
or inclination, most likely have been surrounded by bad companions whose bad
advice has brought about their downfall. Whilst they have become victims of
evil advice and companionship, they have not, as yet, developed into criminals,
their moral sense has not been obliterated, they regret their wrong-doing and make
sincere promises of good conduct during their future life. To tliis class we should
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devote all our attention, they are the class which should be segregated, that they
may not become further contaminated by the bad advice and counsel of those
others, who have become so depraved and settled in their criminal habits that no
hope can be entertained of their reform, who will pass the greater proportion of their
years of Ufe travelling from one prison to another penitentiary. Association or
contact with such characters is dangerous for all, particularly so for the youths who
have once fallen and possess any inclination for evil habits, it requires but very
slight contact to influence them irredeemably to follow the paths of sin and vice.
With regard to those twenty-one years of age and over, who are serving a first
conviction, there exists a certain danger in permitting them to remain in contact
with those who are recidivists, but in view of their age they should by their pre-
sumably greater experience and knowledge, be less exposed to the dangers of bad
advice, and in a better condition to realize their false position and derive therefrom
lessons for their future guidance.
From my experience I have found that much the greater proportion of the
convicts between the ages of thirty to forty years, who are serving a first convic-
tion, conduct themselves very well during their detention, and do not return.
Therefore I consider that the dangers arising from contact with the recidivists*
exists almost entirely for the youths serving their first convictid!!; they are always
more disposed to follow the bad example and to accept without reflection, the
evil advice which is surely given them by the recidivists with whom they may come
into contact. That is where the danger exists, that is the danger which must be
overcome, and therein will lie the great advantage which would be attained by
segi-egation, saving the youth from becoming a hardened criminal. It is my
opinion that the large majoirty of these youths will thereby derive the greatest
benefit from their imprisonment, and in all probability will, after their release,
return to the straight path and lead a proper, honest life. I believe it to be abso-
lutely necessary to segregate this class of youths, if there can be found any practi-
cable means of attaining that end.
2. Is segregation feasible or practicable? If so, what principle should govern?
(a) Age; (6) Class of crimes committed; (c) Prison conduct and industry;
or, (d) An arbitrary selection. If the latter, by whom should the selection
be made?
I believe segregation to be practicable and of real benefit to but a restricted
proportion of our convicts. I consider that the gravest menace under our present
system exists for these under twenty-one years of age, where character has not yet
become fully developed, who are still susceptible to good or evil influences which
will affect all their later life. By permitting them to come into contact with those
of maturer years, in many of whom the criminal instinct predominates, who are
experienced in deceiving and leading others away from all their impulses for good,
we are incurring great risk of having many of these youths develop into life-long
criminals, when they might have been restored to honourable citizenship under
other conditions.
I am therefore, of opinion that age and previous criminal record, should be the
principle to govern in any plan of segregation.
In veiw of the lack of proper education of the largest number of these youthful
delinquents, which is most likely one of the principal causes for their wrong-doing,
I am convinced that for all such serving a first conviction, the greatest aid towards
their reform would be a good primary education, to consist of reading, writing,
arithmetic, linear drawing, etc., under the direction of competent professors in
both French and English languages. This, I believe, would have the effect of alter-
ing their dispo.sition, would broaden their minds and their interests in life, while it
would be much more suited to the requirements of their gro\ving age and undevel-
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oped physical condition, than any other form of work would be. I am of the
opinion that they should be exempted from all manual labour. There will naturally
be found a few who will be incorrigible, impossible to teach or control, they nmst be
forced to labour, at learning some trade, if possible, that they may not corrupt any
of their companions.
With regard to those of more mature age, I am of the belief that very little
advantage or benefit would be derived from segregation, even were it feasible,
which I cannot conceive it to be.
For all over twenty-one years of age, I would suggest followirg some definite
regulations, somewhat along the following lines: —
Those from twenty-one to twenty-six years of age, serving their first conviction,
should, in view of their age and physical development, be in a better position to
apply themselves to manual labour. They should be thoroughly tavght some trade,
particularly those who possess an aptitude, even to force them (so far as it may be
possible to do so) to learn a trade of their own choosing, under the surveillance of
competent instructors, that they may become good workmen capable of earning an
honest livelihood after they leave the penitentiary — providing always, that they
have otherwise possessed the inclination to profit by the lesson their imprisonment
was intended to convey.
Those twenty-seven years of age and over, serving a first conviction, who have
worked at some trade, should be employed and forced to work at whatever trade
they may know, in order that the greatest benefit may be derived from their labour.
Should they have no trade, but possess the proper disposition for learnirg one, they
can be given a good start at whichever may be found most suitable; when they are
released they will have sufficient training at some line of work to be capable of sup-
porting themselves while perfecting their ability to become practical tradesmen.
If the>- will do so, it is more than probable they will be prevented from again com-
mittirg any crime, and will use to advantage the knowledgs acquired durirg their
detention.
As regards all others serving a first conviction, who have no disposition or in-
telligence for learning a trade, or who may be too old to learn one, they can be em-
ployed at various other work which is always required, such as excavating, farm
work, stone breaking, brick making, or some one of the other forms of labouring
employment.
Actually, we are now pursuing this course as far as it may be practicable, with-
out clearly defined regulations, and I consider it has been productive of the best
possible results for quite a large number of those who have served a sentence here.
(b) Class of crvnes committed.
In view of the great number of different crimes — there are over seventy— it
appears to me impossible to establish segregation upon any basis of crime classifi-
cation, with the pos.sible exception of the crimes of immorality. Considering the
.small number convicted for such crimes, and the g''avo danger of their corrupting
influence endangering the morals of others, I would urge that they be confined in
.specially provided isolation cells, where they would be obliged to perform a daily
fixed quantity of some specified labour, and thereby Ijc prevented from coming into
contact in any manner whatever with other convicts.
(c) Prison conduct and industry.
I am of opinion that segregation based upon the principle of good coiuluct and
industry cannot be productive of the desired reforn^atory influences. V.imy of the
recidivists with a criminal record extending back to their youth, who have every
intention of continuing tluur criminal careers after their release, are unsurpassed by
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any other class in the excellence of their conduct and industry during detention. I
consider segregation would be highly dangerous, from the reformation point of view,
if based solely upon prison conduct and industry.
(d) An arbitrary selection. IJ the latter, by whom should the selection be made?
In the case of segregation of youthful offenders, should such be made, I would
consider the warden and deputy warden to be the most competent to judge of the
character of the youths because of their daily association and constant observation
of their habits. They could decide when it would be proper to remove any of them
from the educational course to some form of labour.
3. Are our penitentiaries structurally statable for segregation! IJ so, in what
way do you suggest the segregation in the dormitoriesl
No, I do not consider this penitentiary structurally suitable for segregation
upon any plan which would be satisfactory. I cannot conceive that alteiations or
additions can be made to our dormitories which would be successful in securing the
desired isolation.
4. In view of our varied industries, in what way could the various classes be
segregated during working hoursl
They could not he segregated in any manner which would ensure satisfactory
results. The shop buildings as constructed could not be divided to secure any real
form of isolation.
5. Would segregation involve structural changes or additions'! IJ so, at what
estimated cost?
Segregation would involve structural changes throughout the whole of this
penitentiary, and I do not believe any changes or additions to the present buildings
would secure the necessary isolation. To attain satisfactory results, I would con-
sider it necessary to construct additional buildings, specially isolated, and we have
not sufficient ground within our present walls for such buildings. The cost would
depend altogether upon the plans which might be adopted by the department.
6. Would it involve an increase in the staff of police and industrial officers?
If so, at what estimated cost ?
It would certainly require a very much enlarged staff of officers in each depart-
ment where segregation was in effect, each class would require an instructor and
police guards proportionate to the number of convicts employed. It is impossible
to estimate the increased cost, even approximatelj'^, in view of the unsuitability of
our buildings.
7. If segregation should be made, is there likely to be any difficulty as to com-
plaints of discrimination by convicts who may be classed in the lower grades?
If so, would such dissatisfaction interfere with discipline and reformatory
influences among those who are debarred from the preferred class or classes?
I am of opinion that all discrimination, even that which may be well merited,
is highly undersirable and would breed discord and discontentment; jealousies
would be aroused amongst the convicts which would cause continual quarrelling
and fighting, and possibly end in serious consequences hard to foresee or provide
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against. It is a well Imown fact that very little apparent discrimination is required
to injure the feelings of convicts, who have so very few interests to otherwise occupy
their thoughts. Particularly is this the case vAt\\ those who are continually en-
deavouring to create trouble and discord, who are always ready to incite others to
revolt against the authorities by continually drawing attention to anything which
might be considered favouritism in the granting of small privileges. Any classifi-
cation in grades would surely be detrimental to the discipline and reformatory in-
fluence amongst a certain proportion of the convicts. It is necessary in the main-
tenance of proper disciphne to treat all upon an equal footing with absolute justice.
Whenever a convict is reported for idleness or bad conduct, or other infraction of the
regulations, it is very necessary to be certain that the report is well-founded. Should
there exist any doubt as to the absolute correctness of the report, the benefit of the
doubt is given to the convict. If the report be well-founded the punsihment is
based upon the general conduct of the accused in the past and he is punished
accordingly; severely, if his conduct has been bad as a general rule, with more or
less leniency, if his conduct has been good. I therefore believe that all distinctions
or differing grades, based upon the general conduct of the convict, would be in-
jurious instead of beneficial, and would seriously interfere with the maintenance of
disciphne.
8. // segregation should be made, would you advise different regulations as to
dietary, privileges, etc., Jor the several classes? Ij so, what changes do
you suggest!
Should it be found practicable to segregate the youthful delinquents serving
their first conviction from all the other recidivists, and if the work was made
suitable to their age, they should be given a better diet, more in keeping with the
requirements' of their growing phj'sical condition. As regards the recidivists, I do
not consider any more substantial diet to be necessary.
Neither do I see any reason or occasion for the changing of the regulations
regarding privileges, etc. Whatever slight privileges may now be granted are al-
ways earned by the conduct, industry and proven character of the convicts, and
er'st only with regard to the employment which they may be called upon to per-
form.
Coriclusion.
I am of the opinion that all convicts serving for their first offence, and^'above
all the youths, should be segregated from the recidivists. It will probably be the
means of saving quite a number of them from returning to a life of wrong doing, by
removing them from the evil influences of experienced criminals. Unfortunately,
our penitentiary, as constructed, makes it impracticable to adopt such a system of
segregation. I believe that rather than attempt any costly structural changes or
additions, which may not prove satisfactory, that it would be preferable to select
some one of the six penitentiaries of the Dominion for the detention of all recidi-
vists, or to construct a new one to serve that purpose. According to the reports of
the six penitentiaries of the Dominion, out of a total population of 1,403 convicts
on the 31st March, 1909, 328 of this number were recidivists. That is the most
practicable method I can suggest for the solution of the problem of segregation.
Before completing my report I desire to draw attention to a point which I con-
sider of paramount importance. I refer to the reform schools or reformatories.
The boys who have served a term in the reform school (I am now speaking of those
who have reached the penitentiary) are very rarely, in my estimation, amenable to
any redemption or reform from their evil habits. There may possibly be found
some means to remedy this condition by changing somewhat the system in vogue
in such institutions. These boys, in most instances, become recidivists. They
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serve one or more terms in jail and finally reach the penitentiary, where, I have very
frequently remarked to myself, they form a class apart from all others, the most
difficult to control, the most frequently brought before the officials for infractions
of the regulations, and the most indifferent to punishment. From this class is
recruited the most dangerous enemies of society ; they feel no remorse, no desire to
improve themselves, absolutely indifferent to all advice or good counsel. They
are avengers! And it is unnecessary to go very deeply into a study of the spirit
actuating their minds, to understand and to realize that they believe they are re-
venging themselves upon society for the fault they committed and the treatment
received when they underwent their first incarceration in the reform school. At
the age when a boy serves his first conviction, he has in most cases had a very slight
education, and frequently none at all. A good educational training would
greatly palliate the evil lessons and bad teachings of the companions they
are now surrounded with in learning a trade, and would be productive of
much more satisfactory results than this learning of a trade in the humiliating
livery of a convict, when the education of the mind has been entirely neglected.
I would recommend the establishment of institutions where no uniform was
put upon the inmates; where the teaching of trades exclusively would be entirely
done away with, supplanting in their stead regular class hours devoted seriously to
education, entirely under the charge of laymen, men who themselves understand
children in their regular fife. The religious orders (notwithstanding their zeal and
great charity, and the splendid devotedness with which they apply themselves to the
accomplishment of their ungrateful task in a reform school) do not always secure
the substantial success which a school of letters will obtain, where everything
resembling prison routine or regulations is carefully avoided, where the detention is
more of a moral character than of a physical one.
It is upon the active developing mind of a boy above all others, that impres-
sions are most strongly engraven, and when he has committed some mistake or
fault, sufficiently serious to send him to the reform school, he at once commences fo
consider himself a real criminal, and his situation can arouse only discouragement
to all thoughts or impulses for good which may be still alive in him, confronted as
he is by the spectacle of all his companions in a prison liver}'. Place this boy, on
the contrary, in an institution more resembling a college, where he will wear civilian
clothes, surround him with the care of good professors, give him the illusion and
behef that he is at school. In a short time he will begin to reflect and -vnW assimi-
late the spirit of good-will evinced for his welfare. He will hear of other boys who
have gone through the same course and are now making their way successfully in
the world; he will gradually come to see in all this a testimony and proof that
justice is giving him a chance, is desirous of making up to him what his condition in
life had denied him, what more fortunate boys have had the advantage of, a good
education. He wU in time realize that society is a substantial organization, which
is willing to give him the aid he needs to help himself instead of punishing him and
revenging itself for the wrong he did. He will study and learn and come to forget
his past, and when he has regained his liberty, he will not be haunted by the con-
stant nightmare and dread of being told by each one he meets that he has been in
the reform school. He will not think of himself as a disgraced outlaw from all
other human beings, a thought which enters into his mind and remains with him
during his imprisonment in a reform school. How many recidivists owe their
return to the tribunals of justice, to prison and to the penitentiary, to this social
ostracism which harasses the unfortunate boy who has been in a reform school —
perhaps because he was a little wilful and headstrong, and did not know better.
He is avoided because he has worn the infamous livery of a convict, because he
has been kept behind prison bars, and because all who suffer in that way are feared
and find it very, very difficult to discover a helping hand with a few words of en-
couragement. The boy does not reason, he becomes discouraged, the fibres of
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honesty within him which might still vibrate with but a very few words of kindness,
become atrophied, and he once again falls into the deviations which caused his first
condemnation to the reform school. He believes it to be his only resource, the only
way for him to live; that his one offence has condemned him forever. The boy is
lost. He becomes the life-long criminal. And why? Because he knew no better,
no one to guide him, no education to guide himself properly. Place him in a school
of education, under the care and sm-veillance of serious men, and we would be as-
tonished to see how rapidly he wU regain his pride, and how he will make it a point
of honour and gratitude to deserve and merit the interest shown for his welfare.
His moral recover)' will then be but a matter of time. Briefly, I have summed up
my conclusions from the reasoning and arguments which I have listened to of the
majority of the youthful offenders, who have been so misled and unfortunate as to
end up in the penitentiary.
I am sincerely convinced that the establishment of some such form of schools of
education, would very greatly diminish and reduce the number of A'ouths who
might eventually become life-long criminals. Save the boys in their early life, by a
proper training and education of their minds and characters, which 1 believe to be
the aim and end of segregation.
Trusting to be favoured with your kind indulgence, I very humbly submit
these remarlvs as my opinions and answers to your questions.
I have the honour to be.
Yours very sincerely.
OSCAR BEAUCHAMP.
Warden.
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REPORT OF THE RGM.iN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL PENITENTIARY.
St. Vincent de Paul, January 13, 1910.
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To the Inspectors of Penitentiaries: —
ANSWERS REQUESTED BY YOU 2StH NOVEMBER, 1909.
1. Segregation is necessary — a moral one I mean, which can be obtained by
applying to the very letter (a la lettre) the regulations for the penitentiaries as
issued in the 3'ear 1899, viz.: No. 169 (re convicts) page 23. 'No convict shall
be permitted to speak to another convict, nor to any othcer or servant of the in-
stitution, except from necessity or with respect to the work at which he is em-
ployed; nor shall he, except by permission, speak to any visitor or look away
from his work, when a visitor is present.'
No. 170. ' A convict shall not write to another convict, nor make any sign
or communication to him, nor shall he give another convict any offence.'
No. 171. 'No two or more convicts shall be together out of the sight or the
easy hearirg of an officer. Every convict shall be at all times under charge of an
officer, who shall be responsible for his safe keepirg.'
No. 172. 'No convict, unless by permission and in the presence of an officer,
shall enter the cell of any other convict.'
No. 128 (re officers generally) page 19. "If any officer come to the prison
under the influence of liquor, fall asleep on duty, have undue relations with a
convict, be guilty of gross neglect of duty, or give to or receive from any convict,
either directly or indirectly, any contraband article, or do anything else unbecom-
ing the character of an officer of the institution, he shall be dismissed.'
No. 129. 'Officers shall not make the affairs of the penitentiary the subject
of conversation beyond the precincts of the prison, nor make them known to any
person outside, under the penalty of dismissal.'
No. 131. 'No officer shall censure another officer or hold unnecessary con-
versation with him in the presence of a convict. Special care should be taken that
convicts do not become acquainted with the business of the prison.'
No. 135. 'An officer shall not have familiarity \nth a convict, nor permit
any to be used toward himself.'
No. 137. 'No officer shall permit a convict placed under his charge to leave
his garg, nor shall he permit a convict not placed in his charge to join his gang,
without the wTitten order of the warden, deputy warden or chief keeper.'
No. 138. 'In their intercourse with convicts, officers shall be careful to main-
tain a firm and dignified demeanour under any provocation.'
These regulations, if complied with to the very letter (a la lettre) are a suffi-
cient (thorgh mereh' moral) segregation, and one without which local separation
would be little profitable. Nearly twenty-three years at St. Vincent de Paul
penitentiary, three years at the female reformatory and repentance of Montreal
at the Good Shepherd Nuns, twelve years of professorship in colleges opened to
country, town and city pupils, prove to me to the last evidence, that the good
conscientious exact and constant keeping of such regulations as the above men-
tioned are the most efficacious segregation possible, particularly absolute silence,
when piescribeil; silence, without which there is never and nowhere discipline
possiI)le, and wilhnul a thorough discipline there is no ground at all J or any rejorma-
tion or preservation.
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I therefore find very important and proper the remarks of the Honourable
Minister of Justice expressed on November 17, 1909:
'It must not be forgotten, in thinking about this subject, that there is
fiot supposed to be any communication at all between convicts, in our peni-
tentiaries. Each convict has a separate cell, each man goes about his work
during the day under the continual supervision of a guard who has charge of a
gang of convicts and whose duty it is to see that there is no communication
between them, according to the regulations of these institutions and according
to the efforts of those in charge there is not intended to be, and there is not
supposed to be, any room for the pollution of morals of one by the degradation
of another. There is absolute segregation; individualization and no com-
munication supposed to go on of any character whatever.'
2. Local segregation is leasable only after the plan of the late Sir John Thomp-
son pointed out by Ms. Monk.
3. Our penitentiaries are not suitable for segregation (local).
4. In no way.
5. 6, 7. I do not feel competent in the matter.
8. Privileges are always chanceful, on account of the danger of skilful capta-
tion on the part of the convicts or of interested preferences on that of the officers.
Allow me to express you my respectful sentiments and subscribe.
Truly yours,
L. O. HAREL, Priest,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
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REPORT OF THE PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL's PENITENTIARY.
St. Vincent de Paul, January 13, 1910..
To the Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sirs, — I beg to submit the following answers to the questions contained in
your circular letter of 23rd November, 1909.
Question 1. — After an experience of nearly fifteen years, as chaplain in this
penitentiary, I have no hesitation in answering most emphatically in the affirma-
tive. Firstly: Because the indiscriminate herding together of so many, from the
accidentally criminal, or technically guilty, to the hardened, determined, and often
boastful offender, proud of his record in crime, cannot fail to be most injurious to
those who have taken but a step or two in the downward path, and who are not
by nature and disposition criminally inclined. Secondly: Because those who are
ashamed of the position in which they find themselves, and are sorry for their sin,
are frequently discouraged and made to give up the struggle by the ridicule and
heckling which they have to endure from their hardened companions. Thirdly:
That the moral atmosphere in which the new arrival finds himself on his entrance
into the prison would be more wholesome, were segregation adopted.
Question 2. — It must be both feasible and practicable, as it is in successful
operation in other countries. I should say that: (o) age; (b) nature of the
crime or crimes, together with previous character, should be the chief considera-
tions governing the grading or classification of the prisoners, which might be
immediately on their admission, or after thej' had undergone a short period of
seclusion; (c) good conduct and industry should receive recognition and be re-
warded in some tangible way; (d) not without regard to (a), (b) and (c).
Question 3. — Yes. In this penitentiary there ought to be no difficulty as far
as the dormitories are concerned — just change the 'gang' S3^stem to one of
'grade' or 'class'.
Questio7i 4. — -I think that the chief difficulties to be met with in making the
proposed change will be found grouped about this question; they are not insur-
mountable, but to be overcome, will need discussion and some insight into the
working of the system in those penitentiaries where it is in force.
Question 5. — Some minor structural changes, and, possibly, some additions.
I am not qualified to give an estimate of the cost.
Question 6. — The change might involve a slight increase in the number of
police officers, but not of trade instructors.
Question 7. — There would, most probably, be some dissatisfaction and con-
sequently complaints; but not greater than at present arise from the administering
of the parole system.
Question 8. — Yes. Say an extra ration of steak, fruit, or butter, once a
week, at least; with a distinctive dress, or badge, for each grade.
I beg to remain,
Yours faithfully,
JOHN ROLLIT,
Chaplatj.
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1^ REPORT OF THE WARDEN OF DORCHESTER PENITENTIARY.
Dorchester, N.B., January 13, 1910.
Dear Sirs, — In reply to your circular letter of the 23rd November last in re
segregation of convicts in our penal institutions, I beg to say that, I consider
segregation in so far as it relates to juvenile convicts not only necessary but very
desirable. Boys of twenty and under should not be confined in the same institu-
tion with older and more hardened criminals for obvious reasons. It would be
practically impossible to segregate owing to the structui-al conditions of our peni-
tentiary buildings and the numerous and varied industries in which convicts are
employed during the day. Separate institutions should be provided for boys. *j
The segregation of older convicts if desirable, and which perhaps is to a
limited extent, would involve a considerable expense for structural changes in our
buildings, the cost of which can only be estimated by a practical architect; a
considci-able additional annual expenditure would also be required for an in-
crease in the police and industrial staff of officers owing to the numerous and varied
industries in which convicts are employed.
Already incorrigibles in this institution are transferred to Kngston peni-
tentiary; this seems to be all that is necessary here.
Yours truly,
J. A. KIRK,
Warden.
Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa. \^
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REPOKT OF THE PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN OF DORCHESTER PENITENTIARY.
To the Inspectors of Penitentiaries:
Sirs, — Replying to your circular, bearing date of Ottawa, November 23rd,
1909; in re 'a judicial classification and segregation of the convicts, in our penal
institutions and reformatories' I beg to state:
First, that the answers given are necessarily from that angle of vision possible
only to the chaplain, whose duties are confined to things religious.
The conduct of the great majority of convicts is so subtle, while in the pres-
ence of a religious instructor (they appearing then on their best behaviour) makes
the task of formirg a broad and intelligent opinion of the convict's wants, asset
forth in j^our schedule of interrogations a somewhat difficult one.
We do not hesitate to declare however, that we hold strong convictions o)i
some of the questions raised in your circular. A chaplain would come far short of
performirg his duties to his Gcd, and to the state, if he did not set himself assidu-
ously to the task of studjing the needs of the body of people to v.hom he ministers
in sacred Ihirgs.
Replying to question No. I (a). Segregation is desirable, and im])eratively
necessary.
1. For statistical reasons. A very unusual percentage of prisoners now in
our institution here, are under twenty years of ag?. The young men and boys
among us are quite largely from the immigration class.
2. For industrial reasons. Young men and boys are very close students, of
the older classes. Hence, if gi'ouped in workshops, and on the farm with men of
twice their years, their attention to the duties recjuired of them will be too largely
diverted by listening to, and patterning after the unworthy ideas inculcated in
their presence.
3. For religious reasons. It is a,n established, and well recognized fact among
preachers of strictly evangelistic qualities, that the question of arousing an interest
in spiritual things, among youthful classes, is a thousand fold easier, when the
older, case hardened, and in many instances impressionless ones are not present.
If the object of sending criminals to penal institutions is not to punish, but to
reform, and if it is an axiomatic truth that the twig must be bent while in the
sapling slate, if it is to assume the desired shape or course, then it will be granted,
that the work of reformation and restoration to good citizenship, will be greatly
enhanced, amorg youthful prisoners.
Object lessons are constantly multiplying to make it clear, that it is a mistake
to place erring and sinful boys with criminal habits, among profane, obscene, and
crime concocting criminals of manj' years standing.
Replying to the query what advantages would accrue, we unhesitatingly say,
a larger percentage by far would be rescued to good citizenship and the cause of
Christianity, if efforts could be concentrated among boys, exclusively.
Aside from the strictly religious consideration, that of saving the soul, the
important matter of savi7ig a lije for good citizenship in Canada would be accom
plished.
In answering question No. 2, we say that segregation is both feasible and
practicable.
(a) The age limit should be 18 years.
(6) The class of crimes committed, should have no deciding influence in thi.s
matter, . So far as experience in the Dorchester penitentiary is concerned, ,life-
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termers' who represent the most revolting crimes committed, are easily the best
behaved convicts that we have.
(c) Prison conduct and industry should undoubtedly be taken into considera-
tion. But more especially, mental, moral and intellectual conditions in the prison-
er, should be carefully scrutinized, by a competent committee, consisting, say of
the wardens, the chief keepers and chaplains.
(d) An arbitrary selection does not suggest itself as an intelligent humanitarian
method.
Such a committee as named in section (c) would be greatly assisted in the
performance of their difficult task, if the department of justice would require
trial judges to submit in conjunction with the commitment papers, a personal
recommendation on the segregation question.
In reply to question No. 3 we would say that so far as the most eastern peni-
tentiary in Canada is concerned, it is my judgment that our penitentiaries are
not structurally suitable for segregation.
One central institution for all Canada, specially constructed, is necessary,
if the ideal of segregation is to be attained. It is difficult to see how, if economic
reasons are to count for anything, any other proposition can be seriously con-
sidered.
Question No. 5 can only be satisfactorily answered by one versed in a knowl-
edge of engineering and mechanics.
Question No. 6, admits of only one answer, namely, an increase of industrial
and police officers would be required, equal to one of the larger penal institutions
as we now have them. The cost would be equal to the pro rata cost of supporting
staffs as now constituted.
If the ideals of segregation are to be realized along lines and life devised in a
prison for juvenile criminals, little or no fear need be cherished, about charges of
discrimination. But one set of rules and regulations would be required. This
in part anticipates the question raised in question No. 7.
We recognize at once the great wisdom of the matters raised in the final
question No. 8. The physical requirements of the prisoner must be carefully
studied and attended to, if we are to bring anything like moral and spiritual dis-
ciphne, to bear successfully upon their lives. We are not sure that anything better
in the line of diet need be seriously considered. But we are fully persuaded that
the juvenile prisoner needs more physical es;.ercise in the pure atmosphere, than
they now in many cases are allowed. In the case of a group of boys, for instance,
who are required to labour in the shoeshop, or tailor shop, the only opportunity
afforded them for exercise, is the brief moments required to walk from cell to work-
shop.
We hail with pleasure and gratitude, the shape that this question so vital
to the interest of the boys and girls of Canada, who have inherited or developed
criminal habits, is now taking.
We shall watch with an intense interest, the progress of the debate on this
important matter, which is scheduled for our federal house.
May the conclusions arrived at, be in entire harmony with the will of the
QreM, Law Giver, and Creator of all mankind.
Respectfully submitted,
BYRON H. THOMAS,
Protestant Chaplain.
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REPORT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF DORCHESTER PENITENTIARY.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Reporting, as requested, on the resolution adopted in the House of Commons,
on the 17th of November last, regarding the classification and segi'agtaion of the
convicts in our penal institutions, I beg to express my views as follows: — p^.-j
1. Segregation is both necessary and desirable. It is necessary in the case of
juvenile offenders, and by these I mean convicts under the age of eighteen (18)
years. To support this assertion I will quote from my official report of July 1,
1898:—
'I cannot refrain from mentioning again the fact that it is a very sad
necessity which compels the civil power to send a relatively large number of
young boys to be incarcerated in our penitentiaries. They can hardly be ex-
pected to be benefited morally. The criminal atmosphere of a penitentiary will
naturally foster the yet tender germs of crime in those youth-natures and soon
fan them to their full development. In most cases it is an apprenticeship of
crime, inoculated in them by the unavoidable contact with old and hardened
criminals. Assuredl)^, they are the ones, on account of their age, who under
favourable circumstances can be expected to be reformed by the benign in-
fluence of religion, and a large percentage, therefore, could be rescued from
the destruction of rising passions, and diverted from the incipient instinct of
crime. Confronted with such bare facts, we are brought to acknowledge that
it would be a most commendable action on the part of the department of
justice to bring a remedy to the above existing state of affairs.'
Naturally, this would suggest the establishment of a federal reformatory for
juvenile criminals, in order to realize as fully as it is humanly possible, moral reform
in these youths. The material and intellectual equipment of such an institution
should concur to the fullest achievement of the above object.
As to the other convicts, segregation is desirable; but our institutions are not
structurally suitable to make it practicable. To render them so would involve an
expenditure that probably would not be justifiable.
I would suggest, however, as a middle term, a system of emulation in the way
of rewarding, in some tangible manner, industry, skill, good conduct and general
manliness. If the system were adopted of remunerating worthy convicts in a
pecuniary way, the money acquired as the reward of merit could be sent from time
to time to those who are depending on them for a total or partial livelihood; or the
same sums of money could be credited in the warden's office to their account, to be
surrendered to them when freed from custody.
The adoption of such a system, I am convinced, would cultivate in these men
those instincts and sentiments which go to the make-up of a good man. Moreover,
it would have a strong tendency to restore to them that feeUng of self-respect, which
is a virtue when properly tempered, and one that they must necessarily possess to
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efifect any possible reform. Dwelling on that point, I expressed myself thus in
my annual report of 1891 : —
'^ly efforts have been especially directed to encourage them to acquire
manliness. While not condoning their crimes, I have endeavoured to restore
to them their own self-respect, by assuring them that whilst it is human to
err, it is di\-ine to repent, and that God is ever merciful, and the world, after all,
indulgent to those who sincerely wish to reform. To reforni the criminal
classes is one of the principal objects that governments have in view in erecting
prisons; and it should be the constant study of all those whose office bring
them in contact mth the convicts to devise ways and means to secure that
grand and noble object.'
In conclusion, I must cordially congratulate our legislators on the praise-
worthy move they have made, by adopting the resolution which constitutes the
subject of this report.
I have the honour to be,
Sirs,
Your humble sei'vant,
A. D. CORMIER, Priest,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
Dorchester, N.B., December 31, 1909.
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REPORT OF THE W.VRDEN OF M.-\NITOBA PENITENTI.ARY.
Stony Mouxt.\in, January 12, 1910.
De.vr Sirs,— In obedience to your circular letter of November 23rd, 1909,
embodying a resolution of the House of Commons with reference to some means to
be adopted to ensure a judicious classification and segregation of convicts in our
penal institutions and reformatories, and embracirg a number of questions upon the
subject, 1 have the honour to submit the following answers and svggestions: —
The neces.sity of improvement in our present penal system, the need of more
modern means of deaUng with convicts in general, and especially with a view to-
wards possible reformation, nmst inevitably present itself to those most intimately
connected with the management of the penitentiaries of Canada.
My long intimacy vath the subject of punishment of law-breakers and criminals
and the opportunities continually afforded to me of determining the effects of prison
confinement upon all clas.ses of men, has long since led me to the belief that a more
judicious system of punishment for crime, and more adequate means of reforming
our ciiminals, could be carried out with the most encouraging results. In this con-
nection I may be allowed to quote the following from my annual reports of 1901
and 190.5, and from a paper submitted by me at the warden's convention, held at
Ivingston, in January, 1901: — \ :] kt ^
;,4 'i
' As I have stated, a serious question that has always existed in all penal
institutions is the danger run by the unavoidable association of young prisoners,
first offenders or men of comparatively good character, with hardened and
habitual criminals. As long as these different classes have to be confined under
one roof, this ilitficulty is practically insurmountable. A system that would
allow of classification of prisons, whereby prisoners for whom there was still
hope of reformation could be confined in one institution, and hopeless recidi-
vists in another, altogether separate, would be of immense value in this respect.
The threat of removal from the first place of confinement to the more severe
would act as a deterrent, the mere fact that the stigma attaching to the serving
of a sentence in the former of these two classes would be less disgraceful than a
similar sentence in the latter, would serve as an inducement to good conduct
generally. There must necessarily be in such an institution as this, prisoners
whose crimes are, perhaps, caused by hasty temper, or committed under the
influence of intoxication. Where intoxication is not habitual, these men under
proper influence and separated from evil association, might reasonably be
expected to become good citizens, while the criminals who are, and always will
be, a dangor to society at large, might be placed in confinement elsewhere, in
some prison where confinement — apart from reformation — was a prime con-
sideration.'
' From my experience as warden for some years it has alwaj's occurrc' to
me that the treatment of prisoners is one that deserves most serious thought.
I would strongly advocate the followirg system: As previously stated, the
conduct of prisoners hirgos a great deal on the treatment they receive from the
officers. I recommend that there should be different grades of prisons for cer-
tain criminals. For example, the JManitoba penitentiary, where farming and
stock-raising can be carried out on an extensive scale necessitating a lot of out-
door exercise, has the effect of causing a criminal to reflect and consider his
position, and does much more than anything else in the work of reformation
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But, should the convict prove to be a hardened crinainal and the methods
above referred to prove futile, then I suggest that he be at once transferred to
another penitentiary, where the opportunities of dealing with such cases are
more ample, for instance, Kingston. I have noticed that the removal of a
few incorrigibles from the Manitoba penitentiarj^ has had a most salutary
effect on those remaining.'
That segregation is both necessary and desirable I am strongly convinced.
The grouping together in our penitentiaries of the many different convicts, those
who have been convicted of the most serious crimes with those punishable for less
serious offences, must always have a most marked effect in determining the future
conduct of the latter. Thei-e can be no doubt that these, and especially young men
the victims of adversity, who, through no premeditation or desire to lead a life of
crime, find themselves in the clutches of the law, and eventually become peniten-
tiary inmates, are tempted, when placed side by side with hardened professional
criminals, to renounce their past and, either through sheer hopelessness or despera-
tion, to adopt the life of their forced companions in punishment. The stigma
which at once falls upon the young convict, or of any one hitherto uninvolved, when
he bcomes an inmate of a penitentiary is a thing of which he must always be deeply
conscious, and tends to enlist him in the ranks of the habitual law-breaker, rather
than to have any deterrent effect upon his future.
Segregation is the only means by which such undesirable companionship can be
overcome. This cannot be carried out within the limits of a single institution, but
must be managed by a system of separate institutions, nominally termed reforma-
tories and penitentiaries. To separate men in a prison according tc the seriousness
of the crimes for which they have been convicted, or in accordance ■uith the records
of their past, would not only be unfeasible, but barren of results. To attempt such
so-called segregation would require an entire remodelling of the institution, the dup-
Ucating of all shops, yards and work-houses, and the increasing of the prison staff to
double the former strength, and, this done, the convicts would be merely figuratively
separated.
To give the fullest possible effect to a system of segregation having for its object
both punishment and reformation, it will become necessary to classify prisons and
not inmates. Many men are sentenced to our penitentiaries, who, if committed to
institutions termed reformatories, their punishment would be commensurate with
their crimes, especially in the case of first offences, and they would thus escape the
stigma otherwise placed upon them with often such dire results. Many a man, who
through misadventure, and not premeditation, has served time in a penitentiary,
has begun afresh in Ufe, only to have the disgrace unearthed in after years in the
form of a challenge or otherwise. In all likelihood, such a man would have suffi-
ciently answered for his crime if sentenced to a reformatory.
On the other hand, habitual criminals and incorrigibles should be placed quite
separate from noinor offenders. By classifying a number of our penitentiaries as
reformatories and others as penitentiaries, we would at once solve the whole ques-
tion of segregation.
For the sake of example we might assume that Manitoba comes under the list
of Dominion reformatories. Law-breakers whose crimes are not such, nor their
past records sufficient to warrant their committal to a penitentiary would be sen-
tenced to serve time here. Worst offenders or those of bad record would be' sen-
tenced to a penitentiary, say Kingston. Those placed in reformatories, whose con-
duct proved such as to make them undesirable companions for others, or rendered
them incorrigible, would be sentenced, upon proper evidence before a judge or
magistrate, to transfer to the penitentiary and, if deemed necessary, to an increase of
sentence.
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I understand that this procedure is followed with excellent results in the state of
New York, which has several state reformatories, as well as penitentiaries. In
other states, having reformatories, in addition to penitentiaries, convicts are trans-
ferred likewise.
In this way convicts would at once become classified first from the courts, and
later, if warranted, from the reformatories. Those in the reformatories would re-
ceive every opportunity to reflect upon the past and reform their lives while un-
tainted or uninfluenced by men far more criminally inclined than themselves, and
this always in the knowledge that failure to live up to the good conduct would lead
to penitentiary.
Under the present system, penitentiary officers are continually experiencing
that a percentage of criminals under their supervision are habitually inclined to bad
conduct or are incorrigiblcs, and that, no matter how often or severely punished,
these men persist throughout the whole course in defjdng prison discipline, and there-
by tempting others to follow their example.
It is safe to say that the system as outlined would almost entirely do away with
this ever-present detriment to prison discipline. In order to emphasize the marked
difference between committal to a reformatory and a penitentiary, some modera-
tion in the regulations as to dietary, privileges, etc., could be followed in the reforma-
tories.
Some additional expense in transporting convicts would naturally be incurred,
but this would only tend to support such a system as against that of doubling all
penitentiary staffs, as well as remodelling all institutions. In addition, a tendency
to reduce the criminal population of Canada would be established.
I have the honour to be,
Sirs,
Your obedient serwant,
A. G. IRVINE,
Warderu
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
REPORT OF THE PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN OF MANITOBA PENITENTIARY.
Stony Mountain, January 13, 1910.
Sirs, — In reply to the question asked in your circular, dated November 23rd,
1909, I beg to submit the following answers.
1. Is segregation necessari/ or desirable! IJ so, for ivhat reasons, and xvhal ad-
vantages would accrue?
Yes. The primary principle in our institutions should be rejormaiion. By
reforming the wrong-doer we materially reduce crime. By the present plan of in-
discriminate association of men, reformaton is greatly hindered. It is hindered in
this way: There are many men whom it is well-nigh impossible to influence for
good, these are the professional crooks. Their influence is often so great that those
who are not so bad at heart often find it difficult or almost impossible to free them-
selves from it.
The parent's advice to his child is to avoid bad company, and we believe
a paternal government should make it possible to do this. ^
If we look at the sentence from the point of view — punishment only —
we have no need for either classification or segregation. This view-point, however,
would result in a national calamity, but if we look at it from the view-point of a
real deterrent of crime, then we must make the reformation of the wrong-doer the
primari) principle in our dealings with him. To reform him we must make it as
easy as possible for him to do right.
Then when we consider that about 10 per cent of our population are under
twenty years of age we can easily see the necessity for this arrargiment. By a
proper classification and segregation of our convicts, a long stride \\ill be made to-
wards the reformation of many who, under our present system, would be lost to
good citizenship.
f»: Many of the younger men in our penitentiaries are in more through blunders
than through criminal tendencies. Such should, in some measure, be protected
from contamination by the old hardened criminals; who are alwa3-s on the look-
out for sojae one whom they may use as a tool to accomplish their own purpose.
2. Is segregation feasible or practicable? If so, what principle should govern?
(o) Age; {b) Class of crijnes committed; (c) Prison conduct and industry;
or, (d) an arbitrary selection. If the latter, by ivhom should the selection
be made?
Yes. We believe that segregation is practicable. There are two systems, both
of which are worthy of consideration, (a) Classification of prisons; (b) Classifi-
cation of prisoners in the different prisons. Of this latter, we do not purpose to
speak now, further than to affirm our belief in its feasibility, but believe also
that it would be more expensive and less satisfactory than the first plan.
(a) Classification of prisons. — We have at the present time six penitentiaries
in the Dominion. These might be grouped into two main groups: The eastern
ernes, Dorchester, St. Vincent de Paul and Kirgston, formii g the first or eastern
group. Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia forming the second or western
,;'oup. One penitentiary in each group could be arrang -d to contain the worst
criminals. This need not have a very large reserve, but should be safely walled,
a!id most or all industries carried on inside the walls. There might very profitably
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be manufactured military saddles, mail-bags, uniforms for militia and postal staffs;
in fact, all industries that can give employment to the prisoners, and at the same
time, assist the gjvernment to defray the expense of restoring prisoners to their
lost manhood. And here let me say that I would strongly deprecate the present
system of setting men to break stone. Mj' objection is based mainly on its vitiating
influence. In bi-eaking stone there is no occupation for the man's mind, he broods
and grows morose and is much harder to deal with from a rcformator}- point of
view. Besides its vitiating influence, it is objectionable in that the man is not
learning anything useful; he cannot compete with a steam stone-crusher in his
work. He should be learning to use his powers so that he may go out and make an
honest living in the world. Stonecuttirg is all right, but stone breaking is a grave
mistake, both for the making of a citizen and for the pocket of the tax-payer.
Another penitentiary could be so arranged that the second grade of prisoners
could be confined in it. This middle class would, in all probability, require the
greater amount of room, as we believe that the greater number of our prisoners
would fall into this middle class.
The third penitentiary in the group could be given to the third class, namely,
the yourg or first otTenders.
At the last two classes of penitentiary a wider range of industries could be
carried on, such as farming, as you could trust these last two classes much more
than men aic trusted now,' for there woidd be the deterrent of beii^g transferred to
the worst chiss continually before the men. B\' this greater trust, better man-
hood and Ijetter character would be developed in the men, as well as more remunera-
tive labour obtained.
In classifying convicts for these different grades of prisons, I do not know of
any more rational methcd than that of the 'score card' system of judging, and
would give marks or points on age, nature of crime and duration of sentence, circum-
stances of crime, previous conduct, and conduct and industry.
The department of justice could give a scale of points for difTerent crimes,
such as forg(>ry, rape, highway robbery, etc. With that scale of points worked out,
the score card would work, say, as follows: age and environment, 20 points;
nature of crime and duration of sentence, 45 points; circumstances of crime, 10
points; previous character, 10 points; conduct and industry, 15 points; making a
total of 100 points, which would be the maximum.
Wc suppose that twenty-five years is a turning-point, and a convict past that
age loses his chances for speedy reformation, in proportion as his years increase.
My reason for putting environment and age tcgether is because a young fellow
from criminal environment might work havoc if classed with a young man of good
environment. The various degrees of crime would have to be denoted, say, from
45 points for the minor offences, down to 1 point for the more heinous crimes.
(This answer will also apply to question seven.)
As to who should do the clas.sifying, I would say that a commission should be
appointed by the department, who should do the classifying for all the penitentiaries
I would have the score card, with directions for its use, put in the hands of our
judges, and they could classifj' as to what prison a man should be sent, but this
woidd be subject to review by the commission or survey board.
The indeterminate sentence, which bej'ond all question is a great requirement
for all reformation purposes, could also be worked by this survey boaid. This
board should consist of men who have made the question of the reformation of the
criminal a close study, men of keen perception and broad sympathy, and whose aim
will be to make good citizens of the material at their disposal. In fact, the success
or failure of the whole scheme, as far as reformation is concerned, will depend
largely on the composition of this survey board. We believe the only valid ob-
jection, to the indeterminate sentence to-day is the question as to who will admini-
ster it. This survey board could work the two together.
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In the score card provided the clause, 'duration of sentence,' would be con-
sidered in connection with the 'nature of crime,' only when the survey board are
judging a man for parole, or freedom, granting him a certain number of marks for
time served in proportion to the nature of his crime, thus bringing him nearer the
maximum marks given. We would advocate as large a board as the department
see fit to appoint, and with the commission we would associate the warden and
chaplains of the prison the man is sent to. This board would devote all its time and
energy to this work, making periodic visits to the various institutions, examining
the men and their records, and making a special study of criminology. This method
would eliminate the possibility of the slick rascal slipping through easily, while it
would also be a check on police blunders and possible wrongful imprisonments, by
keeping the cases under constant reveiw. This will bring our Canadian justice into
much greater prominence and much greater respect, and the professional crook will
soon learn that Canada is not a successful field for his operations.
3. Are our penitentiaries structurally suitable for segregation? If so, in what
way do you suggest the segregation in the dormitories?
4. In view of our varied industries, in ivhat watf could the various classes be seg-
regated during working hours!
5. Would segregation involve structural changes or additions? If so, at what
estimated cost?
6. Would it involve an increase in the staff of police and industrial officers? If
so, at what estimated cost?
In the system which we have outlined these questions are pi-actically answered,
as there would be no structural changes necessary, save perhaps in class 1 peniten-
tiary. It would require a very safe enclosure and a vigilant staff, as they would
have some bad characters to deal with, while now each prison has a few of these
and makes guarding more complex. We would also urge, for a greater number of
industries, with wider scope. This will be found necessary, no matter what plan is
adopted for prison control owing to the rapid increase of our population, and we
believe we are only on the threshold of this increase, so that large provision should
be made for the future. In making that provision we commend the last report of
the inspectors re the labour problem, and, at the same time, would urge the adop-
tion of such industries as would ehminate stonebreaking, as being vitiating as well
as wasteful.
7. If segregation should be made, is there likely to be any difficulty as to com-
plaints of discrimination by convicts who may be classed in the lower
grades? If so, would such dissatisfaction interefere with discipline and
reformatory influence among these who are debarred from the preferred class
or classes?
We would say that, in all probability, there would be complaints, but not more
than under the present system of indiscrimination. By the use of the score card
system of judging them the whole responsibility is laid on the prisoners themselves.
It eliminates judgment by sentiment and assures judgment according to facts.
These facts are recorded in black and white before the board and may be considered
and re-considered without danger of getting things mixed. You will notice in the
draft of score card we have kept reformation as the basic principle. While we have
considered the necessity for punishment, we have only given it 45 points, while to
the possibilities for reformation we have allowed 55 points. This throws the re-
sponsibility for the man's classification on himself, where it belongs.
Character is not developed by propping up or coddling, but by feeling responsi-
bility and bearing it. By allowing more points for reformation than for punish-
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ment you show the man that you put the termination of his sentence (under indefi-
nite sentence plan) as well as his privileges while in prison, almost wholly in his
own hands. All who grade under 40 per cent should be sent to No. 1 prison; all
between 40 and 50, to No. 2 prison; and all between 50 and 60, to No. 3 prison;
while about seventy-five per cent would entitle a man to parole, and, if parob is
honoured, full liberty granted. This would put an end to turning loose dangerous
and unreformed criminals upon the pubhc. (See Inspectors' report, 1909.)
To overcome any possibility of complaints as to discrimination we would have
the card scored by the judge on the table at the time of the investigation, and, after
a full investigation and the recording of the facts in the column.s provided for them,
and the marking of the number of points believed to be worthy, would have the
secretary of the board take the cards, including the judge's card, and strike an aver-
age from all the sheets marked, and this average to be the score allowed the prisoner.
This will allow of no unfair discrimination and little or no grounds for complaints.
As to the effect on discipline, it can only result in good, for, as the examination is a
spur to what would otherwise be a tardy student, so the classification with its pos-
sible loss or gain of standing and privileges will encourage right living or reforma-
tion, and act as a deterrent to wrong conduct. If prisoners are debarred from the
preferred class, the responsibility rests with themselves.
8. // segregation should be made would you advise different regulations as to
dietary, privileges, etc., jar the several classes'! If so, what changes do yoxi
suggest?
Yes. I think different regulations should control different grades of prisons.
More confidence and trust should be placed in prisoners .sent to tiie higher class of
prison. More privileges could bo allowed in the way of writing letters, receiving
visitors, and regard to the reading matter provided, such as magazines and papers,
but to all classes I would always allow good christian literature. The present
policy of trying to reform prisoners, and at the same time withhold all religious
literature is a very gi-cat mistake. Prisoners care nothing for doctrine or creeds,
it is the practical, or else to them, the impractical side that they dwell upon. Some
incident in a case that coincides with their own may be more to them and do more
for them than all the preaching j-ou can give them. These men are lost to the
churches as present. Why then allow any sentimental nonsense regarding doc-
trines and creeds to debar them from having religious reading put in their hands?
If a man goes into prison a bad, a very bad Methodist, and through reading religious
incidents in the life of a Baptist is led to become a transformed man and goes out of
prison a good Baptist, is not the nation the gainer thereby? By all means give
them religious literature.
I have the honour to be,
Sirs,
S. W. L. STEWART,
Protestant Chaplain.
Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
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SAMPLE OF SCORE CARD RECOMMENDED.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
Convict No
Points.
Age and environment 20
Nature of crime and duratioa of seateace. ... 45
Circiimstancea of crime 10
Previous character 10
Conduct and industry lo
100
Conirict No
Points.
Age and environment 20
Nature of crime and duration of sentence . . 4.5
Circumstances of crime 10
Previous character 10
Conduct and iudtjstry 10
100
Resolt of Investigation.
50 years, fair
Highway robbery
Premeiiitated, violence.
B.ad, 3rd term
Good
Result of Investigation.
Points,
Average.
Points,
Average.
IS years, good
Wounding 20
Drunk and disorderly 4
Good. Never in trouble before 5
Fi-ir 6
REPORT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF MANITOBA PENITENTIARY.
Saint Boniface, December 14, 1909.
Sirs, — As to the questions which you have submitted on the subject of a sug-
gested separation of prisoners into several classes, I have the honour to reply.
In principle, separation would produce the best results, if it be made under cer-
tain conditions. In this province only prisoners of a certain age are sent to the
penitentiary. When those who are sent here are given the cellular treatment to
which all are sulijected, I do not see how any more practical separation could be
made.
The other points submitted are not such as, in my opinion, call for a response
from the chaplains.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
ARTHUR BELIVEAU, Priest,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
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UEIMJin OF THE W.\UDEN OF TIIK HKITISH COLUMBIA PENITEXTIARY.
New Westminster, January, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sirs, — Pursuant to the instructions in your circular letter of November 25,
1909, covering resolution of the House of Commons: 'Be it resolved. That it is
desiiable to ascertain liy rey)orts obtained upon the subject from wardens, inspec-
tors and chaplains, what means could be adopted in Canada to insure a judicious
classification and segiegation of the convicts in our penal institutions and reforma-
tories,' I have the honour to submit the following report which is written as if the
resolution applied to the British Columbia penitentiary alone.
The question 'what means can be adopted ... to insure a judicious classi-
fication and segregation of convicts' is largely a question of the amount parlia-
ment is prepared to vote. Any useful addition to the system of classification and
segregation of convicts now provided for in the regulations, and more or less fully
carried out, would involve a considerable increase in cuirent expenditure, and the
segregation of the classes, while involving a still larger increase in annual cost
would require the erection and equipment of another penitentiary, or a laige ad-
dition to the present buildings. Should any such undertaking be seriously con-
templated, I beg to suggest that by establishing a penitentiary farm within easy
reach of this prison, segregation of classes could be carried out more fully than in
any other way, and at less cost, as various supplies now purchased could be raised
by prison labour, and a considerable acreage forming the western part of the peni-
tentiary reserve, and intended for cultivation, could be disposed of at good prices.
Were such an adjunct to the penitentiary in existence at present, the addition to
current expcntliturc would be about S10,000 per annum. The cost of the necessary
buildings, if erected by prison labour, may be put at S75,000; if by contract, the
cost would be nnich greater, probably .$175,000. Such a building could easily be
so constructed that dormitory segregation of classes and subdivisions of classes
could be carried out to a useful extent; but to so carry it out here is at present ini-
possible, and even when the contemplated addition to our cell accommodation is
made, efficient structural arrangements for such dormitory segregation as could be
carried out without change of plan and additional building, would appreciably
increase the cost; and the carrying out of the system would involve difficulties
which cannot easily be explained to, or understood by, any person who has not an
actual acquaintance with the routine work of a penitentiary.
The regulations provide for classification of convicts to some extent. Certain
privileges — the use of the library, letter writing, attendance at school — are forfeited
by bad conduct, and the systems of remission and parole, which are explained to
every convict on his admission, are strong incentives to the men to keep themselves
in the good conduct class. Communications between convicts, excepting such
verbal communications as their work makes necessary, are forbidden, and wen
reported entail punishment. Something is also done towards classification irhe
selection of men for the more desirable positions — orderlies in the offices and so
forth; in giving them opportunity to fit themselves for self-support by learning
useful trades; and by separating the younger convicts, as far as possible, from those
who would be likely to have a bad influence upon them.
That even such limited classification is beneficial, I have had ample proof in my
own experience. It is useful, not only to the convicts, in protecting the young e
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from contamination, and those of maturer age, whose imprisonment is due to the
one false step in an otherwise decent Hfe, from an unjust addition to their punish-
ment through forced association with men of degraded nature and filthy conver-
sation; but also to the prison authorities in the maintenance of discipline. With-
out care in this matter quarrels and improper communication between convicts
would be more frequent than they are.
To increase the effectiveness of classification and to enhance the benefits arising
from it would be necessary: (a) to increase the staff of guards, so as to provide
for subdivision and more effective oversight of the working gangs; or, (b) to seg-
regate the different classes of prisoners.
As to (a) . One officer may be quite sufficient to direct the work and provide
for the safe-keeping of a gang of fifteen to twenty-five men working within sight of
one or more of the riflemen on the walls, but it is plainly impossible for him to pre-
vent all communications between the men. So also in the shops. One instructor
can look after the work of a large gang of men, but he cannot prevent all communi-
cation between them, particularly in those shops in which steam-driven
machinery is used. In this penitentiary, at least two additional instructors and
six guards would be required with our present population to make fully effective
the classification contemplated by the regulations. This would cost at the present
rate of pay and allowance, $6,000 per annum. Such subdivision of the gangs
would be very useful in hastening the work of remodelling this penitentairy, but
simply as an aid in classification, the sum of beneficial effect which could reasonably
be looked for would not justify the expenditure.
As to (6). This, as already stated, would make it necessary to have additional
buildings either in a block with the existing buildings or on a site within easy dis-
tance of them, and it would also demand a larger staff of officers. If all the buildings
were on the same site the difficulties of carrying out the proposed system efficiently
would be largely increased. This applies|to the British Columbia penitentiary as it
stands to-day. Whether it would apply to other existing penitentiaries, I cannot
say; but it would not necessarily apply to a new estabUshment, the site being chosen
and the buildings planned with a view to carr5dng out the system. 1
I have referred to difficulties in the worldng of classification and segregation,
not easily grasped by the layman. The first consideration in a penitentiary must
be the safe-keeping of the prisoners. Entrances, exits, cannot be left open for the
first comer, nor can the keys be left where any officer can obtain them at pleasure.
A rigid, inelastic system must be observed in taking the men to work and returning
them to their cells, and in the serving of meals. This of course consumes time and
shortens the working day, and if all opportunity of communication between classes
is to be eliminated, either separate dormitories, approached by separate corridors,
each with its own entrance and exit, must be provided, or time must be allowed for
class A to be away from the prison before class B is released, and class B again,
before class C. The same routine would, of course, be observed in returning the
men; and the delay involved, repeated four times daily, would still further shorten
the working day, already too short. It may be asked, why not open the prison
earlier, or close later? During the winter months all the daylight is used. To
lengthen the convicts working day in summer would make the officers' hours of
duty unreasonably long, as they must all remain not only until the prisoners are
returned to their cells, but until the count is taken and carefully checked.
Again, the consideration which must guide prison officers in assigning men to
thfc working gangs are different from those which would govern in classification.
This is so obvious that I need not dwell upon it. It would result in having men
from different classes working in the same gang, or else in serious interference with
the carrying on of the prison wc>rk.
To sum up in a sentence what has been said: It is certainly desirable to pro-
vide for the classification of convicts and the segregation of the classes, and such
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provision would undoubtedly be beneficial to the convicts themselves and to society ;
but it is extremely doubtful whether any plan of classification and segregation
which could be grafted on our present prison system would yield beneficial results
at all commensurate with the cost.
Turning now to another aspect of the question. Assuming it decided that
classification shall be carried out, (1) upon what principle shall it be made? (2) by
whom shall it be made? (3) what difference in treatment, if any, as to distinctive
clothing or badges, diet, privileges, shall be made between class and class? (4) and
should such difference be made, what would be the effect on prisoners in the lower
class or classes? Taking these questions in order:-^
1. Age, nature of crime committed, previous record and character when as-
certainable, and such opinion as it may be possible to form of the culprit's moral
standing — that is, his point of view in regard to vice and crime — should all have
weight in the, first section; but no one of them can safely be adopted as the sole
factor. After imprisonment, the convict's class would be determined as set forth
below.
2. No better plan than the one outhned in the report of the chaplains of this
penitentiary suggests itself to me. Let the trial judge select the class in which the
prisoner is to be placed on reception. Give the warden power to degrade from a
higher to a lower class, at any time, for cause. Let promotion from_a lower to a
higher class be made by a board consisting of, say,j the warden, the deputy-
warden and the chaplain to whose division the prisoner belongs.
3. If segregation be limited to the subdivision of working gangs, keeping the
convicts apart during working hours, some difference in clothing would appear to
be necessary, but it should be simply such — say, a difference in pattern of cap— as
would enable the officers to tell at a glance to what class the wearer belonged. With
no segregation, or complete segregation, this would not be necessary. Nor would
it be well to make any difference in diet. Our prisoners are given an abundance of
plain, wholesome food. In quality, quantity and variety, their diet is better than
that of thousands, even in prosperous Canada, who have never sinned against the
law. The difference in treatment between class and class should be in the privi-
leges allowed. To write more frequently to relatives; to receive visits from them
at shorter intervals, and in the case of those whose relatives cannot visit them, to
receive visits from friends of good standing, would be very highly valued by some.
Greater Hberty in the matter of study in their cells is desired by others. More than
one prisoner, for example, has asked if he could take a course of study from a cor-
respondence school. Others wish to be allowed to purchase, or have their friends
send them, educational or technical books or journals not supplied by the prison
library. A fairly long list of privileges along similar lines could be made, and
power given to the warden to grant one or more of these to deserving prisoners.
4. With fairly effective segregation the effect on prisoners on lower grades of
granting extra privileges to those in the higher maj^ be ignored. Many would al ge
injustice, but the gravamen of their complaint would be, not that privileges were
allowed to the higher class, but they themselves were kept in the lower. The
parole system gives rise to complaints of a similar nature. These may be set off
against the incentive to the better disposed and more reasonable to fit themselves
for promotion, and the balance would be in favour of the latter; but without seg-
regation or, in other words, unless communication between convicts in different
classes is practically impossible — the effect on discipline of a general system of
privileges to those in the higher classes would be bad. A markeu reformation in a
man's conduct during imprisonment tells in his favour now whci. he applies for
parole. With formal classification, a man's class and his promotion or degradation
from class to class would doubtless be an important factor in deciding upon his
apphcation. This in itself is an important privilege, and the rules as to letter-
writing and visits might be modified, but with these exceptions, the granting of
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extra privileges where there was no effective segregation A\()u!d, I think, be con-
f'emned on tlae ground of its effect on discipline, by most men of experience.
In wiitirg this report I have endeavoured to formulate from my own experi-
ence an answer to the question embodied in the resolution of the House of Com-
mons, which I understand as indicating a desire to promote the moral wellbeing of
convicts, and proposing to attain that end by grafting upon our present prison
system a comprehensive scheme of classification and segregation.
I use the words ' our present prison system' in a double sense. The consti-
tution of Canada puts 'penitentiaries' under the authority of the Dominion par-
liament, and 'public and i-eformatory prisons' under that of the provincial legis-
latures. Now I see no way in which a system of classification and segregation can
be put into really beneficent operation unless prisons as well as prisoners can be
classified. The magnificent distances of our far-flung Dominion make the clas&ij !,ing
oj our existing ■penitentiaries a practical impossibilitii. It will remain, therefore, either
to duplicate our penitentiaries or to bring all prisons under one authority. Again,
taking the words in a sense which would bring into discussion the whole subject of
the attitude of society towards, and the proper treatment of, those who break the
laws, there are in our prison system, notwithstanding the vast improvements of
recent years, evils which no system of classification and segregation can cure. Dis-
cussion of these would be outside the scope of my present instructions, but I feel I
must not pass over in silence the fact that they exist, and will continue to exist, so
long as the attitude of society towards the whole complicated problem of crime and
its treatment remains what it is.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I have the honour to be,
Sirs,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN C. BRO^YN,
Wardeii.
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REPORT OF THE PROTESTANT CHAPL.MN OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PENITENTIARY.
New Westminster, January, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sirs, — In pursuance of your request embodied in a circular letter and dat«d
the 23rd day of November, 1909, I have the honour to submit the following report.
It is with profound satisfaction that I have read the record of the debate in
the House of Commons, which you were good enough to inclose for perusal.
In view of the all too prevalent idea that the population of a penitentiary is
made up exclusively of bad men, almost if not altogether beyond the possibility of
redemption, it is refreshing to note the large hearted humanness manifested by all
who took part in the debate, the recognition of the possibility of the rehabilitation
of the offender, and the entire absence of the hard, keen, critical view that leaves
no room for amendment; and whose only outlook is judgment and everlasting
death.
There are bad men in the penitentiary, but there are men there also with all
the makings of good men and useful citizens.
Those who are inclined to view the offender from the harsher side are very
apt to loose sight of the strange truth that it is just these very qualities that
enable some to rise to eminence, that leads others to the penitentiary. The
highest qualities in a man contain within them the possibiUties of highest heaven
or lowest hell, and it is these, and not the lowest that leads to ruin. I say it
with all reverence, it is the light that streams from heaven that leads astray.
It is beyond measure true tliat there are men who are virtuous and strictly
moral because they are cowards, and have not characl(>r enough to lose their
character, and it is equally true that there are prodigals whose characters are
singularlj^ beautiful, and whose dispositions are a distillation of tenderness and
sympathy, sweetness and nobleness. If then, men are what they are by the use or
abuse of the God-given (lualities that make up character, and if formation or re-
formation of character is at least one of the ends of punishment, and if, as every one
must agree, character is susceptible to reformatory influence in proportion to the
number and variety of acts and hai)its that make up chara(;ter. then I submit that
segregation is not only (lesiral)le hut necessary.
Admitting then that the development of character is gradual and not a simple
line, beginning at one point and entling at another, drawn by the pencil of a child,
and measurable by the eye of every observer, it is perhaps reasonable to suppose
that there would be a nuich larger possibility of gradually weaving the habit of
self-control, that quality, i)erhaps most es.sential to character, and of guiding and
directing the activities into right channels, and of making lasting impressions on a
mere lad, than on the man of mature years, who by the giving of free vent to his
passions and unla\vful desires, has humanly speaking forfeited the power of exer-
cising self-control. One may bend a twig where no impression could be made on'a
tree.
It seems not less reasonable to suppose that the beginner in crime, the man
with a clear record behind him up to this point, will be moi'e amenable to reforma-
tory influences than the hardened criminal. The man who in a gust of pas.sion, a
hurricane of angry words, a rush of warm, red blood, has been made a felon, may
be made to regard his enforced confinement as a season for calm and serious reflec-
tion, that is, provided that contamination is prevented. Under the present
system, we turn him out on the world, when he has paid his debt, a worse man
so far as criminal knowledge is concerned, than he was before he came in. It is
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somewhat humiliating to have to confess that the injurious and contaminating
influence, forever going on, to a very large extent neutralizes the efforts that are
being put forth to guide and direct the mental and moral energies of those whom
in ordinary circumstances it would be possible to reclaim.
It is a well established fact that weeds grow more quickly than flowers and
require no attention, and the evil influences which the more hardened criminal
appears to glory in sowing amongst the younger and less criminally inclined,
spread with amazing rapidity, with the result that those who might very easily be
brought under the influence of the gospel leave the penitentiary with an expert
knowledge of the very land that makes not men, but criminals.
Beyond and above all that I have said, the system of classification might have
a tendency to evoke interest and ambition, each one in a lower class striving to
move up higher, with those in the highest class putting forth every effort to avoid
the possibility of degradation.
It may be averred that this contamination is impossible, as there is supposed
to 1)6 no communication at all betwixt convicts. We know better than that, and
more, do not believe that even in the best conducted prison, it can be altogether
avoided. There is the wireless telegraph and the constant passage of marconigrams
that baffles even the strictest disciplinarians. But even if this were lacking,
conunuuication is comparatively easy where there is a gang of, say, fourteen or
fifteen men working under the .supervision of one guard. These men do not work
all on the same spot and the guard cannot be everywhere at once.
I cannot think of any insuperable barrier in the waj' of carrying into effect the
system of classification. I do not think the selection should be arbitrary, neither
do I think that age alone, or class of crime committed alone, or prison conduct and
industry alone, should determine selection.
I have seen a very young offender, a past master in crime, and a recidivist,
most exemplary in his conduct and industry.
I would suggest that in the first place the selection should be made by the
judge or magistrate. This selection would not be ultimate and final. A prison
board, consisting of the warden, deputy-warden and chaplains would at the end
of one month's detention carefully consider each case, hear the report of the guard
or instructor under whose supervision the man may be, and having secured as
much information as possible regarding the antecedent history of the man, deter-
mine the class in which each man is to be placed.
I would further suggest that even this classification would be subject to
review from time to time, according to the conduct and character of the offender.
It is true that this penitentiary is not so far as structure is concerned, ideally
adapted for the carrying out of the idea of segregation, still for trial purposes, I
cannot .see why it would not be possible to set apart certain tiers for certain classes.
What appears to me to be the first real difficulty is met with when the question
of .segregation during working hours is concerned. It might not be found difficult
to so detail the men engaged in outside work as to prevent any pos.sibility of com-
munication between classes. With regard to the men engaged in the shops I
would suggest that only men of the first and second classes should be employed in
the .shops, and for the purpose of preventing communication between these two
classes, dividing partitions might be erected in each shop with a walk on the top of
such partition to be manned by a guard. Although this arrangement would entail
an increase of six guards, four for the shops and two for outside details, at a cost
according t" the present schedule of $4,200, per annum, the staff of industrial
officers could remain as at present. The cost of the dividing partitions would
not amoimt to more than $400 at the outside.
Structural changes on the buildings would not be in our ca.se a serious matter
if, as I am informed, the department contemplate the almost immediate con-
struction of a new wing; and on its completion, the remodelling of the old wing.
This would simply leave what we now call the new wing to be attended to. What
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the cost might be for the required alterations on that wing, I am not in a position
to say.
I do not believe that a change so drastic as the one under consideration could
be carried out without giving a measure of dissatisfaction, but I do not think that
the dissatisfaction would be so pronounced as it is at the present moment over the
question of parole.
In the matter of segregation the men would gradually come to know that
what was being done, was being done for their welfare, and that the board of
classification favoured no individual but dealt with each individual case on its
merits, considering age, class of crime, prison conduct and antecedent history.
The moment a man is made to feel that all are being treated aUke, and that
there is no indiscriminate selection, and that the selection is being made by a body
of men who know something about him, prejudice is disarmed, and dissatisfaction
vanishes.' Any dissatisfaction that might continue to exist would be among those
in the third class, hardened offenders, of whose reformation there is least hope,
and I do not believe that even the continuance of that dissati.sfaction, which in
any case would not be very pronounced, would justify the continuance of the in-
discriminate herding together of all classes and types of offenders, and the per-
petuating of the unfortunate results we see every day. I am further inclined to
think that disciphne in no measurable degree would be affected. So far as pri-
vileges are concerned I would not advocate difference either in the quantity or
quality of food supplied, and in the matter of dress, different caps would clearly
indicate to what cla.ss a man belonged.
I would strongly recommend, even in the event of classification not being
carried into effect, that the restrictions imposed upon offenders in the matter of
letter writing, and receiving visits from relatives be modified.
I do not believe that it is conducive to the moral and spiritual growth of a
father to prevent him from holding communication with his child, and from the
letters I have read, penned by mothers and fathers to sons who have come under
the ban of the law, I am convinced, that the privilege of more frequent meetings
would be not only in the best interests of the offenders but also of the discipline
of the prison.
1 would further suggest that in the first two classes the privilege be accorded
of talking quietly when at work. To talk at present is a crime, yet silence is
abnormal. Better abandon a rule, which is ineffective, than hang on to it, knowing
it is more honoured in the breach than in the oliscrvance.
In conclu.sion, while expressing gratification at being permitted to give ex-
pression to my views on this important subject, I would like to disclaim any
expert knowledge on the-suitject other than has be?n acquired by my experience
gained in this penitentiary fi-om 1904 onward.
I recognize something of the great practical difficulty of dealing with prisoners
in our penal institutions, and I recognize that while it is perfectly possible to
formulate what may appear to be a feasible scheme for the betterment of prisoners,
that there are other sicles to the question and other arguments that may sap the
foundations of even the most carefully thought-out plan. It is because I am so
convinced of my own limitations, and recognize that there are others nmch better
qualified to speak on these matters than I am that I respectfully suggest that a
prison conference would gi\'e the opportunity of thoroughly thrashing out the
matters under consideration, and evolving a scheme at once creditable to our
great Dominion ami beneficial to those who have fallen by the wayside. Mistakes
would be made even then, but we cannot expect to enter into any large and com-
prehensive scheme without making mistakes, and after all it is better to make
mistakes trying to do good than to sit down idly and do nothing.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT EDWARD VERT,
Prolestant Chaplain.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911.
REPORT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PENITENTIARY.
New Westminster, January, 1910.
The Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
SiRS^ — I have the honour, as Roman Catholic chaplain of the British Columbia
penitentiary, to submit the following report relative to the inquiries contained in
your circular of November 23.
While a meeting of officers of the six penitentiaries would have been highly
desirable in reference t6 these questions, in the absence of such, I will state my
personal views upon them as they are applicable to the British Columbia peniten-
tiary, and will follow the order indicated in your circular.
1. 7s segregation necessary or desirable?
Segregation is desirable; and if we want our penitentiaries to be really effective
in the work of reforming criminals, I must say, that at least some kind of segregation
is necessary.
The stay in a penitentiary generally does a threefold harm to the convict:
(1) It lowers him in the estimation of his fellow citizens; (2) It lowers him in his
own eyes, lessening his self-respect; (3) It makes him famihar with crime.
I do not mean to say that our penitentiaries are, as it has been sometimes said,
schools of corruption where nothing but moral filth and depravity can be learned by
the inmates. I have been glad to note in my yearly reports, the good that is being
done, and in many cases it is a real and lasting good. Many times a convict has
told me that his imprisonment was the best thing that could have happened to him.
Still, a considerable amount of harm results to many, from the indiscriminate
mixing with criminals of the lowest type. There are some indeed who consider
themselves above those who have entered upon lives of crime, but there are also a
great many weak ones, without moral strength or ideals, and these undoubtedly
suffer by associating with criminals endowed with a stronger personality.
It is a fact that public opinion is against the ex-convict, and not without
reason. People have experienced too often that men leaving the penitentiary are
far from being reformed, and I know by experience that very few business men will
give an ex-convict a position of trust; nor can we blame them. It is simple pru-
dence. If we want to change public opinion we must first change the prisoners
themselves, and must not allow any convict or -prisoner oj any kind to take his place
in society until he isfitjor it, that is until he is able and wiUing to be honest and
useful.
To attain this result, more than one reform would be necessary. The two
main ones, to my mind, being indefinite sentences, and segregation in the penal
institutions.
Indefinite sentences have been already advocated in parliament. The
only way, it seems to me, to rehabilitate the convict in the eyes of the com-
munity is to release him only when resolved and able to do his duty as an honest
citizen. As long as the penitentiaries and other penal institutions continue to send
back into the world every year, characters who are not fit to live in a civilized
society, the ex-convict or ex-prisoner will be looked upon, by the mass of people, as
a degraded and despicable being.
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As for segregation it is necessary in order to cairy out in a definite, rational and
practical way, the work of reforming the criminal element of society.
2. Is segregation practicable"!
Classsification and segi'egation are feasible and practicable, at least in such b.
degree as to reduce to a minimum the baneful influence of the perverting convict.
(1) The convicts might be divided into three classes; the first to comprise
those who would give a fair hope of moral reform, without danger of contaminating
others; the third, the hardened criminals; and a second class would be made up
of those who could not actually very well be placed in either of the others, and
would rather be a kind of probationary class. These classes could be subdivided
again, if necessary.
(2) What principle should govern selection? — Neither age, nor prison conduct,
nor the kind of crime, could afford, to my mind, a sufficient principle for forming
classes. There are hardened criminals under twenty years of age, the kind of
crime very often does not affect the intercourse of the convict with his companions,
for instance, those convicted of immoral crimes are not always the most immoral
people in their conversation, as I have noticed. Therefore there remains only an
arbitrary selection, in which all these points would be duly examined and appre-
ciated.
(3) By whom should this classification be made? — By a committee or persons
appointed to study the convicts, their records, history, propensities, defects and
quaUties. The ones best fitted, in my judgment, would be the warden, deputy-
warden and the chaplains. I would object to receiving any other officer in it be-
cause then secrecy would not be sufficiently assured. This committee could work
along the following general lines: —
(a) That the judge sentencing a man to the penitentiary be asked to give
his opinion as to the class in which the prisoner should be placed.
(b) That for a month or so after his reception in the penitentiary the man
be on probation.
(c) That there be a regular, daily or at least weekly meeting of said com-
mittee to officially discuss these matters.
(d) That a man, once placed, be changed only after deUberation of the
committee, and not arbitrarily by one man only.
(e) That the instructors give to the committee a monthly report of each
man under their care.
Such an arrangement would prove very beneficial:
First, to the officers themselves, who would be in a state to know much more
thoroughly the men under their care, and in consequence, be able to work more
efficiently for their betterment.
Second, to the general discipline of the institution, as there would be less chance
of an unwise disposition of convicts, or of an unwise change.
Third, to the convicts themselves, who will know that they are taken care of,
and that they have been placed after due consideration. It is the case that the
chaplain, who in some respects can know best the prisoner's character and dispo-
sitions has least to do with him.
3. Are our penitentiaries structurally suitable Jar segregation?
It is evident that the penitentiaries have been built with a view to give the
greatest facility in overseeing and guarding the convicts; still they can be used for
segregation with advantage and without structural change.
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411 connected with penitentiary work know that inside of the prison the con-
victs communicate unceasingly with one another, and this cannot well be remedied,
even in the best-fitted and equipped prisons. But by locating all the men of the
same class in the same side of the same wing these comnuniicatic)ns could be so re-
duced that they would create no danger of spreading contamination. Thus,
constant and continual intercourse, such as takes place between men occupying con-
tiguous cells will not be possible between men of different classes, and I do not
think that a word exchanged in passing, as suppose when locking or unlocking the
prison, will cause real harm.
Different waiters and orderlies should be employed in the quarters of the
different classes, for these are commonly used as messengers amongst the convicts.
Vigilance should be required in the guard to enforce this.
4. The main difficulty is in the employment of the convicts.
As to outside work. As this kind of work requires generally, little skilled
labour, the gangs might be so arranged as to contain men of the same class only.
As to the trades and industries. I would respectfully submit the following
arrangement:^—
(a) That no man of the criminal class be allowed to work in the shops.
To learn a trade should be looked upon as a reward of good conduct. The
shops would lose little in efficiency as Jew skilled labourers belong to the crim-
inal class. As long as we regard the penitentiaries as a place where the safe-
keeping of prisoners is the main object, the shops will be occupied by the worst
criminals, to the detriment of those who would profit by the learning of a trade;
but safe-keeping is not the main duty toward the prisoner, and I think that
when the wall will be finished there will be other places quite as safe as the shops
(6) That the shops, namely, the shoe maker, tailor, carpenter and black-
smith shops, be subdivided by a separating wall ; the same instructor to be in
charge of both parts of the same shop.
(j) That a guard be stationed in the division in jwhich the instructor
could not be ; and that no communication be allowed between the two divisions.
This arrangement, besides entailing little expense, would add greatly to the
efficiency of the shops and the proper overseeing of the prisoners. It is evident
that, as is actually the case here, a single instructor cannot efficiently teach a trade,
keep his books and records, and, at the same time, so watch thirty men under his
care, working in a shop ninety feet long, as too pi-event all communications amongst
them.
5. Segregation, as I have tried to show, would not involve any change in the
main building. The actual cost of erecting a partition in the shops would not
amount to over three hundred dollars.
6. As to the staff of officers, segregation, if carried on, will necessitate the pre-
sence of three or four more guards in the shops, and for the proper subdivision of
gangs for the outside work, I think that two more guards at least, would be re-
quired. An increase of, at the most, six new guards would be necessary, which at
the schedule rate of salaries makes an expense of $4,200. But then one must bear
in mind that the staff of police is at present hardly sufficient for the proper working
of the prison, and will need to be increased before long.
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7. Is there likely to be any complaint on account of discrimination^
I do not think there would be, under the system of segregation, any more com-
plaints than exist under the actual system as to the placing and changing of pris-
oners, and I think that there would be fewer than there are under the parole system.
Of course, special care should be taken lest the minutes of the deUberations of
the committee fall into the hands of the prisoners or come to their knowledge.
There would, naturally, be some hypocrisy, but by constant supervision it will soon be
discovered, and as long as one behaves well, even if he be a hypocrite, he is not
likely to do much harm around him.
8. Would you advise different regulations or privileges'!
I do not think it would be advisable to give special privileges to someclasses,
as they might cause too many complaints. The prison diet is good, and the pris-
ers seldom complain of it. They are unanimous in saying that they are treated with
kindness and consideration by the officers.
I would nevertheless respectfully submit to your consideration the following
changes, which may be applicable, if n^i to all, at least to thr l)(>st classes: —
First, that the prisoners be allowed to talk moderately during working
hours. Any one who has been amongst them knows that it is impossible to
stop them, and it is better not to have a rule than to have one which cannot be
enforced.
Second, that they be allowed to write oftener, at least to their relatives.
I do not know of any more powerful means of reforming and ennobling a man
than a good home. In many ca.ses the remembrance of the home he had left,
of the mother who was waiting for him, has been the elevating influence which
has brought a man back to an honest Ufe.
Third, the same to be said of visits of relatives.
Fourth, I would not be averse to allowing the use of tobacco, at least to
the men of the first class. It is the greatest privation imposed on prisoners.
These are, as I have said, my personal views on the subject, and I respectfully
submit them to your consideration.
Your obedient sers'ant.
E. LAMBOT, O.M.I.,
Roman Catholic Chaplain
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REPORT OF THE WARDEN OF ALBERTA PENITENTIARY.
Edmonton, Alta., January 11, 1910.
Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Re Segregation of Convicts.
Sirs, — In reply to your circular of November 23rd, 1909, I beg leave to submit
the following as my views in re segregation of convicts: —
■ 1. I do not believe the segregation of convicts in a penitentiary is either neces-
sary or desirable.
2. In this particular institution segregation is, at the present time, neither
feasible nor practicable.
3. At present, this penitentiary would not permit of segregation in either dor-
mitories or cells.
4. Taking into consideration our varied industries, I do not see how convicts
could be segregated during working hours. A limited number might be employed
apart from the trades, in crushing rocks, screening gravel or sand, cleaning barriers
or such like work. Further segregation in the trades would necessitate additions
to the workshops and more police and instructors.
5. Segregation during working hours would involve structural additions and
the cost of building and maintaining workshops would be almost doubled.
6. I beheve segregation would involve a one-third increase in the staff of guards
and instructors.
7. If segregation should be made, I believe the reformatory influence among
those who are debarred from the higher classes would be materially lessened. I
believe that the less preferred class would feel that they were being discriminated
against, and that it would seriously interfere with the discipline.
8. If segregation should be made, I would not advise different regulations as to
dietary. I beheve all should receive the same good, plain, wholesome food. I do
not think it would be out of the way to allow the higher classes certain privileges
which would bo denied to the lower class or classes. For instance the higher class
might be allowed a small allowance of tobacco. Men who have been tobacco usera
all their lives must be very irritable when cut off entirely from that stimulant.
Such like privileges might easily be allowed to those who have shown by their con-
du^^ that they are worthy of being placed in the higher grades.
Respectfully submiltcfl,
McCAULEY,
Wardeii.
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REPORT OF THE PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN OF ALBERTA PENITENTIARY.
« Edmonton, Alta., January 8, 1910.
To the Honourable, The Minister of Justice,
Ottawa, Ont.
Honourable Sir, — Replj-ing to the circular of November 23, 1909, sent out
by the inspectors of penitentiaries referring to a resolution passed by the House of
Commons on November 17, 1909, I have the honour to reply to the questions,
seriatim, as follows: —
Permit me first of all to say that my experience has been too Umited to make
my replies of very much value.
I do not think that segregation is either necessary or desirable. It is not ad-
visable to have it outside of a penitentiary, and neither is it, inside. If such were
done outside the average moral standard would immediately be lowered. 'Ye
are the salt of the earth" applies to a penitentiary under proper discipline.
2. I do not see how segregation is feasible or practicable, so as to attain good
results all round. Who would classify? The judge only sees the evidence adduced
at the trial. The officials of the institution would lay themselves open to favourit-
ism and entail endless trouble in disciphne.
3. The Alberta penitentiary, it would seem to me, is not suited structurally
for this proposal.
4. I cannot see how this could be done.
5. Yes, but I do not know the cost.
6. It certainly would involve a large increase of the staff, but I cannot estimate
the cost.
7. There certainly would be many and loud complaints of discrimination.
There is enough of that now, when opportunity presents itself. All are criminals in
the eyes of the law, and the reformatory feature of the confinement would largely
disappear. I would suggest that the principle of segregation should be tried upon
the members of the House of Commons as an experiment before attempting such a
costly and doubtful thing upon prisoners who, to a certain extent, are helpless.
8. Different regulations as to dietary, privileges, etc., would only aggravate
the evil, and I could not suggest any change.
I may be far astray in my statements through lack of experience with prisoners,
but I know something of men and methods of discipline, and have written
accordingly.
I have the honour to be,
Honourable Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. G. McQueen,
Protestant Chaplain.
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REPORT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF ALBERTA PENITENTIARY.
Edmonton, Alta., January 11, 1910.
Inspectors of Penitentiaries,
Ottawa.
Sirs, — In reply to your circular of November 23rd, 1909, I beg leave to make
the following remarks re segregation or classification of convicts: —
I will answer in general to your questions by saying that segregation is not abso-
lutely necessary, because, supposing the rules being strictly observed, all intercourse
between the convicts would be impossible, and consequently, there would be no need
of segregation, as the danger of contamination could not exist. But as in spite of
all the efforts of the officers, and the continual supervision of the guards, all commu-
nication cannot always be prevented, segregation becomes desirable, for it is a sad
fact that the hardened malefactor contaminates those who come amongst them.
Now, is this classification feasible, practicable ? I will answer no — at least in
the Alberta penitentiary, where the structural buildings are not yet completed.
Segregation would also be rather difficult Math regard to the varied industries or
trades to be carried on in a penitentiary. But as these are rather technical ques-
tions, outside the competence of a chaplain, I will leave them to be answered by the
warden.
Would segregation be materially feasible in all the penitentiaries? I believe
the classification would tend to create among the criminals of the lower class a
spirit of discontent which would sometimes have the most obnoxious influence on
them.
If we want segregation to give some good results, it seems to me that the only
project which could give some satisfaction, is that pointed out by Mr. Monk him-
self, before the House of Commons, to have separate penitentiaries where the
criminals would be put according to their antecedents, and the character of their
offences.
Respectfully submitted.
P. COZANET,
Roman Catholic Chaplain.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. sif
APPENDIX P.
REPORT OF THE DELEGATE TO THE INTERNATIONAL
PRISON CONGRESS.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
The Honourable
A. B. Atlesworth, K.O.,
Minister of Justice.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following report respecting the meetings
of the International prison congress and of the American prison association, at
Washington, D.C., September 2Sth to October Sth, 1910.
The International prison congress is an organization against crime. Its aim
is to promote social order, reduce vice, improve environment, strengthen pre-
ventive agencies against crime and promote the rehabilitation of offenders.
The congress was organized under authority of a joint resolution of the con-
gress of the United States of America, passed March 7th, 1871. Rev. Dr. E. C.
Wines was appointed a commissioner by President Grant, to secure the co-operation
of European governments in the holding of a great international congress for the
discussion of all matters relating to the prevention and treatment of crime and the
improvement of criminal law and prison administration. Dr. Wines personally
interviewed members of the governments of Great Britain, France, Belgium,
the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, and through them
secured the co-operation of the governments of the countries named. On the
invitation of the government of Great Britain the first meeting of the congress
was held in London in 1872. At that congress provision was made for the holding
of international congresses once in five years, but, to give continuity to the work
of investigation, the diffusion of information, and to secure closer intercourse
between the nations, the International prison commission, composed of one offi-
cial representative of each of the adhering countries, was organized, and serves
as the executive committee and permanent council of the congress. The com-
mission meets bi-annually. kj|3l
Since 1872 congresses have been held at Stockholm, Rome, St. Petersburg,
Paris, Brussels, Budapest, and, the eighth, at Washington. The congresses were
held on the official invitation of the governments of the countries of which these
cities are the capitals. The government of Great Britain extended an invitation
to the congress to hold its next meeting in London. By the unanimous vote
of the congress the invitation was accepted, and, accordingly, the ninth con-
gress will be held in London in 1915.
Eight countries sent delegates to the first congress. Thirty -eight countries
sent delegates to the eighth congress, namely, Argentine, Austria, Australia,
Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, England, Ecuador, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Gautamala, Hayti, Holland, Honduras, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Russia
Salvador, Scotland, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkev and the
United States of America.
• Each country was at liberty to send one official delegate and as many other
delegates as it chose. China sent nine delegates; Cuba four; France six; Great
Britain and Ireland seven; Holland nine; Hungary five; Italy three; Japan four;
Russia nine; and other countries one, two or three each. Most of the three hun-
dred delegates to the American Prison .\ssociation, from the various states of
the Union, remained in Washington and attended the meetings of the congress.
Altogether there were about four hundred delegates in attendance.
The commission when organized in 1872 was composed of one commissioner
from each of the eight countries represented at the first congress. It is now com-
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posed of one commissioner from each of the following countries, — Austria, Austra-
lia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain and
Ireland, Greece, Holland, Hungarj', Italy, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Servia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Transvaal and the United States. The government
of Canada is entitled to have a representative on the commission.
On the 22nd of August, 1910, I was informed by Dr. Charles R. Henderson,
of Chicrgo universit}', the president of the International prison commission,
that he had received notice from the British embassy at Washington that I had
been appointed official delegate of the Dominion of Canada to the International
prison congress to meet at Washington, D.C., October 2nd to Sth. Dr. Henderson
inclosed an invitation from the government of the United States to accompany
the foreign delegates on a tour of inspection of a number of the more important
penal and reformatorj- institutions in the states of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. I accepted the invitation and joined the party in New
York on Saturday, September 17th.
The excursion left the Erie railway station in Jersey City at midnight on Sun-
day, September ISth. Including Americans about one hundred and forty took
part in the excursion. We travelled in a special train of eight pullman cars.
We visited the New York state reformatory at Elmira, the George juinor republic
at Freeville, N.Y., the New York state prison at Auburn. The state agricultural
and industrial school at Industry, N.Y., the State Reformatory at Mansfield,
Ohio, the Chicago house of correction; the state prison at Joliet, 111., the juvenile
court at Indianapolis, Ind., the Indiana (delinquent) boys' school at Plainfield,
Ind.; the Indiana (delinquent) girls' school at Clermont; the county jailatLouis-
ville, K^^, and the Indiana reformatory at Jeffer-sonville, Ind. We arrived at Wash-
ington in the evening of September 28th. On the way hom(! from the congress
I visited the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia, Penn., the Tombs and Blackwell
Island penitentiarj' in New York city.
The unfailing courtesy of the officers in charge of the institutions visited, their
patience in answering the mam' questions asked, and their frank invitation to
criticise freely anything which the visitors thought might be improv3d, were
keenly appreciated by the foreign delegates.
The New York state reformatory at Elmira was established in 1S7G, for the
reformation of felons, between the ages of sixteen and thirty years, convicted of
felony for the first time. In 1906 a second reformatory was established at Napan-
och in the eastern part of the state. Hon. Joseph F. Scott is superintendent of
both reformatories. Prisoners earn their release through a system of credits and
rewards. The state board of managers of reformatories has paroling powers.
The board consists of seven members who are appointed by the governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the state senate. Their term of office is seven j-ears.
They receive no compensation for their services, but their reasonable travelling
and other official expenses are paid by the state. They have the general super-
intendence, management and control of reformatories, of the grounds and buildings,
officers and employees thereof, of the prisoners therein, and of all matters relating
to the government, discipline, contracts and fiscal concerns thereof. They make
rules for the proper government of the reformatories and of the officers thereof
and for the employment, discipline, education, transfer, jiarole and discharge
of prisoners sentenced thereto. They are required to investigate the affairs of
the reformatories, inquire into any improper conduct alleged to have been commit-
ted by any officer or employee. The}' arc required to meet at least once in each
month for the purpose of performing their manifold duties, and to examine month-
ly or quarterly all the accounts, exptmditures and vouchers relating to the business
of the reformatories, and to certify their approval or disapproval thereof to the
comptrollers of the state. They arc required to report to the legislature annually
the condition of the said reformatories, the amount of money received and ex-
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pended by them, their proceedings in regard to the prisoners and such other mat-
ters as they may deem proper, and to make such other reports from time to time
as the legislature may require. They appoint the superintendent, and the super-
intendent, subject to the approval of the board, appoints all other officers and em-
ployees.
Thirty industrial trades are taught at Elmira. The shops contain the most
approved labour saving machinery. The school of letters is well equipped and is
unier the management of a qualified public school teacher, who is assisted by
seven prisoners. About one-half of the time of the prisoners is spent in school,
gymnasium and drill yard. The prisoners are clothed in neat khaki uniform in
summer, blue in winter. Their hair is not cut close. They are allowed to receive
from their friends, also to purchase such books and weekly newspapers as the super-
intendent may approve. The reformatory^ prints and publishes a weekly paper
called the 'Summary.' The prisoners contribute all the articles for this paper.
The prisoners' library contains nearly 6,000 books. About once a month entertain-
ments are provided for the prisoners. Military drill is taught. A fine band of
about twenty-five instruments is maintained and is considered to be a valuable
reformative influence. Religious services are conducted each sunday by Protestant,
Roman Catholic and Jewi.sh chaplains.
The prisoners are divided into three grades. Upon admission each prisoner
is put into the second grade, from which by making a good record in
demeanoui , s( hool of letters, and trades school, he may rise to the first grade,
or by failure he may drop to the third grade. Six months is the shortest
time during which a prisoner may rise from the second to the first grade.
A like period of six months of practicaUy perfect record in the first grade
entitles the prisoner to consideration bj- the board of managers for parole (con-
ditional liberation). Thus all prisoners are required to serve twelve months
at least before they are paroled. It is also necessary before release can be granted
that the prisoner obtain the promise of suitable employment outside. A paroled
prisoner is required to report at least once a month to his parole officer. After
six satisfactory monthly reports paroled men are usually given an absolute release
from the reformatory. Last year 1,097 prisoners were paroled and 135 were re-
turned for violation of parole. • ;
The George Junior Republic at Freeville — the 'Junior Republic' as Mr.
George, the founder, prefers to have it named — is unique. It is a self-governing
'republic' of young citizens who have been anything but satisfactory members
of society in the cities whence they came. Some of them have been the torment
of the police of New York. Some of them have been sent by well-to-do parents
who were in despair owing to the incorrigible conduct of their offspring at school
and at home. Some of them are delinquents, the execution of whose sentence
was suspended on condition that they would become citizens of the junior republic.
Boys and girls of fourteen to eighteen years are admitted, apparently the worse
they have been the warmer their welcome seems to be, because the farther they
have strayed, the more they need the restraining and helpful influences of the
republic.
The citizens elect their own president, vice-president, secretary of state, and
secretary of the treasury. The ' town meeting' is the legislative body. They make
their own laws and enforce them. A boy judge and a girl judge are appointed
by the boy president. The two district attorneys, one a boy and the other a girl,
are elected by the citizens. There is a boy chief of police and a youthful keeper
of the jail — a well constructed building containing ten strong steel cells, in which
violators of law and order are securely incarcerated. Trial by jury is the practice.
Considerable structural work is being carried on and there are several industries
and a large farm and garden are cultivated. The motto of the republic is ' nothing
without labour' and it is observed. Citizens are expected to work, but, being
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free citizens they are not compelled to work. They are, however, compelled
to pay their way and if they wiU not work they are soon unable to do so and become
'vagrants', when they are promptly arrested, tried, convicted and sent to jail,
where they are compelled to work for the republic and thus earn their living.
I saw >iA]f a dozen ' prisoners-' hard at work digging a drain . Some of them were
' vagrants' and the others had violated the laws of the republic. Fair wages are
paid for labour, out of which the citizen must provide his or her board, lodging
and clothing.
There are nine homes in the republic, each occupied jby one of [the trade in-
structors and his wife, and two 'hotels', one for fcwys and one for girls. The
ehizais find board and lodging in the cottages or 'hotels', for which they pay
aecording to the accommodation provided.
The school house of the republic contains a large study haU, class rooms for
various purposes and a chemical and physical laboratory. There are two sessions
each day, from eight to twelve and one to five. Citizens are required to attend
one or other but not both of these sessions daily. There are eight teachers. Stu-
daits may be prepared for entrance to the leading colleges and universities. Boys
from the republic ha-v-e entered Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania and some
of the smaller colleges.
The Junior Republic idea was put into operation July 10th, 1S95. Many
people throughly believe in it. It is said that boys that had been r^arded as
'problems' had not only turned out fairly well but had gone still farther and
achieved brilliant sueces. Very few of the citizens have proved failures.
There are three state prisons in New York state, one at Auburn, one. Sing
Sing, at OssiEung, and one at Dannemora. The prison at .A.ubum was built ninety
years ago. The prison is overcrowded, for which reason [the extremely objection-
able practice of locking two prisoners in a cdl prevails. Since 1S97 the prisoners
in the New York state prisons have bean dashed on the basis of their criminal
records into groups as follows: —
.■L Prisoners serving their first term for felony.
B. Prisoners serving their second term for felony.
C. Prisoners who have already served two or more terms for felony.
The first offenders are retained at the prisons to which they were origioally
committed. The second offenders received at Sing Sing and Dannemora prisons
are transferred to Auburn, and members of group G. that are received at Sing
Sing and Auburn are transferred ta Dannemora.
"The plant, equipment and machinery in the workshops at .-Vubum are the
best that can be obtained. Large quantities of furniture, office desks, school
desks, beds, blankets, cloth, clothing, boots, 4c.. are manufactured. The product
is sold to the state, its political divisions and institutions. The state utilizes the
product in its own institurions and credits the prison with the price, equal to the
market price for '^rmfla.r products.
Meals are served in a mess hall, not in the ceUa as with us. The convicts'
hair is not cut short. They use knives and forks, and crockery dishes instead of
tin, as with us. -\ dentist visits the prison twice a we^ and keeps the convicts'
teeth in order without cost to them. -A. female nurse is in charge of the hospital.
Convicts are allowed to keep birds. Friends may send convicts money for the
purchase of eatables, six times a year. Tobacco may be purduised with the
groceries and cigars for the Fourth of July. Fiioids may aend in underwear,
shoes, handkCTchiefs, stockings, gloves, neckties and cftber artides, six times a
year. The Fotirth of July is observed as a holiday in whichjthe convicts take
fuU part.
The state agricultural and industrial school at Industay, N. Y., was estab-
lished in 1907, to properiy care for and train for good citizenship wajrward bojB.
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under the age of axteen committed to its caie. Boys between tweiTe and axteea
may be committed for all ofifoices known to the penal law. Bo js under Iwdve
may be committed for offences whidi if committed by an adult, woold amount to
a felony. All boys committed to the sdiool are diaiged with juvenile delinqoeney
and not with any specific dime. All oonunitinents place the boy under die eaze
and custody of die board of managers doting minority.
The boys live in widely sepanAied cottages in groups <rf twenty-five. Each
group is known as a colony and is in charge c& a man and wife, known as super-
visor and matron, with whom the boys of the ecdony live, and idio bear to than,
as far as pt^sible, the rdationship of foster parents. Tlieze are twoitjr farm
colonies and tesx industnal colonKS.
The health of the inmates is eared for by a resident jdiysidan, by a visiting
specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, and by a voting doitist.
The school has a corps of seventeen teacheis. Vicious, immoral and other-
wise unreliable boys are placed in one of the industrial odonie and are always
under observation. A special effort is made to secure the confidence and good
will of every boy. Prizes are offered and awarded for b^ resolts in agriculture,
for best exhibits at tiie school fair, for thrift and for kindliness. Bi^doit chap-
lains devote their whole time to the boys. There is litde or no r^tzaint, yet at-
temps to escape are very few.
The Ohio state reformaton' at 3tfans&eld was bnflt in 18S6 as an intomediate
pcnitentiar}-. In 1S91, the name and purpose of the institution was dianged from
pen:tentiar>- to reformaton-. It is incumbent upon the courts of Ohio to sentence
to this reformaton- any male criminal between the agra of sixteen and twenty-one,
who is not known to have been previously sentoiced, and any court in its dis-
cretion may sentence any such oiale person betweoi the ages of twenty-one and
thirty- so convicted whom said court may deem ammaUe to refonnatoiy methotb
The 'inmates' (they are not called convicts) are clothed in neat fitting
bine uniforms. They receive a good common school education and are tsu^t
mechanical drawing, printing, carpentering, cabinetmaking, iron woik, mascMiry,
agriculture and horticulture. Hie guards are not in untform. Meals are served
in a common Hining room. The inmates are allowed to talk during dinner. All
avail themselves of the privil^e. The uproar is deafening, but the innmtes oijoy
it. The meals are sen^ in crockery dishes. Knives aiui forks are used. Bti^
militaiy drill is the form of exercise used. .\ band of twenty-4wo instruments
supplies the music. Owing to overcrowding die practice of pl&cing two inmates
in a ceU is tolerated. The aim of the management is 'to make good citizens out
of those sent us, by preserving to them health <rf body, Gaining their minds,
holding them to useful employment, awakening in all a sense of accountabilit>^ to
God and man.'
The Chicago house of correction was opoied about forty years ago. From
time to time, it has been added to until it is now a mas of buildings, so arranged
that proper oversight of prisoners is wdl nigh impo^Ue. Tlie prisoners are
employed in the making of sewer brick for the use of the city corporation, breaking
stone for streetmaking, printing for the city, cabinet making, slioe making,
tailoring, laundiy work and several other minor indostri^;. A wdl equipped
school is maintained for the instruction of youthful prisoners in letters and manual
training. The medical departmoit is weQ equipped. The regular hospital staff
consists of four physicians and two trained nurses who live in the grounds, be-
sides specialists who visit the prison at regular intervals. In addition to these
there is a staff of consulting physicians and surgeons, each of whom viat the
department at least once a week. From fifty to sevoitjr-five major operations
are performed each month. The superintend^it exhibited with pnde a new eeO
house for the accommodation of 3S4 men. The woik was all done by prisoners.
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The Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet was built about fifty years ago. It
will be abandoned soon for a new prison on a site comprising two thousand acres
of land. There are 1,500 inmates and only eight hundred cells. Here, as else-
where in the state prisons, the unpardonable practice of putting two convicts
in one cell prevaOs. The convicts' hair is not cut short. They dine all together
in a mess hall. Crockery dishes and knives and forks are used. The guards
inside the j'ard are unarmed. The guards on the walls only are armed. A ration
of two ounces of tobacco is issued to each convict weekly. Such weekly news-
papers as the warden may approve are admitted. Attendance at chapel is not
compulsory. The lock step is used in marching. Convicts may converse with
cell mates but not with convicts in adjoining cells. The convicts are allowed to
celebrate the Fourth of July in the yard. They may write to friends once in
five weeks and receive visitors once in eight weeks. Many industries are carried
on. Forty per cent of the product of the convicts' labour may be sold in the
open market. The rest of the labour is used in making supplies for the other
state institutions.
The Indiana^boys' school at Plainfield was founded in 1S6S. Since then 7,250
boys have been committed to its charge. Of this number 6,600 have been paroled and
it is said that ' many of them are now filling useful and honourable positions in
society all over the country.' The institution is a farm upon which there is an
industrial village with many industries in progress. All the work on the farm
and in the village is carried on by the boys under competent instructors. There
are fifty-three buildings, and, with few exceptions, the bricks of which they were
built were made by the boys and laid in the walls by them.
For crime, boys may be committed from S to 16, for truancj^ from 8 to 14
and for incorrigibility from 10 to 17 years of age. All boys are committed until
they reach the age of 21 year's. A boy whose conduct has been satisfactory for
a year may be paroled for thirty days. If his conduct remains satisfactory, his
license to be at large is renewed, if not, it is cancelled and he is recalled to the
school. The course of study is that of a common school with manual training for
all for whom room cannot be found in the trades school.
There are ten cottages in which the boys live in charge of an officer called a
house father or captain. It is claimed that seventy -five per cent of the boys are
jeclaimed and have made good, industrious and law abiding citizens. There are
no walls, no barriers, no guards. Yet there are comparatively few attemps to
escape.
The Indiana girls school at Clermont is an institution for the reformation of
girls over eight and under nineteen years of age, who have been committed for
incorrigible or vicious conduct, vagrancy or depravity, and of girls under sixteen,
convicted of crime. .\11 girls are committed to the school until they attain the
age of twenty-one years, l)ut they may be released on parole at the age of eighteen,
which 'release shall remain in force during good behaviour. The girls are trained
in all kinds of hou.sework, including cooking, baking, canning, dining-room service
serving, and laundry work.
Outdoor work is provided and is the means of restoring Ihe health of many
girls. The school cultivates a garden of sixty acres and cares for an orchard of
fifteen acres. The work is done by the girls under the direction of the farmer
and his wife.
The girls are grouped in families of about thirty. The average population is
about 280. There are few escapes. There are no walls and no l)arriers, except
on one of the cottages in which the girls who arS hardest to manage are segregated
from the others. In order to help them to mak(! up for neglected education all
first and second grade; girls are kejjt in school all day, while those more advanced
attend school Ijut half Of each school day. Zealous and eai-nest teachers are
provided. The oflficers ably sustain the devoted superintendent in her efforts to
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reform those, man}' of them, unhappy victims of society, and a very gratifying
measure of success crowns their efforts. Since the opening of the institution
over sixteen hundred girls have 'graduated' from the school. Of these eighty-
five per cent are reported doing well. The benefit to humanity of such work
cannot be overestimated. It is very cheap at any price, and 3'et the work is said
to be hampered because of the inadequacy of the appropriation voted by the
legislature.
The Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville is housed in buildings erected many
years ago for state prison purposes. In 1897 the prison became the reformatory.
Since then much has been done to adapt the buildings to reformative purposes.
The age limit for inmates is from sixteen to thirty years. Sentences are
indeterminate, with minimum and maximum limits. Once a month the board
of trustees resolves itself into a board of parole, before which men who have main-
tained a clear record and who have served their minimum sentences are brought
for consideration. The inmates arc given a training in the common branches of an
English education, also in some trade or industry. The following trade schools
are in operation: printing, bookbinding, tailoring, .shoemaking, cabinet work,
painting, carpentering, sheet metal and tinsmithing, broom and mop making,
masonry, concrete work, machine shop and electrical engineering, laundry work,
music, horticulture, agriculture and a school of barbering.
The Indiana reformatory is endeavouring to erect a standard in moral in-
struction that will be second to none in the penal institutions of the land. Every
method is employed to arouse within the inmates a desire for a better life and the
development of such traits of character as will make them strong in manhood.
The innuites are clothed in neat uniforms. Their meals are served in a wel[
lighted, cheerful dining hall. A band of twentj'-five or thirty instruments is
maintained. The members of the band are in charge of a thoroughly efficient
bandmaster. Each Sunday morning the band escorts the battalions of inmates
to the drill grovmd, where military drill, dress parade and review are presented,
and later on it plays assembly marches while the inmates enter the chapel for de-
votional service. It plays during the services and later in the dining hall during
the progress of dinner. On week da\'s at noon and evening the band plays marches
while the lines from the various shops march to the dining hall.
There is a law providing for the sterilization of defectives in effect in Indiana and
it is being carried out at the Indiana reformatorj'. The means used is vasectomy.
The Eastern state penitentiary at Philadelphia was established nearly seventy
years ago, in accordaene with the ideas of the penologists who believed in the
separate system of prison discipline. In their report of 1S94, the inspectors say
' under the separate sj-stem each prisoner is taught skilled labour of some kind,
which he learns because he is the sole recipient of that instruction. The moral
influences in like manner are applied to each man as his capacity justifies. It is
personal teaching to him, for, since whatever benefits are thus derived, they
find their direct effect on one individual. He is the unit. It is a cause of sur-
prise that at this day so few of those who are interested in prison systems of pun-
ishment comprehend the moral characteristics of the separate system of prison
discipline which this institution has made so successful in its practical operation.'
The 'moral characteristics of the separate system' appear to have failed
even in Philadelphia. To-day the 'system' is ignored. The cells all open into
corridors as in 'congregate' prisons. Two and sometimes three convicts occupy
the .same cell. A number of convicts are employed together in structural work
and in the bakery and kitchen. The "separate system" is a theory which ap-
parently has broken down in practice.
Of the Tombs' prison in New York the less said the better.
Blackwell Island penitentiary, structurally, is a disgrace to the city of New
York. It was built many years ago. The cells are very small and very dark.
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The warden is endeavouring to let in light upon this dark spot, by substituting
long wide windows for the absurd little windows in the outside walls, but he is
hampered by lack of funds.
On September 2Sth the excursionists journeyed from Louisville through the
mountains of Kentucky and Virginia to Washington, where we arrived in the
evening. Every member of the party felt deeply grateful to the director for his
imceasing efforts to add to the comfort and enjoyment of the travellers, and
to the national government for having enabled them to see so much of the country
and so many of its institutions.
On Thursday afternoon September 29th, President Taft honoured the dele-
gates of the International Prison Congress and of the American Prison Association
by receiving them at the White House. President Taft, in welcoming the dele-
gates, among other things said: 'Sometimes when I visited the prisons of the
United States Government itself, I have thought that we were stronger in theory
than in practice I hope that your convention will still
more widely spread information on the treatment of criminals and the making
of them into useful members of society; and that your deliberations will not be
influenced by maudlin sentiment, on the one hand, or by a desire for vengeance
on the other. It is easy to err in each direction. If we made our prisons so
comfortable as to furnish a motive for violating the law, they will not then serve
the use for which they are pi-operly established. On the other hand they are
certainly not properly framed and used, if, by associating with hardened criminals
men who are not criminals, and who may be saved altogether from becoming
criminals, the number of criminals is increased rather than diminished.'
The President then shook hands with each of the guests.
The American Prison Association was organized at Cincinnati, October 12,
1870. Its objects are as follows: —
1. The improvement of the laws in relation to public offences and of-
fenders, and the modes of procedure by which such laws are enforced
2. The study of the causes of crime, the nature of offenders and their
social surroundings, the best methods of dealing with offenders and of pre-
venting crime.
3. The improvement of the penal, correctional and reformatory in-
stitutions throughout the country, and of the government, management
and discipline thereof, including the appointment of boards of tru.stees and
of other officers.
4. The care of, and providing suitable and remunerative employment
for discharged prisoners, and especially such as may or shall have given
evidence of a reformation of life.
It meets annually, usually the sessions occupy a full week, but this year they
were concluded in three days to enable the delegates to attend the sessions of the
International prison congress. The next meeting will be held in Omaha.
The first session of the American prison association was held in the audi-
torium of the New Willard Hotel, Washington, on Thursday evening, September
29th. Hon. Amos W. Butler, the president, delivered his annual address. His
subject was 'Convicts and Conservatism'. Among other things he said: 'pro-
ductive labour is essential to the proper treatment of the prisoner. The most
valuable labour is that which fits him to make a living when he is released, * *
practically all the inmates of the county jails are idle. Our county jail system is a
continual reproach. Designed originally to be merely places of detention our
jails are now used for confinement of the accused and punishment of the con-
victed, of both .sexes, and of all conditions. There they an; kept in idleness.
The system is bad and conditions are often worse. Altogether there is no more
foul blot upon our civilization than this. It is to be hoped that ere long our
people will awaken to this disgrace, and provide district workhou.ses which may
be, in effect, agricultural colonies for misdemeanants. * * * *
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The extent of the competition of convict labour is usually overestimated. * *
The insignificant ratio of the prisoners' products when compared with the mechan-
ical production of the country should alone relegate the question to economic
instead of political importance. In the United States one-fifth of one per cent,
in Belgium one-third of one per cent, in France one-tenth of one per cent, rep-
resents probably the small importance everywhere of the competition of prison
products. * * *
In the United States we now have three forms of prison labour: lease, con-
tract and public account. Under the lease system convicts are leased to the highest
bidder, who may or may not furnish officers to guard them. * * The contract
system may be either for a stipulated wage per day, or at an agreed price for each
piece of work done. The public account system is conducted in two ways. In
one the convicts are worked by the state, which furnishes the capital and dis-
poses of the product to the public, just as am' other manufacturer does. This plan
is generally termed state account. In the other, the state employs convicts for
its own work, or in its own factories, and furnishes the capital, but restricts the
sale of the product to the state, its public institutions, and political subdivisions.
This is the state use type.
The lease system is found in some southern states. The abuses of this system
have been so notorious that one state after another is abandoning it. * * Of the
two other plans, contract and public account, the contract system is the easier to
operate. It means less responsibility for the warden, a smaller investment and
less liability for the state. Under it, however, some of the grossest abuses have
existed. The contract -sj'stem is passing, though it is still in operation in some
of the best prisons.
Different states have tried the public account system. Sometimes it has
proved satisfactory and again it has not. The state prison of Minnesota has
three industries: (1) The manufacture of binder twine, and (2) of farm machinery
on public account; the (3) the manufacture of shoes under contract on the piece
price plan. * * In Massachusetts the prisons and reformatories manufacture
goods which are sold to the institutions of the state. If there is a surplus, it may
be disposed of to the public. New York has adopted the state use system. Under
it the state prisons manufacture goods for the use of the institutions and the lesser
divisions (municipalities) of the state, * * * The prisoners in county prisons,
however, are largely unemployed, * * The utilization of convict labour for
state use is becoming more general. At the present time prisoners are constructing
the new prison at Florence, Arizona, and the reformatory at St. Cloud, Minnesota.
At the Indiana state prison they have built some of the buildings and are now
erecting the hospital for criminal insane;. They have done important construc-
tion work at the Indiana reformatory. They are engaged in building the new prison
at San Quentin, California and in construction work on prisons in Iowa, Mass-
achusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Washington and Wisconsin.
The United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, is l)cing built largely
by prisoners, and they are extensively engaged in constructing the other federal
penitentiaries at Altanta, Georgia, and McNeil's Island, Washington. Con-'
victs burn lime in Colorado and New Mexico, quarry stone in Idaho, Iowa, Min-
nesota and Oklahoma; crush stone for roads in Illinois, California, Nevada and
Utah; build roads in California, Georgia, Virginia, Louisana and Washington.
They dig shale at Leavenworth and make good brick of it. They make brick and
tile at Mansfield, Ohio, and brick plants arc operated in Illinois, Kansas, New
Mexico, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Wisconsin' Coal is mined in Kansas and iron
in Texas. In Texas too they have built a railroad. Hundreds of convicts are
employed on levee work in Louisiana. In Washington state they arc engaged
in cutting away the heavy forest; in Massachusetts in reclaiming the land; in
New Jersey in clearing the soil ; in Rhode Island in removing the boulders from
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productive earth; in Minnesota and Louisiana in draining the hind; in Ohio,
Kansas and California in improving their farms. * * *
Attempts have been made in some northern states to utiHze the convicts in
building roads. It has, however, uniformly proven unsatisfactory there. * * *
The long winters, the inclement weather, the expense of transporting, housing and
guarding the men, and the fact that it is contrary to the public sense there to have
men in convict garb exposed to pubic view, have all combined to render such use of
the convicts impracticable. * * *
The proper conservation of our natural I'esources and the proper employment
of convicts, are two great problems that must be solved by our people, and they
should be solved right. Why cannot these two problems be related? No present
plan of employing convict labour is wholly satisfactory. Some methods used
bring shame to our land. Others breed scandal, most of them are a reproach to
us. Why cannot prisoners reclaim the tide-flats of New Jersey and the everglades
of Florida? * * *. In Europe, the courses of streams have been changed, moun-
tains tunnelled and canals built by prisoners. Why not build the Cape Cod canal
with prison labour? Since prisoners have been used in reforesting the heaths of
Denmark and in practical forestry in Prussia and Switzerland, may they not be so
used here? ' * * *.
The association met twice on Friday, twice on Saturday and at 10.30 on Sun-
day proceeded in a body to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, where the
annual sermon was preached by the Rev. Walter Radcliffe.
The discussions at the meetings were on discharged prisoners, reformatory
work, parole, criminal law reform, prison discipline, prevention and probation.
Mr. F. A. Whittier, suprintendent of the Minnesota state training school
for boys, presented the report of the committee on discharged prisoners. Among
other things he said: 'A man liberated from prison fails to realize that during
his imprisonment the world has marched steadily on. That methods that were
up-to-date when he entered may have become obsolete. The way of doing things
changes rapidly. Men that he worked or associated with have disappeared. He
fails to find conditions as he left them, and receives something of a shock when he
finds himself a straggler or back number, and as a result he becomes diseom-aged
and disheartened. * * * The unfortunate, whose habits or actions have cost
him, first, his friends, and then his liberty, has lost more b}' the loss of the former
than the latter. Liberty to such without friends or money rarely leads to but one
result, failure, and further imprisonment * * *. Ahitorial aid in the shape of
money is not so essential to the discharged or paroled man as rcadj' emploj'ment
and a friend who will take a livelj^ interest in him * * *. All Prisoners' Aid
Societies and similar agencies must work to build up in the general public, among
the great mass of the people, the feeling that these men are to be ac(^opted as a part
of the body politic, and as such are entitled to a fair chance in the industrial, social
and religious world * * *. Upon his release from pri.son, every man should have,
at least, a definite chance of employment, where he coukl, if he would, succeed.'
Warden Benham, of Auburn prison presented the report of the committee on
prison discipline. In part he said: 'Since it has been recognized for many years
that among the chief cau.ses of crime are to be found indolence, drunkenness,
illiteracy, non-possession of a useful trade, absence of religious instruction and the
deprivation of proper parental care and teaching in childhood, we believe that
effective prison discipline should aim to remedy these defects, supply the needs,
and remove the supposed necessity for doing wrong * * *. When we contem-
plate the aims and objects of prison discipline, we find that the national govern-
ment and the state are endeavouring to change or repair the wrong-doer's whole
mental and physical structure. Is it reasonable to expect to secure men, with
whom these results can be accomplished, who can afford to give their services for
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the average salary paid to the officials necessary to administer the prisons? Many
competent and able men who meet the requirements of good prison officers attempt
to devote their lives to this work, but soon find the revenue far inadequate to proper-
ly sustain theniiselves and families in their stations of life, and are compelled to seek
more remunerative employment. Unless the present day idea of prison reform is
only talk and a myth, to be loudly endorsed and promulgated upon public occasions
only, and no effort made to test the practicability by actual trial, such provision
should be made to pay sufficient compensation to the men who are to have the
immediate charge of the offender, upon whom we must depend for the success of
our ideas, as will attract to and keep in the service these of the desired education,
ability and character.'
Mr. Geo. L. Sehon, Superintendent of the Kentucky childrens' home society,
presented the report of the committee on prevention and probation. The following
quotations from his report arc of interest : ' When adequate preventive safe-
guards are not furnished wholly by the parents, the various institutions of muni-
cipal kindergartens, fresh-air schools, public playgrounds, child-placing agencies,
oiphanages and juvenile courts must be relied upon to supply the dclicicncy * * *.
The kindergartens and fresh-air movements have to deal with infants at the
earliest possible opportunity and these institutions must, as a matter of course,
have a profound influence tending to mental improvement and physical develop-
ment in the children * * *. The kindergarten, the playground, the public swim-
ming pool, the river excursion, the trip to the country, all these and every other
sane attention paid the ('hild, kindle sparks of healthful, beneficial enthusiasm
which tend towards better citizenship for the future.'
Mr. Sehon expressed the opinion that marriage should be absolutely prohi-
bited in all cases where cither party to the proposed contract is found to be mentally,
physically or morally unfit for such a union, also between normal persons of blood
relationship.
He asserted that lift} to sixty per cent of the children in institutions for the
feeble-minded come of defective heredity, and recommended sterilization of the
hopclcssl}' insane or idoitic, the feeble-minded and the avowed degon(>rates, as one
of the most important and effective of pi'cvcntive measures.
Judge DcLacy, of the juvenile court of Washington, D.C., a member of the
committee, does not concur in this recommendation, and suggests that 'the end
in view in vascH'toniy can be more safely anil legally attainetl by segi-(>gation and
isolation in kindly, l)Ut custodial, care of the feeble-minded, the insane and the
habitual criminal, which would render such emasculation unnecessary.'
At 2 P.M., on Sunday, October 2nd, the opening ses.sion of the International
pri.son congress was iield in the auditoiium of the bureau of .American republics.
The Attorney (k-neral of the United States presided and opened the .session in the
name of the American republic. In his address he referred to the .severity of the
laws of England in the eighteenth century, and their defence on the ground that
'severity alone can deter the savage minds of those who are the objects of that
severity from the commission of those outrages and mischiefs against which the
severity of our laws is levied.' He cjuoted Blackstone as stating that ' among the
variety of actions which men ai'e ilaily liable to commit, no less than a hundred
and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of
clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death'. He said the savage
codes of the eighteenth century utterly failed to accomplish the purpose of pre-
venting crime, and that ' m.odern legislature seeks not simply to deter by making
an example of offenders, but by convincing the offender of the wisdom of obeying
law, and by so restoring him to a useful status in society that it is possible for him
to live in conformity with law * * *. Civilized sentiment now concedes that the
protection of society is the justification and main purpose of imprisonment, that
protection cannot be surely had without the reformation of the criminal, or his con-
tinued control by legal authority.'
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'^"" At the conclusion of the speech of the attorney general, the Hon. Jules Rickl de
Bellye, councillor of the ministry and chief of the prison system of Hungary, who
was president of the Budapest congress in 1905, responded and proposed that Dr.
Charles R. Henderson, of the university of Chicago, be president of the Inter-
national prison commission and of the Washington congress now opened. Dr.
Henderson was greeted as president by acclamation, and in accepting, among other
things, he said: 'One mighty and commanding purpose has called us together
and will inspire all our councils. This purpose is indeed, for the wilful and stub-
born foe of social order, a stern and austere determination to make the way of the
transgressor hard and. thorny, so that dread fear shall hold the wicked in check and
unbending force restrain the lawless. Yet, beyond this we look to the evangel of
re-education, of reformation, of raising the moral standard of the race where the
battle'is hottest and victory over evil the hardest. We do, indeed, firmly resolve
to make the way of the transgressor hard, but not desperate; we desire him to
tremble before the majesty of outraged law, but not despair if he is willing to accept
the reasonable yoke of honest and useful labour for the common weal. There is
no conflict between justice and mercy; for it is not a wise compassion which per-
mits a vicious man to go on in his own bad way unrestrained. Justice is kind
when it deprives a man of liberty abused, and firmly holds him to a habit which
gives him a chance of cultivating desires consistent with peace, order and general
prosperity.'
On Monday, October 3rd, at 9.30 a.m., the sections were organized, and
immediately settled down to business. Four sections were formed. The first
section relates to penal law; the second, to prison administration; the third, to
preventive means; and the fourth, to child-saving.
At 2 P.M., Professor Van der Aa of Holland, delivered a lecture on the Euro-
pean prison system.
At 3.15 a general assembly was held to which the sections reported progress
and submitted resolutions for the consideration and adoption of the assembly.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the programme was much the same
except that the 2 p.m. lecture on Tuesday was by Mr. Schramack, the director of
the prisons of France; on Wednesday, by Dr. B. Vambery, of the university of
Budapest, and on Thursday, by Professor G. W. Kirchwey. On Wednesday, at
8 P.M., Mr. Takashi Sanagi, secretary of the prison bureau, department of justice,
Tokyo, Japan, lectured on criminal law and prison methods in Japan. The Inter-
national prison commission met on Friday, and on Saturday a general assembly
was held to hear the president's closing address. This concluded the work of the
eighth International prison congress.
Mr. Sanagi, in his address, informed the meeting that in Japan, the execution
of a sentence for a term of not more than two years may be suspended, and if at
the expiration of the fixed term the suspension has not been cancelled, the judg-
ment becomes null and void; that the new criminal code grants the possibility of
leave on parole at the expiration of one-third of a short term, and after ten years in
a life sentence; that the age of responsibility has been raised form twelve to four-
tean; that penitentiaries for children have been abolished, and reformatories sub-
stituted; that special provision is made for feeble-minded criminals, and those who
need physical care; that a school for prison officers is attached to every prison,
with a course of study, of two months or more, under the direction and instruction
of chief guards, in prison laws and rules of procedure, duties of guards, service
regulations, rules for surveillance and restraint, treatment of prisoners, sanitation,
rules regarding posture, etiquette, dress and discipline, gymnastics, fire drill, jiu-
jitsu, method of searching, method of personal description; that only those who
can pass examinations in these are admitted into the service; that in Tokyo there
is a school for prison officers, in which the pupils are chief guards, one or two of
whom arc chosen from each prison; that instruction lasts for four months, and two
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courses are held each year; that instruction is given on the theory and practice of
inflicting penalties, the practical working of laws and regulations, and the outlines
of prison administration; and that a majority of the prison governors now in office
are graduates of this school.
The indeterminate sentence occupied the close attention of the first section
(penal legislation) for four days. The following question was submitted: —
Question 1. Assuming that a rational relation exists between the principle
of the indeterminate sentence and the fundamental principles of criminal jurisprud-
ence:
a. What class of delinquents should be submitted to, and what class
excluded from its application.
b. How may a sentence of this kind, without minimum or maximum
limits, be applied without danger to individual liberty?
If it is not admitted that there is a rational relation between the prin-
ciple of the indeterminate sentence and the fundamental principles of criminal
jurisprudence, is there ground for adding to the definite sentence with respect
to a particular individual a restriction in the form of a supplementary penalty;
and if so, in what cases, and how is it to be applied?
Prof. Gordon E. Sherman, of Yale imiversit}' presented his review of the
eleven papers offered in answer to the question with the following conclusions : —
1. The principle of determinate punishment should be maintained.
2. The absence of an indeterminate element is compensated by other
measures which either take the place of punishment or follow it.
3. Such supplementarj' measures are: a. regenerative training applied
for an indeterminate period in the case of youthful delinquents; b. indeter-
minate confinement as a measure of security and to which those who form
a continuing menace to public order should be subjected; c. conditional
liberation.
4. In the case of those condemned to long terms of imprisonment, or of
habitual criminals guilty of grave offences found by the court
to be of a professional or vagabond character, there should be obligatory
an ulterior judgment touching the condition of the prisoner viewed as a menace
to public order; such ulterior judgment should take place at the expiration
of the determinate sentence and should be rendered by a prison commission
whose members should directly represent the judiciary, the poUce and the
prison administration authorities.'
Mr. Engelen (Holland) \thought the indeterminate sentence was applicable
only as a measure of safety in dealing with dangerous criminals.
Mr. Silvela (Spain) thought the principle inapplicable in Europe.
Mr. Castorkis (Greece) would accept the indeterminate sentence entrusted
to a prison board, free from all outside influence and acting as a jury in co-opera-
tion with the judicial authority and on which the penitentiary authorities should
have no further power than to furnish proofs as to the prisoner that might be de-
manded.
After a lively discussion the principle of the indeterminate sentence was adopt-
ed by the section and a committee was appointed to prepare the report for the
general assembly.
The next morning'^the committee submitted to the section a draft of their
report, which provoked a long discussion in which delegates from Austria, Italy,
Russia, Belgium, Spain, Hungary ,'Greece, Illinois, Indiana and Canada took part.
The following dayjthelsection resumed the discussion and adopted by a
great majority certain resolutions which were submitted to the general assembly
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on Thursday afternoon, when the president of the section, Prof. Prins of Belgium,
proposed : —
1. The congress approves the scientific principle of the indeterminate
sentence.
2. The indeterminate sentence should be applied to moral and mental
defectives.
Prof. Gleispach, of Austria, M. Vamberr}', of Hungary and M. Castorkis, of
Greece, proposed: —
3. The intermediate sentence should also be applied, as an important
part of the reformatory system, to criminals, particularly to juvenile delin-
quents, who require reformation, and whose offences arc due chiefly to cir-
cumstances of an individual character.
4. The introduction of this system should be conditioned upon the fol-
lowing suppositions : —
I. That the prevailing notions of guilt and punishment are compatible
with the principle of the indeterminate sentence.
II. That an individualized treatment of the offender should be assured.
III. That the lioard of parole or conditional release be so constituted
as to be free from all outside influences, and consist of a committee made up
of at least one representative of the magistracj', at lea.st one representative
of the prison administration, and at least one "representative of medical science.
It is advisable to fix the maximum tluiation of the sentence only during such
a period as may be necessary because of the novelty of the institution and lack of
experience with it.
Respecting the indeterminate sentence Mr. Ernest Friedman, of Hungary,
is of opinion that the fundamental idea of the indeterminate sentence is simply
a recognition of the fact that it is impossible in advance to say how long a time
it will take for a prisoner to be reformed, that it is harmful and unwise to keep
a man in prison who is no longer a danger to society, but on the other hand it is
unjustifiable to turn loose upon society one who is not fit for life outside the pri.son.
He said: 'This is a theory. In practice there is the most radical differences. In
the European continent and in New South Wales thej' applj^ the indeterminate
sentence to individuals of whom there is little hope of reform. They are isolated
rather for the protection of societj*. On the contrary in the United States the in-
determinate sentence is applied only in cases where there is hope of reformation.
In Europe they apply it to habitual recidivists; in America only to those who have
never before received *any sentence. In America it is not applied for the gravest
crimes.
Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Bri.se, president of the English prison commission, said
' A law for the prevention of crime passed in England in 1907, added to the English
criminal code a supplementary penalty * * * . The tenor of the law is as follows:
When a person has been found guilty of a crime and is known as a recidivist by
the jury, the court may pronounce an additional sentence, ordering that, at the
expiration of the penal sentence to labour, he may be detained during the good
pleasure of His Majesty, this detention to be called preventive detention.
Prof. Ugo Conti, of Rome, said that in Italy — 'in place of the indetermniate
sentence we propose the supplementary penalty * * * *. Recidivism by itself
does not determine the application of the supplementary penalty, but ordinary
recidivism is an aggravating circumstance, for it increases public disquiet and it
justifies an increase of penalty which may go even to perpetual punishment.
Habitual recidivism renders the application of the supplementary penalty ne-
ce.ssary. * * * The person who has been subjected to this supplementary penalty
for five years may ask for the benefit of conditional liberation, or after ten years
may ask for definite release.'
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Mr. J. V. Roos, director of Transvaal prisons, South Africa, said: — 'The Trans-
vaal has inserted in the law of "1909, the principle of the indeterminate sentence,
without minimum or maximum limit for all criminals who have committed in any
country and at any time three or more grave crimes. * * * * The convict may
be liberated on probation.*
<i Prof. R. Garraud, of Lj'ons, France, said: — ' Ju-st as one^may desire to release
a prisoner before the expiration of his sentence if the object of imprisonment
has been accomplished, so we may desire to retain him in prison until that object
is accomplished and ho has given proof of a serious determination to amend his
ways.'
Mr. Bruck-Faber, administrator of the penal establishments of Luzembourg,
said the principal function of every judicial sentence 'is to reform the delinquent.
If he is not leformcd wlu'n he leaves the prison he becomes a menace to society,
against whom steps nuist be taken. The indeterminate sentence is the means pro-
posed to meet this difficult}'. The possibihty of detaining him till he has re-
formed is the only way to obtain the desired end. That could be secured by making
it possible for the governmc^nt to hold the incorrigil)le prisoner, after the expiration
of his sentence till his amendment. That would be sequestration in the interest
of public safety. It would perfectly realize the end sought by the indeterminate
sentence, while at the same time respecting the principle of justice.
Dr. R. Vaml)cry,'of Budaj)cst, said ' He who looks seriousl}' at the end of the
penalty, and who recognizes th(? incompatibility of vengeance and reformation,
will not hesitate to say that the indeterminate is the only acceptable reformatory
sentence. To suppose that a person dangerous to societj' can be transformed
into a useful citizen by sentencing him to a definite term of imprisonment is absurd.
* * * It is dear that if the training of the minor needs an indeterminate time,
it is even more true of the adult, whose way of thinking, feelings, and inclinations
are more .strongly fixed.
Prof. M. W. Mittermaier, of Gie.ssen, Germany, said: — 'The indeterminate
sentence takes account of the personality of the criminal. When it is a question
of studying the crime with the greatest care, or trying to reform the criminal,
of securing public safety, then the indeterminate sentence is indicated * * * *. A
definite sentence followed by preventive imprisonment would be practically of
the same effect as {\\v indetermiiuite .sentence. In both cases the individuality
of the prisoner would have to be taken into account. Therefore I conclude that the
indeterminate sentence is the Ijest form of prolonged imprisonment for delinquent
adolescents up to the age of 2.j,llwho are susceptible of reformation; and for incorri-
gibles antl recidivists of every. kind.'
The following is an excerpt, from the annual report of tiie inspectors of
penitentiaries, Canada; for the year ended June .30th, 1904, respecting fixed and
indefinite sentences:
'The system of fixed sentences, upon which our penal code is based,
is open to grave objection. It is illogical in principle, ineffective in results,
and also inconsistent with the real object of imprisonment.
Individual freedom is enjoyed as the result of state protection, and the
state has the rightful power to take away that which it has given. Such action
can only be justified, however, on evidence that it is necessary for the protect-
ion of the individuals who compo.se the state. The right of the state to protect
is undoubetd; thejmoral right to avenge or to enforce regeneration has yet to be
established. Hence the real and onh' justifiable object of imprisonment is the
protection of society. In the practical operation of the fixed sentence system
there is a natural tendency to confuse incidental efTects — such as punishment,
deterrency and individual regeneration. — with the real object for which the
sentence is imposed. In other words the incidental effects overshadow
the real object with the result that the imposition of a sentence resolves itself
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into an attempt to equalize two unknown quantities. The degree of crim-
inality in a delinquent cannot be even approximately estimated, much less
definitely determined, by the exposure of one illegal act; nor can the period
of incarceration necessary to fit him for good citizenship be accurately judg-
ed in advance b}^ any exercise of the human intellect. Yet this mathematical
impossibility is attempted every time a fixed sentence is pronounced. The
judicial records are replete with illustrations of the effect of fixed sentences.
For example 'A' has been a peaceable and law-abiding citizen for fifty years,
but under the impulse of momentary passion commits a serious crime. The
realization of the effects of his act may be the most complete safeguard to
the public against its repetition. The statute, however, has fixed the
penalty for the offence and the automatic action of the court sends him
to the penitentiary, at public expenses, for a long period of years. Another
man 'B', who is known to be an habitual criminal without other means
of livelihood, is convicted of some minor offence and sentenced to the com-
mon jail for ten days, after which period he is released to renew his career
of crime. In both cases it is the dead crime and not the hving criminal
that is considered.
'From which of these men does society require the greater protection?
How is it possible to administer actual justice under such a system?
We submit the opinion that a penological system that fails to safeguard
the interests of society and ignores the real object of imprisonment is not com-
patible with modern civilization. A sentence to imprisonment usually
(but not invariably) involves punishment, and it may or may not have a
deterrent effect upon others. Imprisonment should be accompanied by all
reasonable facilities for moral reformation. These are, however, merely
incidental. All that the state requires — all that it has a right to exact — is
that society be protected against the delinquent until he shall have given
satisfactory evidence that he will comply with the legal requirements of the
state and respect the rights of his fellow citizens.
The substitution of indefinite sentences for fixed sentences would involve
a radical change in the principle upon which the penal code is based, and would
also materially increase the labour and responsibility of the department
concerned. It is, however, open to none of the objections that attach to the
existing system, and it is absolutely consistent with the object to be attained.
.\mong other advantages: —
(a) It would provide a safeguard to the delinquent against the undue
severity of his sentence, and to society against the inadequecy of the period
of restraint.
(b) It would enable the convict to realize that the key to freedom is
in his own hands and that the only possible hope of future liberty depends
upon his being amenable to advice and discipline until he shall have convinced
the authorities of his sincere determination to be lawabiding.
(c) It would obviate the abuses arising from attempts to ' make the pun-
ishment fit the crime', and enable the adoption of the more correct princi-
ple of making the period of restraint fit the criminal.
(d) It would give perpetual protection to society against the determined
and incorrigible criminal; instead of the intermittent protection afforded by
the existing system.
(e) The fitness of the delinquent to re-assume full citizenship would be
determined only after a reasonable period of observation and by some author-
ity upon uniform principles; thus obviating the scandal and hardship that
arise from the inequality of sentences, imposed in advance, by jurists of diverse
opinions, each acting upon his individual view of penal requirements.'
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The first section then discussed: —
Question 2. How and in what manner may effect be given to penal sentences
pronounced by foreign tribunals, especially with reference to habitua^criminality
and legaHncapacity."
And submitted the following resolutions which were adopted by the general
assembly : —
Resolved, —
' 1. The citizen condemned for crime in a foreign country is liable in his
own country to the same incapacities and loss of status which he w-ould have
incurred had he been condemned there; in the actual conditions of inter-
national law the congress does not ask that such forfeitures, incapacities
and loss of status should be the direct result of the foreign sentence, but that
they should be pronounced, as the result of a special action (action of forfeit-
ure) by the courts of the criminal's own country.
'2. This special action may be extended to the case of a foreigner sen-
tenced for crime in a foreign country.
'3. The tribunal before which the crime is prosecuted may declare a
recidivist to be an individual preeedently condemned by a foreign court and
may recognize this precedent condemnation as though it had been pronounced
by a court of the same state as the latter tribunal.
'4. It should be agreed by treaty between all civilized states, (a) that
each country should receive from the others notice of sentences pronounced
by their own citizens; (6) each country should on request of the appropriate
judicial authority communicate to the others the records of condemna-
tion for crimes.
'5. The organization of an international office of information for
record of antecedents and for the identification of criminals ought to be stud-
ied.
Political crimes are not within the purview of these resolutions.'
The congress also expressed the wish that the following propositions
be comprised in an international code to be adopted by the iiext congress:
' 1. Incapacities pronoimced in one country should be given effect in
every other.
'2. Crimes and misdemeanours of which a person is guilty in one country
should, as touching conditional liberation, be recognized with reference to
establishing recidivism in every other country.
'3. A bureau should be created for international exchange of criminal
sentences.'
Question 3. — To resist the tendency of criminals to band themselves to-
gether, is it not desirable to make participation in criminal acts or agreements a
distinct crime, or at least to make all such complicity a legal aggravation.
The section submitted the following resolutions which were adopted by the
general assembly.
Resolved, —
1. It does not appear to be in conformity with the spirit of penal law to
make of every preliminary agreement to break the law, a special crime.
2. Noting the increase of offences for which several persons are respons-
ible, and that these offences are committed chiefly by habitual criminals,
i.e. , those most dangerous to society, it is desirable to consider participation
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as an aggravating circumstance and to augment the power of the judge to
increase the peanlty for such offences.
The second section (on prison administration) dealt with:
Question 1. — What are the essential principles of a modern reformatory-
system and upon what rational methods should it be based? Should its
application be limited by age, or other classification? If so, under what
limitations?
' Must we not admit the necessity of special treatment for youthful
criminals and even recidivists from sixteen to twenty-one or twenty-three
years, recognizing the plasticity of that age and the possibility of curing by
special methods physical, moral, and intellectual, the perverted instincts of
young ofl'enders? In that case is it not desirable to give to the courts the
power of imposing a special penalty;
(a) Sufficiently long to permit the full application of all means of
reformation ?
{b) Permitting the free application of conditional liberation?'
The section submitted the following resolutions which were adopted by the
general assembly:
Resolved, —
A. The essential principles on which the modern reformatory method
is based are:
1. 'That no person, no matter whatever his age or past record .should
be assumed to be incapable of improvement.
2. The conviction that it is in the interest of the public not merely to
impose a sentence which is retributive and deterrent but also to make an
earnest effort for the reformation of the criminal. 0
3. That this reformation is most likely to be accomplished by religious
and moral instruction, mental quickening, physical development, and
such employment as would place the rjrisoner on a good industrial basis.
4. That the reformatory system is incompatible with short sentences,
and a relatively long period of reformatory treatmenu is more likely to be
beneficial than repeated short terms of imprisonmeni/ under severer con-
ditions.
5. That reformatory treatment should be combined with a system
of liberation on parole under suitable guardianship and supervision on the
advice of a suitable board.
B. It is strongly to be desired that a system of special treatment be
adopted for adolescent criminals whether ■recidivists or not.
C. Tribunals should be able to sentence to special treatment which (a)
should be .sufficiently long to permit of the full application of all posfsible
means of reformation; {h) shall admit the right of conditional liberation as
mentioned above.
The section adopted also the following motion of Mr. Almquist of Sweden;
'Exhibit 1. — Expresses the opinion that for prisoners awaiting trial,
and prisoners serving .short sentences there should be separate confinement.'
Question 2. — What improvements may be made in the parole system or
the system of conditional liberation already existing in certain countries?
The section submitted the following resolutions which were adopted by
the general assembly:
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
Resolved, —
' Accepting the principle of conditional liberation on parole as an in-
dispensable aid to the reformation of the prisoner the congress approves of
the following resolutions:
1. Conditional release should be given not by favour but in accordance
with definite rules. Prisoners of all classses, including workhouse prisoners,
should be eligible for conditional release after serving for a definite minimum
period.
2. Conditional liberation should be given on the recommendation of a
properly constituted board, but reserving always the control of the govern-
ment. This Ijoard should have the power of recalling the prisoner in case of
unsatisfactory conduct.
3. The duty of caring for conditionally liberated prisoners should be
undertaken by state agents, specially approved associations, or individuals
who will undertake to befriend and supervise them, and to report on their
conduct for a sufficiently long period.
4. Where the oridnary lules for parole are not applicable to life prisoners
their cases should be dealt with by the supreme government as a matter of
clemency.'
Question 3. — What arc the best means for assuring productive work for
prisoners in small prisons?
The section submitted the following resolutions which were adopted by the
general assembly after a lively discussion:
Resolved, —
1. All penal institutions including houses of detention and jails should
be under the control of a central authority.
2. All persons whether sentenced for long or short terms, and whether
confined in large or small prisons should be employed at useful labour, either
inside or outside the prison.
3. So far as local conditions permit all persons serving sentences should
be concentrated in institutions large enough to permit of the effective organi-
zation of labour.
4. Where such concentration is not possible various kinds of labour
should be introduced depending upon the economic conditions in a given
locality.
5. It would be desirable that the large prisons with well organized in-
dustries and effective industrial equipment should serve as training schools
for the men who will later take charge of the smaller institutions.
6. The officials of small prisons should include, if feasible, at least one
man competent to direct industrial work.
The third section (on preventive means) dealt with four questions:
Question 1.— What is the effect upon criminality of the legal measures
taken in different states in the form of probation or suspension of sentence,
&c., to avoid the necessity of imprisonment, especially at the time of first
conviction, taking account of the age, character, and antecedents of the
person? And is it desirable that these and similar laws should be extended?
The section submitted the following resolution which were adopted by the
general assembly:
Resolved, — ■
'1. That the effects of probation are beneficial when applied with due
regard to the protection of the community, and to persons who may reason-
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ably be expected to reform, without resorting to imprisonment, and when the
probationers are placed for a reasonable length of time imder the supervision
of competent officers.
2. That the effects of suspended sentence, without probationary over-
sight, are difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain.
3. That it is desirable to introduce and extend laws providing for pro-
bation, and to provide, in each state or country, some central authority
which wUl exercise general supervision over probation work.'
Question 2. — What measures should be taken for the suppression of mendacity
and vagabondage, especially in view of modern criminal tendencies?
What rules should be adopted for the organization of workhouses for mendi-
cants and vagabonds?
The section submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted by the
general assembly:
Resolved, — •
1. The congress re-affirms the resolution of the congress of 1895 as to
the classification of vagrants and mendicants, as follows:
1. Society has the right to take measures of social preservation even
compulsory, against mendicants and beggars. This right involves _ also
the duty , on the other hand, of systematically organizing public and private
charity societies in aid of prisoners.
2. There is need of different treatment of mendicants and vagrants,
according as they are
(a) Incapacitated or infirm, needy persons.
(b) Accidental mendicants or vagrants.
(c) Professional mendicants or vagrants.
.3. The first need assistance until they shall have recovered the neces-
sary ability to support themselves. The second class should receive
public or private assistance or should be received in refuges or relief stations
where work will be compxilsory. The third class should be subject to
severe repressive measures of a nature to check recidivism.
II. As a necessary means for aiding in the suppression of wilful and
professional vagrancy and mendicancy, workhouses (maisons de travail)
for professional mendicants and vagrants should be established. Within
these institutions comprehensive systems of classification of inmates should
be made, separating the inmates requiring discipline from the other inmates,
and providing a class or classes for the more industrious or better behaved,
with such inducements as are proper and conducive to the reformation and
progress of the inmates toward rehabilitation.
III. Such workhouses should make a prominent feature of agricultural
and industrial training, and the period of detention should be sufficiently
long to provide for a thorough training, and also to act as a deterrent to
offenders.
IV. The physical and mental condition of the inmates should be care-
fully observed and studied.
V. Conditional liberation and a system of subsequent supervision
and, if possible, co-operation between official and outside charitable
authorities are indispensable parts of a proper system of treating mendicancy
and vagi-ancy.
VI. Tlie extension or establishment of a system of identification and
classification of professional mendicants and vagrants is advocated.
Question 3. How is it possible, while paying due attention to the correction
of offenders, to lighten the heavy economic burden falling upon families owing to
the imprisonment of those upon whom they are dependent?
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 31.
The section submitted the following resolutions which were adopted by the
general assembly:—
Resolved, —
'It is desirable that the state should allow payment to be made to prison-
ers, and that steps should be taken to provide that any sum of money credited
to prisoners should be available for the assistance of their families, if in need.
'As the practice in different countries varies considerably it would be an
advantage if fuller information could be placed at the disposal of the next
congress, with a view to further discussion as to the best means to adopt for
the relief of the families of prisoners.
Question 4. — Have the experiments of the last ten years made in certain
countries providing special establishments for the detention of inebriate criminals,
even recidivists, for long periods (two or three years) been successful or not?
Is it necessary to complete the penitentiary discipline of these special estab-
lishments by special medical treatment?
After prolonged discussion the section submitted the following resolutions,
which were adopted by the general assembly: —
Resolved, —
1. That the experiments of the last ten years n ade in certain countries
providing special establishments for the detention of habitual, criminal drunk-
ards for long periods, (two or three years), have been successful.
2. That it is not necessary to complete the discipline of these establish-
ments by special medical treatment, but it is essential to the success of the
method that the hygienic at d medical treatment of the inmates of establish-
ments of this class shall be directed by qualified medical practitioners.
3. That further extension of this kind of detention of the inebriate crimi-
nal, under state control, with a view especially to arresting the habit in its
early stages and to the avoidance of useless and repeated .sentences to imprison-
ment is desirable.
The fourth section (on questions relating to children and to minors) dealt with
four questions.
Question 1. — Should young delinquents be subjected to the penal procedure
applicable to adults? If not, what principles should guide the procedure applied
to children and youthful offenders?
The section submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted by the
general assembly: —
Resolved, —
I. Yourg delinquents should not be subjected to the penal procedure now
applied to j.d dts.
II. The principles that should guide the procedure applied to young
delinquents are as follows: —
1. Those who are entrusted with the cognizance of the cases of young
delinquents should be primarily chosen for their ability to understand ard
sympathize with children, and should have some special knowledge of the
social ard psychological sciences.
2. They should have the a.ssistance of probation officers to make pre-
liminary examination in each case, and to watch over and help tho.se put on
probation.
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1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911.
3. There should be made in connection with the cases of young de-
linquents, such examinations as will contribute to the fund of information on
juvenile delinquency, and the results should be used wherever practicable to
help in the disposition of the case. Medical examinations should be made
only by physicians who have some special knowledg; of the social and
psychological sciences. The personal information obtained in these exami-
nations should not be mada public.
4. Whenever possible in the case of yourg delinquents, arrest should be
avoided in bringing them before the authorities, and orders for arrest should
be issued only in exceptional cases.
5. When necessary to d-^tain young delinquents, the d;tention should
not be in quarters us( d for addts.
6. In those countries where a court is entrusted with the cr gnizance of
the cases of young delinquents:
(a) Such cases should never be heard at the same session with cases of
adults; ar d
(6) It should be the tend'^ncy in the trial of juveniles to procer d as far
as practicable by way of conference for the good of the child instead uf con-
test about and over the child.
III. Those who are entrusted with the crgnizance of the cases of young
delinquents should also have the crg-iizance of the measures needed in the
interest of abandoned or maltreattd children.
Question 2. — Should special establishments be maintained for abnormal,
backwaid and feeble-mii djd children, showirg dargerous moral tei dencies?
After a full discussion the section submitted the following resolutions, which
were adjptcd by the general assembly: —
Resolved, —
'That it is the sense of this congress in discussing the question of the
establishment of separate institutions for mentally delective children with
dangerous moral tendencies, that too httle practical investigation of the sub-
ject has hitherto been undertaken for us to competently vei d^r a verdict.
We, however, earnestly recommend that investigation be rapidly ui dertaken
by well-qualified persons, under private initiative or state atithority, using
the mental tests and classification which prominent sti dunts of the abnormal
psychology of children have agreed upon, and working with clear definition
of the ends in view — such investigation to be prin.arily directed towards
ascertainment of:
I. How many children, numerically and proportionately, there are:
(a) With dangerous moral tendencies in institutions for abnormal
childien ;
(h) With mental defect, in institutions of the reformatory type, or who
come before juvenile courts.
II. How the directors of such institutions:
(a) Regard the desirability of such cases as inmates of their insti-
tutions.
(/)) Find it advisable to treat them;
(c) Estimate the success of their efforts.
Question .3. — What measures should be taken to correct the idleness and
vagabondage of children in la-ge cities?
The section submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted by the
general assembly:
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SESSIONAL PAP2R No. 31.
Resolved, —
'That to prevent habits of vagrancy and idleness among children in large
cities there should be: —
I. Laws making parents responsible for the wTorg doing of their child-
ren; to compel deserting fathers to return to their duty, or to support their
children; allowing children to be taken from unfit homes and properly
placed for trainii g and care.
II. Greater co-operation between school authorities and the public;
better adaptation of school curricula both in interest and in practical use to
the individual needs of the children; and that there should be more kinder-
g'lrtens and greater recrgiition of training in hand-work for the children.
III. Vast additions to playgrounds, wholesome recreation centres,
gvmnasiunis and athletic fields, as the surest preventives of juvenile mis-
chief and crime, and as affording young people places where they may learn to
bear dofeat with courage, and success with nudosty.
IV. Lectures to parents on practical subjects that shall tend to make
better and happier homes as the wisest way to keep children form the idle,
wanderirg life.
V. A strong'^r influence on the part of the press and the pulpit to enforce
the sentiment that the best bulwark against juvenile delinquency is to care
for the children in such a way as to prevent them from becoming vagrants
and idleis.'
Qapstion 4. — -Are special measures necessary for the protection of children born
out of wedlock, and, if so, what measures?
The section submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted by the
general assembly: —
Resolved, —
1. That in the opinion of this congress legislativc'measures and moral and
social propaganda are necessary for the protection of illrgitimate children.
2. That the object of legislative action should be so to m< dify existing
laws as to make the care, support and inheritance of illegitimate and legitimate
children as near as possible identical.
3. That, after the nursirg period is over, the decision as to which parent
shall have the future care of an illegitimate child should be based upon the
child's best interests and its needs as a future citizen.
4. That whichever parent has not the care of the child should contribute
toward its support and education.
5. That as illegitimacy is often the result of ignorance, it shall be the object
of a moral propagii' da;
(a) To instruct young people in matters of sex and its relation to the
life a".d welfare of the state;
(')) To help build up a single moral standard applicable to men and
women alike.
6. That as girl-mothers often attempt abortion, abandonment of their
child, or drift into prostitution, it shall be the object of a social proj)aganda to
have connected with hospitals and all institutions where such girl-mothers
may go for advice and care, a trained staff of workers whose duties shall be:
(tt) To instruct said girl-mothers in the care of herself in view of her
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child's needs before and after birth;
(6) To secure from the child's father acknowledgment of paternity,
and the necessary financial provisions;
(c) To act as friend to the mother, and guardian or trustee for the child.'
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Ottawa, October 15th, 1910.
G. W. DAWSON,
Inspector, and official delegate to the
International prison congress.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
REPORT
THE MILITIA COUNCIL
DOMINION OF CANADA
FISCAL TEAR EXDING ]\LVRCII ;J1
1910
PRIIfTBD BY ORDER OF PAR^IAMEVT
OTTAWA
PRINTED BY C. H. PARMELEE, PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST
EXCELLENT MAJESTY
1910
[No. 35— 1911.]
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
Jo His Excellency the Eight Honourable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Grey, Vis-
count Howick, Baron Grey of Tlowich, in the County of Northumberland, in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom, and a Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand
Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, £c., £c., Governor-General and Commander-
in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada.
]V1ay it Please Your Excellency:
The undersigned has the honour to present to Your Excellency the Report of the
Militia Council for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910.
Kespectfully Submitted,
F. W. BORDEN.
Minister of Militia and Defence.
Depautjibnt of Militia and Defence,
Ottawa, September 1, 1910.
.'5.')— IJ
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35 A. 1911
CONTENTS.
A
Paragraph.
Active Militia, Establishments 50
" Inspector General's remarks on (see page 106).
" Organization 51
Annual Camps, Inspector-General's remark.s on (see pdge 113).
" Training-, Expenditure on (see page 32)
Ammunition, Small Arm 93-98
Armament, Field Artillery 90-91
" Heavy Artillery 92
" Inspection of War Materiel 99-105
Small Arm 9.3-98
Armouries, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 116).
Army Service Corps, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 112).
Artillery, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 108).
Aviation 110
B
Barracks, Inspootor-General's remarks on (see page 114).
AiTny Service Corps, Inspector-General's remarks (see page 112).
Buildings, construction of 114-119
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Cadet Corps 74r-84
Capital Account 125
Cavalry, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 107).
Commands, Administration of 48
Commissions, Number issued 72
Committee, Interdepartmental 3
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Defence and ^Mobilization 12, 13
Dominion Arsenal, Report of Superintendent (see Appendix D, page 69).
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Efficiency Pay, Expenditure on (see page 34).
Engineer Services 107-122
Engineers, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 110).
Equipment, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 116).
Expenditure 123-127
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Fortresses. Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 11.5).
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Guides, Corps of, Inspector-General's remark.^ on (see page 110).
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Infantry, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 110).
Inspector-General, Report of (pages 97-119).
Instruction, Generally 54-65
" In England 66
" Schools of 71
'' '• Pay and Allowances (see page 42).
Intelligence IS, 19
Interim Report of Militia Couneil (see Appendix F, page 97).
L
Lands, acquired 122
Medals, Number issued 73
Medical Services, Report of Director-General (see Appendix A, page 48).
" Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 112).
Militia Council, Interim Report (see Appendix F, page 97).
Militia, Active (see Active Militia).
Militiary Districts, Administration of 48
" Classification of 17
Military Policy 3-11
.Mobilization and Defence 12, 13
Musketry 29-34
Canadian School of 68-71
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Officers, Education, of 4-9
Ordnr.nce Machinery, Inspection of lOG
Services, Inspector-General's mmarks on (see pase IO.t'i.
Stores 87-89
P
Permanent Force 35-49
Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 103).
" Pay and Allowances (see pages 36-39).
" Provisions and Supplies, Expenditure on (see page 40).
Petawawa Camp, Inspector-General's remarks on (see page 114).
Properties, Acquired 122
" Maintenance of 120, 121
Public Schools, Physical ;ind Military Training in 85-90
R
Regulations 53
Rifle Associations 31-34
Rifle Ranges 111-113
Royal ililitai-y College, Entranr e K.xaminations 67
" '• Report of Board of Visitors (see Appendix C, page 58).
. '■ " Report of Commandant (see Appendix P. page 54).
" " Education of Cadets 10
" " Attachment of Cadets to units of Permanent Force 10
s
Signalling, Report of Asst. Adjutant-General for (see Appendi.x E. page 77).
•' Inspector-General's remark^ on Csee pag? 113).
Small Arms 93-98
Staff, Appointments and Changes 52
Survey Division 20-28
T
Telegraph Detachments 107
TJ
Universities, Military Training at 10
" '• Inspector-General's remarks on (see ])agc 117).
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Veterinary Service 86
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Warrants, Number issued 72
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
ANJsrUAI. REPORT
THE MILITIA COUNCIL
YKAR KNDINC MARCH ;n. 1010
1. The Militia Council prcs<>nt, herrwitb, their report on the work of the "Militin
during- the twelve montha ended March 31, 1910
2. The report on the training duriny the period under review, which was pub-
lished a few months apo as an Interim TJeport, is appended liereto for purposes of
reference. (Appendix F.).
:^irLlTARY POLICY.
INTERDEPARTXI ENT.M, COSl M ITTEK.
3. On the principle already adopted by the Admiralty and War Office, an Inter-
di partniental Committee has been established for the purpose of dealinp with ques-
tions of common interest to the Department of the Naval Service and the Department
ct Militia and Defence. Several important matters have been referred to the com-
mittee, the functions of which are purely consultative and advisory ; its recommenda-
tions do not have effect until formally approved by the ministers of both departments.
EDUCATION OF OFFICERS.
4. With a view to the progressive evolution of a Canadian section of the Imperial
General Staff, two General Staff Officers have been added to the Staff of the Royal
j\filitnry College, Kingston, as foreshadowed in tho Inst annual report, to prepare
candidates of the Permanent Force for the Staff College, England.
5. These officers will, also, hold instructional courses for officers of the Active
Militia at various military centres in connection with the ifilitia Staff Courses to
which reference was made in the Interim Report. These courses have been hold at
Toronto, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax. During the theoretical portion of the course,
lasting from December until tho middle of April, lectures have been given each week
on tactics, topography, organization or administration.
6. Practical instruction will be given at Kingston and Petawawa during the first
twelve days of August.
7. An examination will be held on the conclusion of each portion of the course.
8. The scheme being in the nature of an experiment, and having regard to the
somewhat heavy expenditure to be incurred in connection with the practical part of
ibe course, the numbers authorized to attend the full course had to be limited to five
at each centre; many of the applicants who were thereby excluded, nevertheless, volun-
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tarily attended all the lectures, an eneonraging fact whicli would appear to justify
an extension of facilities in future years.
9. Short tactical courses for officers of the Active Militia attending the annual
camps have, also, been inaugurated, and will be held by specially selected officers of
the Permanent Staff.
EDUCATION OF CADETS AT THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.
10. Steps have been approved for the attachment of all cadets at the Eoyal
Military College, for a short period during their second year, to some unit of the
Permanent Force; while measures have been inaugurated towards improving the
general education of candidates competing at the entrance examination for the Col-
lege, by raising the standard in geography, history, English and French.
INSTRUCTION IN ItlLITARY SUBJECTS AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES.
11. On the conclusion of the course of military lectures instituted at McGill
University, to which reference was made in the Interim Report, authority has been
given for three days practical instruction, at St. Jean, P.Q., in the subjects dealt
with in the lectures.
MOBILIZATION AND DEFENCE.
12. A Mobilization Committee has been formed at Headquarters; a certain
amount of preliminary work has already been performed, and eventually a sub-com-
mittee will be formed in each of the various Commands and Independent Districts.
War Establishments, based upon those of the Territorial Force, are being drawn up,
iind mobilization regulations are being framed; when these are completed it is hoped
that attention may be focussed upon our essential requirements, which have been
referred to more than once in previous reports, and that the result may be a definite
policy towards completing existing organizations in materiel and equipment, and
that the main consideration in sanctioning new units may be the actual requirements
of the Divisions, Brigades, or other organizations to which such units would be
allotted.
13. Following the procedure of former years the general scheme of defence has
been amended to include the new units that will be organized during the coming
training season.
ORGANIZATION.
14. The organization of the six Territorial Divisions remains practically the same
iis last year.
15. In the west, the influx of population has led to steady progress in the expan-
sion of the Militia. The organization of corps in Nos. 10 and 13 Military Districts
has been steadily progressing under the administration of the officers who have lately
been appointed to the command of those districts.
16. The headquarters of the Eastern Ontario Command have been transferred
from Kingston to Ottawa, the officer in command being, in addition, District Officer
Commanding Military District No. 4.
17. The Military Districts of Canada have been classified as first, second and
third class military districts, as follows: —
1st Class.— Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 (combined), 7, 9, 10, 11, 13.
2nd Class.— Nos. 4 and 8.
3rd Class.— No. 12.
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INTELLIGENCE.
18. The work of the Intelligence Division has been progressive, while the officers
of the Corps of Guides continue to render valuable assistance.
19. It is proposed, this year, to hold a Staff tour in Intelligence duties in con-
nection with certain camps of instruction in "the east, with a view to extending the
Fcope of the training of this corps in the important duties they would have to per-
il irm in war.
SURVEY DIVISION.
20. In the field, the work of the Survey Division consisted of topography, the
running of transit traversic, railway traverse and level lines for the use of the topo-
grapher*. The work in the office consisted in the reduction and plotting of field
notes, the compilation and preparation of sheets of the regular series, and the prepara-
tion and lithographing of various maps for field days and mana-uvres. A large lec-
ture map of Ottawa and vicinity was also prepared for the use of the Ottawa garrison.
21. The field work was commenced on April 5 and continued until December 15,
1909. Two transit parties were employed during the season. The total time of
emploj'ment being equivalent to one party for forty-one weeks. These parties com-
pleted 1.510 miles of transit traverse the work being cheaply and expeditiously done.
The probable error of these traverses is about 1-2500. In addition to the transit work,
868 miles of railway were traversed by a party, who were employed for twelve weeks,
during the summer.
22. Five le^'el parties were employed at different times throughout the season.
They succeeded in running 3,037 miles of levels, the greater portion of which was in
very rough country.
23. The work of the transit, traverse and level parties completed the necessary-
preliminary work in about 3,000 square miles of area, which is now ready to be topo-
graphically surveyed at any time.
24. Special surveys were made of Brorae, Memphreraagog and Little Magog lakes,
and accurate plans of Brompton and surrounding lakes were obtained from a private
source.
25. The topography carried on in western Ontario covered 3,578 square miles
and completed the field work of fourteen sheets of the regular series. The work was
carried out by two permanent employees, four non-commissioned officers of the Royal
Engineers and two temporary employees. This branch of the work was in charge of
a Staff Captain, with headquarters at Brantford.
26. One man employed on revision for sixteen weeks completed 351 square miles,
covering the Fort Erie, Welland and Dunnville sheets.
27. During the year, ten topographical sheets of the regular series were prepared
for lithographing and eight were issued.
28. In all, 54 sheets, covering an area of 17,993 square miles have now been sur-
veyed. Of these sheets 21 have been issued, fourteen are in the hands of the litho-
graphers and the remaining seventeen are in course of preparation.
MUSKETRY.
29. The Efficiency Pay Regidations, insofar as they refer to musketry, on the
■whole worked satisfactorilj', but some modifications are proposed which Have been
suggested by the experience of the past training season, and it is hoped that any
cause of dissatisfaction with these regulations will then be removed.
30. Experience shows that provision should be made for qualified musketry
officers in addition to the establishment at present laid down for cavalry and inf&ntry.
?.fusketvv !« ns importnut as Sigrnlling and other brnnches of training, and requires
specially qualified officers to carry it on successfully.
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RIFLE ASSOCUTIONS.
31. The number of Eifle Associations at the end of the year, and the membership,
were as follows: —
No.
Membership.
154
465
16,022
27,054
Total
619
43,076
32. The above figures show an increase over 1908-9 of 14 Military Associations
(increase in membership 694), and 53 Civilian Associations (increase in member-
ship, 3,036).
33. The grant by the Militia Council of a handsome nickel salver to the mem-
ber of each Civilian Eifle Association making the best average in a series of practices
prescribed by regulations, has had a very beneficial effect, the interest which it has
aroused in rifle shooting showing a steady increase.
34. Judging by the inspection reports and target practice returns, the majority
of the rifle associations are doing good work.
PEEMANENT FOECE.
GENERALLY.
35. The strength of the Permanent Force is well up to the limited establishment
allowed.
36. Confidential reports continue to be rendered by oflicers commanding imits
on their subordinates, and it has proved to be a very satisfactory way of ascertaining
the capabilities of oflicers throughout the Force.
37. During the year 8 oflicers have been appointed to the several branches of the
Permanent Force as follows: —
Cavalry 2
Artillery J,
Engineers 2
Permanent Army Medical Corps (including Nursing Sisters)., a
Canadian Army Pay Corjas 1
38. With a view to commemorating, in a permanent and appropriate manner, the
great service rendered by Lord Strathcona to the Empire during the late South
African war, the designation of the Eoyal Canadian Mounted Eifles has been changed
by His Majesty's permission, and with the unanimous consent of all ranks, to that of
Strathcona's Horse (Eoyal Canadians).
39. In July, 1909, the Officer Commanding the Maritime Provinces Command
was requisitioned for troops to assist in quelling the disturbance in connection with
the strike at the Dominion Coal Company's mines, and detachments, composed as
follows, of the Permanent Force stationed at Halifax were sent: —
To Glace Bay, July 7:—
Staff 3
Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery 214
Eoyal Canadian Engineers 52
Royal Canadian Regiment 259
Canadian Permanent Army Service Corps 8
Permanent Army Medical Corps 10
Total ■ 546
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To Inverness, July 11 : —
Royal Canadian Engineers 2
Eoyal CanacJian Regiment 103
Canadian Permanent Army Service Corps 4
Permanent Army Medical Corps '2
Total Ill
40. The strength of the troops on strike duty was gradually reduced, until ilareli
;'., 1910, when the remainder were returned to Halifax.
41. The manner in which all ranks carried out their duties reflected great credit
upon themselves and the Permanent Force in general.
42. It has been considered advisable, owing to the stage of development in the
application of the principles of Army Service Corps work that has now been reached
b,\ the Canadian Permanent Army Service Corps, to raise the standard of qualifica-
tion, especially as regards the non-commissioned officers of the higher ranks, and this
change is having a most beneficial effect iu producing a number of highly trained non-
commissioned officers.
43. An important improvement in the system of enlistment and training of
recruits in the Canadian Permanent Army Service Corps was established by making
the Halifax Detachment a Training Depot. As far as jwssible, hereafter, all recruit-
ing will be done at Halifax, where everj- facility exists for the training of recruits.
44. The experiment was tried this year of having instr\ictors from the Perman-
ent Section attached to the companies of the Canadian Army Service Corps in Camps of
Instruction, and so satisfactory did it jirove, that it is hoped to extend the principle
next year, and have instructors attached to every company undergoing training. It
was found this year that having instructors in camps resulted in the work being
performed in a uniform and systematic manner. In some instances there had been
f jund a tendency to introduce ' localisms,' but the presence of instructors from the
Permanent Section caused the elimination of these.
45. In all camps where companies of the Army Service Corps were trained,
bread was baked for the troops, an<l the quality was reported as very good indeed.
Slaughtering was done at all camps where facilities existed for keeping the meat after
it was slaughtered.
46. As an increase in the personnel of the Canadian Permanent Army Service
Corps stationed nt Toronto had become necessary, and as it was impossible owing to
luck of funds to make provision therefor by increasing the Establishment, a detach-
ment of the Corps was withdrawn from Esquimalt (where it was considered it could
best be spared, owing to the small number of troops at that station) and transferred
1i Toronto. Besides performing their regidar duties for the permanent troops at
Toronto, the members of this unit will be utilized as instructors to the militia com-
panies in Western Ontario. Another advantage in having this detachment at Toronto
is that they will perform the necessary transport work, thus effecting a considerable
saving.
ADMINISTRATION AND DISCIPI.TNE 01' THE PERMANliXT FORCE.
47. The administration and discipline of the several units of the Permanent
Force have, as a whole, been very satisfactory.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE COMMANDS AND DISTRICTS.
48. The administration of the Commands shows fair progress. The remarks,
however, made in last year's report, to the effect that the majority of officers com-
manding Commands had not in all cases fully grasped their responsibilities and
realized the powers placed in their hands, are still to a large extent true.
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ACTIVE MILITIA (OTHEE THAX PEEMANENT EOECE).
ESTABLISHMENTS.
60. The establishments for the Active Militia other than the Permanent Force
■were authorized in April, 1909, and during the year the following changes took
place : —
In Military District No. 2, the organization of the 25th Brant Dragoons was
authorized.
In Military District No. 10, the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, the 16th Light Horse
and the 18th Mounted Eifles were brigaded together to form the 4th Cavalry Brigade.
In Military District No. 11, four independent companies of the Eocky Mountain
Rangers were grouped together to form the 102nd Eegiment.
The Corps of School Cadet Instructors was authorized.
OROAXIZATIOX.
51. The work of organization has been proceeded with so far as the funds at the
disposal of the department would permit.
STAFF.
52. The following changes in the Headquarters, Command and District Staffs
were made during the period covered by this report : —
Headquarters.
Major II. A. Panet, D.S.O., Eoyal Canadian Artillery, vacated the appointment
of Deputy Adjutant-General.
Major P. E. Thacker, Strathcona's Uorse (E.C.), p.s.c, England, was appointed
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Major G. Paley, Eifle Brigade, p.s.c.. England, was appointed Director of Mili-
tary Operations and Staff Duties, vice Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet Colonel W. G. Gwat-
kin, whose appointment had expired.
ilajor A. C. Caldwell, Eoyal Canadian Engineers, vacated the appointment of
Assistant Director of Intelligence and reverted to regimental duty.
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet Colonel G. E. Wliite vacated the appointment of Dis-
trict Officer (Commanding Military District No. 8, and "was attached to Headquarlers
Staff for special duty.
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet Colonel F. S. Moore vacated the appointment of Dis-
trict Officer Commanding ^Military District No. 12, and was attached to Headquarters
Staff for special duty.
Lieut, and Brevet Captain A. McMillan, D.S.O. Eoyal Canadian Dragoons, w is
appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for Signalling, vice Captain F. A.
Lister, Royal Canadian Eegiment, who reverted to regimental duty.
Western Ontario Command.
Colonel W. E. Hodgins, District Officer Commanding Military District No. 4,
■was appointed District Officer Commanding Militarj- District No. 1, vice Lieut.-
Colonel and Brevet Colonel J. Peters, appointed District Officer Commanding Mili-
tary District No. 11.
Eastern Ontario Command.
Colonel T. Benson. Eoyal Canadian Artillery, was appointed Officer Command-
ing the Eastern Ontario Command, vice Colonel W. D. Gordon, appointed Officer Com-
manding the Quebec Command.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Chinic, Royal Canadian Regiment, was
iippointed Chief Staff Officer, vice Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel T. D. R. Hem-
iring, appointed District Officer Commanding Military District No. 3.
Lieut.-Colonel T. D. R. Hemming was appointed District Officer Commanding
Military District No. 3, vice Colonel W. D. Gordon, who assumed command of Mili-
tary District No. 4 on removal of the Headquarters of the Eastern Ontario Command
to Ottawa.
Quebec C omrnand.
Colonel W. D. Gordon was appointed Officer Commanding Quebec Command,
vice Colonel and temporary Brigadier-General L. Buehan, C.V.O., C.M.G., A.D.C.,
deceased.
Lieut.-Colonel A. N. Worthington, Army Medical Corps, vacated the appoint-
ment of Principal Medical Officer, Quebec Command and Military District No. 6.
JIaritime Provinces Command.
Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel J. C. MacDougall, Royal Canadian Regiment,
was appointed Chief Staff Officer, Maritime Provinces Command, vice Lieut.-Colonel
W. M. Humphrey.
Lieut.-Colonel W. M. Humphrey, Chief Staff Officer, Maritime Provinces Com-
mand, was appointed Officer Commanding Military District No. 8, vice Lieut.-
Colonel and Brevet Colonel G. R. White, appointed to Headquarters Staff.
Captain W. P. Gibsone, Royal Canadian Regiment, was appointed Deputy
Assistant Adjutant-General, vice Captain C. H. Hill, Royal Canadian Regiment
(seconded).
Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G. H. Ogilvie, Royal Canadian Regiment, was
appointed District Staff Adjutant, Military District No. 12.
Military District No. 10.
Lieut.-Colonel and Honorary Colonel S. B. Steele, C.B., M.V.O., was appointed
District Officer Commanding.
Military District No. 11.
Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet Colonel J. Peters was appointed District Officer Com-
luanding Military District No. 11, vice Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Holmes.
Military District No. 13.
Lieut.-Colonel E. A. Cruiksbank was appointed District Officer Commanding,
vice Lieut.-Colonel and Honorary Colonel S. B. Steele, transferred to Military Dis-
trict No. 10.
REGULATIONS.
53. The following regulations were issued during the twelve months ended March
31, 1910:—
King's Regulations and Order for the Canadian Militia, 1910.
Training Manual, Canadian Artillery, 1908.
Regulations for Royal Military College, considerably amended.
Regulations for the Clothing of the Canadian Militia, Part II.
Regulations for Engineer Services, Canada.
Regulations for Supply, Transport and Barrack Services for the Canadian
Militia, 1909.
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DvSTRUCTION.
GENERALLY.
54. The attendance of officers at the Royal Schools of Instruction has, on the
whole, heen satisfactory, but the percentage of unqualified officers is still too larg'e.
55. Provisional Schools of Instruction were held as under : —
Cavalry. — Calgary, Alta.
Artillery.— Levis, P.Q.; Montreal. P.Q. ; St. John, N.B. ; Victoria, B.C.
Infantry. — Brockville, Ont; Gait, Ont.; Ottawa, Ont.; Xiagara Falls, Out.;
Stratford, Ont.; Port Hope, Ont.; Montreal, P.Q.; Sherbrooke. P.Q.; Three Rivers,
P.Q. ; St. Hyacinthe, P.Q. ; Westville, N.S.
Canadian Army Service Corps. — Hamilton, Ont.
No. XVIII. Field Ambulance. — Vancouver, B.C.
Signalling. — Belleville, Ont.
Signalling Garrison Classes. — Ottawa. Ont. ; Toronto, Ont. ; Hamilton, Ont. ;
Sherbrooke. P.Q.; Montreal, P.Q.; St. John, N.B.; Halifa.x, X.S.; Charlottctowu,
P.E.I. ; Winnipeg, Man.
56. Courses of instruction in the Ross rifle were held by the Inspector of Small
Arms at Quebec for officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Active Militia.
57. A course of instruction was authorized to be held at the Halifax Military
Hospital for Nursing Sisters, in military nursing duties.
58. In order to properly train the Sergeant Cooks who have been added to the
es-tablishmont of the Canadian Army Service Corp.s, arrangements were made for a
course of instruction at Kingston, under the Canadian Permanent Army Service
Corps. A few took the course, and instruction was given them as to how to obtain
the best results from the rations. It is expected that during the coming year an
increased attendance at these courses can be arranged for.
5!). Nine officers of the Active ^Militia were attached to units of the Permanent
Force for duty and a ' long course,' with a view to qualifying for commissions in
the Permanent Force.
60. The results of the promotion examinations of the Imperial Army held in
May and November, 1909, were as follows: —
At the May examination, 30 officers of the Permanent Force presented them-
selves, 16 passed and 14 failed (9 in one subject and 5 in more than one subject) ; 4
officers of the Royal Canadian Artillery wrote on the Artillery subject ' e,' 3 of whom
passed.
At the November examination, 17 officers presented themselves, 12 passed and 5
failed ; two officers of the Royal Canadian Artillery wrote on subject ' e,' one of
whom passed.
61. Twenty officers presented themselves for the promotion examination in subject
■' c,' Practical Work in 1909, 17 of whom passed.
62. Five officers of the Permanent Force presented themselves for examination
in Tactical Fitness to Command, of whom three passed ; at the same time four officers
o.f the Active Militia were examined for the rank of colonel, of whom 2 passed.
63. One candidate presented himself for the literarj' examination for appointment
to the Permanent Force held in May, 1909. He was not successful.
64. Five officers attended that portion of the ' long covirse ' required to be taken at
the Royal Military College in the spring of 1909, of whom only one passed. There
were, also, present during the coui-se, 7 officers of the Permanent Force preparing
for promotion examination. This is the last occasion on which officers will be allowed
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the privilege of attending the Royal Military College for the purpose of preparing
themselves for promotion, such a course being discontinued for the future, as it is
considered that the professional attainments of oiBcers are now suificiently raised to
warrant such preparation being carried out regimentally.
65. In the autumn of 1909, 5 officers were present at the portion of the ' long
course ' conducted at the Royal Military College, all of whom passed, and in addi-
tion, there were 2 officers of the Permanent Force preparing for promotion examina-
tion.
INSTRUCTION IN ENGLAND.
66. The following officers underwent instruction in England and are still in
attendance : —
Staff College. — Captain W. B. Anderson, Royal Canadian Engineers.
Ordnance College. — Major F. D. LafPerty, Royal Canadian Artillery.
Gunnm-y Staff Course. — Lieut. W. G. Beeman, and Lieut. A. S. Wright, Royal
Canadian Artillerj-.
Course in Military Engineering. — Lieut. J. A. Keefer and Lieut. C. B. Russell,
Royal Canadian Engineers.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.
67. Eifty-one candidates presented themselves for the entrance examination to
the Royal Military College in May, 1909, 42 of whom were successful in passing the
CANADL^N SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY.
68. There was only one course at the Canadian School of Musketry during 1909,
at which 16 officers and 26 non-commissioned officers attended, of whom 14 officers
end 19 non-commissioned officers qualified. One officer and 6 non-commissioned
officers failed in the final examination, while 1 officer and 1 non-commissioned officer
were unable to qualify owing to illness.
69. The comparatively small attendance at the above-mentioned course was due
to the fact that a large number of the troops at Halifax were on duty at Glace Bay,
and, as a consequence, some 25 officers and non-commissioned officers were unable to
attend.
70. The high standard of the School was fully maintained, and the staff detailed
to assist in this work deserve every commendation.
SCHOOLS OP INSTRUCTION.
71. The number of certificates issued from all schools of instruction during the
year was as follows : —
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COMMISSIONS AND WAERANTS.
72. The number of commissions in the Active Militia issued during the period
under review was 355, and warrants to specially qualified non-commissioned officers, 17.
MEDALS.
73. The number and description of medals issued between April 1, 1909, and
March 31, 1910, were as follows:—
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Ofiicers' Decoration 35
Long- Service Medal 185
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Permanent Force). 11
General Service Medal 27
Northwest 1885 Rebellion Medal 2
CADET CORPS.
74. The steady growth in numbers of cadet corps under the supervision of the
department continues to be maintained, and interest in the movement appears general
throughout all the provinces. On March 31, 1910, the numbers of gazetted cadet corps
had reached 215, embracing 362 cadet companies, with a membership of close upon
15,000 boys. These were distributed among the provinces of the Dominion as follows: —
Province of Ontario, 83 Cadet Units with 117 Cadet Companies.
Quebec, (i.3 „ 157
,1 Nova Scotia, 17 m 21
II N. Brunswick, 11 n 11
P.E. Island, 4 „ 4
!■ Manitoba, 'J m 14
II Saskatchewan, .') .. 5
Alberta, 16 „ 26
M Br. Columbia, 6 n 6
Yukon Territory 1 .i 1
215 362
75. Disbandments were made of only three cadet units (with an equal number of
companies), and the net increase over the previous year was 30 cadet corps, embrac-
ing 33 cadet companies, and with a membership of over 2,800. The great majority
of Canadian Cadet Corps are afiiliated with the public schools of the various provinces
and in many cases receive tangible assistance from the local boards of school trustees,
■ mainly in the provision of uniform, or an armoury or armoury fittings for the storage
of arms, equipment, &c.
76. Ross rifles, Mark II*., are now issued to each cadet corps for drill purposes and
target practice with the -303 service ammunition, and a proportionate number of Ross
rifles, Mark I., for drill and miniature target practice with the standard gallery cart-
lidge. The cadets are thus enabled to receive a course of training similar to that of
the Militia, and, in addition, the distribution of service rifles to cadets throughout
the country provides a valuable reserve of arms for which reliable liondsmen are
responsible, and which would be easily obtainable should occasion ever arise necessi-
tating their employment in an emergency.
77. The concensus of reports of inspecting ofiicors upon the annual cadet inspec-
tions for the year goes to show steady progress towards efiiciency. The policy of
returning a letter of criticism (for communication to the cadet officers and school
authorities) upon each inspection report reaching Headquarters has been continued,
and is believed to have beneficial results.
78. The increase in the standard of qualification for cadet instructors is already
showing beneficial results in the greater efficiency of units generally reported by
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inspecting officers. The creation of a separate corps of the Militia — the Corps of
School Cadet Instructors, composed only of duly qualified male teachers of the public
schools, and the establishment of a scale of allowances for cadet instructors, has pro-'
vided the requisite prestige and encouragement for the teaching staff to participate
in the work. Courses of instruction for the qualification of cadet instructors were
held during the summer vacation, 1009, in the Maritime Provinces and Western
Ontario Commands. In all cases iarge numbers of school teachers attended the
courses and, at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, and Wolseley Barracks, London, the num-
bers applying for accommodation were much in excess of those who could be instructed
during the period available.
79. An edition of the Cadet Regulations, revised to July 1, 1910, will be issued
diiring the coming summer. This consolidates existing regulations and amendments
as promulgated in General Orders from time to time- since the publication of the last
Regulations ia 1906.
80. A source of much encouragement and incentive to cadet corps generally has
been afforded by the generous gift of a trophy for cadet competition, during the cur-
rent year, by Ilis Excellency Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada. The idea
intended to be shown by the trophy is the illustration of the conquest of the Base
and Unworthy by the Spirit of Wisdom, Courage and Love. This is done through
tJie medium of a silver and bronze group of St. George and the Dragon, with a back-
ground of the Union Jack and Maple Leaf in enamel, representing the Young Knight
c£ Strenuous Endeavour riding out from the heart of the TTnion Jack to protect the
^laple Leaf from the Dragon of Ignorance, Sloth and Self-ilnterest. Under the
C(.nditions imposed by Ilis Excellency, the trophy is to be won by the municipality
'vhich can sliow the largest percentage of gazetted cadets between the ages of 12 and
16 years, in proportion to its population. For the purposes of the competition the
strength of cadet corps will be taken as on May 24, 1910, and the population of muni-
cipalities on Januarj' 1, 1910.
81. Further encouragement was given the cadets by the generous invitation of
il.e ' Lord Roberts ' Boys of London, England, for a Canadian cadet team to compete
i.t Bisley, 1909, for the gold medal given by H.R.H. The Princess of Wales (now Her
Majesty, Queen Mary) for rifle competition with the cadets of the Mother Country on
' Empire Day.' Two cadets representing Canada were sent over, viz. : Cadet Captain
Flood and Cadet Sergeant Galer Hagarty, both of Cadet Corps No. 48, Harbord
(^ollegiate Institute, Toronto. Neither was very successful, owing to lack of famili-
arity with English conditions, and the miniature shooting of which the competitions
chiefly consisted. They, however, report having been tlie recipients of most generous
Jiospitality and kindness on all sides, and state they were specially indebted to the Hon.
Secretary ' Lord Roberts' Boys,' R. J. E. Hanson, Esq., M.A., R.N.V.R., for courtesies
extended. The invitation for a Canadian cadet team to attend the ' Boys ' Bisley,
1910, has again been received from the Executive of the Imperial Cadet Association
(successors of ' Lord Roberts' Boys ') and it is confidently expected that a team
capable of upholding the credit of Canada will be selected.
82. The Dominion Rifle Association and Canadian Rifle League continued their
encouragement of the previous year to cadets, whereby it was made possible for some
60 odd cadets to compete throughout the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association and
furnish a team representative of the Dominion to enter for the Lord Roberts' Trophy
Competition. Unfortunately this match was shot off at a late hour and poor scores
were made by the Canadian Cadet Team. The Dominion of Canada Rifle Association
have promised better time-table schedules in future contests.
8.3. The presentation of colours to local cadet corps by the ladies of the
'Daughters of the Empire' at Vancouver, B.C., Winnipeg, Man., and Ottawa, Out.,
tiie reviews at various points by Ilis Excellency the Governor-General — notably at
Ottawa on November 9. 1909, and at Toronto previously — as well as Lord Strathcona's
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gift of cai)S to the public school cadets of the latter city, have directed the marked
attention of the public to the cadet movement, as well as stimulated the youthful popu-
lation to a proper pride in these organizations affiliated with the educational institu-
tion which they attend.
84. Many inquiries respecting the formation of ' Boy Scouts ' have been received
by the Department, but this branch of juvenile organization does not come within its
purview, section 65 of the HJilitia Act limiting the control of minors by the Minister
cf Militiii and Defence lo lads between the ages of 12 and 18 years, who may be
formed into cadet corps. Leaders of the 'Boy Scout' movement in Canada have
declined gazettemeut as cadets on the score of independence of the Department, and as
Li matter of fact they are chartered and supervised by the Supreme Council of General
Sir Baden-Powell's 'Boy Scout' organization in London, England. The need for
local supervision has, .aowever, now become very urgent and arrangements are being
completed by His Exoellency the Governor-General with the Lieutenant-Governors of
provinces for the formation of Provincial Committees under which the organization
of ' Boy Scouts ' iu the several provinces will be supervised and controlled.
PHYSICAL AND MILITARY TRAINING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
85. Tjhe provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan and
Pritish Coliunbia have now expressed their adhesion to the terms of the Constitution
<.'f the ' Strathcona Trust ' and have adopted, as part of their educational system, the
ph.^sical training of all pupils in Elementary Schools.* During the year courses of
i.'istructioii for school teachers have been held throughout Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick and Ontario, with the following results : —
Total number of school teachers and prospective school
teachers instructed 1,538
*2. Certificates awarded for proficiency to instruct in physi-
cal training 1,301
3. Certificates awarded for proficiency in military drill and
qualifying as cadet instructors 120
4. Failures to qualify in physical training 107
5. Failures to qualify as cadet instructors 4
6. Total failures Ill
*In the province of Ontario arrangements have not yet progressed sufficiently for
the establishment of any instructional courses in physical training for the school
teachers.
VETERINARY SERVICE.
86. It is hoped soon to organize a Veterinary Corps for Canada. It is felt that
the establishment of such a Corps will prove most beneficial.
ORDNANCE STORES.
87. Small Arm Ammunition has been decentralized so far as suitable acconnno-
dation exists at Ordnance Depots. The decentralization of gun ammunition pro-
ceeds but slowly owing to the lack of magazine acconunodation, but as there is money
available this year for building magazines it is hoped some progress will be, made
before the year is out. Clothing and necessaries have been distributed to each Depot
— and each is now self-contained to a degree.
88. Several simplified clothing patterns have been introduced leading to economy
in production and to reduction in the cost of handling, &c.
' The province of Prince Edivard Island has sinoe declared its adhesion.
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89. By General Order 99 of 1910, a system was introduced by which the actual
cost value of the personal clothing, hitherto issuable to the soldier ' in kind,' is now
placed to his credit, in advance, in the regimental pay-list, and when he requires
urticles of regimental uniform, he may draw them from regimental store, and have
the cost deducted from the clothing credit. At the end of the man's engagement, he
13 paid, in cash, any balance there may be remaining to his credit. This system is of
much value to the soldier, as it enables him to provide himself witli additional articles
of uniform, out of the economies he is able to effect in other directions.
AEMAiTENT.
FIELD ARTILLERY.
90. The first step in the re-armament of the Field Artillery with a quick-firing
gun has been completed by the issue of Q.F. 18-pr. equipment to eight field batteries.
Carders have been placed with a view to completing the re-armament of the whole of
the Field Artillery before 1912.
91. The pattern of runner for use with artillery vehicles in winter, referred to in
last year's report, has been issued to the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and very
tlioroughly tested both by ordinary drill and by a special route march and manoeuvres
in rough country. The report is on the whole extremely favourable.
UEAVY ARTILLEKY.
92. Unavoidable delays in the modification of the B.L. 60-pr. carriages, referred
to in last year's report, will prevent the issue of this equipment in time for the annual
training of 1910. It is expected, however, that the armament for the heavy batteries
will be ready before the end of the year.
SMALL AltilS A-\D SMALL AKM A M il U MTIOX .
93. The output of rifles and bayonets by the Ross Rifle Company has been satis-
factorily maintained during the year under review.
94. The introduction of the Mark II.**, Ross rifle, the excellent shooting qualities
of which have been so well attested, marks a further step in the development of this
weapon.
95. The experimental work of the Sub-Committee of the Standing Small Arms
('ommittee has resulted in the recommendation of certain modifications which it is
believed will, when embodied, produce a weapon superior to any existing pattern of
303 rifle.
96. The question of improved sighting for rifles has received much attention
during the past year. A pattern of Sutherland sight has been provided for all M.L.E.
rifles on charge, and the provision of another pattern of this sight (with aperture)
for the Ross rifle is imder consideration.
97. Steps have been taken to provide a rifle for Cadet Corps by adapting the
earlier issues of Mark II. Ross rifles. Very considerable progress has already been
made in this direction and all Cadet Corps will, in due course, be provided with these
rifles.
98. It is understood that after extensive experiments the British War OflSce is on
tlie eve of introducing a new pattern of -303 cartridge with pointed bullet. The
laanufacture of the new ammunition will be commenced at the Dominion Arsenal as
soon as the necessary details can be procured.
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INSPECTIOX OK WAR MATERIEL AND ALTERATION OF STORES IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHANGES.
99. It is gratifying to note that the technical inspection of warlike materiel, and
its alteration in accordance with the changes introduced from time to time, is gradu-
rJly becoming systematized.
100. The various armaments, field and coast defence, call for constant alterations
and repairs to keep them up to date; this work is being carried out by the armament
artificers of the Canadian Ordnance Corps, under the superintendence of an Inspector
of Ordnance Machinery, and may be said to be on a satisfactory footing.
101. As pointed out in previous reports, it is only by constant care that modern
iirtillery equipment, with its complex mechanisms and delicate range finding and
sighting instruments, can be maintained in a state of efiiciency. In this respect it
is felt that there is generally room for considerable improvement in the personnel of
the caretakers of the field and heavy artillery batteries.
102. During the past year it has been possible for the first time to carry out an
examination, by technically qualified Inspecting Ordnance Officers, of the ammunition
stored in all the principal military magazines in Canada. It is the intention that
this examination shall be conducted annually in the future.
103. With the increasing accumulation of ammunition of all natures a regular
periodic examination becomes of vital importance for the timely checking of possible
causes of deterioration, for the prevention of ammunition which has become unfit for
service being sent into the field, and for the detection of danger in storage.
104. In addition to the examination of ammunition on military charge a con-
'iderable quantity of ammunition belonging to His Majesty's ships in the North
Pacific was examined in accordance with arrangements made with the Admiralty.
105. With the formation of a Canadian Navy it may be expected that a still
larger amount of this nature of work will have to be undertaken by Inspecting Ord-
nance Officers, and it is important that more officers should become qualified to carry
it out.
INSPECTORS OF ORDNANCE JIACHINERY.
106. Arrangements have been made for the selection of two suitable candidates
lo fill the positions of Inspector of Ordnance Machinery referred to in last year's
report. The two will shortly he selected and will be sent to Halifax for a brief
course under Captain Eodd, A.O.D., I.O.M., and will then proceed to England for
final instruction.
ENGINEER SERVICES.
GENERALLY.
107. The result of the decentralization of Engineer Services referred to in the
report for 1908 is satisfactory, and officers commanding now realize the importance
of expending their allotment of money to the best possible advantage. The progress
leport adopted last year also continues to increase in value.
108. The system of recording Military Lands has been further improved during
the past year, and it is hoped that in a few months feach military district will be
issued with a complete record of the military properties within its boundaries.
TELEGRAPH DETACHMENTS.
109. Telegraph Detachments have been organized, in conjunction with the exist-
ing field companies of Canadian Engineers, as the nuclei of Divisional Telegraph
Companies, and it is hoped that during the training for 1910-11 four complete detach-
ments will be trained.
AVIATION.
no. During the year this important subject received attention. Messrs. McCurdy
and Baldwin were encouraged to carry out experiments at Petav/awa and assistance
was given thorn by the officers and men of the Royal Canadian Engineers.
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RIFLE RAXGKS.
111. The British Eegulations for ' The Construction and Care of Eifle Kanges,
1908,' have been amended to suit Canadian conditions and are now being promulgated
in General Orders.
112. The foUov.-ing rifle ranges were constructed during the year: —
Targets
Prescott 4
Truro 6
113. Owing to the danger area as laid down in the above-mentioned regulations
•having been increased, it is much more difficult to acquire safe sites. This accounts
for the number of rifle ranges constructed during the year being smaller than usual.
lULIT.VItV BUILDINGS.
114. The Goth Regiment Armoury was constructed in Montreal by the regiment,
the Department giving a grant towards cost of construction, upon the condition that
the building was handed over free of debt to the department upon completion.
115. The following buildings were erected by the Department of Public Works: —
Joliette Armoury Completed.
Durham Armoury "
Medicine Ilat Armoury "
Shcrbrooke Drill Hall "
Guelph Armoury "
Brandon Drill Hall
Truro Armoury "
Servants' Quarters, R.M.C., Kingston
Riding Establishment Quarters, Kingston "
Rimouski Armoury Nearly completed.
116. Armoury accommodation has been provided in the following public build-
ings by the Department of Public Works: —
Knowlton, P.Q.; Magog, P.Q.; Nicolet, P.Q.
117. Buildings have been purchased by the Department of Public Works at the
following places for use as armouries : —
Lloydminster, Sask.; Canning, N.S. ; Fraserville, Ont. ; Chatham, N.B.
118. Hitherto all military buildings have been constructed by the Department of
Public Works; but it is now the intention that in future all the smaller military
buildings required shall be constructed by the Department of ililitia and Defence.
119. Definite policies have recently been adopted with regard to the construction
of these buildings and their accommodation and fixtures which, with careful super-
vision during construction on the part of the commanding officers and their command
Jind district engineers, will, it is thought, materially reduce their cost. The Regula-
tions for Engineer Services now give explicit directions on this point.
MAINTENANCE OF MILITARY PROPERTIES.
120. The number of new drill halls, armouries, rifle ranges, fortifications, and new
works generally, taken over each year, necessitates an annual increase in the main-
tenance vote. It is evident that a percentage of the actual cost of new works should
be added each year to the Vote for Engineer Services, for this purpose.
12-1. All military properties, buildings, rifle ranges, &c., throughout all districts
have been maintained, and kept in repair. The following statement shows the work
performed in each district during the year now under review: —
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Military District No. 1.
A new store shed was constructed in rear of the Ordnance Stores, London, for
housing vehicles and camp equipment.
Wolseley Barracks is now in a fairly good state of repair.
Military District No. 2.
A water supply is being installed at the new camp grounds, at Niagara-on-the-
l^ake, and sufficient pure water obtained for supplying troops. Pumps, tanks and
distributing pipes are still to be installed.
Stanley Barracks were maintained and kept in fairly good condition during the
J ear.
The site on which it was intended to build the new barracks at Toronto is now
to be sold and a new site is being obtained.
Military District No. 3.
A new tank and tower were erected on the Barriefield camp ground, and now
steam pumps installed to replace the old system which had become unsatisfactory.
A complete new water system for fire protection and general services was laid at
the Eoyal Military College, including a 25,000-gallon steel tank supported on a 90-
foot steel tower.
The Artillery Park Barracks, Kingston, are in a good state of repair, but the
same cannot be said of the Tete-de-Pont Barracks.
Military District No. Jf.
Eockliffe Eifle Eange was maintained and improvements made. An underground
telephone system between the firing points and targets is now under construction to
replace the old air line system which has become unserviceable.
Petawawa Cam-p.
Water Supply. — Two independent systems were installed, one for drinking and
one for fire protection and flushing. The former has its intake in a reservoir sup-
plied from, springs as heretofore. The intake for the latter is laid in the river. The
end of the pipe being protected by a crib.
A new steel tank, 25,000 gallon capacity, was erected on a 40-foot steel tower,
ior fire pressure, and eleven hydrants were installed on the mains, making a thoroughly
good fire protection system. Hose reels are kept ready at certain places on the
ground. Sheds are now being built for them.
The springs supplying the drinking supply have been further improved, collect-
ing barrels, and mains to the reservoir, have been increased, so that 107,000 gallons
per diem are available from the springs.
Septic Tank. — The sewage system and septic tank were completed during the
year, and are working well. All buildings and services on the permanent camp grounds
are connected to this system.
Tv.'0 automatic flush tanks were installed of 450 gallons each to thoroughly flush
out the whole sewage system.
Roads. — During the winter and late autumn contracts were let for the supply of
stones, and the work of macadamizing the camp roads was continued with very bene-
ficial results, the dust in camp being greatly lessened. Stones for this purpose have
to be quarried on the lower plateau and drawn up the hill. There is now a fairly
complete quarry plant consisting of two engines to work drills and hoist, and, also,
a crusher and portable engine. A steam roller was rented for the time it was
required.
Lighting Plant. — This plant continues to be satisfactory for inside use, but has
not been sufficiently extended for outside use, owing to want of funds. Outside light-
ing is now being considered.
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Wharf. — Further improvements were made to the wharf, but it is found that,
owing to the very great ice pressure at that place, no wharf will remain permanently
there, but only a continuous stone filled crib. The present piers must be joined to
make them continuous as soon as funds will allow.
Drainage. — The low ground on the lower plateau was cleared and drained.
Slaughter House. — A water supply system and an Ericson hot air pump were
installed in the slaughter house, and also a small tank erected. The fittings of this
jjuilding are not yet completed.
Buildings. — The following buildings were constructed during the year: —
A milk depot for the sterilization of all milk used in camp.
A forage barn for hay and grain taken over from contractors.
A storehouse (Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery) as an extension of the Arti-
ficers' shop.
A freight shed was completed for the use of the station agent when storing small
freight orders.
A bakery was completed.
Painting. — Painting of buildings was continued during the year.
Military District No. 6.
A site was chosen at Longucuil, on government property, for a new barracks for
Montreal and is now being laid out. A water supply has been provided, and designs
for the several buildings are being made.
Pointc-au-x-Trcmbles Rifle Range near Montreal was maintained.
Military District No. 6.
The barracks at St. Johns were improved and made more suitable for present day
requirements. They are now in fairly good repair.
Temporary camp grounds were fitted up in the district, at Granby, for annual
drill. Water supply, &c., was provided.
Military District No. 7.
The work of repairing the Fortification Walls at Quebec was continued, as far
as funds would permit.
Alterations to Dufferin Terrace were in abeyance during the year for want of
funds. It is hoped that another season's work will complete the substructure and
superstructure of the Terrace. The retaining wall at the foot of the cliff has still to
l,c completed.
The Dominion Arsenal being in a good state of repair required little expenditure
(luring the year except for fair wear and tear.
Military District No. 8.
The barracks at Frederieton were maintained and are in a fair state of repair.
Extensive repairs to the sidewalks were made.
Military District No. 9.
Two targets were added to the Rifle Range at Aldcrshot Camp Grounds, and a
Pay Oflice and Headquarters Offices were erected.
A building was purchased at Canning and moved to a proper site and fitted up
for use as an armoury.
Halifax Fortress. — The married quarters at Pavilion Barracks were improved
from a sanitary point of view.
The reconstruction of the foundations of the east block, South Barracks, was
carried out.
The old Officers' Mess building. Royal Artillery Park, was converted into quarters
for the officer commanding the Maritime Provinces Command.
Two married quarters were fitted up in the Glacis Barracks.
A large expenditure was required to rebuild the gables of the men's quarters,
Wellington Barracks.
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The sanitary arrangements of the barracks generally are gradually being improved.
The military hospital required extensive repairs and improvements, and is now
in good condition.
Numerous other vrorks of all descriptions were carried out in the forts, barracks,
iind Ordnance buildings.
ililitary District No. 10.
Fort Osborne Barracks and the Ordnance Stores are now in a fair state of repair.
A fence was erected around the site of the Brandon Rifle Range.
The exterior of the Winnipeg Drill Hall was painted anew.
A hot air heating system was installed in the main hall of the Brandon Drill
Hall with good results.
Mililary District No. 11.
Incidental services were carried out at Esquimalt, and the barracks there are
reported in good condition generally.
Military District No. 12.
No large works were required in this district during the year.
The military buildings of Charlottetown were kept in repair.
Military District No. 13.
The building rented near Calgary for Ordnance Store purposes required altera-
tions and repairs.
A new hot water heating system was installed to replace an old and obsolete one.
LANDS ACQUIRED.
122. The following lands were acquired during the period under review: — •
Kingston, Ont. — The remainder of the properties forming part of the site of the
Rifle Range were finally acquired by expropriation.
Lloydminster, Sask. — A site for an armoury was acquired. A portion of this
site was donated by the Department of the Interior, the remainder acquired bv pur-
chase.
Chatham, N.B. — A site for an armoury was purchased by the Department of Pub-
lic Works.
Bimoushi, Que. — A site for an armoury was purchased.
Levis, Que. — A parcel of land, some 30 arpents in area, which was within the
danger zone of the rifle range, was purchased.
Canning, N.S. — A site for an armoury was purchased by the Department of Pub-
lic Works.
Sarnia, Ont. — A site for an armoury was purchased by the Department of Pub-
lic Works.
Petawaiva Camp Site, Ont. — Twelve additional properties were purchased, mak-
ing the number of properties belonging to settlers acquired up to March 31, 1910, one
hundred and forty-one, comprising an area of 20,8.57 acres.
Western Provinces. — The continued influx of population into the west and north-
west has directed attention to the importance of acquiring areas, as military reserva-
lions, before all lands suitable for the purpose have been dispo.sed of to private pur-
chasers; steps have been initiated with the Department of the Interior to secure
reservations of sufficient size to meet future requirements.
EXPENDITURE.
12.'). Compared witl; tlie previous year there was a decrease of $503,492.61 in
expenditure, the total for the year amounting to I.*) ,921, 313. 79.
121. This was due maiidy to the fact that in 190S-9 there was an unusually heavy
expenditure on annual drill account as a result of the Quebec Tercentenary, the total
amounting to $1,304,796, whereas in 1909-10 the expenditure for annual drill was
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only $796,608 owing to many rural corps training in Regimental Camps at their local
headquarters, instead of in District Camps, thus saving heavy transport expenses,
and, also, owing to the training establishment having been somewhat reduced in
strength.
125. The expenditure for pay and provisioning the Permanent Force was $30,000
less than the previous year owing to the force having been kept at a lower strength.
Pay totalled $1,381,510.44 and provisioning, &c., $376,494.59.
126. The total on Capital Acocunt was $1,299,970.27, distributed as follows: —
Final payments on 17,740 Ross rifles received $110,875 00
Progress payments on new order 195,315 07
48.503 bayonets and 3.3,003 scabbards, packing, &c 232,127 05
For parts and samples furnished Sub Small Arms Com-
mittee by Ross Rifle Co. in connection with the
production of standard patterns of small arms. . 40,380 79
Incidental expenses of Small Arms Committee 6,368 30
Converting 500 Mark II. rifles 6,000 00 *
Cocking pieces and spare parts for Ross rifles 1.810 33
Arm chests 10,000 00
Inspection of rifles, bayonets and scabbards, including
rent of premises for same 21.227 44
Sutherland Rifle sights 36,000 00
Chartered accountant's services a'. Ross Rifle Factory. . 1.019 35
Saddlery and harness, &c., including inspection. . . . 47,427 10
Reserve clothing 204,770 47
Field guns and ammunition purchased in England. . 82,289 20
Limbers and wagons, &c., made in Canada 217.730 19
Sub-target guns 10.000 00
Warlike stores 13.261 95
Rifle ranges, as under 35,181 69
Lands for camp sites, as under 28,186 34
Total Capital Account $1,299,970 27
Rifie Jiaivjen —
Amherst, N. S
Brockville, Ont
Charlottetomi, P. E. I".
Fort Saskatcliewan, Alta.
King.ston, Out.
Levis, Que
Longueuil, P.Q.
Niagara, Ont
Petawawa, Ont.
Points aux Trembles, I'.Q
Prescott, Ont
Truro, N. S
Virden, Man
Lutid furnished for C-mp sites, etc
Aldershot Camp
Petawawa «•
Niagara ,.
Fort Martiniere Battery
Rimouski Armoury
28,186 34
127. The expenditure under the smaller votes was about the same as usual.
A number of statements follow: —
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EFFICIENCY PAY, 1909-10.
The following- statement shows the number of men in the Militia wjho received
Efficiency Pay, and the amounts paid during the training of 1909-10: —
Artillery, Engineers, and Departmental Corps.
1st year men at
20 cents.
2nd year men at
40 cents.
Two or more pre-
vious trainings
at 50 cents.
Not
qualified.
Total.
Cost.
1,499
1,057
2,703
341
5,600
$
26,385
Cavalry and Infantry.
Qualified for
Failed.
Total.
1st rate 20 cents.
2nd rate 40 cents.
3rd rate 50 cents.
Cost.
10,126
6,664
8.113
3,691
28,594
102,205
Total
11,025
7,721
10,816
4,032
34,194
128,590
In previous years Efficiency Pay for all arms was based on service in the Militia,
but in 1909 new conditions were introduced for the Cavalry and Infantry with a view
to raising the standard of musketry. These conditions were briefly as follows: —
For 1st rate, 20 cents. — To make 28 points at two ranges, not less than 14 at each
range.
For 2nd rate, 40 cents. — 42 points at two ranges.
For 3rd rate, 50 cents. — 50 points at two ranges.
In the Artillery, Engineers, and Departmental Corps the conditions remained as
I cfore, viz.: —
For 1st rate, 20 cents. — Men carrying out training for the first time.
For 2nd rate, 40 cents. — Must have had one previous training in three years.
For 3rd rate, 50 cents. — Must have had two previous trainings in six years.
In 1908 the amount of Efficiency Pay was the largest amount paid since its
introduotion in 1904, the numbers trained being in excess of any previous year. The
following comparison shows the result of the new regulations: —
Numbers paid
Not
qualified.
Total.
Ist rate.
13,567
11,625
2nd rate.
7,131
7,721
3rd rate.
Amount
paid.
19,100
10,816
.^9,798
34,194
$ 18.'?,942
190910
4,032
128,590
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The average amount jjaid to each man for Efficiency Pay in the above years was,
therefore —
1908-9 38c. a day.
1909-10 31c. "
STATEMENT OF EXPEKDITURE OF PAY VOTE, 1909-10.
Command, ic.
Western Ontario. , .
Eastern Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Military District No. 10. . .
Military District No. 11. . .
Military District No. 13. . .
Headquarters, Ottawa. . . .
Total
Pay 'C
$ cts.
12,465
2, -163
15,454
9,522
3,296
142
3,860
3,763
Pay ' D ' ' Pay ' E •
$ cts.
22,408 19
10,671 66
14,076 40
10,003 86
.3,873 15
2,070 81
2,861 02
S cts.
904 98
959 60
874 80
527 10
340 25
84 75
185 78
50,967 28 I 66,,565 09
S_ cts.
232,918 68
244,747 68
310,014 97
606,520 12
54,899 17
70,661 67
18,917 64
123,276 17
3,877 26 1,661,956 10
Pay ',1.'— Pay of Headquarters, Command and District StaSs.
Pay ' B.'—Vay of the Permanent Force.
Pay ' C.'—Vay of Officers. N.C.O's and men of the Active Militia; also School
Teachers attending Schools of Instruction.
Pay ' D.'— Allowances to officers of the Active Militia for Command Pav, Drill In-
struction, care of Arms and Postage.
Pay • K.'— Pay of Guards of Honour, Escorts, Salutes, &c.
KXl'IADITUHK I'OK I'AY OF HEADQUARTERS, COMMAND, ANT) DISTRICT
STAFFS. 1909-10.
Command, &c. Pay and
allowances.
Western Ontario .$ 16,460 96
Eastern Ontario 17,298 28
Quebec 17,790 75
Maritime Provinces 17,295 44
Military District No. 10 5,570 92
Military District No. 11 4,963 51
Military District No. 13 5,339 03
Headquarters 74,317 14
Total .$159,036 03
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE OE PAY AND ALLOWANCES
Pay.
Corps.
Regimental .
Artillery
Engineer
and
Corp.s.
Command
and
Inspection
Adjutant
and
Extra
Duty.
Good
Conduct.
Total Pay.
$ cts.
$ cts.
$ cts.
$ cts.
$ cts.
$ cts.
Kojal Canadian Diivsoons
66,710 00
31 .50
821 25
2,042 60
1,798 32
71,403 97
Strathcona's Horse (R.C.)
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery . . .
26,332 59
273 75
9.54 65
524 20
28,085 19
86,582 24
8,007 75
273 75
4,467 30
1,728 Gl
101,059 65
Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery.
206, 4JS 48
18,585 95
834 50
13,728 56
8,563 03
248,160 52
Royal Canadian Engineers
92,144 97
27,989 70
273 75
780 55
1,655 71
122,844 68
Royal Canadian Regiment
258,792 81
1,592 50
11,878 65
11,850 54
284,114 50
Canadian Permanent Army Ser-
vice Corps
36,319 53
10,062 50
36 00
285 90
401 92
47,105 85
Permanent Army Medical Corps. .
59,585 (il
2,870 25
36 00
477 05
399 87
63,36S 78
107,387 38 15-790 15
36 00
991 07
1,110 .58
125,315 18
Canadian Army Pay Corps
24,644 25
5,418 65
118 80
22 01
30,203 71
Militia Staff Clerks
18,073 55
206 90| 15 21
18.295 66
Corps of Guides
610 60|
15 10
625 711
Signal Corps
Jliscellaneou.s attached
730 00
730 01)
254 98
254 9.S
Civilian erapliiyees
42,314 47
42,314 47
1
1,026,931 46
88,756 45
4,177 50
35,947 13
28,070 00
1,183,882 54
'Note. — In addition to lodging allowances paid to officers and men, 23 houses are rented by the
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OF PEKMANENT I'ORCE FOR YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1910.
MON
!Y Allowances.
Total
Pay and
Allowances.
Deduct
Charges
credited to
the
Public.
Lodging.
Rations.
Fuel
and Light.
Other
Allowances.
Total
Allowances.
Net
Expenditure
.$ cts.
$ cts.
S cts.
S cts.
S cts.
$ cts.
■S cts.
5, 850 10
3,284 60
2,244 76
760 58
12,140 04
83,.'>43 71
1,718 67
81,825 04
671 en
140 55
405 74
400 12
1,618 06
29,703 25
1,462 16
28,241 09
7,3f«i 50
4,296 00
4,424 98
1,714 .32
17,832 40
118,892 05
2,597 24
116,294 81
10,468 34
9,395 (0
4,111 80
5,338 33
29,314 07
277,474 59
4,583 29
272,891 30
5,310 14
4,718 50
2,960 08
10,068 90
23,057 62
145,902 30
1,418 94
144,483 36
9,193 25
6,938 15
4,586 51
8,183 50
28,901 41
313,015 91
9,637 57
303,378 34
3,223 84
2,565 00
1,580 37
1,128 41
8,497 62
.55,603 47
957 72
54,645 7.">
6,591 66
3,273 39
3,125 36
2,746 31
15,736 72
79,105 50
490 18
78,615 32
21,208 34
13,721 25
15,826 85
6,662 35
57,418 79
182,733 97
916 21
181,817 7fi
6,250 24
2,707 95
3,500 17
1,872 30
14,330 66
44,534 37
83 35
44,4.")1 02
4,445 30
2,811 45
3,400 25
1,203 78
11,860 78
30,156 44
86 29
.30,070 15
146 00
91 25
91 25
91 25
91 25
21 10
156 75
.349 60
.521 75
975 30
1,251 75
975 30
1S2 50
1,251 75
254 98
42,314 47
254 9S
42,314 47
I
*80,937 86
54,035 54
46,349 37
40,266 75
221,579 52
1,405,462 06
23,951 62
1,381,510 4-1
depiirtnient at Winnipeg for N.C.O.'s and men at a cost of 84,270.30 for year ended March 31,
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DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
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PAY AND ALLOWANCES IN MONEY FOR THE PER
DETAILS OF EXPENDI
London
Toronto
Kingston
Ottawa
Montreal ....
St. Jean P.Q..,
Quebec ...
St. JohnN.B.
Halifax
Charlottetown .
Fredericton . . .
Winnipeg
Calgary
Esquimalt
Petewawa
Total
Regimental
$ cts.
31,636 50
99,013 48
113,694 68
49,523 22
14,191 70
33,071 10
135,346 OG
4,513 85
424,192 24
1,583 10
25,395 31
35,586 20
3,570 55
49,183 17
6,400 30
Artillery
Engineer
and
Corps.
$ cts.
632 25
6,331 30
12,405 25
6,781 50
2,417 00
13,402 10
712 40
34,462 75
253 85
84 00
1,114 96
349 95
7,227 20
2,581 95
Command
and
Inspection
$ cts,
114 75
817 50
273 75
36 00
273 75
815 75
1,024 75
273 75
273 75
1,026,931 46l 88,756 45 4,177 50
Adjutant
and I Good
E.xtra Conduct.
Duty .
* cts.
1,263 75
2,056 35
4,722 25
955 80
89 20
1,202 45
6,944 52
38 40
14,323 35
IS cts.
339 90
2,131 55
1,880 53
167 78
3 57
1,031 17
3,187 67
70
16,242 33
958 05
],(J20 05
91 65
2,281 31
35,947 13
296 12
556 51
2,177 29
54 88
28,070 00
Total Pay.
S cts.
33,987 15
110,350 18
132,976 46
57,464 30
16,701 47
35,578 47
159,696 10
5,295 35
490,245 42
1,836 95
27,007 23
38,551 If,
4,012 15
()1,142 72
9,037 13
1,183,882 54
* Note.— In addition to lodging allowances paid to officers and men, 23 houses are rented by the depart-
ment at Winnipeg for N. C. O's. and men ata cost of $4,270.30 for year ended March 31, 1910.
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MAXENT FORCE FOR YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1910.
TURE AT EACH STATION.
MONKY AlLOWANXKS.
Deduct
Lodging.
Rations.
Fuel
and
Light.
Other
Allowances.
Total
Allowances.
Total Pay Charges
and Credited
Allowances. to the
1 Public.
Net
Expenditure
S cts.
2,391 95
15,238 54
12,315 65
11,712 35
3,403 10
909 15
12,912 90
888 60
17,076 58
450 85
316 45
'1,758 25
840 50
494 86
228 13
.? cts.
1,957 60
6,910 70
7,170 54
6,450 40
1,817 90
1,787 00
12,676 m
546 40
10,662 75
288 40
384 80
570 95
899 75
1,569 90
335 60
$ cU.
1,557 18
7,019 42
7,468 93
8,014 01
2,184 32
761 29
7,855 03
494 00
7,939 32
360 50
190 84
1,378 89
467 40
525 49
129 75
S cts.
876 49
3,190 87
3,990 95
3,790 99
1,020 64
413 25
8,0."}3 10
196 00
14,720 75
74 75
nS 75
793 82
466 28
936 13
1,033 98
$ cts.
6,783 22
32,359 53
30,946 07
29,973 75
8,425 96
3,873 69
41,477 88
2,125 00
50,399 40
1,174 50
1,610 84
4,501 91
2,673 93
3,526 38
1,727 46
S cts.
40,770 37
142,709 71
163,922 53
87,438 05
25,127 43
39,452 16
201,173 98
7,420 35
540,644 82
3,011 45
28,618 07
43,053 37
6,686 08
64,669 10
10,764 59
$ Ct3.
930 20
1,870 39
3,199 56
216 38
49 35
874 40
3,611 30
9,290 58
3 68
1,229 28
1,234 92
14 3(J
1,2G8 70
158 58
.? Cts.
39,840 17
140,839 32
160,722 97
87,221 67
25,078 08
38,577 76
197,562 68
7,420 35
631,354 24
3,007 77
27,388 79
41,818 45
6,671 78
63,400 40
10,606 01
♦80,937 86
54,035 54
46,349 37
40,256 75
221,579 52
1,405,462 06
2'?,951 62
1,381,510 44
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
PERMANENT FORCE EXPENDITURE
Liglit.
Washing.
Loudon, Western Ontario Command.
Toronto m n
Kingston, Eastern Ontario Command .
Ottawa M "
Montreal, Quebec Command
St. Jean ..
Quel^ec n
St. John, Maritime Province Comni.an
Fredericton m .■
Halifax
Charlottetown
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Esquimalt, British Columbia
Calgary, Alberta
Petewawa, Ontario
General, Headquarters
6,137 15
13,990 22
15,5.50 40
5,506 50
14,0.50 14
0,357 08
70,624 28
10,891 94
9,004 04
791 43
1 20
Total I 152,916 98
."5 cts
2,r)SL' 39
4,290 115
0,825 10
87" 84
238 02
2,919 03
12,115 19
3(i5 49
3, 105 01
31,356 23
Ko33 29
0,136 20
510 05
.? cts.
1,,550 20
609 81
1,613 45
.•<67 72 I
32 58
030 64
4.041 20
.32 82
675 35
7,238 49
1,150 15
1,477 03
20 88
46 10
78,361 75 20,993 OS
290 98
421 22
431 42
247 55
454 73
138 37
1,832 57
99 38
178 99
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FOR PROVISIONS AND SUPPLIES, 1909-10.
Drugs.
Water.
Forage.
Remounts.
Grants
Mess and
Library.
S'lndries.
Total.
§ cts.
213 4(:
i,ih:i7 00
!l2-i 09
21 60
••j cts.
401 80
1,(p50 .58
],r)26 OK
(IS 25
733 44
2,500 (XI
23 48
188 20
.■),9(i4 7fi
12 00
837 01
1,654 SO
« et-i.
26 11
0,924 33
2(1,245 SO
•^ et.s.
l,S50 (XI
11,040 00
.? cts.
270 (XI
:?80 00
500 00
S cts.
742 46
3,010 35
3,761 38
713 43
739 11
988 78
3,929 96
3.52 46
619 35
6,990 09
83 27
.3,764 45
2,282 64
325 18
1,380 80
1,893 67
•S cts.
12,274 61
33, .546 22
62,424 32
1,980 59
1,077 96
19,064 08
44,462 63
774 ''5
850 83
1,991 29
.\860 71
4,3.'{2 12
1,050 00
550 00
270 00
690 00
.392 84
270 00
1,705 00
12,046 SO
1,520 52
1,923 73
4,022' i9
146 00
84 40
15 89
350 00
129,511 67
95 27
338 04
136 44
4,210 00
370 00
325 00
32,716 45
21,341 80
020 "'3
10 59
2,249 54
2,008 17
17 30
50 00
15,321 00
6,638 06
43,581 28
19,050 00
4,830 00
31,577 2.S
376,494 .59
42 DEPABTMEyr OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
STRENGTH OF PERMANENT FORCE BY STATIONS ON MARCH 31. 1910, INCLUDING
ACTIVE MILITIA OFFICERS ATTACHED FOR DUTY AND CERTAIN CIVILIANS
EMPLOYED IN LIEU OF SOLDIERS.
Warrant
Officers.
N. C. Os
and Men.
Toronto
London
Kingston
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
St. Jean, P.Q
St. John, N.B
Halifax
Fredericton
Charlottetown
Winnipeg
Esquimalt
Calgary
Seconded in England and abroad.
Militia Officers attached for duty.
Totals
245
123
300
66
17
415
98
5
1,017
83
3
89
111
3
278
131
327
93
25
454
107
7
1,1F5
87
5
102
126
EXPENDITURE ON ACCOUNT PAY OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ACTIVE
MILITIA ATTENDING SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION, 1909-10.
School.
Numbers Tbainkd.
Branch.
Place.
Officers.
N. C. O's.
2
C.2
Total.
Cost.
Cavalry
... St. Jean, P.Q . . . .
Toronto
Kingston
Quebec
Halifax
Esquimalt
...IHalifax
36
90
22
1
1
1
45
96
17
27
100
59
1
3
21
41
40
4
2
57
131
62
6
3
1
1
84
180
24
63
104
150
3
13
9
8
15
(•
■!
$ ots.
1,789 40
2,889 97
2,387 10
243 50
73 74
60 00
12 55
32
31
7
15
4
91
2
10
4
8
5
Numlje
317
7
53
'2i'
2,454 58
JToronto
6,415 01
542 84
Halifax
Quebec
7,237 87
12,678 00
3,296 40
. . Toronto
Quebec
Halifa.x
74 60
243 10
5
437 96
82 20
.... Rockliffe
10
1
511
*3,7B3 17
O.ofG
rs not av
81
ailable.
40 00
Signalling
Hamilton
Guelph
472 00
149 00
10 00
76 25
Montreal
Sherbrooke
St. John, N.B
Halifax
Charlottetown
168 00
292 50
520 50
151 11
646 00
.<l,860 03
5
914
50,907 28
* Musketry school includes coht of staff and details from Permanent Force
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EXPENDITURE ON ACCOUNT ALLOWANCES TO OFFICERS COMMANDING CORPS
OF ACTIVE MILITIA, 1909-10.
Commands, &c.
Western Ontario. . .
Eastern Ontario . . .
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
M. D. No. 10
M. D. No. 11
M. D. No. 13
12,389
5,561
8,621
6,282
l-,878
1,582
Care
of
.\rms.
S cts.
8,194 96
4,280 83
4,981 27
3,133 22
1,720 02
a57 51
1,805 29
37,204 80 i 24,473 10
and
Books
$ cts.
1,546 08
644 00
836 50
546 50
183 50
130 50
1.59 05
4,046 13
Gratuities
and
Trumiieters
Allowances.
3 cts.
278 00
185 00
237 00
42 OU
91 00
8 00
•S cts.
22,408 19
10,671 66
14,676 40
10,003 86
3,873 15
2,070 81
2,861 02
6..565 09
EXPENDITITRE FOR PAY OF GUARDS OF HONOUR, ESCORTS, SALUTES, Ac. 1909-10.
Cunimands, &c.
Guards I
of Honour, I
Escorts and |
Salutes. I
Medical
and other
Boards.
Courts of
Inquiry
and Courts
Martial.
Western Ontario ...
Eastern Ontario. . . .
Quebec
Maritime Provinces.
M. D. No. 10
M. D. No. 11
M. D. No. 13
725
893
752
.395
134
73
179
8 cts.
1
1S4 00
66 00
122 00
70 00
20 IH)
11 00
6 00
$ cts.
62 00
180 00
.? cts.
904 9,S
959 60
874 80
527 10
340 25
84 75
185 78
435 00
287 00 ! 3,877 26
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APPENDICES.
128. Appended are the foUowing:—
Report of the Director-General of Medical Services for the year 1909-10. Appen-
dix ' A.'
Report of the Commandant, Royal ililitary College, 1910. Appendix 'B.'
Report of the Board of Visitors, Royal Military College, 1910. Appendix ' C
Report of the Superintendent of the Dominion Arsenal, 1909-10. Appendix 'D.'
Report of the Assistant Adjutant-General for Signalling, 1909-10. Appendix ' E.'
Interim Report of the Militia Council on the Annual Training for the season of
1909, including the Report of the Inspector-General for the calendar year 1909.
Appendix ' F.'
E. F. JARVIS,
Secretary, Militia Council.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
APPENDICES
48 DEl'.UriMEXr OF UILITIA AM) DEFESVE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
APPENDIX A.
Ottawa. July 8, 1910.
From llie iJircclur-Gciicral. Jledical Sen-ice,. Canadmii Mililid.
'To Hie Adjatiuit-Uenefol, Canadian. Militia.
Sir, — I hiivc the linnom' to submit my repcirt upon tlie ^leJical Sei'vife for the
year ending ^Fni-fh 'Zl. lOll): —
.\DMIN[STRATION'.
1. A steady improvement is to he noted in the medieal administration of the
Commands and Independent Districts, under tlie decentralization system now in vogue.
2. Regulations for the Canadian Medieal vServiee, and Standing- Orders for the
Permanent Army Medical Corps, have been prepared and are now in the hands of the
printer. These regulations will supply a long felt want, and should greatly facilitate
the work of administration.
SANHATIuN.
3. The paramount position given to sanitation in the medical work of the past
three years has had the desired effect of awakening the interest and securing tin'
active co-operation of all ranks in this important subject. A higher standard of field
sanitation was aimed at, and has, I think, been secured by the establishment of a
satisfactor.v routine readily imderstood and easily carried out by the troops themselves.
4. The standard of sanitation readied in the barracks is as high as can be
attained in buildings. 7u<i-;t of which have been so often re))orted upon as unsanitary.
MKIIICAL STOlilCS.
5. The working of this branch of tlic ifedical Service shows steady improvement.
piiintANENT Ain[y .medical CORI'S.
6. The persounel of this corps is far too small to carry on, without excessive and
even dangerous strain, its ever iiu'reasiug ancl highly technii-al duties.
ARM\ Mi:OI( U, COIU'S.
7. Four new units have been au(liori/ed, two of these being Field Ambulances
and two being skeleton (ieneral Hospitals A large increase in the establislmieut of
the officers of this corps is being made to provide personnel for these units, and to
supply medical officers for regiments as they may b(> required.
8. The duties assigned to this corps iiave been carried out in a creditable aud
y.falous manner. It is very satisfactory to note the keen interest displayed by all
ranks in the new ideas underlying tlie recent change^ in tlicir tvaiuiug.
ni:( a. MENTAL .\ii;i>icai, si:i!\ hi;.
9. This service is now undergoing a ])rocess of gradual <'limination. All vacan-
cies as thc.v occur ai-e being filled b.v officers detailed from the Army .M(iiiiai Corps.
During the stage of transition, however, the interests of the officers reui.iiniug in this
sei'vicc are being carefully safeguarded.
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10. Tlie chief feature of the medical work during the year has been the introduc-
tion of the study of Medical Strategy and Tactics into the training of the medical
personnel.
11. For many years this training has proceeded along old, and in many ways,
unproductive lines. The chief and only function of the medical personnel in camp
was to take care of the camp's sick. In other words, they were trained in the duties of
Stationary Hospitals only, and had but little opportunity of acquiring a practical
knowledge of the nature and functions of the various other field and line of com-
munication units which would have to be organized, equipped and manned by the
Medical Service, on mobilization. Moreover, but little opportunity could be afforded
senior medical officers under such conditions to become acquainted with the duties
which would devolve upon them in war. Yet upon the proper fulfilment of these
duties would depend the prompt evacuation of casualties from the zone of action, and
the rapid return of effective convalescents to the front. To remedy these defects and
to put into practice the principles of this new study, many changes in the scheme of
training were necessitated.
12. The first step in the new direction was made at last year's camps when tac-
tical exercises were held by the Director-General, Medical Service, at which simple
medico-military problems were worked out by the personnel of the medical units,
divided up and assigned to various duties, as personnel of Field Ambulances, Clear-
ing Hospitals, &e. During the past winter the work thus begun has been continued
by means of circular letters, lectures, and the working out of medical tactical schemes.
13. In preparation for a more extensive scheme of training along these lines dur-
ing the coming camp season a syllabus of training calling for four days of tactical
c-.xercises in the field has been arranged, and medical units will l,c detailed for duty as
Field Ambulances, Cavalry Field Ambulances, or Stationary Hospitals, as tlir case
may be, and will draw their equipment and carry on their training accordingly.
14. This development has involved the remodelling of the scale of equipment
hitherto issued to field medical units. A trial mobilization of the equipment and
transport estimated as required for a complete section of a Cavalry Field Ambulance
was held at Kingston last November, and from the results obtained equipment tables
have been prepared to suit the limited personnel and transport authorized for training.
MILITARY BUILDINCS.
15. Little has been done during the year to improve the barrack accommodation
of the troops. Many of the buildings at present in iise have been condemned as bar-
racks, and should be torn down or converted to other uses. New barracks built in
accordance with modern sanitary requirements should be erected at almost all our
stations. The inadequacy of the married accommodation is also a serious feature
everywhere, as families on the lodging list are removed from proper sanitary control
and supervision.
16. In the statistical tables included in this report will be found cases of disease,
esi>ecially tuberculosis, due to preventable causes, not the least of which are unsani-
tary dwellings. Unless men are well housed, these lamentable cases are bound to occur.
17. I think that this whole question of the housing of the troops should be taken
up, and a determined effort made to inaugurate a vigorous policy of rebuilding along
the lines of modern sanitation and comfort.
HOSPITALS.
18. Hospital buildings are required at Toronto and Winnipeg.
19. All our hospitals are being gradually equipped with the most nioilern type of
hospital furniture which will add greatl.v to the comfort of the sick.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
HEALTH OF TROOPS.
20. The health of the troops shows an improvement on previous years, but the
rate of admission per 1,000, viz.: 639-50, is still higher than it should be.
21. The following return shows the diseases treated in the military hospitals
during the year: —
Table l.^Showing admission into Hospital, Deaths and Numbers Invalided among
the Permanent Troops during the year ended March 31, 1910.
Strength.
Infective Diseases—
Cow-iX)X
Diphtheria
Enteric Fever
Enteritis
Influenza
Malaria
Measles
Malta Fever..
Mumps
Pneumonia
Rheumatic Fever
Scarlet Fever
Septicaemia
Sore Throat
Infi. of Tonsils
Tuberculosis
Gonorrhoea
Soft Chancre
Syphilis
Intoxications —
Alcoholism
Effects of Parasites —
Phthirius Inguinalis.
Pediculus Vestiraenti
Pubis
Tinea Trichophytina.
Tinea Barbae
Scabies
General Diseases —
Anaemia
Gout
Purpura
New Growth, malignant 1
Encephaloid, Carcinoma/
Diseases of the Nervous System-
Paralysis
Chorea
Convulsions
Epilepsy
Vertigo
Headache
Neuralgia
Neurasthenia
Delusional Insanity ......
Geneial Paralysis of the Insane
Diseases of the Eye—
Conjunctivitis
Keratitis
Iritis
Blepharitis, marginalia
Sty
Admitted
into
Hospital.
1
13
1
217
2
2
1
3
3
23
2
2
10
120
13
131
Invalids
Discharged
the
service.
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Table 1. — Showing admission into Hospital, &c. — Continued.
51
Strength.
Diseases.
Diseases of the Ear —
Inflamatinn of external ear
M of middle ear
Necrosis of o-sicles
Deafness
Diseases of the Nose —
Inflammation of soft parts
Diseases of the Circulatory System —
Disordered action of Heart
Phlebitis
Thrombosis
Diseases of the Respiratory System —
Asthma
Inf. of Larynx
Bronchitis
Haemorrhage (a)
I'leiirisy
Diseases of the Digestive System —
Ulceration of the mouth
Gangrene n
Caries of the Teeth
Abscess of Dental Periosteum
Inf. of M
Suppuration i> n
Ulceration ii n . . .
Toothache
Inf. Pharynx
Dilitation Pharynx
Inf. of Stomach
Haemorrhage of Stomach
Indigestion
Vomiting
Gastralgia
Enteritis
App<mdicitis
Hernia
Diarrhcea
Constipation
Colic
Enteralgia
Periprolitis
Fistula in ano
Piles
Inf. of Liver
Hy peraemia.
Jaundice
Inf. of the Peritoneum
Diseases of the Lympathic System —
Congestion of the Spleen
Inf. of Lympathic Glands
Hypertrophy
Diseases of the Urinary System —
Acute Nephritis
Pyelitis
Inf. of Bladder
Rupture of Bladder
Irritability of Bladder
Retentiim of Urine
Incontinence m
Haematuria •
Haemoglobinuria
Albummuria,
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DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Table 1. — Showing admission into Hospital, &c. — Continued.
Strength.
Admitted
into
Hospital.
Deaths.
Invalids
Discharged
the
Service .
Diseases of the Generative System—
Urethritis
2
3
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
22
1
1
2
27
3'J
9
3
1
25
2
5
10
5
45
5
2
3
2
4
2
3
1
8
1
24
91
84
127
23
1
3
2
2
Inf. of the Prostate
Inf. of the Prepuce
Phimosis
Paraphimosis
Inf. of the Glans
1
Abscess of the Scrotum
Hydrocele
Orchitis
Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion-
Chronic Abscess
Diseases of the Connective Tissue —
Inf. Connective Tissue
Diseases of the Skin—
Erythema
Eczema
Im])etitigo Contagiosa
Boil
Frostbite
Herpes
Alcppecia
Local Injuries-
Effects of irritants
Sprain
N.Y. D
N . A . D
1,687
3
0
8
20
i"
( Jrand Total
1,696
8
21
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Table 2.— Showiug admissions with the ratios per 1,000 of the strength, and the
average ratio for 5 years: —
Average strength, 2,61.3.
Average ratio for 5 years, 738-39.
Admitted.
^^'■- 769-09
1906 If^ll
1907 'Jit l~
S :::::::::::::::::::::::: ;8;:3;
S:: :: :: 639.50
G. C. JONES, Colonel
Director-General Medical Service.
54 DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
APPENDIX B.
Kingston, Ont., June 23, 1910.
From the Commandant^ Eoyal Military College,
To the Secretary Militia Council, Ottawa.
Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following report on the Eoyal Military Col-
lege for the year 1909-10 : —
STAFF.
2. During the past year there has been one change in the Staff of the College.
Major E. N. Mozley has been succeeded by Captain R. C. Hammond of the Royal
Engineers as Instructor in Military Engineering.
3. Major T. B. Wood, Royal Artillery, and Captain W. Robertson, Royal Engi-
neers, both of the Imperial General Staff, have lately joined us. Their work will lie
principally with the officers of the Dominion Forces, but they will, also, give lectures
from time to time to the cadets.
4. I regret to say that, at the end of this term, the College loses the services of
Major de Bury and Captain Russell-Brown, the Professors of Tactics and Artillery
and of Surveying, and I take this opportunity of expressing my regret at their depart-
ure and thanking them for the excellent work they have done while they have been
in Canada.
STRENGTH.
5. The number of cadets at the commencement of the year was 105, and of these
one has been withdrawn under circumstances which have already been reported, and
one cadet has been sent home on the recommendation of the Medical Officer, but
will return next term. Twenty-five cadets are now leaving the College, having com-
pleted the full course.
6. The number of candidates who presented themselves at the Entrance Examin-
ation for admisison in September next was 60, and two additional candidates, who
did not take the Entrance Examination, applied, on the strength of matriculation,
at universities. Of the GO who competed for admission, 43 have satisfied the exam-
iners, and the quality of the work is reported to be above the average. Owing, how-
ever, to lack of accommodation, this number cannot be admitted.
DISCIPLINE.
7. The conduct and discipline of the cadets during the year has been very good.
EXAMINATIONS.
8. The results of tlie yearly examinations are satisfactory. A certain number of
the ' recruit ' class will be required to repeat the first year's course, partly owing to
inadequate preparation prior to admission, and partly on account of lack of sufficient
application to their work. It is essential that, before a cadet starts on the work of the
second year, he should be thoroughly well grounded, and there is no doubt that the
repetition of the first year's course, ensuring a good basis on which to build, is time
veil spent. The senior class huve all graduated.
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9. Owing to the unfortunate illness of tbe French professor towards the end o{
the term, the cadets were placed at a disadvantage in that subject, but arrangements
have been made to prevent the individuals suffering through no fault of their own.
DfilLLS AND EXERCISEfJ
10. The cadets have been inspected by General Sir John French, and representa-
tives of Australia and South Africa, both at drill and gymnastics; in addition to
which, public performances were given at Ottawa. On all occasions they acquitted
themselves in a thoroughly satisfactory manner.
11. Owing to the lack of a covered riding school, and the difficulties which have
existed with regard to horses and riding establishment staff, there is room for improve-
ment in equitation. With the advent of the necessary horses and the instructional
personnel on the spot, the horsemastership of the cadets will be raised to a very differ-
ent standard, provided that the personnel possess the necessary qualifications.
12. The College has more than held its own in the matter of games and outdoor
sports during the past year, carrying off the Inter-Collegiate Football and Lawn
Tennis, and being in the finals of the Inter-Collegiate Hockey.
1-3.. The Squash Racquet Courts for which the College is indebted to private sub-
scription, have been completed, and provide the means of healthy recreation, though
only to a limited number, during the winter months.
14. The need for a covered drill shed, which can also be used as a rink, has been
recognized, and it is hoped that this work may be carried out before next winter.
ACCOJl SIODATIOX.
15. As has been previously reported, extra accommodation is urgently needed.
As pointed out above, it has been found necessary to reject candidates, who are in
every way qualified for admission, owing to the want of space, and it is only by
C-rowding in an undesirable manner that the number now in residence can be accom-
modated.
16. I consider that the men who graduate here and successfully pass through
our course are an invaluable asset to the country, whatever their future calling, and
that their number should not be limited by the want of quarters in which to house
them.
JIII.ITAKY SKUVICE.
17. This year, for the first time, every graduate who is not entering the Imperial
Service or the Permanent Force takes a commission in the Active Militia, where it
is anticipated that he will prove of great value, and do credit to the training which
he has received at the Royal Military College.
IS. The following gentlemen cadets will be recommended for commissions: —
Battalion Sergeant-Major F. 0. Wheeler, Royal Engineers.
Company Sergeant-Major A. S. C. Rogers, Indian Army.
Sergeant C. S. Hanson, Cavalry (Imperial).
Sergeant H. P. Lafferty, R.C.H.A.
Corporal W. B. Maekie, Artillery (Imperial).
Cadet H. P. Holt, Cavalry (Imperial).
Cadet H. B. Boswell, R.C.F.
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19. The following diplomas have been awardcil:--
With Honours.
Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler.
Company Sergeant-Major A. B. IMcEwen
Sergeant H. H. Lawson.
J. W. Boss.
Corporal C. B. Archibald.
Sergeant C. S. Hanson.
Company Sergeant-Major J. K. Bertram
Corporal W. B. Mackie.
A. P. O. Meredith.
Sergeant T. S. Morrisey.
JJiplomas of graduation.
Sergeant H. P. Lafferty.
" E. A. Greenp
Cadet A. D. Fisken.
" H. P. Holt.
" H. Peters.
" H. B. Boswell.
" A. C. Campbell.
Company Sergeant-Major T. M. McAvity
Sergeant C. B. Parr.
Cadet W. E. Blue.
Lance-Corporal W. M. C. Monk.
Corporal J. F. Adams.
Company Sergeant-Major A. S. C. Rogers
Cadet A. F. Nation.
Sergeant W. E. Steaey.
PRIZKS.
20. Sword of Honour for Conduct and Discipline, Battalion Sergeant-Major E.
O. Wheeler.
His Excellency the Governor-General's Medals ; —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler, Gold Medal.
1st " Company Sergeant-Major A. B. McEwen, Silver Medal.
1st " Sergeant H. H. Lawson, Bronze Medal.
Class Prizes: —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler.
2nd Class, Cadet L. A. Wilmot.
3rd Class, Cadet S. F. C. Sweeny.
Military Subjects: —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-IMajor E. 0. Wheeler.
Military Engineering: —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-^f.njor E. O. Wheeler.
Tactics and Reconnaissance: —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler.
Artillery : —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler.
Drills, Exorcises and Practical Work : —
1st Class, Batt.alion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler.
Jfilitary Administration and Military Law: —
2nd Class, Cadet IT. A. Joly de Lotbiniere.
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Field Sketching' and Map Reading: —
2nd Class, Cadet H. E. Silver.
Surveying:—
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler.
Physics : —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. 0. Wheeler
Chemistry : —
1st Class, Company Sergeant-Major A. B. McEwen
Civil Engineering: —
1st Class, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. O. Wheeler
Mathematics and Mechanics : —
2nd Class, Corporal J. Y. Young.
Geometrical and Engineering Drawing : —
2nd Class, Cadet L. A. Wilmot.
French : —
2nd Class, Cadet J. A. Dan^erenii.
French : — •
3rd Class, Cadet S. F. C. Sweeny.
English: —
•Srd Class, Cadet E. M. Ilaultain.
Medals presented by the Alliance Frangaise of Paris for highest aggregate during
the entire course: —
1st — Battalion Sergeant-^Iajor E. O. Wheeler.
2nd— Cadet II. P. Holt.
Bo.xing, Xovices, Light, 1910, won by A. B. Boggs.
•' Heavy, 1910, won by C. V. Bishoj).
" Featherweight, 1910, won by H. S. Windeler.
" Lightweight, 1910, won" by II. C. Lefroy.
" Welterweight, 1910, won by R. W. Powell.
" Middleweight. 1910, won by J. V. Young.
" Heavyweight, 1910, won by A. S. C. Rogers.
Bayonet Fighting, 1910, won by A. B. McEwen.
Fencing, 1910, won by H. P. Lafferty.
Ontario Cups (Best shot in each class) :-■•
1st Class, W. E. Blue.
2nd Class, H. W. Macpherson.
3rd Class, S. F. C. Sweeny.
Quebec Cups (Championship shooting') : -
1st, S. F. C. Sweeny.
2nd, H. A. Joly de Lotbinieie.
3rd, C. W. G. Gibson.
Tennis Singles, won by Company Sorgeant-Major T. ]\I. McAvity.
Revolver Shield, won by Cadet C. W. G. Gibson.
Dundonald Bowl, won by ' B ' Compan3', Company Sergeant-Major A. B.
McEwen.
Riding Cup, won by Company Sergeant-Major A. B. McEwen.
Gymnastic Cup, won by ' C ' Company, Battalion Sergeant-Major E. 0. Wheeler.
Company Jfusketry Shield, won by ' D ' Company. ( 'ompany .Sergeant-Major
T. M. McAvity.
Company Musketry Shield, won by 'D' Company, C.S.M. McAvity.
Artillery Challenge Cup, won by Cadet W. E. Blue.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. H. Y. CROWE, Limt-Colonel, General Staff,
Commandant, Eoi/nl Military College.
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APPENDIX C.
EEPORT OF THE BOAED OF VISITORS, EOYAL MILITARY COLLEGE,
1910.
Ottawa, June 6, 1910.
The Secretary,
The Militia Council.
Sir, — I have the honour to forward, herewith, report of the meeting- of the Board
of Visitors, Royal Military College, held in the month of May last.
I have the honour to be, sir.
Your obedient servant,
SAM. HLTGHES, Colonel.
Chairman Board of Visitors.
REPORT.
The Board assembled at the Roy^il Military College, Kingston, Ont., at 9.45 a.m.
May 16, 1910.
Present.
Chairman. — Colonel S. Hughes, M.P., Railway Intelligence Officer, Headquarters
Staff.
Memhcrs. — Colonel E. W. Rutherford, Master-General of the Ordnance.
C. E. W. Dodwell, Esq., M.LC.E., Halifax, N.S.
Supernumerary. — Major P. "W. G. Pinnock, Commonwealth Forces of Australia,
Hobart, Tasmania (Exchange Officer).
Secretary. — Major C. F. Winter, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Ilead-
(luarters.
Colonel T. Benson, Officer Commanding Eastern Ontario Command, and the
Rev. C. P. Choquette, M.A., President of the College of Ste. Ilyacinthe, P.Q., were
prevented by other duties from attending.
Lieut.-Colonel J. H. V. Crowe, R.A., the Commandant of the College, was in
attendance.
The Board for two days made careful inspection of the grounds and buildings,
and instituted inquiries into the various departments of the institution, and s\ibmit
their conclusions as follows: —
Introductory Observations.
1. The Board desire to preface their remarks upon the College as seen at their
annual visit by recording their opinion that the time has now arrived for serious
consideration of the present congested condition of the establishment, and the increased
accommodation required, if the Royal Military College is in the future to adequately
provide for the military and civil training of the youth of Canada, as contemplated
and intended by its foimders. With the growth of the Dominion, the increase of
population, the enlargement of Canadian military responsibilities, and the increasing
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number of candidates competing at the annual Entrance Examinations for a much
smaller number of vacancies, it is considered that it would be but the part of wisdom
to begin now to provide for that expansion, the necessity for which can already be
plainly seen. With this end in view the Board submit that: —
(a) A general plan of the College Grounds and Buildings as may be considered
necessary to meet increased requirements for, say, the next century, or for 200 per
cent increase in attendance, should be prepared, in order that additions which may be
made from time to time will conform to an approved ideal plan as to site, style of
architecture employed, and general symmetry in design, appearance, &c. The grounds
are well adapted to the ends in view, but a definite plan for future enlargement is
necessary.
(h) The advantages to be derived from the residence of professors within the
College domain are so great that the question of providing quarters for all the staff
of the institution, both married and single, should be seriously considered. At present
seven professors are living away from the College and drawing lodging allowances.
To adequately meet future requirements provision should be made for their residence
within the College domain, where very suitable building sites may be had.
E.NTRANCE OF CaDF.TS.
2. In accordance with the Board's recommendation last year, the age for admis-
sion to the College has been extended from 16-21 years, instead of 16-20 as formerly.
The Board consider, that, under existing conditions, 17 is the best age for a cadet to
join, as he is then sufficiently mature to enable him to keep up in all departments of
the work without difiiculty or strain.
3. The subjects for the Entrance Examination and the allottment of marks for
this year were as follows : —
OBLir.ATORV .SI'R.JF.CT.'J
Marks.
Max. Min.
Mathematics Total 3.000 1,200
(«) Arithmetic and Mensuration T.'SO 250
(it) Algebra 750 250
(Hi) Trigonometry 750 250
(iv) Euclid 750 2.50
English Total 1,200 300
(i) Grammar and. Composition 800 200
(n) Literature 400 100
Geography and History Total 1.000 250
French Total 1,000 2.50
Chemistry Total 300 75
VOLUNTARY SUBJECTS.
Latin Total 1,000 250
Geometrical Drawing '• 500 125
Freehand Drawing " 300 75
All the obligatory subjects must be taken up. To qualify, each candidate must
obtain not le.ss than 33 per cent of the aggregate marks allotted to the obligatory
subjects.
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4. As rec-ommeiKleJ last yeav, the qualifj'iug minimum in geography, history,
English, and French has been raised from 25 per cent to 33 per cent.
6. The Board consider it desirable that German should be made an optional sub-
ject for the entrance examination ; also that a paper on ' general knowledge ' should
be set, similar to the one provided for candidates undergoing the examination in Eng-
land for entrance to Sandhurst and Woolwich.
COURSE OF STUDIES.
G. The Commandant reported tliat, as n whole, the syllabus of instruction followed
during the past year had been similar to that of the year previous. The hours devoted
to the diiferent subjects are as follows : —
Hours.
Purely civil subjects 1,000
Subjects required for both civil and military work, e.g.,
mathematics, surveying, English, &c 1,350
:Military subjects 650
7. The Board consider it desirable that the study of Miilitary History should be
provided for. At present no campaign is studied, and, although details of the Mili-
tary Art are taught in connection with Tactics, Reconnaissance, &c., their application
is not well shown. The study of some specific campaign would remedy this. Time
for this extra subject could be found, the Commandant thought, by reducing the
number of hours devoted to English in the cadets' second year.
8. The Board recommend that the study of Military History be inaugurated, but
hesitate to name the subjects from which the necessary time may be taken.
9. During the past year a course of lecturing by cadets has been introduced, with
a view to training the cadet to impart knowledge to others and to acquire necessary
confidence in himself. Results from this have been highly beneficial, as have also been
those from a debating society which has been established among the cadets.
10. The Board recommended to the Commandant the desirability of reviving the
practice of periodic conferences of professors and instructors to ensure co-operation
in instruction, aiul to avoid overlapping of studies, as well as for the general advan-
tiige of the College.
Att.\chment of Cadets to Militia Units.
11. Last year the Board recommended that the senior Cadets should be attached
for a time to a unit of the Permanent Force prior to their graduation, but difficulties
have been found in carrying this out. This year arrangements have been made for 26
cadets of the senior and second year classes to be attached to units of the Active
Militia at Camps of Instruction. The commandant is strongly of the opinion that
the best results will only be obtained if graduates are attached to permanent corps
prior to serving in a training camp with the Active Militia. The Board agree with
the Commandant in deprecating the attachment of first year cadets (recruits) to any
Militia units.
Commissions in Permanent Corps.
12. With a view to afiord some inducement to cadets to enter the Permanent
Force, the Board would repeat its recommendation of a previous year that some por-
tion of the College fees paid during a cadet's course should be refunded to any cadet
accepting a commission in the Permanent Force of Canada within one year of his
graduation from the Royal Military College. A sum sufilcient to purchase the neces-
sary uniform of the Corps to which he might be appointed would be reasonable.
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I.NSTUUCTIOXAL StAFF.
13. Lieut.-Colouel J. H. V. Crowe, E.A., the Commandant, to^'k ovov charge in
October last.
14. Major E. X. ^lozely, E.E.. has been replaced as Professor of Military Engi-
neering- and Musketry by Captain K. C. Hammond, R.E.
lo. Two general staff officers, 2nd grade, Major T. B. Wood, R.A., and Captain
W. Robertson, R.E.. have joined the College Staif for special duties in connection
with the instruction of militia officers. Their duties are in connection with the
preparation of candidates for the Imperial Staff College, Militia Staff Courses,
3Iilitary Instruction at Universities, Officers' Long Course, and Special Courses which
way be provided for Active ililitia Officers, &c. As has been remarked in previous
reports of the Board of Visitors, the College Staff were nnable properly to provide for
the instruction of offioer.s of the Militia in addition to the instruction of the cadets.
It is anticipated that the services of these general staff officers will l)e most valuable.
1(). In the retirement of Ilonorai'y Lieutenant Birtles, after a service of upwards
of 30 years, the College loses a valued instructor. In his place a foreman of works is
much recinired.
IT. The Board are pleased to note that an increase has been made in the emolu-
ments of the Commandant; but would respectfully point out that even with this
increase, and considering values and cost of living here and in England, the present
Commandant is about £200 per annum worse off than in his last appointment as Com-
r.^anding Officer of an Artillery Brigade at Aldershot. It should not be possible for
such comparisons to be made.
!>.■ The case of the Quartermaster, Lieutenant Hennessy, Canadian Army Pay
Corps, was drawn to the attention of the Board with respect to pension, his case not
being covered by the iMilitia Pension Act and amendments. It is understood this
officer's case is familiar to ITeadcjuarters and the Board trust that means may be
found to afford a deserving officer the relief required.
I'.t. Tlio Commandant rcpcirtcil himself as well supported by his Staff of Pro-
fessiiis and Instructors.
Cadets.
attexdakce.
20. The lu-esont number of cadets upon the roll is the largest in the history of
the College, viz.: 10."i. Tiiis niunber fully takes up all the dining-room accommodation.
•The dormitory accommodation is not nearly sufficient; 48 of the cadets being obliged
to sleep two in a room. Thi.s emphasizes very strongly the need of increased accom-
modation.
PKRSONNEI;.
21. The cadets were seen on parade (102 strong); in their class-rooms; and at work,
surveying, kc. On i)arade they presented a very steady, soldierly appearance, and
gave inilication of being well grounded in infantry drill. The words of command of
the cailet officers were well given, and the movements were performed very creditably.
22. Representative cadets of the different classes were interviewed by the Board, .
imd expressed themselves as generally contented and satisfied.
2;X A list of measurements and weights of the cadets of the 3rd class was sub-
mitted by the Staff Adjutant. This list showed the age, weight, and measurements
tiken at the time of the cadets' first joining in August last, and also the same data
for ^lay 10, 1910. The average results were as follows: —
C]:iss of P.O cadets; average age. IS years and S months.
Average height. Augtist. 1900, .5 feet 8 inches,
Mav, 1910. ."> feet 8 7-10 inches.
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Average increase, 7-10 inches.
Average weight, August, 1909, 134-3 pounds.
" May, 1910, 143-6 pounds.
Average increase, 9-3 pounds.
Average chest measurement. May, 1909, 32-5 inches.
" measurement. May, 1910, 36-5 inches.
Average increase, 4 inches.
DISCIPLINE.
24. The Commandant reported the discipline of the cadets as quite satisfi'.ctory.
Since he had taken command in Oetoher last, but one serious ease requiri;i:c punish-
ment had been dealt with. The officers in charge of companies were well supported
by the senior cadets and there was a good feeling throughout all ranks. From inquiries
made by the Board its members feel sure that there are no objectionable practices of
' hazing ' and ' fagging ' being carried on, and, from all they could learn, there exists
an excellent feeling of camaraderie and esprit de corps throughout the whole establish-
ment.
25. Indeed in every class year, on the part of the cadets themselves, there seems
to be a strong healthy spirit to uphold and maintain honourable and manly character
among the young gentlemen in attendance, and, also, a very healthy spirit of mutual
confidence and esteem between Commandant, Staff, and Senior and Junior Cadets.
MESSING.
26. The messing arrangements as now conducted by the Canadian Permanent
Army Service Corps were reported as, on the whole, very satisfactory. Some com-
plaint had been made during March and April last about the quality of the veal pro-
vided, but this was quickly rectified. The milk is pasteurized and all water used is
sterilized. The cadets, upon being interrogated by the Board, considered that, on the
whole, the messing was very good. The Board are of the opinion that it would be well
to have the ice supply for the College cut and stored by the Canadian Permanent
Army Service Corps. If this could be done another year, it is believed it would be an
improvement.
27. A table of diet for the cadets was shown the Board. It exhibited a sufficient
variety. All food brought to the College is carefully inspected by the Quartermaster,
and the Board consider that proper value for the payment made for messing is now
being obtained.
28. The Board recommend that a provision of fruit be made for the cadets'
breakfast, and a variety in the biscuits served at 11 o'clock luncheon. It is considered
this might well be done for the present rate of 50 cents per diem.
29. The clothing as now supplied the cadets appears to give satisfaction, with
the exception of the blue serge undress, the cloth of which does not wear well, and
the Commandant suggested that, for undress wear, it would be preferable to have
khaki service dress with the khaki peak cap. The full dress clothing was reported as
satisfactory, with the exception of the gold lace, which is said to be inferior. The
Board would again repeat their recommendation of last year, viz. : that cloth, gold
lace, and other material should be purchased by the Department, supplied to the cadets
on repayment, and made up in accordance with sealed patterns. It was observed that
few of the tunics buttoned correctly, the line deflected towards the left, causing an
untidy appearance.
30. The employment of a master tailor at the College may, in the near future,
with the increased attendance expected, become necessary.
31. Complaint was made by some of the cadets that the boots provided were
clumsy and not sufficiently smart in appearance, but they seem to wear well.
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32. An universal request made by cadets interviewed was for the provision of a
soft felt hat for use when at work surveying, during practical instruction in engi-
neering, equitation, &c. The present service cap affords little protection to the head,
falls off at equitation or when surveying, and is unpopular.
Recreation.
3-3. The Board understand that provision has been made for the erection of the
combined skating rink and drill shed recommended in previous reports. It is most
d'sirable that this b\iilding should be erected during the present summer.
34. The boat-houses continue in a state of delapidaticn and decay, and are almost
useless. They are unsightly, and should be replaced by more modern structures.
These are referred to in connection with a succeeding paragraph with regard to the
water front on Navy bay.
35. The Squash Racquet Court presented to the cadets by a number of Montreal
fiiends and admirers has been taken into use and is very much appreciated.
Drill and Exercises.
36. As referred to in a previous paragraph the cadets were seen at drill under
tlieir own officers and gave every evidence of being well grounded in Infantry Drill.
37. The facilities for Garrison Artillery drill are not adequate, and the Garrison
puns at present stored in the old Gun Shed on the water front are not calculated to
impress a cadet very much with Garrison Artillery work. It is recommended that
one or two groups of Coast Defence guns be mounted within the Fort Frederick
enclosure for instructional purposes, so that training in that branch can be carried
cut to better advantage.
38. The Board consider that the disinclination shown by cadets going into the
IVrmanent Force to apply for commissicns in the Garrison Artillery has been largely
due to the neglect with which this branch of instruction has been treated in the past.
ElJClTATIOX.
39. The entire senior class, 2G in number, was seen at Equitation.
40. The stables and riding establishment buildings referred to in previous reports
have now been completed, and 10 horses have been purchased for the College and are
Jit present being trained by the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.
GYMXASIIM.
41. The cadets of the third class were seen at exercise in the Gymnasium. They
performed very creditably, considering the short time since their admission to the
College. The course followed seems well calculated to build up the physique and
benefit the health of the cadets.
42. The Commandant reported that fire drill was regularly performed and a
' fire alarm ' had been practised only a few days before the Board's visit. In view
(if this it was not considered necessary to repeat the experiment. The hose and
appliance.? appear in good working order.
musketry.
43. Musketry returns for the 1st and 2nd classes show a total of 60 cadets exer-
cised. The 1st class, with a strength of 26 cadets, earned a figure of merit of 218-07;
the 2nd class with a strength of 34 cadets had an average figure of merit of 219.5.
The cadets in these two classes are classified by their rifle shooting as follows : —
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Isl Class. — ?, marksmen, 12 first-elass shots, 9 second-class shots, aiul 2 third-
class shots.
2nd Class. — 5 marksmen. 14 first-class shots, 11 second-class, and 3 third-class
shots.
44. The Board consider this a very creditable showing. The best shot in the
College during the year was No. 818, Cadet H. W. Macpherson.
HiiALTii .\ND Sanitation.
43. The Medical Officer reported that, during the past year, the health of all
ndthin the College enclosure had been excellent. There had been no serious illnesses
and no cases of typhoid. Since the first of September last there had been 106 admis-
sions to the College hospital. These were, however, mainly minor cases of colds,
sprains, &c. Only in one case was any serious development feared, when the cadet in
question was sent home for three months' leave of absence.
46. The sanitary arrangements in connection with the buildings, class-rooms,
i-c, appeared to the Board fairly satisfactory, but, upon inquiry from the JDistrict
Engineer, they see reason to fear that the drainage is not as good as if should be.
The main drain has been recently found to be blocked, and, upon taking up parts of
it near the exit, it was found that roots of poplar trees growing near by had pene-
trated the joints and almost completely blocked up the pipe. The Board recommend
that the drainage system be looked into thoroughly, and that such repairs or addi-
ions as may be necessary should be carried out at once.
47. The poplar trees standing near the exit of the drain to the north side of Fort
Frederick should be removed, as their roots will continue to be a menace to the drain
in that locality, and their place supplied by trees, the roots of which are not so pene-
trating.
Water Supply.
48. A recent analysis of the water supply shows it to be, after filtration, of good
quality. The pumping plant and filters appear to do their work well, and the erection
of the new water tower on the College grounds provides the necessary pressure and
reserve supply for all purposes of fire protection. The sterilizing plant at the hospi-
tal is quite adequate for all requirements.
49. The Board are not satisfied, however, that sufficient precautions have been
taken with reference to the present position of the intake pipe. The head of the pipe
is now some 300 feet out from the shore at the Power Hoiise, and it is doubtful if
the depth of the water in which it lies is sufficient to ensure a pure supply at all times.
The Board would like the opinion of an expert taken upon this question.
50. An examination of the filtration process was made and the action reversed
to clear the pipe. The Board recommend that, in case of fire and the pumping of
unfiltered water directly into the water pipes, immediately afterwards the pipes should
be cleared out so as to ensure there being no unpurified water left standing in the
pipe.
Buir.DlXOS AM) AccoimoiiATioN.
ISI ILIJI.NGS CUNERALLY.
51. The main building and dormitory are now much crowded and more class-
room and sleeping accommodation are urgently needed. The congestion in the main
building has necessitated the corridors of the upper stories being much encroached
upon for storage purposes. These corridors should be cleared, and quarters for officers
should not be allotted in the main building. As previously reported, the provision of
a suitable draughting room is much required.
32. The Board understand that arrangements arc iK'ing made for the erection of
another storv on the dormitory luiildinu'. Tills will give nuu-li needed additional
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accommodation, but will scarcely suffice for the increase which may be expected in
the near future. The dormitory was found clean and comfortable.
5.3. Some addition to the main building, or a separate building to provide addi-
tional class-room accommodation, is now urgently needed. The class-rooms barely
suffice for the instruction of the cadets, but it is now intended having a Staff College
course and two ' long ' courses for officers of the Militia each year, two of which will
be simultaneous. The Board is at a loss to understand how accommodation in the
present buildings can be provided for these courses. As stated in the preface to their
report, the matter requires serious consideration, if full advantage is to be taken of
the instructional facilities now provided at the Royal Military College.
54. The hospital was visited and found very clean and in a satisfactory condition.
There were no patients. Tlie books were inspected and full inquiry made of the
Medical Officer with respect to the health and condition of the cadets.
GUN SHED.
55. The present gun park or old gun building directly across the parade from
the main building should be removed. It is unsightly, seriously interferes with the
l)arade ground, and has passed its usefulness.
WORK SHOP.
56. The Board visited the workshop, but were informed that no classes were now
being held, this course of work being finished annually about the first of May.
57. A new combustion engine for furnishing the motive power has been installed,
and was reported as giving every satisfaction.
OLD BUILDINGS.
58. The old ser\'ants' buildings along the harbour front on the west side of the
College grounds are now being demolished; their rubble masonry, &c., were not
removed at the time of the visit of the Board.
59. The Board are of the opinion that it would well repay the Department to
provide a stone crusher for use by the District Engineer in preparing concrete for
such new work as may be undertaken within the next few years. The old unsightly
wooden buildings scattered throughout the grounds might very well be removed and
new ones put up in concrete, as also the sidewalks throughout the grounds. The Dis-
trict Engineer states that this work could be done by day labour vpith great benefit,
advantage and financial saving to the Department, not only for the Eoyal Military
College but also for needed work at Tete-du-Pont and other government properties in
Kingston.
60. The Board recommend that the qtiestion of the provision of a stone crusher,
(fcc, be referred to the Engineer Service for expert inquiry and report. Ample quanti-
ties of stone are available on government properties for all purposes.
61. The Library as at present is not satisfactory. It is very cramped for space
iind has no facilities for keeping maps. A map room and reading room are desired.
A catalogue of the volumes should also be printed.
62. The Commandant asked that a small printing press be provided for use in
printing examination papers, exercises, orders, &c. The Board feel that such pro-
vision would be conducive to efficiency, and recommend that a small printing press
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upon the lines desired by the Commandant be provided. It was suggested that the
non-commissioned officer who would look after and manage the printing press could
also act as librarian. At present one of the professors acts in this capacity but his
other duties are more important and should not be interfered with by such labours.
63. A more generous provision of technical booljs of reference lor consultation
bj professors and instructors should also be provided.
64. The kitchens and pantries in both main building and hospital were visited
and found in a satisfactory condition. At the time of the Board's visit the cadets'
kitchen was being scrubbed. The Chairman of the Board suggests that the practice
tf hot sanding the floor might be tried to advantage. This latter practice has been
found to remove the damp odour usually detected in basement kitchens that are
cleansed by scrubbing.
65. The present slate topped kitchen table is in need of renewal or replacement.
The Board consider that a new marble topped table should be provided. This was
strongly urged by the Medical Officer.
EQUIPMENT OF CLASS-ROOMS, &C.
66. When visiting the class-rooms all the members of the Board were struck by
tiie obsolete or unhealthy character of the desks and stools used by the cadets. These
ftre much inferior to the modern equipment of up-to-date public schools and colleges.
1 he desks are clumsy and inconvenient, the stools in most cases too high and cannot.
bf conducive to comfort or health. A modern style of seat and desk would be more
in keeping with the general character of the institution. It was also noticed that the
blackboards in many of the class-rooms require renewing and extending.
67. Upon the general subject of equipment the Professor of Military Engineering
reported that he had not enough material for the work under his charge. There were
11'' pontoons at the College. These are very much required. The two pontoons which
had been received some time ago were in bad condition when they arrived at the
College.
68. The Senior Ordnance Officer has asked for tenders to repair the boats, but
up to the present time nothing has been done.
69. The College equipment has been recently augmented by the provision of
materials for a war game. This is carried out with maps of a large scale and is
expected to provide much interest and instruction for the cadets during winter sea-
sons.
LABORATORY.
70. The chemical laboratory in the top story of the main building much requires
enlargement. The space is altogether too restricted. This is an additional reason
for the provision of more space generally for class-rooms and the technical apparatus
used in connection with the studies of the various subjects. The apparatus and
appliances generally are very inferior, not being comparable with ordinary secondary
schools throughout Canada.
Lands and Grounds.
71. The grounds appeared clean and well kept, but many of the sidewalks will
soon require renewing. These should be laid down in concrete and no more plank
^;alks should be built. The back road running in rear of the Commandant's quarters
to the stables requires ' metalling.'
72. A lodge and lodge-keeper should be provided at the entrance to the grounds
Some annoyance has been caused by cattle straying into the grounds, which would
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be prevented were a proper lodge-keeper provided. The wooden fences in the vicinity
of the house at the entrance to the grounds are in a very dilapidated condition and
should be removed or rebuilt.
73. The grounds surrounding the new buildings erected for servants' quarters
and stables require levelling and grading. The work should be taken in hand at once,
as the present condition of this vicinity is not in harmony with the general appear-
ance of the College site as a whole.
74. The backyards and the clothes lines are unsightly — a new building facing the
roadway and covering the opening between the present buildings would add greatly
to the appearance and prove a useful addition.
75. The present electric light and telephone poles throughout the grounds should
be removed and wires placed underground.
RIFLE R.\.NGE.
76. While the present rifle range has for many years been operated with immunity
from accidents, its situation gives ground for some anxiety, and is inconvenient and
dangerous inasmuch as the line of fire crosses over the cricket field and the main road
leading into the College, precluding any use being made of much of the College area
while musketry is being carried out. The Board consider that a safer and mora
Eutisfactory site is available. With a butt placed on the shore just northwest of Fort
Frederick and firing points to the right of the main road as the College grounds are
entered, including the present site of the old servant's quarters, a range would be
provided which would not interfere with any other department of College work. It
is recommended that this and other possible alternative sites may be looked into
with a view to improving existing conditions.
77. The Chairman of the Board is of the opinion that an excellent range is avail-
fible starting from the west shore of Navy bay, north of the main entrance to the
iimer College grounds. It would be excellent training for the cadets under direction
cf the District Engineer to construct a foot-bridge of reinforced concrete across Navy
bay in a northeasterly direction. At each 100 yards point measured from the targets,
there should be an enlarged pier or butt for fully twenty cadets to fire from. The
targets should be easterly from the bridge. Thus, instead of firing along over the
biidge, which should run northeasterly, tlic line of fire would be easterly. Splendid
stop butts could be provided, and there would be absolute safety in the Fort Henry
hill in rear. Were this site selected, all the modern improvements in target practice
as carried out at Hythe could be utilized, by having targets rise from the water, here,
there and everywhere, by merely working wires from a firing point. To have them
vise from the land is very expensive. Interesting competitions could also be had, for
' heads ' could be made to appear from the water in onca, twos, tens or twenties, as
desired.
78. In any event a 30-yard range for use with service ammunition should be con-
structed. This would be perfectly safe, not interfere with other branches of the work,
and be sufficient for musketry instruction of recruits, while the senior classes could
occasionally be taken to the Barriefield range for practice at the long ranges.
WATER FRONT ON NAVY BAY.
79. The Board would again call attention to the dilapidated condition of the
piers and retaining wall along Navy bay. The whole of this front is in a most dilapi-
dated and discreditable condition. About 800 feet of concrete wall are required, but,
with the abimdance of rubble masonry and other material for concrete at hand, it
should not be a very expensive work to effect the desired improvement were the stone
crusher, recommended in a preceding paragraph, provided, and the work conducted
under the supervision of the District Engineer.
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SO. While in process the work would afford excellent instruction for the cadets,
flnd, when completed, would remove an eye-sore which can be considered in no other
light than as a blot upon the whole institution.
Armament.
81. The Board would recommend that Ross Rifles Mark 11** bn provided for the
cadets. The rifles with which they are at present doing musketry were reported as not
fully satisfactory.
Cadets Visit to Ottawa.
82. The recent visit of practically the two senior classes of the cadets to Ottawa
during the Horse Show was unfortunately timed, inasmuch as Parliament had pro-
rogued just prior to their arrival and many senators and members of Parliament from
•distant parts of the Dominion were prevented from witnessing the parade and dis-
jilays of the cadets, while the cadets had not the privilege of witnessing the closing
of Parliament. The visit, however, cannot but be productive of good, and the Board
sre strongly of the opinion that opportunities should not be neglected of taking repre-
sentative detachments of the cadets occasionally to the various larger centres in order
that the public generally may be enabled to see the results of the excellent training
being carried on.
Report^ Board of Visitor.^
83. It is recommended that the annual report of the Board of Visitors be printed
in pamphlet form, and that a suffieienl number of copies be available for distribution
to the chief schools and colleges of the Dominion where candidates are prepared for
the Royal Military College, as well as to members of Parliament and others desiring
them.
Board's Visit.
84. The Board desire to record their satisfaction with the non-arrangements
made for their visit by the Commandant, whereby the whole establishment was seen
at its normal state and with work going on as usual.
85. The Board were pleased to note the splendid tone and spirit which pervades
the College. Between Commandant, Staff and Cadets, and among the cadets them-
selves of each and every year, the spirit of honour, manhood, pride of person, institu-
tion and country, seems to have reudered the sterner*modes of enforcing discipline
unnecessary. The Commandant, Colonel Crowe, has already been successful in win-
ning the entire confidence of his staff, as well as of the cadets. In inspiring the
entire College with those great positive principles which upbuild, control, and ennoble
mankind. Colonel Crowe is holding in abeyance, and gradually eliminating those
rirgative ones, the effects of which are repressive and punitive, rather than develop-
ii g. In Captain Kaulbach,«the Adjutant of the College, the Commandant reports a
most capable, courteous, painstaking and energetic officer.
SAM. HTrOTTES. Colonel
Cimirman, Board of VisiLnrs, R.M.C.
11. W. RUTHERFORD, Colonel,
Master General of the Ordnance.
C. E. DODWELL,
Resident Engineer, Public Worhs DcpL, Halifax, N.S.
P. W. Cx. RINNOCK. Major,
Commonwealth Forces of Auslrnlia.
CHARLES F. WINTER, Major.
Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Secretary, Board of Visitors.
Ottawa^ June 2, 1910.
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APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT DOMINION ARSEN.\L
Quebec, July 12, 1910.
To the Secretary, Militia Council.
Sir, — I have tlio honour to report upou the operations of this establishment for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 1910.
1. The appropriation voted by Parliament and expenditure during the year, were
as follows : —
Amount of appropriation for fiscal year ended March
31, 1910 $300,000 00
Sundry refunds 416 53
Amounts refunded for sale of fired cartridge cases. . 8,342 90
Amounts refunded for sale of scrap 370 38
$309,129 81
Amount of expenditure for the fiscal year ended March
31, 1910 $267,678 65
Amount in Treasury to credit of appropriation on March
31, 3010.. . " 41,45116
$309,129 81
EMPLOYEES AND PAY ROLL.
2. Average number of employees, 300. Total amount of salaries and wages paid,
$120,276.14.
AUDIT OF BOOKS.
3. The books and accounts have been inspected by an auditor from Headquarters.
STOCKTAKING.
4. Stock has been taken of the principal articles on hand, and no serious dis-
crepancies were discovered.
COST OF PRODUCTION.
4. The balance of the order for 12-pr. B. L. or Q. F. 6-cwt. Shrapnel Shells, was com-
pleted during the year; 45,511 shells were manufactured, and the cost is about 4 per
cent less than that of importing, allowing for duty and freight. The attached pro-
duction statement shows that, excepting orders where the quantity was too small to
admit of economical manufacture, the cost is in all cases, less than that of import-
ing, after adding duty and freight to the latter. A further sum of $1,200 has been
written off the Stpel Shell Plant. All tools purchased during the year have been
charged to production account.
INCREASES OF PAY.
5. The salaries of the clerical staff have been slightly increased. Wages have,
also, bren increased in accordance with rates prescribed by the Labour Department.
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RECOMMENDATIONS.
6. The additional space required for manufacture of Q. T. Cartridges will have to
be provided to jjermit of further progress in undertaking re-filling and rectifying of
fired cartridges cases. A proof range for artillery projectiles is likevpise required, and
an attempt will be made to secure a suitable site.
STATEMENTS.
7. The following statements are submitted:^
Balance sheet.
Capital account.
Statement of indirect expenditure.
Statement of liabilities and assets.
Production statement.
Statement showing cost of manufacture as compared with importations from
England.
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STATEMENT OF INDIRECT EXPENDITURE, 1909-10.
Expenditure on the following services, not chargeable direct to orders: — •
Salaries of stafiF. $21,437 39
Wages 1,24129
Motive power, heating and lighting —
Wages $3,208 95
Materials 9,944 11
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Maintenance of Buildings.. 9,119 20
Water supply 1,800 00
Removal of snow 600 00
Travelling expenses 175 80
Printing, stationery and postage 406 02
Telephone 74 40
Miscellaneous charges 7,921 67
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5% Depreciation on buildings $6,537 91
10% " machinery 9,142 04
20% " tools 22 44
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$71,631 22
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Adjustment of accounts 320 71
Net total $71,.310 51
Note. — This amount together with indirect expenditure of each factory has
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below.
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Workshop 93.99
Cartridge factory 114-82
Foundry 333-20
Shell factory 4-87*
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Abstract of the Cost of Work Performed.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
3. Of the foregoing, the following extract, showing the numbers of Officers,
Non-commissionefl Officers and men granted certificates, witli their grades : —
Officers.
N.-C. 0.'.s and men.
T0T.\L.
Instructor.
"A"
"B"
Assistant
Instructor.
"A"
"B"
6
5
15
12
87
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202
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84 DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
WESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND.
Permanent Force —
5. The Permanent Force in the Western Ontario Command have good signallers.
There is a marked imijrovement in the case of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Toronto,
imd the No. 1 Eegimental Depot, Eoyal Canadian Eegiment, London, Ont.
<CUy Corps —
6. The 77th Eegiment, of Dundas (rural), again heads the list. For the fifth
jear in succession they have held first place in City Corps throughout the Dominion,
iind are worthy of the highest approbation. The 38th Eegiment, of Brantford, and
-18th Highlanders, of Toronto, and 10th Eoyal Grenadiers are, also, vs-orthy of mention.
The 2nd Queen's Own Eifles are not up to the establishment. The 7th Fusiliers, of
London, have organized a section which promises to increase its eifieiency.
7. The 19th Eegiment of St. Catharines are reorganizing a section, under garri-
son signalling class to be held at that centre for 1910.
8. The 21st, 22nd, 24th and 25th Eegiments were found wanting at the annual
iiispection.
Mural Corps —
9. The rural corps in this command show much improvement over previous years,
and it is seen that more interest is being taken by officers commanding regiments in
getting suitable officers to fill the position of signalling ofiicer.
10. At the annual district and local camps held in this command, some 190
ofBcers, non-commissioned officers and men were trained in semaphore signalling.
Artillery —
11. The Artillery units do not show any improvement this year.
CanadiaJi Signalling Corps —
12. No. 2 Section, Canadian Signalling Corps, Toronto, is a first class section,
all members being in possession of signalling certificates and up to the authorized
establishment. No. 1 Section, London, is not up to the standard, as in former years.
MI bin A COUNCIL
85
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
13. Annual Inspection of Signallers, Western Ontario Command, showing the
classification of Signallers in each unit of the Permanent Force, City and Rural
Corps : —
Establish-
ment of
Signallers.
Classification.
Total
Signallers
presented
for
Inspection
Unit.
1st
Class.
2nd
Class.
Trained.
Remarks.
Permanent Force.
"B"Sqd.;R.C.D
No. IK. I)., R.C.R
No. 2R.D., R.C.R..--
Citi/ Corps.
2nd Regiment
7th ,.
loth M
10%
10%
10^
11
11
U
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
u
11
u
11
11
11
11
u
11
n
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
7
5
5
5
5
5
5
3
2
2
1
4
2
2
4
4
1
3
6
3
1 "
1
2
7
.■!
3
1
... ^....
7
8
9
10
11
6
4""
19th „
2l8t
22nd
No signallers.
24th
25th „
3 '"'
3
2
4
2
3 ""
4
7
1
"■■4 ■■■
.... ^....
1
1
7
6
io'
7
12
8
4
7
8
3sth
4Hth
77th M (rural)
91st
Rural Corps (Cm: and Inf. J
Gov. Gen. Body Guard
Ist Hu.'<.sara
9th Miss. Horse
24i h tJreys' Horse
2
1
No signallers.
... ^....
" 8 ""
7
■■• 4 ■
H
5
8
8
7
9"
7
4 "
8
5
8
8
7
12th Regiment
20th
2;kd u
26th
'
27th
2Sth M
29th ..
30th
31st
32nd 1.
8
9
9
9
6
8
9
8
9
9
10
6
8
9
34th
35th
36th
1
37th
3Hth .1
44th
97th „ ...
JJo signallers.
Canadian SiffnaUiny Corps.
No. 1 Section, C. S. Corps
1
3
5
6
7
1
3
5
5
5
No. 2 „ „
Artillery.
4th F.B.C.A
4
1
6th ..
3
6
4
5
7th
9th
11th
1
16th .,
^0 signallers.
Canadian Army Service
Corps.
No. ICo. (J.A.S.C
2
2
86 DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AXD DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
EASTERN ONTARIO COMMAND.
Permanent Force—
14. The Permanent Force in this command show a decided improvement over
previous years, and both ' A ' and ' B ' Batteries, Eoyal Canadian Horse Artillery,
now have a very efficient body of signallers.
City Corps-
is. City corps in this command do not show any improvement. The Governor
General's Foot Guards have no signallers and have never organized a section. This
unit did not present any signallers for instruction at the course held at Ottawa during
April and May of 1909. The 14th Regiment at Kingston are reorganizing their sig-
nalling section, who will attend for instruction at the coming course in 1910. The 41st
snd 43rd Regiments both have signalling sections, but could not get their signallers
together for inspection this year. The 43rd Regiment, Duke of Cornwall's Own
Rifles, have 3 officers and 10 non-commissioned officers and men who obtained certifi-
cates in May last at Ottawa. Other units have organized signalling sections.
Rural Corps —
16. Eighty-five (85) officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the rural corps
were trained in semaphore at the annual and local camps. The corps shown as ' Nil '
are those trained locally, and for whom there were insufficient instructors available.
This difficulty should be overcome in the future as the garrison signalling class
authorized for Kingston, 1910, will aiford opportunity for officers commanding units
to qualify their signalling officers and non-commissioned officers who would act as
instructors for their unit.
Canadian Signalling Corps —
17. No. 3 Section of the Canadian Signalling Corps is very efficient, having a
total establishment of signallers, all being in possession of certificates.
18. No. 4 Section at Ottawa is not yet organized. It is regretted that arrange-
ments were not made for the attendance of a suitable officer for the position as District
Signaller at the class held at Ottawa. It is to be hoped in the near future that a
suitable officer will be appointed to fiU this vacancy.
Artillery —
19. There is a general improvement in Artillery units this year, with exception
of the 14th and 24th Field Batteries, Canadian Artillery, who had no signallers for
inspection.
20. The classes authorized for Cobourg and Peterborough for 1910 should afford
these units excellent opportunity to qualify their signallers.
21. The Cobourg Company, Canadian Garrison Artillery, have very good sema-
phore signallers.
MILITIA COUNCIL
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
22. Annual Inspection of Signallers, Eastern Ontario Command, showing the
classification of Signallers in each unit of the Permanent Force, City and Eiiral
Corps : — •
Unit.
Establish-
ment of
Signallers.
Classification.
Total
Signallers
presented
for
Inspection.
Remarks.
Ist Class.
2nd Class.
Trained.
Permanent Force.
"A" Battery, R.C.H.A
"B" M „
Cil,u Corps.
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
7
5
5
b
5
5
5
5
6
1
1
3
2
11
6
No signallers.
Re-organizing.
No insijection.
15th 1.
41st 1.
4
1
1
6
4.'ird
57th
2
1
1
2
1
2
5
5
fi
4
6
9"
li
5
6
8
9
4
7
JCiiriil Corps.
3rd Dragoons
4th Hussars.,
5th P. L. D. Guards. . . .
1
2
40th
1
"l ""
42nd
45th
46th
Organizing.
47th
49th i.
5fith
No signallers.
69th 1.
Canadian Sifmallinff Corps.
No. 3 Section, CSC. Kingtson
No. 4 M Ottawa, Ont.
5
2
0
7
Not organized.
Arti/krt/.
2nd Field Battery C.A
5th ..
1
3
5
5
4
5
5
8th
14th I. M
No signallers.
2.Srd
1
...
4
.... ^ ..
5
5 ""
24th
CobourgCo'y. C.G.A
••
1
88 DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE V.J A. 1911
QUEBEC COMMAND.
Permanent Force —
23. The Permanent Force in this command have a competent staff of signalling
instructors. The Royal Canadian Dragoons at St. Jean, P.Q., deserve great credit
for their signalling efficiency. They head the list in order of merit (Permanent Force)
throughout Canada.
24. The Royal Canadian Regiment and Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, Que-
bec, also have very good signallers, especially the former.
City Corps —
25. The 8tli Royal Rifles of Quebec are very efficient and worthy of mention.
26. It is to be regretted that more interest in signalling is not taken by the Mont-
real City Regiments. The 1st Regiment made a fair showing, while the 5th have
only one signaller, and the 3rd Regiment none. It is hoped these units will take ad-
vantage of the next garrison signalling class during the coming fall.
:iT. The 5ord Regiment, Sherbrooke, P.Q., have a good section.
Rural Corps —
28. The rural regiments of cavalry and infantry in this command made a very
pood showing at the annual camps. The majority of regiments having signalling
officers appointed, with a good percentage of signallers.
29. The 4th, I7th, 55th and 64th Regiments have full sections.
Artillery —
30. All Field Batteries and Garrison Companies of Canadian Artillery have sig-
nallers. The 2nd Regiment, Canadian Artillery, have a full establishment in each
company.
Canadian Signalling Corps — -
31. No. 5 and 7 Sections, Canadian Signalling Corps, do not show any improve-
ment this year. No. 6 at Sherbrooke is not yet organized, but it is expected it will
be before the next annual camp (1910).
MILITIA COUNCIL
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
32. Annual Inspection of Signallers, Quebec Command, showing' the classifica-
tion of signallers in each unit of the Permanent Force, City and Rural Corps : —
U.N'IT.
Estabh'sh-
ment of
Signallers.
Ct
let
Class.
ASail'ICAl
2nd
Class.
noN.
Trained.
Total
Signallers
presented
for
inspection
Remarks.
" A " S<]
"G" Cr
No. 3 Co
1st Regi
3rd
Permanent JPorce.
d.; R.C.R
y.; R.C.R
y.; R.C.U.A
City Corps.
ment
10%
10%
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11-
11
11
11
11
u
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
7
7
7
5
5
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
13
2
i
3
2
2
2
2
3 '
2
15
7
7
5
No signallers.
6th
3"
1
2
■ ■ 4
3
2
1
9
3
7
8th
,
9th
,
53rd
,
2
2
G.5th
No signallers.
84th
Stith
6th Hust
7th H
Rural Corps.
7
6
7
6
10th
No signallers.
11th „
13th On
17th Hii
4th Rfgi
11th
2
2
4
7
igoons . .
No signallers.
10
6
10
8
10
6
10
8
17th
18th
55th ..
No signallers.
61at
11
6
9
8
8
8
10
8
5
11
6
10
8
8
9
10
«
5
4 ""
64th
80th
83rd
85th
87th
89th
92nd
Caneu
No. 5 Se.
1
1
Uan Signalling Corps.
No. G
Not org.inized.
No. 7
1
Ist Fiel(
3rd
15th
20th
Artillery.
Battery, C.A
Excused G O '99
1
3
5
2'"
1
1
3
4
4
5
4
5
4
5
5
5
4
4
5
'01).
,,
No signallers. |
21st
22nd
2nd Regt., C.A., No. 1 Coy
11 U M 2
.. 3 '.'.'.'..'
6th RpKt., C.A., No. 1 Coy. . .
2
3
3
4
2
2
3
90 DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
MARITIME PROVINCES COMMAND.
Permanent Force —
33. The Permanent Force at Halifax, N.S., have a very efficient staff of signal-
ling instructors, but at the annual inspection, a large number were absent on strike
duty at Glace Bay, N.S.
City Corps —
34. The 63rd Eegiment, Halifax, N.S., are very efficient and a close second to
the 77th Regiment, Dundas, in order of merit throughout the Dominion, and are
worthy of special mention. The 66th Regiment have a full section, but were not
inspected this year owing to not being able to get their signallers together. The 62nd
Regiment, St. John, N.B., have a very good section.
Rural Corps —
S.T. The Cavalry and Infantry Regiments in this Command are well represented
with signallers at annual camps. The 82nd Eegiment, Charlottetown, P.E.I., are very
good and deserve great credit for their efficiency.
Artillery —
36. The 4th Regiment, Canadian Artillery, of Charlottetown, P.E.I., have a very
good staff of signallers, all being in possession of certificates and up to the authorized
establishment. The 3rd Regiment, Canadian Artillery, have a full strength of sig-
nallers.
"7. The 1st and 7th Regiments, Canadian Artillery, have signallers, and in the
case of the latter, Nos. 3 and 4 Companies were not inspected.
38. The Field Batteries, Canadian Artillery, do not show any improvement.
Canadian Signalling Corps —
30. No. 8 Section, Canadian Signalling Corps, is very efficient, all members
being in possession of signalling certificates. This section renders valuable assistance
a' annual camps in training the militia units.
40. No. 9 Section could not get all its members to attend camp this year. No.
12 Section, Charlottetown, P.E.I., have a first class section, all in possession of certifi-
cates and up to the authorized establishment.
Army Medical Corps —
41. The units of the Army Medical Corps keep up their establishment of sig-
nallers.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
42. Annual Inspection of Signallers, Maritime Province Command, showing
the classification of Signallers in each unit of the Permanent Force, City and Rural
Corps : —
TTviT
Establish-
ment of
Signallers.
Cl.^ssikicatios.
Total
Signallers
presented
for
inspection
Remarks.
1st
Class.
2nd
Class.
Trained.
No. 1 Co
No. 2 Co
R.C.R. (6
" H " Co.
62nd Reg
63rd
66th
8th HU8I42
14th ,.
P. K. I. I
67th Regi
ermanent Force.
, R.C.G.A
, R.C.G.A
companies)
, R.C.R
Cili/ Corps.
10%
10%
11
11
11
11
11
ron).
11
11
11
U
J}
11
11
1}
11
7
7
7
5
5
5
5
5
6
5
0
5
S
5
5
5
6
5
5
5
5
3
3
3
6
2
7
2
7
5
3
2
1
2
3
.... ^....
1
2
1
5
8
.9
10
5
10
13
Remainder of signal
lers on strike duty.
,
Not in.sppcted.
Rural Corpn.
7
6
7
0
1. Horse (only one aquad
No signallers.
7
3
8
9
7
8
7
3
5
8
10
9
9
7
8
7
r>
9
9
7
3
6
5
68th
"
69th
1
2
1
7lBt
73rd
74th
76th
78th
82nd
93rd
3
3
1
7
.... ^..
"i"
1
94th
Canad
No. 8Se
tan Sigjtallinff Corp.i.
ction. C. S. Corns
No. 9 „
No. 12
(,'aiindiun Field ArtiUery.
10th Field Battery C. A
5
12th
No signallers.
17th
18th
19th
Canadk
1st Regiii
.. ...
1
1
• 2
, ,,
2
2
1
1
1
3
3
5
2
1
1
1
5
5
6
6
5
5
5
5
n Garrison Art
cnt. C. A. No. 1
ller;/.
Co. ..
2 Co. . . .
3 Co....
4C(
3rd Regiment, C. A No. 1 Co. . .
2 Co. . . .
2
5
3
3Co ...
4th Regiment, C.A. No. 1 Co ...
5
3
3
2
2 Co ...
3 Co. ..
7th Regiment, C.A. No. 1 Co. . . .
2 Co....
1
1
2
5
5
3 Co....
No signallers.
4 Co....
Canadim
No. 9 Fie
No. 8
No. 1
I Army Mcdiral 1
d Ambulance, A
'•„rps.
.M.C.
1
3
-2
2
4
2
2
DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE
1 GEORGE v., A. 191 i
NO. 10 MILITARY DISTRICT.
Permanent Force — ■
43. The Strathcona Horse (Eoyal Canadians) have a very efficient body of sig-
nallers, and deserve great credit for their increased efficiency.
City Corps —
44. The 90th Eegiment, although courses have been carried out at Winnipeg
for the past three years, have no signallers, and have never taken any advantage of
such courses to qualify a signalling officer. Two non-commissioned officers obtained
cprtificates at the last course. The 96th Eegiment are organizing.
Itural Corps —
45. The rural corps in this district promise to qualify signalling officers and
non-commissioned officers at the Winnipeg class for 1910.
Artillery —
46. The 13th Field Battery, Canadian Artillery, have good signallers.
Canadian Signalling Corps —
47. The Canadian Signalling Corps (No. 10 Section) now have a full section of
qualified men.
48. Annual Inspection of Signallers, No. 10 Military District, showing the classi-
fication of Signallers in each unit of the Permanent Force, City and Rural Corps: —
Establish-
ment of
Signallers
Classification.
Total
Signallers
presented
for
inspection
Unit.
1st
Class.
2nd
Class.
Trained.
Remarks.
Permanent Force.
Strathcona Horse, (Rcyal Can.). .
at II Corps.
J0%
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
5
7
3
3
6
H
15
No signallers.
„
Rural Corps (Cav. and [nf.)
No signallers.
16th Light Horse
18th Mounted Rifles
22nd Light Horse
,,
1
7
8
No signallers.
„
Artillery.
1
2
5
4
1
5
6
7
Canadian Siynallint) Corps .
No. 10 Section, C.S. Corps
Army Medical Corps.
16th F. Amb., A.M.C
NO. 11 MILITARY DISTRICT.
49. The Permanent unit in this district has five assistant instructors in sig-
nalling, and should assist greatly in the instruction of signallers of the Active Militia
units.
MILITIA COUNCIL
93
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35
50. The 5th Regiment, Canadian Artillery, have signallers trained in semaphore,
and made a fair showing at the last inspection for the General EiBciency Competi-
tion, 1909.
51. A course is promulgated in Militia Orders for Victoria, B.C., to be carried
out during 1910.
52. Annual Inspection of Signallers, No. 11 Military District, showing the
classification of Signallers in each unit of the Permanent Force, City and Eural
Corps : —
Establish-
ment of
Signallers.
Classification.
Total
Signallers
presented
for
inspection
Unit.
1st
Class.
2nd
aass.
Trained.
Remarks.
Permanent Force.
No.SCo. R.C G.A
10%
11
11
5
5
Citi/ Corps.
6th Regiment
No Signallers.
No Signallers.
Not organized.
Sural Corps.
102nd Regiment
Canadian Siunalling Corps. I
No. 11 Section, C.S. Corps 7
Artillert/.
No. 1 Co. 5th Rtgt. C.A
6
5
4
3
4
4
3
No. 2 „
No. 3 „
5
4
NO. 13 SIILITAIIY DISTRICT.
5.3. There are no signallers in J[ilitary District No. l-"?, and no classes have been
held since the District was organized. Militia Order No. 361, 1909, authorizes a class
for Calgary, Alta., during April and May, 1910, which should afford excellent oppor-
tunity for officers commanding units to qualify their signalling officers and sections.
SIGNALLERS^ 1909.
54. Table by Commands and Districts, showing the classification of Signallers
inspected at the Annual Inspection, 1909. (Headquarters of units and annual camps).
Classification.
Command or District.
1st
Class.
C^. ! Trained.
1
Total.
Western Ontario Command
31
22
30
63
4
43
16
29
33
14
180
71
173
131
23
11
254
109
2.S2
230
No. 10 Military District
No. 11 Military District
No. 13 Military District
41
11
Total
150 135
592
877
1909.
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GENERAL REMARKS.
Fermanent Force —
56. All the Permanent units in 1909, for the first time, show a decided improve-
ment in signalling. The Royal Canadian Horse Artillery at Kingston, and ' K ' Com-
pany, Royal Canadian Regiment, at London, have greatly improved and are now well
up to the average.
CUy Corps —
57. The 77th Regiment ' Wentworth ' (rural) who compete with City Corps are
again first this year, closely followed by the 63rd Regiment, Halifax Rifles. These two
regiments show a very high standard of efficiency.
58. There is an improvement generally in city corps, but a great unevenness in
their standing is very noticeable. The cause of this is due to voluntary work being
kept up throughout the year by some units, and the signallers attending garrison
o'assps whenever nossib'e. The ."^Sth Dufferin Rifles, 4Sth TTiphlanders. 62nd St. John
Fusiliers, 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry, and 8th Royal Rifles are worthy of mention.
Newly organized sections are being formed by the 7th, 15th and 19th Regiments.
Rural Corps —
59. At the various district and local camps of instruction, there were some 614
officers, non-commissioned officers and men trained in semaphore signalling. This
I'.umber would have been greater if signallers had been trained at all local camps;
in a number of cases, no instructors were available.
60. Good nssistancp was rendered by the sipnallers on the tactical field day at
the various camps. At Kingston, a scheme of outposts by day and night was carried
»,ut, and the signallers kept up excellent communication between outlying picquets
and brigade headquarters.
61. In connection with tactical work, it is recommended that all available perman-
ent signallers should work in conjunction with rural signallers on the tactical day.
These men would act as a valuable addition and give confidence to the less experienced
rural signallers.
Canadian Signalling Corps —
62. The sections of the Canadian Signalling Corps are generally satisfactory.
No. 3 at Kingston, No. 2 at Toronto, and No. 12 at Charlottetown, P.E.I., head the
list this year. The Signalling Corps has been increased by 33 all ranks. This means
ti new section for No. 13 Military District, and an increase of two signallers (privates)
in each of the remaining sections.
63. All Command and District Signallers are qualified, and have rendered valu-
able assistance at camps of instruction and the various garrison classes throughout
the year, some of the younger officers showing more confidence.
Classes of Instruction —
64. At the various garrison and regimental classes held throughout the year, 262
officers, non-commissioned officers and men were granted certificates. This is the
largest number of certificates granted in any one year since signalling organization
ill Canada.
Signalling Equipment —
65. At the annual inspection, equipment was found to be generally in good condi-
tion. All permanent units, and a large number of city corps, are issued with signalling
equipment up to the establishment, the balance is being filled gradually.
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fin. Ln?t year, two large liire-lisht lamps (as adopterl for long' distance signalling
in the Britisii Army) were received at the School of Signalling, Kingston. These
lamp.s stood a good test. A long distance test will be made in the near future, when
a full report will be submitted.
Artillery Inspection —
67. The principle laid down for the inspection of signallers of artillery units of
the Active Militia is that the inspection be confined to instruction given in accord-
ance with the syllabus. Last year, the Canadian Artillery Association undertook the
inspection for the awarding of prizes, and this was an absolute failure.
68. In some cases the Artillery Inspector inspected the men in the work, and in a
way they had not been trained in. In other cases, the Artillery Inspectors sent to the
Assistant Adjutant-General for Signalling for "marks awarded by his inspection. This
dual system of inspection (if it is to be continued) should in some way be remedied,
and in any case, no signaller of any branch of the service shovild be inspected in work
that he has not been previously trained in.
69. Before closing my report, I beg to express my appreciation for the assistance
rendered by the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for Signalling, and members of
tbe Permanent Signalling StafF (Instructional and Clerical).
I have the honour to be, sir,
Your obedient servant,
BRUCE CAERUTHERS, Major,
Assistant Adjutant-General for Signalling.
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APPENDIX F.
INTERIM REPORT OF THE MILITIA COUNCIL FOR THE DOMINION OF
CANADA ON THE TRAINING OF THE MILITIA DURING
THE SEASON OF 1909.
To His Excellency the Right Ilonourable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Grey,
Viscount Howick, Baron Grey of Eowiclc, in the County of Northumberland, in
the Peerage of the United Kingdom and a Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, &c., &c.,
Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada.
May it Please Your Excellency:
The undersigned has the honour to present to Your Excellency an interim report
on the training of the Militia of the Dominion of Canada, during the season of
1909; to be embodied at a later date in the Report of the Militia Council for the
year ending March 31, 1910.
Respectfully submitted,
F. W. BORDEN,
Minister of Militia and Defence.
Departjient of Militl\ and Defence,
Ottawa, April 1, 1910.
REPORT.
1. The accompanying report briefly outlines the general scheme of training carried
out by the Canadian Militia during the season of 1909, and appended will be found
the report of the Inspector-General on the results of that training.
SCHEME OF TRAINING.
Rural Corps.
2. The course of training prepared for rural corps of the Active Militia was
promulgated by a Memorandum for Camps of Instruction.
3. In it detailed syllabuses for the training of each arm were published, and
the duties of the general and administrative staffs defined. The syllabuses were in-
tended as a general guide only, power being delegated to the Camp Commandant to
make such changes as necessary to suit local conditions, provided that the prescribed
course in musketry was carried out.
4. Only sufficient drill nnd manoeuvre to enable troops to act in concert was
required, and stress was laid on the qiuilities of troop, battery and company leading.
5. In the cases of cavalry and infantry importance was attached to —
Attack and defence ;
Information and reconnaissance ;
Orders, field messages and reports;
Marches and protection.
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6. The following courses of instruction were ordered to be carried out in camp: —
Tactical;
Engineers;
Infantry;
Supply and transport;
Medical;
Ordnance regulations;
Signalling.
7. A syllabus for each course was given, that for the Tactical embracing lectures
and tactical schemes.
S. In addition to their twelve days' training in camp, detachments of field and
heavy artillery were sent to Petawawa for practice with service ammunition, instruc-
tions for this practice being drawn up on the lines adopted by the Eoyal Artillery.
9. Special training in reconnaissance was given to the officers of the Corps of
Guides at each district camp.
City Corps.
10. City corps were directed to train as usual at local headquarters, and were
specially instructed to take advantage of rifle ranges wherever available.
Signalling.
11. A detail from each unit in camp was trained in signalling. Their instruction
was progressive —
1st year men — in semaphore only;
2nd and 3rd year men — in semaphore and Morse flag;
3rd year men — in semaphore, Morse flag and lamp.
12. In addition, garrison signalling classes were held at —
Hamilton, Ont.
Toronto, Ont.
Ottawa, Ont.
Montreal, Que.
Sherbrooke, Que.
St. John, N.B.
Halifax, N.S.
Charlottetown, P.E.I.
and provisional schools of instruction in signalling were held in Winnipeg and Belle-
ville.
Royal Schools of Instruction.
13. It is regretted that owing to the lack of funds the courses at the Royal
Schools of Instruction for the Active Militia during January, February and March
had to be cancelled.
14. In the remaining months of the training year the usual courses were carried
out.
Provisional Schools of Instruction.
15. Provisional schools were hold) at the following points: —
Gait, Ont^
Ottawa, Ont.
Stratford, Ont.
Hamilton, Ont.
Belleville, Ont.
Niagara Falls, Ont.
Levis, Que.
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Montreal, Que.
Three Rivers, Que.
St. John, N.B.
Vancouver, B.C.
Edmonton, Alta.
Kamloops, B.C.
Armstrong, B.C.
Revelstoke, B.C.
Nelson, B.C.
Rossland, B.C.
Kaslo, B.C.
Canadian School of Musketry.
16. The summer course at the Canadian School of ^fusketry was cancelled, and
a course lasting for a period of six weeks was held, commencing on September 2nd.
This course was attended by 42 officers, non-commissioned officers and men, and the
following certificates were granted : —
' Distinguished ' 4
' Musketry ' 29
Total 33
17. The .subjects in this course embraced the following: —
Preliminary training;
Theory ;
Range-finding;
Ballistics;
Maxim-gun.
Militia Staff Courses.
18. Militia Staff Courses have been organized for the purpose of qualifying
officers of the Active Militia for staff employment in camps of instruction or on mobili-
zation.
19. The course consists of two portions, viz., theoretical and practical. Only
officers of a higher rank than that of captain, having a field officer's certificate and
being specially recommended, are permitted to take the course.
20. It has been decided to hold these courses for the year 1909-10 at the follow-
ing points, commencing on the 2nd December, 1909: —
Toronto, Ont.
^Montreal, Que.
Quebec, Que.
Halifax, N.S.
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Return showing Number of Officers and Men Trained during the Year 1909.
21. The following return shows the number 'of officers and men of the Active
Militia trained during the year 1909 : —
Authorized Estab'ment.
N
LIMBER
OS
rRAlNED.
UNTR-IINED.
COUPS.
3
^
1
1
o
3
o
O
1,173
1,747
87
52
45
196
30
37
53
93
1
i
District Camps.
London
231
415
116
71
97
155
128
7«
33
24
2,53^
4,607
1,222
754
1,0S3
1,588
1,309
731
392
336
2,769
5,022
1,:<38
825
1,180
1,743
1,437
807
425
359
481
1,095
386
49
930
63
334
230
309
3
140
252
100
58
78
233
106
69
37
22
1,385
2,860
1,145
702
1,046
1,401
1,279
694
341
242
l,52i
3,112
1,245
7i'.0
1,124
1,634
1,385
763
378
264
12,190
1,713
1,271
1,204
1,910
865
506
331
674
367
38
927
35
330
226
286
99
1G4
16
13
19
26
22
7
2
1,272
1,911
103
65
64
222
52
44
53
95
159
421
Kingston .
27
11
14
28
4
4
Winnipeg
Esquinialt 5tli Regt.,
C. A
35
3
1,346
14,559
2,741
1,6-9
1,218
1,820
751
564
15,905
3,880
1,095
147
115
83
148
69
52
11,095
3,214
368
3,513
3,881
706
Regimental Camps.
Western Ontario Com.
Eastern .■ ■■
Quebec Command
Maritime Pruv Com..
Military Dis. No. 10..
„ 13..
240
151
103
156
70
59
2,990
1,840
1,321
1,976
821
623
728
575
472
454
530
551
1,566
1,156
1,121
1,762
796
454
523
565
457
454
490
45?
102
48
20
13
4
1,175
613
87
59
61
110
1,277
661
107
72
65
2,299
481
84
418
373
139
198
119
205
41
19
1
20
94
788
8,783
4,757
2,339
3,975
3,736
751
925
372
9,571
3,.310
614
6,855
7,469
2,946
194
2,105
380
Local Headquarters.
Western Ontario Com.
Eastern
Quebec Command. ..
Maritime Prov. Com..
Military Dis. No. 10..
n 11..
„ 13..
393
204
331
295
67
87
34
5,150
2,543
4,3l6
4,031
818
1,012
406
83
94
118
249
10
148
5
332
193
239
267
59
72
33
4,544
2,207
3,619
3,394
620
642
254
4,876
2,4110
3,8X8
3,()61
679
714
287
16,565
12,190
7,469
16,565
70
86
42
249
3
110
2
562
3,214
2,946
562
61
12
92
31
8
15
1
417
72
326
342
131
183
118
13
8
76
2
7
39
3
1,411
1,346
7S8
1,411
16,855
18,266
15,905
9,571
18,260
707
1,195
15,370
11,095
6,H.5h
15,370
33,320
223
1,589
3,513
2,105
1,589
1,812
ll8
District Camps
Regimental Camps . .
Local Headquarters. . .
14,559
8,783
16,855
3,880
3,310
707
7,897
1,095
614
1,195
2,904
368
194
223
3,881
2,299
l,^12
706
148
Total
3,545
40,197
43,742
36,224
6,722
786
5,207
7,992
1,234
Permanent Force.
22. Units of the Permanent Force are required to undergo, yeauy, a progressive
course of training, the instructions laid down for the Regular Army in the training
manual of each arm, being followed as closely as local circumstances permit, as fol-
lows : — '
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Cavalry —
September to March — Individual 'instruction.
March and April — Troop training.
May — Squadron training.
June and July — In camps of training.
August — Squadron training.
Horse Artillery —
September to March — Winter training (including battery manoeuvre'*.
April and May — Battery training. '
June and July — In camps of training.
August — Combined and battery training.
Infantry —
September to March — Individual instruction.
April and May— Company and battalion training.
June and July — In camps of training.
August — Company and battalion training.
Instruction in Military Subjects at Canadian Universities.
23. A prescribed course of lectures in military subjects qualifying university
candidates for commissions in the Regular Army and in the Canadian Permanent
Force was arranged with the authorities of AIcGill University, and Staff Officers were
detailed to lecture at McGill on the following subjects: —
Military histoi-j', military tactics, military engineering, military topography, mili-
tary law and military admini-stration.
24. Thi.s course, which corresponds to that given at the universities in Great
Britain, will be gradually extended to other universities in Canada.
E. F. JARVIS,
Secretary,
The Militia Council.
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APPENDIX F(i).
Ottawa, February 21, 1910.
From the Inspector-General, Canadian Militia,
To the Secretary, Militia Council.
Sir, — I have the honour, as Inspector-General of the Militia, to submit my
report for the training season of 1909, for the information of the Honourable the
Minister in Militia Council.
2. Owing to my being required to accompany the Minister to the Defence Con-
ference in England, I was unable to inspect the troops in the annual camps between
July 1, the date of departure, and October 1, the date of my return. I, therefore,
deputed other officers to carry out the necessary inspections on my behalf.
3. As pointed out in my report for 1908, it is impossible, owing to the great extent
of the Dominion, the large number of units to be insx>ected and the shortness of the
season available for training, for any one individual to inspect all corps of the Militia
in a single year. The troops in Eastern and Western Canada, respectively, train in
camp during practically the same period, and, therefore, cannot be inspected by the
same officer. It was accordingly decided that, for the training season of 1909, the
Inspector-General, or officers acting for him, should inspect the Militia units east
of Lake Superior, while the Chief of the General Staff should, on his behalf, inspect
as many as possible of the troops which are located west of the Great Lakes. Practi-
cally every unit of the Militia which carried out training was thus inspected by some
senior officer during the year.
4. An abridged report of the results of each inspection was submitted, for the
information of the Militia Council, as soon as possible after it took place. Included
therein, confidential reports upon nearly all District Officers Commanding, Officers
Commanding units and Officers second in Command, as to their efficiency and fitness
for command, have been from time to time submitted.
5. As is well known, the state of the public revenue at the beginning of the finan-
cial year 1909-10 necessitated large reductions in the estimates for the Militia. The
efficiency of the whole force suffered severely from the decrease in the Votes upon
which it depended for maintenance and drill.'
6. In the Permanent Force, establishments had to be reduced below the limits of
efficiency, and recruiting to replace men discharged had to be stopped. The attendance
of officers and men of the Active Militia at Schools of Instruction had also to be
restricted.
7. The most serious result, however, of the decrease in the Votes was the extent to
which it necessitated reductions in the training establishments (officers and men) of
corps which perform their annual training in camp. The exact amount of money
available for annual drill not being ascertainable until somewhat late in the parlia-
mentary session, it was impossible to issue definite instructions before several of the
city corps had commenced their annual drill. It, therefore, became necessary to allow
city corps to train at full establishment. This involved a disproportionate reduction
in the establi.shments allowed for the corns which train in camp, and these, in con-
sequence, went to camp in many cases at half their normal establishment, or even less.
8. As a further re.snlt. it became imperative to cut down the expenditure for
transport to the lowest possible limit. This entailed, as a necessary consequence, the
establishment in many cases of independent local camps for the training of outlying
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units; which camps, however much they may, as is hoped, have improved the future
prospects of recruiting in those districts, had the drawback that the training- received
was often not up to the proper standard. It was further nearly impossible to carry out
proper supervision of the units thus scattered over wide areas.
Permanent Force.
9. Much as the corps which attend annual camp suffered in establishment and
efficiency from the reduction in the Votes, it is probable that the various units of the
Permanent Force suffered even more, for, while the many scattered camps of rural
corps demanded the services of more instructors and staff, there were fewer men avail-
able in the Permanent Force to meet these demands. Outside the season of the
annual camps, the Schools of Instruction were hard put to it to find funds to carry
on their reg-ular work.
10. The shortage of men also rendered it more difficult for the various units to
maintain themselves in a state of efficiency. The administration of a school of in-
struction requires practically the same number of officers and men to carry it on
whatever the size of a unit may be. Thus, with a lowered establishment, fewer men
are left available for training purposes.
11. It is much to be regretted that, as in 1908, so again in 1909, lack of funds
made it impossible to assemble the several units of the Permanent Corps in camp at
Petawavva for that combined training of the different arms, which alone, under
modern conditions, can give real efficiency. If the Permanent Force is to fulfil
satisfactorily its duty of instructing the Active Militia, not only in drill, but in com-
bined tactics and the various duties of field service, it is essential that the several
field units of the Force should themselves be brought together and exercised in com-
bined training for at least a month every year. Otherwise, with the restricted areas
locally available for training, it is impossible for its small and widely separated units
to keep themselves efficient in field work.
12. The demands made on the Permanent Force at Halifax, N.S., by the outbreak
of the strike at Glace Bay increased the difficulty experienced by the Permanent In-
fantry and Artillery of Halifax Garrison in maintaining themselves in an efficient
condition, in that it prevented them from carrying out their training fiill.v, or at the
proper time of year. While these demands on the Permanent Force at Halifax have
not yet entirely ceased, they have considerably diminished, but they still prejudicially
affect the efficiency of the corps concerned.
13. Considering the difficulties under which they laboured from the foregoing
circumstances, the permanent units are considered to have done their work satisfactorily
during the past season, but they have not yet reached the standard of efficiency which
ought to be maintained.
14. As regards the Cavalry, the Eoyal Canadian Dragoons and the Royal Cana-
dian ^Mounted Rifles have been necessarily kept at too low an establishment to enable
them to carry out properly their own squadron training and, at the same time, effici-
ently instruct the corps of the Active Militia for whom they provide. Rightly enough,
they have made the latter duty their chief aim, and their own efliciency has some-
what suffered in consequence. The Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles did especially
good work in carrying oiit instruction both at headquarters .it Winnipeg and in pro-
visional schools for the recently raised cavalry units in the West.
1.^. My inspection of ' B ' Squadron, Eoyal Canadian Dragoons, at Toronto, led
.me to the conclusion that too wide permission had, in 1909, been given to local
' exhibitions ' to obtain the services of the men of this Squadron for what are known
as ' Musical Rides.' The training of the horses and the riding of the men have con-
sequently suffered. T recommend that, in future, permission for this object should
be given very sparingly, anrl only on condition that training does not suffer thereby.
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16. The Eoyal Canadian Horse Artillery has maintained the standard of efficiency
referred to last year, and its discipline has much improved. The association of the
two batteries in barracks togelher at Kingston has resulted in an improvement in ita
work as a brigade, and, consequently, in the competency of its instructors to instruct
the brigades of Active Militia Field Artillery.
17. On the other hand, the concentration at a single station of the only available
instruction in Horse and Field Artillery Training has distinct drawbacks, and trans-
port from distant stations becomes a serious expense. It is much to be regretted that
shortage of funds prevented the holding of courses of instruction for officers and men
of the Active Militia during the early months of 1909. Like the Cavalry, the Horse
Artillery has suffered from being asked too often to perform at exhibitions, and a
check should be put on the practice.
18. The barracks at Kingston are bad, and there is a serious deficiency of stable
accommodation. Were an epidemic to break out among the horses, the results would
probably be disastrous.
19. The two companies, Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, stationed at Halifax,
N.S., considering the drawbacks involved in their protracted absence from headquarters
on strike duty at Glace Bay, appeared to be in a very fairly satisfactory state of effi-
ciency, and handled their guns smartly at my inspection on the occasion of the annual
mobilization of the fortress.
20. Their training was entirely stopped by the strike from the beginning of July
to the beginning of September. The gun practice was interrupted for the same rea-
son, and much of it had to be carried out hurriedly at the end of the season under bad
weather conditions. Considering these difficulties, the practice was creditable.
21. Special night courses of instruction were held for the benefit of the 1st Regi-
ment Canadian Artillery, with results good on the whole, but rather spoilt by irregular
attendance on the part of those instructed.
22. The Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery at Esquimalt are reported to maintain
a satisfactory state of efficienc.v, while the Heavy Company at Quebec has done good
work in the instruction of the Active Militia companies of its arm of the service. The
horses of this unit, however, are of a poor stamp, while the stabling accommodation is
bad and unsanitary.
23. The Royal Canadian Engineers have done useful work in connection with
engineer services throughout the country; in fact, their work has been so widel.y
utilized that, except at Halifax, N.S., and Esquimalt (where a small detachment is
detailed), it has not been possible to give the personnel, which is composed of men of a
very intelligent class, anything like a proper opportunity of practising the purely
military side of their duties. It is desirable that greater facilities for this should bo
afforded to them, probably at Petawawa, during next summer's training. When in
annual camps they might with advantage be employed more fully in instniction of
the Active Militia Engineer Companies and less in the carrying out of routine work,
which could as well be done by contractors. An expansion of the corps, sufficient to
enable it to suppl.y an engineer staff at each command and district headquarters,
would well repay the outlay involved, and would ultimately save money to the public.
The issue of the new Regulations for Engineer Services has had beneficial results.
24. The Headquarters of the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry have been em-
ployed ever since the middle of the summer on strike duty in Cape Breton. As the
Infantry Garrison of Halifax must, if possible, be kept up to a certain strength, the
reductions in establishment due to shortness of funds fell almost entirely upon the
outlying depots of the regiment. At these stations the small numbers available gave
both officers and men few opportunities for practising field duties. The outlying com-
panies, consequently, vary considerably in efficiency in thit portion of their work,
though they are smart and well turned out at ceremonial drill, and the administration
is well carried out. As a considerable detachment was stiU detained at Glace Bay
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at the time of my inspection of regimental headquarters at Halifax, it was impossible
to test the regiment at field duties. The barracks and institutes were, however, in a
satisfactory condition, and the ceremonial drill was smartly performed.
25. The Departmental Corps, namely, the Canadian Permanent Army Service
Corps, Permanent Army Medical Corps, Canadian Ordnance Corps, Army Pay Corps
and Corps of 'Military Staff Clerks, continue to make progress. The work performed
by all in quarters and at annual camps has been on the whole satisfactory. I am of
opinion, however, that, now that these organizations are becoming more experienced,
a further amount of attention might with advantage be given to the instructional
side of their work in relation to the Active ifilitia.
26. In the Permanent Army Medical Corps, in spite of the drawback of reduced
establishments, which made it as much as they could do to carry on properly their
routine duties and militated against their field training, good work ha-s been done.
The establishment of Command and District Stores for medical supplies, with the con-
sequent decentralization from Ottawa, though hampered by lack of funds, has made
progress.
27. One of the most pressing needs of the Permanent Force at the present
moment is the need of a larger number of qualified and experienced oflRcers of the
rank of major or upwards, especially in the Artillery. Engineers and Departmental
Corps — the senior captains in the two first nnmod having only seven years' service,
while tbose in the others have even less. Several promising young officers are coming
on, but they have not as yet either sufRcient practical military knowledge or, what i:»
perhaps more important, enoiigh experience in commanding men to make it advisable
to promote them at once. Until that time comes, it will probably be necessary to con-
tinue the present system of borrowing, temporarily, a few experienced officers from the
Imperial Army.
Ordnance Services.
28. The important bearing of the efficiency of the Ordnance Services upon the
general efficiency of the Militia Force is apt to escape notice, and has not in the past
received the attention it deserves.
20. It may be said in general terms that the Canadian Ordnance Corps is respon-
sible for the receipt, custody and issue to the Militia of everything it needs for mili-
tary purposes, except food, forage, light and medical and veterinary stores.
30. It supplies guns, small arms and ammunition, explosives, clothing, equipment,
harness and saddlery, tents, camp equipment and every kind of warlike store. In
addition, it is responsible for the repair of all these stores and for the inspection of
guns, ammunition and explosives.
31. The value of the stores which it holds in peace time cannot be far short of ten
million d'lllars. while, in case of emergency, these stores would necessarily be enor-
mously increased in quantity.
32. The total number of officers and men in the Corps — including civilians em-
ployed— is 237 of all ranks, distributed between 12 depots from Halifax to Victoria,
B.C. The development of the Corps and the careful instruction of the officers and
men in their important duties has received constant attention during the last few
years.
33. Special courses of instruction for officers and men have been held. Tlegulations
for Ordnance Services have been compiled and published, the details of equipment
for each arm or branch of the service have been settled and promulgated, and clothing
regulations have been published. Finally, books and ledgers have been revised, and a
complete system of audit has been introduced.
34. During the past year the progress made in the.se services has been substantial.
Decentralization has made a considerable advance, and, while mistakes have been
made, there is no doubt that ordnance officers are steadily obtaining a fuller grasp of
their duties.
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35. The inspection of g-uns, ordnance machinery, ammunition and explosives
has been carried out as well as the smallness of the available expert staff would permit.
This is a most important matter, and an increase in the number of oificers qualified to
carry out such inspection — as well as of armourers, of whom there is a decided short-
age at present — is very necessary.
3G. Some progress in the direction of the provision of proper magazines and store-
houses, and of making districts self-contained and capable of supplying the needs of
units belonging to them, has been made during the year, but shortage of funds has
prevented much being done, and the provision of adequate store buildings is now
an urgent need.
37. Generally speaking, it may be said that, while much still remains to be done,
the Militia is better equipped than ever before, and the Ordnance Services in general
have made marked progress. It is, in my opinion, a matter for consideration whether,
as in other branches of the service, the organization and training of Active Militia
units of the Canadian Ordnance Corps might not shortly be undertaken with advan-
tage. A very large increase to the Ordnance personnel would certainly be an urgent
necessity in the event of a) serious emergency, such as the outbreak of a war, and U
should be provided for in peace.
Active Militia — General.
38. It has already been remarked that City Corps were allowed to train at their
full establishment, while those corps which perform their annual drill in camp suffered
severely from the reductions neces-sary in their training establishments. Commanding
Officers were set an uncongenial task when they were called on to decide in what direc-
tions the reductions required should be made, in order that their corps might attend
camp at the reduced establishments with the minimum detriment to efficiency. All
sorts of exchanges among officers and men had to take place, and even squadrons and
companies were often unavoidably mixed up.
39. Officers Second in Command were usually not included in the authorized
establishments for camp, but many of them were keen enough to attend as Actinn-
Adjutants and in other capacities, and did useful work.
40. Under these circumstances, it became very difficult for an Inspecting Officer
to make up his mind what portion of such defects in the training or turnout of a corns
as were apparent were due to this reduction or to want of efficiency on the part of
individuals.
41. One of the defects most noticeable throughout the force is the weakness of
many corps in qualified officers, and of nearly all corps in qualified non-commissioned
officers. The question of inducing more officers and non-commissioned officers to attend
Schools of Instruction, and qualify, is one of urgent importance. An examination of
the latest Militia List shows that, in the Cavalry and Infantry, only two corps are
complete in qualified officers, while more than a quarter of the whole have le.ss than
50 per cent of their authorized establishments of qualified subalterns. One of the com-
plaints most freqviently made by Camp Commandants, especially in the province of
Quebec, was that a large proportion of the officers were deficient in power to lead
and instruct their men.
42. The training results of the past year have gone far to establish the correct-
ness of the opinion, held by jiractically all officers of experience, that large district
camps are more profitable to the troops, and more satisfactory in their results, than
local camps of single units. There can be no doubt that, except in one or two cases
where exceptionally good officers were in command of their corps, the nature of the
work done was not up to the standard usually set at large camps. It can only be hoped
that the advantage claimed by their supporters for these local camps, viz., that they
arouse local interest and stimulate recruiting, may be proved by the increased numbers
of men who attend camp in the stimmor of 1910.
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Cavalry.
43. The Cavalry units in the West contimie to show a praiseworthy degree of
keenness, and some of the camps, including some independent camps of corps, were
models of what camps should be. In one or two cases, in the longer settled parts of the
countrj', it was doubtful whether entirely the right class of men had been obtained,
but this question is receiving the attention of the local Officers Commanding.
44. In the East the results varied considerably. Several regiments showed dis-
tinct progress from last year. Others, again, had deteriorated, possibly under the
influence of reduced establishments. On the whole, the standard of efficiency previously
noted was maintained, but hardly improved.
45. The remarks made last year as to the necessity for increased attention to
troop and squadron drill, and the resulting gain to the efficiency of the regiment at
■regimental drill and manccuvre, still hold good. Musketry showed a distinct advance
in most regiments, and much interest was taken in it.
46. No decision has apparently yet been reached either as to the weapons with
which the mounted soldier is ultimately to be armed, or as to the manner in which
the rifle is to be carried when he is mounted. Under the present system many of
the bolts fall out and are lost, a very serious drawback. Experiments with a new
method of carrying the rifle have recently been carried out by the Eoyal Canadian
Dragoons, with, it is understood, satisfactory results. If this be so, an early decision
on these matters is of the highest importance, and whatever patterns of arms and
equipment are finally decided upon, they should be issued as soon as possible.
47. The changes recommended in my last report as to clothing, and as to head-
gear, have been approved and are being carried out. The ' Stetson ' hat, with which
some corps have provided themselves, is hardly more satisfactory than the helmet, and,
judging from the replies given by men who have been questioned, is not by any means
universally liked.
48. While the arms and equipment of most regiments were, on the whole, fairly
well cared for and in good condition, there are still too many cases in which the
saddlery is neglected, not only during the non-training season, but during the time in
camp. It is quite recognized that, in many cases, difficulty is experienced by Officers
Commanding Squadrons in obtaining proper storage accommodation at their head-
quarters, but this does not excusi" the condition in which some of the saddlery i"
kept. It is much to be regretted that some regiments neglected to bring field forges
into camp, thus losing an opportunity of practising their own shoeing. A cavalry
regiment that cannot shoe its own animals would be very badly off on field service.
49. The want of uniformity in armament, equipment and saddlery in some regi-
ments, which was brought to notice last year, still continues, and should be remedied.
50. In the quality of the horses brought to camp there was but little change notice-
able. On the whole, they were no better than in 1908, though, in one or two case?.
e.g., the 5tli P.L.D.G., a decided improvement was observed. The veterinary inspec-
tion of horses brought to camp- is not as strict as it should be. There ought to be far
more rejections.
51. Representations have been made from time to time to the effect that the pay
allowed for horses, $1.00 per diem, is not enough to procure the right class of horse.
This may be true in some cases, but, on the other hand, it is certainly sufficient in
other districts, and the difficulty of making a discrimination between districts is*
great. With the viev/ of inducing owners to send a better class of horse into camp,
as well as of safeguarding them from loss, the maximum amount of compensation
payable by the government for horses killed or injured while on the public service
has, from April 1, 1910, been raised to $175.00.
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Artillery.
52. As in the case of the other arms of the service, Artillery brigades and batteries
in camp suffered much from reduced establishments, and it was corresixindingly diffi-
cult to form reliable conclusions as to their actual efficiency.
53. The gist of my remarks upon the Artillery last year was to the effect that this
aiTu, if it was to be used with the greatest effect, demanded an exceptional amount
of study and practice on the part of the officers. These comments still hold good, and,
of the Artillery, above all other arms, it may be said that the efficiency of the unit at
practice is measured by the efficiency of its commander.
54. In general. Artillery officers cannot, it is feared, be said 1o bo yet sufficiently
expert in Artillery work, especially in the application of fire. In many cases they do
not study the training manual enough, and far too many officers on the establishment
are absent from gun practice. Moreover, where, as was the case in the training season,
under review, the training and practice periods are not simultaneous, only a very short
time is available for practice, and, with the system of battery competition in force,
it becomes exceptional for an officer junior to the actual battery commander to get a
chance of practising battery commander's work at actual firing.
55. These facts lead to the obvious conclusion that, to obtain the best results,
the training and practice periods should be concurrent ; and it is greatly to be hoped
that next season as many brigades will be trained at Petawawa as possible.
56. At the same time, the officer in charge of practice was able to report that the
majority of the batteries firing showed marked improvement in fire discipline and in
the application of fire. Those batteries which failed to show improved results owed it
usually to the failure of battery commanders to ' range ' properly. This was especially
the case with one otherwise excellent battery.
57. I am strongly of opinion that a definite system of attaching officers and non-
commissioned officers of the Permanent Artillery as instructors to brigades and bat-
teries of the Canadian Field Artillery during training should be adopted and carried
out every year as a matter of course. If this was laid down, definite arrangements
could be made well in advance, and the instructing personnel available would be used
to the best advantage.
58. A short ' brush up ' course at the Eoyal School of Artillery, to enable brigade
and battery commanders and captains to refresh their knowledge shortly before annual
camp, has frequently been recommended, and is well worthy of sanction.
59. The attendance of batteries at Petawawa for practice was again not as good
as it should have been. The 1st and 10th Brigades (the latter for the second succes-
sive year) failed to turn out at all, while the 1st (Quebec) Battery has not practised
since 1906. On the other hand, some batteries, notably both batteries of the 8th
Brigade, the 21st Battery 6th Brigade, the 15tb Battery 7th Brigade and the 6th
(Independent) Battery, displayed commendable keenness and performed very credit-
ably.
60. During the past season eight batteries were supplied and trained with the new
18-pr. Q.F. guns. The new weapon has proved in all respects satisfactory; it is a far
more powerful weapon, the drill is simpler, and the handling of the battery at
manoeuvre and at practice is, if anything, easier than with the 12-pr., though hardly
enough advantage was usually taken of its improved mechanism, e.g., the traversing
gear and dial sights. In at least one brigade the equipment issue'd to the batteries
was seriously incomplete, while in another the quality of the harness was not what
it should be. I am of opinion that it will be found neces.=ary to allow six horses per
gun for the 18-pr. gun at all times, instead of four, as allowed for the 12-pr. The
12-pr. Mk I. gun is showing signs of wear, and should be replaced as soon as possible
by the IS-nr. Some of the older harness is also becoming unserviceable.
61. The horsing of the several batteries of Field Artillery shows some unevenness
in nearly all brigades, and most batteries are handicapped by a (generally) small per-
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centage of iinsuitable horses. The horsing of the Nova Scotia brigade still appears
to be unsatisfactory. The batteries belonging to it seem to be unable to produce
locally a type of horse suitable for mobile artillery, and it is questionable whether,
under these conditions, the brigade can be counted upon as able to take the field in
case of need.
62. The majority of the foregoing remarks on the Field Artillery apply with equal
force to the Heavy Artillery. In the latter, too much of the time available for artillery
training appears to have been spent in standing gun drill and similar work, aud too
little in field training. At the same time a distinct improvement, as against 1908,
was noticed in drill, fire discipline and manoeuvre.
63. An attempt to obviate the defect mentioned was made by the 3rd and 4th
Regiments, Canadian Artillery, which each attended, as complete brigades, at Peta-
wawa for a whole week, during which time the practice of the three companies was
carried out. This experiment proved a decided success, especially in the case of the
4th Regiment, Canadian Artillery, where the Lieut.-Colonel Commanding attended
throughout the week and exercised a continual supervision over his companies. The
kpenne=;s of the officers of these heavy brigades at Petawawa and their study of Field
Artillery Training was highly creditable. The fire effect of the heavy batteries showed
a general improvement. On the other hand, the attendance of officers of Heavy
Artillery at Schools of Instruction has been unsatisfactory.
64. It will not he out of place here to recall that, unless occasionally trained with
their own horses and drivers. Heavy Artillery batteries cannot be expected to be fit to
take the field. At present the majority have little or no knowledge of driving or
horsemastership.
65. The importance of signalling and telephony throughout the Field and Heavy
Artillery has not yet been sufficiently realized. In some few batteries the standard of
signalling is good, but generally there is much room for improvement. It has pro-
bably been a mistake to entrust the artillery signallers entirely to the camp signalling
officer for training; the batteries themselves should have some responsibility.
66. Another matter which deeply concerns both the Field and the Heavy Artillery
is the question of war organization. The fact is in danger of being forgotten that,
for war, a brigade of mobile artillery consists of three complete batteries (of 6 guns
each in field batteries) and an ammunition column. There are only two brigades
at the present moment which really consist of three batteries each, and none in which
the batteries have a full supply of ammunition wagons, while we have no ' ammuni-
tion columns,' though reference is made to them in the Militia List. Apart from plans
of mobilization, it is highly desirable that an early opportunity should be taken to
' visualize,' so to speak, an artillery brigade complete, so as to give Officers Command-
ing an opportunity of seeing what kind of a body of troops they would have to handle
in the field. The question of the provision of suitable horses for field service in suffi-
cient numbers is perhaps more difficult for the Artillery than for any other arm of the
service.
67. Reports on the Fortress Artillery of the Dominion show satisfactory progress,
both at Halifax and Esquimalt.
68. The practice of the 1st Regiment, Canadian Artillery, at Halifax with heavy
guns was spoilt by the weather, which was so bad that firing had to be postponed from
the days originally ordered. The result was that the same gun crews could not attend
the second time. New men had to be put in, and the practice was not as good as
would otherwise have been the case. The 12-pr. Q.F. practice was better, though, as
in previous years, too slow.
69. The practice of the 5th Regiment, Canadian Artillery (Esquimalt), showed
great improvement on last year. The weak points in this corps were the officers and
specialists, who were not sufficiently trained. They should take a special course each
season at the Work Point Barracks. The present system of extra pay for the special-
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ists has not worked quite satisfactorily here, and some alterations should be made to
ensure that they keep up their eificiency.
TO. The 6th Regiment, Canadian Artillery, was trained in coast defence work,
and carried out practice at Halifax with creditable results. The training at home
of this regiment, however, is unsatisfactory, and will probably continue to be so until
the construction of a drill hall at Levis gives it a fair chance of learning its work and
profiting by the keenness of the men.
71. Calibration of the guns at both Plalifax and Esquimalt requires to be carried
out. No night firing with anti-torpedo boat guns has yet been performed at either
place. This practice is very necessary, and steps should be taken next season to carry
it out, as far as local shipping conditions make it feasible.
Canadian Engineers.
72. Three out of the four companies of Canadian Engineers were handicapped
by unsuitable training grounds and all by a failure to think out their course of
training thoroughly beforehand.
7.3. The subject of their equipment also requires further consideration. It should
be fixed for both war and peace, and the proportion of it which is to be taken to camp
for training purposes should be laid down; at present too much is taken into camp.
The majority of the personnel, both officers and men, are of a superior class, but they
require more special training.
74. It is worthy of consideration whether it might not be wise, for the next year
or two, to train only the technical portion of the personnel, until a thoroughly trained
stafi can be formed. At present there is too much work for the instructor to cope
with satisfactorily. The annual training for Engineers, like that for Artillery, should
last at least 16 days; 12 days is quite inadequate. Field Telegraph and Telephone
Companies are much needed for the Active Militia Force.
Corps of Guides.
75. The development of the Corps of Guides proceeds steadily. The duties allotted
to this corps, for the performance of which it was organized, are of a highly technical
and important nature. Much study and self-training are required from its officers
if their duties are to be properly performed. The large majority of the officers — there
are some exceptions — are keen and hardworking and are rendering valuable services.
Infantry.
76. Allusion has already been made to the difiiculty of arriving at a just appre-
ciation of the efficiency of the units which had to train at the reduced establishments
ordered for the summer camps of 1909, especially if the drawbacks under which they
laboured, unavoidable under the circumstances, be taken into account. No less than
four rural Infantry Eegiments, the 42nd, 56th, 59th and 97th, requested to be excused
from annual drill at these establishments.
77. In spite of this, the general impression left upon the minds of inspecting
officers has certainly been that the infantry arm has not lost ground, even if it is not
making much progress. The criticism still holds good that too many Commanding
Officers forget that good company drill is the foundation for all more advanced train-
ing. But such Commanding Officers were distinctly fewer during the season under
review, and the company training of the Infantry, though still leaving much to be
desired, has improved.
7S. As regards City Corps, the comment made in my previous report, that there is
a tendency to perform all movements in too stereotyped a manner, still obtains, and
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will continue to do so, so long as so many of these corps have no ground on which to
drill out of doors and are confined to the drill hall, where attack and defence, advance
guards and outpost duty can never be properly practised, and are, therefore, seldom
attempted.
79. Even where ground for drilling outside is available, it is often hardly possible
to use it, because lighting is not provided. As remarked last year, it is a pity that
cities and towns do not attempt to give their local corps more assistance in this direc-
tion. In the ease of Montreal, the city failed to carry out its agreement to light the
Champ de Mars for drills at night.
80. The difference in efficiency between those corps which had ground outside on
which to drill, and those which had not, was markedly in favour of the former. Still,
even in the case of the latter, there were some creditable exceptions. And, on the whole,
there was much more evidence of attention to those portions of training which more
especially relate to effective action in the field, although the utilization of driU to
bring companies or sections into the proper positions for opening fire had hardly ever
been practised.
81. Among City Infantry Eegiments, the 86th, Three Rivers, Regiment was the
only one which did not perform any annual drill. The two companies of the Kootenay
Rifles at Fernie also failed to train, but they labour under exceptional local difficulties.
82. While lack of funds prevented any government grant towards holding the
usual field manonuvres on Thanksgiving Day or other public holiday, a practice which
has had valuable results, yet it is satisfactory to record that the zeal of the corps
themselves came to the rescue at several places, and that local field days were held at
Toronto, Hamilton, Quebec, Ottawa, Brockville and other places. The same cause —
lack of funds — made it impossible for City Corps to send contingents into annual
camp, as has been done in previous years.
83. A successful new departure was made by one corps, the 3rd Victoria Rifles,
which held a camp of its own in the mountains to the north of Montreal, and there
carried out an extra (voluntary) training without expense to the public.
84. I have again to report that an examination of drill attendance registers has
left me very doubtful whether the large majority of City Corps perform the full amount
of drill for which they draw pay. It is certain that the tactical day's exercise ordered
by Oeneral Order 15 of 1909 was not performed by several City Corp^, notably the
Infantry Corps at Halifax, which, in addition, declined to turn out for the annual
mobilization day without extra pay.
85. It is satisfactory to note that an increasing number of City Corps are per-
forming drills in the fall as well as in the spring of the year. Musketry in the City
'^-""^ r-'cpived increased attention with encouraging results. It is much to be regretted,
however, that the correctness of some of the returns rendered was open to suspicion.
While fraud cannot be proved, it is practically certain that some corps did not make
the scores claimed by them.
86. Turning now to the Rural Corps, it is satisfactory to be able to record that,
in a sea<:on where so many things militated against efficiency — shortness of funds,
low training establishment and small local camps — so few signs of falling off were
noticeable. This may have been due, of course, to the probability that the keenest
officers would be those most likely to be included in the reduced establishments.
87. There is still too great a tendency to neglect company drill, but an improve-
ment in the manner in which companies were handled was observed. The faults
previously pointed out, of frequent failure on the part of officers to assert their
authority, and of ignorance of their duties on the part of Section Commanders, are
still far too prevalent.
88. As regards musketry, much care and attention was given to it in nearly every
camp, the instruction was systematic and progressive, trained instructors were pro-
vided and the sub-target gun used. The results obtained showed decided progress.
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The old standard for efficiency pay depended on the amount of previous service. This
was abolished, and a musketry qualification imposed in its place with excellent results.
Rifle practice was recognized as of the first importance, and, although some dissatis-
faction was expressed by men who had failed to qualify for the highest grades of effi-
ciency pay, it could not be said that the standard set, considering the very short ranges
fired at, was unduly difficult.
89. I am of opinion, however, that some slight concession to the men might, with
advantage, be made, by allowing the total of the scores at all ranges to count for
qualification instead of insisting upon a qualifying standard at every range. Judging
distance was practised.
90. The clothing of the Infantry was, in general, of good quality and in fair con-
dition. An issue of clothing suitable for use in hot weather is often asked for. The
quality of the boots worn is, on the whole, improving, especially in City Corps. They
are not a government issue.
90. The equipment of the Infantry was, on the whole, in fair, sometimes very
fair, condition. There is a tendency observable in many City Corps to leave the
cleaning of the accoutrements entirely to the caretaker. This is a mistake, and in
the corps which in this respect turned out on parade quite the cleanest and smartest
of any inspected, the 38th ' Dufl^erin Rifles,' the cleaning and polishing was done by
the men themselves.
92. The condition of the arms might well be better than it is, though where in
charge of a government caretaker they were usually in fair order. Too often the men
neglect to clean them after using them at the range. In several City Corps, notably
at Hamilton and Toronto, it was noticed that many men had removed the service
sights in order to put on Sutherland or other sights, and had then taken o£F these sights
before returning the rifles to store without replacing the government ones. A rifle
without a sight is all but useless.
Army Service Corps.
9.3. The food supply of troops in camp, was generally good, and no complaints
were brought to my notice. The issues were arranged for and usually made by the
Army Service Corps Companies. In many cases they also did the slaughtering and
baking. In camps where this is done the results are almost invariably so superior to
those obtained under the contract system that a further extension in the same direction
is very desirable. It is to be remembered that, in the field, the troops have to do nearly
all their own slaughtering for food, as well as baking. The hired transport was, as a
rule, of very fair stamp, sometimes distinctly good. But it is still capable of improve-
ment. There were a few complaints of incomplete equipment.
94. This branch of the service has several good points, but it has also some weak
ones. Two companies, the 3rd and 8th, found themselves unable to turn out for camp,
although authorized. And in some other cases the officers lack experience. It would
be productive of much good if a much more extended use were made, in the annual
camps, of instructors from the permanent branch of the Corps by attaching them to
Active Militia units.
Medical Services.
95. The officers and men of the Medical Services of the Militia deserve credit for
their efforts and progress towards efficiency. Generally speaking, in spite of the
handicap of reduced establishments, the Field Ambulances did good work. The
exceptions were few; generally due to local causes.
96. At Niagara, No. XIII. (Cavalry) Field Ambulance was attached to the
Cavalry Brigade, and, to some extent, trained with it with good results, while at
Kingston No. III. (Cavalry) Field Ambulance was encouraged to give extra attention
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to mobility. Xo. VI. (Cavalry) Field Ambulance at Granby was, of course,
in charge of its own brigade. The system might be extended with advantage in future
seasons.
97. It should always be remembered that the end and aim of Field Ambulances
is not merely to establish an efficient hospital service in the annual camps, though this
is important, but to train themselves for their special duties of accompanying troops in
the field, establishing dressing stations, collection and first aid of wounded and their
evacuation to stationary hospitals.
98. This aspect of their duties requires more thought than it has yet received,
and a further study of medical field administration would well repay attention. The
nucleus of a general hospital might with advantage be added to establishments. And
the time appears to have arrived when the organization of voluntary medical aid for
work throughout the country in case of emergency, on the lines of the Eed Cross
Societies and the St. John Ambulance Association, might be taken in hand.
99. Sanitation received much attention, and the sanitary condition of the camps
generally was far in advance of previous years.
100. The organization of regimental stretcher bearers in City Corps has not
proved the success which was hoped for. In but few cases were the detachments
efficient.
Signalling.
101. The Signalling Service has made progress during the year. The sections of
the Canadian Signalling Corps have generally done well, and all Command and Dis-
trict Signallers are now fully qualified.
102. All permanent units are reported to show a decided improvement in signalling.
The 77th Wentworth Regiment again takes first place among units of the Active
Militia, while the 63rd Halifax Eifles are close up. The signalling of City Corps
generally shows an advance, but there is a considerable amount of unevenness in
their standing.
103. Signalling instruction was carried out in as many of the annual camps as
instructors could be found for, and in most cases with good results. If Commanding
Officers of rural units would take steps to see that their signallers were, as far as
possible, recruited from the same locality and kept together in camp and at other
times, the regimental signallers would probably improve rapidly and give good value
to the corps. At present they are too often recruited at haphazard without much
regard to the work they are to do, and are consequently of little or no use.
Annual Camps.
104. ily remark of last year as to the lack, at nearly all our camp grounds, of
sufficient space to permit of proper training being given still holds good. Cavalry and
Artillery are both seriously handicapped b.v want of room to manoeuvre freely. The
recent acquisition of additional ground at Niagara has greatly improved that camp,
though it is still far too restricted in area. The camp at Calgary, if Petawawa be
excepted, is practically the only one at all satisfactory in this respect, thanks to the
same gentlemen as those mentioned in my report for 1908, who kindly allowed their
land to be used again in 1909.
105. It is curious that even in the wide Xorthwest, or British Columbia, it should
be difficult to obtain sufficient ground, but, where the land is in private hands, high
prices are invariably asked for it, and, as regards the public domain, it is a pity that
the Department of the Interior has so far not been able to see its way to set aside
what is really urgently needed for military purposes. A steady increase in the number of
units in the West is certain in the future, and more and larger camp grounds will bo
needed. The value of land is fast rising and vacant areas are becoming settled. No
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time should, therefore, be lost in securing suitable areas in each of the provinces west
of Lake Sujwrior.
106. Judging by results obtained, there is still room for more attention to the
field training of the troops on the part of some Camp Commandants and their Staff
Officers. While the administration of the camps was generally satisfactory, the field
(raining was often the reverse. It is. however, but fair to say that the multiplicity of
camps held in 1909. especially of small local camps, where training ground was seldom
or never adequate, added greatly to the difficulties of the staff in this respect.
107. The new rifle ranges at Kingston and Niagara have proved highly satisfac-
tory, though the accommodation might with advantage be further added to. All the
permanent camping grounds are now fairly well off in this respect — a great change
from the conditions of a few years ago, when scarcely half of the Militia Force ever
fired a service rifle. The only permanent corps station now unprovided with a rifle
range is St. Jean, P.Q.
108. More care should be taken in some of the camps to see that the ground allotted
to Cavalry Corps is suitable for horses, i.e., reasonably level, free from rocks or
boulders, dry and not swampy after rain.
109. The subsidiary services of the camps, especially sanitation, were generally
well carried out and showed satisfactory progress, but London Camp is too crowded,
and the water supply at Niagara Camp urgently demands attention. The drainage
recently carried out at Kingston has much improved the Barriefield Camp ground,
and might with advantage be further extended to improve the Cavalry drill ground,
wnich is at present rather dangerous.
110. Speaking generally, I consider that the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic
liquor in camps, although it has some drawbacks, has worked well.
111. One of the least satisfactory points in connection with the annual camps —
in the majority of cases at least — is the poor character of the cooking for the men.
The rations have been much improved of late years and are now of excellent quality,
but the men have not reaped the full benefit owing to inferior cooking. It is worthy
of consideration whether certificated Sergeant Cooks, trained under the supervision
of the Permanent Army Service Corps, might not with advantage be detailed to each
corps attending camp, to superintend and instruct their Company Cooks.
Petawawa Camp.
112. The systematic development of the Central Training Camp at Petawawa was
carried on during the year, so far as funds allowed. It was much to be regretted that
want of money prevented the exceptional training opportunities offered by the camp
being more fully utilized during the season. The only camp held at Petawawa was
the Artillery practice camp.
113. The camp was in good order and well administered, the sanitation is now
very good, and the work done was satisfactory. The development of the new ranges
has been most useful, and the Artillery which practised gained valuable experience.
It is greatly to be hoped that during the season of 1910 it will be possible to assemble
at Petawawa a larger number of units of the Active IMilitia, as well as the Permanent
Force, for purposes of combined training, opportunities for which are singularly
lacking at the remainder of the camp grounds throughout the Dominion. The railway
service is still the subject of many complaints.
Barracks,
114. While some alterations and repairs have been made to the barracks at King-
ston and Halifax, my remarks of last year as to barracks in general still hold good,
and are here reproduced: ' The barracks occupied by the several units of the Permanent
Force are not generally in a satisfactory condition. There is no station, with the
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possible exception of Esquimalt, where the bsirracks are up to the standard of modern
requirements, while the barracks at Kingston, Toronto, St. Jean and Quebec are
distinctly discreditable to the Dominion. They are old and out of date; often out
of repair. The men are unhealthily crowded at the two former places; the drainage
is faulty, and the lledical Officers of the Department have frequently brought to notice
the serious sanitary risks which are run.'
115. To this it should be added that at Halifax at least one barrack room,
or rather office in barracks, has been under suspicion of tuberculosis infection. The
number of officers to whom sick leave has had to be granted is far higher than it
should be, and, in some cases at any rate, the barracks are answerable for it.
116. The Infantry barracks at Quebec have no single officers' quarters or officers'
mess building. As a result, attached officers have to live outside and draw special
allowances therefor.
117. There is a considerable deficiency of quarters for married officers and men at
nearly all stations of the Permanent Corps. The result is that thousands of dollars
are spent yearly in lodging allowances, much of which would be saved if the Depart-
ment were permitted to erect its own buildings instead of having to depend on another
Department which is too hard worked to be able to supply its wants promptly.
118. No time should be lost in providing the new barracks contemplated in the
neighbourhood of Toronto and Kingston. Stable accommodation for the horses of
mounted corps is also deficient at both placas.
119. There is a serious deficiency throughout the Dominion of accommodation for
the valuable stores held on charge by the Ordnance Department. The storehouses are
everywhere congested, prompt issues are interfered with, and the stores themselves
are liable to damage through fire or moth.
Armouries.
120. The question of armouries is still an urgent one, especially in the Northwest.
where few government armouries exist, and suitable buildings for storing arms,
saddlery, &c., are both hard to find and expensive to hire when found. If valuable
guns, wagons, arms, equipment, uniforms and saddlery are to be kept in good condition,
suitable accommodation is essential. But local conditions vary so much that equit-
able treatment is by no means easy. The inauguration of a definite system to -ensure
a gradual provision of buildings for the proper care of stores and, incidentally, the
reduction of the expense now entailed upon officers of the Militia, is a pressing need.
121. It is not probable that a satisfactory solution will be found until the Militia
Department is entrusted with the duty of erecting its own buildings to suit its own
needs, when a definite policy — at present impossible — can be adopted and followed.
Fortresses.
122. There is little change from last year in the condition of the fortresses and
fixed defences in the Dominion and their armament.
123. The works which comprise the fortresses of Halifax and Esquimalt, B.C.,
are, in both cases, in an efficient condition. The armament mounted and the
electric light installations are also in good condition and well cared for. One 6-in.
and one 12-pr. gun have been temporarily dismounted from the works at Esquimalt
and removed to the drill hall at Victoria for the instruction of the 5th Regiment of
Canadian Artillery, but care has been taken to carry out the removal in such a manner
that tlie guns can be replaced at short notice. The construction of the new works
on the St. Lawrence' river has been delayed during the year owing to want of funds.
124. While the armaments and works at Halifax and Esquimalt are in an efficient
condition, it cannot be stated that the garrisons at the two places are adequate for the
work they have to perform. The garrison at Esquimalt was stated, in my last year's
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report, to be too weak for the duties which it has to carry out. Shortage, of funds
has made it impossible to augment it since. The garrison of Halifax has, in previous
years, been adequate for the duties falling to its share, but, in 1909-10, owing to the
reduction in the Estimates, it has had to be cut down below the numbers necessary
for efficiency. The demands made upon it by the long drawn out strike in Cape
Breton emphasized the difficulty, for more than half of the total number of permanent
troops available had to be withdrawn from Halifax during the greater part nf the
summer. During their absence, had an emergency arisen, it would have been im-
possible to man the works and defend the place. Had the absence of the troops been
only for a few days, this would not perhaps have mattered, but, as it turned out. the
greater portion of the troops were absent for some months. The Garrison Artillery
were unable to carry out properly their training w-ith the guns of the fortress, and
though their practice, when eventually concluded late in the autumn, was creditable,
yet there can be no doubt but that their efficiency, and with it the efficiency of the
garrison of the fortress, suffered severely. The same remark applies to the Infantry
and Engineer garrisons, though perhaps in somewhat less degree. At Esquimalt the
stores required under the Defence Scheme should now be overhauled and re-arrange-
ments made to meet present conditions.
Armament and Equipment.
125. The Inspector-General is instructed to report upon the suitability and suffi-
ciency of the armament and equipment nf the Militia.
126. Upon the question of their sufficiency reports have, from time to time, been
submitted confidentially to the Honourable the Minister by the Chief of the General
Staff — with whose views I concur — and myself.
127. Upon the question of the suitability of the armament and equipment of the
Militia Force, nearly the whole of the remarks contained in my last year's report still
hold good, and are, therefore, here repeated.
128. As regards the Cavalry, the present method of arming it with only the long
rifle, or, in some cases, the carbine, does not seem to be satisfactory. There is reason
for the widely held feeling that the mounted man ought to have a second weapon.
The present long rifle and method of carrying it are not suitable. The choice seems to
lie between a good short rifle, with special bayonet, and a carbine, with sword or
revolver. In view of the special conditions of the country in which the Canadian
mounted forces might be called upon to operate, and the short period available for
training, the first alternative appears preferable. In either case, it will be necessary to
find a better method than the present one for carrying either the rifle or the carbine,
whichever is finally chosen, and to adapt the pattern of saddlery in use thereto.
129. The issue of a waist belt to all Cavalry is very desirable. It would be neces-
sary for field service, together with pouches to hold additional ammunition, and would
add to the appearance of the uniform. Field forges and saddlers' tools are much needed
by all Cavalry regiments. The former are usually available for camp use, but too
many regiments neglect to draw them. The present picketting gear is not satisfactory,
and complaints of the pattern of head collar issued with ' Canadian ' pattern saddlery
arc made in the West.
130. The ' Universal ' and ' Canadian ' patterns of saddlery (the latter being the
more recent issue) appear to be found generally satisfactory, but, in'some cases, com-
plaints have been made that the stitching was inferior. They are often mixed up
together in the same corps, with the result that uniformity becomes impossible. One
pattern should be decided upon, and that one only should be made and issued.
1-31. The leggings issued to mounted corps are often not satisfactory, either as to
pattern or material. The present pattern docs not appear to be properly shaped to
fit a man's leg, and would probably fail to stand the wear and tear of field service.
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132. As regards Field Artillery, the issue of the new 18-pr. Q.F. guns has been
highly satisfactory, but there has not been, up to date, a complete issue of all the appli-
ances which should go with the new gun. The complete supply of modern guns for all
Field Batteries should be pushed on as rapidly as possible.
1.33. A new and up-to-date telephone equipment is urgently needed in connection
with the Field Artillery. The present telephones are becoming worn out.
134. The harness and saddlery are generally satisfactory, though some complaints
have been made of tb? leather used in certain portions of the harness. The old harness,
which has now been in use with the Mark I 12-pr. guns for several years, is getting
worn out. If the mounted force had to take the field, the 18-pr. guns would certainly
require six horses to each gun team and the heavy artillery would require at least
eight. Sufficient reserve harness should be kept in store to meet this requirement
and the needs of the ammunition columns.
135. The armament and equipment of the Fortress Artillery are fairly complete
and up-to-date.
136. As regards Engineers, the most pressing need is that of technical equipment
for telegraph and telephone work. The Militia has at present no balloon equipment,
and a watch should be kept on developments in aeronautics.
137. The armament of the Infantry is still in a transition stage, but the latest
pattern of Ross rifle has been well reported upon. It is an excellent target weapon,
but the increased accuracy has been obtained at the cost of rather more than a pound
of extra weight, which is a drawback from the service point of view. A suitable
bayonet has been approved and issued, but care should be taken to see that it fits all
service rifles in stock. The Lee-Enfield rifles on charge are showing signs of wear.
138. As regards personal equipment, the great need of the Infantry, in the event
of mobilization, would be the means of carrying a proper supply of ammunition. The
present Oliver equipment is in this respect quite inadequate for modern needs. It
is a matter for serious consideration whether tlie new web equipment now in use by the
Imperial service should not be adopted at an early date for the Dominion forces also.
139. The whole question of camp equipment for the field, especially in regard to
cooking utensils, requires careful consideration.
140. The supply of sigTialling equipment is making progress, but is not yet nearly
complete.
141. As regards Medical and Army Service Corps equipment, that which is in use is
satisfactory, so far as it goes, though the Field Ambulance equipment is thought to
be rather too heavy, but the supply is inadequate for possible requirements on emer-
gency, as is also such veterinary equipment as exists.
Books.
142. The conditions described in my report for 1908, under the heading ' Books.'
generally speaking, still continue, tuough some improvement was observed in the way
in which regimental books were being kept. The Department has now issued an im-
proved and simpler form of Equipment Ledger, which ought to make it easier for
accounting ofiicers to keep track of the equipment for which they are responsible.
143. J-Jeyond this, little has so far been done to bring out a regulation set of
regimental books. The subject has now been under consideration for some time, and
definite action should not be delayed longer than is necessary.
Military Training in Universities.
144. Having observed the high value placed by the British War Office upon a
university training for candidates for commissions in the Army, the Militia Council
decided, in 1908, with the concurrence of the War Office, to co-operate with Canadian
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universities in establishing thereat courses of ]\Jilitary instruction siniihir to those
ah-eady successfully in operation at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin and other
British universities.
145. Their intention in taking this step was to encourage a higher educational
standard for future officers of the Permanent Force and Active Militia, by offering
commissions in the former to qualified graduates of such univei'sities, to encourage
military .studies among those who will probably be the leaders of the nation in the
futtire, and, ultimately, to augment the number of persons qualified to become officers
of the ililitia Force in the event of emergency.
146. The Army Council, being anxious to assist in the work, expressed their
readiness to offer a certain number of commissions in the regular army to graduates
who should qualify themselves through these courses.
147. The University of McGill is as yet the only university in the Dominion
which has fully introduced the system, and there, through the active interest taken by
the Principal, Dr. Peterson, C.M.G., military courses have been successfully held for
more than a year. Twelve students have attended them with satisfactory results,
and, considering the novelty of this departure, considerable interest has been aroused
148. In addition to a course of lectures at the imiversity on the prescribed mili-
tary subjects, followed by half-yearly examinations on the same, which are held simul-
taneously for the universities in Great Britain and in Canada, candidates are required
to be attached and trained for twelve weeks with some \init of the Permanent Force.
During my inspection of the Eoyal Canadian Horse Artillery in 1909 I saw four of
these gentlemen undergoing their training, and was gratified with the earnestness
and efficiency they displayed.
General Remarks.
149. As already remarked in the earlier portion of this report, the financial con-
ditions of the year 1909-10 and the reduced establishments at which nearly all units
had to train made it exceedingly difficult to form a correct judgment upon the state of
efficiency of those units.
150. In spite of this, the impression left on me by my inspections as a whole is
that the Force generally has at least not gone backward during the past season of train-
ing, while some units have made decided progress.
151. My report of last year stated that it would be a mere truism to say that the
Militia Force was not at present really efficient or ready to take the field. No force
with only tvpelve days' training in the year can be so.
152. When it is remembered that in Germany, with every inducement to shorten
the teiin of service in the army as much as possible, and with every advantage in the
way of highly trained and experienced officers and non-commissioned officers, the
authorities think it impracticable to turn out a properly trained soldier of the Cavalry
or Artillery in less than three years of incessant work, or a soldier of the Infantry
and other arms in less than two years,- it will be evident that, however great the
natural gifts of the Canadian may be, a training of twelve days only cannot be enough
to make really efficient soldiers of either officers or men.
15.3. The extension of the term of training of the Artillery to sixteen days,
though even this term is too. short, has greatly improved that arm. To extend the
training for all branches of the service' to sixteen days would not add more than
$200,000 (if so much) to the present training vote.
154. I deem it right to draw the attention of the Militia Council again to another
important question referred to in my rejjort of last year, viz., the absolute necessit.y
for having efficient officers if partially trained troops are to take the field with any
hope of success. So far our system has failed, and is failing, to provide the force with
a sufficient number of efficient officers and non-commissioned officers.
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155. A reference to the Militia List* will show how few Active Militia corps are
even moderately well supplied with qualiiied officers. The case is even worse with non-
commissioned officers, except in City Corps, which visually require some qualification
before appointment.
156. The matter is so important that no apology is perhaps needed for quoting
what was said last year: 'The remedy can only lie in (1) making the position of the
officer more attractive by relieving him of expense — ^his pay and allowances never cover
his expenses, those at his first camp do not even pay customs duty on his uniform —
and of all avoidable clerical labour and demands upon his time outside of annual
drill; (2) in making the courses at the schools of instruction as attractive as possible,
by studying the officer's convenience and imparting only such instruction as is essen-
tial, and that in as practical a shape as possible; (3) in bringing instruction to the
individuals concerned in those cases where a sufficient number of officers to be in-
structed can be assembled at any one time and place.' The second and tnird of these
measures are equally applicable to the case of non-commissioned officers. To the fore-
going a fourth suggestion may perhaps be added, viz., the organization of a small
permanent staff.
157. It has for some time been apparent that very considerable demands are
made upon the time of officers commanding by their official correspondence. While I
am of opinion that in the future correspondence is likely to decrease rather than in-
crease— the bulk of it is due to the lasness of former days when there were few or no
regulations showing how work was to be done, or stores were to be kept and accounted
for — yet there must always be a considerable amount of correspondence if proper super-
vision is to be maintained and the public protected from loss.
158. In my opinion the time has come when a small permanent staff might with
advantage be organized, the members of which could take the bulk of the work of
correspondence off the shoulders of Comnianding Officers, could act also as instructors
during the training season, and could do a variety of useful work for the corps at other
times.
159. The number of cadet corps and their membership have largely increased
during 190f. They deserve every encouragement, and will amply repay the country
for what is bestowed on them.
160. The best hope for the future efficiency jjf the Militia Force, the anny of the
Dominion, lies, in my judgment, in the success of the cadet movement, an increased
period of annual training and, above all, in the adoption of suitable measures for
increasing the supply of qualified officers and non-commissioned officers.
I have the honour to be, sir.
Your obedient servant,
PEKCY n. N. LAKE, Major-General,
Inspector-General.
• See also para. 41.
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GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.
INSPEC'TOU GENEIJAL, OF THE IMPERIAL FORCES
HIS INSPECTION OF THE f.^NJIAN lllLITilRY FORCIS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page^
EtPORT
Part I, Eastern Canada — ^
Organization 7
Mobilization 8
Peace Training 10
Artillery Practice, Musketry and Ranges 13
Camping Grounds and Drill Plalls 13
Command and Staff 15
Royal Military College 18
Regimental Officers 20
Xon-commissioned Officers and Men 21
Horses 22
Armament and Ammunition 23
Administrative Services 2-i
Fortresses and Armed Posts. 24
Schools of Instruction 25
Manufacturing Establishments 25
Part II, Western Canada 27
Part III, Summary 29
Appexdix a —
Itinerary " 31
Appendix B —
Appreciation of strategic, geographical, topographical and other conditions
which bear upon the problem of frontier defence (confidential, not
printed).
Appendix C —
Proposed organization of existing troops, Eastern Canada 32
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n E I-^ O R T
BY
GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O, K.C.M.G
INSPECTOK GENEKAL OF THE IMPERIAL FOECES.
HIS IKSPECTIOX OF TITE C'AXADIAX :.1TLITAUY FORCES.
Ottawa, July 5, 1910.
To the Hon. Sir Frederick Borden, K.C.M.G., &c.,
Minister of Militia and Defence,
Ottawa.
Sir, — I have the honour to report that, in accordance with instructions received
from the Imperial Army Council, I embarked for Canada on May 13, and landed at
Quebec on the morning of Friday, JEay 20.
I reported my arrival to you by telegram, dated ifay 20. I was met on board the
E.M.S. Victorian by Major General Sir Percy Lake, Inspector General of the Cana-
dian Militia, who conveyed verbally to me your wishes and instructions.
Sir Percy handed me an itinerary, comprising a series of inspections of Cana-
dian permanent troops and militia, which you desired me to carry out. The tour
was to cover both eastern and western Canada, and was also arranged to include
visits to the fortress at Halifax, the Royal Military College, and various other estab-
lishments in connection with the maintenance and efficiency of the Canadian Militia.
A copy of this itinerary is contained in Appendix ' A ' of this report.
From the instructions conveyed to me I have conceived that it is your desire
that I should report to you fully upon the state and condition of the Canadian
j\[ilitia, with rcs-ieet to its readiness either to maintain internal order within the
country, to protect its frontiers against attack, or to furnish contingents to succour
otiier parts of the Empire, in the event of the Dominion Government seeing lit to fol-
low on the precedent set by them in the late war in South Africa. Of these, the
most important and necessary role which the ^Militia have to fulfil is to defend
Canada against attack by land. A force which is in a sufficiently satisfactory con-
dition of organization, training and efficiency to render the frontier reasonably
secure, will also be in the best position either to furnish Imperial contingents or to
keep internal order.
In this connection I would particularly draw attention to paragraph 15, part II.,
of the memorandum by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, ' Proposals for so
organizing the Military Forces of the Empire as to ensure their effective co-operation
in the event of war,' and Appendix ' B ' of the same memorandum, in which Canada
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assents to the principles therein enunciated. As regards the first proposal of the
above mentioned paragraph 15, it would seem that the defence of Canada against ex-
ternal attack would naturally constitute ' the substantial functions ' in a general
scheme of defence to be assigiied to each part of the Empire.
Throughout this report, therefore, ability to defend the land frontiers of Canada
has been the standard by which I have formed my judgment upon the condition of
its militia.
As a basis for the comment and recommendations contained in this report I have
drawn up a confidential appreciation of the strategic, geographical, topographical and
other conditions as they appear to me to bear upon the problem of frontier defence.
A precis of this confidential document is embodied in Appendix ' B ' of this
report.
As the military organization is centered in eastern Canada, I deal chiefly with
that part of the Dominion, but I have divided my report as follows: —
Part I. — Eastern Canada.
Part n. — Western Canada.
Part TIT. — Summary.
REPOItT OF GENERAL iilR JONH FRENCH
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35a
PART I.— EASTERN CANADA.
I am expressing my views luidcr tlie following: headings: —
(A) — Organization.
(B) — Mobilization.
(C) — Peace training.
(D) — Artillery practice, musketry and ranges.
(E) — Camping grounds and drill halls.
(F) — (\iiiun:i!id and staff.
(G)— Eoyal Militai-y College.
(H) — Eegimcntal officers.
(I) — Non-commissioned officers and men.
(J) — Horses.
(K) — Armament and ammunition.
(L) — Administrative services.
(M) — Fortresses and armed posts.
(N) — Schools of instruction and manufacturing establishments.
(A)— OEGANIZATION.
A sound system of organization is the corner stone of all military efficiency.
Unless this is based upon a correct appreciation of the characteristics of the
country and the requirements of modern war, waste of strength and resources will
certainly result, and the people of the Dominion will not get the best value for their
money.
Success in war depends to-day more than ever upon the harmonious working
together of the different arms of the service, cavalry, artillery, engineers and infantry,
and the mutual support they can render to one another.
This can only be secured if each possesses a close and intimate knowledge of the
other, and such advantage can only be gained if the peace organization of troops is
assimilated to that which is required for war.
For these reasons, I am strongly of opinion that the establishment of a sound
organization is the first and foremost requisite to render any army efficient for war,
and that no amount of superior physique, armament or individual excellence in
citlicv cnnunauilers. staff, or bodies of troops will comijensate for a want of it.
I am well aware of the many drawbacks which have hitherto hindered the Cana-
dian ^lilitia, but I feel myself obliged to state plainly that, after a careful study
of the problem, I am persuaded that their existing system of organization does not
fulfil the above requirements, for the following reasons: —
(a) The proportion between the various arms of the service is not correctly
adjusted.
For example, the infantry and the hea-s'y artillery are somewhat in excess
of actual requirements, whilst the field artillery is at least 50 per cent below the
necessary proportion. There is only one battery of field howitzers and the
engineers and supply services are much too weak.
The same remark applies to the distribution of troops; instead of each
countj', province or area furnishing something like its due quota of the various
arms, it appears that one part of the coimtry altogether favours mounted troops,
another infantry, another artillery, and so on.
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I fully realize that great difficulties exist, but surely these ought not to bo
insurmountable when it is a question of the safety of the Dominion.
In point of actual numbers, I believe that those contemplated imder the
present war establishments are sufficient and suitable, if they were allotted in <'
proper proportion to the various arms of the service, and on the basis of a sound
system of organization.
I may mention here that a comparison of the effective strengths as they
exist at present with the peace training strengths as laid down shows a consider-
able shortage in numbers, and I wish to guard against misunderstanding by say-
ing that, in expressing- an opinion as to the adequacies of actual numbers, I
consider it absolutely essential that these peace training strengths should be
maintained, and that sufficient provision should be made to ensure the numbers
required on mobilization being always forthcoming.
(6) I am aware that, under existing arrangements, certain war divisions arc
arranged to bo formed on mobilization.
According to these plans, troops which have never served together as an
organized body in peace are to be suddenly concentrated in an organization to
which they are totally unaccustomed and jilaced under commanders and staff
who will have had no sufficient practice in handling such a unit.
The annual camp trainings are only a large collection of troops without any
organization in formations of all arms.
The various arms do not, apparently, work, to a sufficient extent, in con-
junction with one another, and hence neither commanders nor staff officers have
any practice in the handling of these war divisions with which, within a few
days of the outbreak of war, they may have to encounter trained troops in a
thickly wooded country which is strange to them.
I cannot lay too much stress on the necessity for cultivating the utmost spirit of
jnutual understanding amongst all ranks of the troops which make up a war division,
and this can only be efTeetcd l.y assimilating pence organizations to those cniploycil
in the field.
The Militia of Canada is composed of sijlendid material, and, according to my ob-
servation, is imbued with a fine spirit and energy, and a desire to become efficient,
and it seems somewhat illogical to hamper their patriotic and loyal endeavours by
failing to organize them to the best advantage. As an instance of how lack of
organization permeates throughout the force, and leads to extravagance and loss of
power, I might mention that at two of my inspections I saw what were called
' double battalion ' regiments on parade. The whole numerical strength of such regi-
ments was not equal to some of the single battalions, and yet each of the two bat-
talions of which they were composed had the same staff and complement of officers
and non-commissioned officers as is laid down for a single regiment.
The question of command and staff is of such overwhelming importance in all
modern military organizations that I tliink it best to deal with it, imder a separate
heading, but I may mention here that the state of affairs existing at the present
moment as shown aliove would render a quick mobilization and prompt action, which
is so vital an element in the frontier defence of Canada, altogether impossible, and
would effectually paral.yze and frustrate any effective preliminary operation of war.
The war organization which I recommend for the Dominion forces is drawn up
in Appendix ' C ' of this report. I am of opinion that it should be gradually adopted
throughout the militia, and that the peace establishments should be assimilated to it.
(B)— MOBILIZATION.
If efficiency and readiness for war is to be ensured a complete and thoroughly
worked out system of mobilization must go hand in hand with a sound peace organiza-
tion.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35a
In order to render the present system by wliicli units are raised from a peace to
a war establishment eflfeetive, I am of opinion that a closer supervision must be main-
tained over the ' Service Eolls ' kept by unit commanders, and such a system cannot
be considered reliable unless a ' test ' is applied periodically by means of a trial peace
mobilization, which need not necessarily involve a large number of units at any one
time.
Arms, clothing and equipment should be maintained in mobilization stores at
regimental headquarters. I understand this is being gradually carried out, but I
would strongly urge the necessity of accelerating to the utmost this most important
service, without which no speedy mobilization can possibly take place.
Any effective scheme of defence must lay down points of concentration for the
various units, in accordance with a well thought out and determined plan of cam-
paign.
' Mobilization Time Tables ' and ' Railway Time Tables ' do not appear to exist
at present, and the transport of troops to their several destinations would, in the
absence of such arrangements, lead to nothing but chaos and confusion.
I would strongly urge the establishment of a Eailway War Council over which
the Chief of the General Staff should preside, and which should include amongst its
members the managers or representatives of the principal railway companies in
Canada.
The following subjects must be taken in hand and settled as quickly as possible
by the Mobilization Department before real war preparation can be effective. They
do not apjjear to have received due attention up to the present : —
(1) War organization of transport, supply, ordnance and medical services.
(2) Organization of lines of communication.
(3) Arrangements for the training of drafts and reinforcements.
(4) Supply and training of remounts.
(5) Inspection of mobilization stores.
For a country situated as is the Dominion, it is clear that, in order to give it
time to develop its latent resources for defence, the existing organized troops should
be ready to take the field at the earliest possible moment after the emergency has
arisen. In other words, the process of passing them from a peace to a war footing —
their m.obilization — should be as rapid as possible.
It is equally evident that the work of completing the arrangements for speedy
mobilization, of providing, or ensuring the provision of transport, equipment, stores
and supplies, of preparing the necessary regulations and instructions, and of drawing
up tables showing the war equipment of all units, is a labour of very considerable
magnitude.
In the Imperial Army, for the United Kingdom alone, this work has occupied
the undivided attention of five or six officers for nearly twenty years, while the duty
of keeping the arrangements — now thoroughly decentralized — up to date, entails con-
tinuous work on all officers of the army, both staff and regimental. A great portion
of the work thus accomplished is available for the guidance of Canadian officers, and
the problem to be solved is. on the whole, simnler for the Dominion. But the cnn^lu-
sion is unavoidable that the number of officers available for this duty at Militia
Headquarters, and in the several military districts is now, and apparently always has
been, far too small to cope successfully with the task. So far as I can judge the
preparation of a suitable mobilization scheme would require the undivided attention
for some years of at least two general staff officers and one administrative staff officer
at Headquarters, and of one administrative staff officer in each military district.
When the scheme is completed, it is probable that the services of two of the officers
at Headquarters could be dispensed with, but for the proper maintenance of mobiliza-
tion arrangements, the remaining additional officers must be permanently retained.
The staff at present maintained at Headquarters and in the Commands appears to me
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absurdly inadequate in numbers to deal successfully with the luunerous problems
■which require its attention.
I understand that the standard of military preparation to be aimed at by the
Dominion is the provision of 100,000 men immediately available in the first line of
defence, with the necessary machinery for raising and orsanizing another 100,000 in
the second line, and I assume that })o departure from this policy is contemplated.
This standard cannot be attained until definite arrangements for mobilization are
completed and the immediate supply of the necessary war outfit assured. At present
it would not be possible to put the militia in the field in a fit condition to undertake
active operations, until after the lapse of a considerable period.
The value of mobilization preparedness is very great, and its cost, compared to
other military expenses is but small, provided a definite and continuous policy is
pursued.
(C)— PEACE TRAINING.
Before expressing an opinion as to the standard of ])eace training reached by the
Canadian forces and their methods of instruction, it will be convenient if I briefly
recount the opportunities which I have had of forming a judgment on these matters.
My field training inspections were as follows : — ^lay 21, the 8th and 9th Regi-
ments of the 20th Infantry Brigade carried out a scheme of manoeuvre in the Levis
Camp at Quebec.
^kfay 2.5, the Koyal Canadian Dragoons carried out a reconnaissance scheme in
the neighbourhood of Toronto.
May 26, the 13th and 91st Regiments at Hamilton performed some minor drill
operations in their drill hall.
June 1 and June 2, the 14th Regiment of Infantry and the Royal Canadian Horse
Artillery practised manoeuvre schemes at Kingston.
June 4, the Governor General's Foot Guards and the 4.3rd Regiment carried out
an ' attack and defence ' scheme in the neighbourhood of Ottawa.
June 8 to June 10, the Royal Canadian Regiment carried out field operations in
connection with the fortress defence at Halifax, and the Royal Canadian Garrison
Artillery worked their guns against a night attack by destroyers represented by gov-
ernment transport boats.
June 1.5 and 16, the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th In-
fantry Brigades were seen both at field training and manoeuvre at Niagai-a-on-the-
lake.
June 18, the 6th, Yth and 8th Infantry Brigades carried out field operations under
Col. S. Hughes at Kingston.
June 20, at Petawawa Camp, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade was seen at field training,
and the 2nd and 8th Brigades, Canadian Field Artillery, at manoeuvre and field
firing.
Judging from all I have been able to see, I i^hould consider the standard of
training efficiency which has been reached by the troops of the Permanent Force to
be satisfactory.
In my opinion their peace establishment is not large enough to enable them to
properly carry out the work of supervising the training and instruction of the militia,
and, at the same time, to permit of their attaining themselves to that perfection of
field efficiency which it is very desirable should be possessed by the small regular force
maintained by the Dominion.
For this reason, as well as those which T have brought forward in tlio cah'-'-" of
this report, I think, when funds are available, the Royal Canadian Dragoons should
be increased by one squadron, and a battery should be added to the Royal Canadian
Horse Artillery.
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I cannot close my remarks on the training of the Permanent Force without ex-
pressing my admiration of the performance of ' A ' and ' B ' batteries of the Eoyal
Canadian Horse Artillery at Kingston under Lt.-Col. Burstall, on June 2. I have
no doubt it is in some degree owing to this ofBcer's able instruction and supervision
that the Canadian Field Artillery apjjear to have attained to the degree of efficiency
which, considering the circumstances under which they serve, has caused nie con-
siderable astonishment.
Coming to the Canadian Militia, the first conclusion I have drawn from my ob-
servation of their work is that there is au absence of uniformity in the standard of
efficiency to which they have attained.
Some units are far ahead of others in this respect, and even in the same com-
mand they seem to differ considerably.
This remark does not apply to the field artillery to anything- like the same ex-
tent as to the cavalry and infantry.
Of the nine cavalry regiments I have seen in eastern Canada only two appear to
me to have attained a standard of efficiency commensurate with the material in men
and horses which they possess and the opportunity they have had.
I was favourably impressed with the standard of training efficiency reached by
the two brigades of field artillery which I saw at Petawawa. Their riding, driving,
manoeuvre and firing practice seemed to me very remarkable in view of the short time
they had been together in camp and the few opportunities they have.
As regards the field training efficiency of the infantry, I am of opinion that
their methods of carrying out company and battalion training, so far as I saw them,
are not up to date or suitable to the requirements of modern war, but I am compelled
to add that, when I saw them maufcuvre u\ the field, all ranks showed greater aptitude
and knowledge than I should have thought they possessed.
The plans made and carried out by brigadiers were fairly sound and, on the
whole, regimental and company commanders displayed intelligence and initiative in
directing and leading their commands. I observed, however, many faults and mis-
takes which would not have occurred under a better system of company and battalion
training.
Coming now to the training methods generally adopted, and commencing with
the cavalry, I have already expressed the opinion that, as a whole, this arm is de-
cidedly behind the others in regard to field efficiency, but I do not think that Cana-
dian Militia cavalry officers are altogether to blame for this state of affairs.
It appears to me that the proper role of cavalry in a country like eastern Canada
has not been correctly appreciated, and that the energies of those responsible for its
training and inspection have not been used in a right direction.
In the whole of eastern Canada there are hardly any open spaces which admit
of the employment of that form of engagement known as ' shock action.' If the most
highly trained cavalry in the whole of Europe wei"e put down to fight in this country
they would find no opportunities of employing ' shock tactics ' with any effect, and
they would be compelled to act as mounted rifles.
But besides the character of the country there are other weighty reasons why the
Canadian Jlilitia cavalry must rely for their power of offence upon the rifle rather
than upon the sword.
Amongst the most important of these reasons are —
(a) The class of horse they ride, both as regards breeding and training.
(b) The short time they are brought together.
(c) The entire lack of highly trained regimental, squadron and troop leaders.
(d) The impossibility of training higher eoinmandors.
I think the role of cavalry in t:iis country is to act altogether as mounted rifles,
and the training on the cavalry should tend towards securing efficiency in this direc-
tion.
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The physique of the men is excellent, they ride sufficiently well, and the class of
horses seen by me is quite suitable to the work of mounted riflemen in a close coun-
try. Their inefficiency is owing to faulty methods of training and instruction.
Squadron officers are not sufficiently grounded in their duties as leaders and in-
structors. As a rule they cannot lead properly, nor are they sufficiently instructed
themselves to train and instruct their men.
There is nothing like enough troop and squadron drill instruction, and regiments
are brought together under the commanding officer before squadrons arc fit to work
as part of a regiment.
Tlie ability of all raiiks of the cavalry to carry out the n'llc which thi'y v.ill have
to fulfil in this country is, so far as I have been able to judge, very much below what
it should be.
Having regard to its great importance I strongly urge the necessity of increas-
ing their annual camp attendance from 12 to IC days, as is the case with the artillery.
Kcr tlio ri-t. it i~ for tiie triiiiiino- iK'inrtuiiMit of t!i<' Militia Council to lay down n
syllabus of training which is applicable to what is expected of that arm in war, and
then for the officer charged with the inspection of the cavalry and Cavalry Brigadiers
to enforce the constant practice of the syllabus, and to see that there is absolute
uniformity of method throughout the whole force. The Inspector of Cavalry must
make himself thoroughly acquainted with the qualifications of tlie brigadiers, com-
manding officers and squadron comjiianders, and report fully upon any whom he con-
siders unfit to fill these positions.
Great care must he taken in the selection of young officers and non-commissioned
officers, and they should receive a more extensive preliminary training, both theoretical
and practical, than appears to be the case at presont.
The methods of field training adopted in the field artillery sreni to lie sound and
good and, so far as I saw them, they appear to lead to the best results. There can
bo no doubt that the standard of training efficiency in this arm is very high, consider-
ing the few opportunities they have of coming together and their untrainei' hoTses.
So much depends upon sound supervision and inspection that I cannot avoid
again referring to the excellent work which has been done for the Canadian militia
by the officers of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.
With regard to the peace training of the infantr.v, I am of opinion tliat far too
much attention is given to the practice of ceremonial exerci.ses and cvolulions. In
fact, the greater part of the time available for_training appears to be devoted to drills
of a type which in respect of training for war are nearly obsolete. A certain amount
of drill in close order ia necessary to inculcate steadiness and accuracy of movement,
but considering the very limited time available for training of all kinds, I consider
that .such i>racticfs fur the militia ."luiuld be confined to comiiany drills, mid that the
time expond<Ml in battalion and brigade ceremonial parades is largely wasted. !More-
over, I have observed that the excessive practice of ceremonial — and the neglect of
manoRuvrc — have apparently cramped both the initiative and the intelligence of the
officers and men when employed in field maiuruvrcs, with the result that mechanical,
barrack-square accuracy is attempted without regard to the condition of the ground
or to the effect of the enemy's action.
I ciin under!'tan<l the natural desire on the part of the militia to make a good
appearance on ceremonial parades. Even for thia end, the true basis of training is
tho company, and practice in battalion and brigade, with insufficiently trained com-
panies, will add nothing to cerrmoniiil smartnesfl. But elasticity and freedom in
mananivre are of infinitely greater value than any mere parade smartness, and these
cannot be attained unless companies have opportunities of engaging in manunivro on
suitable ground and under conditions which simulati'. in scnii- wny, iin oiieration nf
war. It seems to me that, at present, smartness in drill is looked upon as an end
to be attained instead of merely ns a ineaiii of !iii|iiiring efficiency in manoeuvre,
which is the rcnl preparation for war.
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For this excessive devotion to ceremonial the training staff cannot be held free
from blame. On the only two occasions on which i saw classes of young infantry
officers at training schools, one class was employed at ceremonial brigade drill and
the other at the practice of saluting with swords.
The syllabus of infantry training should be revised; brigade and battalion cere-
monial drills should be discouraged, and more time allotted to company drill and
manojuvre (Part 11., Infantry Training). Every opportunity should be taken of
practising the troops in field mantruvre, and the instruction in the schools should
be of a more tactical and less of a ceremonial nature.
I have had but few opportunities of observing the field training of the Canadian
Field Engineer companies, but those which I saw at Petawawa camp seemed making
very satisfactory progress towards efficiency.
It appears that the principle which has had such excellent results in the Territorial
army, of utilizing to the utmost the special expert knowledge and training which
abounds in civil life and turning it to the purposes of national defence, is also very
apparent in Canada.
There is only one telegraph company, and I think steps should soon be taken to
place this important branch of military engineering on the same efficient footing as
the field companies appear to be.
(D.) ARTILLERY PRACTICE, MUSKETRY AND RANGES
I inspected the artillery ranges a*^ Petawawa, and was much impressed by the
suitability of the ground for arUllev^ :-i;.nceuvres and practice. The equipment of the
ranges and the management rf the Ir.igets were satisfactory.
I saw the 2nd and Sth biga'cu .it practice.
Considering that these bi'gt'.Jes had been only a few days in camp, the results
were surprisingly good. The p:act!.e was carried out under a suitable scheme, and
was well conducted. Battery ,- .'-.manders appeared to have a good knowledge of the
theoretical principles of artiller. • fire, and with more opportunities for practice would,
I feel sure, soon acquire the qui -kness and accuracy in which they are, naturally, at
present somewhat lacking.
I was able to inspect only a few of the rifle ranges, but I understand that, al-
though insufficient in number to meet requirements, they are generally satisfactory.
It should be remembered that, for the efficiency of a force whose opportunities of
training are so limited, ample and convenient range accommodation is an absolute
necessity. I have observed with satisfaction the large provision of auxiliary appar-
atus for musketry training, such as sub-target rifles and miniature ranges.
The musketry practice which I observed was being fairly, although somewhat
leniently, conducted.
(E). CAMPING GROUNDS AND DRILL HALLS.
I have visited the camping grounds at Petawawa, Niagara, Barriefield and
L-.'vis.
The acquisition and establishment of the camp at Petawawa seems to me to be
the most important step which has yet been taken towards securing the efficiency of
the troops in war.
It is an ideal terrain for the instruction of forces for fighting in country such
as that of eastern Canada. The great extent of ground which it covers, a great part
of its surface being wooded and of an intricate nature, its gentle undulations, and
its position on the banks of the Ottawa river, render it capable of fulfilling all the
requirements of a great central camp of instruction.
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As the wide extent of country covered by the camp at Petawawa is capable of
affording very valuable instruction to a large niuuber of troops at one time, I
strongly recommend that the fullest advantage be taken of it, especially in view of
the fact that all other camping gruunds in the country are much too restricted for
the numbers of the troops which have to use them.
The Western Ontario Command contains a larger number of tropps than any
other command, and the camp at Niagara which they use is, in my opinion, much
too restricted in area for efficient training and instruction. I understand that the
ground west of the rifle ranges has only recently been acquired, and, so far as it
goes, it seems very suitable for the purpose.
The manoeuvre exercises I saw carried out there of three brigades of infantry
showed clearly, however, that it is much too small for use by so large a body of troops.
The same remarks apply with even greater force to Barriefield and Levis. At
the former place I saw the manoeuvre exercises carried out by three brigades of
infantry. The ground was so restricted that there was little freedom or scojjc for
the display of initiative or intelligent leading either by brigadiers, battalion or com-
pany commanders.
At Levis I saw only two battalions exercised in manoeuvre, and they really
seemed to me to be the maximum force which could be efficiently trained in so small
an area, and yet this is the only manoeuvre ground available for the Quebec Com-
mand militia of No. 7 Military District.
I must point out the necessity for due care being taken by the staff at these
annual camps vo ensure the training area being allotted to units in a more method-
ical manner than appears to be the case at present.
For example : — At two camps which I visited I found several distinct units, each
doing different kinds of training, or carrying out separate manoeuvre schemes, using
the same area ground, and interfering with one another to such an extent as to
materially prejudice the value of the instruction.
Whilst these troops were thus pressed together in one space of ground, there
were other available areas which were not being used at all
The terrain of all camping grounds should be mapped out into areas of suitable
size and allotted to units for a certain specified time. The nature of the training
and the kind of ground suitable to the special arm should be given due considera-
tion.
I inspected the drill halls at Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa,
Halifax. St. John and Kingston.
Some of tEese were fine buildings and establishments, whilst otJiers were not
so large and very incomplete as regards accessories.
A capacious and well found drill hall is of great importance to the efficiency of
a city corps. If it covers an adequate space of ground and possesses miniature
ranges, valuable instruction can be carried on at all times, and in all kinds of
weather throughout the year. Good and commodious accessories, such as officers', ser-
p-oiints'. and corporals' mess rooms, and men's recreation and club rooms, must have,
if well managed, a wholesome effect on the esprit de corps and well being of the
unit, and are, besides, of great assistance to recruiting.
One drawback common to all the drill halls I saw, except those at Ottawa and
Halifax, was the absence of an open space adjoining, or close to. the drill halls.
I understand that these city corps seldom, or never, attend camp, as it is alleged
that the men cannot be spared from their civil employment.
I cannot agree with this custom, and strongly recommend that it should cease.
Li an irregular force nothing can compensate for the advantages gained by con-
centrating the troops in these annual camps.
The difference between the training efficiency and elasticity of battalions which
have been accustomed to attend these camps and those city battalions which have
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not had these advantages is very marked, although the appearance, setting up of
of the men and the ceremonial movements of the latter may lead to an entirely
erroneous opinion being formed as to their equal, if not superior, value as fighting
corps.
(F)— COMMAND AND STAFF.
The command and staff of the Canadian Forces are, to some extent, modelled on
the lines of the Imperial army.
The Militia Council is a body which is charged with the functions ot a Com-
mander in Chief.
In time of war a Commander in Chief is specially selected and appointed by the
Government.
The link between the Militia Council and the troops is the Inspector General who
is himself in close touch with both.
So far the Imperial and the Canadian systems are identical.
In Canada, however, the Inspector General is himself a member of the Militia
Council.
I cannot help thinlving that, in this respect, it would be better for Canada to fol-
low the example of the Army Council at home.
It is, of course, necessary that the Inspector General should be in close touch
with the Minister, the Chief of the General Staff, and each head of a Department of
the Militia Council, and he can well remain so without being himself a member of
Council.
The great objection is that, as a member of the Council, he must in time be
regarded as de facto Commander in Chief.
He is the one member of Council who is empowered to exercise individual autho-
rity on the parade ground or in the field, and, as such, the troops cannot do otherwise
than practically regard him as the head of the forces.
Further than this, the Inspector General's duties are of so responsible and onerous
a nature that they need his whole time and attention.
I therefore recommend that the Inspector General and his department should be
constituted on the same lines as in the Imperial Service.
The Inspector General must, of course, always remain in close touch with the
Minister and the Chief of the General Staff, reporting to them constantly, and I
am of opinion that it would add much to the smooth despatch of Militia Council
business if he took opportunities of holding frequent consultations with the Adjutant
General, the Quartennaster General and the Master General of the Ordnance with
respect tn matters which have come to his notice connected with their departments.
This is the custom adopted by the present Inspector General.
Since the Office of Inspector General has been held by Major General Sir Percy
Lake his whole time has been taken \ip in supervising the organization and recon-
struction of the Canadian Forces.
His advice and assistance have been sought and obtained in every department,
and the result of his knowledge, skill, tact and patience are apparent everywhere.
Sir Percy Lake has only been able to devote a part of his great ability to the
work of actual inspection and direction of the inspectors under him, and I believe
there are very few men who could, under the circumstances, have done anything like
so much in the way of training supervision. His hand and his direction are apparent
in all the training work of the troops I have seen.
If due efficiency in training is to be expected in the future the Inspector General
cannot bo hampered in this way.
I think the officers commanding the permanent cavalry, artillery, engineers and
infantry, respectively, should act as inspectors of these arms in the Militia.
I am aware that this is done in the case of the cavalry and artillery, and to a
certain extent in the case of the engineers, but I regard the other arms as standing
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in quite as mueli need of the attention of a specialist officer, who sh(nilil be entirely
under the orders of the Inspector C4eneral.
Coming to the various commands, I have really had but little opportunity of
testing the capacity of either chief or subordinate commanders. I am, therefore,
unable to say whether they are capable of fulfilling the functions of higher commaml
in the new organization which I have recommended. From my own observation, of
the large number of senior officers who have come under my notice, I should judge
that such officers exist,
I wish to emphasize the necessity for the exercise of the utmost care in the
selection of officers for the higher commands. The fighting value of a division in
war depends, in these daj's, so much upon the training ability of its commander and
the methods he has adopted in peace time to prepare his command for war, that no
consideration except that of fitness for the post should be allowed to weigh in select-
ing officers for this important ro!e.
In some of my inspections of single regiments I have commented upon the
absence of the brigadier and his staff, and I was told that it was not considered neces-
sary for them to be present on such occasions. If this is really the case. I think a
most important principle of command has been overlooked. The brigadier is, and
should be, held responsible for the efficiency of the units under his command.
One of the most important principles to be followed and carefully observed is
continuity in the chain of responsibility throughout all ranks.
The officers emijloyed on general and administrative staff duties appear to me to
be well selected and to perform their various duties in a satisfactory manner.
They are, as a rule, energetic and hardworking, and seem to cope with their many
difficulties in a resolute fashion.
In many cases I believe they are men of business who are able to bring to bear
on their important task a valuable knowledge of men and affairs.
In administrative matters they are well informed, but, with a few exceptions,
their education in the duties of the General Staff is somewhat incomplete.
I think every effort should be made to afford opportunities to those who are un-
able to attend a staff college, to practice by means of- staff tours, war games and con-
ferences the very important duties which they would have to perform on service in
the field.
I reconnnend also that, if possible, they should be relieved of some portion of
their administrative work in order that they may take a more active part in the mili-
tary education of officers and in the war training of the troops. The increase to the
staff which I have recommended for mobilization purposes in another part of this re-
Ijort would probably be sufficient for this purpose.
In my inspections and observations of the troops I have sometimes noticed a
somewhat unfortunate and tactless interference with regimental officers by the staff.
I think this sh.ould be carefully guarded against.
I regard the establishment of the Corps of Guides as being a most valuable and
useful adjunct to the staff. I think it is a principle which is capable of extension.
I cannot close this part of my report without adding a few words as to certain
opinions which I have heard expressed in influential quarters in this country. I refer
to the erroneous ideas which are often propagated with respect to the numbers and
composition of the staff.
It is evident that people who hold such views have absolutely failed to grasp the
most elementary factors to be considered in the solution of military problems.
They are, apparently, quite unaware of the fact that the range and destructive
power of firearms, both infantry and artillery, are at least a hundred fold greater than
formerly, and that, consequently, a much higher scientific knowledge is required in
those who have to handle them and direct their fire. Again, the enormous increase
in the size of modern armies is entirely overlooked.
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It follows from this, that the main result of these two conditions, namely the
vastly greater extent of modern tattlefields, is altogether ignored.
Surely the merest novice in military affairs can understand from all this that the
brain power of an army must, of necessity, be infinitely greater and more widely dif-
fused than formerly.
It was as much as the brain of Wellington, with the assistance of his small staff,
could do to direct the operations of the battle of Waterloo on a front of some 5 or (j
miles. Would the same staff have suiEced him to bring to the same successful con-
clusion the battle of Mukden, which was fought on a front of 100 miles?
The fact is, that these critics do not in the least understand how complicated and
technical a business war has now become, not only in its combatant but in its ad-
ministrative aspects.
The average citizen, while recognizing that the soldier requires to be fed, clothed
and equipped, does not readily realize what this means in practice. Having himself
usually a fixed abode, he becomes accustomed to rely upon the trademen with whom
ho' deals to supply his wants as they arise, with the minimum of forethought on his
part. The nature of the problem which faces the military administrator, when dealing
with an army in the field, maj', perhaps, be most readily understood from the follow-
ing simple illustration :—
The size of the force which Canada aims at being able to place in the field in
case of emergency is, as has been previously noted, 100,000 in the first line. This
means that the strength of the main force would not fall far short of the population
of the city of Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion.
Bearing this in mind, it will be seen that the organization prepared by the Cana-
dian military administrator has to be such that, at a moment's notice, a body of men
nearly as numerous as the whole population of Ottawa, can be moved, at the General's
will, any distance up to 20 or 30 miles daily, in any direction, both distance and
direction being liable to be changed without warning in the middle of a march, and
yet find, at every halt, food, water, fuel, and usually shelter, provided for, their de-
ficiencies in clothing, ammunition, horses, &c., made good, and their sick and wounded
collected and cared for.
This is one of the tests of a sound military system, and yet it is but one, and
perhaps one of the simpler demands upon the military administration. The prob-
lems of maintaining a regular supply of trained men and horses to replace casualties
in the ranks, or of keeping up eonstimt and reliable connnunication between the dif-
ferent units of a force operating over an area of perhaps several hundred square
miles, are even more diificult, — and there are many others.
This is the question of administration only — the art of handling large masses
of men in the actual combat is even more difficult and exacting.
The deduction to be drawn from these considerations is, that, alike for the
organization and training of the army in peace and for its administration and con-
trol in war, a large and sufficiently trained body of staff officers is indispensable. A
staff officer cannot learn his duties after war has broken out, and an inefficient staff
will nullify the efforts of the best commander and the best trained troops in the
field Moreover, to be an efficient staff officer demands quite exceptional qualitie.9.
Tie must not only te well educated, able, businesslike, but he must work hard and
devote continual study to the technical side of his profession in war, and must give
himself constant practice in the performance of his duties during peace. It demands
from him an amount of ability and hard work which would ensure success in the
ordinary wallts of life If a sufficient supply of officers possessing these qualifica-
tions is to be obtained, sufficient inducements must be held out to bring men forward
to qualify themselves for the work.
Such inducements may take either of two forms — special advancement in their
profession or increased pay. In a force constituted as is the Militia force of the
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Dominion, the former is bardly feasible and would involve serious drawbacks, and
the true solution would appear to lie in the direction of pay higher than that of the
regimental officer, and at a rate generally comparable with what a successful business
man would receive in civil life.
At present there can be no doubt but that the militia staff is inadequate for
the amount of work required to be done, and that the efficient staff officer is under-
paid, both as compared to the regimental officer and in relation to the quality of the
work performed.
The demands upon a staff officer in the way of expenditure are heavy and fre-
quent, and the increase in the cost of living of late years, while it has hit the officer
and the civil servant alike, has been especially severe upon District Officer Command-
ing, and the staff officers both at Headquarters and in the Commands and Districts.
I venture to think that this subject deserves the early and serious consideration
of the Dominion Government — efficient staff' officers are an indispensable part of any
miiitavy force, if it is to be effective; tliey cannot be improvised when war threatens,
and material inducements appear Jto be requisite in order to lead officers to subm,it
themselves to the constant work and severe self-education necessary to develop an
efficient staff officer.
The holding out of rewards to efficient officers might well be accompanied by a
strict weeding out of those others who have not made themselves proficient in their
duties.
(G)— EOYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.
On June 2, I inspected the Royal Military College at Kingston.
I saw the cadets formed up on parade. They appeared to me to be a very fine
body of men, averaging about 19 years of age, well set up and emartly turned out.
Their drill and marching were excellent.
After the parade I went through the class rooms, lecture rooms, dormitories, &c.
Some specimens of military plans and sketches executed by the cadets were laid
out in one of the class rooms, which indicated excellent instruction and satisfactory
proficiency in topography.
The bath room and sanitary arrangements seemed good and suitable.
There is a workshop, where the cadets learn and practise carpentering and handy
work generally. I think this is a particularly useful establishment.
The chemical laboratories, electric science models, machines, &c , were indicative
of the excellent general education which is imparted to the cadets.
There is a large covered building which is given up to practical instruction in
field fortification and engineering. An excellent model of ground covers the whole
space.
Good provision appears to be made for sport of every kind, particularly those
connected with the hard winters, which last so long in this country.
There appear to be excellent boating and bathing facilities on the shores of the
lake and river which almost surround the college.
I visited the gymnasium, and saw the whole of the senior class of cadets carry-
ing out gymnastic exercises in a style which I have never seen excelled in any in-
stitution I have inspected.
There appears to be a valuable collection of books, but nothing in the nature of
a reading room, which would be a useful addition to such an institution as this. I
have also to remark upon the fact that there is a deficiency in the necessary number
of dormitories. ^Vllen two cadets are compelled to occupy the same room, opportu-
nities for private study are very much curtailed, and the best advantage is not
obtained from the excellent course of study provided at the college.
A riding establishment has just come into existence, with good stabling, &c.
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There is no riding- school, but only an uncovered manege. , I think, considering
the length of the winter and the hard weather, in this country, that a covered riding
school is a most necessary adjunct.
In this connection I may mention that there is a skating rink, which is also
uncovered and which, for similar reasons, should also be covered in. It is of im-
portance that the cadets should have every opportunity for getting hard exercise
throughout the year.
The outside direction of the college is lai'gely in the hands of a Board of Visitors,
which reports to the Militia Council. The Board is composed of past and present
Canadian ofBeers, members of parliament and eminent educationalists. Sometimes
the Inspector General or the Chief of the General Staff is on the Board, but not
always. I venture to think that it should be a rule that one or the other of these
officers should, invariably, be a member.
There appears to be a very good and efficient staff of officers and professors, and
I am persuaded that the instruction throughout is sound and good.
Referring to the subjects embodied in the syllabus of instruction at the college,
it appears that no lectures are given in military history and that no campaign is
regularly studied.' There is thus no opportunity of practically applying theories
which have been studied and learned. I strongly recommend attention to this point.
A fireat feature of the college is the endeavour to make it answer the purposes
of a national ' war school ' by holding ' long ' and ' short ' courses, special instruction
classes, &c., for both permanent and active militia officers.
I have heard much of the Royal Military College at Kingston, and from what I
have observed I feel sure that the celebrity which the institution has earned through-
ouL the empire on account of the good work it has achieved is well justified.
The constitution of the Royal Military College seems to indicate the main inten-
tion of its founders. A few graduates are chosen every year for service with the
regular army, whilst others join the Canadian Permanent Force. The great majority
of the graduates do not, however, adopt soldiering as their principal business or call-
ing in life. They become Reserve Officers, and constitute a body which, owing to the
fine preliminary training which they have received, should be a great strength to
national and Imperial defence.
A country like this, which is in course of such rapid development cannot hamper
its best citizens in pursuing their several avocations in the direction of national
advancement and national development.
The principle then, of giving to a large propoi-tion of its brain power the advan-
tage of military training and education is a great asset in the provision of national
defence, for the supply of efficient officers in a crisis is assured.
Fov tlie'^c rc'i.sniis T vonture, in this report, to urge most strongly the extension
of the principle embodied in this excellent system, of giving militai-y training to the
youth of Canada.
It appears to me that, at present, the general effect upon the country is infinitely
k>? thin it miffht be if fic college at Kingston were greatly enlarged, and perhaps a
similar institution established elsewhere.
It is perhaps, hardly within my province to make such recommendations,
but I realize so fully the value of the work already done, and the great necessity for
securing a higher standard of military education and knowledge amongst the officers
of the Active Militia that I feel impelled to state my opinion emphatically.
There is another point of great importance to which I desire to call attention.
It appears that, at the present time, the Dominion educates a number of young men,
to a large extent at the expense of the state, and gets no return from them in the
way of military service. In a country like Canada, which maintains no regular
army, the question of national defence is of the utmost importance to every individual
citizen, and whilst, in my opinion, every one is morally bound to take some share in
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this great work, I consider a full share may be justly demanded from those citizens
■nho have had the advantage of being educated at the Royal Military College.
I am aware that graduates are obliged to become Reserve Officers for a certain
number of years, but I think they ought either to be compelled to take service with
the Active Militia for a period of at least ten years, or, if they can show satisfactorily
thai they are not in a position to do this, they ought to be called upon to undergo mili-
tary training at intervals of two or three years, and to pass a certain qualification test
to ensure their ability to furnish that return to their country for which the education
they have received at the Royal Military College renders them amenable.
(H)— REGIMENTAL OFFICERS.
I am informed that there has been a great improvement in recent years in regi-
mental commanding officers. I have had little opportunity of personally judging of
their merits, but I have observed them chiefly to be young, energetic men, of active
habits and possessing business capacity.
It appears that, before commanding a regiment, an officer must have qualified on
entry, and subsequently as a captain, and again as a field officer, and, in addition, he
must have passed for some period under the close observation of the Inspector Gen-
err.l and the officer commanding his District.
Provided these tests are thoroughly applied they would appear to be suflicient for
the purpose, but I am informed that conditions and requirements are often relaxed,
and this, iirobably, accounts for the fact that some conunanding officers who have
come under my notice are unfit for their position. I recommend that the attainment
of the qualifications be enforced to the utmost limit, for I hold that, without efficient
command, no unit can be considered of any effective use in the field.
What has struck me more than anything else in this connection is the fact that,
whenever I have visited camping grounds, I have seen nothing but regiments and
battalions working together under the commanding officer, although squadrons and
companies have only been under training for a few days and are quite unfit to be
worked together.
It would appear that commanding officers have not realized the fact that the ef-
ficiency of the individual squadron or company is the essence of all sound military
training, and they do not seem to have power to direct and supervise such independent
training.
To be able to do so in an efficient manner, and without undue interference, is
one of the highest and most necessary qualifications for a commanding officer to
possess.
With regard to sq\iadron, battery and company commanders, I have to remark
that, although I have noticed a display of much activity and energy amongst them,
there is everywhere considerable room for improvement.
I notice that they are not, apparently, given a sufficient measure of responsibilit.v
when they are concentrated with their regiments, but appear to be kept too much in
leading strings under the regimental commander.
The attitude of these officers towards their men, when engaged in drill and
manoeuvre, leaves a good deal to be desired. Th'ey issue rough, sharp instructions and
directions, without giving their men any reasonable explanation why they are expect-
ed to do certain things. They altogether fail, it seems to me, to appeal to their men's
reason and intelligence, a principle which should be at the very root and foundation
of all intercourse between officers and men, particularly in a force like the Canadian
Militia.
On the other hand, I have noticed that they do not maintain a proper discipline
amongst their men when engaged in field exercises. I have heard talking and shout-
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iug, and all sorts of irrevelant conversation going on whilst a maiiceuvre, which de-
manded the close attention of all ranks, was in course of being carried out. The of-
ficers were standing by and taking no notice. Here, again, appeal might well have
been made to the men's reason and intelligence.
It seems to me that qualification tests must have been a good deal relaxed, for
squadron and company commanders do not appear to know enough themselves to in-
struct the young officers under their command, or to impart that theoretical instruc-
tion to all ranks of their command which is absolutely essential to practical training
for war.
Turning to the junior officers, the general stamp is good, and,_ provided the ex-
isting qualification tests are strictly enforced, they ought to be quite capable of ef-
ficiently officering the Canadian Militia.
From the outset of their instruction they should be taught, before all things,
initiative and resource, and some responsible charge, however limited, should be con-
fided to them.
If the Jvoyal Militiiry College principle could be more widely extended a much,
larger proportion of militia officers would be graduates of that institution, and the;
eifect on the efficiency of the force would be incalculable.
(I)— NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN.,
The good selection and adequate qualification of non-commissioned officers is one
of the most important conditions for the efficiency of any military unit, and I feel
assured, from all I have observed, that this requires far greater care and attention
than it now receives.
It is not at all unusual, I believe, for non-commissioned officers to be found serv-
ing as such at their first attendance in camp.
Non-commissioned officers should be chosen by unit commanders from amongst
the best men in the ranks of their command. They should be selected for their
.superior knowledge and intelligence, and should be required to pass a certain quali-
fying test.
For this purpose schools of instruction should be available and every facility
should be afforded to enable men selected for non-commissioned officers to study and
qualify as such. Whatever expense this may entail to the state (and it cannot
be a very great item), is absolutely essential to the fighting efficiency of the forces.
In respect of non-commissioned officers, I understand there is a great difference
between city and rural corps.
In such units of the Canadian Militia as have come under my observation I
consider the physique of the men is very good, although, in some corps, I have
noticed a sprinkling of mere boys.
I have, as a rule, been much impressed by their smart turn out, their set up and
their bearing on parade. Their marching and manceuvre were also decidedly good
for non-regular troops, and there can be no doubt that they are pervaded by a fine
patriotic .spirit, energy, and a great desire to do all in their power to render them-
selves efficient. They appear to be quite amenable to discipline when it is properly
enforced, and generally to possess intelligence and resource.
I have to add that I have been informed by competent authorities that the
physique of the men composing the Canadian Militia is not so good as that of the
inhabitants of the country, but I cannot speak from my own personal knowledge.
I am further informed that the term of service engagement of three years is
hardly ever exacted.
I consider this to be very prejudical to the efficiency of the force, and it is my
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man undertakes to carry out when he joins, is fulfilled to the last day and hour, and
every available moment is used for the purposes of training and instruction, the
Canadian Militia can never be considered in an efficient condition to undertake the
responsibilities for which it exists
(J)— HOESES.
I regret that there has not been sufficient time or opportunity to study the horse
question in Canada as fully as I should have liked. I am, therefore, unable to ex-
press any reliable opinion as to the best means of meeting military requirements.
It is. however, quite clear to me that satisfactory arrangements for the adequate
supply of horses for war do not exist throughout the Dominion, and I desire to draw
attention to the danger which such a state of affairs involves.
In Appendix ' D ' will be found a short statement of peace training and war es-
tablishments of horses for the mounted troops in Canada.
I am informed that there is little doubt of these numbers being forthcoming on
mobilization.
It can be taken as certain that at least 10 per cent of these numbers would be
found unfit for service, so that, taking 33,000 as being the number required, some
3,000 of these would have to be made good from reserve sources.
In a serious war it must be expected that within 6 weeks 50 per cent of these
numbers would be required to make good losses and deficiencies, and a similar num-
ber C weeks later.
A reserve of at least 30,000 horses of all kinds would thus be necessary to keep
the mounted troops of the Dominion efficient within three months of the outbreak
of war, which, with the 3,000 required to make good unfits on mobilization, makes
a total of 33,000.
I am informed that even with the best mobilization arrangements and super-
vision it would be very difficult to register so large a number but, with matters as
they are at present, it would be impossible, for no machinery exists for such a pur-
pose except certain registers of draught horses in Commands and Districts.
I recommend that an Assistant Director of Eemounts be added to the Depart-
ment of the Qiuirtermaster General, with a suitable inspection and veterinary staff.
His duties would be: —
(1) To keep the Militia Council fully acquainted with the numbers and classes
of I'.orscs produced annually for training;
(2) To supervise the service rolls of mounted units and ascertain by inspection
and inquiry if the horses shown on such rolls are really available and fairly fit for
service;
(3) To take over the registration department and to thoroughly exploit the
horse resources of the country with a view to securing as large a number as pos-
sible registered to complete the numbers which would be required on mobilization ;
(4) To arrange for the establishment of horse depots in war and to undertake
all mobilization arrangements as regards horses and transport.
As regards the permanent force. I think a snmll permanent horse depot should
be kept up in time of peace at some convenient central place.
Considering the nature of the country, particularly in the west, and the general
coiiditiotis of life in Canada, mounted troops seem likely to play an important part in
warfare conducted in North America, and the possession of carefully economized
horse reserves would probably prove of great value and would give much advantage
to the side which is best prepared in this respect.
I have conversed on the subject with several competent authorities in the coun-
try, and there appears to me to be a consensus of opinion that breeders require more
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government help and encouragement. There are, apparently, some determined and
energetic efforts now being made to improve the horse supply of the Dominion, notably
by an organization known as ' The Horse Breeders' Association.'
It is well known that conditions in the Dominion of Canada favoair horse breed-
ing on a large scale, and, if these facilities are fully developed and encouraged, it is
quite possible that the Dominion might, in time, become the chief source of horse
supply for the Empire, which would go far to solve a very difficult problem.
(K)— AEMAMENT AXD AMMUXITIOX.
FOKTRESS ARTILLERY.
The armament of the fortress at Halifax and the river forts near Quebec seemed
suitable for the purpose.
HEAVY FIELD ARTILLERY.
The armament of the heavy field artillery batteries is suitable, but there is so
little scope for the full development of fire at such long ranges in densely wooded
country, that it is a question in my mind whether the result obtained by the employ-
ment of such heavy ordnance in the field will, in most parts of eastern Canada, out-
weigh the expense and difficulty of the transport with which it is necessary to furnish
them.
FIELD IIOWITZim B.\TTEHIES.
There appears to be only one howitzer brigade in the Dominion. It is armed
with a 5-inch gun which is very suitable.
I have elsewhere expressed the opinion that the full proportion of howitzer bat-
teries, as laid down in Imperial divisional organizations, should be provided in
Canada.
It seems to me that the vertical fire of howitzer batteries might be very effective
in the kind of country in which they will have to act.
HORSE AND FIELD ARTILLERY.
The armament adopted is similar to that used in the Imperial Army, and the re-
armament of the batteries is, I understand, progressing very satisfactorily.
I have remarked elsewhere upon the absence of field telephones with batteries,
and I think that such an important essential should be provided as speedily as
possible.
Having regard to the trials which are now going on in all the great military
centres of the world of a proposed automatic rifle I have no remarks or recommenda-
tions to make on the subject of the difference in armament between the Canadian
and Imperial Forces.
It is to be noted, however, that the most important essential is assured in the
similarity of the ammunition used by the Eoss rifle and that used in other parts of
the Empire.
AMMUNITION.
I understand there is a reserve of shrapnell shell ranging from 500 to 1,000
rounds per gun. I am of opinion that this is not enough and that it should be at
least double. There is. also, in my opinion, a considerable deficiency in small arm
ammunition. I am told that 40,000,000 rounds are now in store. This amount should
be doubled before the position can be considered satisfactory.
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I have nothing to add to the few remarks which appear under the heading of
■ Manufacturing Establishments.'
I would call attention to the remarks of Major General Sir Percy Lake in his
annual report for 1908-09 on this subject. I concur generally with the opinions he
expresses.
In one or two of the cavalry regiments which I inspected in this country I have
seen such excellent cavalry material, both as regards men and horses, that I feel
assured, when they had been together for a few weeks after mobilization, they woubl
be capable of acting effectively with the arme hlanche in small bodies on a sudden
emergency.
I should like to have equipped such regiments with the sword, but I am aware
that many other conditions are involved, and 1 do not, therefore, feel myself in a
position to do more than put forward the suggestion.
(L)— ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES.
I saw some Canadian Army Service Coi-ps Companies at Niagara and Petawawa.
They were doing the transport and supply work of those large camps in a very effi-
cient and satisfactory manner.
The principal of enlisting special e.xpert skill and talent into the niilitary service
is also apparent here, and very good progress is being made in this branch of the
administrative services.
The Canadian Army Medical Services is also receiving much care and attention.
I inspected several Field Ambulances and Hospitals at the various camps, and was
much struck by the energy, skill and efficiency everywhere displayed.
Although it has no bearing upon the subject immediately imder report, I cannot
help remarking that full value cannot be derived from the satisfactory condition of
the administrative services in the absence of a sound system of peace organization
in war divisions.
(M)— FORTRESSES AND ARMED POSTS.
I inspected the fortress at Halifax on June 8, 9 and 10, and on June 10 I saw
shell practice from Sandwich battery. The practice from the 6-inch guns was only
fair, observation being faulty. The practice from the 12-pr. guns, at short range, was
good.
On June 8 and 10, I visited all the defence works. The batteries are in good
condition; the armament, equipment and ammunition in good order, and as complete
as is possible pending the execution of certain alterations. I consider that the de-
fences are sufficient to protect the harbour from attack by sea.
On the evening of June 9, I saw the electric lights at work. They are powerful
and effective; well placed and well worked. The tugs which were employed to run
past the lights into the harbour were easily discovered and clearly shown up. A de-
tachment of active militia artillery manned the guns at Fort Ilugonin during this
operation, and fired blank against the tugs. The drill was well carried out; the
arrangements for warning the battery worked effectively and the whole practice was
highly satisfactory.
On June 9 I inspected the 'movable armament,' and considered the question of
land defence.
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111 my opinion the arrangements for land defence have not hcen sufficiently
worked out, and are incomplete. The battery at Sandwich Point offers a tempting
objective for a sudden raid, and the possible capture of Halifax might well induce
an enemy to undertake land operations on a large scale.
Considering the nature of the country the ' movable armament ' is probably suf-
ficient, but the infantry immediately available for defence consists only of six com-
panies of permanent troops and three militia battalions. This force cannot be con-
sidered sufficient to ensure the safety of the fortress.
On June 9 I visited the barracks, hospital, A. S. C. establishments, engineer
lines and workshops, and citadel. I found everything satisfactory.
I am not quite satisfied that the mobilization arrangements are as complete as they
should be, especially with regard to the provision of a sufficient number of fortress
engineers.
I visited the forts on the St. Lawrence on May 31.
The batteries designed for the defence of the St. Lawrence channel appear to be
suitably placed and will be sufficiently armed when completed. A suitable force must
be detailed for their defence by land.
The forts erected about 1870 for the protection of Levis from attack by land
from the south may prove to have some value as ' points d'appui ' for the garrison of
Quebec, but I do not recommend that any further expenditure be incurred upon them,
The necessary arrangements can" be embodied in a Quebec defence scheme.
(N)— SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURING ESTABLISH-
MENTS.
I inspected the School of Garrison Artillery at Halifax. This establishment is
well equipped and I consider that useful instruction is given to officers and non-com-
missioned officers.
I saw two schools of instruction for infantry at work at Quebec and Toronto.
The instructors and the officers under instruction appeared to be applying themselves
with diligence to their work, but I am not satisfied that these courses are as valuable
as they ought to be. At bofli places the classes which I saw were engaged in purely
ceremonial work, and the instruction was given by old fashioned methods. I think
that more might be done in the way of lecturing and teaching the principles of field
manoeuvre and fire action. Care should also be taken that the instructors do not
yield to the temptation to make their work easy by rattling off memorized extracts
from the drill book — which any officer can read for himself — instead of by personally
illustrating the manner in which the instructions of the text books should be carried
out, and explaining the intentions of the various exercises and the military end for
which they are designed.
I consider also that simple tactical schemes might be carried out v.-ith great bene-
fit to the officers who attend these courses.
Speaking generally, more attention might be paid to the essentials of war train-
ing and less time given up to non-essentials.
I saw a class at the Cavalry School at Toronto, and artillery classes at Kingston
and Quebec, but was unable to make any detailed inspection of them.
I understand that the School of Signalling produces satisfactory results, and I
anticipate that the proposed system of instruction in musketry will have a beneficial
effect.
I inspected the Arsenal at Quebec on May 31. This establishment appears to be
under very capable management, and I was much struck by its orderly and business-
like arrangements. I consider it to be a valuable asset in the military resources of
the Dominion, and I should judge that, by judicious expansion, its value may be
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materially increased. In certain respects, Canada is not yet, in a military sense,
self-supporting, and, althougli it may not be necessary for the Dominion to be entirely
independent of outside supply, yet every advance in this direction is an addition to
security.
Some structural alterations and enlargement in the arsenal buildings appear to
be necessary.
I visited the Eoss Eifle Factory at Quebec on May 31. The buildings and plant
appear to be in excellent order.
The inspection branch appears to be efficient and well managed. Its officers
brought to my notice what appeared to be a defect in the specifications governing
the hilt of the present bayonet, but I understand that this question is already receiv-
ing your attention.
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PART II.— WESTERN CANADA.
I visited the places iu western Canada on the dates mentioned in the itinerary.
(See Appendix 'A')-
I am unable to report as to the military situation in detail, as in the case of
eastern Canada, because military organization in this part of the country has been
undertaken comparatively lately, and is only in process of development.
Whether it is keeping pace with the economic progress of western Canada is a
question upon which I do' not feel myself competent to judge, but when the enormous
area under cultivation in the western part of the Dominion is considered, and the
greatly enhanced value of property, it would appear that the forces maintained for
its protection are, comparatively, very small in number.
The military relations of western Canada to the rest of the Dominion may bo
likened to a great open plain which lies under the partial protection of a fortress.
The west will, of course, always be liable in time of war to raids, and the adequate
defence of the Canadian Pacific and other railways have to be provided for.
The character of the country between Winnipeg and the eastern slope of the
Rocky Mountains is admirably adapted to the employment of mounted rifles sup-
ported by horse artillery.
A certain amount of infantry and, perhaps, heavy artillery, will be necessary
to defend Winnipeg and other important centres, to hold posts on the railway lines,
and to act as rallying points to mounted rifles.
This appears to be the principle upon which the organization of the military
defence of the west is proceeding, and I am of opinion that it is in accordance with
the needs of the situation, excepting as regards the paucity of numbers alluded to
above.
At the headquarters of Military District No. 13, at Calgary, I saw the camp
established there under Lieut.-Col. Cruikshank.
I was present when a manoeuvre was carried out in the adjacent country by the
following troops : —
15th Light Horse.
19th Mounted Rifles.
21st Hussars.
23rd Alberta Rangers.
One Squadron, Light Horse.
25th Battery, C. F. A.
Corps of Guides (M.D. No. IS).
Signalling Corps (M.D. No. 13).
No. XVII Cavalry Field Ambulance.
The men were of excellent physique and rode, generally, well.
The horses were of a good stamp, and admirably suited to the work they were
doing.
The officers had the makings of good cavalry leaders, and there appeared to be
an excellent understanding between them and their men.
The manoeuvre, however, revealed many shortcomings, and showed a consider-
able lack of training and knowledge.
The principal fault lay in failure to use ground to the best advantage and to
secure cover from firing.
There was much undue exposure to led horses when the men were taking a posi-
tion dismounted.
The artillery, however, was very well worked.
The camp and horse lines were well laid out and well kept, and both officers and
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men displayed considerable aptitude in the care and management of horses in camp,
qualifications which are so essential to the efficiency of mounted troops in the field.
On the whole I think the troops of No. 13 Military District are progressing in
a right direction, but I must point out that there is considerable room for improve-
ment in their methods of handling and working: mounted riflemen in the field.
On June 29 I visited the camp at Sewell, composed of troops of No. 10 JMilitiiry
District, under the command of Colonel Steele, C.B.
I witnessed a field manoeuvre in which the following troops were engaged: —
12th Dragoons,
16th Light Horse,
18th Mounted Kifles,
20th Border Horse,
22nd Light Horse ("'A' and 'B' Squadrons),
13th Battery, C.F.A.,
Corps of Guides (M.D. No. 10),
99th Eegiment,
Signalling Corps (M.D. No. 10),
No. XVI. Field Ambulance.
At Sewell also I wa.<? greatly struck by the excellent material of which the
cavalry in the west appears to be composed. Officers, men and horses, all seemed
peculiarly adapted to the kind of fighting to which the country lends itself.
In the manoeuvre exercises there were many mistakes and shortcomings, again
due to lack of training and knowledge, but the same fine spirit of earnest desire to
improve themselves was as manifest here as elsewhere.
The smart and efficient laying out of the camp lines was very remarkable in
troops which had been together for so short a time.
Although the horses had been doing hard work in very hot weather for several
days previously, they showed no sign of it, but looked hard and fit and thoroughly
well cared for.
For reasons which I have stated above I am of opinion that the training of the
cavalry in Canada is not long enough, but should be extended, like that of the artil-
lery, to 16 days.
On July 1 I inspected the 79th Highlanders and the 90th Eifles at Winnipeg.
They are a fine, well set up body of men, and their parade movements were very well
carried out. I had no opportunity of testing their field training and efficiency.
Nearly all mounted regiments which I saw in the west came to camp very weak
and in no case approaching their establishment. I am told that the reason for this
ia the paucity of horses, and that whilst heavy farm horses and other kinds of horses
are bred in abundance the cavalry horse is getting scarce.
The defence of a country like western Canada so largely depends upon an ade-
quate supply of horses suitable for cavalry and mounted riflemen tliat I would call
particular attention to the question of horse supply.
I have had no time to go at any length into the subject and am, therefore, unable
to make any definite proposal or recommendation, but it seems to me that the coun-
try lends itself in a peculiarly favourable manner to horse breeding generally, and
that if some form of government encouragement and assistance were given to breed-
ers a great industry might arise which would prove of great benefit, not only to west-
ern Canada, but to the Empire at large.
A training gi'ound similar to that at Petawawa is badly needed in the west.
When at Sewell I was shown a large extent of suitable country, which it appears
can be obtained without great trouble or expense.
I venture also to put forward this question as one of great importance to the ef-
ficiency of the troops in the west.
What I liave remarked generally, under the various headings, as to the state and
condition of the troops in eastern Canada, applies in a great measure to the west also.
REPORT OF GENERAL SIR JONE FRENCH
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35a
PART III— SUMMARY.
I have endeavoured in this report to emphasize the necessity for a sound peace
organization and a thoroughly well established staff system in order to ensure that
immediate mobilization and prompt movement which alone can secure to Canada
the initiative in a serious war.
It is upon their ability to do this effectively that a real and reliable estimate
of the value of the Canadian Forces can be formed.
I am not called upon to express opinions on the subject of universal service,
nor do I wish to do so, but I am not prepared, at present, to say that the volunteer
system is inadequate to the requirements of the Dominion, because that system has
not yet, in my opinion, had a fair trial.
It cannot be judged upon its merits until it is seen what results will accrue
when the rules and regulations which are framed to give effect to it are strictly en-
forced.
An army which is maintained on a volunteer basis has certain decided advan-
tages, and it is probably more suitable to a country like Canada than any other, if
it can be made so efficient as to guarantee reasonable security.
But sound organization, good staff work and competent commanders are the
first essentials for its success, and there must be the closest adherence to Regulations
laid down.
The full measure of service and obligation which a volunteer, whether officer or
private, takes upon himself must be exacted.
In a force raised and maintained on a volunteer system, nothing less than this
will do, and anything less will mean inefficiency, failure, and. at last, disaster.
According to my judgment, these important requirements are not fulfilled.
1 may summarize the principal shortcomings as lying in an insufficiently de-
veloped organization; inadequate knowledge in the higher command; in the test
qualifications for officers and non-commissioned officers of the Active Militia laid
down in Regulations, not being strictly enforced; and in the rank and file not be-
ing compelled to fulfil their engagements
Only when the regulations which govern the constitution and maintenance of
the Canadian Militia are strictly enforced will it be possible to say whether the pres-
ent system meets the defensive requirements of the country or not.
Judging from what I have seen of the excellent material and the fine spirit which
is apparent in all ranks, and taking also into consideration the marked progress
which has been made within the past few years, and the evident signs of its con-
tinuance, I should be inclined to think that, so long as the present condition of
affairs on the North American Continent remains as it is, the existing system, if
strictly administered on a sound bf.sis of peace organization, should suffice to meet
the needs of the Dominion.
We live, however, in times of great change and progress, and it behoves the in-
telligence department to keep a sharp eye upon the course of events so that the
government may be kept au courant with any military changes in other countries
which necessitate consideration of a more drastic military system on the part of
Canada.
I may mention that, in the cour-e of my tour of inspection. I have seen several
bodies of cadets.
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The movement seems to be making good progress throughout the Dominion,
and I have been much struck by the fine physique and training of the boys and
their smart and soldierlike bearing on parade.
I think much credit is due to those distinguished members of the scholastic and
ecclesiastical professions who have done so much to foster this movement, which T
regard of very great promise for the future of the Canadian Forces.
I cannot close this report without expressing my deep appreciation of the help
rendered to me throughoiit the whole of my tour of inspection by Major General 'Sir
Percy Lake, Inspector General of the Canadian Forces, Colonel F. L. Lessard, Ad-
jutant General, and the other members of the Canadian StafE who have accompanied
me throughout.
I must also express my warmest thanks for the kindness aud cordiality with
which I have everywhere been received.
I have been thrown so much during my service with the Canadian Forces in the
Field, and I have learned to regard them with such admiration and esteem, that it
has given me the deepest pleasure and satisfaction to renew my acquaintance with
them.
I have the honour to be, sir.
Your obedient servant,
,T. D. P. FRENCH, General.
Inspector General of the Imperial Forces.
REPORT OF GENERAL SIR JONU FREXCH
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35a
31
APPENDIX 'A.'
Date.
Place.
Remarks.
May 20
Quebec
„ 21
„ 22..
.. 23
Toronto. . ...
Inspection Toronto Cadet Corps by (Jovernor General.
M 24
„ 25
Unveiling South African memorial ; in.speclion 2nd, lOtb and 4JStli
Regiments.
Inspect permanent corps, Toronto.
„ 26
Hamilton
„ 27
„ 28
Inspect 1st, 3rd, 5th, C5th Regiments and Cadets.
M 29
Leave for Quelicc.
„ 30
Quebec
„ 31
.lunc 1 and 2. . .
„ S
Kingston
Inspect 14th Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse -Vrtillery and Royal
Military College.
Leave for Ottawa.
u 4 and '>. ..
Ottawa
Inspect the G. G. F. Guards and 43rd Regiment.
" 6
Leave for Halifax.
.. 7 to 10. . . .
.. 11
„ 12
Halifax
St. .JoliM
Inspect permanent corps, fortifications, 63rd, 6Gth Regiments and 1st
Canadian Artillery.
Leave for St. John ; inspect 62nd Regiment and 3rd Canadian Artil-
lery.
Leave for Niagara.
,. 15 to 17...
Niagara
Inspect troops in caraji.
„ 18
Kingston
Inspect troops in camp.
„ I'J and 20 .
Petawawa
Inspect troops in camp.
.. 23to25....
Calgary
Inspect troops in camp.
.. 25 .
..26
Banff
„ 27 and 28. ,
Rpgina
Inspect Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
.. 2'J
Inspect troops in camp.
Inspect 7!)th and 90th Regiments.
>. 29 to July 2
Winnipeg. . .
July 4
Ottawa
Hand in report to the Hon. the Minister.
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APPENDIX B.
(Not printed.)
APPENDIX C.
Suggested orgauization in one Cavalry Division, Five Divisions, Two Field
Forces and Garrisons.
Based on present establishment and distribution of Canadian Active !?.Iilitia.
CAVALRY DIVISIOiSr.
(Organized only on mobilization, does not exist as such in peace.)
1st Cavalry Brigade — •
The G. G. Body Guard.
9th Mississauga Horse.
25th Dragoons.
9th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery.
1st Field Troop Engineers (non-existent yet).
Cavalry Brigade T. and S. Column (No. 12 Co. C.A.S.C).
13th Cavalry Brigade Field Ambulance.
2nd Cavalry Brigade —
3rd Dragoons.
5th Dragoon Guards.
'A' Battery, Eoyal Canadian Horse Artillery.
Field Troop Engineers (non-existent j'ct).
Cavalry Brigade T. and S. Column.
3rd Cavalry Brigade Field Ambulance.
3rd Cavalry Brigade —
6th Hussars
7th Hussars.
11th Hussars.
' B ' Battery, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.
Field Troop Engineers (non-existent yet).
Cavalry Brigade T. and S. Column (No. 13 Co. C.A.S.C).
6th Cavalry Brigade Field Ambulance (when raised).
5th Cavalry Brigade —
10th Hussars.
13th Dragoons.
26th Dragoons.
Battery, Horse Artillery.
Field Troop Engineers (non-existent yet).
Cavalry Brigade T. and S. Column (No. 10 Go. C.A.S.C).
Cavalry Brigade Field Ambulance.
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FIKST DIVISION.
Cavalry —
24th Grey's Horse.
.\rtillery —
Brigade, C.F.A.
Brigade, C.F.A.
Brigade, C.F.A.
1st Brigade, C.F.A. (Howitzer), (Guelph).
Heavy Battery (No. 3 Co. R.C.G.A., Quebec).
Engineers —
Field Company.
Field Company.
Telegraph Detachment.
Infantry —
1st Brigade (London, 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th).
2nd Brigade (Guelph, 29th, 30th, 32nd, 33rd).
4th Brigade (Toronto, 23rd, 31st, 35th, 97th).
Army Service Corps —
T. & S. Column (No. 1 Co. C.A.S.C, Guelph).
T. & S. Column.
T. & S. Column.
T. & S. Column.
Medical Corps —
No. XIV. Field Ambulance (Sarnia).
No. XV. Field Ambulance (London).
Field Ambulance.
ARMY TROOPS (aTT.\CHEd).
Mobile Column.
1st Hussars.
6th Battery, C.F.A.
19th Infantry Brigade (London. 7th, 21st, 24th, 25th).
No. XIX. Field Ambulance (Hamilton).
SECOND DIVISION.
Cavalry —
17th Hussars (Montreal).
Artillery —
6th Brigade, C.F.A. (Montreal).
7th Brigade, C.F.A. ( Sherbrooke) .
5th Brigade, C.F.A. (Quebec).
Brigade, C.F.A. (Howitzer).
2nd Battery Heavy Brigade (Montreal).
Engineers —
4th Field Company (Montreal).
Field Company.
Telegraph Detachment.
Infantry —
9th Brigade (Montreal, 11th, 64th, 80th, 83rd, 85th).
18th Brigade (Montreal, 1st, 3rd, 5th (2), 65th).
10th Brigade (Quebec, 4th, 17th, 18th, 55th).
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Army Service Corps —
T. & S. Column (No. 4 Co. C.A.S.C, Montreal).
T. & S. Column (No. 6 Co. C.A.S.C, Sherbrooke).
T. & S. Column.
T. & S. Column.
Medical Corps —
No. IV. Field Ambulance (Montreal). ^
No. V. Field Ambulance (Montreal).
No. XX. Field Ambulance (Montreal).
AEMY TROOPS (ATTACHED).
3rd Cavalry Brigade.
5th Cavalry Brigade.
11th Infantry Brigade (Quebec, 61st, 87th, 89th, 92nd).
20th Infantry Brigade (Quebec, 8th, 9th, 53rd, 84th, 86th).
No. VI. Field Ambulance (Quebec).
THIRD DIVISION.
Cavalry —
14th Hussars (2 squadrons).
Prince Edward Island Light Horse (1 squadron).
Artillery —
3rd Brigade, C.F.A. (Sydney).
4th Brigade, C.F.A. (Woodstock) (less 1 battery).
Brigade, C.F.A.
Brigade, C.F.A. (Howitzer).
No. 1 Heavy Battery (3rd Heavy Brigade, St. John, N.B.).
Engineers —
1st Field Company (Woodstock).
Field Company.
Telegraph Detachment.
Infantry —
12th Brigade (St. John, Y3rd, 74th, 82nd).
14th Brigade (Halifax, 68th, 69th, 78th, 93rd, 94th, with 76th Regt. to make two
brigades).
Brigade.
Army Service Corps —
T. & S. Column (No. 7 Co. C.A.S.C, St. John, N.B.).
T. & S. Column (No. 8 Co. C.A.S.C, Kentville, N.S.).
T. & S. Column.
T. & S. Column.
Medical Corps —
No. Vni. Field Ambulance (St. John, N.B.).
No. IX. Field Ambulance (Charlottetown, P.E.I.)
No. 1 Field Ambulance (Halifax, N.S.).
Mobile Columns —
ARMY TROOPS (ATTACHED).
13th Infantry Brigade (Woodstock, 62nd, 67th, 71st).
8th Hussars (Sussex).
10th Battery, 4th Brigade, C.F.A. (Woodstock).
17th Infantry Brigade (Halifax, 63rd, 66th, 75th).
14tli Hussars (2 squadrons).
Garrison artillery and engineers.
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rOUETH DIVISION.
Cavalry —
2nd Dragoons.
Artillery —
2nd Brigade, C.F.A. (Hamilton).
lOth Brigade, C.F.A. (Cobourg).
Brigade, C.F.A.
Brigade, C.F.A. (Howitzer).
Cobourg Heavy Battery.
Engineers —
2nd Field Company (Toronto).
Field Company.
Telegraph Detachment.
Infantry —
5th Brigade (Niagara Falls, 37th, 39th, 44th, 77th).
15th Brigade (Hamilton, 13th, 19th, 38th, 91st).
16th Brigade (Toronto, 2nd (2), 10th, 48th).
Army Service Corps —
T. & S. Column (Toronto, No. 2 Co. C.A.S.C).
T. & S. Column (Hamilton, No. 9 Co. C.A.S.C).
T. & S. Column.
T. & S. Column.
Medical Corps-
No. X. Field Ambulance (Toronto).
No. XI. Field Ambulance (Toronto).
No. XII. Field Ambulance (Hamilton).
ARMY TROOPS (ATTACHED).
1st Cavalry Brigade.
3rd Infantry Brigade (12th, 20th, 34th, 36th).
FIFTH DIVISION.
Cavalry —
4th Hussars (Kingston).
Artillery —
8th Brigade, C.F.A. (Ottawa).
9th Brigade, C.F.A. (Deseronto).
Brigade, C.F.A.
Brigade, C.F.A. (Howitzer).
Heavy Battery.
Engineers —
3rd Field Company (Ottawa).
5th Field Company (Kingston).
Telegraph Detachment.
Infantrj' — •
6th Brigade (Clarke, 15th, 16th, 40th, 45th).
7th Brigade (Kingston, 14th, 46th, 47th, 49th, 57th).
8th Brigade (Ottawa, G.G.F.G., 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 56th, 59th).
Army Service Corps —
T. & S. Column (No. 3 Co. C.A.S.C, Kingston).
T. & S. Column (No. 5 Co. C.A.S.C, Ottawa).
T. & S. Column.
T. & S. Column.
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Medical Corps —
No II. Field Amlnilanee (Ottawa).
Field Ambulance.
Field Ambulance.
ARMY TROOPS (ATTACHED).
2nd Cavalry Brjoade.
WANTING TO COMPLETE.
Cavalry —
2nd Cavalry Brigade, 1 regiment.
Artillery —
Cavalry Division, 1 Battery, Horse Artillery, for 5th Brigade.
1st Division, 3 Brigades, Field Artillery.
2nd Division, 1 Brigade, Field Artillery (Howitzer).
3rd Division, 2 Brigades, Field Artillery.
1 Brigade. F'pld Artillery (Howitzer).
4th Division, 1 Brigade, Field Artillery.
1 Brigade, Field Artillery (Howitzer).
5th Division, 1 Brigade, Field Artillery.
1 Brigade, Field Artillery (Howitzer).
1 Heavy Battery.
Surplus — 7 Batteries, Heavy Artillery.
Engineers —
2nd Cavalry Brigade, 1 Field Troop.
3rd Cavalry Brigade, 1 Field Troop.
5th Cavalry Brigade, 1 Field Troop.
Ist Division, 2 Field Companies.
1 Telegraph Detachment.
2nd Division, 1 Field Company.
1 Telegraph Detachment.
3rd Division, 1 Field Company.
1 Telegraph Detachment.
4th Division, 1 Field Company.
1 Telegraph Detachment.
Army Service Corps —
Required, 4 Cavalry Brigade T. & S. Columns.
5 Divisional T. & S. Columns.
Available, 12 Companies, C.A.S.C.
Medical Corps —
Required. 4 Cavalry Field Ambulances.
1.") Field Ambulances.
2 Field Amiiulanops for Mobile Columns.
Available, 3 Cavalry Field Ambulances.
14 Field Ambulances.
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SUMMARY.
WANTING TO COMPLETE.
Cavalry —
1 Regiment.
Artillery —
1 Battery, Horse Artillery.
7 Brigades, Field Artillery,
4 Brigades, Field Artillery (Howitzer).
1 Heavy Battery.
Engineers —
3 Field Troops.
5 Field Companies.
4 Telegraph Detachments.
Army Service Corps — ■
12 Companies.
Medical Corps —
1 Cavalry Field Ambulance.
3 Field Ambulances.
Artillery —
7 Heavy Batteries.
In certain provinces there is a surplus of infantry, but in others there are de-
ficiencies to be made up. Speaking generally the infantry is slightly in excess of
requirements for this establishment.
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APPENDIX D.
HORSES REQUIRED FOR CANADIAN MILITIA.
PEACE ESTABLISHMENTS.
Branch of Service. No. of Horses.
Cavalry 7,636
Field Artillery 1,992
Garrison Artillery 1,414
Engineers 244
Corps of Guides 200
Infantry 509
Army Service Corps 1,259
Army Medical Corps 658
13,912
WAR ESTABLISHMENT OF EXISTING AUTHORIZED UNITS.
Cavalry 14,336
Artillery 7,259
Engineers 598
Corps of Guides 400
Infantry 5,664
Army Service Corps 1,050
Army Medical Corps 1,364
30,671
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35b
A. 1911
rtEPORT
GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH, G,C.B., G.G.V.O., REGARDING THE
CANADIAN MILITIA
MAJOR GENERAL, SIR P. II. N. LAKE, K.C.M.G., C.B.
IKTSPI- CTOR GENERAL
PRINTED BY ORDER OF PARLIAMENT
OTTAWA
PRINTED BY C. H. PARMELEE PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST
EXCELLENT MAJESTY
1910
[No. 35b— 1911.]
1 GECRGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 35b
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page.
Eastern Canad.\ —
Organization 5
Mobilization 9
Training 9
Camp Grounds and Drill Halls 10
Command and Staff 11
Royal Military College V2
Regimental Officers 13
Non-commissioned Officers and Men 1:5
Horse Supply 13
Armament 14
Administrative Services 14
Fortresses 14
Schools of Instruction and Manufacturing Establishments 14
Western Canada 14
St";N[MARY 15
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REPORT
UPON THE BEST METHOD OF GIVING EFFECT TO THE RECOMMENDA-
TIONS OF GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH, G.C.B.. G.C.V.O.. REGARD-
ING THE CANADIAN MILITIA.
Major General Sir P. H. N. Lake, Inspector General, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The Honourable the Minisler of Militia and Defence:
1. You have asked me, as your chief military adviser, for a memorandum upon
the report, dated July 5, 1910, submitted to you by General Sir John French, G.C.B.,
G.C.V.O., Inspector General, Imperial Forces, as the result of bis tour of inspection
of the militia of the Dominion, with a view to considering how far and in what
manner it may be most feasible and advantageous to give effect to his recommenda-
tions; with wliioh, T may perhaps be permitted to say, I am, speaking generally, in
complete accord.
ORGANIZATION.
2. The Imperial Inspector General, after stating that he deals with western and
eastern Canada separately, begins by discussing the question of organization. He
attaches tlic highest importance to the peace organization of the forces being identical
with the organization contemplated for war.
3. In regard to Canada, west of the great lakes, he does not, in view of the rapid
developments now taking place in that part of the country, make any definite recom-
mendations in regard to organization. The following remarks, therefore, under thi."?
heading apply only to eastern Canada.
4. After stating, in forcible terms, the advantages to be derived from the harmoni-
ous working together of the different arms and their mutual support in war, he
states, equally forcibly, the drawbacks which lie perceives to exist in our present peace
organization from its not being identical with our war organization.
5. Our present organization in commands being based rather upon areas than on
the distribution of units, he points out that the correct proportion between the various
arms in those areas does not usually obtain, and that existing corps have been raisetl
according to local likings and idiosynera.sies. This is, of course, quite true, and
indeed will usually be the case in voluntarily raised forces. Witness the great effort
necessary in the United Kingdom before the scientifically organized territorial force
could be called into being to replace the previously existing auxiliary forces, which
were open to precisely these same criticisms.
6. He points out the difficulties from which our war divisions, to be formed as
such only on mobilization, would suffer. He says that 'the annual camp trainings
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§re only a large collection of troops witliout any organization in formations of all
arms,' and that ' the various arms do not apparently work to a sufficient extent in
■conjunction with each other.' In this remark, the case is, of course inadvertently,
•overstated, but the main contention may be accepted as correct.
7. The Inspector General considers that the staff should be organized upon a
divisional basis. He concludes by saying that the present state of affairs would
' render a quick mobilization and prompt action impossible.'
8. The Inspector General's recommendations are entirely in line with the poli •>
towards which, as you are aware, the Militia Council has consistently been working.
9. Since the Council came into being, when it found a large body of disoonnecte 1
\inits which had grown up almost haphazard throughout the covnitry, it has steadi'y
worked towards the higher organization, beginning first with brigades of all ami:;.
It has also endeavoured (though not always successfully) to turn local military
aspirations in the direction of raising those imits which were most wanted in that
district for service purposes.
10. Similarly, the working together of the different arms has not been lost sight
of, and forms part of the training syllabus — even if it has not been carried as far
as was desirable — while the acquisition of training grounds where the three arms can
be trained together has been consistently kept in view.
11. Lastly, as regards the staff. The report has not perhaps brought out quite
clearly the points wherein our staff system falls short of the system in force in Eng-
land. England, outside the War Office, is divided into commands. All general admin-
istration is carried out at command headquarters, where the heads of services and
departments are located, while each command includes one or more complete self-
contained divisions (or other organized bodies), whose staffs carry out simply their
own internal business. In reality, each command staff in Canada approximates
closely, both in composition and system, to the English command staff, though on a
smaller scale; but with us, at present, each command staff also administers one of the
districts of which the command is composed, and we have not been able, up to the
present, to organize divisional staffs. This, however, is merely a temporary condition
due to the shortage of staff officers. It has always been intended to have, evsntually,
a separate staff for each district within the command, and where that district finds
a division for field service to form a staff which would be in practice the divisional
staff.
12. It will thus be seen that the Militia Council has been working on correct lines
towards the system which is in force in England and which the Inspector General
recommends.
13. The question, therefore, for consideration is: How far is it possible, at the
present moment, to take the further steps which he advocates towards the object which
we are agreed in regarding as essential?
14. In his Appendix ' C ' Sir John French shows how he would propose to organize
the existing troops of eastern Canada. He does not state clearly whether he propose.*
the retention or abolition of command staffs, but, as the latter would mean a departure
from the British system and also the disappearance of heads of services and depart-
ments, who are not allowed for divisional staffs, and, in view of the general trend
of his propositions and the fact that our declared policy is to assimilate our system
to that in force in England, I assume that he does not. He proposes to organize for
service a cavalry division, five divisions, two field forces and garrisons. The first named
is not to be organized in peace, while the field forces and garrisons are shown sep-
arately. To organize these five divisions he forms two from the troops in the present
Western Ontario command, leaves Eastern Ontario, practically as it stands, to pro-
vide another, makes the province of Quebec furnish a fourth division and the Mari-
time Provinces a fifth.
15. So far there is no great difficulty, though T .should have preferred to form six
divisions rather than five; for, to accept the smaller number, will practically involve
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Military District No. 7, Quebec, losing ite identity and becoming merged in the fourth
divisional command. For reasons of sentiment, this disappearance of one of the older
and larger military districts seems open to objection.
16. The most important question to discuss is the provision of the necessary staff.
The subjoined table shows the composition of a typical English command headquarters
and a Canadian command headquarters side by side: —
England. Cunadti.
1 G.O.C. in C. 1 G.O.C.
1 Asst. Mil. Sec.
1 A.D.C.
2 General Staff Officers. ^ 1 C S O
1 General Officer in charge of Administration. /
1 Officer Adj. Gen. Staff. \l D A Ad
1 Officer Q.M.G. Staff. fLu.A.A.'c.
1 Chief Engineer. 1 Command Engineer.
1 Staff Officer, Engineers.
1 Asst. Director Supplies and Transport. 1 Sen. A.S.C. Officer.
1 Principal Medical Officer. 1 Principal Medical Officer.
1 Staff Officer to I'.M.O.
1 Principal Veterinarj- Officer. 1 Principal Veterinary Officer.
1 Asst. Director Ordnance Stores. 1 Senior Ordnance Officer.
1 Command Paymaster. 1 Command Paymaster.
1 Dept. Asst. Director of Remounts.
1 District Barrack Officer.
17. The following table shows the composition of the headquarters of an English
territiirial division and a Canadian military district side by side: —
England. Canadn.
1 G.O.C. 1 D.O.C.
1 General Staff Officer. 1 i n <? A
I Dep. Asst. Adjt. and Qr. Mr. General. I' ^•^•■*-
1 Administrative Medical Officer. ^- 1 P M O
1 Sanitary Officer. J
1 O.C.R. Artillery.
1 Staff Captain, Artillery.
1 O.C.R. Engineers.
18. It will be observed that, while the Canadian command headquarters are by
far the smaller, the two run on parallel lines, and the work of the office is similarly
allotted. There would be no difficulty, therefore, in expanding the Canadian com-
mand headquarters as desired.
19. It will be seen that the same remark generally applies to the Canadian dis-
trict headquarters as compared with an English division, but that the English organ-
ization has, in addition, an 0. C. artillery and an O. C. engineers.
20. So far, therefore, as system goes, there is no difference in principle; and the
Canadian command headquarters could remain as it is, with certain additions to its
staff, principally an officer to perform the duties of the ' general officer in charge of
administration.' Again, inasmuch as, in a division, the O. C. artillery would prob-
ably be a selected senior artillery officer of the active militia, and as the same course
might be followed for the O. C. engineers, where no senior officer of the permanent
force was available, a district headquarters might easily be transformed into a divi-
sional headquarters.
21. The serious difficulty is that, while we perhaps have a sufficient total number
of permanent staff officers, we have but a very few who are properly trained and
fully understand a staff officer's duties. This is noticeable already where there are
only four commands to be provided for, and the efficiency of the force already suffers
thereby.
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22. Had the minister an absolutely free hand, by far the best plan would be to
import a number of selected staff officers from England to fill those of the more im-
portant command and staff posts for which trained Canadian officers are not avail-
able for the next four years, and to train, so to speak, ' understudies,' who should be
capable of taking their places when they left. But this would involve displacing and
superseding, for a time at least, a considerable number of senior officers, few or none
of whom have yet earned their full pensions or reached the age limit. To deal with
them would present many difficulties. ^
23. Assuming that the importation of a few English officers will be decided ii:i.
I suggest the following as the best method of procedure: —
(a) Decide upon 6 divisions in place of 5 as the number to be eventually formed.
(h) Leave the command headquarters as at present, deciding, however, to add
an ' officer (say, lieutenant-colonel) in charge of administration ' to each as soon
as suitable officers can be made available.
(c) Form Military District No. 1 into +lie ' 1st division ' and complete its statt'
by the addition of a general staff officer. It possesses only one brigade of artillery,
so the lieutenant-colonel commanding the brigade would naturally be the ' O. C.
artillery.' There are as yet no engineers. Transfer the 4th Infantry Brigade from
Military District No. 2 to complete the infantry. Take steps gradually to organize
the administrative services as required. Attach to it the Mobile Column with Head-
quarters at London.
(d) Form a '2nd Division' from the troops of M.D. No. 2 (called '4th Divi-
sion ' in the Insjioctor General's Eeport), transferring to it the 10th Bde. C.F.A.,
Cobourg, and Cobourg Heavy Battery, from M.D. No. 3. Organise the administra-
tive services as required.
Complete its staff by appointing an officer to command it (perhaps a senior
Militia officer), a General Staff Officer, a D.A.A. & Q.M.G., a senior Field Artillery
Officer (also from the active Militia) and an O.C. Engineers. Headquarters would
be at Toronto.
The 1st Cavalry Brigade already exists and would remain directly under tlic
Command Headquarters.
(e) Leave the Eastern Ontario Command as it is (after detaching the Artillery
at Cobourg), but organize the troops therein into the '3rd Division' (called '5th'
in the Inspector General's Eeport). The '2nd Cavalry Brigade' already exists and
would remain under the Command Headquarters.
Complete the staff by appointing an ' Officer in charge of Administration,' who
would have the heads of Services and Departments under him, and an ' O.C. Artil-
lery ' and ' O.C. Engineers ' for the Division. In course of time separate the Com-
mand and Divisional Staffs. Organize the administrative services as required.
Abolish Military District 4 and its Headquarters.
(/) Treat the Quebec Command similarly to the Western Ontario (^lnun:\nd.
fiirming two Divisions. Nos. 4 and 5, with Headquarters at Montreal and Quebec,
respectively, and completing the Montreal Division for war by the 3rd Infantry
Brigade from M.D. No. 2.
(y) Leave the Maritime Provinces Command as it is, for the present, but or-
ganize the troops as far as may be as —
6th Division.
Army Troops.
The troops of the Gth Division could seldom train together as a Division, but
attempts shoidd be made to bring them together from time to time, and give them
the feeling tliat tlie formation really existed. The D.O.C., M.D. No. 8 might com-
mand the N.B. Mobile Column and ihe District, training the 12th Brigade with the
former in Sussex Camp.
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MdBILIZATIOX.
24. The Imperial Inspector General next discusses the question of mobilization,
and urges early completion of the reserves of horses, stores and equipment required
on mobilization, as well as the completion of the necessary mobilization regulations
and plans for concentration.
25. He urges a closer supervision over the ' Service Rolls ' kept by Squadron,
Dattery, Company and Corps Commanders, and recommends partial test mobiliza-
tions from time to time.
26. He points out the extreme importance of prompt mobilization and concen-
tration of troops when an emergency arises, and recommends the establishment of a
' Railway War Council ' to be charged with drawing up the necessary ' Time Tables.'
27. He declares that the number of Staff OflBcers available for working out the
necessary mobilization arrangements is quite inadequate, and urges the early em-
ployment of a number of trained atid selected oiBcers for this purpose.
28. Nothing but want of funds and the scarcity of trained Staff OiEcers has
prevented the Council from carrying out this work already. So far as the one Staff
Officer available has been able to spare time from his other duties, the preliminary
arrangements have, already, been tentatively framed. But there can be no doubt
that this is a matter of urgent importance. So soon as ever the general plans take
definite shape — but not, I think, before — the Railway War Council should be con-
stituted.
29. The scarcity of trained Staff Officers constitutes the real difficulty of deal-
ing with mobilization. The attempt to work out mobilization questions without real-
ly competent officers is mere waste of time. I should recommend the following pro-
cedure— First, obtain from England the two trained General Staff Officers whom
the Inspector General states to be required at Headquarters. Name a selected Cana-
dian officer to work with them as Administrative Staff Officer, and form the three
into a Standing Mobilization Committee. Then let them proceed to frame the
mobilization plans, under the supervision of the C.G.S., keeping in constant touch
tlivou;;h bira, with Commands and Districts outside Headquarters. Then, as oppor-
tunity offers, attach to them selected Staff Officers of Commands or Districts, whom
they should train to carry out and keep up to date the local mobilization work.
TRAINING.
30. Turning to the subject of training, the Imperial Inspector General considers
the standard of training efficiency reached by the Permanent Force to be satisfactory,
but points out that the peace establishment of the various units is not large enough
to enable them to attain really perfect field efficiency, and, at the same time, proper-
ly supervise the training and instruction of the Active Militia.
31. He, therefore, recommends additions to the strength of the Royal Canadian
Dragoons and Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. As you are aware, I have, in my re-
ports, frequently represented this aspect of the case — and I am persuaded that the
other branches of the Permanent Force, the infantry especially, are equally in need
cf augmentation.
32. Turning to the training of the Active Militia, Sir John French appears to
have been favourably impressed with the system of training of and degree of ef-
ficiency reached by the Artillery, so far as he was able to see it, but he was struck by
the absence of uniformity in the standard reached by the other arms.
33. He thinks that the proper role of cavalry in a country like eastern Canada
has not been correctly appreciated by the force itself, and hence its training has
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been on wrong lines — inasmucli as ' shock ' action is practically impossible in such
close country, and cavalry would have to act as Mounted Rifles. Their training
should, therefore, tend towards securing efliciency in this direction.
34. With this I am entirely in accord. The Militia Council has, for the last five
years, aimed at training the cavalry upon these lines — the fact that the cavalry are
not given a sword but are armed with rifle only should afford sufiicient proof of this.
35. He also finds that squadron ofiicers generally are not sufficiently acquainted
•with their work, and that nothing like enough troop and squadron instruction is
given. Great care should, he says, be taken in the selection of young officers and
N.C.O.'s, and they should receive a mueli more extensive preliminary training than
now, with constant supervision.
36. He, therefore, strongly recommends that the annual training should be in-
creased from 12 to 16 days for the cavalry, and that a definite syllabus of training
should be laid down and enforced. This extension of the period of training was ad-
vocated by me for aU arms of the service in my last annual report, while a syllabus
of training, such as is recommended, is already laid down and is carried out.
37. While he was not favourably impressed with what he saw of the training
methods of the Infantry, yet he remarks that the manoeuvring power displayed at the
field exercises was better than he had expected.
38. He animadverts strongly upon the excessive attention given by the Infantry,
especially in City Corps, to ceremonial exercises and evolutions. His criticism is, no
doubt, just, and I have, at all my inspections, consistently discouraged merely cere-
monial drill. But old habits die hard, and it is natural, as Sir John French himself
perceives, that the weaker commanding officers sliould prefer the easy road to cere-
monial smartness to the hard and less showy work involved in attaining service ef-
ficiency.
39. He recommends a revision of the syllabus of training and the devotion of
more time to company drill and manoeuvre. According to the 1910 syllabus of train-
ing in camps, only half a day of the whole available time is now allotted to battalion
ceremonial drill, and the same amount to the whole of brigade drill, including cere-
monial drill. This might, perhaps, be still furtlier reduced, but does not appear exeea-
sive It should, perliaps, be added that at only one camp did the Inspector General
actually see infantry ceremonial drill in progress, and that merely because it happen-
ed to be the afternoon allotted for that drill.
40. He lays special stress upon the importance of strict attention to company
training as the basis of all real efficiency, and points out that commanding officers
have failed to realize this. I have made almost precisely the same criticisms in every
one of my annual reports upon training. He considers that the instructors at tl.f
Infantry Schools should devote more attention to tactics and less to ceremonial drill
than is at present the case. This is perfectly sound, but it requires constant super-
vision to make sure that the instructions on this subject are strictly adhered to.
41. He considers that more telegraph companies of engineers should be raised.
I understand that steps in this direction are already in progress.
42. In short, we are already working on the lines which Sir John French recom-
mends and can cordially concur in his proposals.
CAMP GROUNDS AND DRILL HALLS.
43. The Imperial Inspector General considers the acquisition and establishment
of the camp at Petawawa to be the most important stop yet taken towards efficiency
for war. It should be fully utilized, especially as all the other camp grounds seen in
use are far too restricted in area.
44. At no camp which he visited in the ci\^t did he find sufficient ground available
for training the trnop.s, but. at the same time, more practicable allotment by the camp
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staff of the training; ground winch did exist was desirable. He lays stress upon the
necessity for ample rifle range accomraodation.
45. He remarks upon the drawback from which nearly all city corps suffer, viz. :
that they have no open space available on which to drill within easy reach of their
drill halls. This has been remarked upon in my annual reports.
46. He most strongly urges that the attendance of city corps in camp from time
to time is essential, and considers that the fact that these corps do not attend camp
leaves them behind the rural corps in service efficiency.
47. The acquisition of larger areas for training has always been part o^the policy
of the Militia Council, and should certainly be continued in the future, as funds are
available. The acquisition of areas in Western Canada is now receiving special at-
tention.
COMMAND AND STAFF.
48. The remarks of the Imperial Inspector General upon the subject of Command
and Staff are of a highly important nature.
49. Discussing, first, the position of the Inspector General, Canadian forces, he
is clearly of the opinion that the Inspector General ought not to be, as the present
holder of the office is, a member of the Militia Council. He considers that the train-
ing of the troops has suffered thereby.
50. As you are aware, there were special reasons for giving the present holder of
the office, myself, a seat upon the Council. There will be no difficulty in following Sir
John French's advice in future appointments.
51. He recommends that the officers commanding the permanent cavalry, artil-
lery, engineers and infantry, respectively, should act as inspectors of those arms in
the militia, and ' should be entirely under the orders of the Inspector General.'
52. While I agree that technical inspection of the infantry would be an advantage,
I should regard it as impossible for .one officer to inspect all infantry corps — two, at
least, would be required. I also consider that, as now, inspectors are required for
each branch of the artillery, horse and field, heavy and fortress artillery respectively.
And I confess that I do not see how the officers commanding the several permanent
corps can be ' entirely under the orders of the Inspector General.' They must, as
Commandants of Schools of Instruction and organized units, be principally under the
orders of the Officers Commanding Commands and Districts.
53. He found but little opportunity of testing the abilities of the higher officers
in the duties of command, and, while saying that efficient commanders are essential,
expresses a very guarded opinion as to their fitness for the higher commands which
he recommends.
54. He comments upon the absence, in two cases, of the brigadier concerned and
his staff from his inspection of city corp?. .nnd considers that brigadiers should be
held responsible for the efficiency of the units under their command. Under present
conditions, the brigadier, as a rule, attends such inspections voluntarily. To make it
obligatory upon him to do so, and to hold him responsible for the efficiency of his
brigade, is mainly a matter of finding money for drill pay and travelling allowance.
It is no doubt desirable.
55. As regards staff officers, the Imperial Inspector General considers the officers
employed ' to be well selected and to perform their various duties in a satisfactory
manner,' to be well informed in administrative matters, but incomplete in their educa-
tion as regards general staff duties. He recommends their being given special in-
struction in these duties — this last is already being partially done, and the system
should be further extended.
56. He com"aaents severely upon the ignorance of those critics in the public
press who consider the number of officers employed on the staff to be too great. . In
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Ills opinion a large and suiBciently trained body of staS officers is indispensable, and
he says that, at present, ' the militia staS is numerically inadequate for the amount
of work required to be done and that the efficient staff officer is underpaid.'
57. I concur in the whole of these comments. In another part of his report he
remarks that ' the staff at present maintained at headquarters and in the commands
appears to me absurdly inadequate.' As already seen, he has recommended an addi-
tion to the present staff of probablj' 10 officers for mobilization purposes alone. The
divisional organization which he has recommended will involve certain further addi-
tions to the staff.
58. The ililitia Council always has been well aware how largely the modern de-
velopments of war and military science have increased the demands for additional
staff' officers and for highly trained ones. But it has been obliged to cut its coat ac-
cording to the cloth — the supply of qualified staff officers was limited, funds were
limited, and it was not thought desirable to draw upon the British Army for all the
staff' officers which were required, but rather to try and develop existing material in
the pei-manent staff and force.
59. With the strongly expressed views of Sir John French before the public, it
is to be hoped that the additions to the staff which he recommends may be concur-
red in and provided for by Parliament in the Annual Estimates at an early date.
60. But it must be clearly understood that General Staff duties and mobilization
preparations demand highly trained and experienced staff officers. Every qualified
Staff Officer belonging to the Dominion forces is already employed at staff work.
And, until more are trained, the additional Staff Officers can only come from the
Imperial Army. I estimate that, to fulfil the Imperial Inspector General's recom-
mendations 15 additional General Staff Officers (2 at headquarters for mobilization.
1 for each Command, 3 for 'Western Canada and 1 for each Division), and 7 addi-
tional Administrative Staff Officers (1 D.A.6. at Headquarters for mobilization and
1 D.A.A. and Q.M.G. for each Division), will eventually be required. The develop-
ments of the staff will of necessity tal^e time, and, meanwhile, additional Canadiau
officers are being trained at the Staff College. How most effectually to expand the
staff and obtain the officers needed will be best left to be dealt with by the new Chief
of the General Staff. Personally, I should recommend the importation of two or
three officers and a wide extension of the system of Militia Staff Courses, with
advanced instructions to those officers who .=!how .special ability.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.
61. Sir John French was very favourably impressed with the Royal Military Col-
lege at Kingston.
His main criticisms are— Lack of dormitory accommodation sufficient to give
each cadet a room to himself, a much needed improvement — Lack of a good Reading
Rocm — Lack of a covered Riding School and covered Skating Rink.
62. His recommendations are —
(1) That either the Inspector General or the Chief of the General Staff should
always be a member of the Board of Visitors.
(2) That, in the Military History Course, some special campaign should lie
studied each year.
(3) That the graduates of the College should be called upon to repay the country
some portion of the money spent upon their education, by serving for a term of
years in some Active Militia unit after graduation.
(4) That the defects above mentioned should be rectified ; and lastly
(.5) That the number of Cadets received at the College should be largely in-
creased.
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63. Of these recommendations, the third is already being carried out ; the first
and second can easily be adopted ; while the remainder are concurred in but must
depend upon the money provided in Estimates for building purposes.
REGIMENTAL OFFICERS.
64. The remarks which the Imperial Inspector General makes on the subject of
regimental officers may be summarized as follows : —
(a) As regards Commanding Officers, he considers that, jsrovided the tests pre-
scribed by regulation are strictly enforced, their qualifications ought to be sufficient.
But he gathers that these are not always enforced. And he notices that Command-
ing Officers do not enough realize the supreme importance of thorough squadron
and company training( and do not appear competent themselves to supervise such
training by Squadron and Company Commanders.
(6) As regards Squadron, Battery and Company Commanders, he considers that
there is generally much room for improvement. They often do not know how to
teach their men, and they do not inculcate or maintain discipline. He thinks that
here too the tests must have been relaxed.
65. Practically the points here raised are the same, viz., the failure to enforce
the tests laid down by regulation. This charge is largely true. I have several
times pointed out the danger of allowing the examination standards to be relaxed,
especially in Provisional Schools. The reply given to me has been that, if they were
enforced, nine out of every ten officers would fail at the examination, because the
length of course they were prepared to undergo was too short for them to learn all
that the regulation standard required. To which the answer, of course, is ' Then let
them fail ; only in that way can they find out how much there is to learn.'
66. Undoubtedly our critic is right, and qualification tests ought to be strictly
enforced. The remedy appears to be simple.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN.
67. Scarcely less importance is attached by the Imperial Inspector General to the
selection and qualification of N.C.O's, in whom he has observed many deficiencies.
He recommends great care in selection and every assistance as regards instruction.
The Council have long been fully alive to the importance of the non-commissioned
ranks and the necessity for better qualified N.C.O's. But it is a question fraught
with many difficulties, and the solution has not yet been found.
68. He was, on the whole, favourably impressed with the men in the ranks. His
only recommendation is that the fulfilment of the three years' term of engagement
should be insisted upon. This question is also one of some difficulty. I am inclined
to think that, after fair warning being given, judicious enforcement of the law
would have a good effect.
HORSE SUPPLY.
69. The Inspector General discusses the question of the supply of horses required
for war, and finds that satisfactory arrangements for it do not exist. He points out
that, within three months of the outbreak of a war, 33,000 remounts would be needed.
70. He recommends, to deal with the matter, the appointment of an Assistant
Director of Remounts, with a suitable inspection and Veterinary Staff, whose duties
he enumerates. He also suggests a small permanent remount depot to supply the
needs of the Permanent Force.
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Yl. He does not specify the number of ofScers whom he Tvould recommend to as-
sist the Assistant Director of Remounts, but I should think that four officers, one
each for Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime Provinces and the Northwest, would be suf-
ficient in the first instance. But I agree in the advisability of the step. The officers
appointed might be Veterinary Officers, but should be very carefully selected, as they
would need to be men of general experience as well.
ARMAMENT.
72. As regards armament, Sir John French appears to consider the armament
now in use, and under order, to be suitable. He doubts, however, whether the nature
of the country offers sufficient scope for the number of heavy batteries we possess,
and is in favour rather of the provision of a full proportion of howitzers. He notes
the need for field telephones with field artillery. He considers the reserves of both
gun and small ammunition to be insufficient, and recommends additions to both. The
Council are aware of this requirement, and will, no doubt, add to the reserves so soon
as finances permit.
73. He considers that the final settlement of the armament of the cavalry requires
an early decision. I have always failed to understand why it has been so long de-
layed.
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES.
74. He was favourably impressed with the Administrative Services, and has no
proposals to make in regard to them.
FORTRESSES.
75. He was satisfied with the defence works at Halifax, but considered that the
arrangements for land defence had not been sufficiently worked out, and thpt not
enough infantry is allotted to the defence. He also doubts whether mobilization ar-
rangements are as complete as they should be, especially as regards engineers.
76. Upon both points he is probably right, though it may be remarked that the
infantry garrison is now more numerous than during the Imperial regime. The point
will, no doubt, engage the attention of the Chief of the General Staff. It is, perhaps,
worth while remarking that the Halifax Defence Scheme is submitted yearly to the
Colonial Defence Committee in London, and that their comments thereon do not
seem to show that they regard the land defence as insufficiently provided for.
SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS.
77. Under the heading of Schools of Instruction he considers that the instruction
is given too much by old fashioned methods, that too much ceremonial is taught, and
that more might be done in the way of tactical instruction. This is quite realized at
Headquarters, and that more has not been done is due solely to the paucity of super-
vising officers.
78. As regard Manufacturing Establishments, his opinion appears generally
favourable. The point which he mentions in regard to the manufacture of bayonets
has already been taken up.
WESTERN CANADA.
79. Part II. of the report is devoted to western Canada. Recognizing tliat its
development is recent, has been very rapid, and is still going on, the Inspector Gener-
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al feels himself unable to report on it in detail, but remarks generally that, while the
existing forces are very small in proportion, the direction which the organization of
the military forces generally is taking appears sound.
80. He remarks upon the two camps of instruction which he visited in the west.
While criticising many shortcomings in their work, he was struck by the aptitude of
both officers and men.
81. He repeats his recommendations that cavalry training should be extended to
16 days, and that the horse supply question should be studied, and strongly advises
the acquisition of a training ground in the west like that at Petawawa. This has, I
understand, already been arranged.
SUMMARY.
82. Part III. of the report is a summary in which he again urges the importance
of a sound peace organization and staff system, competent commanders and enforce-
ment of regulations, especially as regards insisting on the fulfilment of the full term
of engagement, and he repeats that in these respects that our system fails.
83. From the foregoing remarks it will be seen that there are no proposals con-
tained in Sir John French's report the adoption of which would involve any departure
in principle from the policy which, under your direction, the Militia Council has pur-
sued since its inception in 1904.
84. As has been shown, the most important of those proposals, the recommendations
on the subject of organization, contemplate not a change of system, but a develop-
ment such as naturally follows from the lines upon which our present organization is
framed — indeed, one which was contemplated when that organization was decided
upon.
85. Similarly, the recommendations regarding mobilization merely urge the early
completion of measures and plans already in progress, viz.: the acquisition of the
necessary reserves of material and the elaboration of the plans and arrangements for
placing the militia force upon a field service footing when the emergency arises. The
constitution of a Railway War Council is a step entirely in harmony with this policy.
86. As in the case of organization, so, in the matter of command and staff, the
Imperial Inspector General's proposals involve no change of principle. The Canadian
system of command and staff is based upon the Imperial one, and merely differs from
it in that we have not yet reached the same stage of development, and that our num-
ber of staff officers is decidedly smaller. But the staff duties are conducted upon just
the same lines. Indeed, at the Imperial conferences of 1907 and 1909 the Dominion
government pledged itself to adopt the Imperial system of both organization and
st:ifi duties, and lias been steadily working to this end; only conditions of finance
and lack of trained personnel have delayed more rapid progress.
87. It is these considerations of expense and of the supply of trained staff officers
which still, as pointed out in the body of my memorandum, govern the question of
how far Sir John French's main recommendations, i.e., those connected with organiza-
tii'n, mobilization, command and staff, can at once be carried into effect.
88. Of his other recommendations, those regarding the question of horse supply,
the acquisition of satisfactory training areas and the expansion of the Royal Military
College also involve material expenditure, and of these the first named is almost in-
separably connected with the subject of mobilization.
89. In all these cases the extent to which progress in carrying out his recom-
mendations can be made and the period which must elapse before they can become
effective depends entirely upon how far Parliament is prepared to provide for the ex-
penditure necessary.
90. His recommendations under the headings of Training, Supply and Qualifica-
tions of Regimental Officers, N. C. Officers and Men, and Schools of Instruction are
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all matters mainly of administration, upon which his valuable suggestions can at
ouce be adopted and put into effect.
91. That the adoption of his recommendations will lead to greatly increased effici-
ency cannot be doubted.
PERCY LAKE, Major-General,
Inspector General.
September 14. 1910.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
A. 1911
REPORT
Department of Labour
FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31. 1910
PRINTED BY ORDER OF PARLIAMENT
' OTTAWA
PRINTED BY;C. H. PARMELEE, PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST
EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
1910.
l^No. 36—1911]
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPHR No. 36.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Albert Henry George, Earl Grey,
G.C.M.G., &€., Governor-General of Canada.
May it Please Your Excellency :
The undersigned has the Honour to forward to Your Excellency the accom-
panying Report of the Deputy Minister on the work of the Department of Labour
of the Dominion of Canada, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1910, all of
which is respectfully submitted.
W. L. MACKENZIE KING,
Minister of Labour.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
CONTENTS
Introductory 7
I. The Labour Gazette 17
II. The Industrial Disputes Investigation Act 38
III. The Combines Investigation Act 89
IV. Royal Confimission of Inquiry on Industrial Training and Technical
Education 95
V. Inquiry into Wholesale Prices, 1890-1909 102
VI. Special Inquiries: (1) Inquiry by Deputy Minister of Labour into
Industrial Conditions in the Coal Fields of Nova Scotia; (2)
Inquiry by Deputy Minister of Labour into the strike of the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Freight Handlers at Fort
William, Ont. ; (3) Inquiry into question of wages paid workmen
on a section of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway under con-
struction in Western British Columbia; (4) Inquiry into dispute •
among the fishing population of the Peninsula of Gasp^, Que. . . 131
VII. Hours of Labour on PubUc Works 150
VIII. Fair Wages on public contract work 154
IX. Strikes and Lockouts in Canada during 1909, with comparative
statistics for the years 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908 170
X. Industrial Accidents in Canada during 1909, with comparative
statistics for the years 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908 187
^s XI. The Library of the Department 199
W XII. The circulation of the Labour Gazette 215
^XIII. The distribution of the Labour Gazette and other publications 218
^XIV. Inquiries, correspondence, and other departmental work 222
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
CONTENTS OF APPENDIX.
Proceedings of Boards of Conciliation and Investigation in connection with
industrial disputes between the following parties: —
Page
I.. Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company and Telegraphers 3
II. Dominion Coal Company, Glace Bay, N.S., and Employees members
of the United Mine Workers of America 11
III. British Columbia Copper Company, Greenwood, B.C., and Employees 22
IV. Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company, Middlesboro, B.C., and
Employees 38
V. Winnipeg Electric Railway Company and Employees 51
VI. Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, Limited, Sydney Mines, N.S.,
and Employees members of the United Mine Workers of
America 56
VII. Dominion Textile Company, Montreal, and Employees 67
VIII. Canadian Pacific Railway Company and Telegraphers 70
IX. Western Coal Operators' Association and Employees 72
X. Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, Springhill, N.S., and
Employees members of the United Mine Workers of America. . . 85
XI. Canadian Pacific Railway Company and Freight Handlers at Owen
Sound, Ont 120
XII. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company and Engineers, Firemen,
Conductors, Brakemen, Baggagemen, and Yardmen 125
XIII. Canadian Northern Railway Company and Maintenance-of-Way
Employees on lines west of Port Arthur, Ont 141
XIV. Canada West Coal Company, Taber, Alta., and Employees 153
XV. Corporation of Saskatoon, Sask., and Labourers 157
XVI. Intercolonial Railway of Canada and Roundhouse Employees 164
XVII. Canadian Pacific Railway Company and Freight Handlers at Fort
William, Ont 166
XVIII. Intercolonial Railway of Canada and Machinists and Fitters 175
XIX. Edmonton Standard Coal Company, Limited, and Employees 180
XX. James W. Blain, contractor for output of Cardiff Coal Company,
Cardiff, Alta., and Employees 188
XXI. Grand Trunk Railway Company and Telegraphers and Station
Agents 189
XXII. British Columbia Copper Company, Greenwood, B.C., and Employees
List of Applications, proceedings in connection with which were
unfinished at the close of the financial year 194
Text of Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, as amended . . . 217
Text of Combines Investigation Act 203
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPZR No. 36.
REPORT
OF THE
DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
FOB THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH .31,
1910.
Department of Labour,
Ottawa, May 25, 1910.
To the Honourable W. L. Mackenzie King, M.P., C.M.G.,
Minister of Labour.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit a report on the work of the Department of
Labour for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910.
On May 19, 1909, the following bill, introduced in the House of Commons
by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier, received the
royal assent: —
AN ACT RESPECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.
TTIS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of
Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: —
1. This Act may be cited as The Labour Department Act.
2. There shall be a department of the Government of Canada which
shall be called the Department of Labour, over which the Minister of Labour
for the time being, appointed by the Governor-General by Commission
under the Great Seal, shall preside.
(2) The Minister of Labour sliall hold office during pleasure, and
shall have the management and direction of the department.
(3) The salary of the Minister of Labour shall be seven thousand
dollars per annum.
3. The Governor-in-Council maj' also appoint an officer who shall be
called the Deputy Minister of Labour, and such officers, clerks and servants
as are requisite for the proper conduct of the business of the department,
all of whom shall hold office during pleasure.
4. The Minister of Labour shall be charged with the administration of
The Conciliation and Labour Act and The Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act, 1907, and with such other duties as may be assigned to him by the
Governor-in-Council.
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On June 2, the portfolio of Minister of Labour was assigned to Mr. Mackenzie
King, member for North Waterloo, in the House of Commons, and former Deputy-
Minister of Labour. Up to that date the Department, which was established
in 1900, had been administered by a member of His Majesty's Privy Council
administering one of the other departments of the Government. For the most
part the Minister of Labour heretofore had been the Postmaster-General.
The year has thus been of more than ordinarj' significance for the Department,
circumstances having now for the first time since its establishment permitted its
affairs to receive the undivided attention of a Minister, an advantage necessarily
of the greatest value in the systematic development of its work. The removal
of the Department to more commodious and better equipped premises, a change
effected during the summer of 1909, has been a further feature conducive to
growth and efficiency.
Economic conditions during the year 1909 were more buoyant than at any
time since 1906, when industrial activity and prosperity in Canada reached a
higher lerel than had been before known; the crisis of 1907 caused a slight panic,
which had a depressing effect, it will be remembered, throughout a large part of
1908. The spring of 1910 was exceptionally early and has induced an activity
whick encourages the hope that the favourable conditions of 1 909 will be equalled
if not surpassed during the present year. A continued rise in the cost of living
was a feature of the past year. Rising wages and no serious unemployment were
other characteristics. The immigration for the year 1909 was 25 per cent larger
than in 190S and promises for 1910 to reach the high figure of 1907, though there
is now a much more rigorous process of selection. The immigration from the
United States showed a specially large increase, which is continuing in 1910.
The expenditure in railway construction through 1909 was heavy, being estimated
at $28,000,000. Foreign trade showed a large expansion during the year.
The administration of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, has
been again a leading feature of the work of the year and there appears to be no
reason, in the light of the additional experience gained, to modify in any way the
conclusions expressed in previous years as to the general efficacy of the measure
in aiding in the adjustment of industrial disputes, with a special view to the pre-
vention of lockouts and strikes. There were 30 disputes referred under the pro-
visions of the Act during the year.
The Labour Gazctlc, the official monthly publication of the Department, has
made satisfactory progress during the year. The monthly circulation has now
passed into the fifteenth thousand, and the Department is continually in receipt
of calls on its stock of extra copies, several liundred of which are printed monthly.
While the free list of the Labour Gazette is considerable, it must be remembered that
it comprises all the labour unions in the Dominion, a copy of the publication
being sent free to the Secretary of every labour organization. It may be added
that every possible care is taken by watching the trade papers and the general
press, and by constant correspondence with the various trade organizations to
keep the departmental roster of trade unions accurate and complete. The paid
circulation is largely with the business community, ^Yith leading representatives
of the industrial classes, and with students of social economy; it is an interesting
fivct in this connection to note that various banking institutions are responsible
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for a total of 1,117 subscriptions, showing an apt appreciation by this important
class of the monthly statements and statistics of the Labour Gazette relating to
industrial and economic conditions.
The general correspondence of the Department has been of wide range and
interest, including, apart from departmental routine, communication with numerous
notable public bodies, members of governments and distinguished officials in
foreign countries, who have as a rule sought information as to the position of
Canada with regard to some problem of sociological import, and in this respect
the origin and operation of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, con-
tinue to occupy a leading place in public interest.
SPECIAL REPORT ON COST OF LI%aNG.
The increasing cost of living has been during the year the subject of almost
universal discussion. In the United States, boycotts of meat and other articles
of food of which the price had risen violently were instituted at many points,
and extended in some cases to Canada, though the prices had not as a rule reached
the same high level in this country. In the United States various investigations
were instituted into the question, the most important being that undertaken by
the United States Senate; while inquiries of a comprehensive character were also
undertaken by Massachusetts, Ohio and other states of the republic. In Canada
the Minister of Labour, recognizing the vital relation to the public welfare of
the cost of living, caused an inquiry to be undertaken by the Department into the
subject. The task was entrusted to ]\Ir. Robert H. Coats, assistant editor of the
Labour Gazette, and although at the close of the financial year the report had not
been issued, most of the manuscript and charts had been placed in the hands of
the printers, and the work relative to the same fell substantially within the past
fiscal period.
The report, which is now about to be issued, is a volume of several hundred
pages, illustrated with numerous charts in colour and containing detailed informa-
tion showing the fluctuations in wholesale prices of 230 leading commodities.
Nothing of a similar nature having been, it is believed, ever before attempted in
Canada, the task entailed researches of an extensive character in the files of the
daily newspapers and trade journals for the two past decades, a work carried on
almost exclusively by Mr. Coats or by other officers of the Department under his
direction. Much of the information necessary for the compilation of the report
was procurable only from the records of leading wholesale firms and entailed a
large amount of correspondence; the firms concerned evincing as a rule a warm
interest in the work in hand, and taking frequently the greatest pains to supply
accurate and useful information. The inquir}' was undertaken without any
desire to prove or disprove any theory or view, commercial or economic, the object
being simply that of securing rehable data which may serve in the future as a
sound basis for comparisons; no attempt has been made to assign the causes for
the price fluctuations.
The information eUcited in the report bears not only on the articles con-
sumed by the masses of people from day to day, and entering obviously into
what is popularly termed the cost of living, but, striking deep into the economic
10 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
life of the people, deals also with products, raw and finished, of almost every con-
ceivable kind; the report is, therefore, of equal interest and value to manufacturer
and workman, to the economist and the man of commerce. One important result
of this completed inquiry is that it will be for the future possible to gauge accur-
ately the rise and fall of prices in Canada from year to year, as has long been
customary in other countries, by means of an index number. This process, of
the greatest value to the United Ivingdom as practised by the London Economist,
and to the United States as practised by the commercial agencies, has been
hitherto impracticable in Canada because of the lack of material for comparison
on any scale of importance with previous vears. This difficulty having been now
overcome the fluctuation of prices can be accurately traced henceforth in Canada
also, and will be indicated from month to month in the Labour Gazette by the use
of an index number, after the method used by the institutions above named.
The special departmental report on prices will, therefore, prove of permanent
and continuous value to the Dominion in an economic sense, while it will appeal
also to the average citizen as an authentic statement on the most vital topic of
the times.
THE COMBINES INVESTIGATION ACT.
Although not strictly entering into the work of the Department for the past
year, it will be in place to mention at this point as a matter allied in a measure to
that of the cost of living, the Combines Investigation Act, 1910, introduced into
the House of Commons by the Minister of Labour during the past session and
which became law at the close of Parliament. This measure, which lias as its
object the prevention of injury to the public from undue restriction of com-
petition and unfair exactions arising out of the business methods and existence
of combines, trusts, monopoUes or mergers, will be administered by the Depart-
ment of Labour and may be expected to add materially to the work of the De-
partment during the coming j'^ear. The basic principle of the measure is similar
to that of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, namely, the providing
of machinery to get at the facts and to effect a concentration of public opinion on
methods or practices which are inimical to the public weal; this concentration is
secured by an investigation before a Board organized and constituted closely on
the lines of the measure named, save that in the case of the Combines Investigation
Act an investigation can be held only on the order of a Superior Court Judge
before whom a prefiminary inquiry shall already have taken place; also in the
case of the Combines Investigation Act the Chairman of a Board of Investigation
must be a judge of a court of record. Several penalties are provided in the event
of any evils brought to light by investigation not being definitely and speedily
corrected by the process of publicity.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.
The departmental records and charts of industrial disputes are prepared
for the calendar year, rather than the fiscal, as being in this way of wider service
for comparative purposes. The number of disputes during the calendar year
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1909 was 69, identical with that of the year 1908, this figure being greatly lower
than in any previous year since these statistics have been recorded in Canada.
The statistics show a considerable increase over 1908 in the time lost in trade
disputes, this being attributable mainly to the occurrence of several serious strikes
in the coal mining industry; one, extending for a period of three months in the
late spring affecting numerous mines in eastern British Columbia and southern
Alberta, other strikes concerning Nova Scotia mines at Glace Bay and Sprirghill
and continuing from the time of declaration in the summer months to the close
of the fiscal year, though operations at Glace Bay, according to the Company's
statement ceased to be effective after the close of navigation in November last.
No other important industry was seriouly affected by disputes during the
year, but at Fort William in the month of August a strike of longshoremen brought
about an unfortunate encounter between the strikers and a number of special
constables in which several on both sides were wounded. The strike was of brief
duration and the difficulty was settled by a board established under the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, of the existence of which the strikers, who were prac-
tically confined to foreigners of limited education, claimed to have been ignorant
when they ceased work.
The disputes in the coal mining industry in Nova Scotia and that among
the longshoremen at Fort William were, under the Minister's instructions, made
the subject of special investigations by the Deputy Minister, abstracts of whose
reports on these subjects are included in the present volume.
A dispute of some importance, though not noticeable in a statistical sense,
occurred between the fishermen and fish-merchants of Gasp6, resulting in some
disorder, the question at issue being the prices paid for fish, which practically
resolved itself into a wage dispute. Mr. Victor DuBreuil, one of the fair wages
officers of the Department, was, by the Minister's instructions, despatched to
Gasp6 to inquire into the matter.
An investigation also of considerable interest was that undertaken, by the
Minister's direction, by Mr. J. D. McNiven, one of the fair wages officers of the
Department, into the rate of wages paid workmen on a section of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway under construction in western British Columbia. Abstracts
of the reports of Messrs. DuBreuil and McNiven are included in the present volume.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT, 1907.
A review of the proceedings of the year under the Industrial Disputes Investiga-
tion Act, 1907, is included in the report, as also a statement covering the operations
of the Act from its inception three years ago. In the appendix of the volume
will be found also the text of each report received from a Board of Conciliation
and Investigation during the fiscal year. The total number of disputes referred
under the Act during the year was thirty, the total referred during the three years
of fife of the measure being eighty-two.
The past year was marked by four instances in which the strikes threatened
before the provisions of the Act were invoked were not averted. In all cases the
industry concerned was that of mining, two of the disputes referring to coal mines
in Nova Scotia and two to mines in British Columbia. The question in dispute
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in each instance was that of union recognition, and arose, in the case of the Nova
Scotia coal miners, from friction between the Provincial Workmen's Association
of Nova Scotia and the United ]\Iine Workers of America, which latter body
demanded recognition by different coal companies in the province. In the Brit-
ish Columbia cases the disputes were of a more local and restricted character,
but, as stated, turned, in both instances, on union recognition.
It is worthy of special note that the only cases throughout the year in which
the Act, when invoked, failed to avert a threatened strike, were disputes of this par-
ticular class, where the issue involved is one less susceptible than ordinary matters
of difference to the principle of investigation or conciliation, a complete surrender
by one party or the other of ideas widely divergent affording apparently the only
hope of settlement. It may be added that in the case of the strike by the em-
ployees of the Dominion Coal Company, which lasted from early in July, 1909, to
the close of April, 1910, the employees finally returned to work substantially under
the conditions approved by the Board of Conciliation and Investigation which
passed upon the dispute in March, 1909.
The strike among the coal miners of eastern British Columbia and southern
Alberta, referred to on a preceding page, was declared without reference to the
Act, and contrary to its terms. A Board was eventually estabHshed on request
of the men and the ultimate settlement was on the general basis recommended by
the Board. Here, too, the question of union recognition, or of the degree of
recognition to be granted, entered largely into the dispute, though it was less
directly the issue than in the Nova Scotia disputes cited.
At Inverness, C.B., also, a strike of coal miners occurred without reference to
the Act and contrary to its provisions, the strike in this case being, however,
limited in its effectiveness to a few days. Recognition of the union was again the
issue involved. One of the officials of the organization controUing and supporting
the strike was charged before the local magistrate with an infringement of the
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and was convicted and fined; the convic-
tion was appealed to the court of appeal of Nova Scotia, and judgment on appeal
had not been given at the time of writing.
AMENDMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT.
A Bill amending the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act in some minor
respects was passed at the session of Parliament lately completed. The amend-
ments had reference to the machinery of procedure and were made in response to
representations which had been frequently laid before the Minister by labour
organizations, especially organizations including railway workers, upon whom
there seemed reason to believe the Act in its original form bore somewhat severely.
The point on which the principal amendment bore was that which required the
applicants for a Board to make a sworn declaration, when making application,
that the necessary authority to declare a strike or lockout had been oljtainod. It
was pointed out that in the case of a body of railway employees, extending through
a number of Provinces, as is the case with the great trunk fines of Canada, the
taking of a vote over the system became a serious and expensive matter, in some
cases involving an expenditure of several thousand__dollars. The amendment,
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therefore, simplified the machinery of the Act in this respect by providing an
alternative, of which applicants under certain conditions might avail themselves.
A further amendment had as its object the placing on the party proposing changes
from existing conditions as to wages or hours the onus of making application for
a' Board when the proposed changes were not accepted by the other party. Under
the law as it originally stood the onus of applying for a Board might be allowed to
fall upon the party subjected to the changes, and instances were cited before the
Minister, and in correspondence with the Department, alleging a certain measure
of injustice from the former condition. The only other amendment was one
making a slight increase in the fees paid to members of the Board other than the
Chairman. A copy of the Act in its amended form is printed with the present
report.
ROYAL COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND Tf:rHNICAL EDUCATION.
A matter which was a subject of action during the late session of Parliament,
and may have a bearing of some importance on the future work of the Department,
is that of Technical Education. Early in the session Mr. Guthrie, M.P., for South
Wellington, moved a resolution urging action by the Dominion Government
looking to the estabUshment by the Dominion Government of a Royal Commission
with power to inquire into the whole subject of Technical Education and to make
recommendations for subsequent action. The Minister of Labour, replying for
the Government, admitted the vast importance of the subject and expressed
himself as being in the fullest sympathy with the desire that no opportuntiy
should be neglected of securing for Canada the fullest possible measure of equip-
ment in technical education. The Minister pointed to the necessity in the mean-
time of bearing well in mind that the subject of education was one which the federal
system left in the hands of the provinces, and suggested that before definite action
was taken the views of the several provincial governments should be obtained as
to the desirability of the Dominion Government appointing a commission which
should investigate the needs of the Dominion with respect to technical education
and the systems and methods obtaining in other countries, and prepare a report
to be placed at the disposition of the authorities of the several provinces. Later
in the session the Minister informed the House that he had received from the
Prime Ministers of all the provinces letters favourable to the establishment of a
royal commission for the purpose indicated. It was determined accordingly to
appoint a royal commission on technical education and in the closing days of the
session a vote of $25,000 was taken on account of the commission. The personnel
of the commission was announced shortly after the close of the session.
FAIR WAGES WORK.
The fair wages branch of the Department has during the year prepared 148
schedules of wages relating to contracts affecting all sections of the country, and
has conducted a score of special investigations into cases of alleged non-observance
by contractors of the labour conditions of different contracts. In the gi-eat ma-
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jority of cases investigated, the grievances were sustained and the contractor was
required to effect a settlement. It may be added that the total number of fair
wages schedules prepared by the Department since this work was commenced in
1900 reached 1,625 at the close of the past financial year. The various depart-
ments of the Government have entered heartily into the spirit of the fair wages
resolution and the Department of Labour has encountered no unreasonable diffi-
culty in performing this aspect of its work.
STATISTICAL AND OTHER WORK.
The statistical work of the Department has continued throughout the year.
This work, it may be pointed out, becomes increasingly valuable as time passes,
and renders the figures of the past available for purposes of comparison. In the
important realm of industrial disputes, it should be noted, there is no record,
other than that compiled by the Department, which, however, is now available
for almost a decade, extending back to the year 1901. It will be obvious that the
compilation of statistics of this nature entails much research and correspondence.
The disputes are as a rule first brought to the attention of the Department by
press references, and each dispute is then carefully watched until it is definitely
closed, inquiries from both parties being made systematically and on forms pre-
pared for the purpose, the correspondents of the Labour Gazette also being required
to investigate disputes when necessary; the utmost regard is paid, both in the
compilation and the analysis of the figures, to the question of accuracy.
The growing industrial importance of Canada renders it increasingly desirable
that the fullest information should be available as to the cause and nature of all
industrial disputes, also as to the duration, manner of settlement, loss of time,
and other particulars in each case. By endeavouring to secure this information
it is behoved the Department is not only performing a service of direct, imme-
diate value to the public, but is itself brought more intimately into touch with the
whole subject and is the better enabled to administer the Industrial Disputes
Investigation Act, 1907, and to lend its good offices in other ways as occasion may
require.
What has been said of the statistics gathered with regard to industrial dis-
putes applies largely also to the figures compiled with regard to industrial acci-
dents, a field of statistical inquiry not comprehensively covered until the work
was undertaken some years ago by the Department. The figures now available
in this direction mu.st have an important bearing on any proposals looking to
legislation on this .subject.
It has been already pointed out that the first point of contact between the
Department and the events included within the scope of its statistical bureau is the
press. It is necessary that researches made for these and other purposes to be
really effective should be very thorough and comprehensive, and this branch of
departmental work has been therefore very carefully organized. The Depart-
ment receives 110 daily and weekly new.spapers, mostly Canadian, besides all the
trade and industrial journals of the country, or relating to trade organizations
to which Canadians may belong. All these journals are read and clipped by the
Department. Obviously, however, when a clipping system is once established
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and so many sources of information are laid under tribute, it is possible by a slight
extension of operation to add greatly to the value of the results achieved. So the
clipping bureau of the Department has been extended and developed until it has
been made an important factor in building up a great and ever-increasing de-
partmental library embracing every variety of sociology, and the newspapers are
read and marked and clipped not only for particulars as to industrial disputes
and industrial accidents, but for information as to fires and other interruptions to
industry, as to new industries, as to organizations of either employers or em-
ployees (the last head embracing trades unions), as to industrial movements general-
ly in Canada or elsewhere, as to social and moral reform, co-operation, profit
sharing, technical education, shorter hours, wage reductions or increases, trade
agreements, old age pensions, cost of living, as to anything in fact that may have
a bearing on the lives of industrial workers. Many such matters become the
subject of further inquiry for the purpose of the Labour Gazette or otherwise for
the use of the Department, and, particularly when it becomes necessary to make
any official calculation or statement as to matters first brought to the attention
of the Department in this way, no pains are spared in the effort to learn as far as
possible the precise circumstances.
CH.\NGES IN PERSONNEL OF STAFF.
The principal change in the stafT of the Department during the year was the
appointment of Mr. E. Vincelette as translator in sucession to the late Mr. Phileas
Lanctot, deceased. Mr. Vincelette was designated by the Civil Service Com-
mission, to whom under the Civil Service Amendment Act, 1908, application was
made for an officer to fill the vacant position.
The estimates for the year 1910-11 contained provision, it may be noted, for
an accountant for the Department. Hitherto the Department has been without
an accountant of its own, the necessary work in this direction being performed by
the accountant of the Post Office Department, who was remunerated accordingly.
With the expansion of the Department and particularly since the administration
by the Department of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, this ar-
rangement, always necessarily inconvenient, became extremely difficult; the
further addition to the work of the Department of the duty of administering the
Combines Investigation Act made the appointment of an accountant a matter of
immediate necessity. Shortly before the close of the financial year the Civil
Service Commission held a competitive examination, as a result of which Mr. E.
A. Thomas, who headed the list of successful candidates, was designated for the
vacant position and was appointed from April 15 last. Mr. Thomas had had
several years' experience in the Department of Agriculture.
Mr. F. W. Giddens, who had been for a number of years in the service of the
Department and had acted as secretary to the Deputy Minister was appointed by
the Honourable W. L. Mackenzie King as his private secretary shortly after Mr.
King's appointment as Minister of Labour.
CH.^NGES IN THE STAFF OP CORRESPONDENTS.
The following changes in the staff of correspondents to the Labour Gazett.
occurred during the year, viz.: —
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E. E. Cinq-Mars, to be correspondent for Hull, Que., and district, to replace
Rod. Laferriere, deceased.
John Markey, to be correspondent for Woodstock, Ont., and district, to replace
M. W. N. McElheran, resigned.
W. B. McNeil, to be correspondent for Regina, Sask., and district, to replace
Hugh Peat, resigned.
Edwin Howell, to be correspondent for Calgary, Aha., and district, to replace
George Howell, resigned.
J. P. McMurphy, to be correspondent for New Westminster, B.C., and dis-
trict, to replace D. J. Stewart, resigned.
Mr. George Ritchie, Barrister, Toronto, was appointed Legal Correspondent,
filling the position vacated by Mr. E. Douglas Armour, who had been compelled
by ill-health to resign during the preceding financial year.
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I.— THE LABOUR GAZETTE.
The Labour Gazette, the official journal of the Department, was is.sued monthly
during the past year in both French and English, as previously. In general scope
and character the journal was much the same as in preceding years.
Beginning with the January, 1910, issue, an important new feature was added,
namely, a table showing retail prices of some thirty leading articles of consump-
tion in the more important centres of population throughout Canada. During the
session of the Parliament of Canada, also, a review of the various Bills, Motions,
Debates, &c., affecting labour was published from month to month, this bei-g a
second new feature of the year.
In the main the contents of each issue of the Labour Gazette fall under the
three following headings.
I. A comprehensive review oj industrial and labour conditions throughout the
Dominion during the preceding month. This matter is further sub-divided into
(a) a general summary covering the Dominion as a whole, this being the opening
article of each number; and, (b), a series of reports from the local correspondents
of the Department residing in the several cities of the Dominion.
II. Special articles embodying the results of investigations conducted by the
Department, or having reference to current events of importance.
III. Statistical and other monthly returns and statements, including separate
articles dealing with immigration and colonization, trade disputes, industrial acci-
dents, recent legal decisions, proceedings under the Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act of 1907 with the text of the findings of Boards thereunder, and reviews of blue
books and other official publications received by the Department. The text of
important industrial agreements received from time to time, and a periodical
return of changes in wages and hours of labour may also be included under this
heading.
I. — MONTHLY REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOUR CONDITIONS.
In previous annual reports a detailed description has been given of the scope
and plan of the general summary of industrial and labour conditions which con-
stitutes the opening article in each issue of the Labour Gazette, as well as of the
method in which the material embodied therein is collected by the Department.
In like manner the procedure followed by the several correspondents of the Labour
Gazette in preparing their monthly reports has been fully described. The reader
is referred in particular to pages 16 to 18 of the annual report for the financial
year ended March 31, 1909, for complete information on these points.
2. — SPECIAL ARTICLES.
(1) Industrial Disturbances in the Coal Fields of Nova Scotia.
Of the labour disputes of the year, the protracted series of strikes which
occurred i^ the coal fields of Nova Scotia caused a greater amount of loss through
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this cause than any other development of the year, involving as they did several
thousands of employees. The disturbances arose primarily out of a struggle
between two rival labour organizations, namely, the Provincial Work-
men's Association and the United Mine Workers of America, concerning
the enrollment of members and the question of recognition by the
employing companies. Three strikes resulted from this conflict, namely,
among employees of the Dominion Coal Company at Glace Bay, N.S.;
among employees of the Inverness Railway & Coal Company at Inverness,
N.S., and among the employees of the Cumberland Railway & Coal Company
at Springhill, N.S. In two of the above disputes, namely, the first and the third
mentioned, the points at issue between the parties had been previously dealt with
by Boards appointed under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. In re-
cording the proceedings and findings of these Boards the Labour Gazette, accord-
ingly, contained a detailed description of the origin and causes of the dispute. In
addition, after the declaration on July 6, of the strike at Glace Bay by the United
Mine Workers of America, a special article dealing with the immediate circum-
stances and progress of the dispute was published. In view of the protracted
nature of their conflicts and the importance of the matter to the community, a
special investigation into conditions in the coal mining industry throughout the
Province of Nova Scotia was conducted by Mr. F. A. Acland, Deputy Minister of
Labour, by direction of the Honourable the Minister of Labour, during the first
half of September. Mr. Acland visited every important centre of the coal mining
industry in Nova Scotia and discussed the current situation in its general bearing,
with the Managers of the leading collieries, with representatives of the workmen
affected, and with prominent citizens in the thirteen cities and towns mostly inter-
ested. His report appeared under date of September 25, and was presented by
the Honourable the ^linister of Labour to Parliament in blue book form in the
closing week of November. Opening with a brief statistical survey of the coal
mining industry of Nova Scotia, the report reviewed at some length the origin and
history of the struggle and the circumstances attending the three strikes then in
existence. A comprehensive review of the report containing a reprint of the
more important findings was published in the Labovr Gazette for December, 1909.
(3) Special Investigation into Wholesale Prices in Canada Diirina; the Past
Twenty Years.
During the past year a comprehensive investigation was carried out by the
Editorial Staff of the Labour Gazette into the course of wholesale prices in Canada
during the past twenty years, namely, from 1890 up to the end of the year 1909.
The results were issued in a special blue book, a detailed review of which is given
in a separate chapter of the present volume, showing the purposes and methods of
the investigation and the nature of the results which it revealed. Prior to the
appearance of this report certain portions of its subject-matter were published in
the Labour Gazette. Thus, the issue for February, 1910, contained the results of
the investigation insofar as prices of animals and meats during the period 1S90-
1909 were concerned, the complete statistical matter collected by the Department
in this case and the charts based thereon being published. Accompanying this
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matter were two special articles of an introductory and interpretive'^character
briefly describing the investigation which had been made and outlining the method
in which price statistics would be dealt with in future by the Department. In
the March issue of the Labour Gazette the results of the investigation into the
wholesale prices of grains and fodder were given. For complete details as to these
and other phases of the investigation see chapter V of the present report.
(3) The Combines Investigation Act.
On January 18, the Honourable the Minister of Labour, moved for leave to in-
troduce Bill No. 101 to provide for the investigation of Combines, Monopolies, Trusts
and Mergers which may enhance the price or restrict competition to the detriment
of consumers; and in so doing furnished to the House an outline of the proposals
contained in the Bill, as well as a brief statement of the reasons which suggested
its preparation. The remarks of the Minister were reprinted in the Labour Gazette
for February, 1910, page 888.
(4) Commission of Inquiry re Teclinical Education.
On January 28, an announcement was made by the Honourable the Minister
of Labour in the House of Commons outlining the poUcy of the Government re-
garding the appointment of a Commission to investigate the needs of Canada in
respect to technical education. The opinion of the Government, he stated, was
that in the national interest a Commission on Technical Education should be ap-
pointed and that considering the importance of the subject the proposed Commis-
sion should have an opportunity of visiting other countries to study the systems
and methods of technical education obtaining there.
On December 13, a communication was addressed by the Minister of Labour
to the Premiers of the several Provinces in which the latter were asked whether the
appointment by the Federal authorities of a Commission on Technical Education
would meet with the approval of the Provincial Government, and also whether
exception to such a course would be taken ongrounds of jurisdiction. The letter
of the iMinister of Labour in this connection and the repUes received from the
several provinces were reprinted in the Labour Gazette for February, 1910.
(.5) Dispute .\monii; tlie Fishing Population of Gaspe. — Special Investigation by
Fair Wages Officer of Department.
During the month of September, 1909, a disturbance arose among the fishing
population of the peninsula of Gaspe, Que., with reference to the prices paid for
fish by the local merchants. The dispute led to rioting among the fishermen and
two Government steamers were despatched to the vicinity for the purpose of re-
storing order. Inasmuch as the industry affected is of importance, and as informa-
tion with regard to the condition involved was difficult to obtain through the
ordinary channels, owing to the extent and remoteness of the territory affected,
the Honourable the Minister of Labour instructed Mr. Victor DuBreuil, one of the
fair wages officers of the Department, to proceed to the scene of the disturbance in
order to make investigation as to the causes and to report thereon to the Depart-
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ment. After an inquiry of some days' duration Mr. DuBreuil presented a written
report to the ^linister, which was printed in full in the Labour Gazette for Novem-
ber, 1909. The report dealt with the nature of the industry, the localities con-
cerned, the character of the population, the causes of the disturbance, involving
the price of fish, jthe profits of local merchants, the use of the "truck" system and
the employment of inadequate weighing methods. The report also gave details as
to the average earnings of the fishermen and the origin, progress and results of the
disturbance.
(6) Other Investigations by Fair Wages Officers.
Several investigations were made during the year by the Fair Wages Officers
of the Department into complaints of alleged violations of fair wages schedules.
A reference to the nature and result of these investigations may be found in special
articles in the December, 1909 and February, 1910, issues of the Labour Gazette.
(7) Wages of Railway Employees, Agricultural Labour and Unskilled Labour^
With the increasing industrial activity which marked the advance of the sea-
son of outdoor activity during 1909, there was a considerable increase in the
demand for labour in connection with railway construction, farming operations,
civic improvements, &c. This was reflected in the wages of these classes, which
showed at some points a considerable advance compared with rates prevailing
earlier in the season. During the month of October the Department obtained from
the correspondents of the Labour Gazelle a return relating to the rates prevailing in
their respective districts for the classes in question. In connection with railway
employees information was also sought from the leading contractors engaged in the
construction of railways throughout Canada. The material collected in this way
was presented (in the Labour Gazette for November, 1909, pages 593-599) in a
tabular statement in which, in addition to the rates quoted, a column of remarks
was included in which the tendency of wages since the opening of the spring in the
several locaHties was noted. It was shown that the general tendency had been
upward as a result of the increasing activity of labour accompanying the steady
revival of trade and industry.
(8) Building Operations in Canada, 1908.
The Department repeated during the opening months of 1909, the investiga-
tions made in 1907 and 1908 into the nature and extent of building operations
throughout Canada during the preceding calendar year. The article is intended
to afford an index of the building activity of the year, and to throw light thereby
not only on the amount of employment rendered available to workingmen in the
building trades and in the manufacture of building material, but on the general
character of industrial development in Canada during the period covered.
One of the most noteworthy features of the seasons of 1906 and 1907 in Canada
was the marked activity in building operations. This received a check during
1908, as the result of the financial stringency of the autumn of 1907. As showing
the extent of the check, the value of buildings erected in forty-four cities decreased
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from a total of $.56,305,792 in 1907 to .?49,452,2:38 in 190S. The year 1907, it will
be remembered, also showed a decrease compared with 1906 in the principal cities
of the Dominion, though to a less extent than that which occurred in 1908.
Altogether the Department secured detailed information with reference to
building operations in seventy-three localities in 1908, the return being complete
for all localities having a population of 8,000 or over. The total value of build-
ings erected in these localities was $.51,22.3,398.
The article contained a detailed statement showing the nature and extent of
building operations during 1908 in all of the more important centres of population
throughout Canada, this being accompanied by a tabular statement in which the
returns were analysed according as they related to new buildings or to alterations
or repairs.
(9) Labour Organization in Canada During 1909.
The usual statistical review with reference to the formation and dissolution
of labour organizations in Canada during the preceding calendar year was pub-
lished in the March, 1910, issue of the Labour Gazelle, page 991. A full list of the
unions formed and dissolved was given, with details relating to each based on in-
formation collected during the year from the daily press, journals of labour organiza-
tions, secretaries of trade unions, correspondents of the Labour Gazette, and others.
According to information received by the Department up to the end of Feb-
urary, 1910, the total number of labour organizations formed in Canada during
1909, was 162, and of organizations dissolved, ninety. The following table taken
from the article shows by industries and groups of trades the number of labour
organizations formed and dissolved in Canada during the past six years: —
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Department of Labour. Canada,
Statistical Tables, X,, A. R., No. 1.
TABLE SHOWING BY INDUSTRIES AND GROUPS OF TRADES, THE NUMBER OF LABOUR ORGAN-
IZATIONS FORMED AND DISSOLVED IN CANADA DURING 1804, 1905, 1E06, 1907. 1908 AND 1909.
Industries of
Groups of Trades
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1
5
12
1
1
5
18
14
2
3
6
1
1
2
1
13
30
22
1
13
7
1
8
7
61
2
4
14
35
25
1
9
20
1
4
25
12
13
1
3
3
22
11
54
12
7
2
1
13
13
8
2
4
2
7
44
18
2
5
7
3
11
1
19
41
43
2
9
8
1
11
6
8
51
2
5
2
6
13
2
3
4
1
3
20
1
10
27
10
1
1
8
1
1
5
10
25
29
24
2
14
5
1
2
3
3
28
1
1
4
1
9
5
3
19
24
15
1
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2
2
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Food and tobacco pre-
2
11
7
4
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U
Street railway em-
General transport
21
18
18
50
19
18
2
3
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General labour..
Trades and labour
14
5
5
14
7
6
4
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1
13
4
8
13
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2
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148
104
103
105
154
85
232
68
196
90
162
90
'Inclufiecl under "Food and Tobacco Preparation" in 1904, 1905 and 1906.
'Included under "General Traasport" in 1904, 1905 and 1906,
The article also contains tables showing the number of organizations formed
and dissolved according to provinces and months. A table showing the number
of charters issued and withdra'mi in Canada by the leading international organiza-
tions during 1909 is added.
(10) Renewal of Agrrecment Between Western Coal Operators' Association and
Employees,
The agreement concluded in 1907, between the Western Coal Operators'
Association and the United Mine Wori<ers of America, covering the majority
of the mines in Alberta and Eastern British Columbia came to an end in March 31,
1909. In connection with the renewal of this agreement a cessation of work
occurred in some of the mines. The circumstances under which the negotiations
for the new agreement were conducted and the suspension of operations took
place were described in a special article in the Labour Gazette for April, 1909. The
August, 1909, issue contained the text of the new agreement as officially ratified
between the Western Coal Operators' Association and the employees of the several
companies.
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(11) Co-Operatlon.
Several special articles dealing with co-operation were published during the
past year. The organization at Hamilton, Ont., of the co-operative Union of
Canada was dealt with in the April, 1909, issue of the Labour Gazette, the constitu-
tion of the Union being reprinted and an outline given of the proceedings of the
convention. In the same number a reference appeared to a discusssion on co-
operation which took place in the House of Commons on March 10. A summary
of the first annual report of the Trail Rochdale Co-operative Association of Trail,
B.C., was also given. In the issue for July, 1909, a brief report of the annual
meeting of the Co-operative Congress of Great Britain was printed. The first
semi-annual meeting of the New Westminster Co-operative Association was re-
ported in the September Gazette, while the October and November issues con-
tained a complete list of the Co-operative or Peoples' Banks now established in
the Province of Quebec, over thirty in number. The annual statement of the
Peoples' Bank of Quebec was published in the November issue, which contained
in addition articles on the work of the Co-operative Society of Valleyfield, Que.,
and of the Canadian Co-operative Concern of Hamilton, Ont. In the December
issue an experiment in co-operative lobster packing on the Nova Scotia coast was
dealt with in a special article. The July, 1909, issue contained a reprint of a paper
read before the Twentieth Century Club of Boston on co-operative banldng, by
Mr. Alphonse Desjardins, President and Manager of the Peoples' Bank of Levis,
Canada. The ninth annual report of the bank of which Mr. Desjardins is presi-
dent was reviewed in the Labour Gazette for February, 1909.
(13) Legislation Affecting Labour.
The Labour Gazette contained during the past year as in previous years a
series of reviews of the legislation enacted by the Dominion Parliament ^nd by the
Legislatures of the several Provinces during 1909 affecting industrial and labour
conditions. Nine special articles were published in this connection.
(13) Special Reports of Important Meetings of Trades and Labour Congresses,
Manufacturers' Associations and Other Public Bodies.
Special reports were published during the past year of the following meetings:
the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Trades and Labour Congress of
Canada, held at Quebec, Que., September 20-24; the first annual meeting of the
Canadian Federation of Labour, held at Ottawa, Ont., September 28, October 1;
the thirtieth annual convention of the Grand Council of the Provincial Workmen's
Association, held at Halifax, N.S., September 21-24; the fifth annual meeting of
the Fishermen's Union of Nova Scotia, held at Halifax, during September; the
forty-second annual congress of the Trades' Unions of Great Britain, held at Ips-
wich, England, September 6-11; the twenty-ninth annual convention of the
American Federation of Labour, held at Toronto, Ont., November 8-20; the
thirty-eighth annual convention of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association held
at Hamilton, Ont., September 14-17; the eleventh annual meeting of the Canadian
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Milling Institute held at Montreal, Que., March 3-5; the third annual convention
of the Union of New Brunswick Municipahties, held at Moncton, N.B., March
10-11; the fourth quinquennial congress of the International Council of Women,
held at Toronto, Ont., June 24-30; the twenty-fifth annual convention of the
Association of Officials of Bureau of Labour Statistics of America, held at Rochester,
N. Y., June 15-18; the twenty-third annual convention of the International Asso-
ciation of Factories' Inspectors, held at Rochester, N. Y., June 15-18; the third
annual meeting of the Western Canada Irrigation Company held at Lethbridge,
Alta., August 5-6; the Interstate Conference on industrial accidents held at
Atlantic Citj', N. J., July 23-31; the twentieth annual convention of the Canadian
Association of Stationary Engineers held at Lomlon, Ont., July 27-30; the thirty-
fifth annual meeting of the Dominion Grange held at Torpnto, Ont., during No-
vember; the inaugural meeting of the Canadian Conservation Commission held
at Ottawa, Ont., January 18-21; the fifth annual conference on Child Labour
held at Chicago, 111., January, 1909.
Separate reports were also published of interviews held by representatives
of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Federation of
Labour with the Dominion Government for the purpose of presenting resolutions
and other views expressed at the meetings of these bodies above referred to. An
interview during November of the Legislative Board of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen with the Honourable the Minister of Labour was also reported under
a separate article in the Labour Gazette, as was an interview granted by the Min-
ister to a deputation from the Canadian National Association of Builders, which
asked for the application of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, to the
building trades. A joint committee representing the Trades and Labour Congress
of Canada and the Toronto Trades and Labour Congress had an interview with
the Government of Ontario respecting night work for women; this interview was
also speciall}" reported in the Labour Gazette.
(14) Other Special Articles.
The following is an enumeration of the subjects in addition to tho.sc above
mentioned which were dealt with in special articles in the Labour Gazette during
the past year: —
1. Public Ownership of Interior Elevators. — A statement of the reply of the
Interprovincial Council of Farmers' Association of the Prairie Provinces to a
joint pronouncement made by the premiers of these provinces during January.
(Labour Gazette, April, 1909, page 1104).
2. Factory Inspection in New Brunswick. — A review of the annual report of
the Inspector of Factories for the Province. (Labour Gazette, April. 1909, ])age
1101).
3. Increases to Emploi/ees oj Governrnent Railways. — A statement made by
the Honourable the Minister of Railways and Canals in the House of Commons
showing the increases granted to the employees, on the Intercolonial Railway
system during 1907-1908. (Labour Gazette, April, 1909, page 1,117).
4. Rural Mail Deliveri/ in Canada. — A review of the regulations issued bj'
the Post Office Department of Canada. (Labour Gazette, April. 1909, page 1118).
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5. School Savings Bank, St. Louis, Que. — Financial statement of the Econo-
mie Scolaire cle la YiWe de St. Louis, Que. {Labour Gazette, April, 1909, page
1118).
6. Protection oj Railwaif Employees. — Copy of a regulation issued by the
Board of Railway Commissioners with reference to train equipment, qualifications
of train crews, &c. {Labour Gazette, April, 1909, page 1211).
7. Progress on National Transcontinental Raihvai/. — A table deahng with
the eastern section of the road was presented to the House of Commons by the
Honourable Minister of Railways and Canals during March, 1909. {Labour
Gazette, April, 1909, page 1122). A similar review dealing with the progress of
the entire system was presented by the Minister in February. {Labour Gazette,
March, 1909, page 1008).
8. Insurance oj Immigrants. — A notice of an arrangement adopted by the
Salvation Army International Immigration Office of London, England, whereby
immigrants are insured against loss of luggage, sickness, accident and unemploy-
ment. {Labour Gazette, April, 1909, page 11,34).
9. Establishment of British Trade Agencies in Canada. — A reference to the
establishment of a system of British trade agencies throughout Canada, with a
review of a report by His Majesty's Trade Commis.sioner of the Dominion of Canada
dealing with British trade prospects in Canada. {Labour Gazette, May, 1909,
page 1247).
10. Old Age Pension Fund of International Typographical Union. — A Isrief
descriptive article. {Labour Gazette, May, 1909, page 1247).
11. The Canadian Tobacco Industry. — Reference to the action of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Canada to encourage the curing and proper treatment of
Canadian tobacco. {Labour Gazette, June, 1909, page 1341).
12. Penny Bank oj Toronto, Ont. — A review of the third annual report.
(Labour Gazette, June, page 1341).
13. The British Welcome League, Toronto, Ont. — A review of the second annual
report. {Labour Gazette, June, 1909, page 1342).
14. The Provincial Workme7i's Association oj Nova Scotia. — A list of the
lodges in good standing. {Labour Gazette, June, 1909, page 1342).
15. Toronto Free Employment Bureau. — A reference to the establishment by
the Associated Charities of a bureau as an agency for receiving work for the un-
employed during the winter. {Labour Gazette, June, 1909, page 1343).
16. The Massachxisetts Bureau oj Labour. — An extension of this, the oldest
State Department of Labour on the continent, was carried out in May, 1909.
{Labour Gazette, June, 1909, page 1344).
17. Dominion Steel Workers' Mutual Benejit Society. — A review of the
annual report. {Labour Gazette, June, 1909, page 1344).
IS. Resuscitation jrom Apparent Death jrom Electric Shock. — Reprint of a
circular issued by the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada giving instruc-
tions in the latest methods of resuscitation from the effects of electric shock. (La- ■.
hour Gazette, June, page 134.5 and July, 1909, page 111).
19. Welfare Work oj the Lake Carriers' Association oj Cleveland, Ohio. — A
description of the action of this Associationin providing assembly rooms, funeral
expenses, relief, &c., for its members. {Labour Gazette, June 1908, page 1353).
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20. Factory Legislation and Inspection in Canada. — A list of the Factory
Acts of the Dominion and the names and addresses of the inspectors at present on
the staffs of each province. (Labour Gazette, July, 1909, page 130).
21. The Montreal Sh'eet Railwa;/ Company's Mittual Benefit Association. —
A review of the annual statement. (Labour Gazette, August, 1909, page 242).
22. International Arrangement re Deep-sea Fisheries of the British Columbia
Sea Coast. — A description of the action of the Customs Department of Canada to
confine in the future the privilege of obtaining bait by the American fishing vessels
to those who entitle themselves to the same by bonding their fish from Canadian
ports. (Labour Gazette, August, 1909, page 243).
23. Forest Fires in Canada During 1908. — An estimate by the Department of
the Interior of the loss caused by forest fires in Canada during 1908. (Labour
Gazette, September, 1909, page 326).
24. Rehabilitation oj the Oyster Fisheries of the Maritime Provinces. — A re-
port of a meeting of representatives appointed by the Governments of the three
Maritime Provinces for the purpose of discussing the question. (Labour Gazette.
October, 1909, page 491).
25. ^Y elf are Work by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. — A detailed
description of the Welfare Work undertaken by this Company for the benefit of
its employees numbering over 70,000 men. (Labour Gazette, Ocioh&v, 1909, page
488).
26. Canadian Government Annuities Act, 1908. — An address on the Act by
the Superintendent of Annuities. (Labour Gazette, October, 1909, page 483).
27. Canadian Peace Arbitration Society.— An article dealing with the steps
taken to organize the society and to circulate a petition in memory of the Century
of Peace between Canada and the United States. (Labour Gazette, October. 1909,
page 480).
28. Mining Disaster at Extension, B.C. — A report of a disaster by which
thirty-two miners lost their lives by an explosion in the coal mines at Extension,
B.C. (Labour Gazette, November, 1909, page 600).
29. Ontario Milk Commission. — A report of the proceedings of the Commis-
sion appointed by the Government of Ontario to investigate the milk supply of the
Province. (Labour Gazette, 1909, page 584).
30. The Canadian Export Bureau. — A statement with reference to an index
of Canadian manufacturers, exporters and producers being compiled by the De-
partment of Trade and Commerce, Canada. (Labour Gazette, November, 1909,
page 580).
31. Government Chilling and Packing Plants in Alberta. — A statement des-
criptive of the situation following the presentation of a leport by a committee
appointed by the Government of Alberta to report upon, and investigate this
matter. (Labou,~ Gazette, November, 1909, page 583).
32. Civic Federation of London, Ont. — Report of action taken at London,
^Dnt., looking to the formation of a civic federation. (Labour Gazette, December,
1909, page 693 and .March, 1910, page 1010).
33. The Railroad Young Men's Christian Association. — A description of
the work of this organization throughout Canada. (Labour Gazette, January,
1910, page 811).
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34. Pension Fund for Employees oj the Michigan Central Railway Company. —
A review of pension arrangements which went into effect on January 1, 1910.
{Labour Gazette, February, 1910, page 914).
35. The Edward Medal. — A reference to the extension by His late Majesty,
King Edward VII., of the scope of the Edward medal so as to admit of its being
awarded to those who in the course of any industrial employment endanger their
hves in saving or endeavouring to save the lives of others from perils in connection
with such employment. {Labour Gazette, March, 1910, page 1068).
36. Dominion Coal Company, Limited, Employees relief Fund, Reserve
Branch. — The fourteenth annual statement. {Labour Gazette, April, 1909, page
1118).
37. Dispute in the Boot and Shoe Trade, Quebec, Que. — An account of the
settlement of a number of differences by the formation of a joint conciliation Board
to which all matters in dispute, present or future, are to be referred. {Labour
Gazette, December, 1909, page 900).
(1,5) Special Reviews.
Several publications received at the Department were reviewed in special
articles as being of particular interest to industry and labour. The following
pubhcations were reviewed in this way: —
1. The ninth annual report of the Department of Labour, describing the work
of the Department during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1909.
2. An exhaustive report by a special Labour Commissioner of the State of
California on the subject of remedies for strikes and lockouts, recommending the
enactment of a law following closely the lines of the Canadian Industrial Disputes
Investigation Act, 1907.
3. The report of the Nova Scotia Commission on hours of labour. A progress
report of this Commission was also reviewed.
4. A booklet issued by the Superintendent of Government Annuities, des-
criptive of the plan whereby employees may be insured by employers under the
Canadian Government annuities system.
5. The report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws of the United
Kingdom, dealing with the administration of the Poor Law, the Unemployed
Workmen Act and the Old Age Pensions Act.
6. The Year Book, 1909, of the Builders' Exchange of Montreal.
7. A bulletin issued by the Department of Mines, Canada, dealing with the
peat bogs and peat industry of Canada, by Erik Nylstsom.
8. A special report of the Department of Mines, Canada, dealing with the
iron ores of Nova Scotia, by Dr. J. E. Woodman.
9. The report of the British Board of Trade on strikes and lockouts and the
proceedings of Conciliation Boards in Great Britain during 1908.
10. A report on pubhc health and social conditions in Great Britain by the
Local Government Board of the LTnited Kingdom.
11. An estimate by Mr. J. B. Challies, C. E., of the Department of the
Interior, Canada, on the water powers of Canada, prepared for the purpose of
the North American Conservation Conference.
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12. Report of the Royal Commission of Great Britain on the administration
of Poor Laws and the Relief of distress.
13. Report b}' Mr. Cyril Jackson on Boy Labour in Great Britain, being an
appendix to the report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and the relief
of distress in the United Kingdom.
14. Sixteenth report of the Labour Department of Great Britain on trade
disputes.
15. Report of an investigation conducted by the British Board of Trade into
the cost of living in French towns.
16.' Report by the British Board of Trade on the earnings and hours of labour
of workpeople in the textile trades of the United Kingdom during the year 1906.
17. Report of the United States Commissioner of Corporations on the history
and development of the tobacco indu.stry in the United States.
18. Report on the binder twine industry of Canada, bj' Mr. J. L. Haycock,
Dominion Inspector of Binder Twine.
19. Bulletin issued by the Census and Statistics Office of the Department of
Agriculture, Canada, dealing with the beet sugar industry of Canada.
20. Report of a Departmental Committee appointed by the Home Office of
Great Britain to inquire into the operation of the Truck Act.
21. Report of the Board of Trade, Great Britain, upon matters connected
with the establishment and working of Railway Conciliation Boards.
22. Report of a Royal Commission appointed by the Government of the
Province of Quebec under a special statute passed in 1907, to inquire into the
question of responsibility in connection with accidents to workmen.
23. Report of the Commission of inquiry into the use of opium in the Straits
Settlement and the Federated Malay States.
24. Report of a special officer of the Department of Customs of Canada on
the woollen industry in Cireat Britain.
in. ST.\TISTICAL .\ND OTHER PERIODICAL RETURN'S AND STATEMENTS.
1. Changes in Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour.
Departmental arrangements for securing the publication of a detailed statis-
tical report of current changes in wages and hours of labour throughout Canada were
continued during the i)ast year. A brief reference was made in each issue of the
Gazette to the more im[)ortant changes of the preceding month, the final statistical
anaylsis being reserved for treatment in special articles.
Wages during the first six months of 1909 were for the most part stationary
throughout Canada. During the opening months of the year, there was a ten-
dency in certain branches towards lower levels, though the rates of the preceding
winter were, on the whole, maintained. On the opening of activity in the spring,
the schedules for 190S for skilled labour were, for the most part, renewed, but un-
skilled labour in the railway construction camps and elsewhere started on lower
rates than had prevailed in the autumn of 1908. River drivers in the Ottawa
vallej- obtained a higher rate than in the preceding year. As the season ad-
vanced, however, and the increase in general indu.strial activity became ])ro-
nounced, the wages of jemployees in several branches, chiefly among unskilled
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labourers and railway construction employees, showed a strong upward tendency.
Among railway operatives, also, the upward tendency which characterized the
wages of these classes- in 1897 and 1S98 was maintained. Civic employees and
various skilled trades, including the building, metal and woodworking trades,
reported wages firm to upward, but with very few important changes except in the
printing trades where improved conditions with respect to wages and hours
were secured in several localities. The increased activity of manufacturing had
completely arrested the downward tendency in wages which was marked in lOOS."^
2. Immigration and Colonization.
Publication was continued of the latest statistical information available from
month to month with regard to immigration and colonization, the materials for
the article being obtained from the Department of the Interior under an arraage-
ment first completed in 1904. The returns published in the article relate to
immigrant arrivals, the number of homestead entries made, the nationahty of
homesteaders and the area of Dominion lands patented. Certain statistical
information issued monthly bj' the Board of Trade of Great Britain with reference
to emigration from Great Britain to British North America, is also reviewed
monthly, together with a return of land sales of certain companies operating in
Canada.
During the calendar year 1909, a total of 184,281 immigrants entered Canada.
This shows a considerable gain compared with 1908 when the total was 148,700,
the increase being made up almost entirely in arrivals from the United States.
The year however, was still considerably below 1907, the most active immigration
year reported in Canada, when the number of immigrants was 277, .376, being an
increase of about 22 per cent as compared with the returns of 1906.
Homestead entries during 1909 totalled 37,061, compared with 38,559 in the
preceding year.
By an Order-in-Council the head tax of $500 on Chinese wishing to come into
Canada to take up higher branches of study was removed during May, 1909, so as
to permit of bona fides students to come and go freely on proof of good faith.-
3. Industrial Accidents.
The record of industrial accidents, begun some years ago in the Labour Gazette,
was continued during the past year, the form of the monthly article and the
method in which the materials were collected being unchanged from preceding
years.^ An analysis of the record of accidents, both fatal and non-fatal, is pub-
lished as a separate chapter of the present volume.
'A table ehowing the rates for farm hands, railway construction employees and unskilled labourthroughout
Canada was published in the Labour Gazette for November, 1909, pages 694-6. From detailed statements with
regard to wages' changes uring 1909, see the Labour Gazette for September, 1909, page 363, and for March, 1910
page 1046.
-A reference to the Order-in-Council is published in the Labour Gazette for June 1909, page 1357.
'For a description of the manner in which this material is presented, see the annual report of the Department
of Labour for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1909, page 42.
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4. Trade Disputos.
Similarly, the monthly article dealing in detail with strikes and lockouts
throughout the Dominion has been continued, the form and scope of the article
being unchanged. The main feature of the article is a statistical table giving
full details with regard to every strike occurring in Canada, classified in a form
convenient for reference, and accompanied by a descriptive article and tabular
analysis in which the disputes are shown according to trades, provinces, causes,
methods of settlement and results, together with an estimate of the approximate
number of workmen affected and the aggregate loss of time in working days.
In the January, 1910, issue of the Labour Gazette (page 796) a review was
published of the trade disputes occurring during the calendar year 1909. The
total number of strikes and lockouts in existence in Canada during 1909 was
sixty-nine, the same number as in 1908, but much less than in any previous year
of which the Department has a record. There was, however, a considerable in-
crease in the loss of time to emplo.yees caused by trade disputes, as a result
of the strikes among coal miners in Nova Scotia, Alberta and eastern British
Columbia, which deprived a large number of miners of work for several months.
There were approximately 17,881 employees involved directly and indirectly in
trade chsputes in 1909, compared with approximately 26,232 in 1908. The loss
of time in working days w^as approximately 842,275 in 1909, compared with ap-
proximately 718,443 in 1908. In 1907 there were 34,694 employees involved in
trade disputes and the loss of time in working days was 603,986.
5. Retail Prices of Staple Articles of Consumption.
With the January, 1910, issue of the Laboiir Gazette, publication was begun
of a monthly table of retail prices of staple articles of consumption throughout
Canada. For some time previous, the opening article of each issue contained a
paragraph in which reference was made to fluctuations in prices both in reflecting
current industrial conditions and as bearing on the cost of living. In accordance
with the decision of the Department to deal in future in a more comprehensive
and systematic way with the subject of prices, wholesale and retail prices ^\ill be
given separate treatment, the former being regraded as especially indicating
industrial and trade sentiment and the latter as more directly reflecting the cost
of living to the individual. The manner in which the statistics regarding whole-
sale prices will be presented is described in detail elsewhere in the present report.
With regard to retail prices, the table which now forms a feature of each
i.ssue is designed to show the prices prevailing on or about the fifteenth day of
each month of the commodities entering chiefly into the cost of living. As these
prices vary to a degree according to local conditions, separate statistics are given
for nearly all localities having a population of 10,000 and upward throughout
Canada, the information being furnished b}' the correspondents to the Labour
Gazette under detailed instructions as to sources of information, quality of goods
to be quoted, etc. The list of commodities consists of twenty-eight varieties of
food, with fuel and coal oil. A statement is added in each case of the rental of
a representative w'orkingman's dwelling of the better class in the quarter most
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occupied by v.orkingmen. The exact quality for which quotations are given is
set forth in the table for each commodity and every care has been taken to ensure
that the ciuotations refer throughout to the same class of commodity, in order
that the statistics may be available for purposes of comparison. It is the inten-
tion of the Department to analyse these statistics as a way to show fluctuations
in the cost of living throughout the Dominion as a whole, as well as the compara-
tive cost of living in different centres.
6. Recent Industrial Agreements.
Since the year 1906 the Department has pr.blished from time to time in the
Labour Gazette the text of the more important agreements concluded between
employers and employees in the different trades throughout Canada; this practice
was continued during the past year. Agreements effected under the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and pubHshed in the Labour Gazette, are refer-
red to in the portion of this report deaUng with the administration of the Act.
Other agreements pubhshed in the Labour Gazette during the year were as follows: —
1. Agreement between the Hamilton Street Railway Company and its em-
ployees.
2. Agreement between the Master Builders' Association of Hamilton, Ont.,
and the Bricklayers and Masons' Union, No. 1, of Hamilton.
3. The tariff governing the wages of boatmen at Quebec, Que., during the
season of 1909.
4. Agreement between the Master Builders' Exchange of Edmonton and the
Bricklayers' International Union of Edmonton, Alta.
5. Agreement between the Employing Printers of Ottawa and Ottawa, Ont.,
Typographical Union, No. 102.
6. Agreement affecting the wages of printers at Hamilton, Ont.
7. Agreement between the shipping companies of IMontreal, Que., and the
longshoremen of that Port for the season of 1909.
8. Agreement between the Builders' Exchange of the County of Waterloo,
Ont., and the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' Unions at Berlin,
Gait, Preston and Hespeler, Ont.
9. Agreement between the ^Master Builders' Association of Ottawa and the
Bricklayers and Stonemasons' Unions of Ottawa, Ont.
10. Agreement between the Quebec, Railway, Light & Power Company and
trainmen in its employ.
11. Renewed agreement between the Dominion Coal Company, Sydney, N.S.,
and the Provincial Workmen's Association.
12. Agreement between employing printers of Quebec, Que., and Typographi-
cal Union, No. 302 of Quebec.
13. Agreement between the employing printers of Quebec, Que., and the
Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union, No. 152 of Quebec.
14. Agreement governing Granite Workers at Beebe Plain, Que.
7. Reviews of Official Reports and Blue Books.
In addition to the publications above mentioned as having been specially
reviewed in the Labour Gazette a considerable number of official reports and blue
books of interest from the standpoint of industry and labour were reviewed as
in previous years under the heading of "Reports of Departments and Bureaus"
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which appeared in each issue of the Gazette. A complete list of these reports
classified according to the governments by which they were issued is given below.
Altogether the publications noticed in this way numbered eighty-three, of which
thirty-one were issued bj' the Dominion of Canada; twentj^ by the various pro-
vinces of the Dominion; ten by Great Britain; five by Australia; two by New
Zealand; fifteen by the United States and one by France.
CANADA.
1. Railwav .statistics of the Dominion of Canada for the vear ending June 30,
1908.
2. Annual report of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending
-March 31, 1908.
3. Criminal statistics for the year ended September 30, 1907.
4. Third report of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada for the vear
ended -March 31, 1908.
5. Department of Railwavs and Canals; canal statistics for the season of navi-
gation 1908.
6. Summary report of the Geological Survey Branch of the Department of Mines
for the calendar year 1908.
7. Summarv report of the ilines' Branch for the nine months ended December
31,1908.
8. Abstract of statements of insurance companies in Canada for the year ended
December 31, 1908.
9. Department of Jlines, Mines' Branch: Report on the iron ore deposits of
Nova Scotia, Part I by J. E. Woodman, 1908.
10. Department of Mines, Mines' Branch, Bulletin No. 1 : Investigation of the
peat beds and peat industry of Canada during the season 1908-9 by Erik
Nylstrom and S. A. Anrep, M.E., 1908.
11. Department of the Interior: Annual report of the Topographical Survey
Branch, 1907-08.
12. Special grain reports of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Canada,
1909.
13. Report of the Department of Customs, containing tables of imports, exports
and navigation of the Dominion of Canada for the fiscal year ending llarch
31, 1909.
14. Reports, returns and statistics of the Inland Revenues of the Dominion of
Canada for the year ended March 31, 1909.
15. Annual report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the vear ended starch
31 , 1 909.
1 (). Report of the Postmaster-General for the j'ear ended March 31 , 1 909.
17. Report of the Superintendent of Forestry: Part VIII of Annual report of the
Department of the Interior, Ottawa, 1909.
18. Report of the High Commissioner for Canada for the year ended ;\larch 31,
1909.
19. Report of CJ. Bogue Smart, Inspector of British Immigrant children and
receiving homes for year ended March 31, 1909, Part 11, annual report of
the Department of the Interior.
20. Report of the Minister of Public Works on the works under his control for the
fiscal year ended March 31, 1909.
21. Annual report of the Department of Railways and Canals for the fiscal year
from April 1 , 1908 to March 31 , 1 909.
22. Report of the Minister of Agriculture, Canada, for the vear ended March 31,
1909.
23. Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Canada, for tlic fiscal
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year ended March 31, 1909. Part IV, Canadian trade, miscellaneous infor-
mation.
24. Report of the Minister of Justice as to penitentiaries of Canada for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 1909.
25. Department of Klines, Geological Survey Branch: The coal fields of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Eastern British Columbia, by D. B. Bowling,
Ottawa.
26. Report on the iron ore deposits along the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers by
Fritz Cirkel, M.E., Mines Branch, 1909.
27. A descriptive sketch of the geology and economic minerals, Canada, by G. A.
Young; introduction bv R. \V. Brock. Director of Geological Surve}^,
Ottawa, 1909.
28. Report of the Commissioners of the Transcontinental Railwav for the j^ear
ended March 31, 1909.
29. Railwav statistics of the Dominion of Canada for the vear ended June 30,
1909.
30. Annual report of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 1909.
31. The production of iron and steel in Canada during the calendar years 1907
and 1908, by John McLeish, B..\., Department of Mines, Ottawa.
NOVA SCOTIA.
1 . Report of the Department of .Mines of Nova Scotia for the years ended Sep-
tember 10, 1907 and September 30, 1908.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
1. Report of the Department of Agriculture of the Department of New Bruns-
wick, 1908.
QUEBEC.
1. General report of the Minister of Public Works and Labour of the Province of
Quebec for the year ending June 30, 1908.
ONTARIO.
1. Ninth report of the Bureau of Labour of the Province of Ontario for the j'ear
ending December 31, 1908.
2. Report of the re-forestation of waste lands in Southern Ontario, 1908.
3. Seventeenth annual report of the Bureau of Mines of Ontario, 1908.
4. Sixteenth annual report of the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent
Children of Ontario for 1908.
5. Report of the Minister of Education of Ontario for the year 1908.
6. Third annual report of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board to Decem-
ber 31, 1908.
7. Thirtieth annual report of the Ontario Agriculture and Experimental Union,
1908.
8. Thirty-ninth annual report of the Inspector of prisons and public charities
upon the hospitals, charities, &c., of the Province of Ontario for the year
ending September 30, 1908.
9. The silver areas of Gowganda and South Lorrain; eighteenth annual report of
the Bureau of .Alines, 1908, Vol. XVIII, Part 2, 1908.
10. Second annual report of the Game and Fisheries Department, 1908.
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11. Forty-first annual report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities upon
the common gaols of the Province of Ontario for the vear ended September
30, 1908.
12. Report of the Minister of Public Works of the Province of Ontario for the year
1908.
13. Appendix to general reports of the Dairymen's Associations of Ontario:
List of cheese factories and creameries in operation in Ontario during the
summer of 1909.
14. Eighteenth annual report of the Bureau of Mines of Ontario, Part 1, 1909.
SASKATCHEWAN.
1. Final report of grain crops and live stock of the Province of Saskatchewan
for 1908.
2. Fourth annual report of the Department of Agriculture of the Province of
Saskatchewan, 1 908.
ALBERTA.
1. Annual report of the Department of Public Works of the Province of Alberta
for the calendar year 190S.
GREAT BRITAIN.
1. Statistical abstract for the British Empire from 1893 to 1907.
2. Report by the Board of Trade respecting proceedings under the Railway
Regulation Act, 1893, during the year ended July 27, 1909.
3. I\Iines and ciuarries: General report with statistics for 1908 by the Chief
Inspector of Mines, Part 1, District statistics.
4. Mines and quarries: General report and statistics for 1907, Part IV, Colonial
and foreign statistics.
5. Annual statement of the trade of the United Kingdom W'ith foreign countries
and British possessions, compared with four preceding years.
6. Report of Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J. C. Pringle on the effect of employ-
ment or assistance given to the unemployed since 1886, as a means of
relieving distress outside the Poor Law.
7. Statistics on compensation and of proceedings under the Workmen's Com-
pensation Act, 1906, and the Employers' Liability Act of 1880, during the
year 1908.
8. Report of changes in rates of wages and hours of labour in the United King-
dom in 190S, with previous statistics for 1899-1907, 1909.
9. Report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies for the year ending Decem-
ber 31, 1909: Part B, Industrial and Provident Societies.
10. Royal Commission on the Poor Law and relief of distress: Appendix, Vol.
XII, Memoranda by individual commissions on various subjects, 1909.
AUSTRALIA.
1. Third annual report of the Director of Labour, State Labour Bureau of New
South Wales, for the year ended June 30, 1908.
2. Official statistics, Commonwealth of Australia, Commonwealth Bureau of
Census and Statistics; Transport and Conuuunication, Bulletin No. 2;
Summary of Commonwealth statistics on transport and communication
for the years 1901 to 1908.
3. Commonwealth liureau of Census and Stati.stics: Population and Vital
Stati.stics; liullctin No. 14; Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth for the
year 1 908.
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4. Report of the working of the Factories'and Shops' Act, Early Closing Acts;
Shearers' Association, Act, &c., &c., during the year 1908.
5. Shipping and oversea migration of the Commonwealth of Australia for 1908.
NEW ZEALAND.
1. Eighteenth annual report of the Department of Labour of New Zealand, 1909.
2. Report on Workers' Dwellings by the Honourable Minister of Labour, 1909.
UNITED STATES.
1. Report of proceedings of the Child Labour Conference held at Hartford,
Conn., December 4, 1908.
2. Twenty-first report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labour and Industries
of New Jersey, for the year ending October 31, 1908.
3. Twenty-third report of the Bureau of Labour Statistics of Connecticut for
the two years ending November 30, 1908.
4. Thirty-eighth annual report of Statistics and Labour of Massachusetts for 1907.
5. Twenty-first annual report of the Commissioner of Industrial Statistics of
Rhode Island, 190S.
6. Sixth biennial report of the Bureau of Labour Statistics and Factory Inspection
of the State of Washington, 1907-08.
7. Thirteenth biennial report of the Bureau of Labour and Industrial Statistics
of \Visconsin; Part IV. Factory Inspection, child labour permits and free
employment office for 1907-08.
8. Fifteenth annual report of factory inspection, Rhode Island, for 1908.
9. Eleventh biennial report of the Bureau of Labour and Industrial Statistics
for the State of Nebraska, 1907-1908.
10. First annual report of the Department of Labour for the State of Oklahoma,
1908.
11. Fourteenth biennial report of the Bureau of Labour and Industrial Statistics
(second report) Wisconsin, 1908.
12. Report of New York State Department of Labour Vols. I and II, 1908.
13. Annual report of the Massachusetts Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for
the year ended December 31, 1908.
14. Tenth annual report of the Bureau of Labour Statistics of the Illinois Free
Employment offices for the year ended September 30, 1908.
15. The Industrial Directory of New Jersey, compiled and published by the
Bureau of Statistics of New Jersey, 1909.
FRANCE.
1. Statistique des greves et des recours a la concihation et a I'arbitrage survenus
pendant I'annce 1907.
8. Legal Decisions Affecting Labour.
The record of current legal decisions affecting labour has been continued in
the Labour Gazette during the past year, as established in the earliest issue of
the journal. Altogether there were 178 legal decisions recorded in the Gazette
during the year past, a statement being given in each case of the more important
points at issue and the nature and effect of the decision, together with the Court
in which the case was tried, the time and place of the trial, the names of the pre-
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States cases were described where the principle involved was of interest to the
industrial population of Canada.
Among important decisions of the courts during the past year reference may
be made to the following: Two judgments of far-reaching importance to union
labour in connection with the right of picketting were delivered at Winnipeg in
March, 1909, by Mr. Justice Mathers of the Manitoba Court of Appeal and by Mr.
Justice Perdue of the same court, respectively, in the case of the Vulcan Iron A\'orks
Company v. the Winnipeg and Fort Garry lodges of the International Association
of Machinists, and in the case of Cotter Bros. r. the Winnipeg Plumbers' Union.
The last mentioned case was subsequently carried to the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council which gave judgment against the employees. Several convic-
tions of railway operatives for negligence while on duty were made. Of interest
from a trade union standpoint, also, were the various actions brought in connec-
tion with the affairs of the Pro\ancial Workmen's Association. . In connection
with the strike of employees of the Dominion Coal Company, legal proceedings
were taken by the Company against certain of the strikers for alleged improper
picketting, and for the purpose of evicting others from premises owned by the
Company. The constitutionality of the provincial Sunday observance law in the
Province of Quebec and of the Early Closing Law in ^Montreal were subjects of
decisions in the courts. The enforcement of the Act regulating the sale of opium,
passed during the session of the Dominion Parliament of 1908, by several police
magistrates throughout Canada were recorded. The decision of the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Osborne v. the Amalgamated Society
of Railway servants and others, involving the question whether it was competent
for a trade union to provide for the maintenance of a parliamentary representative
by means of a compulsory levy on its members, was one of several British judg-
ments reported in the Labour Gazette. Among important United States decisions
of the year were, the approval by the Court of Appeal of the District of Columbia
of the sentences of imprisonment pronounced against the president, vice-president
and secretary of the American Federation of Labour, and the imposition of a fine
of $222,000 upon 200 hat makers at Danbury, Conn., being members of the
I'nited Hatters' Union of North America.
Other subjects dealt with in the legal decisions reported in the Labour Gazette
were, violations of the Alien Labour Act; employers' liability and workmen's
compensation for injuries; contributory negligence; wrongful dismissal; the
application of masters' and servants' Acts; the enforcement of mechanics' liens;
violations of factories Acts; rioting; conspiracy in restraint of trade; damage for
negligence of employers and employees; liability of hotel and restaurant keepers;
Sunday labour; violation of mines' Acts; employment of alien labour; adultera-
tion of milk; fraud on the part of employment agents; defective performance of
work; negligence of contractors; damages under accident insurance policy;
enforcement of bread by-law; enforcement of peddlers' by-law, &c., &c., &c.
9 Monthly Statement of Proceedings under The Industrial nisputes Investisatlon
Act.
As required by section 29 of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act reports
and recommendations of Boards established under the Act for the adjustment
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of industrial disputes, together with any minority reports, were pubUshed without
delay in the Labour Gazette, a considerable amount of space being devoted from
month to month in reporting proceedings of Boards and in connection with ap-
plications received at the Department for the establishment of Boards. A detailed
statement with reference to proceedings under the Act during the calendar year,
all of which has been dealt with in the Labour Gazette, will be found as a separate
chapter of the present report.
In addition to the above matter, several special articles were published on
subjects of interest in connection with the administration of the Act. The text
of a judgment by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Superior Court of Alberta in con-
nection with an alleged infringement of the Act was printed in full (*). During
the month of May, 1909, a Bill modelled somewhat closely on the lines of the
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of Canada was introduced in the Transvaal
Parliament and was duly passed, two articles being devoted to the subject in the
Labour Gazette (J). A reference was also published in the Labour Gazette (t) to a
measure modelled on the Canadian Act introduced into the Legislature of the State
of New York and the State of Wisconsin. The Labour Gazette also contained
references to the adjustment of disputes between the Canadian Northern Railway
Company and its locomotive engineers and maintenance-of-way employees after
coming before Boards appointed under the Act {*'^').
10. Fair Wages Schedules in Government Contracts.
Publication was made in each issue of the Labour Gazette of the fair wages
schedules prepared by the officers of the Department and inserted in contracts by
different Departments of the Government of Canada during the month preceding
the date of issue. Altogether, 107 schedules of wages were published in this way
during the year, the information, apart from its immediate significance, being of
general interest as showing the rates of wages prevailing in the building trades
and among other employees in different parts of the Dominion.
*
* The Labour Gazelle for April, 1909, page 1101.
t The Labour Gazelle for August, 1908, page 226 and for October, 1909, page 459.
t The Labour Gazette for June, 1909 page 1333.
** The Labour Gazette for September, 1909, pages 362-3.
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II —THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT, 1907.
The past fiscal year was the third since the enactment of this measure. The
number of disputes dealt with during the year under the provisions of the Act
was thirty, and the total references under the Act since its enactment has reached
the figure of eighty-two.
^\■ith this added experience of the Act there is no reason to depart from the
conviction expressed in former years regarding the effectiveness of the measure as
a factor in the adjustment of industrial disputes, while on the other hand, there
is abundant evidence that the principles on which the Act is based are obtaining
continually a wider recognition, both in Canada and elsewhere.
The best evidence of this growth of favourable sentiment within the Dominion
is found in the first place in the applications received by the ilinister for the ex-
tension of the Act to industries other than those to which it now relates, and in the
second place in numerous letters received by the Minister during the year from
leading representatives of important railway organizations, expressing their ap-
proval of certain amendments to the Act effected at the recent session of Parlia-
ment and their general endorsation of the measure in its amended form, expres-
sions of opinion of particular value in view of the attitude towards the Act which
had been assumed at the time of the enactment of the measure by representatives
of the same organizations.
AS TO EXTENSION OF SCOPE OF ACT.
AVith reference to the question of the extension of the scope of the Act, it will
be remembered that the Trades and Labour Congress, at its annual convention
held at \Vinni]^eg, in September, 1907, six months after the Act had come into
operation, passed a resolution declaring by a large majority in favour of its ex-
tension to all industries; the resolution has never been rescinded, and at sub-
sequent conventions of the body discussions on the Act have centered mainly around
the question of certain amendments to the machinery of the Act of the nature now
effected, the endorsation of the general principle of the Ac't, together with the
view that it should be extended to other industries, being tacitly continued from
year to year. The Canadian Federation of Labour, sent a deputation to the Min-
ister urging an extension of the Act to all industries, while the Guilders' Exchange,
representing a large proportion of the employing builders of Ontario and Quebec,
has on several occa.sions urged the immediate extension of the Act to the building
trade, perhaps the most important of all industries outside of tliose now within the
scope of the Act. It may be added that no action was taken on this point during
the recent session of Parliament, it being deemed prudent to give the public some
further opportunity of fanuliarizing itself with the princii)lcs and general nature
of the Act in the more limited sphere which it at present controls; the amendments
actually effected during the past session will be discussed immediately.
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INTEREST IN THE ACT ABROAD.
Referring to the growth of favourable opinion outside the Dominion, reference
should be made in the first place to the extent to which legislation based on the
Act is being projected or has been actually accomplished in other countries. In-
quiries, it may be remarked, continue to reach the D.epartment almost daUy from
different parts of the world for the fullest information as to the operation of the
Act, showing on the one hand how universal is the trouble to which it relates and
on the other hand how^ ineffective existing legislation on the subject in most coun-
tries is conceived to be. The Act has been for the last year or two a favourite sub-
ject of debate in high schools, colleges and universities, in the United States perhaps
to a larger degree than in the Dominion itself, and innumerable have been the
requests received in the Department for information showing the exact procedure
and the degree of success or failure achieved under the Act. Similar inquiries
have been received from state officials all over the United States and from many
foreign countries. It is doubtful if any Canadian Act has ever before been scanned
with such intensity and has, on the whole, received such general eulog\'. The
Minister and the Deputy Minister have been many times requested to address
gatherings or to furnish papers discussing the work of the Act, though circum-
stances have seldom perniitted compliance with such requests. Professor Adam
Shortt, also, who it will be remembered was Chairman of numerous Boards estab-
lished during the first eighteen months of the life of the Act, has frequently by
request addressed gatherings in Canada and in the United States as to the prin-
ciples and operation of the Act.
INTRODUCTION OF SIMILAR MEASURE IN MASSACHUSETTS.
During the recent session of the Massachusetts Legislature an Act embodying
the principles of the Canadian measure and modelled closely on its lines was before
it for consideration and an active discussion on its merits took place in the United
States press; the measure was eventually deferred until the following session for-
final action.
The Canadian Act and its operations were a factor of the first moment in the
discussion of the Bill. The Springfield Republican, for instance, after outlining
the general character of the measure, remarks: "This plan has proved very
efi'ective as applied to pubUc service industries in Canada. It has, as our news
columns have already stated, reduced to an almost insignificant total the number of
disputes which have been carried on beyond and against the report of a public
arbitration board. It would undoubtedly prove effective if applied generally in
this State; and if we could succeed in obtaining an arbitration or investigating
board, whose personnel commands general confidence, the effectiveness of the
plan would be greatly enhanced."
The New York Sun, discussing the measure, closes an article in which the
measure is carefully summarized with the following somewhat skeptical comment:
"Does it follow that because the Canadian law has worked well in its hmited
fiphere a comprehensive law, as proposed by Mr. Luce (the author of the Massachu-
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setts measure) would realize his hopes in ilassachusetts, where laws are less observed
and the police power is less respected and feared than in Canada?" It is worthy
of note that the only ground urged for skepticism as to the applicabiht}' of the
principle of compulsory investigation in Massachusetts in^'olves the payment of a
high compUment to the people of Canada.
PRINCIPLES OF ACT ADVOCATED IX CALIFORXIA.
In the State of California also the principle of the Canadian Act has been
endorsed in an elaborate report presented to the Governor of that State byJIr.
Harris Weinstock, a special labour commissioner who was commissioned to in-
vestigate the labour laws and labour conditions of foreign countries generally in
relation to strikes and lockouts. Mr. Weinstock's report, which is an able docu-
ment of over 150 printed pages, setting forth concisely the laws on this subject in
all civilized communities, strongly recommends legislation on the lines followed
by Canada and contains the draft of a measure closely approximating the Cana-
dian Act. It is a curious fact that JMr. Weinstock had been, by independent ob-
servation and inquiry, led, as his report states, to the conclusion thatlhj princ.ples
forming the basis of the Canadian Act, of which he had at the time never heard,
offered the most hopeful and practicable method for dealing with industrial dis-
putes. The closing sentences of Mr. Weinstock's report, as bearing on this point,
are specially worthy of note:
It is generally conceded that public opinion is a most important factor in
- the settlement of kbour disputes, more especially when they are of a char-
acter likely to affect public convenience or comfort or profit. It is rarely,
if ever, that a strike or lockout can succeed that has public sentiment against
it. The problem, however, has ever been how, properly, to enlighten public
opinion and how to place before it the actual facts involved in a labour dis-
pute as found by a disinterested inquirer in whom the public would have
confidence.
With these thoughts in mind it seemed to me that an important stride
would be made in the direction of industrial peace, if legislation \vas created
calling for a public inquiry in labour disputes before they had reached the
serious .stage of strike or lockout.
I realized, however, that any legislation along such lines, in a country
such as ours, must at best be experimental. \\'hile in that stage, I feel that
the proposed legislation .should l)e confined to disputes likely to arise in the
conduct of puljlic utilities, since it is strikes and lockouts in these activities
that, as a rule , more seriously affect the public welfare. Should the proposed
legislation after a fair trial prove a success it would then be in the interest
of all concerned to broaden it so that all industries might be brought under
its influence.
This conclusion having finally been reached on my part, I forwarded it
on paper while in Brussels, Belgium, in the nature of a rough draft of a por-
posed law.
On arriving in Paris a few days later, I found awaiting me there a packet
of printed matter sent me by the Canadian Labour Department through the
courtesy of Mr. Doherty of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, whom
some months before I had met while in Rome.
Looking over this printed matter, I was surprised to find that my idea
had been anticipated by the Deputy Minister of Labour of Canada, Mackenzie
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King, who had recently formulated and had succeeded in getting the Ca-
nadian Parliament to pass a public inquiry act. My satisfaction can be
understood when I found among other documents in his collection the first
annual report just issued by the Canadian Labour Department of the opera-
tion of the Act which showed that ninety-seven per cent of the labour dis-
putes submitted to a public inquiry had been amicably adjusted, and that
in only three per cent of cases inquired into had there been strikes after an
award was made.
Here we have a most striking illustration of the difference in effectiveness
between voluntary arbitration and public inquiry. Under Voluntary Ar-
biiration, having behind it all the machinery and influence of the State, there
are strikes and lockouts in about 97 per cent of cases and peaceful settle-
ment without cessation of work in about 3 per cent of cases. Under Public
Inquiry we find the very first year of its trial in Canada, when at best the
system could not yet have been perfected, 97 per cent of peaceful settlements
without cessation of work and but 3 per cent of strikes. Whatever doubts
or misgivings I may have had as to the desirability or the practicability of
the proposed public inquiry law were removed by the showing made by
Canada as the result of an actual application of the principle. Surely, if in
California we can, through the medium of public inquiry, adjust peacefully
97 per cent of labour disputes, we shall have accomplished a most important
work, and shall have come as near establishing industrial peace as under our
system of government is possible.
Sailing from Egypt to India it was my good fortune to meet Mr. Mac-
kenzie King, the framer of the Canadian public inquiry act, to whom I am
indebted for valuable hints and suggestions embodied in the following recom-
mendations, which I have the honour to submit herewith to Your Excellency.
It is understood! that the Califoi-nia measure was held in abeyance for some
time on account of the alleged unconstitutionality of certain of its provisions. This
point has, however, been since waived and the measure will now shortly be dealt
with in the legislature.
THE ST.\TES OF WISCONSIN .\ND OHIO.
An Act similar in character has been introduced into the Wisconsin legisla-
ture, again after consultation with the Department of Labour of Canada, and in
this case also has been held pending the consideration of the question of constitu-
tionality. The decision in California will, no doubt, affect the situation regarding
the Act in Wisconsin, and the action of the legislature of Massachusetts will prob-
ably also have its due effect in both cases. The State of Ohio has been in active
communication with the Department, various officials and pubUc men having
indicated a desire to see whether similar legislation might not be made effective in
that State.
THE POSITION OF ILLINOIS.
In the case of Illinois it is not understood that any definite action has been
taken in the direction of legislating along the precise lines of the Industrial Dis-
putes Investigation Act, but at a convention of officers of conciliation boards and
boards of arbitration in Washington in January last, which was attended by the
Deputy Minister of Labour, the special representative of the Governor of Illinois,
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in the course of a. paper on Compulsory Arbitration contributed by him to the
proceedings of the conference, spoke in the most cordial terms of the principle on
which the Canadian Act is based and strongly commended its general features.
Mr. C. J. Doyle, the gentleman indicated, said on this point:
It is the hasty, ill-advised strike that causes most of our trouble and
at least, half of them could be averted if both sides were required to submit
to an impartial investigation and full publicity as to the merits of the contro-
versy. After such investigation the public, which is discriminating in such
matters where the facts are known, would soon end a strike were one to take
place. It is doubtful if any corporation or labour union would have the hardi-
hood to fly in the face of an educated, enlightened public opinion and for that
reason I Ijelieve publicity is the strongest weapon that can be used for the
maintenance of industrial peace.
The experience of Canada with its Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act of 1907 has been most gratifying. Industrial conditions in Canada do
not differ materially from those in the United States. The organized workers
in both countries belong to the same International Unions. The Canadian
Act has not prevented strikes in every instance. It was not expected that it
would, but in the first year of its operation 32 disputes out of 35 referred under
the law were satisfactorily adjusted. The number of men involved in the
controversies referred to was between 25,000 and 30,000. The actual number
of boards constituted under the law during the first year of its operation was
twenty. That record proves that the Canadian law is well adapted to present-
day conditions.
It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to say much about the Canadian
law as you doubtless are all familiar with its provisions. It was enacted on
the recommendation of the Deputy ^linister of Labour following a prolonged
strike of coal miners which caused a coal famine throughout Saskatchewan.
Briefly, it prohibits any strike or lockout in any industry affecting a pubUc
utility until an investigation has been made and allows a period of thirty
days in which to make such investigation.
After the investigation has been completed by an official board created
for that particular case and the result of its findings made public, the em-
ployer or the union is free to engage in a strike or lockout if they choose. Of
course, the board does everything possible to effect an amicable settlement, as
well as conduct an investigation and its official report is in the nature of re-
commendation to one or the other of the parties, or to both. Generally speak-
ing, those recommendations have been accepted without recourse to a strike.
^^'here they have not been and a strike has been called, the same recommenda-
tions have sometimes been accepted later to settle the strike.
Though the Canadian law does not in every case prevent strikes, it
furnishes an easy and sensible method for adjusting industrial disputes, if
either one side or the other has an honest desire to settle. If they have not,
there is no law, compulsory or otherwise, that will prevent strikes.
It has been my experience, however, that in a large majority of cases
both sides are anxious to avert strikes if a middle ground can be found, and
neither one required to forego any principle. In matters pertaining to hours
and wages, usually some compromise is possible; in cases where a principle is
at stake it is more difficult. Even then, though it is impossible to arbitrate or
compromise on a question regarded by either side as a fundamental principle,
it frequently is possible by means of intelligent discussion and argument to
present a situation in a very different light from that in which it may have
been viewed by one side or the other. For that reason the Canadian law
of compulsory investigation previous to a declaration of war in industries
affecting public utilities, seems to me an admirable one which possesses ad-
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vantage not possessed by the compulsory arbitration laws of Australasia.
No edict of a court will convince either a workingman or an employer that he
is wrong and the court is right. If he is open to reason and conviction an
intelligent argument may convince him that his position is untenable and he
will acciuiesce cheerfully, where in the other case he might submit rather than
go to jail, but would still be dissatisfied.
SIMILAR MEASURE ADOPTED IN THE TRANSVAAL.
Turning to the other side of the world, South Africa, again we find the in-
fluence of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act in a marked degree. The
legislative authorities of the Transvaal had been in close touch with the Depart-
ment of Labour for a j^ear or two regarding labour legislation generall}^ and on
September 27 last, the Minister of Labour received the following letter from the
Honourable Jacob de Villiers, Minister of Mines of the Transvaal, saying that a
measure had been enacted in that country modelled closeh^ on the lines of the
Canadian Act:
I have to thank you for your letter of the 24th July last, and also
for the ver}' interesting documents which have been forwarded by Mr. Acland,
the Deputy Minister of Labour.
I enclose a copy of the Industrial Disputes Act, as passed in the Trans-
vaal Parliament at its last Session. I regret that I am unable to forward you
the official reports of the Debate, as they are not at present available, but will
do so later.
The Bill, as you will see, is modelled on practically identical lines with
the Canadian Act; changes being made merely to suit differences in local
conditions. The Bill received the support of all sections of Parliament, the
principle of conciliation and investigation being accepted in preference to
that of compulsory arbitration.
In preparing and introducing the Bill I was much assisted by the valu-
able reports published by your Department.
I wish to tender you the thanks of my Government for A^our kind offer
of co-operation and assistance, which I greatly value and reciprocate.
EXPERIENCES OF OTHER COUNTRIES,
The interest taken by foreign countries in the Canadian legislation furnishes
ground, perhaps, for turning aside for a moment from the discussion of the Cana-
dian Act to glance at the recent experiences of some other countries with respect to
industrial disputes. The brief outline given of some of the greater industrial
troubles of the world will show how fortunate by comparison has been the ex-
perience of Canada, despite the fact that in Canada the year has included several
disputes of a more than usually difficult character. The almost universal preval-
ence of this problem in its keenest aspects constitutes also the strongest reason for
. continual inquiry and comparison as to practices and methods employed in other
countries in dealing with the subject, and it is no slight ground for satisfaction that
at the present time there is such widespread testimony to the superiority of the
Canadian Act.
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THE PHILADELPHIA STREET RAILWAY STRIKE.
In the annual report of the Department presented last year reference was
made to the disastrous strike then just concluded on the part of the street railway
employees of Philadelphia, and a contrast was drawn between the method, or
more properlj- speaking, absence of method, of dealing with a dispute of this
nature in the great American city, and the method being at the same moment
applied to a similar type of dispute in the Canadian city of Winnipeg. Both dis-
putes fell within the financial year just concluded, and were mentioned in the pre-
vious report only by a slight anticipation with respect to dates. Reference is
again made to the matter because it is possible by so doing still further to illustrate
the special usefulness of the Canadian law. The Winnipeg dispute was without
cessation of work or obstacle of any kind satisfactorily adjusted before a Board
over which presided Rev. Dr. Gordon, the eminent Presb\-terian divine and noted
novelist (Ralph Connor); the Philadelphia dispute, after tragic street scenes and
long continued disorder, was quieted without being adjusted, only to be renewed
more violently than ever during February and March of the present year. Again
the streets of the city became the scene of pitched battle, in the progress of which
many scores of citizens were killed and wounded. State troops, cavalry and in-
fantry, were called to the scene and thousands of special constables were sworn in.
Hundreds of street cars were wrecked, some being subsequently burned, and the
total losses by destruction of property and interruption to work were placed at
not less than half a million dollars daily. At the end of a couple of weeks, the
turmoil continuing, the Central Labour Union of Philadelphia called a general
strike of its members. The membership was placed at 125,000 and had the whole
number obej'ed, the consequences are incalculable. The number of strikers
was, howeA'er, largely augmented, and the scenes of violence were renewed. There
was further talk of a state strike, but this was not attempted. Eventually, after
a month of disorder, the situation began to clear, but it was not until a second
month was well advanced that the men were back at their posts. No permanent
or amicable adjustment had been effected, even at the date of writing, and the
soreness arising from the terrible strike must long remain unhealed. Throughout
the struggle it was impossible to secure the consent of both parties to formal
arbitration or to a joint discussion before any Board or tribunal, and it is im-
possible not to believe that much, if not the whole of the disaster would have been
averted, had it been possible, as under the Canadian law, to compel such an in-
([uiry before any interruption of work occurred.
If this reference to events in Philadelphia appears to be of undue length, it
mav be perhaps excused because of the direct interest in the (,'anadian Act which
the troubles aroused in the minds of many leading men of Philadelphia, and
elsewhere in the State of Pennsylvania. Many inquiries reached the Department,
being frequently accompanied by expressions of hope that it might prove prac-
ticable to have enacted by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania legislation similar
to that of Canada. Among the inquiries were one of the editors of a leading daily
newspaper; the Secretary of the Board of Home .Missions of the United Presby-
terian Church of North America; the representative of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
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way Company in Philadelphia; the counsel of the PubUc Defense Association of
Pittsburg, Pa.; the pastor of the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia;
and the editor of the Pittsburg Legal Journal, this publication, it may be added,
had been so impressed by the Canadian Act that it decided to reprint the measure
and circulate copies to its subscribers. One of the latest inciuirers on the subject
from this State is Rev. Dr. J. L. Levy of Pittsburgh, Pa., pastor of one of the
largest and most influential churches in that city and a member of the Public
Defense Association; Dr. Levy, early in the month of May, after correspondence
on the subject, came personally to Ottawa to discuss the various aspects of the
Act with the Minister and officials of the Department, his visit being part of a
larger inquiry in the interests of industrial peace legislation which he proposed
making on behalf of the Association named.
OTHER UNITED STATES STRIKES.
Of other disastrous strikes in the United States of recent date the most not-
able is that of the miners of bituminous coal in the United States. On April 1,
over 200,000 men employed in this industry in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and the
southwestern States were called out by the U. M. W. A. organization for the
purpose of making new schedules with the operators, negotiations to that end
having broken down. Most of the men remained out throughout the month of
April, but agreements were negotiated in most districts before the end of the
first week in May, enabling a resumption of work to take place; the strikes, though
brief, represented a loss of several mOlion dollars. A dispute of unusual magnitude
was the strike of the waist makers of New York, in which from thirty to forty
thousand women and girls were concerned. The strike lasted many weeks and
excited great pubUc interest. The cost of the strike to firms and employees was
placed in round figures at $4,000,000.
Great strikes of steel workers at McKee's Port, Pa. and Bethlehem, Pa., the
former accompanied by scenes of violence and bloodshed, and a strike of sailors
on the Great Lakes, which seriously hampered the shipping business throughout
the whole of last season are also among the notable industrial disputes of the j'ear
in the United States.
NOTABLE DISPUTES IN EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE.
In several other countries during the year there have been strikes of world-
wide interest A\'hich, like those mentioned in the case of the United States, are
worthy of passing reference as indicating how relatively unimportant have been
hitherto the most serious industrial troubles of the Dominion.
Earl}' last year came the strike of postal and telephone employees of Paris,
and the order of a general strike by the officers of the syndicates, which in France
take the place of trades' unions. The strike of postal and telej^hone employees
caused the greatest inconvenience for many days and there was some street tur-
bulence. The general strike was, however, a failure, being ineffective from the
start. During the year 1909 also, a dispute among the sailors at the port of Mar-
seilles deranged the shipping trade to such an extent as to entail an estimated loss
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of $30,000,000. The trouble was repeated during the present spring, continuing
for several weeks, again with great loss to the parties and the public. This year a
general strike was ordered at Marseilles, which was more successful than that
ordered in the case of the postal and telephone employees at Paris, business at the
port being for some days reduced to a standstill. The government was compelled
to take vigorous action, and proceedings were taken against the leading officials
of the controlling labour organization. Ten were sentenced to brief terms of
imprisonment. Several others were arrested, and information was laid against
in no fewer than 550 cases. After a period of turmoO extending over about three
weeks the strike collapsed as an active factor, though at the date of writing it
remained without a formal settlement. M. Mllerand, the Jlinister of Public
Works and Postmaster-General in the present French government, is among
those to whom by request a statement was sent during the year giving the fullest
information as to the nature of the Canadian Act and as to all proceedings there-
under.
A general strike which was the most effective of its kind yet anywhere at-
tempted, took place in Sweden, being called throughout the entire countr}^ in
which several hundred thousand men, the bulk of the working population of the
country in fact, joined. The business of the country was paralyzed for weeks
and chaos ruled everyw'here as a result of this disastrous experience. The Gov-
ernment of Sweden is reported as a result to be meditating a law regulating agree-
ments between employers and their workmen, fixing five years as the limit of such
contracts, and declaring strikes or lockouts during the term of such agreements to
be illegal, and providing for the revision of agreements in the light of changed
economic conditions at the expiry of the agreements. It should be added that
the general strike ordered by the Central Labour I'nion of Sweden in this case
was the outcome of a lockout of some 40,000 employees in the pulp, timber and
textile industries.
In Germany, during the present spring, the agreement between the jnasons
and joiners having terminated, and the representatives of either side being unable
to come to terms for the renewal of terms, a lockout took place on April 15 of over
two hundred thousand men, which continued for several weeks.
In Australia the compulsory arbitration laws were not effective in preventing
a great strike of coal miners in the Newcastle and Maitland District of New South
Wales, when over 12,000 men ceased work. The strike lasted from the month of
November until the month of February last. A special Act of Parliament was
pa.ssed enabling proceedings to be taken against several strike leaders, five of
whom were sentenced to imprisonment for considerable terms.' Coal rose greatly
in price during the strike and there was talk of a resort to a general strike; general
indu.strial conditions were greatly disturbed during the progress of the dispute.
Eventually the strike was settled by the in.strumentality of the compulsory \\'ages'
Board of New South Wales.
In Great Britain the year passed without any relatively great strike, but for
weeks the country was in a .state of trepidation over a threatened tie-up of the
whole coal industry. The miners of South Wales refused to accept the terms of
the mining operators and the miners of I'^ngland and Scotland decided to support
them in a strike. The strike, which would have involved considerably over a
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million men and worked untold damage to industrial interests generally, was
narrowly averted.
It will be seen, therefore, as suggested at the outset of this sketch of foreign
labour troubles, that Canada has wholly escaped the severer form of industrial
disputes and that many of the most serious of the troubles of other countries
would have been largely, if not wholly, avoided by virtue of an Act such as the
Canadian measure. Perhaps the most noticeable feature of foreign industrial
disputes is the growth of the theory and practice of the general strike, a phase
of the industrial problem with which Canada has not yet come into contact.
AMENDMENTS TO THE .^CT.
During the past session the Act was amended in some important respects, the
amendments affecting, however, the procedure only and not touching in any way
the principles. The amendments effected had been the subject of frequent
representations to the Minister of Labour, since the enactment of the measure.
The amendments included three points, viz: (1) to relieve employees under
certain circumstances from the necessity of stating on oath that the necessary
authority to declare a strike had been obtained; (2) to place the onus of invoking
the Act on the party proposing a change in wages or hours where any such proposed
change results in a dispute, this being effected by providing that no such change
should become operative unless by mutual consent until it had finally been dealt
with by a Board; (3) to increase slightly the remuneration paid to members of the
Board other than the Chairman.
These amendments are substantially identical with those urged on the then Min-
ister of Labour, Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, during the session 1908-09, by an important
deputation representing jointly the Trades and Labour Congress, the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and other important railway organizations.
Mr. Alphonse Verville, M.P., at that time President of the Trades and Labour
Congre.ss, and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Parliamentary Solicitor for the Trades and
Labour Congress, accompanied the deputation, which included also Mr. Calvin
Lawrence, the legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
eers and Firemen, Mr. J. Harvey Hall, who at that time represented the Brother-
hood of Railroad Telegraphers, and other prominent representatives of leading
railway organizations.
THE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' GRIEVANCE.
The points most strongly urged on the Minister on this occasion were that the
requirement from the employees of a sworn statement that the necessar)' authoritj-
to declare a strike had been obtained was the occasion in some cases of consider-
able expense. Railway men, it was alleged, were particularly affected and there-
fore specially needed relief. The special explanation of the grievance in their case
lay in the fact that railway men concerned in an industrial dispute may frequently
be stretched along a transcontinental Hne of three or four thousand miles, and the
work of securing a strike vote under such circumstances is carried on only with
much expenditure of time, labour and money- The Minister of that date re-
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quested that a written statement might be submitted setting forth the reasons for
the proposed change and indicating in some detail the expenditure necessitated by
the then existing procedure, and to obviate which the amendment was designed.
Subsequently a statement was submitted on behalf of the deputation by
the Parliamentary Solicitor of the Trades and Labour Congress, setting forth the
follo'wing as a statement of the expenditure which the then existing method of pro-
cedure had entailed on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in
the case of a reference under the Act.
The Joint Protective Board of the Brotherhood, numbering thirty members,
paid at the late of $7.00 per day, had to be called in, requiring men to come from
the East and West of the Dominion and necessitating expenditure as follows: —
Convening Board, 5 days at $120 per day . . $ 1 , 050 . 00
In session 2 days at $2.10 per day 420. 00
Out on line getting vote, 7 days at $2.10 per day 1 ,470. 00
Printing, postage and telegrams 487.00
$ 3,427.00
In September, 1909, the Trades and Labour Congress, meeting at Quebec,
passed a resolution suggesting amendments to the Act substantially identical with
the changes effected, both as to the grievance specially urged on behalf of the rail-
way' emploj-ees and as to other points.
On November 9th, 1905, a deputation representing the Brotherhood of Rail-
way' Trainmen waited on the present Minister of Labour, being introduced by Mr.
Ralph Smith, M.P., and repeated the suggestions looking to an amendment of the
Act on this point. The spokesman of the railway men on this occasion was Mr.
James Murdock, 'N'ice-President of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and a
resident of Toronto. Mr. Murdock stated it was not the wish of the deputation to
depreciate in any way the value of the Act. The members of the deputation, he
said, realized that the measure had been productive of great good in many ways
and that, moreover, it was an Act which was destined to remain on the statutes
of Canada; they believed, however, that such an organization as that represented
by the deputation was somewhat severely handicapped by the provision requiring
the statement on oath as to the authority' to declare a strike. It was pointed out
that the organization concerned represented no less than 8,600 men in Canada, ex-
tending from Victoria, B.C., to Sj'dney, C.B. On the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company line alone there were no less than 2,200 members. Such a vote as that
required under the Act would cost the Brotherhood on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Company not less than $4,000, the branches being scattered from one end of
the country to the other, and it being necessary to take a vote of each of the several
local unions. This deputation, it may be added, included representatives from
Ottawa, Windsor, Toronto, Depot Harbour, Fort William, Port Arthur, Havelock,
and Lindsay, in the province of Ontario; from Sherbrcjoke, Montreal, and Quebec,
in the province of Quebec; from Vancouver, B.C.; Calgary and Medicine Hat, in
Alberta; Moosejaw, in Saskatchewan; Brandon, Manitoba; Moncton and St. John,
in Xew Brunswick; and Halifax and Cilace B.'iy, in Nova Scotia.
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With regard to the special grievance of the railway employees, the amending
bill obviated the difficulties set forth by providing an alternative method of appli-
cation in the case of disputes directly affecting employees in more than one prov-
ince, the alternative machinerj' providing that when such employees were members
of a trade union having a general committee authorized to carry on negotiations in
disputes between employers and employees, and so recognized by the employers,
the necessary statutory declaration provided for under the Act might be signed by
the president or chairman and liy the secretary of such committee.
THE QUESTION OF ONUS.
With regard to the amendment bj- which it is sought to place the onus of de-
manding a Board on the party proposing changes in wages or hours, where such
changes are not acceptable to the other party, instead of leaving the onus on the
party affected by the change, the point was met by providing that in addition to
the requirement that thirty days' notice of any such change should be given, no
such change would go into effect until any dispute growing out of the proposals had
been dealt with by a Board. This change had the effect of placing the onus of
making the application for a Board on the partj- proposing a change in wages or
hours, the alternative being the abandonment of the intended change. This latter
change in procedure necessitated a further modification of the section prescribing
the mode of maidng application. Under the law as it stood originally, the em-
ployer when submitting an appHcation w^as required as in the case of employees, to
include in his sworn declaration the statement that the necessary authority to de-
clare a lockout or strike had been obtained. It is obvious that the employer, when
mak-ing application on account of a proposed change intended on his own part,
might not be prepared either to state that the necessary authority to declare a
strike had been obtained or that a lockout was likely to occur. The Act therefore
was further am?nded in this respect to provide that an employer when making
appHcation on account of an intended change proposed by himself as to wages or
hours, is relieved of the necessity of making this statement.
The terms of the Act in its unamended form as to the onus of the application
were claimed to represent under some circumstances some injustice to the em-
ployees, and it is conceivable that under certain circumstances the unamended
Act in this respect might have represented also an injustice to the employer. The
experience of the Department has not shown, it is believed, that any definite griev-
ance has grown out of the original form of the Act, save perhaps in the case of the
dispute between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and its mechanics, in the
summer of 1908. In this case it \nll be remembered that the Company proposed a
new schedule, and the men, being unwilling to accept the proposed changes and
being unable to reach an adjustment with the Company by negotiation, found it
necessary to call for a Board of Concihation and Investigation. The findings of the
Board were not accepted by the men and a strike followed, during the course of
which the criticism was occasionally seen in the newspapers that the employees,
having called for a Board, .should have been morally bound to accept the Board's
findings and recommendations. As to this, it is of course the intent of the Act that
the efforts of a Board should be devoted to the adjustment of the dispute referred
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to it, and it is highl_v desirable that where an actual adjustiueiit is not effected,
the findingsof the Board should be accepted by both parties; l)ut there is no ground
properly speaking for the view that the party caLing ^ny the Board is, any more
than the other party, bound morally to accept the findings, and any criticism
suggesting this view is based on an imperfect study and appreciation of the Act.
The men concerned in the case cited however, felt the criticism as being a genuine
grievance and it was thought desirable to take advantage of the amending of the
Act in other respects to remove ground for future complaint from cither on the
same score.
The remaining change effected by the amending bill is one increasing to twenty
dollars a day the amount paid to members of a Board other than the Chairman, the
figure of the fee payable to the Chairman remaining unchanged: previously the
Chairman had received $20.00, the members of the Board, $15.00. This amend-
ment also had been requested by the Trades and Labour Congi-ess, indeed, the
Trades and Labour Congress had recommended a somewhat higher figure, namely
$25 for both Chairman and members. Originally the fee payable to the Chairman
was placed at a somewhat higher figure than that paid to other members on the
ground that in the conduct of negotiations as between the parties and otherwise
apart from formal Board proceedings, the Chairman's duties might be considerably
more arduous than those of other members; experience, however, has shown that
while a certain type of duties remains peculiar to the Chairman, yet other duties not
less important pertaining vitally to the successful issue of the enquiry are peculiar
to the members nominated by the respective parties, and must be performed by
them apart from the formal labours of the Board. It has been considered desir-
able, therefore, to make the fees uniform at the figures named.
CHANGE OF ATTITUDE TO ACT ON PART OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
It may be of interest in connection with the discussion of these amendments
o note the general change of attitude towards the Act on the part of railway em-
ployees. As has been mentioned, the attitude of the railway employees was in part
one of opposition to the measure on account of certain of its feature. To what
extent this attitude has changed is best shown by letters received from them by the
Minister and read by the Minister in the course of his remarks in the House of
Commons on the occasion of the second reading of the amending bill, the writers
heartily endorsing the amendments then under consideration and cordially accept-
ing the principles of the whole measure in its amended fornu
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MINISTER AND RAILWAY Men'S REPRESENTATIVES.
The letters interchanged between the Minister and the representatives of the
various organizations, as read by the Minister before the House of Commons, were
as follows: —
Fro7n the Minister.
"Department of Labour, Canada,
"Ottawa, March -5, 1910.
"Dear .Sir,— I am inclosing a copy of jiroposed amendments to the
Industrial Di.sputes Investigation Act, 1907, which have been framed, after
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
consulation with yourself and others, vrith a view of meeting what seem to
me very reasonable requests made on behalf of the working men of this coun-
try through some of their representative labour bodies and officers, and in
particular with a view of removing the possibilities of certain injustices which
have been alleged on behalf of railway employees as existing, in so far as the
provisions of the measure are applicable to them.
' ' I wish }'ou would kindly look carefully over the amendments proposed,
and let me know whether in your opinion, they are satisfactory, and whether
if adopted by Parliament they would bring the Industrial Disputes Investiga-
tion Act into a form generally satisfactory and acceptable to railway employees.
' ' Yours faithfully,
"(Sgd.) W. L. Mackenzie King.
Replies.
' ' Windsor Hotel,
"OTTAW^\, March 5, 1910.
"The Honourable W. L. Mackenzie Ki.vg, C.M.G.,
' ' Minister of Labour,
' ' Ottawa.
"Dear Mr. King, —
' ' I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of
March 5, together with a copy of the proposed amendments to the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in reply, I am pleased to say, that I
have very carefully looked over the suggested amendments and they appear
to me to be very satisfactory and, in my opinion, if adopted by Parliament
they should bring the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907 into a
form generally satisfactory and acceptable to railway employees; therefore,
as representing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, I can consistently
endorse the Act when so amended, believing that it will, if amended as pro-
posed, be a benefit not only to railway employees, but also to the public
generally.
' ' I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express to you the appre-
ciation of myself and those I represent for the courtesy and consideration you
have extended to me during our interviews regarding railway legislation.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
' ' Yours very respectfully,
' ' (Sgd.) C.^lvin Lawrence,
' ' Legislative Representative B.L.E.
"Ottawa, March 10, 1910.
"\y. L. Mackenzie King, Esq.,
' ' Minister of Labour,
' ' Ottawa.
■ ' Sir,—
' ' I have your letter of the 9th instant with inclosed copy of proposed
amendments to the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907.
' ' I have gone carefully over the amendments proposed and I am of the
opinion that they will be satisfactory should they become law as they are
drafted. I am also of the opinion that the Industrial Disputes Inve.stigation
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Act, if it is amended as proposed, will bring the Act into a form that will
meet with the general approval of the railway employees that I have the
honour to represent.
"Thanking you for the manA' courtesies that you have extended to us in
the past.
' ' I am, respectfully yours,
"(Sgd.) W. J. DOWELL.
"Legislative Representative of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen."
"Ott.^wa, March 10, 1910.
"HoNOUR.\BLE W. L. M.\CKENZIE KiNG,
' ' House of Commons,
' ' Ottawa.
"Honourable and Dear Sir, —
"I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 5, inclosing copy
of the proposed amendments to the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act
of 1907.
"I have carefully read over the amendments, and wish to state, as a
representative of the Trainmen's Organization, I find them entirely satis-
factory, and in my opinion will bring about all desired results. I also feel if
proposed amendments are adopted b}' Parliament, will bring the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act into a form satisfactory and acceptable to all
members of the Trainmen's Organization.
' ' Respectfully yours,
"(Sgd.) John Maloney,
"Dominion Legislative Representative, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen."
' ' Order of Railroad Telegraphers,
264 Rusholme Road,
"ToKONTO, March 14, 1910.
"The Honourable W. L. ^Mackenzie King, C.M.G.,
' ' ^linister of Labour,
"Ottawa,.
" Dear Mr. King, —
' ' Replying to your favour in reference to the proposed amendments to
the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, I desire to say that if these amend-
ments can be obtained, the Act will be entirely satisfactory to our organization.
In fact, we have felt the need of these amendments almost ever since the law
has been enacted, and we are hoj)eful tliat Parliament will sec the wisdom
of them.
"Wi.shing you success, I am,
' ' Yours sincerely,
"(Sgd.) D. Campbell,
' ' Third Vice-President."
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Mr. Harvey Hall, representing the Order of Railway Conductors, wrote
in part as follows, under date of ^larch 14: "This will acknowledge yours
of March 9, with a draft copy of proposed amendments to the Industrial
Disputes Act attached. I have gone carefully over the proposed amend-
ments, and believe thej' will, to some extent, relieve the railway employees
of a very serious complaint, namely, delay and expense, when they are forced
to apply for a board. * * * I must admit that the amendments proposed,
if adopted, will certainly meet the views of the railway men as far as they go."
Mr. A. B. Lowe, President of the International Brotherhood of ^lain-
tenance of Way Employees, writing to the Minister under date of March 1 1 ,
1910, said, in part, — "-My opinion of the Act itself has never changed, that
it is one of the best pieces of legislation that has been passed to my knowledge
in the interest of industrial peace."
Again, on ilarch 18, 1910, Mr. Lowe wrote the Minister: "I hope
that the amendments proposed may be placed in the law."
AS TO CHANGES OF CONDITIONS.
It inay be noted that the Act in its unamended form required that after a dis-
pute had been submitted to a Board, no change could be made by either party with
respect to changes in wages or hours until the dispute had been dealt with. This
prohibition is not of course affected by the amendment, but is made positive and
certain with regard to any such proposed change, instead of being left conditional
on the reference of the dispute to a Board. It is desirable to add, however, that
during the operation of the Act onlj- one instance has been brought to the attention
of the Department where it has been alleged that any change in conditions has been
made or attempted during the progress of an inquiry. In the single instance in
which such a change was brought to the attention of the Department, the Depart-
ment explained the procedure necessary and nothing further was heard of the
matter.
Representations had been made that the prohibition proposed under this sec-
tion as to changes in wages and hours, should be extended to include changes in all
conditions of labour, but after consideration it was not deemed desirable to enlarge
the scope of the amendment to this extent. It is believed that no change of real
importance can be proposed which does not affect either wages or hours or both,
and it has not been deemed prudent to handicap either employers or employees
bj- applying the same restrictions, therefore, to changes of minor importance as to
changes of a more vital order. Should these minor changes, nevertheless, result
in a dispute which cannot be adjusted by ordinary negotiations, the parties con-
cerned may still, as in the past, avail themselves of the general machinery of the
Act to secure the establishment of a Board of Conciliation and Investigation.
Changes affecting such points as the use of lights in a coal mine, as to the wearing,
say, of a particular uniform by railway conductors or street railway conductors,
as to the method of presenting or discussing grievances, as to the question of
apprenticeship, and as to many other such matters, important in themselves,
though not as a rule vital in their bearing, are unlikely to offer serious difficulty
in adjustment; on the other hand, it may easily happen that in some such mat-
ters there would be unjustice to one .side or the other in surrounding the proposed
changes with undue delays or restrictions.
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STATEMENT OF OPEHATIONS DURING THE YEAR.
It will be in order now to review carefully the proceedings under the Act for
the fiscal period, the year, namely, ending March 31, 1910.
In all twenty-seven apphcations under the Act were received during that
period, as a result of which twenty-five Boards were established. In one of the
remaining cases the matters in dispute were adjusted by mutual agreement whilst
communications were pas.sing with the Department, in respect of the establishment
of a Board. In another case communications legarding the estabh-shment of a
Board had not been concluded at the end of the month of March, 1910. In addi-
tion to the twenty-seven cases above mentioned, proceedings under the Act, during
the past j'ear, occurred also in connection with three applications, which were re-
ceived prior to April 1, 1909, making thirty in all dealt with during the year.
INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED.
The disputes dealt with under the Act, during the year, were distributed among
the different industries as follows, namely: — •
Coal mining 9
^letal mining 2
*Railways 12
Street railways 1
Freight handlers 2
Longshoremen 1
Teamsters 1
Civic employees 1
Industries other than public utilities 1
30
♦Among the classes of labour concerned in these twelve disputes were the following: — conductors, en-
gineers, telegraphers, machinists, firemen, station agents, roundhouse employees, fittei-s, brakemen, baggagemen,
yardmen, and maintenance-of-way employees.
During the year communications were received in respect of three disputes
relating to industries other than public utilities, and in which Boards could, under
the terms of the Act, be established only by the consent of all parties concerned.
In two of these cases such consent was not obtained, so that no Boards were esta-
blished in respect of the same. Correspondence was also exchanged between the
Department and persons concerned in various disputes in which, however, the
circumstances did not call for any formal procedure under the Act.
The total number of employees affected in the thirty disputes referred to
above was estimated at 30,350, divided mainly among the various disputes as
follows: —
Between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and its conductors, baggage-
men, brakemen and yardmen, 4,360; between the Dominion Textile Company, of
Montreal, and its mule spinners, 70 directly and 3,000 indirectly; between the
Grand Trunk Railway Company and its conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and
yardmen, 3,017; between the Dominion Coal Company, of Glace Bay, N.S., and
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its employees, 3,000; between the various coal mining companies in the Provinces
of Alberta and British Columbia comprised in the Western Coal Operators'^Associa-
tion and their employees, 2,100; between the Canadian Northern' Railway Com-
pany and its maintenance-of-way employees, 1,100 directly and 700 indirectly;
between the various Steamship Lines navigating to the Port of Montreal and the
Syndicated Longshoremen of that Port, 1,800; between the Kingston and Pem-
broke Railway Company and its employees, members of the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers, 19 directly and 1,600 indirectly; between the Cumberland
Railway and Coal Company, of Springhill, N.S., and its employees, 1,550;
between the Intercolonial Railway of Canada and its roundhouse employees,
20 directly and 1,000 indirectly; between the Grand Trunk Railway Company
and its telegraph and station agents, 760; between the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company and its freight handlers at Fort William, Ont., 700; between the
Winnipeg Electric Railway Company and its employees, 600.
In other disputes referred during the year, some of them of an extremely com-
phcated nature, the number of employees affected was smaller than in the cases
above mentioned.
SETTLEMENTS RESULTING FROM INQUIRY.
The disputes investigated in which the threatened strike or lockout was
averted directly or indirectly were in number eighteen, being as follows: —
I. Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company and telegraphers.
II. Winnipeg Electric Railwa}' Company and employees.
III. Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company, Limited, Sydney Mines, N.S. and,
employees, members of the United Mine Workers of America.
IV. Dominion Textile Company, Montreal, and employees.
V. Canadian Pacific Railway Company and telegraphers.
VI. Western Coal Operators' Association and employees.
VII. Canadian Pacific Railway Company and freight handlers at Owen Sound,
Ont.
VIII. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company and engineers, firemen, conductors,
brakemen, baggagemen and yardmen.
IX. Canadian Northern Railway Company and maintenance-of-way em-
ployees on lines west of Port Arthur, Ont.
X. Canada West Coal Company, Taber, Alta., and employees.
XL Corporation of Saskatoon, Sask., and labourers.
XII. Intercolonial Railway of Canada and roundhouse employees.
XIII. Canadian Pacific Railway Company and freight handlers at Fort William,
Ont.
XIV. Intercolonial Railway of Canada and machinists and fitters.
XV. Edmonton Standard Coal Company, Limited, and employees.
XVI. James W. Blain, Cardiff, Alta., Coal company, and employees.
XVII. Grand Trunk Railway Company and telegraphers and station agents.
XVIII. British Columbia Copper Company, Greenwood, B.C., and employees.
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There were in addition several other disputes, jjroceedings in connection with
which were unfinished at the close of the financial year, strikes or lockouts in con-
nection with which had been, however, in the meantime, necessarily postponed,
if not finally averted.
SOME NOTABLE SUCCESSES.
In several instances the agreement or adjustment effected as a result of inquiry
was a notable success and is worthy of special comment. The Winnipeg Street
Railway Company dispute, adjusted early in the financial year, has been alreatly,
in the introductory chapter, cited as offering a pleasing contrast with the terrible
scenes surrounding the dispute involving the Philadelphia Street Railway Com-
pany; the dispute in the latter case, moreover, because of an ineffective settlement,
broke out even more fiercely a j'ear later, involving large loss of life and immense
damage to property. The Board which adjusted the Winnipeg dispute was pre-
sided over by Rev. Dr. C. W. Gordon, (Ralph Connor) the famous author of "Sky
Pilot" and other novels. The report was unanimous, and the agreement is effective
until May 1, 1911. The number of men concerned was 600.
A dispute involving delicate points, and necessitating particularly careful
handling was that between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and its telegraph
operators to the number of 1,600. The dispute arose out of the alleged unfair dis-
missal of an employee, always a matter most diflicult of adjustment. Mr. Justice
Fortin, of the Superior Court of Quebec, who had already, as chairman of various
Boards, effected several agreements under the Act, presided over the proceedings,
and was again successful in averting a struggle, the Board presenting a unanimous
report, which was accepted by both parties.
Two disputes between the Intercolonial Railway and its employees were ad-
justed during the year, before Boards of Conciliation and Investigation. One
concerned the roundhouse employees, affecting directly and indirectly over 1,000
hands, the other, the machinists and fitters employed on the Railway, affecting in
all about 400 men. The disputes involved, in each case, alleged discrimination
against certain employees. Sir George Garneau, of Quebec, was chairman of the
Board in the case of the roundhouse employees, and Judge Barron, of Stratford,
Ont., in the case of the machinists and fitters. In each case, after a careful investi-
gation and negotiation Ijetween the contending parties, a unanimous conclusion was
reached, agreeable td each side and accepted as an adjustment of the matters at
issue.
An instance of specially rapid and effective procetlure in the constitution and
operation of a Board was that in the case of the Canadian Pacific Railway Com-
pany and its freight handlers at Fort William, Ont. As is set forth at some length
in the report (printed elsewhere in this volume) of the .special inquiry conducted by
the Deputy Minister, a strike had been entered upon by the employees without
reference to the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and in ignorance, as they
.subsequently stated, of the features of the Canadian law; the strikers were, as a
matter of fact, mostly foreigners not long in Canada. The strike declared, friction
lietween the parties grew rapidly, and on the third day a serious encounter occurred
between the strikers and a number of special constables who had been engaged Ijy
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the Company to protect the men who had gone to work. The Minister of Labour
had been, in the meantime, in telegi-aphic communication with the Ma3'or of Fort
William, with a view to having the dispute referred to a Board under the In-
dustrial Disputes Investigation Act, the men returning to work meanwhile, and
this was effected at the end of a week's strike, the men resuming work as agreed.
By the Minister's direction, Mr. Acland had in the meantime left for the scene of the
dispute, and facilitated the constitution and procedure of the Board. The appli-
cation was formally received on August 18, the members recommended by the
different parties were appointed by the Minister, by telegi-aph, and Mr. S. C. Young,
of Fort Wilham, was appointed chairman, on the joint recommendation of these
gentlemen. The Board met for business, August 21, and, Sunday intervening, con-
tinued its labours until Tuesday, August 24, sitting all night of Jlonday, August 23.
A unanimous agreement was eventually reached, both parties accepting, and no
further trouble ensued. A satisfactory feature of the proceedings was the resolution
passed by the committee representing the men stating that had they Jieen aware of
the existence of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act they would not have
failed to comply \\ith its provisions. It will be seen that the actual time occupied
in the establishment and procedure of the Board was six days only, though the
formal report was not received by the Minister until a few days later. The case is
an excellent example of the expedition with which the Act may be operated in
case of emergency. The time, it may be added, might have been j-et further
shortened, but for the fact that one member of the Board had to travel from Win-
nipeg, and could not leave without a day's notice.
A further case that ma)' be cited, though falling only in part within the finan-
cial year that has closed, is that of the dispute between the Shipping Companies of
Montreal and the longshoremen of the port. It will be remembered that one of the
first disputes arising after the enactment of the Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act was between the shipping companies and the longshoremen, the latter having
gone on strike before, appaienth', it had been understood that the new Act would
apply to their industr.y. It may be added that difficulties between the parties
during the preceding few years had not infrequently ended in strikes. The diffi-
culty of May, 1907, after a week's strike, was, by the intervention of the Deputy
Minister of Labour referred to a Board, and an adjustment effected, wliich adjust-
ment with slight modifications, was made the working basis for the succeeding
seasons of 1908 and 1909. In the spring of 1910, however, the men sought a sub-
stantial change in the arrangement, and failing to secure this by negotiations de-
manded a Board. The Companies protested against the establishment of a Board,
on various grountls, but the objections being over-ruled, both parties went into the
inquiry with a spirit of apparent conciliation. Mr. Justice Fortin was chairman of
the Board, and his previous experience in this capacity, noted above in a reference
to the settlement effected in the case of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and
its t 1 graph operators, proved invaluable in the attempt to procure an adjustment
in the present case. The proceedings of the Board, which occurred at the beginning
of the financial year 1910-11, resulted in an agreement acceptable to all the Com-
panies and to the employees; a particularly satisfactory feature being that it was
made effective for the period of five years, while an arrangement was made for the
reference, in the meantime, of any disputes as to the working of the agreement to a
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permanent Board of Arbitration establislied by the parties jointly. It should be
added that each party deposited with the Royal Trust Company, of Montreal, a sum
of S"2,000, in token of good faith, and as a guarantee of the due performance of the
agreement. This agreement promises to give the parties concerned a long cessa-
tion from serious friction and affords a pleasant contrast with the condition of con-
stantly recurring strikes that formerly existed. It is beheved also that the ex-
ample maj' not be without its effect in the case of longshoremen elsewhere, as well
as in the ca.se of disputes affecting workmen in other lines. The number of men
concerned in this dispute was 1,800, but this number, considerable as it is, repre-
sents an interest relatively slight, when compared with the overwhelming interest
of the public in the regular continuance of labour in connection with the loading
and unloading of ships at the great port of Montreal.
OTHER BENEFITS ACCOMPLISHED.
As an illustration of the beneficial nature of the work frequently
accomplished by Boards of Conciliation and Investigation may be cited the
dispute between the Alberta Coal Mining Company and its employees at
Edmonton, Alta., regarding the settlement of which Mr. George S. Montgom-
ery, General Manager of the Company, in the course of a letter to the
Department dated April 9th, 1910, stated as follows:
"The differences between the parties were caused by misunder-
standings, and were exaggerated by outside parties, and so far as the
management of the mine is concerned there Avill be no further trouble.
"Wp arc iileased to be able lo refer difforcnces to suph a Board
as is established under the law, for without this recourse there would
have been either a strike or a lockout and the mine would have been
idle during the busy portion of the year."
It has been on previous occasions pointed out that in addition to the
direct effect of the Act through Boards of Conciliation and Investigation,
there is what may be termed the more silent influence exerted without the
actual establishment of the Board. Evidences come to the Department from
time to time of many such cases, though obviously much influence is being
continually exerted without knowledge of the same necessarily reaching
the Department at all. Illustration of the good effects of the Act otherwise
than through the establishment of a Board is furnished in the case of a
dispute between the Michigan Central Railway Company and certain of its
employees employed in Canada as maintenance-of-way men. In this case
an application reached the Department, but, being held because lacking
certain essentials required by the Act, a correspondence followed between
the Department, the railway management, and the employees, respectively,
as a result of which a settlement was effected without the establishment
of a Board. Writing on the sub,icct under date of May 3, 1910, Mr. A. B.
Lowe, President of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way
Employees, stated as follows:
"I am giving the Lemieux Act full credit for this increase and for
the fact that the committee was met, and that there can be no doubt
about the Lemieux Act deserving the credit which I am giving it. I
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may state that on the United States side of the line where we have no
such act in force, but where by far the largest part of the Michigan
Central is located, no committee was asked for their opinion about what
they should get for their labour, although they have been pressing for
a meeting, but they were simply given the rates agreed upon on the
Canadian side. 'Tally one' for the Department of Labour and the
Lemieux Act!"
FOUR STRIKES AFTER INVESTIGATION.
In connection with each of the thirty disputes dealt with by the De-
partment sworn statements were furnished to prove that, failing an
adjustment of the differences or a reference of the same under the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, a strike or lockout, as the case might be, would
be declared.
From the table which is published herewith it will be seen that there
were only four cases in which the strikes were not either averted or ended.
Three of these were in the coal mining industry, two of the number relating
in the main, not to rules or hours of labour, but to the question of the
recognition of certain labour unions. One of the disputes occurred in the
metal mining industry and was mainly concerned, like the cases above
mentioned, with the subject of union recognition. In each of the remaining
disputes referred under the Act, the investigation before the Board resulted
either in a direct agreement between the parties, or in effecting such an
improvement in their relations that no cessation of work occurred.
It may be said, also, that in cases where members of the Board disagreed
in their findings, or where one of the parties to a dispute stood apart from the
inquiry as far as voluntary action was concerned, inquiry has none the less
resulted in a clear understanding of conditions on the one side or the other,
and a change of attitude, which has been effective in averting the threatened
trouble.
The four cases in which strikes were not either averted or terminated
during the third year's operation of the Act were briefly as follows:
1. A dispute between the Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company and
Its employees to the number of 150, in which the latter went on strike whilst
proceedings were pending for the establishment of a Board of Conciliation
and Investigation, and the mines were closed down until after the investiga-
tion was finished, when operations were resumed, the men being engaged un-
der new conditions. In a letter from the Company, dated June 15, 1909, to
the Department, it was stated that an understanding, which is understood
to have been promoted by the inquiry, had been reached between the manage-
ment and the men.
2. A dispute between the British Columbia Copper Company and its
employees to the number of 225, a strike being declared on June 26, 1909, in
which the employees demanded recognition of the Western Federation of
Miners, and continuing until July 24, 1909, when a settlement was effected.
3. A dispute between the Dominion Coal Company of Glace Bay, C.B., and
60 DEPARTMESr OF LAliOVR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
certain of its employees, to the number of 3,000, in -vvhieh the hitter refused to
abide by the finding of the Board, a sti'il<e being declared on July 6, 190ft, iu
which recognition was sought for the United Mine Workers of America. A
considerable number of the Company's emplo.yees, members of the Provincial
Workmen's Association, declined to participate iu the strike, and on December
31, 1909, renewed for a period of two years the agreement which the Domin-
ion Coal Company had entered into with that organization on March 16, 1908,
which was based on the award of a Board of Conciliation and Investigation,
established under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. It is claimed by
the Company that the output of coal from its mines, during the winter months,
had practically ceased to be affected, although a considerable number of work-
men, members of the United Mine AVorkers of America, still remained on strike.
The strike was continued, however, until April 28, 1910, when the men,
then numbering about 1,300, returned to work, substantially on the lines re-
commended in the report of the Board. A further statement of the circum-
stances of this important strike and of that mentioned in the next paragraph
(at Springhill, N.S.) will be found in that portion of the present volume deal-
ing with the special report of the Deputy Minister on industrial conditions in
the coal fields of Nova Scotia. The report of the Board of Conciliation and
Investigation also will be found in the appendix.
4. A dispute between the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, of
Springhill, N.S., and its employees to the number of 1,700, relating in the main
to recognition of the United Mine Workers' organization, to which the em-
ployees in question belonged. A strike was called on August 9, 1909, which
resulted in the closing down of the Company's mines. Operations were rf-
sumed on a limited scale early in the month of March, 1910, but a considerable^
number of the Company's former employees still remained on strike at the
close of the fiscal year, and matters had not materially changed at the time
this report was written.
It may be desirable to indicate at this juncture what has been already
briefly mentioned in the introductory chapter, the general character, namely,
of the disputes in which occurred the strikes above mentioned. It will be
noticed that in each case the direct issue was the recognition of the unior,, and
not any questions involving wages or hours or conditions of work. There is
probably no other question in which the parties concerned are so little sus-
ceptible to the process of conciliation or where investigation can hope to ac-
complish so little, as in disputes of this nature. A complete surrender by one
side or the other of ideas wholly divergent would appear to be the only means
of settlement, and the main achievement of an inquiry under such circum-
stances is likely as a rule to be that of placing l)efore the public a plain im-
partial settli'iiiont of the case, with findings accordingly. In the event then of
lockout or strike the public is in a position to determine as to the degree of
responsibility attaching to either parly. Experience has shown so far that
the disposition of the public is to uphold the findings of the Board and that
a lockout or strike declared in face of such findings fails of public support and
is foredoomed as a rule to failure as a consequence. It is possible that con-
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tinned experience of the present Act will demonstrate to the parties to a dis-
pute the futility of opposing the carefully considered judgment of a Board of
Conciliation and Investigation.
STRIKES OCCURRING BEFORE OR WITHOUT INQUIRY UNDER THIS ACT.
There remain to be noticed instances in which strikes were declared with-
out reference to the Act, though in some cases a Board was subsequently es-
tablished.
On March 31, 1909, a strike was declared of coal miners, to the number
of 2,100, employed in the mines controlled by the members of the Western
Coal Operators' Association, in Alberta and in British Columbia, on the expiry
of the agreement, under which they had previously been employed. On May
3, ]909, application was made to the Minister of Labour for the establishment
of a Board, the report of which was received in the Department on June 21,
1909. The Department was shortly afterwards informed that a two years'
agreement was signed between the parties on June 30, 1909, which was based
on tlie report of the Board.
On April 23, 1909, a strike was declared of coal miners to the number of
300, employed by the Canada West Coal Company, Limited, of Taber, Alberta,
in consequence of failure to agree upon the terms and conditions of a working
agreement to take the place of an agreement which had expired on March 31,
1909. On June 10, application was made to the Minister of Labour for the
establishment of a Board, the report of which was received on July 19. The
Department was advised on August 2 that, on receipt of the Board's report,
negotiations were resumed between the parties and an agreement was reached
on July 31, effective to March 31, 1911.
A strike occurred on May 7, 1909, of longshoremen to the number of 200,
emploj'cd by the Canadian Pacific Eailway Company at Owen Sound. The
strikers returned to work on May 10, 1909, when application was made for the
establishment of a Board of Conciliation and Investigation. The report of
the Board provided for increased rates of wages to the employees concerned,
and was accepted by both parties to the dispute.
On July 9, 1909, a strike of employees of the Inverness Eailway and Coal
Company, of Inverness, C.B., was declared, without any reference under the
terms of the Act. This strike was one of the series growing out of the friction
between the United Mine Workers of America and the Provincial Workmen's
Association of Nova Scotia, and is fully discussed in the chapter of the volume
in which is printed the report of the special inquiry conducted by the Deputy
Minister of Labour into the industrial conditions in the coal mines of Nova
Scotia. The strike was effective for a few weeks only, but a number of the
former employees remained in receipt of strike relief for several months, and
during October an action was brought by the employing Company against
David Neilson, the agent at Inverness of the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, on the grounds that he was supporting the strike contrary to the provisions
of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. Mr. F. A. MacEchen, stipendi-
62 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
ary magistrate, convicted Mr. Xeilson of an infringement of the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, and imposed a penalty of $500 or three months'
imprisonment. The conviction was appealed to the Court of Appeal, and a
decision on the appeal had not been given at date of writing.
A strike occurred on August 9. 1909, of 1,200 freight handlers employed
by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, at Fort "William. The strikers,
the great majority of whom were foreigners, returned to work on August 16.
1909, when application was made for the establishment of a Board, the
strikers in their application stating that the strike was declared in ignorance
of the Canadian law. The report of the Board, providing for increased rate
of wages to the employees, was accepted by both parties to the dispute. The
report of a special inquiry conducted by the Deputy Minister into this dispute
is printed elsewhere.
On March 12. 1910. the attention of the Minister of Labour was drawn to
statements appearing in the press, representing that certain freight handlers
in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, at Toronto, had gone on
strike without the matters in dispute having first been investigated by a Board
of Conciliation and Investigation appointed tinder the terms of the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, and an officer of the Department, Mr. J. D. Mc-
Xiven. was immediately dispatched to Toronto to represent to the employees
concerned the requirements of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907,
so that they might not, in ignorance of such requirements, take action contrary
thereto. Mr. McNiven, in conversation with the local officials of the Canadian
Brotherhood of Railroad Employees, to which the employees in question be-
longed, learned that the parties concerned were ignorant of the provisions
of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and was also in-
formed that a reference of the dispute to a Board under the Act would be
considered as greatly preferable to a general strike, and that if the matter was
not satisfactorily adjusted otherwise, it would be referred to a Board for in-
quiry on the lines required by the Act. The strike occurred on March 11, and
lasted onlj- a portion of the afternoon. Negotiations for settlement were then
resumed, and there has been no recurrence of trouble since. An increase of
one per cent per hotir was granted by the Grand Trunk management to the
freight handlers and checkers in its employ at Toronto.
PROCEEDI.VGS IN PROGRESS.
At the close of the fiscal year reports had not as yet been received in the
following cases in which applications had been received, and Boards had been
in most instances established, namely: —
Alberta Coal Mining Company, of Cardiff, Alta., and its employees, to
the number of thirty-five, directly, and twenty-five, indirectly.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and its conductors, baggagemen,
hrakemen and yardmen, to the number of 4,360.
Grand Trunk Railway Company, and its conductors, baggagemen, brake-
men and yardmen, to the number of 3,017.
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63
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Company, and its conductors,
baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen, to the number of 101.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, and its telegi'aph and station
employees, to the number of 75.
Dominion Atlantic Railway Company, and its employees, to the number of
foiu-, directly, and twenty-five indirectly.
The Shipping Federation of Canada, comprising various lines of steam-
ships navi;.^;iliii'^ 10 ^lojiirf-al. and the Syndicated Longshoremen of the port
of Montreal.
Dep-^htment of Labour. Canada.
St.\tistical Table X. .\. E.. No. 2.
INDUSTRI.\L DISPUTES I.WESTIGATIOX .A.CT, 1907.
Table showing Proceedings under Act from March 31, 1909, to March 31, 1910.
.\ppUcatioiis cc
nceming disputes
291
in mines and public utilities.
.Applications [
concerning dis- Total
putes in industries! applica-
other than minesitions under
and public -A.ct.
utilities.
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Concerning mines
and smelters.
U
Concerning transporta- Concerning
tion and communication, civic em-
ployees.
17 1
Di.«putes referred!
by consent of
parties concerned
under sec. 63 of
I.D.I. .\ct. 1907.
1 30
Coal Metallifer-
nunes ous mines.
1
Street
Railways.
Longshore-
men.
Freight
Handlers.
Teumatera.
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12
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1 26
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'The proceedings under the Act during this year included three cases in which certain proceedings had
taken place also during the preceding year, viz.: — (1) a dispute between the Manitoba Cartage Company of Winni-
peg, Man., and its employees; 1,2) a dispute between the Kingston & Pembroke Railway Company and its em-
ployees: and, (3) a dispute between the Dominion Coal Company of Glace Bay. Cape Breton, and its employees.
2At the close of the financial year results were still pending in connecrtion with seven applications, namely:
CI) application made on behalf of the Alberta Coal Mining Company, of Cardiff. Alta.. and employees: (2) applica-
tion made on behalf of the conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo
Railway Company; ("3) application made on behalf of conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen of the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company; i4) application made on behalf of conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and
yardmen of the Grand Trunk Railway Company; (6) application made on behalf of the Syndicated Longshoremen
of the Port of Montreal and various Steamship Companies navigating to Montreal; f6) application made on behalf
of telegraphers and station employees of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Conapany; and (7) application made
on behalf of the employees of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company.
PROCKEDIXGS FOR THE THREE YEARS. >L\RCH 22. 1907, TO MARCH 31, 1910.
The total number of applications under the terms of the Industrial Dis-
putes Investigation Act received during the three years which have elapsed
since the enactment of this statute in March. 1907. is eighty-two. of which
tliirty-five were received during the year ending March 31, 1908; twenty dur-
ing the year ending March 31. 1909; and twenty-seven during the year ending
March ^^1. 1910. The number of employees estimated to have been affected
64 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
in the eighty-two disputes is 85,500. Of the total mimber of applications
thirty-four related to the industry of coal mining, six to metalliferous mining,
thirty-eight to agencies of transportation, one to municipal public utilities,
and three to industries other than mines and public utilities to which the Act
primarily applies. The special trades or callings involved in these disputes
included those of coal miners, silver miners, copper miners, conductors, loco-
motive engineers, station agents, railway telegraphers, brakemen, firemen,
baggagemen, freight clerks, machinists, mechanics, (including boilermakers,
blacksmiths, steamfitters and gas fitters) ; round house employees, main-
tenance-of-way employees, cabmen, freight handlers, longshoremen, lake
seamen, street railway employees, teamsters, municipal employees, cotton mili
operatives, and boot and shoe workers.
In the very large ma.jority of cases the matters at issue related to hours,
wages or conditions of labour; and in only two of the cases in which wages
or hours were directly concerned have proceedings under the Act failed to
avert the threatened strike. There have been in all six instances during the
three years in which strikes have occurred after the reference of disputes
under the terms of the Act. One of these six disputes concerned the railway
industry, the other five related to the mining industry and in four cases had
to do in whole or in part w^ith the question of alleged discrimination against
or the recognition of certain labour unions.
The six eases in question are as follows: — (1) Cumberland Railway and
Coal Company of Springhill, N.S., and its employees; (2) Canadian Pacific
Kailway Company and its mechanical employees; (3) Nicola Valley Coal
and Coke Company of Middlesboro, B.C., and its employees; (4) British
Columbia Copper Company of Greenwood, B.C., and its employees; (5)
Dominion Coal Company of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, and its employees; and
(6) Cumberland Railway and Coal Company of Springhill, N.S., and its
employees. In No. 1, the strike lasted from August 1, 1907, to August 31,
1907, when the employees returned to work on the conditions recommended
ill thf report of the Board. In No. 2, the strike lasted from August 5,
1908, to October 5, 1908, when the employees returned to work on the
conditions recommended in the report of the Board. In No. 3 the employees
went on strike on April 28, during the process of establishing a Board, and
returned to work early in June on lines recommended by the Board. In
No. 4 the strike lasted from June 28 to July 24; in this case several reports
Avere put in by the members of the Board, and the settlement was on the
lines substantially of the Chairman's recommendations. In No. 5 the strike
lasted from July fi, 1909, to April 28, 1910, when the employees returned to
work on the lines recommended in the report of the Board, with such modi-
fications as had been made in the same by an agreement subsequently
efi'ected. In No. 6 the strike was declared on August 9, 1909, and was con-
tinuing at the date of writing; it should be noted that the parties concerned
in Nos. 1 and 6 are identical. The four cases, Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6, included
in the above and falling within the financial year 1909-10, have been dealt
with somewhat more fully in the analysis of the disputes referred for inquiry
during the fiscal year 1909-10.
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65
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
STATISTICAL TABLES.
Statistical tables follow showing:
(1) The proceedings under the Act from the date of its enactment, March
22, 1907, to the close of the financial year, March 31, 1910.
(2) Proceedings under the Act by calendar years, 1907 to 1910.
(3) Proceedings under the Act in detail for the three fiscal years cover-
ing the life of the Act. and ending respectively March 31, 1908, March 31,
1909, and March 31, 1910.
Department of Labocr, Canada.
Statistical Tables, X., A. R. No. 3.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT, 1907.
Table showing Proceedings under Act from March 22, 1907, to March 31, 1910.
Applications concerning disputes in mines and public utilities.
Applications |
concerning dis- t Total
putes in indus- applii
tries other than *'^^^
mines and public
utilities.
tions
under
Act.
82
Concerning mines Concerning transporta- jConcem-
and smelters. tion and communicationjing '<ivit>
♦Strikes averted or ended
Strikes not averted or ended •
Disputes referred
-^ ....^ by consent of
tmployeeSjparties concerned
under sec. 63 of
I.D.I. Act. 1907.
Coal [Metallifer-
mines ous mines.
*At the close of the financial year results were still pending in connection with seven applications, naniely
(1) application made on behalf of the .\lberta Coal Minnig Company, of Cardiff. Alta.. and employees; (2) applira-
tion made on behalf of the conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo
Railway Company; (3) application made on behalf of conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen of the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company; (4) application made on behalf of conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and
yardmen of the Grand Trunk Railway Company; (5) application made on behalf of the Syndicated Longshoremen
of the Port of Montreal employed by various steamship companies navigating to Montreal; (6) application made
on behalf of telegraphers and station employees of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company; and (7) application
made on behalf of the employees of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT. 1907.
Table Showing Proceepings by Calendar Years.
Department of Labour, Canad.\,.
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 4.
Number of applications
Number of Boards granted
Strikes averted or ended
Strikes not averted or ended ■
M907
9 months.
» 1910
1 3 months.
0
'The Act became law on March 22. 1907, so that the proceedings cover nine months only.
^To the end of the financial year, March 31,
^In the majority of cases when applications were received during the three months of the fiscal year 1910-11
included in the calendar year 1910 the proceedings remained unfinished on March 31, 1910.
*A Board was appointed early in the financial year 1910-11 on account of one of the applications received iji
the closing weeks of the financial vear 1909-10.
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enter into same on behalf of union.
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F. H. Sherman (Jtf )'
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Standanl Coal Company
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Nova Scotia Steel * Coal
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1908
May 2
-May 12
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Board found against the conten-
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fusing to accept the findings struck,
on July 6. It was claimed by the
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ceased to be affected during the
winter months following, although a
considerable number of workmen,
members of the United Mine Work-
ers of America, remained on strike
at the end of March, 1910.
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appointed on behalf of the em-
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proceedings were pending for the
establishment of a Board in this
case the employees ceased work on
April 28, and remained on strike
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15, the Department waa informed
that an understanding had been
reached between the management
and the men.
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June 16
June 11
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1909
Mar. 4
AprU 13
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Result of Reference.
A unanimous report waa presented
by the Board, accompanied by an
agreement covering all points in
dispute and effective from May 1,
1009, to May 1, 1«U, a strike being
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Result of Reference.
A unanimous report was presented
by the Board, making recommen-
dations for the settlement of the
dispute. The report was not ac-
cepted by the Company, but the
inquiry had the effect of improving
the conditions and bringing about
an understanding, so that the
threatened strike was averted.
Date of
receipt ,
of report
of
Board.
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don, (C)»
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T. J. Murray, (M)'
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connected with
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
III.— THE COMBINES INVESTIGATION ACT.
In the speech from the Thi-one at the opening of the past session of
Parliament, reference was made to the proposed introduction of a measure
for the more effective control of combinations which unduly enhance prices.
A Bill for this purpose was introduced in the House of Commons on January
18, 1910, by the Minister of Labour, which, after consideration by both
Houses of Parliament, passed into law on the 4th of May following, under
the title of "An Act to provide for the investigation of Combines, Monopolies,
Trusts and Mergers." Since the Act will be administered luider the dir-
ection of the Minister of Labour, it seems proper to state brietiy in this report
the nature of the legislation enacted and the reasons for the enactment of
the same.
The legislation in question, as an examination of the Parliamentary
debates will show, has not been enacted in any spirit of hostility to industrial
or commercial combination. On the contrary, the benefits and economies of
organization on a large scale, both in trade and industry, have been fully
recognized. But whilst it is not desired to interfere unnecessarily with
the free play of economic forces, it has been urged that the growth of great
power under corporate control is not free from possible danger to the
country at large, and, indeed, imposes upon the state the duty of insuring
that no private interest shall be allowed to operate against the public good,
but rather that the interest of all classes shall be afforded by the state such
protection as they may require, since it is organized society which has alone
made possible the organization of capital and industry. It is in recognition
of this obligation on the part of the Government to the people that the
present Act has been introduced and has been adopted by Parliament. The
classes of transactions to which it is intended that the Act should apply
have been recognized as illegal under the common law of England for
centuries past, and have, moreover, been specifically declared unlawful by
legislative enactment in this country. The object of the present legislation
has been to place at the disposal of the people a readier and, it is believed,
a more effective means than is now available in Canada of disclosing and
of remedying the abuses of combines which may be formed whether as
corporations, monopolies, trusts or mergers, or in the looser forms of agree-
ments, understandings or arrangements, for the purpose of unduly enhancing
prices or of restricting competition to the detriment of consumers or producers.
The remedy which the Combines Investigation Act has placed at the service
of the public in this respect may be shortly expressed in three words, — •
investigation, publicity and penalty, the first two substantially the same
remedies as those offered in the case of industrial disputes by the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and applied by a procedure which in many
respects approximates that pursued in the case of the Act named. The
operation of the Induslrial Disputes Investigation Act, based essentially on
90 DEPAHTMEXT OF L.UiOlR
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
these principles, has been strikingly effective, as has been made apparent
in the different official reports of the Department on the subject, and there
is reason to believe that the same principle carried into this new field of
investigation would be productive equally of good results.
METHODS OF PROCEDURE.
To secure an inquiry under the terms of the Act it is necessary that
application be made to any High Court Judge by six persons, British subjects,
resident in Canada and of full age, who are prepared to declare that a
combine exists in respect of any article of trade or commerce and that prices
have thereby been enhanced or competition restricted to their detriment,
either as consumers or as producers; provided, further that a prima facie
case is made out by which the judge has been satisfied that there is reasonable
grounds for believing (1) that a combine exists which is injurious to trade?
or (2) which has operated to the detriment of consumers or producers; and
(3) that it is in the public interest that an investigation should be held.
All reasonable and proper expenses incurred in connection with an
application for investigation under this statute may be paid on order of the
judge out of an appropriation set apart for this purpose by Parliament.
Provision is made also in the statute whereby the necessarj^ expenses of the
subsequent investigation may be borne by the State.
Publicity will be secured through the publication of the findings in tlip
Canada Gazette and in the public press.
"Whenever an order for investigation has been granted by a judge in
respect of the affairs of an alleged combine the same will be communicated
at once to the Minister of Labour so that steps may be taken for the estab-
lishment of a Board of Investigation.
In order that the inquiry may be as fair and as full as possible it is
provided that each of the parties interested in getting at the truth, namely,
on the one hand, the applicants for investigation, and on the other hand,
the persons believed to be concerned in the alleged combination, may be
represented on the Board of Investigation ; in this way it is hoped to secure
the services on the Board of persons who will be exceptionally well qualified
for the work entrusted to it. Each Board established under the Act will
have a membership of three, namely, one member to be appointed on the
recommendation of the persons upon whose application the order for inves-
tigation has been granted; a second to be appointed on the recommendation
of the persons named in the order as being concerned in the alleged com-
bine; and the third, who shall be designated as the Chairman and who must
be a judge of one of the courts of record, to be appointed on the joint
recommendation of the other two members of the Board, or, in the abseTu-o
of any such joint recommendation, to be appointed by the Minister of
Labour.
Before entering upon his duties each member of a Board appointed under
the Combines Investigation Act must swear that he will truly, failhfully and
impartially perform his duties as a member of the Board; that he is a
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British subject; that he has no direct pecuniary interest in the alleged
combine that is to be the subject of investigation; that he has not received
and will not accept either directly or indirectly any perquisite, gift, fee,
or gratuity from any person in any way interested in any matter or thing
to be investigated by the Board; and that he is not immediately connected
in business with any of the parties applying for this investigation, and is not
acting in collusion with any person therein.
For the purposes of investigation Boards of Investigation will have all
the powers which are vested in any court of record in civil cases, that is
to say the right to summon and to examine witnesses under oath and the
right to require the production of such books and papers or other documents
or things as the Board deems requisite to the full investigation of the matters
into which it is inquiring. Whenever in the opinion of the Minster of
Labour the public interest so requires, the Minister of Jiistice may insliuct
counsel to conduct the investigation before a Board.
PROCEDURE SUBSEQUENT TO INVESTIGATION.
Wfienever it appears to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council as
the result of any investigation or from the judgment of any court that a
combine exists with regard to any article to promote unduly the advantage
of the manufacturers or dealer? at the expense of the consumers, and if it
appears to the Governor in 0;;uncil that such disadvantage to the consumer
is facilitated by the duties o' customs imposed on the article or on any like
article, the Governor in Crvaicil may direct either that such article be ad-
mitted free into Canada or that the duty thereon be reduced to such amount
or rate as will, in the opir jon of the Governor in Council, give the public the
benefit of reasonable cor .petition.
In case it should ,' jpear from lie report of any Board that the holder
of any patent issued \indpr the Patent Act has made exclusive use of rights
and privileges thereunder "so as to unduly limit the facilities for transporting,
producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing or dealing in any article of
trade and commerce; or to unduly restrain or injure trade or commerce in
relation to such article; or unduly to prevent, limit or lessen the manu-
facture or production of any article, or unreasonably to enhance the price
thereof; or unduly to prevent or lessen competition in the production,
manufacture, purchase, barter, sale, transportation, storage or supply of any
article, such patent shall be liable to be revoked." In this respect the
present legislation is intended to supplement the provisions of the Patent
Law of Canada against the abuse of patent rights. Where it is reported
that a patent has been misused to any of the ends above mentioned the
Minister of Justice may apply to the Exchequer Court for a revocation of
the same.
It is also provided that any person who has been reported by a Board
for violation of the terms of this statute and who thereafter continues to
offend is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding
$1,000 per day and costs during which such person so continues to offend
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for each day after the expiration of ten days, or such extension of time as
in the opinion of the Board may be necessary, from the date of the publication
of the Board's report in the Canada Gazette.
The findings of Board may also serve as a basis for effecting other
remedies in the case of offending monopolies or corporations, as for example
the cancellation of licenses under the Inland Revenue Act, where it is shown
the same are being used to restrict competition, or the withdrawal of sub-
sidies, in eases of alleged combines in shipping or transportation; under the
terms of section 3 of the Act the general administration of this statute is
entrusted to the Minister of Labour.
PREVIOUS LEGISLATION IN CANADA AND ELSEWHERE.
In the framing of this enactment a careful examination has been made
of the laws which were already on the statute books of Canada with respect
to combines, viz.: Sections 496, 497 and 498 of the Criminal Code, 1906;
Section 12 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1907; and Chapter 17 of 4 Edward VII.
— "An Act to amend the Inland Revenue Act"; and an attempt has been
made to supplement these measures in such respects as experience has proven
desirable, having in mind especially the remarkable growth of both com-
mercial and industrial consolidation in Canada within recent years, and
the further fact that in some quarters at least this development has been
held responsible for the increased prices of various classes of commodities.
In an examination of this subieet attention has been directed to the
work of a special committee of the House of Commons in the session of
1888 which was appointed for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting
upon the existence of certain alleged combinations in the manufacturing
industries, in trade and in insurance in this coimtry, and to the effects of
the inquiry, in connection with which it may be observed that the inquirer
can not fail to be deeply impressed with the beneficial results accruing in
matters of this nature from investigation and publicity.
At the same time a study has been made of the several legislative enact-
ments of the United States, of various European countries, and of Australia,
for the prevention and the punishment of injurious combines, so that the
legislative experience of these countries in regard to what is commonly
known as the Trust Probloii] iiijohi |)e available in llic framing of the present
enactment.
It has lieen made a subject of complaint that proceedings under the
Anti-Combines Sections of the Criminal Code of Canada, under which a
number of prosecutions have been entered, have been both slow and ex-
pensive, and subject also to such restrictions as have made it extremely
difficult to secure a conviction. In its consideration of the subject Parliament
has not deemed it wise to rescind these sections but has left the criminal
law as it stood for possible use in such cases as time may disclose in which
the penalties there provided may prove at once the most suitable and the
most effective forms of punishment for offenders.
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SOME ASPECTS OF THE NEW ACT.
Procedure under the Combines Investigation Act will not necessarily
cast any stigma upon those who are held to be concerned in an alleged
combine. The actual inquiry before the Board will not be in any sense
a criminal prosecution, but rather in the nature of a commission of inquiry
at the cost of the state into matters of concern to the public at large and
on the result of which will be based such remedial action as the necessities
of the case require.
Under the Anti-Combine Section of the Customs Tariff Act provision
is already made for public inquiry into the facts connected with any alleged
combine where it is believed that the same is facilitated to any extent by
the duties of customs. It is further provided that the Governor in Council
may afford a remedy to consumers by the reduction or the abolition of the
duties on any article of trade or commerce affected. The advantages of
inquiry in this respect were shown some years ago in connection with an
investigation which was made by Royal Commission into the exist orce of
an alleged combine of paper manufacturers. On April 10, 1901, complaint
was made to the Governor in Conuc;! nndei- this section that there existed
among Canadian paper manufacturers a combine to unduly increase the price
of news and printing paper. This complaint was made the subject of a
special inquiry by the late Honourable Mr. Justice Taschereau, of the
Superior Court of Montreal, who reported that the complaint was well
founded and that in his opinion the said enhancement of prices was undue,
unreasonable, and oppressive. On April 25 following, an Order in Coun-
cil was passed by which relief was afforded to users of news and printing
paper by the reduction of the customs tariff on these articles from 25 per
cent to 15 per cent.
Under the terms of the Combines Investigation Act it will be possible
for the Governor in Council, where it has been established before a Board of
Investigation that any injurious combine has been formed in respect of the
manufacture of certain articles in Canada, to reduce or abolish the duties
on such articles. Instead, therefore, of being under the necessity of appoint-
ing Royal Commissions of inquiry into such matters the investigation of
complaints in this connection may hereafter be performed by Boards under
the Combines Investigation Act, although authority is retained by the Gov-
ernor in Council to act upon the report of any Royal Commission or of any
judgment of any court in Canada, which has disclosed the existence of a
conspiracy, combination, agreement, or arrangement of a monopolistic char-
acter in restraint of trade.
It should be added that by Chapter 17 of 4 Edward VII., "An Act to
amend the Inland Revenue Act," the Minister of Inland Revenue has been
empowered to cancel inland revenue licenses where manufacturers holding
the same have sold their goods under a monopolistic form of contract de-
signed to prevent purchasers buying goods from any other manufacturer
or dealer. In its consideration of the subject of combines generally it has
not been thought advisable by the Dominion Parliament to amend or to re-
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scind the existing law in this respect, but to render it more etfective by pro-
viding machinery for disclosing iiuinopolistie forms of contract.
The text of the Combines Investigation Act is printed in the appendix
to the present volume. It will be seen that the prescribed form of appli-
cation for an investigation and that also of the judicial order for investigation
are printed with the Act. Forms available on application have been specially
prepared in the Department for these purposes, as also forms relating to the
appointment of members, the oath of office, the summoning of witnesses, etc.
In the closing days of the session the sum of $10,000 was appropriated for
the administration of the Act during the year 1910-11.
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IV.— ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
In the House of Commons on January 28, 1910, the Minister of Labour
announced that it was, in the opinion of the Government, desirable that a
Royal Commission of Inquiry on the subject of Industrial Training and
Technical Education should be appointed, and that it should be vested with
authority to visit Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and, if
necessary, other countries for the purpose of studying the systems of technical
education which have been established by these nations, and for the purpose
also of reporting on the same. On Jlay 3 following, an appropriation of
$25,000.00 was voted bj' Parliament for the expenses of this inquiry. The
personnel of the Commission as appointed by the Governor in Council was
announced, shortly after the close of Parliament, to be as follows, viz: —
James W. Robertson, Esq., C.M.G., LL.D., of Montreal, Que., Chairman.
Hon. John N. Armstrong, Esq., of North Sydney, N.S.
George Bryee, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.C., of Winnipeg, Man.
M. Gaspard DeSerres, of Montreal, Que.
Gilbert M. Murray, Esq., B.A., of Toronto, Ont.
David Forsyth, Esq., M.A., of Berlin, Ont.
James Simpson, Esq., of Toronto, Ont.
Mr. Thomas Bengough, Toronto, was appointed secretary and reporter
to this Commission.
The needs of Canada in respect of industrial training and technical edu-
cation have been brought to the attention of the Government on several
occasions during recent years, in particular by the Canadian Manufacturers
Association, the Dominion Trades and Labour Congress and the National
Trades and Labour Congress. An elaborate memorial was presented some
years ago to His Excellency the Governor General by the Canadian Manu-
facturers Association requesting that the Dominion Government should
undertake such an inquiry as is now proposed, and for several years this body
has carried on an active and enlightening campaign, resulting in the presenta-
tion at the last annual meeting of the Association of a valuable report on the
subject. Similarly, deputations from the Dominion Trades and Labour Con-
gress and from the National Trades and Labour Congress have on several
occasions waited on the Government urging action along the lines proposed,
and the desirability of the appointment of a Commission has frequently formed
the subject of interesting debates at the annual meetings of these respective
organizations, resolutions in favour of "the establishment of a Dominion
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Commission having been passed fi-om year to year. The terms of the latest
resolution passed on tlie subject by the Dominion Trades and Labour Council
are as follows : —
Whereas, the Dominion and Provincial Governments of Canada lack
greatly in schools for technical education and are very much behind Ger-
many and France in this respect, and in addition the United States, which
is our closest and keenest competitor in trade matters; be it resolved,
That the incoming executive be instructed to appeal to the Federal and
Provincial Governments to exact such legislation, and make such appro-
priations as will permit the mechanic and artisan of Canada the privilege
of technical education on lines of electric and civil engineering, chem-
istry, wood carving, modeling, etc. In spite of the fact that the Dominion
Government in the past has said that according to the British North
America Act all education is delegated to the Provincial Governnienis,
this matter is one of national import, and could be taken up under the
Department of Trade and Comemrce and be well within their scope.
The resolutions passed from time to time by the National Trades and
Labour Congress have been to the same effect.
Some further evidence of the public interest in the subject of technical
education is found in the appointment of a special committee by the Toronto
school board to visit the various cities of the United States, of which com-
mitee Mr. James Simpson, Chairman of the board, was a member. The
subject also has been referred to on more than one occasion in the debates
of the Dominion Parliament, formed the theme of a most interesting discussion
in the House of Commons on December 6 last in connection with a
resolution proposed by Mr. Hugh Guthrie (South Wellington) "That in
the opinion of this House it is desirable that a Commission of Inquiry should
be forthwith appointed to investigate the needs of Canada in respect of
technical education, and to report on ways and means by which these needs
may be best met." In pressing this resolution, Mr. Guthrie stated that he
did so at the request of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and of the
Dominion Trades and Labour Congress, and further observed that resolutions
in favour of the present motion had been adopted by between fifty and sixty
Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce in Canada.
In Mr. Guthrie's speech and in the ensuing debate allusion was made to
the attention which had been given to technical education in Great Britain,
in the United States, in Germany, and in olher foreign countries, and to the
very great benefits which have been derived therefrom. The point was also
strongly emphasized that the subject of technical education and industrial
training is one deserving of greater attention than has been bestowed upon
it in Canada up to the present time; and that, indeed, if Canadians are to
obtain their share of the world's trade they must realize that this can only
be done by bring their workmen up to the highest degree of efficiency
and by seeing that Canadian industries are managed by men of technical
training and knowledge. In the discussion of Mr. Guthrie's motion it was
contended that the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry on Technical
Education would not conflict with the jurisdiction of the Provinces, and that
the results of the inquiry could not but prove of very great benefit to all
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parts of the Dominion through the full information which it would place at
the disposal of the various Governments and interests concerned. The Minister
of Finance, the Minister of Labour, and the leader of the Opposition were
among those who tooii part in the discussion and expressed their sympathy
with the object of Mr. Guthrie's motion. The debate on the motion was
adjourned at the request of the Minister of Labour in order that an oppor-
tunity might be afforded to the Government of further considering this
proposal from the point of view of the attitude of the Provinces towards Fed-
eral action in respect of technical education.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH PROVINCIAL PREMIERS.
On December 1.3 a letter was addressed by the Minister of Labour to the
Prime Ministers of the several Provinces of Canada, in which the latter were
asked whether the appointment by the Federal authorities of a Commission
of Inquiry into the needs and present equipment of the Dominion as respects
industrial training and technical education, and into the systems and methods
of technical instruction obtaining in other countries would meet with the
approval of the several Provinces and whether, in particular, exception to such
a course would be taken by any of the Provinces on any ground of jurisdic-
tion. The communications in question which were exchanged between the
Federal and Provincial authorities were in the following terms:
The Minister's Letter of Inquiry.
Ottawa, December 13, 1909.
Dear Sir: —
The Dominion Government is considering the advisability of appoint-
ing a Royal Commission to inquire into the needs and present equipment
of the Dominion as respects Industrial Training and Technical Education,
and into the sj'stems and methods of technical instruction obtaining in
other countries, particularly in Great Britain, France, Germany and the
United States. It is intended that the commission shall be solely for the
purpose of gathering information, the information when obtained to be
published in a suitable report to be at the disposal of the Provinces and
available for general distribution.
. I may say, that the view of the Government is that a Commission
of the kind suggested might render valuable services to the Dominion as a
whole, since it would be in a position to conduct an inquiry on a wider
and more comprehensive scale than might be considered desirable or
possible in the case of the different Provinces, and which if undertaken
by the Provinces individually must lead inevitably to the duplication
and re-duplication of energy and expense. It is recognized, however,
that the work of such a commission to be of national service should have
the hearty endorsation of the Governments of the several Provinces of
the Dominion, and I am, therefore, writing to ask if the appointment by
the Federal authorities of a Commission of the character and scope sug-
gested, would meet with the approval of your Government, and to inquire
in particular, inasmuch as some doubt has been expressed on the point,
whether exception to such a course would be taken on any grounds of
jurisdiction.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) W. L. MACKENZIE KING,
Minister of Labour.
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Reply jrom the Premier oj Nova Scotia.
Halifax, December 23, 1909.
Dear Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
13th inst., on the subject of the advisability of appointing a Royal Com-
mission to inquire into the needs of Technical Education.
I would be delighted to see such a Commission appointed by your
Government; in fact, I have long advocated such a course being taken
and you can accept my assurance that such a course, if adopted, will meet
with the hearty approbation of the Government of Nova Scotia.
Yours trulv,
(Signed) G. H. MURRAY.
Hon. W. L. JIackenzie King.
Minister of Labour, Ottawa.
Replji jrom the Premier oj New Brunswick.
St. John, N.B., December 16, 1909.
Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour, Ottawa.
Dear Sir, — I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 13th
instant, informing me that the Dominion Government is considering the
advisabilit}' of appointing a Royal Commission to inquire into the needs
and present equipment of the Dominion as regards industrial training
and technical education, and into the system of methods of technical
instruction prevailing in other countries, specially in Great Britain,
as a whole, and I have no hesitation in saying that the appointment by
the Federal authorities of a Commission of the character and scope sug-
gested in your letter, would meet with the approval of my Government,
and no exception would be taken to such a course on any ground of
jurisdiction.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) J. D. HAZEN.
Reply jrom the Premier oj Prince Edward Island.
Charlottetown, December 18, 1909.
Dear Sir, — I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of Ihe 13tli
instant, regarding the advisability of the Dominion Government appoint-
ing a Royal Commis.sion to inquire into the needs and present equipment
of the Dominion as respects Industrial Training and Technical Education,
and into the systems and methods of technical education obtaining in
other countries, &c., Avith the request that the matter should be considered
and approved of by the Government of this Province, and whether ex-
ception to such a course would l)e taken on the grounds of jurisdiction.
In reply, I beg to say tliat your proposal meets with the approval of
our Government, and I wish to assure you that no exception will be taken
upon the grounds of jurisdiction. We believe it would be in the interest
of the country at large that such a Commission should be appointed, and
that all possible information be obtained upon a subject of so much
import nm-c.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) P. L. HASZARD,
The Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Premier.
Minister of Labour, Ottawa, Ont.
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Reply from the Premier of Ontario.
Toronto, December 16, 1909.
Dear Sir, — I have your letter of the 13th instant.
I understand tliat the object of the proposed Commission, to inquire
into the needs and present equipment of the Dominion as respects training
and technical education and into the system of methods for technical
instruction obtaining in other countries, will be solely for the purpose
of gathering information. This being so, I see no objection to the
creation of the Commission, and no exception will be taken to it on the
• part of the Province of Ontario.
Yours very truly,
(Sgd.) J. P. WHITNEY.
The Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour, Ottawa.
Ki'ply from the Premier of Quebec.
Quebec, December 30, 1909.
The Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour, Otawa.
Sir, — I have submitted to my colleagues of the Executive Council the
letter you were kind enough to write to me on the 13th instant, asking
me whether the Government of the Province of Quebec would approve
the appointment by the Federal authorities of a Commission to make an
investigation concerning technical education in this country.
We are of the opinion, my colleagues and myself, that anything per-
taining to public education — whether the subject be special teaching or
general teaching — belongs to the Provinces exclusively, and I want to
write you so, in order that there may be no misunderstanding on that
point. As, on the other hand, you give me the a.ssurance that the Federal
authorities, in instituting a Commission of Investigation, would simply
do it with a view to help the Provincial Governments by having collected
information which they would later on put at the disposal of the latter,
we see no objection to the appointment of such a Commission.
Please accept. Sir, the expression of my highest regards,
(Sgd.) LOMER GOUIN,
Prime Minister.
Reply from the Premier of Manitoba.
Winnipeg, December 16, 1909.
Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of yours, under date
of December 13th, regarding the advisability of appointing a Royal Com-
mission to inquire into the Industrial training and technical education of
Canada.
I appreciate the fact that education is a matter under the Constitu-
tion entirely vested in the Provinces and realize that it is a delicate ques-
tion on which to give advice such as you solicit.
The matter is an important one and I think, in view of the rapid
strides along industrial lines that the Canadian people are making, there
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is necessity for more attention being given to technical education than
what has been the practice or custom in the past.
I shall certainly be pleased to see more interest taken in this matter,
and our young men better qualified for the opportunities that are offered
along industrial lines by having a first-class technical education to qualify
them for the responsible and important positions that are awaiting men
of that quality.
I have the honor to be, Sir
Your obedient servant.
(Sgd.) R. P. ROBLIN,
Premier.
Hon. W. L. MacKenzie King,
Minister of Labour, Ottawa.
Reply Jrom the Premier of Saskatchewan.
Regina, December 21, 1909.
Dear Mr. King, — I have duly received your letter of the December
13th on the subject of Technical Education and the proposal now under
consideration by your Government for instituting an inquiry by a Royal
Commission, and which asks whether the proposal meets with the approval
of the Saskatchewan Government, and whether any exception would be
taken by us on the ground of jurisdiction.
I may very readily state that the Saskatchewan Government will
raise no objection against the proposed inquiry by the Dominion Gov-
ernment on any grounds ; on the contrary we believe that the Federal
Government is the proper authority to proceed in the matter in the way
proposed, that it is a subject which can be more efficiently, economically,
and effectively dealt with by the Central Government than by the various
Provincial Governments; and, in addition that, inasmuch as industrial
training and technical instruction intimately affect trade and commerce,
these branches of education ought to be viewed from the National rather
than from the Provincial standpoint.
Believe me.
Very sincerely yours,
(Sgd.) WALTER SCOTT.
Hon. "W. L. MacKenzie King, C.M.G.,
Minister of Labour, Ottawa, Ontario.
Reply jrom the Premier of Alberta.
Edmonton, Alta., Dec. 28, 1909.
Dear Sir, — I am instructed by the Hon. Premier Rutherford to ac-
knowledge receipt of your letter of the 13th, in reference to the advisa-
bility of the Dominion Government appointing a Royal Commission to
inquire into the needs and present Industrial Training and Technical
Education.
I am directed by the Premier to say that this project meets with the
hearty endorsation and approval of his Government.
Yours faithfully,
(Sgd.) M. J. McLEOD.
Clerk Executive Council.
Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour, Ottawa, Ont.
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i _, Reply jrom the Premier of British jColumbia.
Victoria, January 15, 1910.
Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour, Ottawa, Ont.
Dear Sir, — I beg to confirm my telegram to you of January 10, as
follows : —
"Owing to absence of Minister of Education with whom I wished
"to confer, regret being unable to reply sooner to your favour regarding
"Technical Education. He has now returned and an answer will be sent
"you promptly."
Having since then had an opportunity of consulting with the Min-
ister of Education, I beg to state that the appointment of a Commission
by the Dominion to inquire into the subject of Industrial Training and
Technical Instruction meets with the approval of this Government.
It is not the intention of the Government of this Province to take
exception to the course you propose on any grounds of jurisdiction.
I might add that this Government will gladly aiford any facilities in
its power to assist in carrying out the object in view.
Yours very truly,
(Sgd.) RICHARD McBRIDE.
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v.— SPECIAL REPORT ON WHOLESALE PRICES, 1890-1909, INCLUSIVE
—INAUGURATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF A COMPREHEN-
SIVE METHOD OF PRESENTING STATISTICS OF PRICES.
For some time past, and especially since the beginning of the present cen-
turj% one of the most important features of the general economic situation in
Canada has been a rapid and continuous advance in prices and the cost of
living. Reaching in 1907 a level unprecedented in many years previously,
prices receded to some extent in 1908 ; the check, however, proved but tem-
porary, and in the closing months of 1909 the high cost of living had become
the subject of discussion throughout the community affecting as it did the
immediate -well-being of nearly every one, especially those of the wage-earning
and other classes dependent on a fixed income.
In the United States as in Canada public feeling was greatly aroused.
Boycotts against the use of meats and other provisions were undertaken in
several localities, and numerous investigations into the nature and causes of
the increase were conducted both on public and private initiative. "When
the history of 1910 comes to be written," says the Editor of Bradslreet's Jour-
nal, in an article published during March, 1910, "not the least memorable of
its happenings to be chronicled will probably be the great agitation, partaking
of the proportions of a national revolt against the high prices of food."
DEPARTMENTAL RECORD OF PRICE CHANGES.
For some years past the opening article of the Labour Gazette has con-
tained a paragraph devoted to a brief mention of the more important price
changes reported in the preceding month. Prices have been regarded in this
statement in a twofold light, first, as indicating tendencies in the cost of living,
and, secondly, as reflecting current industrial and trade conditions. Both
wholesale and retail price fluctuations have been included in this statement,
the former as a barometer of passing business sentiment- and the latter as
representing changes in the actual cost of living to the consumers.
The unsatisfactoriness of gfeneral statements in such a matter led the
Department some time ago to design a more comprehensive and systematic
manner of treating the subject of prices, and steps to carry out this design
were taken early in 1909. It was decided to deal henceforward with whole-
sale and retail prices separately. As the latter depend largely on local con-
ditions, quotations for over thirty staple commodities entering largely into
the cost of living (including foods, fuel and lighting, to which rentals were
added), are to be obtained monthly from forty-eight important industrial
centres throughout Canada. This, it is thought, will cover adequately the cost
of living aspect.* With regard to wholesale prices a list of 230 articles re-
presenting the most important departments of Canadian production and trade
was compiled, quotations of each article to be obtained from month to month
in a governing or representative wholesale market, the whole to be combined
and analysed in accordance with accredited statistical practice. It may be
added that in carrying on the latter record it was decided to employ the
method of index numbers and to reduce the statistics each month to a series
•For a more rlclaiUHi dpscription of this feature see reference in the chapter of the Jjreaent report devotetl
to the work in connection with the Labour Gaitttt during the past year.
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of indices whereby the movement of prices both as a whole and in the leading
departments of trade might be measured with some degree of accuracy.
SPECIAL INVESTIG.\TION INTO WHOLE.SALE PRICES.
It was shortly after the above arrangements had been deternuned upon
that the general cost of living situation entered upon that acute stage to
which reference has been briefly made above. It will readily be understood
that the inauguration of a periodic review involving the calculation of an in-
dex number requires a careful preliminary investigation in order to establish
a proper basis for the future inquiry. It was, accordingly, with a two-fold
object that the Department began early in 1909 a special investigation, into
the course of wholesale prices in Canada during the past twenty years, namely,
from the beginning of 1890 up to and including the year 1909. The twofold
object was, (1) to afford, as above stated, a proper basis for the monthly index
number, and (2) to place at the disposal of the public at the time when the
general interest in the question was at its height, comprehensive and accurate
information concerning the rise in prices which has occurred during the past
few years, accompanying the same with various material not readily accessible
which might be of value in connection with the study of price fluctuations in
Canada. The investigation proved to be the most elaborate and extended
work of the kind ever carried out by the Department, and it was decided in
view of the general interest in its subject to publish its results in the form of
a special result.
GENERAL PLAN OF THE INVESTIGATION.
The investigation was limited to the past twenty years, owing to the fact
that it was found possible within that period to go back some distance prior
to ihe time at which the recent rise began and thus to obtain a sufficiently
detached point of view.
The commodities were arranged for the purpose of the inquiry in tliirfeen
general groups as follows : —
Group.
Number of Commodities.
Grains and fodder -
Animals and meats
Fish ■
Dairy produce.
Other foods (groceries, fruits, vegetables, etc.)
Textiles:—
(o) Woollens
(6) Cottons
(c) Silks '.
id) Linens
(e) Jutes ■
(f) Miscellaneous
Hides, leather, boots and shoes
Metals and implements
Fuel and lighting
Building material: —
(a) Lumber
(6) Other building materials
(c) Paints, oils and glass.
House furnishings (furniture, crockery and glassware, kitchen furnishings
and table cutlery )
Dru gs and chemicals • ■
Miscellaneous: —
(a) Furs
(b) Liquors and tobaccos
(c) Sundry.-
For each of the 230 commodities in the investigation an effort was .«flade
secure a reliable price quotation in a primary or a representative wholesale
104 DEPARTMENT OF LAIiOUH
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
market for the opening market day of each mouth in each year back lo J 890.
The daily press and weekly trade journals, the printed reports oi exch;iTi;j:.-'s,
board.-' of trades, &e., were the sources chiefly laid under contributijn, the
Toronto and Montreal markets furnishing the great mass of the quotations.
It may be added that the books of manufacturers and wholesalers were, by
courtesy of the owners,, consulted in many instances for supplementary in-
formation and for general purposes of verification.
In analysing and interpreting the results the well-known method of index
numbers was employed. An index number of any article or number of arti-
cles at any date is the percentage which the price of that article or number
of articles at the date in question is of the price of the same article or articles
at some other date or period selected as a standard. Percentages of this kind,
it will be understood, may be combined and compared in a way impossible
with actual prices. In the present investigation the period selected as the
base or standard was the decade 1890-1899.
: A SPECIAL REPORT ISSUED.
These and other details with regard to the investigation were set forth
in the introductory portion of the special report embodying the results of the
investigation, which, as above stated, was prepared in the Department during
the past year, being in the press as the year closed. The remaining part of
this chapter may take the form of a review of the report and of the leading
results therein set forth.
In presenting the statistics, the subject matter of the report was divided
into three parts :
Part I. — In the first part of the report, the records of actual price quota-
tions obtained are given. These represent the complete body of statistical
matter secured in the case of each commodity and form the ground work of
the whole report. Full details are given at the head of each table of the
source of the statistics, exact quantity of the articles quoted, &c. The aver-
age price for each year is also shown.
Part II. — Following the tables of actual prices, a series of tables is given
in which the average annual prices shown in Part I. are expressed in the form
(if index numbers. This enables the price fluctuations of the several coinmodi-
lies from year to year to be compared on a .similar basis and to be combined
so as to show the movement by related groups. An index number is given
for each commodity, for each of the several divisions and siibdivisions indi-
cated in the list of commodities, and for certain other groupings which it is
thought will be of interest.
Part III. — In the third division of the report a series of charts is pub-
lished which will show at a glance the more important features of the price
movement of the past twenty years. These charts are based on Parts I. and
II. and are self-explanatory.
Appendix. — In an appendix to the report various matter of direct in-
terest to the study of prices is presented. The appendix is in three parts:
<1) a description of the technical problem involved in the construction of
the index number. (2) A review of the more celebrated index numl)ers of
Great Britain and foreign countries, with tables and diagrams of the results
which they severally show. (3) A statement as to the causes and effects of
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIX 1ST ER OF LABOUR 105
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price variations, with special reference to existing conditions in Canada, and
the character of the data necessary to determine the same with exactness.
GENERAL RESULT OP THE INVESTIGATION.
The net result of the investigation is perhaps most clearly indicated by the
chart on the opposite page, in which the line indicates the course which the
averaged prices of all commodities included in the investigation followed from
1890 to 1909, inclusive. The level indicated by the number 100 represents the
average price of the commodities during the decade 1890-99.
The aggi-egate index number on which the chart is based is shown in the
table published on page 107, which also contains from year to year the index
numbers for the several groups into which the commodities are divided.
On referring to the table and chart, it will be seen that prices in
Canada followed a do^vnwa^d course from 1890 to 1897. This was succeeded
during the ensuing decade by a more rapid upward movement which culminated
in 1907. The last mentioned year was by a considerable margin the highest point
in the twenty-year period. Prices fell in 1908, but were upward again in 1909.
Comparing the more important points in this progress with the average level
of prices during the decade 1890-1899, it will be seen that in 1890 prices were
somewhat over 10 per cent above the average. In 1897, after three years of panic
depression and pohtical unrest in the United States and Canada, they had fallen
to a point nearly 8 per cent below. Within six years thereafter, however, they
regained this lo.ss. Contiiming to mount with extreme rapidity, in 1907 they
reached a point over 26 per cent above the average of the base decade. The
recession in 1908 amounted to nearly five points. During 1909 this recession was
checked and a gain in the opposite direction registered.*
Comparing the high year 1907 with the low year 1897 the advance amounted
to approximately 37 per cent. Comparing the year 1909 with the low 5'ear 1897
the increase shown is approximately 31.5 per cent.
Referring to the several groups it will be seen that the chief advances oc-
curred in lumber, grains and fodder, animals and meats, furs, hides and leather,
paints, fish and dairy produce. None of the other groups show a decline com-
pared with the base decade, but metals and implements, fuel and light and drugs
and chemicals are but shghtly above the average of 1890-1899. Somewhat larger
advances are shown by textiles, fruits, groceries, house furnishings, other building
materials, and liquors and tobaccos.
In arriving at the above conclusions, the simple average of the prices of all
the commodities covered in the investigation was taken. In other words the
several commodities of the list were regarded as of equal importance- from the
standpoint of the consumer. An experiment in weighing the various commodities
which was also made, showed somewhat wider fluctuations but little material
change from the above.
NUMBER OF ARTICLES SHOWING AN INCREASE OR DECREASE IN PRICE.
An indication, less specific than the above, of the general course of prices
during the period, is obtained by noting the number of articles which show an
increase or decrease in price in the final year, as compared with the period selected
as the standard (1890-1899), and the more important turning points in the hne.
* During the first half of 1909 the downward tendency of 1907 was continued, the gain for the year aa a
whole having been made during the closing months, so that the upward tendency in progress during the autumn
was more pronounced than that indicated by the index number for the year as a whole.
06 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
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Chart Showing the Course of Wholesale Prices in Canada Duiung the Twenty
Years, 1890-1909.
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The follo\\ing table gives a summarized comparison on this basis, of prices
in 1909 with (1) average prices for the base decade; (2) prices during the year
1890; (3) prices during the low year, 1897, and (4) prices during the high year,
1907:
NXJMBER OF ARTICLES OF WHICH PRICES IN 1909 SHOW AN INCREASE OR DECREASE.
Compared with 1890-1899.
Compared with 1890.
Compared with 1897.
Compared with 1907.
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The above shows that comparing average prices in 1909 and 1897, four times
as many advances as declines are indicated. When the comparison is between
1909 prices and those of the base decade, about three times as many advances as
dechnes are shown. As between prices in 1909 and in 1890, half again as many
articles show an advance as those which show a decline. Compared with the high
year 1907, the dechne in the general average was caused by decreases in 109
articles, i.e., less than half of the total number, while 90 articles advanced in price,
some 31 showing Uttle or no change.
COMPARATIVE LEVEL OF PRICES IN 1909.
The general level of prices in the several groups in 1909, expressed in per-
' entages of increase or decrease, as compared (1) with 1890; (2) with the decade
1890-1899, and, (3) with the low year in the respective groups, is shown in the
following table;
Department op Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 9.
PERCENTAGE OF INCREASE SHOWN BY PRICES IN 1909.
Compared with
decade 1890-1899.
Compared with
the low year.
Grains and fodder.
Animals and meats
Dairy produce
Fish
Other foods
Textiles
(a) Woollens
(6) Cottons....
(c) Silks
(d) Flax products
(«) Jutes
(/) Oilcloths...
Hides, leathers and boots and shoes
Metals and implements
Fuel and tightint;
Building material —
(o) Lumber
(b) Paints, oil and glass
(c) Other ijuilding materials ■ ■
House furnishings
Drugs and chemicals
Miscellaneous —
(o) Furs
(b) Liquors and tobacco
(c) Sundry
All
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48.6
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35.4
2.1
3.8
54.6
35.2
5.7
10.4
3.9
127.2
85.9 (1897)
80.3 (1896)
•48.2 (1897)
47.9 (1892)
25.0 (1897)
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34.2 (1902)
43.5 (1898)
6.9 (1901)
22.6 (1895)
25.7 (1898)
17.6 (1899)
45.9 (1890)
14.9 (1897)
11.0 (1898)
70.2 (1898)
1.5 (1897)
20.9 (1898)
13.2 (1896;
11.3 (1K99)
182.2 (189.1)
23.8 (1810)
33.3 (1897)
i 31.4 (1897)
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HIGH AND LOW PRICES.
109
In order to show at a glance the extreme range of actual prices in the case of
each commodity the accompanying table of the highest and lowest prices shown
for each was compiled from the detailed tables of Part I of the report.
Reckoning by yearly averages, the following table shows the years in which
more than ten commodities reached their highest level:
Number ot Commodities.
1909..
1907..
1908..
1890..
1891..
1906..
1900..
1904..
The years showing the largest number of commodities on their lowest levels
are as follows: —
Number of Commodities.
1897
1896
1898
1899,
1894,
1895.
1890.
1892.
OTHER GROUPINGS.
The groupings into which the commodities have been arranged were dictated
largely by Canadian industrial and commercial conditions. Other arrangements
of the commodities may be desirable with specific ends in view, and may easily be
made.
For example, the following tables show the general level of prices in 1909
compared with those of the decade 1890-1899 for the following groups : (1) Crude
farm products; (2) manufactured farm products; (3) imported foods; (4) all
foodstuffs, and (5) products of the mine.
CBCDE FAR.M PRODCCTS.
Wheat, western . . . .
Wheat. Ontario
Oata, western
Oats, Ontario
Barley, western . . . .
Barley. Ontario
133.
150.
160.
145.
Com, No. 3, Ontario 164.1
Peas, Ontario 158.'
Rye Ontario 140.(
Hay.... 135. (
Straw 133.!
Cattle, western ■■ 112.'
Cattle, Ontario 147.;
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Hogs, Ontario 152.2
Sheep 100.0
Fowla 188.3
Turkeys 185.8
Milk 1 27 . 8
Eggs 171.5
Beans 177.9
Honey 147.4
Wool, washed 106.6
Wool, unwashed. 107.5
Apples 150.5
Grapes 104.9
Peaches 105.7
Pears... 102.1
Plums.. 89.4
Potatoes 142.8
Turnips 93.7
All ■ 137.3
MANUFACTURED FARM PRODUCTS.
Flour, straight, roller
Flour, strong bakers
Flour, winter, wheat patents.
Flour, Manitoba, first patents .
Bran ■
Shorts
Oatmeat
Beef, dressed
Veal, dressed
Mutton, dressed
Bacon
Hams
Hogs, dressed
Lard '. •
Tallow
Salt pork
Hides, steers and cows
Calfskins
HorBehides ■ ■ ■
Leather
Linseed oil, raw
Linseed oil, boiled
Butter....
Cheese
Maple sugar.
Apples, evaporated
Flax, fibre
Tow....
Malt
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IMPORTED FOODS.
Chocolate. 110.9
Coffee, Rio.. 51.8
Coffee, Santos 62 . 8
Cream of tartar - • 84 . 7
Currants 137.2
Raisins. 78.8
Bananas. 115.2
Molasses 78.6
Pepper 101.6
Rice 113.3
Sugar, yellow .... 107 . 8
Sugar, granulated .. 95.0
Tapioca 93 . 2
Tea 132.6
All.
MncIiKling foods manufactured from imported raw inntcrial.
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ALL POODS. ^
Grains ami fodder 149.9
Animala and meats 148 . 6
Dairy produce ■ 133.6
Fish ^ 134.0
Otherfoods 107.6
• All 126.7
PRODUCTS OF THE MINE.
Antimony 68.9
Copper 105.8
Lead 99.1
Silver 69.6
Spelter 105.8
Tin 149.7
Coal, Nova Scotia. 124.7
Coal, CroW.H Nest Pass. 113.3
Coal, Penn.;ylvania, antllracite - 113.9
Iron, pig. No, 1, foundry. Nova Scotia 114.3
All 106.5
To the above it may be added that the 110 articles manufactured in Canada,
contained in the list of commodities quoted in the present investigation, show an
average level of 114.1 in 1909, compared with the average for the decade 1890-
1899.
WHAT ANALYSES SHOW.
From the above and other analyses several important central facts as to the
general situation at present are set forth in the report. Of the great producing
industries, agriculture seems to show the largest increase in prices. Crude farm
products (grains, fodder, meat-producing animals, milk, eggs, wool, fruits, vegetables)
have advanced by over 37 per cent, compared with the base decade. The products
made therefrom (meats, bran, flour, hides, leather, &c.) have increased by over 34
per cent. On the other hand, imported foods are lower than they were during the
decade 1890-1899. Fish products are nearly, but not quite, so high as farm pro-
ducts. Products of the mine are only slightly above the level of the decade, and,
if coal be excluded, are below that average. Coming to Canadian manufactured
products, the general level is about 14 per cent above the level of the base decade.
Included in this estimate are various grades of Canadian lumber, which on an aver-
age, are 50 per cent dearer than during the base period. If lumber be excluded,
the manufactured products of Canada show a gain of less than 10 per cent, com-
pared with the decade 1890-1899. These and other facts of a like nature are of the
utmost significance in connection with the interpretation of the results of an in-
vestigation like the pre.sent. The tables of index numbers permit of many varia-
tions upon the theme.
COMPARATIVE PRICES, 1890-1899, IN CANADA, GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED
STATES.
Part II. of the appendix to the report contains, as above stated, a review, in
greater or less detail, of the findings of the best known index numbers in Great
Britain, the United States and other countries* These, are reprinted in order to
render easily available a body of material of exceptional value in connection with
the study of prices, and as throwing light (prices of many articles being deter-
mined by world conditions) on the current situation in Canada. Based on certain
of the tables and diagrams therein reproduced, a comparison of the course of
prices in Canada, as shown by the present investigation, with the current move-
ment in Great Britain and the United States, the two countries with which the
commercial and economic interests of the Dominion are most closely associated,
is given in the diagram on the following page.
112 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
CHART SH0WrNG2THE IRELATIVE COURSE OF PRICES IN CANADA, THE *UNITEU STATES
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
REVIEW OF PRICE CHANGES IN CANADA.
The report also contains a review in extenso of the more important changes
shown during the past twenty years in the price of each of the 230 commodities
embraced in the investigation.
Special mention may also be made of the large body of interesting and sug-
gestive materials presented in the appendix to the report. After a detailed des-
cription of the various technical problems entering into the construction of an
index number, covering such points as the selection of the commodities, considera-
tions involved in the selection of a base period and the combining of the statis-
tics to form an index number, the more celebrated investigations into prices
made in Great Britain and other countries are passed in review and their results
transcribed. In this way a large amount of valuable matter is placed in a readily
accessible form at the disposal of the Canadian public, including the results of
the well knoT\Ti index numbers compiled by the London Economist; Professor
Jevons; Professor Inglis Palgrave; Mr. Augustus Sauerbeck; the Board of Trade,
Great Britain; Soetbeer; the Finance Committee of the United States, 1891;
the United States Board of Trade; Dun; Bradstreet and others. In the analysis
which follows of the causes and effects of price changes, an attempt is made to point
out the more important economic laws, some knowledge of which is essential to
the proper understanding of the complex and many sided problem of prices.
The report may be obtained on application to the Department of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
In the following pages certain of the charts contained in Part III. of the re-
port, relating to the various groups into which the investigation is divided, are
reproduced. Altogether 114 of these plates are contained in the report.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
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CHART SHOWING RELATIN-E PRICES OF GRAINS AND FODDER, 1890-1909.
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CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF WHEAT, BRAN AND SHORTS. AND FLOUR. 1890-1909.
Wheat, including Manitoba Northern No. 1 and Ontario ■RTiite No. 2; Flour, including Straight Rollers, Strong
Bakers, Winter Wheat Patents and Manitoba First Patents; Bran and Shorts.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
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Commo ities included: (1) Cattle, Western; Cattle, Ontario; Beef, Toronto; and Veal, Toronto; (2) Hogs,
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF FISH, 1890-1909.
Commodities included: Codfish, dry; Haddock, dry; Halibut, fresh; Herring, salted; Lobsters, canned
Mackerel, salted; Salmon, B.C. canned; Salmon Trout, fresh; Whitefish, fresh.
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Commodities included: Butter, Creamery; Butter, Dairy; Cheese, Western Coloured; Milk (f.o.b. Montreal);
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF OTHER FOODS = GROCERIES, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,
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Commoditica included:~(l) Groceries: Beans, Biscuits, Chocolate, Coffee. Cream of Tartar, Flour, Honey,
Maple Sugar, Molasses, Oatmeal, Pepper, Rice, Salt, Soda. Sugar, Tapioca, Tea and Vinegar; (2) Fresh Fruits-
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF TEXTILES, BY GROUPS, 1890-1909.
ommodities included: Wool and Woollens: Wool, Ontario, washed and unwashed; Canadian "Worsted Yarn;
Knitted Underwear: Beaver Cloth; Cotton and Cottons: Raw Cotton Upland Middling; Grey Cottons;
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF HIDES. TALLOW, LEATHERS, AND BOOTS AND SHOES.
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Commodities included: Hides and Tallow: Hides, No. 1 Steers and Cows: Calfskin.s, green. No. 1: Horsehides; ■
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF METALS AND IMPLEMENTS, 1890-1909.
Commodities included: Metals, Antimony, Braas, Copper, Pig Iron, Summerlee; Pig Iron, N.S.; Iron, Common
Bar; Iron, Black Sheets; Iron, Galvanized Sheets; Iron, Tinplates; Iron, Boilerplates; Lead; Silver;
Solder; Spelter; Steel Billets; Tin; and /inz Sheets. Implements: Axes; Anvils; Grindstones;
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CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF IRON AND STEEL, 1890-1909.
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all gTades;^Pine, Georgian Bay, No. 1 cuts; Pine Laths; Hemlock; N.B. Spruce; N.B. Shingles; Birch;
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CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF PAINTS, OIL AND GLASS, 1890-1909.
Commodities included: Benzine, Canadian; Glue, Domestic broken sheet; Linseed Oil, raw and boiled; Paris
Green, English and Canadian; Prepared Paints. 1st quality, pure; Putty; Rosin, white; Shellac, pure orange;
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CHART SHOWING RELATIVE PRICES OF DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, 1890-1909.
Commodities included: Alcohol; Wood Alcohol; Alum; Bleaching Powder; Borax; Brimstone; Carbolic Acid;
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REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIMSTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
VI.— SPECIAL INQUIRIES.— (1) INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN COAL
FIELDS OF NOVA SCOTIA. (2) STRIKE OF FREIGHT HANDLERS
AT FORT WILLIAM. (3) RATES OF WAGES PAID WORKMEN ON
A SECTION OF THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY UNDER
CONSTRUCTION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. (4) A DISPUTE AMONG
THE FISHING POPULATION OF THE PENINSULA OF GASPE.
Apart from the Cost of Living inquiry, which is treated in a separate chapter
in this volume, there were four investigations conducted by the Department during
the year, of more than ordinary importance, and demanding special mention.
They were respectively, as follows: —
L An inquiry into industrial conditions in the coal fields of Nova Scotia, con-
ducted by the Deputy Minister.
2. An inquiry into the circumstances attending the strike of freight handlers
at Fort William, in August, conducted by the Deputy Minister.
3. An inquiry into the rates of wages paid to workmen on a section of the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway under construction in British Columbia, conducted
by Mr. J. D. McNiven, one of the Fair Wages officers of the Department.
4. An inquiry into a dispute among the fishing population of the peninsula of
Gasp^, conducted by Mr. V. Du Breuil, one of the Fair Wages officers of the Depart-
ment.
Abstracts of the several reports presented to the Minster in these matters
are printed in the following pages.
1. — Report of the Deputy Minister of Labour on Industrial Conditions in the
Coal Fields of Nova Scotia.
On August 30, 1909, Mr. F. A. Acland, the Deputy Minister of Labour, left
Ottawa, under the Minister's direction, for the purpose of conducting an inquiry
into the conditions of the coal mining industry of the Province of Nova Scotia, with
special reference to the differences between the operators of the different collieries
and their employees. Mr. Acland returned on September 19, having in the mean-
time, as his report sets out, visited every important centre of the coal mining in-
dustry in Nova Scotia, and having discus.sed the situation generally with the
managers of all the leading collieries, with the leading representatives of the work-
men affected and with prominent citizens in the cities and towns most closely
interested. The report of the Deputy Minister, which constituted a review of
current conditions in this important industrial field, was prepared under date of
September 25, and was presented by the Minister to Parliament in the closing week
of November.
132 DEPARTMEXr OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The report opens ■^•ith a brief statistical survey of the coal mining industrj' of
Nova Scotia. The follomng table from the report shows the producing coal mines
of the Province,and the production and number of workmen employed at each mine,
for the year ended September, 190S.
No. of
Company. County. Production. Employees.
Dominion Coal Company Cape Breton 3,816,958 5,486
Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company " 662 , 350 1 , 792
Cumberland Railway & Coal Company Cumberland 416,132 1,726
Acadia Coal Company Pictou 413 ,782 1 ,090
Intercolonial Coal Company " 315,590 937
Maritime Coal Railway & Power Company,
Chignecto Cumberland 15,839 165
Maritime Coal Railway & Power Company,
Joggins " 51,130^ 149
Inverness Railway & Coal Company Inverness 283, 704^ 568
Port Hood Coal Company " ... 99,700 216
Other Companies Various 226,096 804
Total 6,301 ,282 12,933
Of the total revenue of the provincial Government, in the year ended Septem-
ber 30, 1908, of $1,783,647, the amount received from the coal royalty was .S616,-
933, or considerably over one-third. The coal supplies of Canada being found only
at points in the extreme east and west respectively, the United Statees product
finds a safe market in the middle provinces of Canada, while it is able to compete
also with the Nova Scotia product, as the latter reaches the limit of its Canadian
market. The Nova Scotia operator finds, however, some compensation in New
England for the loss of his domestic market.
During the year ended September 30, 1908, the coal of Nova Scotia was
marketed as follows: —
TONS.
In Nova Scotia 1,950,631|
" New Brunswick 510,331^
"Quebec 2,047,638i .
" United States 499, 634^
Elsewhere 477,3531
Total, 5, 485, 588 J
It will be seen that Quebec, or the competitive portion of the domestic coal
market, consumes about one-third of the Nova Scotia product, while the Nova
Scotia coal exported to the United States is less than 10 per cent of the product,
and, for the year named, was less than half a millon tons. The United States
product, on the other hand, was marketed in Canada during the year ended June
30, 1909, to the extent of 11,711,961 tons, of which 6,710,933 tons represented
bituminous coal, and 1,139,233 tons bituminous slack or dust, the remainder
being anthracite and coke. The Canadian duty on bituminous coal is 63 cents per
ton, and on bituminous dust or slack and on charcoal, 14 cents per ton.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIXISTER OF LABOUR 133
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
There is no duty imposed by Canada on anthracite or coke. The United
States duty on coal for many years prior to 1894 was 75 cents a ton
under which the export from Nova Scotia, after fluctuating violently between
254,750 tons in 1873, and one-half, one-third and one-fourth that figure in the few
succeeding years, was almost wiped out in 1892 and 1893, when the amount sent to
the United States was, respectively, 13, 833 tons and 16,099 tons. In 1894 the duty
was made 40 cents, and so remained for three years, during which there was a marked
increase in export. In 1897 the United States tariff imposed a duty of 67 cents on
coal, and this remained unchanged until 1909, when a reduction was made to 45 cents.
In 1908, the coal production of the Province of Alberta was 1,845,904 short
tons, an increase of 153 per cent over 1904, of British Columbia, 2,362,000 tons, an
increase of 26.8 per cent; and of Nova Scotia, 6,540,000 tons, an increase of 16.8
per cent.
FRICTION BETWEEN RIV.\L L.\BOUR ORGANIZATIONS.
It was understood when the Deputy Minister's inquirj^ was instituted that the
then-existing difficulties in the labour situation in the coal mines of Nova Scotia
arose mainly from the struggle between two rival labour organizations over the
enrolment of the employees and the question of recognition by the employing
companies. The organizations referred to were the Provincial Workmen's Assoc-
iation, an incorporated body, and the United Mine Workers of America, an unin-
corporated body having its membership chiefly in the United States, where also
are situated its headquarters.
The Provincial Workmen's Association of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
was organized in the year 1878, and from that date until the beginning of the pre-
sent dissension was practically the only trade union loiown among the miners of the
Province. It is controlled by a grand council and its chief ofEce is the Grand
Secretaryship, which has been held for the last eleven years by Mr. John Moffatt
of Dominion, C.B. The operating companies, in most cases, give formal recog-
nition to the different unions of the Provincial Workmen's Association, and accept
a committee representing the union as entitled to speak on behalf of the employees,
and frequently to make agreement with such bodies. In addition, several of the
emplojing companies have made it a practice to collect the dues of the Provincial
Workmen's Association by deduction, on wiitten authorization, from the wages of
the employees. The effect of this system is to make the employer a party to build-
ing up the union, to prevent delinquencies among the employees and generally to
keep the organization compact. Coal mining companies were specially empowered
under the Nova Scotia law to make these collections, though not all companies
have assumed the responsibility.
The United Mine Workers of America is an unincorporated body comprising
the majority, probably, of the workers in the bituminous and anthracite mines of
the United States. By many of the bituminous operators in the United States this
organization has received a recognition similar to that granted the Provincial
Workmen's Association by the Canadian operators; in the case of the anthracite
operators, however, such recognition has been definitely refused. With a member-
ship of between three and four hundred thousand, the order is governed by an
134 DKPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
executive board, termed "international," whose business is conducted from
Indianapolis, Ind. The various local unions are grouped into districts, each of
which is entitled to a representative on the executive. The president of the United
Mine Workers of America, at the time of the Nova Scotia strikes, was Mr. T. L.
Lewis, of Bridgeport, Ohio.
Within a year or two before the time of the Deputy Minister's inquiry the
United Mine Workers of America began to organize local unions in Nova Scotia,
the membership of which was necessarily taken largely from the Provincial Work-
men's Association, and it was from this movement that there developed the friction
existing at the time of this inquiry among those concerned in the industry.
At the time of the present inquiry, the United Mine Workers' organization
claimed ten local unions in the Glace Bay district of Cape Breton, for the thirteen
mines controlled by the Dominion Coal Company, besides one at Morien, two at
Sydney Mines, one at Port Hood, all in Cape Breton; one at Westville, Pictou
County; one at Springhill, one at Chignecto and one at Joggins, all in Cumberland
County. These local unions were of varying size, and may occasionally have had
no more than a nominal existence.
SITU.\TION OBTAINING .\T TIME OF INQUIRY.
The Deputy Minister, at this point in his report, set forth concisely the situa-
tion at the various coal mining properties in Nova Scotia, with reference to the
footing of the two workmen's organizations above referred to, and the relations of
the same ■with the operators. The report shows that there were three coal mining
strikes in progress at this time, namely at Glace Bay, Inverness and Springhill, all
of them arising out of the struggle between the rival unions. The strikes at Glace
Bay and Springhill took place after the disputes to which they had reference had
been investigated by Boards of Conciliation and Investigation, under the Indus-
trial Disputes Investigation Act. The strike at Inverness took place without any
reference to a Board under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and would
appear, therefore, to have been directly opposed to the spirit and terms of this Act.
At Glace Bay, at the time of this inquiry, the strike appeared to be practically
broken, though the production was still below normal, and many employees were
receiving relief. At Inverness, where the proportions were smaller, the strike was
.at the time of this inquiry, yet more definitely broken, although there was still a
considerable number of men on the United Mine Workers of America relief lists.
In both Glace Bay and Inverness, military protection had been invoked, and was
still considered necessary at the time of this inquiry. At Springhill, no attempt
had been made up to the time of this inquiry to work the mine, and operations were
apparently at a standstill for an indefinite period, with a promise of the worst results
to the industry and community concerned.
The first activity of the United Mine Workers of America in Nova Scotia
dated back to 1906, when a representative of that Association, Mr. Peter Patterson,
obtained permission to address the Council of the Provincial Workmen's Associa-
tion, at Halifax, on the benefits of affiliation with that order. After his address,
sympathizers with the other Association began gradually to appear in the lodges
of the Provincial Workmen's Association, and in May, 1908, at a meeting of the
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MLMSTER OF LABOUR 135
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Grand Council of the Provincial Workmen's Association, at Halifax, a vote was
ordered to be taken on the question of affiliation or amalgamation with the United
Mine Workers of America. By about 2,800 to 2,400, the referendum vote was in
favour of amalgamation, but at the following annual meeting of the Grand Council
the action taken at the May meeting was decided illegal, "the delegates having
received no instructions from their lodges to bring about the referendum vote."
The movement towards the union appears to have been independent of any
agitation from the United States, save in so far as this may be supposed to have been
rendered by Mr. Patterson, an international officer, but a British subject, and a
Canadian by long residence. Springhill appears to have been one of the first places
definitely to organize a United Mine Workers of America lodge, and took the step
in December, 190S, other places rapitlly following its example.
THE STRIKE AT GLACE BAY.
The rupture between the Dominion Coal Company and a number of its em-
ployees was the most important of all the developments from the struggle between
the unions, because of the number of men directly concerned and the large indus-
trial interests involved; also it was- generally conceded that the result elsewhere
in Nova Scotia, with the possible exception of Springhill, would depend upon the
outcome at Glace Bay.
In March, 1908, an agreement between the Dominion Coal Company and its
employees was effected through the efforts of a Board established under the In-
dustrial Disputes Investigation Act, which was effective until December, 1909. In
the spring of 1909, however, on the application of certain of the employees, a new
Board of Conciliation and Investigation was established to investigate various
grievances alleging discrimination against them as members of the United Mine
Workers of America, of which body they had become members, also alleging an
unwillingness on the part of the Company to receive the committee of the United
Mine Workers of America, or otherwise to recognize it.
The Board to which the dispute was referred was composed of Judge Wallace,
of Halifax, chairman; jMr. G. S. Campbell, a leading citizen of Halifax; and Mr.
D. McDougall, President of the District Union of the United Mine Workers of America.
The Board found that there had been no improper discrimination, and defended
the Company in giving preference in the matter of employment, under certain cir-
cumstances, to members of the Provincial Workmen's Association, the Company
having definitely refused to recognize the United Mine Workers of America. On
the general question of recognition the Board found against the men on the ground
that safety to the mutual interests of the Company and its employees lay in refus-
ing recognition to an organization controlled by foreign officials, sitting at Indian-
apolis. The report was signed by Judge Wallace and Mr. Campbell.
A minority report was submitted by Mr. McDougall, member of the Board
nominated by the men, in which Mr. McDougall took the ground that there had
been violent discrimination shown against members of the United Mine Workers of
America.
The danger of an impending strike was freely discussed in the press during the
next few weeks. About the end of May, Mr. T. L. Lewis, President of the United
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Mine Workers of America, visited the mining districts of Nova Scotia. On Tuesday,
July 6, a strike was called in the mines of the Dominion Coal Company. The num-
ber of men actually engaged at the mines immediately prior to the strike was 5,280,
and the production on the Saturday preceding the strike was returned by the Com-
pany at 11,085 tons, and on the following .Alonday, 9,051 tons. On Tuesday, the
day of the strike, the output fell to 5,609 tons, and was still further reduced in the
days immediately succeeding, the production for Wednesday, July 7, being down
to 3,671 tons, and for Thursday, July 8, 3,014 tons. This was the lowest point
reached. The members of the Provincial Workmen's Association remained at work
and their numbers were steadily increased by accessions from the ranks of the strik-
ers and by labour brought by the Company from other points. On Wednesday,
July 7, the result of disturbances at coUieries Nos. 2 and 3, an appeal was made by
the Company for military protection, and a formal order granted by Judge Finlay-
•son resulted in 500 men of the Royal Canadian Artillery and Royal Canadian Regi-
ment under command of General Drury, being sent to Glace Bay, on the following
day.
ATTITUDE OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.
As defining the attitude of the Department of Labour with regard to the strike,,
the following official statement was made public on July 13, by direction of the
Minister of Labour: —
"The dispute at Glace Bay between certain of the employees of the Dominion
Coal Companj-, members of a local union of the United Mine Workers of America,
and the said Company, has already been the subject of Government intervention
by reference under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and the report of the
Board appointed has been given to the public in accordance with the provisions of
the Act. Were parties to industiial disputes encouraged to look indefinitely to
Government intervention, or given reason to believe that the findings of boards
appointed expressly for the purpose of inquiring into existing troubles would be
subject to further revision by the Minister or other officer of the Department of
Labour, it would seriously prejudice the effectiveness of the M'ork of the boards
appointed under the Act, and the value of their findings, and might only serve,
having regard to industrial disputes generally, to prolong rather than mininuze the
period of industrial strife."
Numerous arrests were made from day to day by special constables of the Com-
pany, many of whom had been sworn in. The charges were chiefly of minor dis-
orders and loitering, which last was illegal under a city by-law. The strikers
claimed to be in this way prevented unfairly from doing picket duty. On July 27,
an attempt was apparently made to dynamite the residence of Mr. Robert Simpson,
manager of the Resen'e Colliery. The verandah and all the windows of Mr.
Simpson's hou.se were badly shattered. On the following day there was a somewhat
similar occurrence at a house at Lingan Lake, occupied by a coal cutter who was
coming to work. No person was injured in cither case.
The Deputy Minister having made a careful inquiry into the conditions pre-
vailing in the district at the time of his arrival, September 1, and having met the
representatives of both parties to the dispute, found that although the length of the
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strike was, at that time, wholly conjectural, the output of coal, if it continued to
increase as it was increasing at the time of his visit, would, by the end of October,
reach a point of production substantially equal to that usually attained during the
winter months.
THE STRIKE AT INVERNESS.
The strike at Inverness commenced on July 9, and differed from the other two
inasmuch as the dispute had not been referred to a Board of Conciliation and In-
vestigation. The daily output, which was about 1,000 tons, dropped to 399 tons
on July 10, after which date it increased rapidly. The immediate cause of
the strike was the collection of dues from the miners who had joined the United
Mine Workers of America. A disturbance on July 10 caused the Company's
officials to ask for mihtary protection, and one hundred men of the Royal Canadian
Regiment were sent under command of Lieut.-Col. Weatherbee. The Department
of Labour drew the attention of the United Mine Workers of America officials to the
situation at Inverness, making special inquiry as to whether the strikers were re-
ceiving relief from the organization. A letter was received in reply setting forth
the alleged circumstances of the strike, but making no mention of the question of
relief.
The Deputy Minister pointed out, however, that a representative of the
United Mine Workers of America, at Inverness, had frankly informed him that he
was distributing relief to the strikers, having 265 names on his list.
THE STRIKE AT SPRINGHILL.
As in the case of the strike at Glace Bay, this dispute had been referred to a
Board, the members being Mr. Justice Longley, of Halifax, chairman; Mr. Chas.
Archibald, Halifax; and Mr. E. B. Paul, M.P.P. The employing Company was
the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company. Several grievances were referred to
the Board, and the demand for recognition of the United Mine Workers of America
was included. The Board, after a careful review of the arguments for and against
recognition, decided that the Department of Labour was not empowered to force
any Company operating an industrial enterprise to give recognition to any labour
organization formed among its employees. The Board of Investigation left it to the
judgment and discretion of the Company as to how far it would officially recognize
an organization which had its central authority outside the Province, and which
was largely under the control of interests that might be in keen competition with
the interests of the Company.
Mr. Paul, one of the members of the Board, expressed the opinion that the
recognition of the Local Union of the United Mine Workers of America would tend
to lessen friction and to promote a better understanding between the parties. The
Board advised both parties to adopt conciliatory measures in order to avoid the
cessation of operations which would result in far-reaching and disastrous consequen-
ces. A feature of the investigation was the presentation of a statement by the
Company claiming to show that the mine was being operated at a loss.
The men refused to accept the findings of the Board, and the strike took effect
on August 10. Every man was called out, no hands being left to protect the mines.
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This last was the occasion of a letter from the Halifax Herald to Mr. T. L. Lewis,
President of the United Mine Workers of America, asking him if such action were
in accordance with the pohcy of his organization; Mr. Lewis' reply was in the
negative. The pumpmen, however, remained out, and officials of the Company
performed the work necessary for the protection of the mines.
On September 1, the Company notified the miners that it would not resume
operations, except at a reduction of 15 per cent on the rates paid at the commence-
ment of the strike.
CONSENSUS OF OPINION AS TO THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT.
The report closed with the following sentences, relative to the consensus of
opinion in Nova Scotia as to the operation of the Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act:—
' ' I heard much discussion of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act while
in the coal mining districts of Nova Scotia. While many had views as to amend-
ments that would, in their opinion, strengthen the Act, there was a general consen-
sus of approval of the principle of the measure. Before the present series of recog-
nition strikes set in, every coal mine in Nova Scotia save one was working under
terms recommended by a Conciliation Board, or arranged while a Conciliation Board
was being established for the purpose of investigation. The solitary exception was
the Inverness mine, where the agreement had existed from 1906, before the enact-
ment of the Act, but where the manager shortly before the present stiike started
had written the Department for forms tooking to the establishment of a Board.
Since the enactment of the measure, and prior to the present trouble, there has been
but one strike of importance in the coal mining industry in Nova Scotia, that,
namely, of the miners of Springhill, in 1907, and this, occurring after an inquiry
before a Board, was strictly legal. The only important strike, occurring in open
infringement of the Act is that now in progress at Inverness, where, however, the
trouble was largely the work of newly-arrived Belgians. There was a strike of a
few days' duration at Springhill, a week or two after the enactment of the Act in
1907, but the men returned to their work immediately on learning that the new Act
applied to their case.
' ' Looking at the number of agreements affected in the coal mining industry
under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, it is impossible not to feel that the
men have in this Act a means of appealing to public opinion against unfair treat-
ment, which is likely to prove far more effective than a strike. Three-fourths of
the miners in Nova Scotia, even in face of the existing strikes and friction, are con-
tentedly working under agreements thus effected."
SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS.
It will be appropriate here to add a brief statement of the events subsequent to
the visit of the Deputy Minister to Nova Scotia, the course of which, it will be seen,
followed closely on that indicated as probable in the report. At Glace Bay the
output gradually increased until by the close of navigation, about mid-November,
it exceeded 9,000 tons daily, and was l)ut slightly below the normal figure; after
the close of navigation, the Company proceeded with its full working .strength,
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instead of reducing the winter output, as in the preceding years, and thenceforwaril
it was claimed by the Company, conditions ceased to be affected, the production for
the winter season averaging higher than during the preceding year. Usually, bank-
ing is commenced about mid-February, and a full working force is employed from
that date; the comparison, therefore, for the period subsequent to that date shows
slightly in favour of the preceding year. The figures given the Department by the
Company, for the first three months of the years 1909 and 1910, respectively, are as
follows: —
1909. 1910.
January 200,176 212,073
February 209,656 204,521
March 253,622 243,763
Total, 663,454 660,357
The military stationed in the district was finally withdrawn on March 3.
The agreement between the Dominion Coal Company and its employees,
framed by a Board of Conciliation and Investigation presided over by Professor
Adam Shortt, in March, 190S, and under which the members of the Provincial
Workmen's Association continued to work after the strike was proclaimed, was dated
to expire December 31, 1909. Some time before this date was reached, negotiations
for a further agreement were started, and early in November the agreement, slightly
modified, was extended until December 31, 1911; the only change of rates being a
5 per cent increase in the case of labourers formerly receiving $1.52 as their maxi-
mum rate, which was thereby increased to $1.60.
It may be added that the strike continued until shortly after the close of the
fiscal year, when, on April 28, the men abandoned the claim for recognition, and
decided to work on the basis of the modified agreement and on the understanding
that employment would be given them by the Company as fast as vacancies occurred,
the Company also understanding that there should be no discrimination against
those who had ceased work. It is estimated that about 1,300 former employees of
the Company were still on strike at the time the decision to resume work was taken.
In the case of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company the mines remained
closed, save for the manning of pumps and boilers for repair work, from the date of
the strike until during the month of March last, when the Company began raising
coal at one colliery. The general manager, writing the Department under date of
March 19, stated "that some 338 men have been engaged of all classes, including
seventy-three certified miners, and raising of coal has been resumed. The average
output for the current month has been from 175 to 200 tons a day. It is the inten-
tion of the Company to continue recruiting miners, and improve output to the
extent of increasing shipments to normal capacity, as early as possible."
Mr. William Watkins, Secretary of the local union of United Mine Workers of
America, at Springhill, writing the Department, under date of April 3, stated that
1,400 to 1,500 men remained on strike, and that conditions generally were most
orderly.
In the case of the Inverness strike conditions had practically ceased to be
affected a few weeks after the declaration of strike, but production continued at a
somewhat lower level than during the preceding year. The regular soldiers
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left Inverness on October 1, but a company of the Ninety-fourth was placed under
order to aid the civil power, if required, and a few score of strikers, chiefly Belgians,
remained until winter, when they left the vicinity. In connection with this dispute
it should be stated that an action was brought in October against one David Neilson,
an agent of the United iline Workers of America, for supporting men on strike,
contrary to the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Investi^tion Act, 1907.
Several charges were brought, and Mr. F. A. McEachen, the Stipendiary Magistrate,
found the defendant guilty in the first case and imposed a fine of $500 and costs or
three months' imprisonment. The case was appealed to the Court of Appeal and
judgment on appeal had not been given at the date of writing.
2. — Inquiry into Strike of Canadian Pacific Railway Freight Handlers at Fort
William, Ont.
On August 12, the Minister of Labour learning through the press of the occur-
rence of a strike on the part of freight handlers to the number of 700 employed
by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Fort William, Ont., opened com-
munication through Mayor Peltier of Fort William with the parties concerned,
as a result of which Mr. F. A. Acland, Deputy Minister of Labour, was commis-
sioned on August 15 to proceed to Fort WilUam to lend the good offices of the
Department towards effecting, if possible, an adjustment of the dispute. The
differences in question related to the demands of the freight handlers for increased
rates of pay and for the discontinuance of a bonus system by which one cent
per hour of their wages was held by the Company until the completion of
the season's work.
On August 18, the Deputy Minister informed the Minister of Labour from
Fort William that formal application had been made by the employees for the
establishment of a Board under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. In
this message the Deputy Minister also announced that the strikers had all re-
turned to work and that troops which had been called out for the preservation of
order had been withdrawn. A board was established immediately and on August
24, six days after the application had been transmitted to the Department, a
unanimous report was presented and the dispute adjusted accordingly.
The dispute was of more than ordinary importance because during the short-
lived strike an encounter occurred between the strikers, mostly foreigners not
long in Canada, and a number of special constables, in which several men on both
sides were seriously wounded. The Minister of Labour, on August 12, addressed
the following telegram to Mayor Peltier: —
"Press despatches mention you have been endeavouring to arrange
settlement of longshoremen's strike. Possibly, parties are not aware that
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act is applicable to this dispute and that
persons violating provisions of Act are. liable to prescribed penalties. Two
years ago longshoremen at ]\Iontreal and Halifax, having struck without
knowledge of provisions of Act, returned to work, and had difficulties referred
under its provisions once the same were brought to their attention. Possibly
strikers at Fort William will see the wisdom of adopting a similar course.
I will be pleased to establish a Board of Conciliation and Investigation forth-
with if so rcfjuested. Copies of Act mailed yesterday to W. Houston, Secretary
Longshoremen's Union.
(Sgd.) W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour."
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
A message was received in reply from Mayor' Peltier, stating that the
situation was well in hand and that a proposition had been made for
the settlement of the dispute. On August 15, a telegram was received by
the Minister from Mr. Frederick Urry, correspondent of the Labour Gazette,
at Port Arthur and secretary of the Trades and Labour Council of that place,
as follows: "Strike Committee of freight handlers, Fort William request
your presence here to hear their grievances and effect settlement. AAire
reply."
The Minister replied as follows: —
'Your telegram of last night received this morning. The Deputy
Minister, Mr. F. A. Acland, will leave for Fort William immediately to lend
the good offices of the Department towards effecting a settlement of the
Fort William dispute. ^Ir. Acland was instrumental in effecting, under
similar circumstances, a settlement of a longshoremen's dispute at Montreal
two years ago, and I bespeak for him the conhdence of each of the parties."
In his report to the Minister on this mission the Deputy Minister set down
briefly the leading features of the dispute leading up to the intervention of the
Department. There were, he said, about 700 men receiving employment as
freight hantUers at the freight sheds of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at
Fort William. The employees were of numerous nationalities and the rate of
wages up to the time of the dispute was 17^- cents per hour for day work and 20
cents per hour for night work, with an additional cent for each hour worked, given
as a bonus at the end of the season to the men who remained on duty until that
time. The object of this bonus was to induce the men to hold themselves avail-
able for duty until the close of the season of navigation, this system being identical
with that in force between the shipping companies and the longshoremen of the
port of Montreal. During the season the work had proceeded quietly enough at
the rate of payment mentioned above until August 7, when the Company was sur-
prised by the men suddenly and without any formal warning ceasing work. The
result of the longshoremen's refusal to work was to derange the shipping facilities
of Fort William and to threaten a tie-up of steamers that might be in port or might
come to port.
The report points out that the industry being one involving transportation
faciUties brought the dispute within the province of the Industrial Disputes In-
vestigation Act and the men were not complying with the terms of the Act in
ceasing work before the differences between them and their employers had been
referred to a Board of Concihation and Investigation. The men employed were,
however, as has already been pointed out, foreigners for the most part, and with
perhaps few exceptions were without more than the rudiments of education.
There seemed good ground for accepting the claim subsequently advanced by the
leaders of the men that they had been unaware of the existence of the Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act and that had they known the requirements of this
law they would not have ceased work without their grievances being first investi-
gated. During the two or three days following the strike, more or less informal
conferences took place between the representatives of the men and the officials of
the Company, Mr. J. T. Arundel, General Superintendent of the Central Division
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of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Assistant General Manager Bury,
and the local representative, Superintendent J. Graham. The demands of the
men were briefly: (1) An increase of pay; (2) Abohtion of the bonus system;
(3) Better treatment from the foremen. The strikers picketed the approach
to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's sheds from day to day, and one man
was arrested for carrying a revolver. The differences, according to the Deputy
Minister's report, were in a fair way towards settlement when excitement was
aroused by the arrival of thirty special constables from Winnipeg, brought down
by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to protect their property. On the
morning of August 10 (Tuesday), an altercation arose between the strikers and
the constables which developed quickly into the active use of firearms, with
the result that many persons were severely wounded. Mayor Peltier, when the
news of this shooting reached him, was in the act of negotiating a settlement with
the officials of the Company enabling the men to return to work immediately on
improved conditions, with a reference to the Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act in the event of further grievances developing. The Mayor proceeded to the
scene of the outbreak and read the Riot Act, issuing at the same time the call for
the Militia. One hundred and fifty men of the ninty-sixth regiment, located in
Fort William and Port Arthur, were soon on duty and order was restored. Col.
Steele, D.O.C., who was in Port Arthur at the time of the affray, assumed com-
mand a'^d also lirought down from Winnipeg seventy-five members of the Cana-
dian Mounted Rifles. The presence of the Militia had a quieting effect and no
further untoward incident occurred. The strike continued, and on Friday morning
over one hundred men were brought in by the Company from the east and work
was partially resumed at the freight sheds. Picketing was continued by the
strikers V)ut without disorder. The bearing of the Militia was reported on all hands
to have been excellent. Mayor Peltier resumed negotiations looking to a settle-
ment. The Mayor on Saturday regarded normal conditions as restored and
requested the withdrawal of mihtary protection. The Militia and Regulars were
accordingly withdrawn on Saturday night, and on the Monday following the men
resumed work on the understanding that the dispute would be referred for adjust-
ment under the terms of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act.
The Deputy Minister's report shows that when he arrived in the city on
August 17, there was no outward evidence of the disturbance, but a tense and
excitable feeling was evident, indicating the necessity for prompt action in bring-
ing the whole matter before a Board for full inquiry and final adjustment. The
Deputy Minister met a committee representing the strikers at the City Hall on
August 18, there being also present Mayor Peltier and Mr. F. Urry. An applica-
tion for a Board of Conciliation and Investigation was formally drawn up and
handed to the Deputy Minister, in which Mr. Urry was recommended by the men
for appointment as a member of the Board. Later the Deputy Minister
received from the Company the recommendation of Mr. W. J. Christie, of Winnipeg,
and Messrs. Christie and Urry were accordingly appointed. Subsequently Mr.
Urry tendered his resignation as a member of the Board and, at a further meeting
of committee of the strikers Alderman W. T. Rankin was recommended as a sub-
stitute and was immediately appointed. The same meeting passed a resolution
in the following terms:
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
"We, the committee representing the freight shed men employed by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Fort WiUiam, appreciate the promptness
with which the Department of Labour dealt with our request for the appointment
of a board to deal with our grievances, and had we known of the existence of the
Lemieux Act, we would not have ceased work until we had invoked the good
offices of the Minister of Labour."
On August 20, Messrs. Christie and Rankin jointly recommended Mr. S. C.
Young, a leading citizen of Fort William, for Chairman, and Mr. Young was ac-
cordingly appointed. The members of the Board on Saturday morning, August
21, began the official inquiry into the dispute. The proceedings lasted through-
out Saturday and much evidence was taken, many men being present throughout
the day. In the evening the Board met in private, but finding it impossible to
make a unanimous report, decided to take further evidence on Monday, August 23.
The meeting on this latter date lasted until Tuesday morning when the finding
of the Board was drawn up, being handed to the Chairman on Tuesday evening.
This finding was understood to be satisfactory to both parties concerned. The
whole proceedings, from the day on which the formal application was received, had
lasted only during six working days, show with what expedition the machinery
of the Act may be worked when there is special urgency for the same.
The finding of the Board recommended: (1) Payment of the rate of 20^
cents per hour by day and 23A cents per hour by night, dating from August 16,
when the men re.sumed work; (2) the abolition of the bonus system for the future,
and the payment immediately of the bonus earned up to date. Concerning the
question of ill-treatment, the Board did not find that any evidence supporting
this contention had been submitted, but the Company's officers had given satis-
factory assurance on the subject.
In his report the Deputy Minister pointed out that the financial loss suffered
by both parties and the unfortunate affray between the constables and the strikers
would have been eliminated, had the differences been referred for adjustment
under the terms of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act* in the first place.
In concluding his report the Deputy Minister acknowledged the excellent pubfic
service rendered by His Worship Mayor Peltier throughout the difliculty and the
substantial aid which he received from the Mayor and from Mr. Urry in expediting
the procedure for the establishment of the Board; also the cordial and courteous
co-operation of the officials of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to the same
end.
3. — Investigation Into Wages Paid on Construction of Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway.
During the month of July, Mr. J. D. McNiven, one of the Fair Wages officers
of the Department of Labour, visited Prince Rupert, B.C., under direction of the
Minister of Labour, to conduct an investigation into the rates of wages paid to
workmen employed on the portion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 100
miles easterly from Prince Rupert, under construction by the firm of Foley, Welch
& Stewart.
The complaints to which the inquiry related were set forth in communications
on behalf of the Prince Rupert Workingmen's Association addressed to the De-
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partment of Labour, to the effect that the rates of wages paid by the contractors
and sub-contractors to common labourers and other workmen employed on the
construction of that portion of the railway were less than the current rates of the
district for such classes of labour, and that an infringement had, therefore, oc-
curred of the Fair Wages' clause forming part of Messrs. Foley, Welch & Stewart's
contract. The clause in question is as follows:
"All mechanics, labourers or other persons who perform labour in the con-
fitruction of the works hereby contracted for shall be paid such wages as are gen-
erally accepted as current for competent workmen in the district in which the work
is being performed, and, if there is no current rate in such district then a fair and
reasonable rate, and, in the event of a dispute arising as to what is the current
or a fair and reasonable rate, it shall be determined by the Minister of Labour,
whose decision shall be final."
During his stay in Prince Rupert, Mr. JIcNiven had many interviews with
Mr. Patrick Daly, Secretary of the Prince Rupert Workingmen's Association, and
other members of that organization. From Mr. Daly and. from individual work-
men he heard a great number of complaints, many of them being outside the
scope of the inquiry which he was comnrissioned to make and relating principally
to various forms of alleged ill-treatment to which stationmen had been subjected.
Mr. McNiven had interviews also with representatives and officials of the firm of
Foley, Welch & Stewart and with many prominent residents of Prince Rupert.
Mr. Daly informed Mr. McNiven that at the time of the complaint of the
Prince Rupert Workingmen's Association the firm of Foley, Welch & Stewart
and their sub-contractors were not paying the rates current in Prince Rupert and
the Skeena district, but that he had reason to believe that more favourable rates
had since been conceded by the contracting firms in question.
Mr. McNiven called at the office of Messrs. Foley, Welch & Stewart, and
through the courtesy of Mr. Snuth, paymaster for the firm, was given free access
to the pay rolls for the months of May and June, 1909. The following statements
how the rates of wages and the number of men employed at each rate:
At $1 .30 per day and board.
" 1.75
" 2.00
" 2.25
" 2.50
" 2.75
" 3.00
" 3.25
" 3.50
" 3.75
" 4.00
" 4.50
" 5 . 00
" 5.50
" 6.00
May.
June.
10
2
5
1
4
1
618
658
1,324
1,558
980
835
30
71
53
66
6
13
12
1
2
1
5
Those receiving from $1.30 and board to $2.25 in May, and from $1.75 to
$2.25 in June are water boys and a few inferior workmen. Those receiving $2.50,
$2.75 and $3.00 are ordinary labourers, and represent the bulk of the workmen.
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Those receiving from $3.25 to $4.00 are underground men, handymen, axe-
men, &c. Steam drill men received from $4.50 to $5.50, and one man, who hand-
led powder, received a rate of $6.00 per day while engaged at that work.
The rate charged for board was 25 cents per meal, or $5.25 per week. Bunk
houses were provided for the men, free of charge, but they were required to pro-
vide their own blankets and bedding.
May. June.
At $ 35 per month 63 26
40 •• 129 132
45 " 60 59
50 " 40 49
55 " 4 3
60 " 12 12
65 " 11 12
70 •• 3 9
75 •■ 152 146
SO " 16 26
85 " 41 41
90 " 53 60
" 95 " . . 1
100 " 33 45
"110 " 8 5
125 " 6 5
150 " 4 5
175 " 2 3
The rates given in this statement include board in all cases.
Flunkeys, teamsters, bull cooks, &c., received $35, $40 and $45 per month.
Storekeepers, night watchmen, firemen, &c., received $50 to $60.
Those receiving $65 to $70 were assistant cooks, steam shovel firemen, boat-
men on gasoline launches carrying supplies, &c.
Those receiving $75 to $110 were ordinary foremen, timekeepers, cooks,
dinky locomotive engineers, steam derrick engineers, cranemen, &c.
Camp foremen and steam shovel engineers received rates varying from $100
to $175.
Regarding a complaint made by the Prince Rupert Workingmen's Association,
that workmen were not being paid their wages, Mr. McNiven was unable to find a
specific case of any real grievance of this nature.
During the progi-ess of investigation Mr. McNiven visited a number of camps
on the line, with the object of getting into touch with the workmen and learning
the conditions under which they worked and the treatment accorded them by their
employers. As to wages, very few complaints were heard, and these were made
by ordinary labourers receiving $2.75 and $3.00 per day. It was ascertained that
the rate of wages paid by the Government of British Columbia to common labourers
engaged in the construction of sewers within the limits of Prince Rupert was $3.00
per day, while the lowest rate at which board can be obtained there was $1.00 per
day or $7.00 per week.
The Government of British Columbia also paid $3.00 per day for the building
of wagon roads and trails in the Skeena Ditsrict, and Mining Companies paid from
$3.00 to $3.50 per day, while the lowest rate paid for board by those engaged in
this class of enterprise was $1.00 per day.
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Concerning this matter the Prince Rupert Board of Trade is on record as
follows: —
"At a meeting of the Board held April 2, 1909, a committee was appointed
to look into the matter of wages in and around Prince Rupert. At the general
■meeting of the Board held April 12, the. committee reported that from informa-
tion received from contractors and labourers who had been in the vicinity of Prince
Rupert for two years or more, they beheved $3.00 to $3.50 had always been paid
for common labour, and since the cost of living had not decreased in the past year,
the committee favours the Board recommending $3.00 per day as a fair wage for
unskilled labour. The report of the committee was adopted. The matter was
again taken up at a meeting of the Council of the Board of Trade held July 19,
when it was moved "that the resolution passed on April 12, be again endorsed."
There being no seconder to the resolution, the mover challenged any naember of
the Council to move that it be rescinded, when it was promptly moved and seconded:
"That the Council recommend to the Board that the resolution of April 12, 1909,
re wages for unskilled labour, be rescinded."
This resolution was carried.
Inquiry showed that the rates of wages paid by contractors to ordinary la-
bourers on railway construction in the Rocky Mountains and west of Vancouver
were $2.25 and $2.50 per day, while the rate charged for board was the same as
that charged by Messrs. Foley, Welch & Stewart. From the Rocky Mountains
east to Fort William the rates were $1.75 and $2.00 per day. The rates for board
were $4.50 in the East and Middle West and $5.25 in the extreme West. On the
section of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway easterly, from Prince Rupert, Messrs.
Foley, Welch & Stewart paid ordinary labourers, $2.50, $2.75 and $3.00 per day.
Rate for board, $5.25 per week.
Mr. McNiven reported that while the rate of wages paid by the Government
of British Columbia for sewer construction in Prince Rupert, and by niining com-
panies in the interior of the Province, was slightly higher than that paid by Messrs.
Foley, Welch & Stewart, the difference was fully offset by the rates the men were
required to pay for board. He expressed the opinion that since the supply of
labour was not equal to the demand and that all kinds must be accepted, some
latitude should be allowed in the fixing of a minimum rate and that the prices
paid by Messrs. Foley, Welch & Stewart were fair and reasonable and should not be
intefered with.
4. — Special Investigation and Report on Disputes Among the Fishing Popula-
tion of the Peninsula of Gaspe, Que.
On September 24, 1909, Mr. Victor DuBreuil, one of the Fair Wages officers of
the Department of Labour, left Montreal, under the direction of the Minister of
Labour, to conduct an investigation into certain difficulties between the fishermen
and some merchants and fish importers of the several localities in the Gasp6
Peninsula,
Mr. DuBreuil's report was submitted to the Minister of Labour \mder date of
October I'J, 1909, and stated that the industries concerned were controlled by com-
panies operating general stores and exporting dry fish, the principal markets being
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South American countries and Mediterranean ports. During the year preceding
Mr. DuBreuil's investigation, the companies claim to have sold at a loss, importers
prefering to buy fish from Norway or Labrador. Some of the localities concerned
are Anse aux Griffons, Petite Riviere, Petit Cap, Grande Anse, Echourie, Pointe
Jaune and Fox River, where the riot took place. The population of the fishing
points was composed almost exclusively of Canadians of French descent, mostly
engaged in the fishing trade. The people in question are kind, laborious and thriv-
ing citizens, the report pointed out, incHned to be excitable when provoked, and
the majority of them possessing only a very rudimentary education. The names
of the firms mostly concerned in the dispute are as follows : The Wm. Fruing Com-
pany, The Chas. Robin Collas Company, and H. J. Hyman and Sons.
Mr. DuBreuil's interview with the representatives of the merchants demon-
strated their net profits on the sale of goods to fishermen to be about 25 per cent.
The prices paid to fishermen were as follows: —
For No. 1 QuaUty $3.50 per quintal (112 lbs.)
" Inferior Quality 2.00 " "
" Extra large fish 3 . 60 to $3 . 90 per quintal.
In addition the fishermen sell crude cod liver oil to merchants, at from IS to 22
cents per gallon.
Mr. DuBreuil's investigation went to show that the fishermen were irritated
at the treatment received from certain of the agents and clerks of the merchants,
who had annoyed them and members of their families by alleged arrogance and
discourtesy. The investigation showed also that the Truck System was in operation
between merchants and fishermen by virtue of which fish were exchanged for
provisions and other goods. This system, it was pointed out by Mr. DuBreuil, is
disastrous to the fishermen, if they make a poor catch, the latter being unable to
deal with other business places on account of their previous indebtedness to the
local merchant. The fishermen, on account of their inabihty to read, are often
charged extortionate prices, and Mr. DuBreuil reports the case of one man who
was repeatedly charged for articles which he never obtained. The merchants sold
their goods on credit to the fishermen, and sometimes a period of a whole year
elapsed before a final settlement was made, as the supphes bought during the
winter were only paid for after the fishing season opened. The Companies had an
arrangement among themselves by which the prices to be paid for fish were fixed,
and the existence of such a combination, in Mr. DuBreuil's opinion, proved to be
one of the causes of the tumult. Discontent was also caused by the unsatisfactory
method of weighing the fish, old-fashioned devices being in use.
In 1908 an epidemic of diphtheria scourged some of the locaUties in the penin-
sula, and was severely felt at Fox River. Several families were quarantined; the
men were unable to fish and consequently could not pay for their supplies at the
stores.
Mr. DuBreuil's report contains a price hst of the most needed articles of food
sold to the fishermen, from which it appears that though the merchants do not
charge excessive prices for their goods, the poorest of the fishermen have to pay
the highest prices on account of their inabihty to pay their bills on short notice.
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The fishing season lasts about five months during the year, and the average
catch of two men during the season, varies between $250 and $600. As very few
of the fishermen earn anything during the winter, those with large families are in a
precarious condition when the catch is small. The beginning of the disturbance
which was the cause of Mr. DuBreuil's investigation, arose from the visit of Philip
Francoeur, a former resident of the neighbourhood, on September 3. In conversa-
tion with some of the fishermen of Fox River, he remarked that if he was duly
authorized by them to act on their behalf, he would sell their fish at $4 per quintal,
to Halifax merchants. He was authorized to proceed to Halifax, and a subscrip-
tion was raised to defray his expenses. Francoeur entered into negotiations with a
fish merchant of Halifax who sent a schooner to Fox Bay with his agent, Mr. J.W.
Nickerson, on board. The fishermen claim to have understood that Nickerson had
instructions to pay $4 per quintal for fish. As soon as the schooner was signalled,
Mr. Hyman went on board to meet Nickerson and urged him not to pay more than
$3.50 per quintal for fish. On his refusal to pay $4, the fishermen became very
excited.
Mr. DuBreuil's report states that on September 6 the fishermen seized Mr.
Charles Brien, agent for the Fruing Company, and forced him to sign an agreement
by which he promised to pay $4 per quintal for the fish, and also not to take pro-
ceedings against fishermen in arrears in their payments for goods bought from his
firm during the space of one year. He also promised to remove his agent at Fox
River, who had become objectionable to the fishermen, but he refused to bind the
other merchants by an agreement. The fishermen appointed a deputation to meet
the other merchants, with a view to getting them to sign the agreement, and in the
absence of Mr. Hyman, met his agent, Mr. Romeril, and summoned him to sign it.
Mr. Romeril refused and ordered the men to disperse from the public roadway.
The representatives of the men withdrew and reported their reception to the fisher-
men, who sent another delegate to repeat their demand. Mr. Romeril followed
this man to where the fishermen were assembled and was surrounded by them and
rudely treated, firing three shots into the mob, in order, as he claimed, to save his
life. Then he tried to make his escape, but the men followed him and disarmed him.
Mr. DuBreuil gives in full the copy of an affidivit sworn by Mr. J. W. Nickerson,
which runs as follows: —
"Grand Etang, September 5, 1909.
"I, the undersigned, do solemnly declare before the undersigned witnesses,
that in a meeting, Mr. Philip Francoeur for the first time presented me with a
petition written in French, of the nature of which I asked to be informed. He
rephed that it was a petition signed by the inhabitants of Fox River and elsewhere,
which he said he had by the Government to enable him to sell their fish anywhere,
or to any body. He then proposed to sell me about 3,000 quintals cod-fish, which
were in the hands of the inhabitants of Fox River, at the rate of three dollars and
fifty cents per quintal, culled and in proper condition, provided I would give him
twenty-five cents per quintal for his own personal purpose.
On my second meeting with the said Philip Francoeur, in Mr. Hyman's house,
I accused him of misrepresenting me and giving me trouble through having told the
people that the price I would pay for the fish was $4 and over. He replied that he
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had not done .so, but that such reports emanated from the fishermen who were all
liars and fools. I then^proposed that the matter be dropped altogether, and he
replied that he would be glad to do so, and much more pleased than if he had receiv-
ed one thousand dollars. \Mien I reached Fox River, I found that he had weighed
from some people some 195 quintals which I was willing to take at price agreed
upon, but he replied that the parties would not deliver it, and said that the whole
matter was dropped.
Sworn before me, this 5th day of September, 1909.
H. J. Hyman, J.P.
Walter Ryan "i
Geo. Godfray / Witnesses. J. W. Nickerson.
On September 11, Mr. Brien caused twenty-four men to be arrested. Two
were released for lack of proof against them, and five were sent to prison, the re-
maining seventeen being released under bail for .$200 for one year.
Mr. DuBreuil's report concludes with his opinion on the situation which is to
the effect that the attitude of the fishermen was due to their having been misled by
Francoeur, and to their discouragement at the fall in the prices of fish. He pointed
out that if the prices declined further, and the price for food remained at its present
figure, the position of the fishermen must shortly become intolerable, and they
would be forced to abandon their homes, which would be the ruin of the most im-
portant industry of the Gaspe Peninsula.
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VII.— HOURS OF LABOUR ON PUBLIC WORIlS.
A special Committee of the House of Commons was appointed on December 9,
for the purpose of reporting on Bill No. 21 : — An Act respecting the Hours of Labour
on Public Works. This measure, which was introduced by Mr. Alphonse Verville,
(Maisonneuve) on November 22, 1909, and which received its second reading on
December 9 following, has engaged the attention of the House of Commons on sev-
eral previous occasions. It proposes that a condition shall be inserted in all Dom-
inion Government contracts to provide that no workman in the employ of the con-
tractor shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours per day,
except in cases of emergency; also that a like policy shall be adhered to in the case
of work undertaken by the Government of Canada by day labour.
In moving the second reading of the Bill, Mr. Verville asserted that the de-
mand for a shorter working day was almost universal, and that the question was one
which the Parliament of Canada should study and consider so that rehef might be
afforded to all who are, at the present time, labouring under trying conditions.
The Dominion Government should be, he claimed, a model employer of labour.
Against the eight-hour day proposal it had been urged, in some quarters, that the
effect would be to reduce and to demoralize production. Mr. Verville did not, how-
ever, believe that shorter hours of labour would have any such effect. Upon the
conclusion of the debate Mr. Verville declared himself also as gratified with the dis-
cussion, and as satisfied that the Bill should be referred to a special committee after
the principle involved had been affirmed by the passage of the second reading. In
the course of his remarks, Mr. Verville congratulated the Government on having
appointed a Minister of Labour who could devote all his time to the study of labour
questions. The demand, he said, which had been made for years past, for the
creation of this portfoho, showed the necessity for it.
The Minister of Labour expressed the befief that the workingmen of Canada
owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Verville for the introduction of this Bill. The
history of labour legislation showed that, on the whole, a shortening of the hours of
labour had been of immense benefit not only to the working classes, but to the in-
dustries themselves. The question of hours of labour in Canada was primarily one
for the consideration of the Provincial Legislatures, but the discussion of the subject
in Parliament would, he believed, be reflected in future legislation by the Provinces.
In so far as the question bore upon the amehoration of the everyday fife of the work-
ing classes he was of opinion that the Dominion Parliament, so far as its power
extended, should do all that it could to further that end. Parliament, he observed,
had certain powers in regard to works carried on by the Government of Canada.
In so far as the Bill related to the hours of labour on public works, it was
desirable to point out that the Government had already taken considerable steps
toward meeting the object which the Bill had in view through the adoption in 1900,
of a Fair Wages Poficy, providing for the payment of fair wages to workingmen
engaged on public works, and the enforcement of the hours of labour current in
the districts where such works are being carried on. The Minister concurred in the
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opinion which had. been expressed by other participants in the debate that the
Bill should be referred to a special committee in order that the measure might not
be lost on a vote, and that all interests concerned might have an opportunity of
being heard, and in order also that the various points which had been raised in the
present debate might be fully considered.
Mr. R. L. Borden observed that the subject to which the present Bill related
was one which must be dealt with. In common with every member of the House,
he was disposed to give the most sympathetic consideration to all measures de-
signed to improve the condition of the labouring classes. He was willing that the
Bill should be referred to a special committee in order that the parties concerned
might be heard, and in order that any information in the possession of the Govern-
ment might be produced.
In the course of the debate the point was raised that the Bill, as introduced,
would have the effect not only of regulating the hours of labour on Government
works, but of precluding the purchase by the Government, or by contractors on
Government works, of any materials produced under a system which required the
workmen concerned to work more than eight hours per day. A fear was also ex-
pressed that, in its present form, the measure might seriously interfere with the
operation of mills and factories employed in part in the execution of Government
contracts, and that the passage of such a law might increase the difficulty which
farmers now experience in obtaining the labour which is required for their farming
operations.
It was urged by one of the participants in the debate that a conference should
be held of the various Provincial Governments, for the purpose of adopting a uni-
form law on this subject throughout the Dominion. Reference was made to the
eight-hour law as apphed to mining and smelting operations in British Columbia,
and the statement was made that a great change had been effected thereby in the
men employed in this branch of industry, and in the conditions of their home life.
It was also asserted that the eight-hour day in England and in Australia had pro-
duced excellent results.
The special committee to which the Bill was referred was composed of the
Honourable W. L. Mackenzie Eng, Minister of Labour, chairman; Mr. A. C.
Macdonell, Toronto; Mr. Ralph Smith, Nanaimo; Mr. Wm. Staples, Macdonald;
Mr. L. E. Prowse, Queen's, P.E.I. ; Mr. David Marshall, East Elgin; Mr. Alphonse
Verville, Maisonneuve; Mr. John Stanfield, Colchester; Mr. Andrew^ Broder, Dun-
das; Mr. Gustave A. Turcotte, Nicolet; and Mr. W. E. Knowles, Moose Jaw. In all,
nineteen meetings of the special committee were held, at which a large number of
witnesses were examined, representing, for the most part, interests especially
affected by the proposed legislation; and a great deal of valuable information
obtained with respect to hours of labour in Canada and in other countries, which
will be published as an Appendix to the Journals of the House of Commons for the
Session of 1909-10.
The following witnesses were examined before the committee: On January 21
and January 26, Professor O. Skelton, of Queen's University, Kingston. On Feb- '
ruary 2, further evidence was given by Professor 0. Skelton. On February 16, Mr.
V. DuBreuil, Fair Wages Officer of the Department of Labour. On February 23,
further evidence was given by Mr. V. DuBreuil and by Mr. J. D. McNiven, Fair
152 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
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Wages Officers of the Department of Labour. On March 2, further evidence was
given by Mr. J. D. McNiven, Fair Wages Officer of the Department of Labour; Mr.
John Armstrong, Chief of the Bureau of Labour of the Province of Ontario; and
Mr. Louis Guyon, Chief Inspector of Factories of the Province of Quebec. On
March 9, Mr. F. B. I\IcKune, Superintendent of the open hearth department of the
Hamilton Steel and Iron Company, Hamilton, Ont.; Mr. Daniel W. Evans, fore-
man of the finishing department of the same Company; Mr. Justus Post, engineer
of the blast furnace department of the same Company; Mr. Phelps Johnston, gen-
eral manager of the Dominion Bridge Company, Montreal and Lachine; and Mr.
Chas. M. Doolittle, stonecutter, of Dundas, Ont. On JIarch 16, Mr. G. M. Murray,
secretary of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. On April 6, Messrs. John
H. Lauer, secretary-treasurer of the Montreal Builders' Exchange, and of the General
Association of Builders of Canada; Edward T. Nesbitt, president of the Canadian
National Association of Builders and of the Builders' Exchange of Quebec; and
John Tweed, of Toronto, General Organizer for the United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners in Ontario. On April 13, Messrs. Wm. Watldns, of Springhill,
N.S., a member of the United Mine Workers of America; Jos. Ainey, a member of
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; and Edward J.
Stephenson, of Winnipeg, a member of the International Typographical Union.
On April 20, Messrs. Patrick M. Draper, of Ottawa, Secretary-Treasurer of the
Trades and Labour Congress of Canada; and Gustave Francq, of Montreal, First
Vice-President of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada; and on April 28,
Professor 0. Skelton, of Queen's University, Kingston; and Mr. Thomas Robb, of
Montreal, representing the Shipping Federation of Canada.
The fourth report of the special committee, which was presented to the House
of Commons on May 3, is as follows: —
Your Committee, since its appointment on the 9th day of December, 1909, has
held nineteen meetings, all of which were open to the pubhc, and heard a large num-
ber of witnesses, representing interests specially affected by the proposed legislation.
The Dominion Trades and Labour Congress and the Canadian Manufacturers'
Association were represented by their respective secretaries, each of whom pre-
sented the views of the members of those bodies in carefully prepared and compre-
hensive memorials. The views of the Shipping Federation of Canada were given by
its .secretary. Individual employers of labour and leading trade union officials re-
presenting special industries and trades in diffcient ])arts of Canada, gave testimony
from the point of view of labour and capital respectively, whilst information of an
official nature as well as expressions of opinion, were obtained from the Fair Wages
Officers of the Department of Laljour, Ottawa, the Secretary of the Ontario Bureau
of Labour, Toronto, and the Chief Factory Inspector of the Province of Quebec.
An exhaustive analysis of the nature and administration of the legislation of other
countries respecting the hours of labour on public works was given by Professor
Skelton, of Queen's University.
2. In addition to the evidence of witnesses, the Committee obtained by corre-
spondence, in reply to 3,600 communications sent out, expressions of opinion from
721 different jjcrsons. Of the replies received, approximately SO per cent contain
valuable suggestions and arguments respecting the Bill. Of tlicse replies, 304 were
from officers of labour unions; 302 from manufacturers, including the Employers'
Association of Toronto; 65 from Farmers' Institutes and the Dominion Grange;
39 from Boards of Trades; and 11 from transportation companies, including the
Marine Association.
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3. The evidence taken, together mth the proceedings of the Committee, but not
including communications sent or received, covers some 400 pages of printed
matter. &^
4. Owing to the number of persons who expressed a desire to give testimony,
the Committee has been obliged to continue its sittings for the taking of evidence up
to the present time, but notwithstanding, has been unable to hear all persons who
have asked to be allowed to give testimony. Owing to the volume of evidence taken,
the Committee has not had opportunity of giving to the evidence and the large
number of communications which have been received, the careful consideration
which their importance demands. The Committee think that the communications
should be carefully classified, and together with the evidence, duly printed, and
rendered available for distribution, in order that the members of the House of
Commons and of the Senate, and those who may be especially interested in or
affected by the proposed legislation, may have an opportunity of becoming fully
informed on the many important bearings of the proposed measure.
5. The Committee, therefore, recommends that the Clerk of the Committee be
directed to classify the correspondence which has been received, and prepare an
index in detail of the evidence and correspondence; also that Rule 72 of the House
be suspended and that the reports of Committee, the proceedings, evidence and
communications be printed in one volume available for distribution, to the number
of 5,000 copies in EngHsh and 1,000 copies in French. |^
6. The Committee also recommends that the reports, proceedings, evidence and
correspondence be printed as an appendix to the Journals.
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VIII.— FAIR WAGES ON PUBLIC CONTRACT WORK.
During the past year the Department of Labour, which is entrusted with the
administration and enforcement of what is commonly known as the Fair Wages
Policy of the Dominion Government, prepared and furnished to various Depart-
ments 148 Fair Wages Schedules for insertion in public contracts, and for use also in
certain instances, in connection with public works to be executed by day labour.
The rates of wages fixed in these Schedules are based on the current rates of the
particular localities in which the work is to be done, and where there is no such
current rate on what might be regarded as a fair and reasonable rate, due regard
being had to the cost of living in the localities in question.
The work of this branch of the Department of Labour has grown out of the
adoption by the House of Commons, in the session of 1900, of a Fair Wages Reso-
lution in the following terms: —
".Mr. ^Iulock: — That it be resolved that all Government contracts
should contain such conditions as will prevent abuses, which may arise from
the sub-letting of contracts, and that every effort should be made to secure
the payment of such wages as are generally accepted as current in each trade
for competent workmen in the district where the work is carried out, and that
this House cordially concurs in such policy and deems it the duty of the
Government to take immediate steps to give effect thereto.
"It is hereby declared that the work to which the foregoing policy shall
apply includes not only work undertaken by the Government itself, but also
all works aided by grant of Dominion public funds."
Under the terms of an Order-in-Council of August 30, 1907, it is required that :
"1. Contractors shall post in a conspicuous place on the public works
under construction, the schedule of wages inserted in their contracts, for the
protection of the workmen employed. 2. Contractors shall keep a record of
payments made to workmen in their employ, the books or documents con-
taining such record shall be open for inspection by the Fair Wages Officers of
the Government at any time it may be expedient to the Minister of Labour to
have the same inspected."
It is worthy of note that since the Fair Wages Policy has been adopted in the
case of Dominion Government contracts, the Fair Wages principle has been accepted
also by a number of the Provinces of Canada, and has been adopted as well by by-
law in a very large number of municipalities throughout the Dominion.
The total number of Fair Wages Schedules which have been prepared since
the inception of this Policy by the Dominion Government is 1,750, of which almost
one-half have been for the Department of Railways and Canals, and over one-
third for the Department of Public Works. The number of Fair Wages Schedules
prepared in the fiscal year 1908-09 was 320, or 172 more than for the past year.
In addition to the enforcement of this Policy in respect of public works Fair Wages
conditions have been inserted during the past year in a large number of contracts
for Departmental supplies. In the case of the Post Office Department the amount
of supplies furnished under Fair Wages conditions was $140,257.51.
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In addition to the work which has been involved in the preparation of these
Fair Wages Schedules, the Fair Wages Officers have been employed in a number of
instances to conduct inquiries into cases in which complaint was made that the
Fair Wages Schedules were not being lived up to by individual contractors. In
the course of the year many requests have been received by the Department of
Labour for information respecting the prevaiHng rates of wages and hours of labour
in different parts of Canada, and an endeavour has been made, as far as posssible,
to satisfy all such requests, the tables compiled bv the Fair Wages Officers being
indeed in frequent demand ^oy SM«h p'^rpc*?"
During the Parliamentary session the Fair Wages Officers were called as wit-
nesses before a Special Committee of the House of Commons, which wa? appointed
to consider Bill No. 21: — An Act respecting the Hours of Labour on Public Works,
and were examined at considerable length by the members of the Committee on the
subject of hours of labour in Canada and elsewhere. Tables were also specially
prepared by the Fair Wages Officers for this Committee and filed as exhibits, show-
ing the hours of labour in various trades throughout Canada.
The following tables show the number of Schedules arranged, by Provinces,
prepared by the Fair Wages Officers during the fiscal year 1909-10, also the number
of Schedules, arranged by years, prepared since the establishment of the Depart-
ment:—
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X. A.R., No. 10.
STATISTICAL TABLE SHOWING BY PROVINCES THE 'FAIR WAGES" SCHEDULES PREPARED
J BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR FOR DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT DURING
THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31. 1910.
Department of Government.
>
1
3
J
1
1
s
1
Sal
i
Public Works
4
9
3
1
5
21
5
1
4
1
19
30
2
2
7
17
3
8
2
2
1
79
Total
17
32
5
53
25
2
2
2
148
Department of Labour, Canada,
'^Statistical Tables, X. A.R., No. 11.
STATISTICAL TABLE OF 'FAIR WAGES" SCHEDULES'PREPARED BY YEAR BY THE DEPART-
MENT OF LABOUR FOR DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT DURING THE PERIOD
JULY 1900, TO MARCH 1910, INCLUSIVE.
Department of
1900-1
1901-2
1902-3
1903-4
1904-5
1905-6
1906-7
1907-8
1908-fl
1909-10
Grand
total.
Public Works
63
13
1
17
11
50
12
116
89
18
72
153
21
2
41
95
8
3
53
84
10
3
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Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X, A. R., No. 16.
LIST OF SUPPLIES FURNISHED THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT BY CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE,
UNDER CONDITIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE LABOUR EMPLOYED, WHICH WERE
APPROVED OF BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING
MARCH 31. 1910.
Nature of Order.
Amount
of
Order.
Making and repairing metal dating and other stamps and type, and brass crown seals
Making and repairing rubber dating and other hand stamps and tj-pe
Supplying stamping material, inclusive of making and repairing pads, also wooden boxes, and post
marking and cancelling ink
Making and repairing post office scales
Supplying mail bags
Repairing mail bags
Repairing mail locks, and supplying mail bag fittings
Supplying portable letter boxes and repairing parcel receptacles, portable tin boxes, and railway
mail clerks' tin boxes
Miscellaneous orders for making and repairing postal stores
Making up and supplying articles of official uniforms
Total.
8,581 13
925 12
9,926 17
2,863 75
26,549 50
16,887 92
18,267 84
12,263 67
660 45
43,331 96
8140,257 51
Investigation of Complaints arising out of Conditions inserted in Government
Contracts for tlie Protection of Labour.
During the past fiscal year the Department of Labour received from
twenty-three different sources complaints arising out of alleged non-compli-
ance with conditions inserted in public contracts for the protection of la-
bour, eighteen of which were made the subjects of special investigations by
the Pair Wages Officers of the Department. Of the five remaining, one was
satisfactorily adjusted on representation to the contractor, of the facts, as
communicated to the Department, three were referred to the Departments
having control of the contracts for adjustment, and in one instance
no action was taken on account of insufficient evidence being furnished.
Thirteen of the complaints investigated affected one contract. Two other
complaints which were received at the Department a few days prior
to the commencement of the fiscal year were also investigated and
disposed of, making a total of twenty investigations made by the Fair Wages
Officers during the fiscal year ending 31st March, 1910. In every com-
plaint received, special reference was made to the alleged non-payment of
proper rates of wages. Four also referred to alleged irregularities in sub-
letting portions of contracts and unfair treatment of workmen by sub-eon-
tractors. One alleged failure on the part of the contractor to post the Fair
Wages Schedule in a conspicuous place on the works, and in another, work-
men complained of being compelled to work longer hours than was stipulat-
ed in the Fair Wages Schedule.
The occupation of the work-people on whose behalf these complaints
were filed were as follows: Carpenters, 16, stonecutters, 2, structural iron
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 163
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
workers, locomotive engineers, builders' labourers, leather workers ou horse
goods, lathers, painters and workmen on railroad construction, one each.
Taking into consideration all complaints, either settled or filed, during the
year, seventeen of these had to do with work carried out in the Province of
Quebec, two with work in the Province of Ontario, one with work in the
Province of Manitoba, one with work in the Province of Saskatchewan, and
four 'with work in the Province of British Columbia.
Two complaints related to work being done under contract for the De-
partment of Militia and Defence; one to work being done under contract for
the Transcontinental Railway Commission; one to work being done under sub-
sidy agreement with the Department of Railways and Canals, and the remain-
der to work being performed under contract for the Department of Public
Works.
Of the twenty complaints investigated by the Fair Wages Officers, six-
teen were reported as being well founded, and the matters in dispute were
promptly adjusted, while the remaining four were reported upon adversely
to complainants.
The two complaints which had not been investigated at the beginning of
the fiscal year were from stonecutters in the city of Quebec. One was in
connection with the contract for the Drill Shed School of Gunnery and the
other with the contract for St. Roch post office building. Each set forth that
the stone-cutting portion of the contracts had been sub-let, and that workmen
were not being paid the rate of wages stipulated in the Fair AVages Schedule
included in the contracts. Investigation by an officer of the Department
showed that in the ease of the contract for the Drill Shed School of Gunnery
the complaint was without foundation, as stonecutters, while employed in
that capacity, had been paid the proper rates of wages. In the case of the
contract for St. Roch post office building it was shown that the contractor had
sub-let the stone-cutting portion of his contract, and the sub-contractor in turn
had let the work to a syndicate of stonecutters of St. Marc des Carriers on a
piece-work basis. On representation of the facts being made to the contrac-
tors by the officer, the sub-contract was cancelled and the balance of the work
executed at Quebec in accordance with the terms of the contract.
During the month of July an investigation was made by one of the Fair
Wages Officers into the rates of wages paid to workmen on that portion of the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway under construction, one hundred miles easterly
from Prince Rupert, B.C. A statement of the results of this inquiry is printed
in Chapter VI.
A complaint from Victoria, B.C., set forth that the contractors for the
immigration building at that place were not observing the labour conditions
included in their contract in the following particulars : Regarding the
posting of the Fair Wages Schedule, sub-letting portions of the contract and
in the payment of worlanen by sub-contractors. An investigation was made
by one of the Pair Wages Officers, who reported that the complaint regarding
the posting of the Fair Wages Schedule was not substantiated by the facts,
as the schedule was kept posted in the tool-house, (to which all workmen had
104 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
access), and also in tlip office of the contractors, where the workmen received
their wages. In regard to the other complaints it was found that the con-
tractors were quite within their rights in sub-letting portions of the contract,
but that one of the sub-contractors was not paying all the carpenters in his
employ at the rate set forth on the Fair "Wages Schedule for that class of la-
bour. The sub-contractor had just commended his work at the time of the
visit of the officer, and as he agreed to pay the rate stipulated in the' con-
tract, the matter was satisfactorily settled.
It was alleged that the contractors for the construction of a steel bridge
across St. Andrew's Locks, on the Red River, near Winnipeg, Man., were not
paying structural iron workers the rate of wages current for the district. The
customary schedule of wages was not included in this contract, but in lieu
thereof contained the following provisions for the protection of labour:
All mechanics, labourers or other persons who perform labour in the con-
struction of the work hereby contracted for, shall be paid such wages as are
generally accepted as current for competent workmen in the district in which
the work is being performed, and if there Js no current rate in such district
then a fair and reasonable rate, and shall not be required to work for longer
hours than those fixed by the custom of the trade in the district where the
work is carried on, except for the prcftection of life or property, or in the case
of other emergencies. In the event of a dispute arising as to what is the
current or a fair and reasonable rate of wages, or what are the current hours
fixed by the custom of the trade, it shall be determined by the Minister of
Labour, whose decision shall be final.
These conditions shall extend and apply to moneys payable for- the use or
hire of horses or teams, and the persons entitled to payment for the use or hire
of horses or teams shall have the like right in respect of moneys so owing to
them as if such moneys were payable to them in respect of wages.
In the event of default being made in payment of any money owing in re-
spect of wages of any mechanic, labourer or other person employed on the said
work, and if a claim therefor is filed in the office of the Minister of Public
"Works and proof thereof satisfactory to the Minister is furnished, the Min-
ister may pay such claim out of any moneys at any time payable by His Ma-
jesty under such contract, and the amounts so paid shall be deemed payments
to the contractors.
Investigation was made by one of the Pair "Wages Officers, who reported
that the complaint was unfounded and recommended that no action be taken.
The claim was set forth that the minimum rate of wages fo which that class
of labour was entitled should be 40 cents per hour. The result of the in-
vestigation showed that the rates of wages paid to structural iron workers in
"Winnipeg and vicinity at that time varied from 30 cents to 45 cents per
hour, with the largest percentage receiving a rate of 35 cents per hour. No
further action was taken.
In connection with the contract for the construction of the ]\lontreal Post
Office Annex, complaints against the contractors 1o the number of thirteen, al-
leging under-payment of workmen, were received during the year. Of the
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIX 1ST ER OF LABOUR 165
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
complaints twelve were carpentei's, and one a builders' labourer. Eleven were
made the subject of special investigation by one of the Fair Wages Otificers and
two were referred for adjustment to the Department having control of the
contract. In each of the cases statutory declarations were filed in support
of the claims made. The rates of wages for carpenters and builders' labour-
ers stipulated in the Fair Wages Schedule inserted in the contract were 30
cents and 221/, cents per hour respectively. It was admitted by the con-
tractors that the complaining carpenters had been paid at the rate of 2.5 cents
per hour and the builders' labourer at the rate of 20 cents per hour. The
reports of the officer recommended in each case that payment be made to
complainants of the difference between what they had received and what they
should have received had payment been made in accordance with the terms
of the contract, being in the case of carpenters, five cents per hour, and in the
case of builders' labourers two and one-half cents per hour. As a result of
these investigations the contractors were required to pay the following
amounts to the individual complainants: On 1,64914> hours' work, at 5 cents
per hour, .$82.47; on l,2551y{, hours' work, at 5 cents per hour, $62.77; on 1,395
hours' work, at 5 cents per hour, $(i9.75; on 1,43114 hours' work, at 5 cents
per hour, $71.57; on 456 hours' work, at 21/, cents per hour, $11.39; on 1,1.30
hours' work, at 5 cents per hour, $56.50; on 9371/, hours' work, at 5 cents per
hour, $46.85; on 8571/, hours' work, at 5 cents per hour, $42.88; on 2401/,
hours' work, at 5 cents per hour, $12.03; on 409 hours' work, at 5 cents per
hour, $20.45; on 354 hours' work, at 5 cents per hour, $12.70; being a total of
$489.36.
An investigation was made into the complaint forwarded to the Depart-
ment by certain carpenters against the contractors for the Post Office build-
ing at Welland, Ont., but as the complainants failed to come forward and make
good their claims, it was impossible to proceed with the investigation. The
workmen employed on the building had no complaint to make, and as the
complainants failed to produce sufficient evidence to warrant further investi-
gation the officer recommended that no further action be taken.
Two complaints were received from Premie, B.C.. alleging that tlie con-
ractors for the construction of the Post Office building at that place (1) were
paying lathers at a rate l)elow that which was current at Fernie, and (2) that
certain painting was being executed under unfair conditions. In the case of
the lathers a settlement satisfactory to complainants was effected on repre-
sentation of the facts as communicated to the Department being made known
to the contractors. The complainant on behalf of the painters was request-
ed to provide the Department with further information regarding the com-
plaint, but as none was received, no action was taken.
Complaint was made on behalf of certain locomotive engineers employed
by the contractors for the construction of that portion of the National Trans-
continental Railway lying between Quebec Bridge and La Tuque, alleging
that they were being paid at a rate below that set forth in the Fair Wages
Schedule included in the contract. The complaint was referred to the Na-
tional Transcontinental Railway Commi.<!sion for adju.stment. At the end of
166 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
the fiscal year the matter was still in the hands of the Commission, no deci-
sion having been reached.
In connection with the complaint from Regina, Sask., alleging that joiners
employed by contractors for the installation of interior fittings into a public
building at that place, were not being paid the rate of wages current at Re-
gina, an investigation was made by one of the Fair Wages Officers, who re-
ported that the complaint was well founded, and recommended "that the De-
partment of Public Works be requested to communicate with the contractors
and inform them that they must conform to the labour conditions prevailing
at Regina, and pay joiners employed on this work at a rate of not less than 33
cents per hour for factory work and 35 cents per hour for the work of instal-
lation." The contractors were paying this class of labour at a flat rate of 30
cents per hour. As a basis of settlement the following offer was received
from the contractors: "Upon completion of the work for the customs offices
here, we will check through the time sheets and issue to each man employed
on the work our check covering the difference between what we are now pay-
ing and the amount you request us to pay. As this method is quite satisfactory
to our employees, we trust it will meet with your approval." The offer was
accepted as being satisfactory and no further action was necessary.
A complaint filed on behalf of tlic International Brotlierhood of Leather
Workers, Local No. 162, of Ottawa, set forth in general terms "that conditions
intended for the protection of labour inserted in certain contracts for leather
goods awarded by the Department of Militia and Defence to contractors in
Ottawa were being violated." An investigation was made by an officer of
the Department, who reported "that while the wages paid to leather workers
in Ottawa were low in comparison with those prevailing in other skilled trades,
taken as a whole they are undoubtedly the current rates of the city, the only
labour conditions imposed in the contracts being the payment of wages gen-
erally accepted as current for competent workmen in the district," and this
the contractors have obeyed. No further action was taken.
A complaint from Montreal set forth that certain carpenters employed on
the construction of a Militia stores building were being paid at the rate of 25
cents per hour, while it was alleged that 30 cents per hour was the prevailing
rate for that place. This complaint was investigated by one of the Fair Wages
Officers, who reported that there was no Fair Wages Schedule in connection
with the contract. This fact was communicated to the Department having
control of the contract, when the Department of Labour was requested to
prepare a schedule of wages to be used in connection with the completion of
the work.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
IX.— STRIKES^AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA DURING 1909, WITH COM-
PARATIVE STATISTICS FOR THE YEARS 1901 TO 1909, INCLUSIVE.
While the actual number of strikes and lockouts in existence in Canada during
the calendar year 1909 was the same as in the previous year and less than in any
other year since 1901, and while there was a great decrease in the number of
employees involved, there was an increase of nearly 70,000 days in the number
of working days lost as compared with 1908. This was due to two prolonged
strikes of coal miners in Nova Scotia, which together caused a loss of about 500,000
days. The total number of disputes in each of the years 1908 and 1909 was 69,
compared with 104 in 1901, 123 in 1902, 160 in 1903, 103 in 1904, 87 in 1905,
139 in 1906 and 151 in 1907.
Only three strikes of serious consequence in an industrial sense took place
during the year, in all of which coal miners were involved. One of these disputes
occurred at various points in the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia,
another at Glace Bay, N.S., and the third at Springhill, N.S.; a strike of importance
for other reasons was that of Canadian Pacific Railway longshoremen at Fort
William, which is fully dealt with in the portion of this report devoted to
special inquiries conducted during the year.
On April 1, about 2,100 men employed in the mines operated by members
of the Western Coal Operators' Association in Alberta and British Columbia
stopped work, on account of their failure to reach a new agreement with their
employers as to working conditions. On May 3, an application on behalf of the
employees was received at the Department for the estabUshment of a Board of
ConciHation and Investigation, and the Board was appointed on May 15. A
month after the report of the Board was made, on June 30, an agreement
was signed by representatives of both parties, following closely the findings of
the Board, and work was resumed. This dispute affected the mines at Hosmer,
Coleman, Lille, Lethbridge, Bankhead, Hillcrest, Bellevue, Passburg, Canmore,
Taber and Frank, and caused the closing down of the British Columbia Copper
Company's smelter and mines at Greenwood, B.C.
On July 6, a strike took place at Glace Bay, N.S., on account of the refusal
of the Dominion Coal Company to recognize the United Mine Workers of America.
About 2,500 men were reported by the Company to have stopped work, but a
number of these, who were not in sympathy with the strike, subsequently returned,
and some of the strikers sought work elsewhere. The Company continued
to operate its mines with a diminished staff, and gradually filled the places of the
strikers. Before the end of the year the output of coal was again normal.
On August 10, a strike of 1,700 employees of the Cumberland Railway and
Coal Company took place at Springhill, N.S., after their failure to adjust their
differences with the Company through a Board of Concihation and Investigation,
which presented its report on July 23. The principal cause of the dispute was
the refusal of the Company to recognize the United Mine Workers of America,
but the employees also wanted certain changes in the conditions of their em-
ployment with regard to the determination of the standard weight of a box of
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 171
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
coal, the schedule of prices, and the docking system. The mines were closed on
account of this dispute until the end of the year, and there were also thrown out
of work many of the Company's railway employees, the crews of one tug and
seven barges, and a number of^wharf hands and trimmers.
MAGNITUDE OP^DISPUTES.
Out of 68 disj utes which began in 1909, 4 involved 1,000 or more employees,
and 7 involved from 500 to 1,000. Thirty-five disputes, over one-half of the total
number, affected less than 100 emploj'ees each. The total number of employees
involved in trade disputes which began in 1909 was approximately 17,302, compared
with 26,250 in 1908 and 34,972 in 1909.
LOSS OF TIME IN WORKING DAYS.
The loss of time to employees through trade disputes in 1909 was approxi-
mately 872,000 working days, compared with a loss of about 718,443 days in 1908,
and 613,936 in 1907. These estimates, however, are approximations only, it
being impossible to determine the loss with absolute accuracy, through lack of
definite information in a number of cases. In some cases, the strikers return to
work by degrees, a few at a time, and in other cases their places are gradually
filled, while the ranks of the strikers are gradually diminished as they obtain
other employment individually. Under such circumstances only a rough estimate
can be arrived at after taking into consideration all the facts at the disposal of
the Department, and an allowance of about 6 per cent for error would have to
be made.
TRADES AFFECTED BY THE DISPUTES.
\^J Out of 68 disputes which began in 1909, there were 13 in the building trades
and 10 in the mining industry and in the clothing trades. There were 9 strikes
of unskilled labourers, and 7 strikes in various transportation industries. There
were no strikes or lockouts affecting agriculture or printing and bookbinding.
RESULTS OF DISPUTES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR CAUSES.
A comparison of the results of the trade disputes in relation to their causes
shows that out of thirty that arose solely from a demand for higher wages, the
employers were successful in fifteen, and the employees in four, although they
were partially successful in two others. Compromises were effected in seven of
these disputes.
The tables and charts printed herewith give particulars of the strikes and
lockouts of 1909, so far as they could be obtained, with comparative statistics for
the years from 1901 to 1909, inclusive.
The following table contains a list of all the strikes and lockouts which took
place in Canada during the year 1909, arranged according to industries and trades,
showing in each dispute the occupation of the workpeople concerned, the locality
in which the dispute occurred, the principal cause of the dispute, the method of
settlement and the result, the dates of commencement and termination, the
approximate number of establishments and employees affected, and the approxi-
mate loss of time in working days.
• A fuller account of these disputes is given in Chapter VI of this Report.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
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LOCALITIES AFFECTED BY TRADE DISPUTES.
Twenty-six strikes and lockouts were reported to have occurred in the Province
of Ontario during 1909, and twelve in the Province of Quebec. Eight took
place in the Province of British Columbia, and six in each of the Provinces of
Nova Scotia, ^lanitoba, and Alberta.
CAUSES OF DISPUTES.
Of the sixty-eight strikes and lockouts which began in 11)09. thirty-two arose
from demands for higher wages. The question of wages also entered into
twelve other disputes. Five disputes arose from reductions in wages, compared
with fourteen in the previous 3'ear. Principles of trade-unionism entered into
eleven disputes. Only four strikes and lockouts concerned hours of labour.
No sympathetic strikes were reported.
METHODS OF SETTLEMENT.
Of the sixty-nine disputes in existence during 1909, twenty-one were settled
through negotiations between the parties concerned, compared with fourteen
in 1908, one strike was settled by arbitration and four by conciliation. In
twenty cases the places of strikers were filled, and in eight, work was resumed
without negotiations.
RESULTS OF DISPUTES.
Of the sixty-nine disputes in existence during 1909, twenty-six ended in favour
of the employers and ten in favour of the employees, while a compromise was
reached in fifteen disputes, and the employees were partially successful in four
disoutes, some of their number having been granted their demands.
NUMBER A.VD .MAGNITUDE OF TRADE DISPUTES.
The following table illustrates by months the lumibei- and magnitude of
trade disputes which began during the year 1909.
DliPARTMKNT OF LABOUR, CANADA,
Statistical Table, Series X. A. It.Xr,. HI.
TABLE SHOWING MAGNITUDE OF TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR
1909, CLASSIFIED BY MONTHS .ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES INVOLVED,
MDRuitlKio.
Numbt
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REPORT OF THE^ DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 177
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Chart No. 1, following page 198 shows the variations from month to month in
the number of employees involved in trade disputes during each year from 1905
to 1909, inclusive.
The followng table shows the magnitude of trade disputes which occurred
in Canada during the past nine years, according to the number of work-people
involved.
Department of Labour. Canada,
Statistical Tables X. A. R., No. 20
TABLE SHOWING MAGNITUDE OF TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF
EMPLOYEES INVOLVED DURING THE YEARS 1901, 1902. 1903. 1904, 190S, 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909
Magnitude.
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1902
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1906
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1909
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160
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138
146
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The following table shows the approximate number of employees affected by
trade disputes during 1909, according to the month in which they began.
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, Serieb X. A. R., No. 21.
APPROXIMATE NUJIBER OF EMPLOYEES INVOL\'ED IN TRADE DISPUTES WHICH BEGAN DURING
THE CALENDAR YEAR 1909.
January. . .
February..
March
April
May .
June
July.
August
September.
October..
November.
December-
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Number of Employees Affected
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2,525
1,387
3,529
4,193
28
263
95
36 12
178
DEPARTME.XT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 191t
From the above figures it may be seen tliat tlie strikes and lockouts of July-
affected the greatest number of employees compared with other months. Com-
paratively few were involved in new disputes during the first three and last four
months of the year.
About 425 firms or establishments were affected by strikes and lockouts
during 1909, of which number 287 were directl}-- affected and 138 indirectly.
The following table shows the number involved according to the months in which
the disputes began.
Department of Labour. Canada,
Statistical Tablks. Skries X. A. R. No. 1:2,
'APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF FIRMS OR ESTABLISHMENTS AFFECTED BY TRADE DISPUTES IN
CANADA, WHICH BEGAN DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1909.
Month.
Number of Firms Affected.
Directly.
Indirectly.
Total.
3
7
19
19
69
46
72
2
41
S
I
20
39
113
5
182
46
August •
September ■
October
November
77
2
41
3
Total
287
138
425
DISPUTES BY MONTHS.
The months of May and July showed the greatest number of disputes, eleven
out of a total of sixty-eight for the year having begun in each of those months.
Talcing the past nine years together, the month of May largely preponderates over
the other months in this respect, as may be seen from the following table.
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X. A. R,, No. 23.
TARIE SHOWING TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA BY MONTHS DURING THE YEARS 1001. 1902.
1903, 1904. 1905. 1906, 1907, 190S AND 1909.
January. . .
Fel^niary
Marth
April
May
June
July
AuRUst..
September
October .
November. ..
December
Total .
Number of Disputes.
1906
1907
1908
1909
12
8
7
4
6
3
6
3
8
8
.5
4
13
28
9
7
28
33
14
11
14
20
6
8
8
!.^
3
11
17
12
6
10
1.5
8
2
2
3
7
2
4
12
3
2
3
2
3
4
1
138
146
66
68
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIXISTER OF LABOUR 179
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
The variation in the total number of trade disputes in existence from month
to month during the years 1905 to 1909, inclusive, is shown on Chart Xo. 2, fol-
lowing page 198.
NTJMBER OF DISPUTES ACCOHDING TO IXDUSTHrES AXD TRADES AKFECXED.
The following table indicates the number of disputes in the various indtistries
and trades during the year 1909, according to the month in which they began.
DEPiBmIS^-r op Labocb. CiSiDA,
SxATisTiCii. Tables Sttjies X., A. R. Xo. 24.
TABLE SHOWING IXDUSTRIAL DISPCTE3 BY IXDUSTRIES AND TRADES IX C.\XADA DOUNG
THE CALEXDAR \"EAR 1909.
Namber of Dbpates.
-. -. < I Z z -
•Agriculture
FUhing..
Lumbering
MinlDg and quarr>Tng
Building trades
Metal working and shipbuilding. - -
Wood working and fumishiog trades
Textile trades
Ck) tiling trades
Food and tobacco preparation . .
Leather trades ....
Printine and bookbinding. .
Transport
TTnskilled labour. .
Miscellaneous trades
Total i 4 3 7'118iniol2'4 3168
The following table shows approximately the number of employees affected
by trade disputes during 1909, according to their respective trades and industries.
DePASTMKXT op LABOtTR. Caxada.
SATBriCAX Tables. Series X. -\. R.; Xo. 25.
TABLE SHOWIXG BY TRADES .VVD IXDrSTRIES APPROXIMATE XTSIBER OF E>rPLOYEES
AFFECTED BY TRADE DISPITES IX rAX.*.DA DCRIXG THE CVLEXD.AR -i^EAR 1909.
Industry- or Trade. , Appro^mate Xumber
j of Employees.
Fishing j 372
Lumbering ' 300
Mining... S.T95
Building trades 2.oS0
Metal trades 499
Wood working trades 36
Textile trades 94S
Clothing trades 736
Food and tobacco preparation ... 75
Leather trades 51
Transport 1 .50.T
Unskilled labour 1.293
Miscellaneous trades 112
Total 17.332
180
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
From the above table it may be seen that 8,795 employees affected by
trade disputes were engaged in mining, a far greater number than in any other
branch of industry. The building trades came next vnXh. 2,580 employees, followed
by 1,505 engaged in transport, and 1,293 unskilled labourers.
The follcsving table shows the number of disputes in each trade or industry
from 1901 to 1909, inclusive, from which it appears that the building trades,
with 233 strikes and lockouts out of a total of 995, rank first in number, followed
by the metal industries with 152 disputes, clothing industries with 94 and mining
industries with 82.
Department of Labour, Canada,
[Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 26.
TABLE SHOWING INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES BY INDUSTRIES AND TRADES IN CANADA DURING
THE YEARS 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 AND 1909.
Number of Disputes.
1902 I 1903 i 1904
Agriculture
Building
Metal
Woodworking and lumbering. .
Textile
Clothing
Food and tobacoo preparation .
Leather
Printing and bookbinding
Transport
Longshoremen
Mining . .
Fishing
Unskilled. .
Miscellaneous
Total.
233
152
The next two tables indicate respectively the number of strikes and lockouts
which have occurred since 1901 in mines, transportation agencies and other public
utilities, which come under the operation of the Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act, 1907, and the number of strikes and lockouts during the same period in other
industries, in which 100 or more employees were involved.
Department op Labocr, Canada,
Statistical Tables X. A. R.. No. 27.
TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN MINES, AGENCIES OF TRANSPORTA-
TION AND COMMUNICATION. AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES IN CANADA DURING THE
YEARS 1901 TO 1909 INCLUSIVE.
Industry.
Year.
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Total
2
2
3
5
3
4
7
6
1
7
6
8
4
1
1
2
8
2
2
1
2
11
2
8
3
5
1
9
2
4
4
9
2
7
2
4
1
2
9
1
1
3
3
59
Kail avs . .
General v"^"*^"...,.
1
p
Total
12
IS
28
8
15
30
30
16
17
171
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 181
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Department of ijAbouk, ^.^.-.v^dA;
Statistical Tables. X. A. R., No. 28.
TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF STRIKESlAND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA AFFECTING ONE HUNDRED
OR MORE EMPLOYEES IN INDUSTRIES OF NON-PUBLIC UTILITIES, NOT INCLUD.i:::
MINES, DURING THE YEARS'1901 TOil909. INCLUSINt.
Industry.
Year.
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
19^8
1909
Total
2
5
3
1
3
1
5
2
2
1
7
7
2
1
5
11
9
3
2
1
7
1
1
1
10
2
1
4
1
4
10
3
2
14
2
3
3
1
2
6
3
7
17
6
4
2
72
40
12
t> • *• A \V A i A
5
Textile trades
2
1
1
1
1
3
2
3
4
1
4
16
28
Food and tobacco preparation
3
1
1
2
2
4
4
5
1
4
20
5
J5
]
Total
21
21
48
24
20
28
38
21
21
242
DISPUTES BY LOCALITIES AFFECTED.
The following table shows the number of trade disputes which occurred in
the different provinces of Canada during 1909, classified according to the months
in which they began.
Department of Labodr, Canada,
Statistical Tables, Series X. A. R.. No. '.sD.
TABLE SHOWING TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA BY PROVINCES DURING THE CALENDAR
YEAR 1909.
Number of Disputes.
Province.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Total
1
2
2
1
6
Prince Edw.Isd.
New Brunswick.
Quebec
Ontario. .
1
1
1
1
4
2
1
1
1 1
2
1
1
2
4
1
2
5
1
1
6
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
26
1
1
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
6
BritishColumbia
More than 1 pro-
vince affected
1
1
1
g
1
Total. . i
4
3
4
7
11
8
11
10
2
4
3
1
68
The next table shows the number of trade disputes which took place in each
province during the past nine years, from which it may be seen that out of 995
strikes and lockouts, 469 took place in the Province of Ontario, and 218 in the
Province of Quebec.
182
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Department op Labolu, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 30,
TABLE SHOWING TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA ACCORDING TO PROVINCES FOR THE YEARS
1901, 1902, 1903, 1901, 1905, 1906, 1907. 1908 AND 1909.
Number of Disputes
1903 1904 1905
1908 1909 Total
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia.
More than one province affected .
Total.
104
123 160
103
87 138 146
66
68
995
•Dispute affected all provinces in Dominion with exception of Prince Edward Island.
'First dispute affected Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta: second affected same provinces
with the addition of British Columbia,
'Dispute took place in Quebec and Ontario.
*One dispute took place in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, and the other in Alberta and British Columbia.
^Dispute affected all provinces except Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
'Dispute affected Alberta and British Columbia,
LOSS OF TIME IN WORKING DAYS.
The following table shows the number of working days estimated to have
been lost by employees through trade disputes each month during 1909.
Department op Labodb, Canada,
Statistical Tables, Series X. A, R., No. 31.
TABLE SHOWING LOSS OF TIME IN WORKING DAYS TO EMPLOYEES THROUGH TRADE DISPUTES
IN CANADA BY MONTHS, DURING 1909.
Approximate loss of time in
working days.
January . .
February.
April.
May.
June . . ■• . •
July
August...- •
September. .
October ■ ■ ■
November.,
December, .
3,. WO
4,!).'iO
10,500
72,500
116,000
82.550
89 ,000
107,. 500
113,000
97,. 500
96,, 500
78,500
872,000
Chart No. 3, following page 198 shows the variation from month to month
in the number of working days lost in each of the years from 1905 to 1909, inclusive.
Of all the various industries, by far the greatest loss of time was in the mining
industry, in which there were lost over 711,000 days out of a total of about 872,000
days lost. The building trades came next with a loss of about 47,100 days.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
183
The following table shows the estimated loss of time in each branch of industry
or trade.
Department^of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, Series X. A. R., No. 32.
TABLE SHOWING LOSS OF TIME IN WORKING DAYS TO EMPLOYEES THROUGH TRADE DISPOTES
IN CANADA BY TRADES DURING 1909.
Approximate loss of time in
working days.
Fishing
Lumbering
Mining.
Bu Iding trades
Metal trades
Woodworking and fumisMng trades.
Textile trades
Clothing trades.. •
Food and tobacco preparation ■ - •
Leather trades.
Transport
Unskilled labour
Miscellaneous trades
Total.
6,94,S
6,600
11,200
47,100
23,883
744
33 ,380^
12,550
3,895
5,231
10,000
4,949
5,520
CAUSES OF TRADE DISPUTES.
The principal causes of strikes and lockouts which took place in Canada in
1909 are set forth in the following table arranged according to the months in which
they began.
Department of LAsonR, Canada,
Statistical Tables Series X. A. R., No. 33.
TABLE SHOWING BY MONTHS THE CAUSES OF TRADE DISPUTES WHICH BEG.A.N IN CANADA
DURING 1909.
Cause.
Number of Disputes.
1
is
0.
<
*-i
1
g.
O
>
1
1
1
For increase in w
I
1
2
2
7
1
6
6
2
.2
1
1
2
1
30
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Against employment of persons on other
1
AeT'nst d's h" ° f ' '°1 '°'" s
1
1
1
For" lo-jed sh n"a d r'' °mV fu "
,
,
Against conditions f emol •m°nt'' '°°
3
1
1
3'
p . . , . ^ ■
2
1
1
Acain-jTm th" d° f n '°m
For increase 'n waee^^nd th "r hane
2
4
Refusal of employer to sign agreement with
foreman
1
8
Total....
4
4
3
7
11
11
10
9.
4
3
fiS
184
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The following table shows the causes of trade disputes which began in each
year from 1901 to 1909.
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statisticai^ Tables, X. A. R. No. 34.
TABLE SHOWING CAUSES OF TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA WHICH BEGAN DURING 1901, 1902,
1903, 1904. 1905, 1906, 1907. 1908 AND 1909. RESPECTIVELY.
Number of Disputes.
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
For increase in wages.
Against reduction in wages ■
For decrease in hours
For increase in wages and decrease in
hours
Against employment of particular
persons
Against conditions of employment. . ■ ■
For recognition of union
Sympathetic
Unclassified
Total.
104 123 160 103
METHODS OF SETTLEMENT.
The following table illustrates the methods by which trade disputes were
settled during 1909, according to the month in which they were terminated.
Department op Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables Series, X. A. R., No. 35.
TABLE SHOWING METHODS OF SETTLEMENT OF TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA DURING 1909.
Method.
Number of Disputes.
G
=5
<
s
_>.
<
g.
m
O
>
i
3
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
2
6
1
4
1
2
1
3
4
1
1
1
Negotiations between parties concerned
1
2
1
2
3
1
1
2
3
1
22
19
Work resumed on employers' terms (without
1
7
Demands of strikers granted fwithout negotia-
1
1
1
8
2
4
5
1
11
1
8
1
10
3
1
2
6
8
13
Total....
3
2
69
A. comparison of the methods of settlement of trade disputes in the years
from 1901 to 1909, is given in the following table.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 36.
TABLE SHOWING METHODS OF SETTLEMENT OF TRADE DISPUTES IN CAN.\DA DURING 1001,
1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907. 1908 AND 1909.
Number of Disputes.
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 Total
erned
13
Arbitration
Conciliation
Negotiations between parties
Replacement of men
Work resumed on employer's terms
(without negotiations)
Demands of strilcers granted (without
negotiations) ' -
Work resumed (employer not involved )
Employment found elsewhere by
strikers ....
Unsettled at end of year 12
Not reported
Total.
104
139 151
452
155
Most of the disputes in the above table marked unsettled were terminated in
the year following the one in which they are placed.
RESULTS OF TRADES DISPUTES.
The following table shows the results of the strikes and lockouts which were
in existence in Canada during 1909, according to the months in which they were
terminated.
Department of Labour, Canada.
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 37.
TABLE SHOWING RESULTS OF TRADE DISPUTES IN C.4NADA DURI.NG 1909.
Result.
Number
of Disputes.
i
J3
(2
S
<
&
S
1
<
m
O
>
1'
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
4
1
2
7
3
4
2
2
3
1
4
2
3
1
1
2
26
10
15
4
14
In favour of employees
2
1
1
6
8
Indefinite, unsettled or not reported
3
2
2
4
1
5
1
1
1
5
2
Total
8
11 8
10
69
186
DEPARTML'XT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The following table contains an analj'sis of the principal causes of the trade
disputes which began in 1909, classified according to their results.
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tadlks, X. A. It., No. 38.
TABLE SHOWING CAUSES AND RESLTLTS OF TRADE DISPUTES IN CANADA DURING THE
CALENDAR YEAR 1909.
Results.
Causes.
la
S ft
ha
ill
H 0.3
Indefinite,
unsettled
or terms
not reported.
Total.
For increase in wages
Against reduction in wages
15
2
1
4
1
7
2
2
3
1
30
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
2
1
1
Against employment of persons on other grounds than
2
Against discharge of employees,
1
1
1
1
Against conditions of employment
For recognition of union...
Against method of payment
For increase in wages and other changes -
Refusal of employer to sign an agreement with foreman
1
3
3
2
1
3
1
2
7
Total
26
10
15
4
14
69
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
X.— INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS IN CANADA DURING 1909 WITH COM-
PARATIVE STATISTICS FOR TITE FIVE PRECEDING YEARS.
According to the stati.stics relating to industrial accidents collected by
the Department during the year 1909, 1,279 fatal and 2,718 serious non-fatal
accidents occurred throughout Canada. This snows a slight increase, namely
seven, in the number of fatal accidents compared with the preceding year
and an increase of 441 in the number of non-fatal injuries. The record, how-
ever, is below that of 1907, when 1,353 fatal and 2,752 non-fatal accidents
were reported. As in previous years, the summer and autumn months, dur-
ing which industrial activity is at its height in Canada, show a proportion-
ately higher return of accidents.
The largest number of fatalities, namely 283, occurred in the railway ser-
vice, agriculture standing second, with 256; mining third, wilh 160; and him-
bering fourth, with 130. It will be remembered that the industries ranked
in the same order, from this standpoint, in 1908 and 1907.
Of the non-fatal injuries, the largest number occurred in the metal trades,
namely 482; agriculture standing second, with 374; and the railway service
third, with 293. In 1908, the railway service stood second and agriculture
third, the metal trades standing first as in 1909.
Comparing the record of the year in the several groups, it will be seen
that there was a decrease in the number of fatal accidents recorded in the
building, food and tobacco preparation, and leather trades, and among civic
employees and the classes included under the headings of "general trans-
port," "miscellaneous," and "unskilled labour.*' In the remaining groups,
increases in the number of aceid'Cnts occurred. In the number of non-fatal
injuries increases were shown in all the groups except in the textile trades
and under the heading of "miscellaneous."
From the standpoint of possible remedial action a very important portion
of the information collected by the Department is that relating to the causes
of accidents. A tabular analysis of the causes of the several fatal and non-
fatal accidents in the various industries and trades is given below. It will
be seen from these tables that in the agricultural industry the largest number
of deaths through accident occurred from being run over by vehicles, while
the largest number of the non-fatal injuries resvilted from falls aud from
injuries received from machinery and tools. In the fishing industry, drown-
ings made up almost the entire list of fatalities. Drownings also accounted
for fifty-one of the 130 fatal accidents occurring in the lumbering industry,
while seventy-eight of the 181 non-fatal injuries recorded were received about
machinery and engines. Under the heading of mining, explosions caused
over thirty-five per cent of the deaths, and over twenty per cent of the non-
fatal injuries. Falls accounted for nearly all of the deaths, and over sixty-
188 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
six per cent of the non-fatal injuries in the building trades. The largest
number of accidents in the metal, woodworking, clothing, textile, food and
tobacco preparation, and leather trades were occasioned by machinery, belt-
ing, &c., and by falling material. In the railway service, ninety-three em-
ployees lost their lives by being run over by trains, forty-two in derailments,
and thirty-one in collisions. The largest number of non-fatal injuries among
railway employees were caused by falls from trains and cars, but there were
fifty-six such injuries received in derailment, thirty-five, in collisions, and
thirty from being run over by trains, while thirty-one employees were seri-
ously injured by being struck by falling material. Under the heading of
navigation, sixty-two of the ninety-five fatalities reported were drownings,
while twenty-six of the ninety-one non-fatal injuries were caused by falls and
nineteen by explosions. Falls accounted for thirteen fatal and sixty-seven
non-fatal accidents under the heading of general transport. The largest
number of fatalities and non-fatal injuries among civic employees, occurred to
firemen. Among unskilled labourers twenty-one men were killed by being
run over by vehicles and seventeen by falling material; fifty-three of 123 non-
fatal injuries were also occasioned by falling material.
The method in which the Department collects statistics for the industrial
accidents is described in the annual report of the Department for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 1909, page 71.
An important incident of the year, and one that is probably destined to
have a far-reaching effect in the prevention of a certain class of industrial
accidents, was the investigation carried out by the Department of Mines,
Canada, into the general question of the supervision of explosives throughout
Canada. For some time past, and especially since the beginning of the ex-
tensive railway construction operations at present in progress, there has been
an alarming increase in the number of fatalities among workpeople engaged in
the handling of explosives. In the mining industry, also, the death rate from
this cause has been exceedingly high. By referring to the subjoined tables
it will be seen that not less than seventy-two workmen lost their lives from
explosives during the past year, and it should be remembered that these
statistics are confined to employees killed while in the actual performance
of their duties. Legislation bearing on the matter differs considerably in
the different provinces, and it is understood that as a result of the investiga-
tion above referred to an Act will be introduced at the next session of Par-
liament to deal in full detail with the manufacture, transportation, storage
and use of explosives. At the past session an appropriation of .$10,000 was
voted for the purpose of engaging expert assistance in the framing of this
legislation and in other matters arising out of the investigation aforesaid.
The following is a statement of the number of fatalities in the several
industries and trades caused by explosives during 1909 :
Agriculture ■ 1
Fishing and Hunting 3
Mining 31
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 189
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Unskilled Labour 4
Metal Trades 1
Railway Construction 22
Public Emploj'ees 3
Unskilled Labour 4
Miscellaneous 7
Total 12
DapARTMENT OF LaBOUR, CaNADA,
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 39.
STATISTICAL TABLE OF FATAL INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS IN CANADA DURING THE CALENDAR
YEAR 1909.
Trade or Industry.
Number of Accidents according to Months.
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov De . Total
Agriculture
Fishing and hunting
Lumbering.
Mining
Building trades
Metal trades ■
Woodworking trades
Printing trades.
Clothing trades.
Textile trades
Food and tobacco preparation-
Leather trades
Railway service
Navigation
General tran.'^port
Civic employees
Miscellaneous trades
Unskilled labour.
Total.
. 71 80 79 70 97 |l30 |l05 129 94 152 145 127
130
160
3&
1,27
Department or Labour, Canada.
Statistical Tables, X, A. R., No. 40.
STATISTICAL TABLE OF NON-FATAL INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS IN CANADA DURING THE
CALENDAR YEAR 1909.
Trade or Industry.
Agriculture
Fishing and hunting - -
Lu mbering
Mining
Building trades
Metal trades
Woodworking trades
Printing trades.
Clothing trades.
Textile trades
Food and tobacco preparation
Leather trades
Railway service
Navigation
General transport
Civic employees
Miscellaneous trades ■
Unskilled labour..
Total....
Number of Accidents according to Months.
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. [Sep. Oct. Nov Dec. Total
164 160 194 1
185 292 258 264 |225 2€3 279 218
482
158
162
U3
190
DEPART.MEXr UF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Department of Labour, (,'anada.
Statistical Tables, X. A. R., No. 41.
TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF FATAL AND NON-FATALlACCIDENTS IN CANADA BY TRADES
DURING THE YEARS 1904 TO 1909 INCLUSIVE.
.\griculture...
FLshing and hunting .
Lumbering
Mining
Building trades
Metal trades
Woodworking trades
Printing trades
Clothing trades
Textile trades
Food and tobacco pr
paration • ■
Leather trades
Railway service ......
Navigation*
General transport ■ ■ ■
Civic employecsj
Miscellaneous trades.
Unskilled labour
Total . .
S90'l,791
963
2,357
1,107
2,74511,353
2,75:
1,272 2,277
1,278
2,718
1,099
132
635
781
265
493
50
1,615
524
457
49
345
299
6,864
1,634
17
865
986
1,218
2,805
115
132
212
41
1,688
■ 405
1,088
297
1,035
811
14,538
*Included with General Transport in 1904.
tOnly constituted in a distinct group in 1905.
Department of Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tableb,-.X. A. R., No. 42.
TABLE SHOWING CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS DURING THE YEARS,1904ri965r'l906,Tij077l908 AND 1909.
AGRlCtJLTDHE.
L'auses (if Accidents.
Killed.
Injured.
1904
1905
1906
1907 1908
1909
1904
1905 1906
1907 ! 1908
1909
Struck and run over by trains ■
26
18
14
3
8
5
4
7
4
1
1
2
1
9
19
18
27
21
14
13
2
3
8
1
5
23
29
11
4
16
27
33 24
19 29
18
24
7
19
24
6
18
10
7
3
10
1
3
10
10 i 7
41 45
54 9
23 1 2
13 8
44 53
6 i 11
61 1 40
73 51
7
47
injurea y
1 aUing trom ve I es..
10 1 15
14 17
24 21
39
10
33
15
Injured by machines and tools
Falling from haylofts, bams, stacks&c
Injured when raising bams ■ ■
43
22
6
78
62
60
93
18
6
7
1
■■■7T'l3'
7 7
25 . ■ .
8
15
2
1
9
22
31
<>
3 6
4 j 6
21 .. .
3
2; 2
11 ■ 18
10 1
4
Injured when sawing and chopping
Injured by cave-in of pits, etc ■ ■
22
9
1
6
15
36
7
3
4
40
13
5
3
1
8
8
2
1
13
28
1
3
7
2
2
1
1
10
18
10
Injurea wnen i g
2
jjums an scai ..
1
Id
28
39
.^>5
Injured in runa ays.
[
Injured by other falling material • ■ .
1
5
2
23
6
2
2
6
5
15
6
1
1
1
17
2
3
40
22
Q?^"'^^b bp **
St k **
Arridcntally shot ■ ■ ■ ■
Struck by flying objects . .
2
4
1
Asphyxiated
1
Total
103
132
159
209
223
256
121
241
236
295
291
.■i74
REPORT OF THE DEPUTV MIMSTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
FISHING AND HUNTING.
Causes of Accidents.
IviUed.
Inju
red.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
16
13
15
16
33
31
' ....
Caught in bear trap
Attacked by moose
Injured by falk ■ ■ -
1
2
1
1
4
4
1
Explosion of gasoline
3
Total
16
13
15
17
37
34
1
J
3
4
1
7
LUMBERING AND SAWMILLING.
Struck by falling trees 17
Struck by logs I 4
Injured by dynanaite explosion ■ i 1
Drowned j 22
Frozen - ■ i . . . ■
Falling of logs i 1
Run over by railway cars 3
Struck by wood flying from saws, etc.| 5
Struck by falling lumber, etc
Struck by axes when chopping trees I . . ■ . -
Injured by machines and engines- ■ ! 3
Injured by exiilosions 6
Injured by saws i 4
Inju red by bu rsting of an emery wheel ' 1
Crushed between cars 1
Injured by bursting of refuse machine . ■
Overwhelmed in mud slides, etc. ■ ■ 1
Gunshot wound i. . . .
Falls, general I . - ■ .
Kun over by dump cart \. ■ ■ ■ ■
Killed by a bear ! • ■
Falling material
Electricity
Unclassified
Runaways
Being run over
Exposure •
Live stock
Tools
Total.
69
33
8
8
14
11
1
2
3
5
1
15
5
2
19
16
3
2
2
1
2
2
20
8
13
16
32
I
4
53
3
25
10
11
4
8
11
3
29
2
2
16
48
22
24
32
34
20
37
11
3
3
18
12
10
1
6
2
2
13
39
8
8
26
18
10
12
4
2
5
42
9
9
9
57
16
14
1
1
3
1
67
1
1
5
20
17
15
.6
2
60
2
62
13
13
59
12
Falling down mine shafts and chutes
Struck by falling stone and earth, etc.
45
Crushed between cars, car and mine
wall, box and pit props, etc.-
Machinery, belting, etc
Falling from scaffolds and trestles
Falling in various ways not specified
Run over by cars
4
4
2
3
22
2
9
20
5
6
7
6
1
2
8
' 31
2
6
1
3
11
Drowned .
Kicked bv a mule
3
13
1
2
1
-
Itijurrd by exposure.
1
33
4
2
Taught in a "bump"
] 3
1
.■ 1
Injured by live stock
Injured by molten metal ■ •
Injured by passing objects
2
Total
103
70
119
117
135
167
226
187
14,
192
DEPARTME.XT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
Causes of Accidents.
Killed.
Injured.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904 1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
13
5
2
2
9
20
4
8
5
2
13
10
23
38
48
78
1
9
5
1
21
15
3
2
30
45
17
26
39
98
Falling from scaffoldings, etc • ■
Falling through a floor.
Collapse of building and wall ■ ■
20
10
14
12
2
6
13
1
2
2
2
2
1
7
7
109
1
3
13
5
Falling in various ways not specified
Railway accidents • ■
Struck by falling stones and bricks. ■ -
1
4
3
1
2
3
4
3
1
25
3
1
1
1
18
2
1
31
102
21
1
161
3
3
1
1
Struck by other falling material.- ■ ■ ■
Injured by elevators and hoists
Injured by electric shock.
2
2
3
2
1
1
1
3
1
1
3
11
2
20
1
1
3
26
2
28
4
29
2
1
1
6
4
r» pd
2
I ^ "d b' • m hinerv
17
20
5
17
1
3
2
2
2
1
4
7
1
16
2
1
2
1
1
Injured by wood projected from saw
1
3
Rl*^*^ d n^ . '■' " "
1
. 1
TWrni? tar' ^
.
1
Total
43 ' 46 i 59 33
46
38
1.38
201
262
211
219
245
OWORKJNO TRADES.
Causes of Accidents.
Killed.
Injured.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Injured by machinery, belting, etc.
3
1
3
2
2
3
1"
1
1
2
1
1
5
2
3
1
2
1
6
46
45
7
1
2
10
6
6
4
3
3
3
2
3
1
28
46
6
1
4
6
15
9
5
2
2
2
118
3
1
123
8
1
88
12
1
1
112
Struck by wood flying from saws,
planers, etc...
19
Injured by elevators and hoista
In'i "^"^1 b^ nlaner""
T H h t
injure y j°' " • • •
In'u^d b*^ tiler tools
T \\' • tt r
lnjure< jj L_,i„»Hiac
Tn'ur -A 1 v nreises
Hf V b f n'nir tnAtprial
3
2
2
6
10
12
I T^wl b '■n'ndl ■ arver
1
Falling and jumping from a building
2
3
6
1
4
1
4
2
IT * I • f W'l r
5
5
7
2
4
8
8
7
11
1.54
140
116
1S8
STATISTICAL CHARTS
Relating to Trade Disputes and Industrial Accidents in
Canada from 1901 to 1909 inclusive.
Department of Labour, Canada.
Statistical Chart, IX, A. R. No. 1
CHART SHOWING VARIATION IN NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN TRADE
DISPUTES IN CANADA EACH MONTH DURING 1901 TO 1909. INCLUSIVE.
Noor
DISPUTES
JAN
FEB. 1 MARCH APRIl
MAY
JUNE JULY
AUG 1 SEPT
OCT
NOV
DEC.
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14,000
13.500
13.000
12,500
12,000
11,500
11,000
10,500
10,000
9.500
9,000
8,500
8,000
7,500
7.000
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200.000
195.000
190.000
185.000
180,000
175.000
170.000
165.000
160.000
155.000
150,000
145,000
140.000
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120.000
115.000
110,000
105.000
100.000
95,000
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DIAGRAMS SHOWING NUMBER OF FATAL ACCIDENTS BY MONTHS IN VARIOUS
Mining TRADES AND INDUSTRIES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD 1904 TO 1909.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
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Statistical Chart, X, A. R. No* 7
DIAGRAMS SHOWING NUMBER OF FATAL ACCIDENTS BY MONTHS IN VARIOUS
TRADES AND INDUSTRIES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD 1904 TO 1909.
Bciu>iNG Tradjis
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DLVGRAMS SHOWING NUMBER OF FATAL ACCmENTS BY MONTHS IN VARIOUS
TRADES AND INDUSTRIES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD 1904 TO 1909.
Railway Service.
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35
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1906
1907
1908
1909
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REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 193
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Causes of Acridonts.
1904
1905
1906 11907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Injured by machinery, belting, etc. ■
12
3
9
5
4
9
2
4
4
3
4
1
2
2
5
7
1
5
11
1
5
3
1
2
6
2
3
1
8
7
1
14
1
7
1
1
15
21
1
16
6
7
6
3
13
12
2
21
1
108
15
92
55
11
14
9
11
6
2
11
22
4
3
14
1
2
6
7
6
2
9
4
24
2
1
147
7
63
40
13
6
22
2
3
5
5
14
9
5
5
10
251
7
94
52
8
6
25
15
1
40 '
1
4
7
33
201
6
129
31
10
15
.102
2
131
10
82
34
4
46
1
171
Struck by falling material ■
Injured by hot or molten metal ■ ■ ■ -
106
50
15
4
Injured by elevators and hoists
14
Falling in various ways not specified
2
2
1
17
12
6ft
2
Injured by boiler explosions
Struck by falling wood, poles, etc •
2
4
4
16
3
4
3
7
4
1
6
26
5
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
3
1
4
3
1
1
44
7
18
15
13
1
1
1
1
5
Scalded by water, steam, etc -
Injured by electricity
Injured by explosions of gas, powder.
1
19
1
2
2
31
3
1
5
3
8
Struck by flying material ...-■■■■■
1
26
1
2
4
2
1
1
1
3
Injured by chains
2
2
9
1
3
2
3
2
1
2
Injured when grinding
3
1
2
Injured by live stock
3
2
1
Dropped dead while shoeing horse .
1
2
1
5
63
Railway accident
4
2
3
1
3
Collapse of bridge at Quebec.
Unclassified
35
1
74
154
■ . [
56 1 «« r
63
77
562
570
364
482
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PHINTING THADES.
5
3
1
8
4
1
3
1
1
1
17
20
3
12
Crushed in printing mafhines
Strack by a falling mould
Hot metal and other material.
Injured by knives
Elevator acridents
1
1
Total
1
1
9
19
17
23
12
35
CLOTHING TRADES.
Injured bv elevators and hoists
1
2
1
2
1
4
8
4
2
6
1
21
1
2
1
1
1
2
4
11
1
1
18
1
13
Kicked by a horse
Injured by mangles
Injured by presses
1
2
1
1
3
2
■
Mistaken use of nitrate of potash. .
2
3
2
3
21
Total
3
2
1
1
1
36
19
24
16
16
36—13
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
TEXTII^E TRADES.
Killed.
Injured.
1901
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Iniured by machinery, belting, etc- •
2
1
1
1
1
13
2
1
1
1
1
1
13
5
2
1
1
2
1
1
2
41
29
34
24
■ ■
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
3
3
8
1
3
2
23
2
Total
3
2
3
3
2
30
46
41
37
35
FOOD AND TOBACCO PRBPABATION.
Injured by machinery, belting, etc. • ■
1
2
5
3
1
2
1
1
4
12
6
1
9
2
4
3
23
10
3
6
4
2
6
4
1
2
2
2
2
9
27
2
22
2
23
5
35
3
1
1
14
17
6
1
1
2
3
-1
3
2
10
3
9
4
1
1
1
2
2
4
2
4
2
3
. ■ ■ •
3
1
1
7
2
2
3
2
2
1
2
1
7
12
3
3
1
1
2
1
1
1
3
I
7
12
3
■
1
13
Tclfci
6
9
20
18
14
9
55
76
79
74
63
86
LEATHER TR\DEB.
Injured by machinery, belting, etc.
I
4
2
2
1
1
1
1
3
6
1
11
2
2
1
i
4
FftllinK...
1
2
Tools
1
Total
2
6
3
3
2
4
7
13
3
5
e
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
RAILWAY SBRVICB.
196
Causes of Accidents.
KiUed.
Injured.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906 1907
1908
1909
53
33
18
12
22
37
25
16
20
6
39
3
23
3
' 20
27
45
12
42
37
30
15
33
25
1 35
31 77
27
43
33
35
31
16
6
10
12
9
28
3
23
3
1
10
16
4
3
9
44 16
54 39
29 18
16
51
42
3
In coUisiona
35
Derailing of engines, etc
42
24
56
Falling from trains and cars
14
17
15
26
49
3
53
52
47
59
Foot catching in frogs, etc, £ind runf
47
3
20
10
2
1
4
2
1
62
5
43
21
106
2
51
33
95
4
76
16
33
4
41
30
44
2
49
58
33
13
28
28
30
17
Injured by blasting, dynamite, etc. ■
Crushed between cars, engines, etc. - -
Crushed in round-houses and shops
Striking objecta when on moving
26
14
12
16
5
5
26
4
5
6
2
11
6
19
5
2
24
3
18
5
46
4
33
Injured by falling snow and rocks, etc.
8
5
15
3
■' 1
31
6
2
1
4
Iniur d b • tools ^
4
10
3
4
Injured by machinery, belting, etc • ■ \
1
2
1
6
5
16
12
D d 1
4
2
4
1
8
9
3
1
8
ro ne • In a fire '
":::: ■::::
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
4
2
1
n I fi d
10
8
30
9
Bu rn^d ^ and ' q ' aided
11
r
1
1
Total
273
21.5
252
342
326
2S3
342
331
323
337
316
293
NATIOATION.
Cause* of AccidenU.
KiUed.
Injured.
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
101
92
3
62
5
4«
3
62
8
20
1
20
14
24
18
5
19
30
12
22
23
6
11
C 11 ht 'n^ WR r
8
8
2
9
1
3
1
1
17
1
2
6
5
18
8
16
1
26
19
xp osiona o g , e
3
1
5
14
11
5
2
1
4
1
1
I ^ur d b fir onVessel '
Fr zen tn^death
FI f • >i L-
1
2
2
1
1
Tn^^redb "^ma' hVn'prv
2
1
1
5
6
•
1
pj^? m r"al
1
1
4
g
Exnoiure^
6
T ■ 1 pd h ft'lwa
4
Tn"ii pd bv vehiclea * "
1
■
1
16
Bums' r s'^alds * ' '
1
4
1
3
. ...
Total
128
117
100
84
95
85
61
74
62
91
*ThiB group of trades was included with general transport in 1904.
DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
GENERAL TRAN
Causes of Accident'.
KiUed.
Inju
red.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
33
6
50
1
69
9
6
6
4
9
1
2
14
59
1
22
52
10
2
20
16
64
11
8
8
3
8
4
2
11
3
7
4
Falling from vehicles and run over-
9
1
2
2
6
3
4
3
1
4
3
3
4
2
2
2
3
1
5
1
1
Falling in various ways not specified
11
13
7
4
6
4
4
1
5
2
24
22
2
56
49
76
3
3
Injured by elevators and hoists
Injured by blastings and explosions
'
8
6
1
10
9
5
3
1
3
1
5
2
2
2
4
3
3
3
6
6
10
4
1
5
5
1
1
1
Run over by trains and cars
4
13
Struck by timber, wood, etc
1
2
3
1
1
2
Injured by machinery, belting, etc
3
2
2
3
10
10
1
1
1
1
15
2
3
7
7
14
14
7
1
Injured by falling earth, etc., in cave-
1
3
8
6
13
3
1
2
1
8
5
4
1
8
20
13
17
3
13
1
3
3
2
3
2
2
2
2
19
6
S'-alded
Caught by hawsers and anchor chains
1
11
3
1
1
4
1
12
5
4
1
9
6
7
7
6
13
17
rolHsions
1
13
11
2
28
16
1
39
3
3
1
20
55
10
20
Total
103
140
45
54
50
168
234
178
193
135
193
CIVIC EMPLOYEES.*
Killed.
Injured.
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1905
1906
1907
1908
22
12
4
1909
Injurcfl by falb on way to fire, at fires, etc
4
2
1
2
1
4
6
4
4
63
10
3
5
43
6
5
7
29
27
6
1
27
28
12
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
2
10
2
2
1
2
4
2
2
1
3
2
1
2
Drowne*!
1
I
1
^
2
1
■
1
6
Total
7
5
19
12
72
66
80
55
91
*Th>s group was constituted a diitinct unit in 1905.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPZR No. 36.
MISCELLANEOUS TRA
Causes of Accidents.
Killed.
Inju
red.
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Blasting, explosions of dynamite, etc.
7
3
5
5
2
20
3
2
2
2
11
11
9
14
7
2
2
4
26
8
4
17
16
3
13
11
27
1
5
9
18
9
9
48
8
13
5
1
15
19
22
75
4
5
1
30
48
2
9
5
18
16
31
14
39
31
Injured by machinery, belting, etc. ■
4
4
1
1
3
7
6
2
5
3
6
4
36
V ir f m h' 1 q
1
Fair ^ f °m buldines
1
1
9
8
2
2
3
1
10
5
1
56
Falling in various ways not specified
4
3
21
31
13
3
6
5
1
11
Struck by falling wood
1
3
2
16
'■■7
1
5
3
1
1
1
2
2
5
2
5
3
5
4
4
4
6
17
3
In'ur d b ave in f earth
In'ur d bv electricity
T ■ H Vi iir
.. . . .
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
' , , .
....
2
27
1
' 30
18
6
1
Ri'i"^ d T d ath^
Ruptured artery in struggle with
1
Runaways
3
1
7
2
2
2
1
2
Burns and scalds . ,
Flying material
2
3
3
4
U^las^B d^ '' ' ° ^
5
2
30
18
'
Total
41
71
56
62
61
54
178
159
226
168
156
152
UNSKILLED LABOUR.
FallinK from buildinpis
Falling from scalTolding.
Struck by falling wood
Falling froni vehicles
Falling in other waya
Struck by falling stones, bricks, etc-
Injured by elevators and hoists
Injured by caving-in of earth.
Injured by derricks and cranes
Drowned
Blasting explosions of dynamite, etc.
Injured by machinery, belting, etc
Struck by falling metal
Collapse of part of building...
Railway accidents
Run over by vehicles
Injured by exposure.
Injured by tools
Injured by live stock
Asphyxiated by gas
Injured by electric shock
Struck by flying objects
Smothered in grain bin
Blood poisoning.
Unclassified
Total
119 I 143 142
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY -MINISTER OF LABOUR 199
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
XI.— THE LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT.
The principal event in regard to the Ubrary of the Department during the past
^ fiscal year was the removal into new quarters, where the pubUcations are now
housed in a suitable room containing modern library furniture and equipment.
The growth of the Department in recent years had precluded the allotment of
, adequate space to the library in its former situation, but with the present facilities,
it will be possible to make additions to the Uterature in the Department to a reason-
able extent for some time to come, and thus lay the foundations of a thoroughly
representative collection of publications relating to industrial subjects. Oppor-
tunity for research is afforded to students and others interested in labour problems,
tables and chairs being placed in the Ubrary for their use, while the card catalogue
provides a ready means of securing material in the Department bearing on par-
ticular subjects.
During the year, 104 books of reference were added to the Hbrary, 180 Govern-
ment pubUcations, 110 trade and labour journals, and 31 other periodicals. There
were received, besides, a large number of pamphlets on a variety of subjects. In
view of the prospective appointment of a Royal Commission on Technical Edu-
cation, special efforts were made to procure pubUcations relating to technical edu-
cation in the principal countries of the world, and a large number of books and
pamphlets on this subject were added to the Ubrary. A coUection of the consti-
tutions of trade unions in Canada and the United States was also begun, in which
matter assistance was given by the Secretaries of many labour organizations, to
whom the Department is indebted for their kindness in forwarding these valuable
documents. The commencement of an investigation into the cost of Uving in Cana-
da, which is to form a regular branch of the work of the Department, necessitated
the addition to the Ubrary of a number of trade journals which pubUsh price Usts
of the various commodities in which they are interested.
Official reports were received for the first time from the Governments of Para-
guay, Uruguay, the State of Oklahoma, the Cape of Good Hope and the Transvaal.
The following periodicals were also received for the first time: American Silk
Journal, Canadian Miller and Grain Elevator, Canadian Painter and Decorator
Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal, Canadian Railroad Employee, The Grain
Growers' Guide, The Fruit Magazine, Labour's Realm, The Plasterer, The Teamsters'
Magazine and The Pittsburg Legal Journal.
Attention was called in the columns of the Labour Gazette to the principal
Government reports which were added to the library from time to time, and seventy-
six of these publications were reviewed during the fiscal year.
A catalogue of Government reports and other publications relating to industrial
and labour conditions, and of trade, labour and economic periodicals received at
the Department during the fiscal year, is published herewith.
200 DEPARTMEXr OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
CATALOGUE OF REPORTS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS ADDED TO THE
LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR DURING THE
YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1910.
Canada:
Department oj Labour:
Year.
The Labour Gazette, Vol. IX, Nos. 10 to 12; Vol. X, Nos. 1 to 9 1909-1910
The Ninth Annual Report 1908-1909
Department oj Mines:
Summary Report of the Mines Branch for the nine month.s
ending December 31 1908
The Production of Iron and Steel in Canada during the calen-
dar years 1907 and 1908. By John McLeish, B.A 1909
Joint Report on the Bituminous, or Oil Shales of New Bruns-
wick and Nova Scotia; also on the Oil Shales Industry of
Scotland 1910
A Geological Reconnaissance of the Region Traversed by the
National Transcontinental Railway between Lake Nipi-
gon and Clay Lake, Ontario. By W. H. Collins 1909
Iron Ore Deposits of Vancouver and Texada Islands, British
Columbia. By Einar Lindeman 1910
Preliminary Report on the Mineral Production of Canada dur-
ing the calendar year 1909
Bulletin No. 1. Investigation of the Peat Bogs and Peat In-
dustry of Canada during the season 1908-9. By Erik
Nylstrom, M.E., and S. A. Anrep, M.E 1910
Report on Iron Ore Deposits of Nova Scotia. Part 1. By
S. E. Woodman 1909
Report on the Tungsten Ores of Canada. By T. A. Walker. . 1909
The Coal Fields of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and
Eastern British Columbia. By D. B. Dowling IDOi)
Reports on a Portion of Algoma and Thunder Bay Districts,
Ontario. By W. G. Wilson. And on the Region Lying
North of Lake Superior between the Pic and Nipigon
Rivers. By W. H. Collins 1909
The Whitehor.se Copper Belt, Yukon Territory. By R. G.
.McConnell 1909
A Descriptive Sketch of the Geology and lOconomic Minerals
of Canada. By G. A. Young 1909
Report on the Chrome Iron Ore Deposits of the Eastern Town-
ships, Province of Quebec. By Fritz Cirkel 1909
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIXISTER OF LABOUR 201
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
De-partineni of Agriculture:
Annual Report 1908-1909
Report of the Dairj' and Cold Storage Commissioner 1908-1909
Canadian Patent Office Record, April, 1909, to March 1910
Experimental Farms. Reports for the Year ending March 31 1909
The Cattle Trade of Western Canada. Special Report. By
S. G. Rutherford 1909
Department of the Interior:
Annual Report 1908-1909
Forest Conditions in the Crow's Nest Valley, Alberta. By
H. R. Macmillan 1909
Forest Fires in Canada during 1908. By H. R. Macmillan 1909
Department of Indian Affairs :
Annual Report 1908-1909
Department of Finance:
Report of the Superintendent of Insurance 1908
Department of Inland Revenue:
Report, Returns and Statistics of the Inland Revenues of
Canada 1908-1909
Department of Justice:
Report as to Penitentiaries of Canada 1908-1909
Department of Marine and Fisheries:
Annual Report, Fisheries 1908-1909
Department of Public Works:
Annual Report 1908-1909
Department of Railwai/s and Canals:
.\nnual Report 1908-1909
Railway Statistics for the Year ended June 30 1909
Report of the Hudson's Bay Railway Surveys 1909
202 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Department of Trade and Commerce:
Annual Report 1908-1909
House of Commons:
Evidence taken before the Marine and Fisheries Committee
Respecting the Lobster Industry, during the Session of . . . 1909
Railway Commission:
Third Annual Report for the Year ended March 31 1908
Nova Scotia:
Report of the Department of Mines 1909
Provincial Secretary's Report for the Year ended September
30 1909
Provincial Health Officer's Report 1909
Ninth Annual Report on Penal Institutions of Nova Scotia .... 1909
Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture for the Year. . 1909
Second Annual Report of the Factories Inspector 1909
Report on Public Charities for the Year ended September 30 . . 1909
Quebec:
General Report of the Minister of Public Works and Labour. . 1908-1909
Ontario:
Bureau of Labour:
Tenth Annual Report 1909
Department of Agriculture:
Annual Report, Vols. I, II 1908
Annual Report of the Agricultural Societies of Ontario and of
the Convention of the Ontario Association of Fairs and
Exhibitions for 1909
Report of the Bureau of Industries for 1908
Annual Report of the Bee-keepers' Association of Ontario for. 1908
Annual Reports of Dairymen's Associations 1908
Reports of the Farmers' Institutes for 1908
Annual Report of the Ontario Agricultural and Experimental
Union 1908
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 203
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Annual Reports of the Fruit Growers' Association, Fruit Ex-
periment Stations and Entomological Society of Ontario. 1908
Annual Reports of the Live Stock Associations 1909
Third Annual Report of the Poultry Institute of Ontario 1909
Report on Women's Institutes 1909
Report of the Milk Commission 1909
Report of the Vegetable Growers' Association 1908
Report of the Horticultural Societies 1908
Department of Education:
Annual Report 1908
Report to the Board of Education, City of Toronto, on Tech-
nical Schools in the United States 1909
Miscellaneous Reports:
Report of the Bureau of Mines 1909
Report on the Care of the Feeble-Minded 1909
Report on Hospitals for the Insane 1908
Report of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board 1908
The Province of Ontario, Canada, Situation and Size,
Climate, Products, Resources, Progress and Advantages. 1909
Report of the Game and Fisheries Department 1908
Report of the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent
Children for 1908
Saskatchewan:
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture 1908
Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 8. Final Report on
Grain Crops and Live Stock for 1908
Alberta:
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture 1908
Annual Report of the Department of Public Works 1908
British Columbia:
Royal Commission of Inquiry on Timber and Forestry. In-
terim Report 1910
Annual Report of the Public Schools 1908-1909
204 DEPART M EST OF LA HOUR
1 GEORGE v.. A. 1911
The United Kingdom:
Labour Department: Board of Trade.
The Labour Gazette, Vol 17, April to December, 1908; \'ol. IS
January to March 1910
Directory of Industrial Associations in the United Kingdom for 1910
Seventh Report of Proceedings under the Conciliation (Trade
Disputes) Act, 1896, during 1907-1909 ' 1910
Thirteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics of the Uniteil King-
dom, 1907-1908 1910
Report of an Inquiry by the Board of Trade into the Earnings
and Hours of Labour of Workpeople of the United King-
dom. I. Textile Trades in 1906. III. Building and
Woodworking Trades in 1906 1910
Report of an Inquiry into Working Class Rents, Housing and
Retail Prices, together with the Rates of Wages in certain
Occupations in the Principal Industrial Towns of France . . 1909
Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907, with Comparative
Statistics for 1898-1907 1909
Copy of Tables Relating to Emigration and Immigration from
and into the United Kingdom in the Year 1908
Standard Time Rates of Wages in the United Kingdom at
October 1 1909
Commercial Department: Board of Trade.
The Board of Trade Journal, April, 1909, to March 1910
Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom in each of the last
fifteen years from 1894 to 1908
Report upon the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in
Canada. By Mr. Richard Grigg, Special Commissioner of
the Advisory Committee on Commercial Intelligence. . . . 1910
Statistical Abstract for the Principal and other Countries in
each year from 1897 to 1907-1908
Annual Statement of the Navigation anil Shipping of the
Unitetl Kingdom for the Year 1908
Railvoay Dejxirtment: Board oj Trade.
Returns of Railway Accidents during the year ending Decem-
ber 31 190S
Other Government Pvblicalions:
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Proceediiigri of t he Ilegistrars
under the Building Societies' Acts 1908
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MIXISTER OF LABOUR 205
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Reports on Friendly Societies, Workmen's Compensation
Schemes, Industrial and Provident Societies and Trade
Unions 1908
Statistical Memoranda and Charts Prepared in the Local Gov-
ernment Board Relating to Public Health and Social
Conditions 1910
Report of the Proceedings of the Inspection Committee of
Trustee Savings Banks for the v^ar <>nded November 20 . . 1 909
Reports of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies for the
yearending December 31, 1908. Part C, Trade Unions. . 1909
Correspondence Respecting the Application to British Sub-
jects of the Benefits of the Swedish Law in Regard to
Workmen's Compensation for Accidents 1910
Preliminary Tables of Cases of Industrial Poisoning, Fatal and
Non-Fatal Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences in
Factories, Workshops, etc., during the year 1909
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, and Relief
of Distress, 1909. Appendix Vol. XII. Memoranda by
individual Commissioners on various subjects 1910
Appendix Vol. VI. ilinutes of Evidence 1910
Appendix Vol. VII. Minutes of Evidence 1910
Appendix Vol. XI. Report by Jlr. Cyril Jackson on Boy
Labour, together with the Memorandum from the General
Post Office on the Conditions of Employment of Telegraph 1909
^Messengers 1 909
Appendix Vol. XVIII. Report on the Condition of the Child-
ren who are in Receipt of the Various Forms of Poor Law
Relief in England and Wales 1910
Return for Copy of Explanation of References to Statutes in
the Housing, Town-Planning, etc.. Bill 1909
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Local Government Board.
Part I. Administration of the Poor Law, the Unemploy-
ed Workmen Act and the Old Age Pensions Act 1908-1909
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with
Foreign Countries and British Possessions, 1908, Com-
pared with the Four Preceding Years. Vols. I and II ... . 1 909
International Labour OfRce Bulletin. Vol. II, No. 4; Vol. Ill,
No. 1 19U7-1908
Report of the Fifth CSeneral Meeting of the Committee of the
International Association for Labour Legislation 1908
Commonwealth of Austr.\lia:
Summary of Commonwealth Production Statistics for the
Years 1901 to 1907
Summary of Commonwealth Statistics of Transport and Com-
munication for the Years 1901 to 1908
206 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Shipping and Oversea Migration for the Year 1908
Trade, Shipping, Oversea Migration and Finance for the
Months of February, March, April, May, June, Julj^,
August 1909
Summary of Australian Financial Statistics, 1901 to 1908
Population and Vital Statistics. Bulletins Nos. 13, 14 and 16. 1909
Official Year Book, No. 2 1901-1908
Bureau of Census and Statistics. Bulletins 3 and 4 1909
New South W.^les:
Department oj Labour and Industry:
Industrial Arbitration Reports and Records, Vol. VII, Parts 3,
4; Vol. VIII, Parts 1, 2 1908-1909
Report on the Working of the Factories and Shops Act, etc.,
during 1008
Department oj Justice:
Report of the Comptroller-General of Prisons for 1908
Labour Schedule (Prison) 1909
Prison Regulations, October 20 1909
New Zealand:
Department of Labour:
Journal of the Department of Labour, April, 1909, to March . . 1910
Awards, Recommendations and Decisions under the Industrial
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1909
Cape op Good Hope:
Report of the Select Committee on Conducting of Factories
and Fair Wage Clause 1906
Report of the Select Committee on the Factory Act 1906
Report of the Select Committee on Imported Contract Labour. 1908
Transvaal:
Mines Department, Administration Report of the Inspector of
White Labour for the Year ended June 30 1909
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 207
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
United States:
Federal Department of Commerce and Labour:
Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce and
Labour 1909
Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labour. 1909
Bulletin of the Bureau of Labour, Nos. 82 to 85, May to Nov-
ember 1909
Monthly Consular Trade Reports, April, 1909, to March 1910
Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Cotton Ex-
changes. Parts IV and V 1909
Report of the Commissioners of Corporations on the Tobacco
Industry. Part I 1909
United States of America versus Standard Oil Companj'. Vol.
I. Brief of the Law for the Petitioners. Vol. II, Brief
of Facts and Arguments for Petitioners 1909
California:
Special Labour Report on Remedies for Strikes and Lockouts. 1910
Illinois:
Fourth Bi-ennial Report 1886
Massachusetts:
Labour Bulletin, April, 1909, to March 1910
Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of
Labour 1908
Statistics of Manufacturers 1908
Annual Summary of the Work of the Bureau of Statistics, and
Recommendations of the Director 1910
Twenty-Third Annual Report of the State Board of Concilia-
tion and Arbitration 1908
Decision of the State Board of ConciHation and Arbitration,
May 14 1909
Michigan:
Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labour and In-
dustrial Statistics, Including Annual Report of State
Inspection of Factories 1909
208 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOl'R
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Nebraska:
Eleventh Bi-ennial Report of the Bureau of Labour and In-
dustrial Statistics 1907-1908
New York:
New York Labour Bulletin (quarterly) June, 1909, to March . . 1910
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labour
Statistics 1907
Seventh General Report of the Bureau of Labour Statistics. . . 1907
Ohio:
Bulletin No. 32 of the Bureau of Labour Statistics. Report of
Free Public Employment Offices 1890-1909
Oklahoma:
First Annual Report of the Department of Labour 1908
Wisconsin :
Thirteenth Bi-ennial Report of the Bureau of Labour and
Industrial Statistics. Parts IV, V, VI 1907-1908
Fourteenth Bi-ennial Report. Parts I, II 1909-1910
Austria:
Die Arbeitseinstellungen und Aussperruiigon in Oesterreich
wahrend des Jahres 1908
Soziale Rundschau 10 Jahrgang, Nos. 4 to 12, 1909; 10 Jahr-
gang, No.s. 1 to 3 1910
Ergebnisse der Arbeitsvermittlung in Oesterreich in den
Jahren 1907 und 1908 1909
Vorschriften uber die Sonntagsruhe in gewerbUchen Betriebe
Oesterreichs 1909
Die Koliektiven Arbeits und Lohnvertrage in Oesterreich,
abschlusse und Erneuerungen des Jahres 1907
Veranderungen im Stande der Gewerbe wahrend der Sieben
Jahrcsperioden 1900-1901 bis 190G-1907
Bericht uber die Tatigkeit des K. K. Arbeitsstetischen Amtes
im Handelsniinisterium wahrend des Jahres 1908
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR 209
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Belgium:
Revue du Travail, avril, 1909 a mars 1910
Rapports Annuels de I'lnspection du Travail 1908
Bulletin du Comite Central du Travail Industrie!, avril 1909
a mars 1910
Enquete sur la Peche Maritime en Belgique 1909
L'office du Travail de 1895 a 1905
Les Industries a domicile en Belgique. Vol. X 1909
France:
Bulletin de I'Office du Travail, avril 1909 a mars 1910
Statistique de Greves et des Recours a la Conciliation et a
I'Arbitrage survenus pendant I'annee 1908
Enquete sur le Travail a Domicile dans I'lndustrie de la Linge-
rie. Tome II 1908
Conseil superieur du Travail. Compte Rendu 1909
Annales du Musee Social, revues mensuelles, avril 1909 k mars. 1910
Memoires et Documents, supplement aux Annales 1909-1910
Geruant:
Die Regelung des Arbeitsverhaltnisses der Gemeindearbeiter
in deutschen Stadten. II. Die Arbeitsordnungen und son-
stigen Bestimmungen zur Regelung des Arbeitsverhalt-
nisses 1909
Reichs-Arbeitsblatt, April, 1909, to March 1910
Italt:
Bolletino del I'Officio del Lavoro, April, 1909, to March 1910
Bolletino del I'Emigrazione, Nos. 4 to 12, 1909; Nos. 1 to 3 . . . 1910
Lavatore della Miniere. Parti seconda. II Contratto di
lavoro 1909
Societa Umanitaria Milano. Disoccupazione coUocamenti
sussidi in Milano nel 1906
Paraguay:
Meraoria de Correos y Telegrafos. Tomes I, II .... : 1906-1907
Russia:
Enseignement Primaire populaire en Russie. Tomes I, II,
III, IV 1900-1902
Publications of the Imperial Free Economic Society 1909
36—14
210 DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
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Spain:
Legislacion dol Trabajo, Julio, 190S-Juiuo 1909
Boletin del Instituto de Reformes Sociales, April, 1909, to
March 1910
Memoria del Servicio de Inspeccion en 1907
Switzerland:
Bulletin de I'Office International du Travail 1909-1910
Uruguay:
Anuario Estadistico de le Republic Oriental del Urguay, anos
1907-1908. Tomo 1 1909
PART II.— TRADE AND LABOUR JOURNALS.
Advance Advocate, official organ of the International Brotherhood of Main-
tenance-of-Way Employees. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIX,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March ■ 1910
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' Journal, Vol. XV, Nas. 4 to 12; Vol.
XVI, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
American Federationist. Vol. XVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XVII, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
American Industries. Vol. VIII, No. 4 to Vol. IX, No. 3, April, 1909, to
March 1910
American Pressman. Vol. XIX, Nos. 3 to 12; Vol. XXI Nos. 1, 2, 3, Feb-
ruary, 1909, to March 1910
American Silk Journal. November, 1909, to March 1910
Blacksmiths' Journal. Vol. X, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XI, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
Boilermakers' and Shipbuilders' Journal. Vol. XXI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol.
XXII, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Bookbinder International. Vol. X, Nos. 4 to 12; ^'ol. XI, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March " 1910
Bookseller and Stationer. Vol. XXV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXVI, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Brewery Workers' Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Bricklayer and Mason. Vol. XII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIII, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
Bridgemen's Magazine. Vol. ^'II, No. 9, to \ol. VIII, No. S, April, 1909,
to March 1910
Canada Lumbermen. Vol. XXIX, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXX, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1»10
Canadian Baker and Confectioner. Vol. XXI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXII,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
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Canadian Dairyman. \'ol. XXVIII, No. 1 to Vol. XXIX, No. 13, January,
1909, to March 1910
Canadian Dry Goods Review. Vol. XIX, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XX, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Electrical News. Vol. XIX, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XX, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Engineer. Vol. XVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XVII, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
Canadian Grocer. Vol. XXV, No. 4, to Vol. XXVI, No. 3, April, 1909, to
March 1910
Canadian Journal of Commerce. April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Journal of Fabrics. Vol. XXVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXVII,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Machinery. April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Manufacturer. April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Miller and Grain Elevator. January to March 1910
Canadian Mining Journal. Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXIX, Nos.
1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Contract Record. April, 1909 ,to March 1910
Canadian Woodworker. April, 1909, to March 1910
Carpenter, The. Vol. XXIX, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXX, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
Carpenters' and Joiners' Monthly Reports. April, 1909, to March 1910
Cigar Makers' Official Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Coast Seamen's Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Commercial InteUigence. April, 1909, to March 1910
Commercial Telegraphers' Journal. Vol. VII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. VIII, Nos.
1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Coopers' International Journal. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIX, Nos.
1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Painter and Decorator. January to March 1910
Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal. January to March 1910
Canadian Railroad Employee. Vol. 1, Nos. 1 to 12; April, 1909, to March . . 1910
Dun's Review. April, 1909, to March 1910
Electrical Worker. Vol. IX, No. 6, to Vol. X, No. 5, April, 1909, to March . . 1910
Fishing Gazette. April, 1909, to March 1910
Fruit Magazine. February and March 1910
Garment Workers' Weekly Bulletin. April, 1909, to March 1910
Grain Growers' Guide. March 1910
Granite Cutters' Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Hardware and Metal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine. Vol. XI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XII, Nos. 1 to
3, April, 1909, to ^March 1910
Industrial Banner. April, 1909,' to March 1910
Industrial Canada. Vol. IX, No. 8, to Vol. X, No. 7, April, 1909, to March . . 1910
Insurance and Financial Review. Vol. V, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. VI, Nos. 1 to 3,
J April, 1909, to March 1910
212 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
International Musician. Vol. V, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. VI, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
International Steam Engineer. Vol. XII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIII, Nos. 1 to
3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Iron Age. January to March 1910
Iron Moulders' Journal. Vol. XLV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XLVI, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Journal des Correspondences, Organe Officiel des Syndicats du Parti Ouvrier
Beige, April, 1909, to March 1910
Journal of the I^ights of Labour. April, 1909, to March 1910
Labour Co-partnership. Vol. XV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XVI, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Labourers' Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Labour's Realm. Vol. I, Nos. 1 to 11, May, 1909, to March 1910
Lance, The. Vol. II, Nos. 53 to 98, May, 1909, to March 1910
Lather, The. Vol. IX, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. X, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to
March 1910
Leather Workers on Horse Goods Journal. Vol. XI, Nos. 8 to 12; Vol.
XII, Nos. 1 to 7, April, 1909, to March 1910
Locomotive Engineers' Journal. Vol. XLIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XLIV,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine. April, 1909, to March. . . 1910
Le Prix Courant. April, 1909, to March 1910
Machinists' Monthly Journal. Vol. XXI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXII, Nos. 1 to
3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Marine Review. Vol. XXXIX, Nos. 4 to 6; Vol. XL; Vol. XLI, Nos. 1 to
3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Maritime Mining Record. April, 1909, to March 1910
Metal Polishers' and Buffers' Journal. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIX,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Miners' Magazine. April, 1909, to March 1910
Mine Workers' (United) Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Mixer and Sei-ver. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIX, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
Monetary Times and Trade Review. April, 1909, to March 1910
Moniteur des Syndicats Ouvriers. April, 1909, to March 1910
Motorman and Conductor. Vol. XVII, No. 2, to Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Ajjril,
1909, to March 1910
National Builder. Vol. XL VIII, Nos. 4 to 6; Vol. XLIX, Vol. L, Nos. 1 to
3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Pacific Lumber Trade Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Painters', Decorators' and Paperhangcrs' Journal. Vol. XXIII, Nos. 4 to
12; Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Pattern Makers' Journal. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIX, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Piano and Organ Workers' Journal. Vol. XI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XII, Nos.
I to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Plasterer, The. Vol. IV, Nos. 1 to 3, January to March 1910
Plumbers', Gas and Steamfitters' Journal. Vol. XIV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol.
XV, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Printer and Publisher. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIX, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Railroad Freight and Baggageman. Vol. VII, No. 8, to Vol. VIII, No. 7,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Railroad Telegrapher. Vol. XXVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXVII, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Railroad Trainmen's Journal. Vol. XXVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXVII, Nos.
1 to 3, April, 1909, March 1910
Railway Age. April, 1909, to March •. 1910
Railway Carmen's Journal. Vol. XIV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XV, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Railway Clerk. Vol. VIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. IX, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909,
to March 1910
Railway and Locomotive Engineering. Vol. XXII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol.
XXIII, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Railway and Marine World. April, 1909, to March 1910
Railway Conductor. Vol. XXVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXVII, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Retail Clerks' Internarional Advocate. Vol. XVI, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XVII,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Review — National Founders' Association. April, 1909, to March 1910
Shoe and Leather Journal. Vol. XXII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXIII, Nos.l to
3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Shoe Workers' Journal. Vol. X, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol., XI, Nos. 1 to 3, April,
1909, to March 1910
South African Typographical Journal. March, 1909, to February 1910
Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Journal. Vol. IV, Nos, 4 to 12; Vol. V,
Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Stonecutters' Journal. Vol. XXIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Stove Mounters' Journal. Vol. XIV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XV, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1908, to March 1910
Switchmen's Union Journal. Vol. XI, Nos. 6 to 12; Vol. XII, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Tailor, The. Vol. XIX, Nos. 9 to 12; Vol. XX, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to
March 1910
Teamsters' Magazine, The. Vol. VII, Nos. 1 to 5, November, 1909, to
March 1910
Tobacco Worker, The. Vol. XIII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XIV, Nos. 1 to 3,
April, 1909, to March 1910
Trades Unionist (Vancouver, B.C.). Vol. IV, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. V, Nos. 1
to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Typographical Journal. Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 4 to 6; Vol. XXXV, Nos. 1 to
6; Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
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Voice, The. Vol. XVI, April, 1909, to March 1910
Western Clarion. April, 1909, to March 1910
Women's Trade Union Reviews. April, 1909, to March 1910
OTHER PERIODICALS.
American Economic Association (publications of the), Maj', 1909, to
February 1910
American Journal of Sociology. Vol. XI \', No. 6, to Vol. XV, No. 5, May,
1909, to March 1910
Among the Deep Sea Fishers. April, 1909, to March 1910
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May, 1909,
to March 1910
Canada. April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Courier. April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Forestry Journal. April, 1909, to March 1910
Canadian Municipal Journal. April, 1909, to March 1909
Co-operative News. April, 1909, to March 1909
Co-Partnership. April, 1909, to March 1910
Economic Review. Vol. XIX, Nos. 2 to 4; Vol. XX, No. 1, April, 1908, to
January 1910
Economist. April, 1909, to March 1910
Factory Inspector, The. April, 1909, to March 1910
Industrial Canada. April, 1909, to March 1910
Journal of Political Economy. Vol. XVII, Nos. 4 to 12; Vol. XVIII, Nos.
1 to 3, April, 1909, to March 1910
Lend-a-Hand Record. April, 1909, to March 1910
Liberty and Progress. April, 1909, to March 1910
Literary Digest. April, 1909, to March 1910
L'Union Co-operative. April, 1909, to March 1910
National Civic Federation Review. April, 1909, to March 1910
Outlook, The. April, 1909, to March 1910
Pittsburg Legal Journal. March 1910
Political Science Quarterly. Vol. XXIII, No. 2, to Vol. XXV, No. 1, June,
1909, to March 1910
Public Opinion. April, 1909, to March 1910
Quarterly Journal of Economics. Vol. XXIII, No. 3, to Vol. XXIV, No. 2,
May, 1909, to March 1910
Quarterly Review. Nos. 419 to 422, April, 1909, to January 1910
Royal Statistical Society, Journal of. Vol. LXXXIII, Parts 2 to 4; Vol.
LXXIV, Part 1, June, 1909, to March 1910
Social Service. April, 1909, to March 1910
Socialist Review. April, 1909, to March 1910
Toilers of the Deep. April, 1909, to March 1910
Women's Industrial News (Quarterly), June, 1909, to March 1910
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
216
XII.— THE CIRCULATION OF THE LABOUR GAZETTE.
The Labour Gazette is published in both English and French which in-
volves the keeping of separate mailing lists, and the printing of all notices
in both languages. The number of paid subscriptions to the Gazette received
during the past fiscal year was 7,196, the total paid circulation on the 31st of
March, 1910, being 9,426. The increase in the circulation of the Gazette has
been gradual, and the work of the branch has correspondingly increased in
the nature of making entries, forwarding subscription notices, acknowledging
remittances, sending out renewal subscription blanks, preparing and revising
maihng lists, changing addresses of subscribere, &c. In addition to forwarding
the Gazette to regular subscribers, many sample copies have also been sent out
from the Department.
In connection with the circulation of the Labour Gazette for the twelve
months ending March 31, 1910, 5,889 letters were received and acknowledged,
5,281 of which had reference to subscriptions to the Labour Gazette, 354 to
a change of address on the part of subscribers, and 254 to other matters
connected with the circulation.
For the same period, 28,320 pieces of mail matter were despatched from
the circulation branch, representing 21,976 communications containing
notices, accounts, or receipts for subscriptions ; 811 other communications in
connection with the circulation of the Gazette and 5,533 parcels.
During the fiscal year 1909-10 the average monthly circulation of the
Labour Gazette was 13,400 copies, of which 8,873 were on account of paid
circulation,* and 4,527 to persons on the free and exchange lists. The in-
crease in the number of names on the mailing lists over the preceding year was
394.
The following figures will show the total circulation of the Gazette as
it was on the last day of each of the fiscal years during the period from 1900
to 1910 :—
Department op Labour, Canada,
Statistical Tables, X. A. R. No. 43.
TABLE SHOWING CIRCULATION OF THE LABOUR GAZETTE AT THE CLOSE OF EACH FISCAL
YEAR FROM 1900 TO 1910 INCLUSIVE.
2-3.
1900-
1901-
19
190,3-4..
1904-5..
1905-6..
1906-7 . .
1907-8..
1908-9..
1909-10.
Annual
Subscrip-
tions.
4,391
5,648
r,748
r,361
3, 645
r,547
5,033
),033
),338
),426
Free and
Exchange
Distribu-
tion.
2,158
2,722 ■
3,046
3,553
3,717
3,987
4,105
4,320
4,472
4,778
Total
Circulation.
6,912
8,370
10,794
10,914
10,362
11 .634
12,138
13,353
13,810
14,204
*The actual number of paid subscribers at the end of the fiscal year, March 31, was 9,426.
216 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The following summary will show by Provinces the number of paid sub-
scriptions to the Labour Gazette at the end of the fiscal year, March 31,
1910:—
Nova Scotia 940
New Brunswick 406
Prince Edward Island 56
Quebec 2,207
Ontario 4,007
Manitoba 353
Saskatchewan 340
Alberta 357
British Columbia 585
The Territories 8
The British Empire (other than Canada) 43
Foreign countries 124
Total 9,426
FREE AND EXCHANGE LISTS.
Under the head of copies of the Labour Gazette sent as exchanges are
included Labour Gazelle sent to public departments of the governments both
Federal and Proyincial, in this and other countries, and to the publishers of
trade papers and labour journals in exchange for their publications. On the
free list are included copies sent to members of both Houses of Parliament,
commercial agents, immigration agents, public libraries, boards of trade,
libraries of educational institutions, local newspapers and the officers of
organizations who supply from time to time information requested by the
department. The following summary will show the number of copies mailed
monthly on account of exchange and free lists : —
Exchange List.
Department of Governments (including Federal, Provin-
cial, British and foreign Governments and their
officers) 509
Trade papers and labour journals 167
Free List.
Public libraries and libraries of educational institutions . . 125
Members of t he House of Commons 221
Members of the Senate 87
Boards of Trade 276
Newspapers 1,075
Labour organizations —
Nova Scotia 160
Prince Edward Island ] 1
Now Brunswick 83
Quebec (copies, English and French) 610
Ontario 770
Manitoba 106
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Saskatchewan 74
Alberta 131
The Territories 7
British Columbia 222
2,174
Correspondents of the Labour Gazette (3 copies each) 144
Total 4,472
REVENUE OF THE " LABOUR GAZETTE."
The revenue of the Labour Gazette is derived from the sale of single copies
and from subscriptions for one or more years. Single copies are supplied at the
rate of 3 cents each, or 20 cents per dozen. The annual subscription rate is 20
cents, or when more than twelve copies are taken by the same person or institution
15 cents. Bound volumes of the Gazette, including the issues of each year, are sold
at the rate of 75 cents per copy.
The following statement of receipts from subscriptions, and from the sale of
single and l)ound copies of the Gazette during the fiscal year 1909-10 shows that
the net revenue derived by the Government from this source amounted to $1,508.84.
Statement of the Revenue of the "Labour Gazette" for the Fiscal Year ended
March 31, 1910.
Amount received from subscriptions to Labour Gazette .SI ,483.20
Sale of single and bound copies 62 . 89
Amount received up to June 30, 1908, for subscriptions to the
Labour Gazette which has been held pending the identifica-
tion of the remitters, and which is now being paid into
revenue, as no claims have been presented for same 1.10
,547.19
Less
Commission on subscriptions $37.72
Fees paid for postal notes transmitting amounts due as
commission on subscriptions 63
38.35
$1,508.84
218 DEPARTMENT OE LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
XIII —THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LABOUR GAZETTE AND OTHER
PUBLICATIONS.
The Labour Gazette, with some exceptions, is mailed from the Government
Printing Bui'eau, under the supervision of the Department of Labour, this work
necessitating the preparation of a maihng list and its constant revision, also the
enclosing and addressing of copies of the Gazette each month to names and ad-
dresses given on the mailing list. To expedite delivery, the several copies of the
Gazette are sorted and distributed into mail bags, suitably labelled, for their des-
tination in the several localities throughout the Dominion. Not only is time
saved in this way, but work of the employees of the City Post OfHce is considerably
lessened.
In addition to copies of the Gazette mailed regularly each month to sub-
scribers, or as exchanges, etc., copies of the Gazette are sent out from time to time
as samples. Single copies are also mailed from day to day in reply to requests
for the same, or in connection with answers sent by the Department to inquiries
on subjects which may have been dealt with, either in part or in whole, in the
Labour Gazette, but a limited number of all copies already issued is kept on file
for the same purpose.
During the fiscal j'ear 1909-10, copies of the individual numl>ers contained
in Volumes IX-X of the Labour Gazette to the number of 1 62,996, were distributed,
137,587 in English and 25,409 in French, also 3,528 copies in English and 868 in
French of individual numbers of the Gazette of previous years, making a total
distribution for the fiscal year of 162,996, or an average monthly distribution of
13,949.
In addition to copies of the Labour Gazette distributed there were mailed
from the Department 244 copies of bound volumes of the Labour Gazette; 1,195
copies of the Annual Report of the Department; seven copies of the report and
evidence of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the cause of industrial
disputes in British Columbia; four copies of the report and evidence of the Royal
Commission appointed to intjuire into alleged employment of aliens by the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway Company; three copies of the report and evidence of the
Royal Commission appointed to inquire into alleged employment of aliens by the
Pere Maniuette Railway Company; four copies of the report of the Royal Com-
mission appointed to intjuire into the influx of Italian labourers into Montreal and
alleged fraudulent practices of employment agencies; forty-nine copies of the
report of the Royal Commission appointed to incjuire into the dispute between
the Bell Telephone Company and its operators at Toronto; 101 copies of the report
of the Royal Commission appointed to inijuire into the methods by which Oriental
labourers have been induced to come to Canada; twelve copies of a report on
methods adopted in carrying out Government clothing contracts; forty-seven
copies of the report of the special committee of the House of Commons to which
was referred "Bill No. 2", an Act respecting Industrial antl Co-operative So-
cieties; ninety-four copies of the report on the need for the suppression of the
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opium traffic in Canada; 181 copies of the report of the Royal Commission ap-
pointed to investigate the losses sustained by the Chinese population of Vancouver,
B.C., on the occasion of the riots in that city in September, 1907; 1S9 copies of
the report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the losses
sustained by the Japanese population of Vancouver, B.C., on the occasion
of the riots in that city in September, 1907; 181 copies of the report by W. L.
Mackenzie King,C.M.G.,on a mission to England to confer with the British author-
ities on the subject of immigration to Canada from the Orient and immigration
from India in particular; 821 copies of the report of the Royal Commission ap-
pointed to inquire into industrial disputes in the cotton factories of the Province
of Quebec; seventeen copies of article on settlement of coal miners' strike at
Lethbridge, Alberta, under Conciliation Act, 1900; ten copies of article on settle-
ment of dispute between Wesstern Operators and employees; 759 copies of the
report of the Deputy Minister of Labour on Industrial Conditions in the Coal
Fields of Nova Scotia; sixty copies of an Act respecting Conciliation and Labour;
475 copies of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907; 162 copies of the
statement of proceedings under the Industrial Dispvites Investigation Act, 1907,
from March 22, 1907, to March 31, 1909; 7,340 copies of indices to Volume IX,
of the Labour Gazette, and in addition to the distribution of these several reports,
etc., communications in the nature of circular letters having reference to investiga-
tions being made by the Department, and miscellaneous publications of one kind
and another were mailed to the number of 4,144, making a total in all of 183,479
separate communications or publications mailed by the Department through its
Distribution office in addition to the correspondence of other branches of the
Department, during the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910.
The following table is arranged to show by months the number and nature of
the publications lyailed from the Distribution branch of the Department during
the fiscal year 1909-10.
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XIV —INQUIRIES, CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTAL
WORK.
Elsewhere in the present report allusion has been made to the very large number
of inquiries which have been received from various parts of Canada, from the
United States, and from other countries with respect to the Industrial Disputes
Investigation Act and to the effect which this legislation has had in the prevention
and settlement of industrial disputes. Reference has been made dso to the duty
wLich is discharged by the Department in the preparation of Fair Wages Sche-
dules for insertion in Government contracts, and to complaints which have been
made by and on behalf of individual workmen respecting alleged infringement of
this Fair Wages Policy on the part of certain contractors which have in each case
been inquired into by officers of the Department ot Labour, resulting in a number
of cases in the recovery from the contractors of sums which have been wrongfully
withheld from their employees.
Many communications have been received with respect to various measures
before the Dominion Parliament by which the interests of labour were in any way
affected, and in relation also to the Bill to provide for the investigation of Com-
bines, Monopolies, Trusts and Mergers, which was introduced by the Minister of
Labour in the House of Commons on January 18, and which passed into law at
the close of the Parliamentary session. During the interval of twelve weeks which
elapsed between the introduction of this Bill in Parliament and its second reading
many requests were received for information in regard thereto, and various repre-
sentations were made on behalf of the interests concerned.
In addition to the foregoing the miscellaneous correspondence has been very
large, and has shown a growing interest on the part of the public in the
work of the Depa^'-m^Qi, of Labour and in the social, industrial and economic
problems with which the Department is concerned.
Some of the very many subjects concerning which inquiries have been re-
ceived during the past year have been as follows: — Wages and hours and condi-
tions of labour in Canada; the laws of Canada and of its various Provinces relat-
ing to labour; the prices of various commodities and the cost of living in Canada;
the social and economic conditions of the working classes; the resources and the
economic development of Canada; the condition of the labour market in respect of
various departments of industry including agriculture, mining, lumbering, railway
construction, manufacturing, etc.; the organization of labour in Canada, and the
names and addresses of labour unions and of labour leaders; manual training and
technical education; co-operation; child and female labour; alien labour; Sun-
day labour; industrial accidents; strikes and lockouts; factory and mines' in-
spection; old age pensions and annuities; public ownership; the operations of
employment agencies; the reports of Commissions of Inquiry with respect to
Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Hindu immigration; statistics regarding the
numbers of workers employed in various departments of industry and in various
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centres of population in Canada; the effects of certain employments on the em-
ployees' health; building operations in Canadian citir;«- tho names of large em-
ployers of labour in Canada; and the opportunities for the investment of capital
in various industries in Canada.
On December 17, 1909, a despatch was received through the Department of
External Affairs from the Colonial Office, in which attention was directed to a
memorandum concerning the use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of
matches. In this memorandum it was stated that the use of this substance en-
gendered a disease known as "phossy" jaw, or, scientifically, as necrosis; and,
that a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, had already taken
measures to forbid the importation and sale of white phosphorus matches. In-
quiry was made in the despatch of the Colonial Office whether the Government
of Canada was desirous of participating in a convention with various foreign coun-
tries for the prohibition of the use of white phosphorus in this department of in-
dustry. On receipt of the above mentioned despatch the substance of the mem-
orandum was communicated to the Provincial Secretaries of the several Provinces
in order that it might be ascertained whether white phosphorus was in use in the
manufacture of matches in any of the Provinces; also whether regulations on this
subject had been made by any of the Provinces. At the close of the fiscal year
the correspondence in question had not been completed.
Among those from whom requests have been received for information regard-
ing the prices of certain commodities and the cost of living in Canada were the
following: the Honourable Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the United States
Senate Committee on Wages and the Prices of Commodities; Colonel John G.
Foster, American Consul-General, Ottawa; the Massachusetts Commission on
the Cost of Living; the Commissioner of the Trust and Loan Company of Canada,
Montreal; the Spectator Publishing Company, of Hamilton, Ont. ; the City Solicitor
of Saskatoon, Sask.; the International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Em-
ployees, St. Louis, Mo.; and His Majesty's Trade Commissioner to the Dominion
of Canada.
The Department was also called upon for information to be used in a debate
in Gait, Ont., on the subject — "Resolved that Canada is the best country in the
British Empire for the workingman," and for a debate in Vancouver, B.C., on the
subject of Public Ownership, and also for a debate in Hamilton, Ont., on the sub-
ject of Private vs. Public Control of Public Utilities. In addition to the foregoing,
request was also made for information and material to be used in a course of read-
ing on Social Science, particularly Political Purity; and for use in the study of
Political Science.
A letter was received from a Chicago firm in which inquiry was made re-
specting the present condition of the condensed and evaporated milk industry in
Canada, the firm in question having under consideration the establishment of
factories in Canada for the manufacture of this product.
A Pittsburg correspondent made inquiry concerning the consumption of plate
glass in Canada, and the duties thereon, the object being to promote the estab-
lishment of plate glass works in this country. hi
Information was furnished a Montreal wholesale firm which applied to the
Department for the rates of wages paid by the cleaners and packers of raisins and
currants in Greece.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
A request was received from the associated editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung,
in Washington, for information concerning the economic development and possi-
bilities of Western Canada.
A communication was received from Professor B. Attolico, Italian Inspector
of Emigration at New York, which was brought to the attention of the Commis-
sioners of the Transcontinental Railway, regarding the complaints of certain
Italians employed as station men in the construction of the Transcontinental
Railway.
An effort was made to procure for the Consul-General for Austria-Hungary
particulars with regard to the death by dynamite explosion in 1906, of an Austrian
labourer.
A Chicago correspondent requested copies of such Departmental publications
as might prove useful in compiling a set of text books on Economics.
In response to a request from the Paris representativeof L'/ndP7Jc??rfanc(i Beige,
newspaper of Brussels, Belgium, information was supplied regarding the various
features of Canadian labour legislation. The letter stated that it was the intention
of that newspaper to devote space to a study of Canadian problems.
Arrangements providing for an exchange of official publications which other
Governments have been sending to the International Institute of Agriculture at
Rome, Italy, have been concluded, through the Department of Agriculture, with
the Governments of the following countries: Great Britain, the United States,
Italy, France, India, Argentine Republic, New Zealand, Australia and New South
Wales.
A Boston counsellor-at-law requested special information respecting Canadian
industrial and co-operative societies, stating that the same M'ould be of great
service in connection with a plan to establish organizations in Massachusetts.
A request was received from Johannesburg, South Africa, for information with
respect to such social and political problems as would likely come before the South
African Parliament.
Several communications were received during the year with regard to the law
respecting the immigration and employment of aliens, commonly known as the
Allen Labour Act. In a number of these communications complaint was made
regarding alleged violations of this law in different parts of Canada. In other
cases request was made for information regarding the procedure to be followed
under this statute. As originally enacted in 1897, and amended in 1898, the
Alien Labour Act required that no proceedings should be instituted thereunder
without the consent of the Attorney-General of Canada or some person duly
authorized by him, but complaint was made that this method of procedure made
it difhcult for persons who believed themselves to have suffered through violations
of the Act to secure immediate redress, and the statute was accordingly further
amended so that parties desirous of bringing suit might proceed in the local courts
without reference to the Federal authorities. The Act was also amended in such
other respects as experience had shown desirable, and appears in the Revised
Statutes of Canada, 1906, as Chapter 97, Volume II, page 1753, "An Act re-
specting the Importation and Employment of Aliens." In the January 1910, and
the February 1910, numbers of the Labour Gazette, the ofRcial monthly journal of
the Department of Labour, at pages 831 and 934 respectively, reference was made
to the hearing of cases under this statute.
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CONCLUDING KEMARKS.
As intimated in the introductory chapter, the year has been more than ordi-
narily eventful because of the appointment of a ministerial head and the con-
sequent expansion and increased importance of its worth. I have only to state in
conclusion that I have continued to receive the efficient assistance and co-operation
of the various officers of the department who appear to be imbued generally, with
a due appreciation of the important interests of the work to which their labours
are devoted.
F. A. ACKLAND,
Deputy Minister of Labour.
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1 GEORGL V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1910.
INCLUDING
A STATEMENT OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR UNDER THE
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT, 1907
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1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36 A. 1911
I.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE KINGSTON AND PEMBROKE
RAILWAY COMPANY, MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELE-
GRAPHERS.—BOARD ESTABLISHED— AGREEMENT CONCLUDED ON
ALL POINTS, A STRIKE BEING THEREBY AVERTED.
Application received. — December 26, 1908.
Parties concerned. — Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company and employees,
members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees affecizd. — ^Directly, 19; indirectly, 1,600.
Date of constitution of Board. — January 15, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Ilis Honour R. D. Gunn, Ottawa, Ont., Junior Judge of
the County of Carleton, Chairman, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any
joint recommendation from the other members of the Board; Mr. J. L. Whiting,
K.C., Kingston, Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the employing Company;
and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the
Report) reosived. — April 22, 1909.
Result of inquiry — 'No cessation of work.
The Minister received on April 22, the report of the Board established in the
case of the dispute between the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company and cer-
tain of its employees, members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. The dispute
in question concerned: (1) the schedule relating to and governing the duties, hours
of employment, overtime and classification of employees and their s,ervices generally;
(2) the rates of wages of the telegraph employees.
In the application of Mr. I). Campbell, third vice-president of the Order of Rail-
road Telegraphers, and Mr. A. Forsythe, of Harrowsmith, for the appointment of this
Board, it was stat^ that the dispute affected directly 19, and indirectly 1,000 persons.
Mr. John G. O'Donoghue, of Toronto, was appointed a member of the Board on
the recommendation of the employees. Mr. J. L. Whiting, K.C., of Kingston, was
on the recommendation of the Company, appointed the second member of the Board.
In the absence of any joint recommendation from the two members of the Board thus
appointed, the Board was completed by the appointment of His Honour R. D. Gunn.
of Ottawa, junior judge of the county of Carleton.
Sittings of the Board were held at various places, and in the report, v>-hich was
signed by the three members, it was stated that 'the matters of difference have been
settled unanimously hy the Board and the whole schedule approved of as attached
hereto.'
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4 DEPARTilEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
EEPORT OF BOAED.
Tlie text of the findings of the Board is as follows: —
lu the matter of the Industrial Disputes luvcstigation Act, 1907, and of a disputes
hetn-eeu the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company, employer, and employees
members of Order of Railroad Telegraphers, employees.
To the Hon. Eodolphe Lemieux,
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
The Board of Conciliation and Investigation established under the provisions of
the Industrial Disputes Act, 1907, to which the above dispute was referred Tinder the
provisions of the said Act, having concluded their duties, beg to report as follows: — •
The Board convened at the court-house in the city of Kingston, pursuant to
appointment, on Monday, the 1st day of February, A.D., 1909, and were attended by
R. V. Rogers, Esq., and F. Conway, Esq., director and superintendent, respectively,
of the Kincstnn and Pembroke Railway Company, on behalf of the employer, and
David Campbell, Esq., D. G. Robertson, Esq., officers of the Order of Railway Tele-
graphers, and Messrs. A. Forsythe, L. A. Cameron and S. Campbell, committee repre-
senting the employees.
The different matters in dispute set out in the application to your department
shaped themselves into two main branches, viz. : — •
1. The schedule relating to and governing the duties, hours of employment, ovev-
time, and classification of employees and their services generally.
2. The rates of wages of the telegraph employees.
Mr. Campbell outlined the facts and circumstances leading up to an application
for an appointment of a Board and the difficulty the employees encountered because
of the entire absence of any schedule defining and governing the duties or rates of
wages of the telegraphers and the patient endeavour to effect an agreement with the
Company on these two main points.
The schedule of wages demanded and many other points were strongly combatted
by the Company, who earnestly pressed the Board and the employees' representatives
with the necessity of making an inspection of the railway line, its terminals, junc-
tions, stations and branches before making any ruling on the matters submitted.
After some discussion, the Board concluded that the proper procedure would be*~
1. To settle the schedule defining duties of telegraph employees.
2. The rates of wages of telegraph employees.
The railroad is only 104 miles long, having terminals at Kingston and Hcnfr' w
and a junction with the Canadian Pacific railway at Sharbot lake, and another with
the Bay of Quinte railwa.v at llarrovvsmith, and believing much light would be let
into the dispute and the Board thereby put in possession of better knowledge of the
true position of both parties, and having failed to close a full settlement of all difTer-
ences, the Board deemed it wise to make the inspection pressed for by tlie coniimny,
which was done without any increased expense or loss of time.
With the assistance of the Board and after full consideration and discussion the
parties were able to agree upon most of tlie rules incorporated in the accompanying
schedule ' A ' hereto. The matters of difference have been settled unanimously by the
Board and the whole schedule approved of as attached hereto. The main point of
difference was as to the inclusion in the schedule of the train despatcher at Kingston.
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He is the only despatcher in the employment of the road, but, in view of the claim
made by the Company that this employee is in reality a chief despatcher with peculiar
duties attached to his position, the Board has not included him in the schedule.
The parties represented to the Board that they had conferred together and offers
had been made by the employees to the Company with the hope of an adjustment of
the question of wages, but the Company's representatives not being authorized to
make any settlement of the wages other than the acceptance of complete abandon-
ment by the employees of the claim for any increase, desired to submit the offers to
the head office, which necessitated some delay, and adjournment was made with all
parties in a conciliatory frame of mind.
Several sittings of the Board have been held at different places and a great
amount of negotiation has taken place, and the Board are unanimously of the opinion
that the offer of the Company of an increase of $540,000 a year (being $45 per month)
to be divided amongst the telegraph employees covered by the schedule as may be
agreed upon by the committee acting for the employees and the General Superin-
tendent for the road, should be accepted by the men.
The Board cannot close its report without expressing its appreciation of the
assistance received from the representatives of the men and of the Comijany, and it
acknowledges, with much pleasure, the great credit due Mr. Conway, the General
Superintendent of the road for the very material assistance he gave the Board in
every way during the course of the proceedings.
The Board is of opinion that the schedule and increase should go into effect as of
and from January 1, 1909. ,
All of which' is respectfully submitted.
Dated April 20, 1909.
W. D. GUNN,
Chairman.
J. L. Whiting,
J. G. O'DONOGHUE.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Schedule 'A' to Report. — Kingston and FembroTce Railway Company.
Rules and Rates of Pay for Telegraphers.
Effective January 1, 1909.
The following rules and rates of pay wiU govern the telegraphers on the Kingston
and Pembroke railway. When additional telegraphers' positions are created, com-
pensation will be fixed in conformity with that for positions of the same class as
shown by this schedule.
Article 1.
All employees assigned by proper auth(irity to railway telegraph servitte of any
character or duration, except the Kingston despatcher, and also the station agents
incorporated in the accompanying schedule will be considered telegraphers within the
meaning of this schedule, and are so called herein.
Article 2.
Clause A. The right of promotion of telegraphers will extend over the line of
the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company, and will he governed by merit, fitness
and ability; when these are sufficient the senior telegrapher will be given the prefer-
ence.
Clause B. A telegrapher's seniority will date from the time he last entered the
service as a telegrapher.
Clause C. All vacancies and permanent appointment will be immediately
bulletined by circular. Applications for vacancies must be made within ten day.s from
date of bulletin. A telegrapher declining to accept promotion in any instance does
not forfeit his rights to the same or any other position he may be entitled to under
seniority when a vacancy occurs. A telegrapher on leave of absence when a vacancy
occurs will not be debarred from claiming the position and receiving the appointment
on resuming duty if entitled to it. A vacancy will be filled within thirty days after
it occurs by the appointment of the man entitled to it. When a vacancy occurs the
Superintendent will fill the same by appointing the senior man who is in his opinion
entitled to it, but this will not prevent any telegrapher senior to the man so appointed
claiming his rights under Clause 'A' hereof to the iwsition, providing he files his
protest within ten days after the appointment has been bulletined.
Clause D. In case, of reduction in the number of telegraphers employed, the
junior telegraphers will first be dispensed with.
Clause E. If a position included in the attached schedule is abolished the tele-
erapher will be entitled to the position held by the jimior permanently located tele-
grapher.
Clause F. A complete list of all the telegraphers showing th<-ir seniority stand-
ing will be kept on file in the Superintendent's office, open to the inspection of all the
telegraphers concerned. Tliis list will be subject to correction on representation from
any telegrapher, and a copy of it corrected to date will be furnished the Local Chair-
man at the beginning of each year.
Clause G. Telegraphers will have the exclusive right to any position incorpor-
ated in the wage schedule, and any telegraphers' positions subsequently added in
accordance with the preamble, subject to the provisions of the above sub-clause ' A.'
Clause H. Telegraphers will also be eligible and considered in the line of pro-
motion to the position of Agents at any of the .stations not incorporated in the
attached wage schedule which have been omitted in view of conditions which may
make it impracticable or unfair to fill these positions exclusively from one branch of
the servic/^.
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Article 3.
No telegrapher shall be suspended except for investigation or diseliarged until
his case has been investigated and he has been proven guilty of the offence charged
against him, the decision in such case to be arrived at within ten days from the date
of such suspension. If a telegrapher is found blameless in the matter under investi-
gation, he will be paid schedule rates for time lost and extra expenses while attending
such investigation, if away from home, and be reinstated. If detained more than ten
days awaiting investigation at the company's instance he will be paid schedule wages
for the time in excess of ten days whatever the decision may be.
Telegraphers may have the assistance of a co-telegrapher, if they so desire. A
written statement setting forth the result of an investigation and the reasons there-
for will be furnished by the Company to the Local Board of Adjustment if requested
by it.
Article 4.
Lack of convenience such as school facilities, etc., will be taken into consideration
in location of telegraphers, but only when this can be done without infringing on thp
rights of their seniors in the service.
Article 5.
Telegraphers serving on Board of Adjustment representing telegraphers will be
relieved without unnecessary delay (not to exceed ten days) and will be furnished
transportation for such purposes.
Article G.
Telegraphers will be granted free transportation and leave of absence to a^ttend
their meetings, such free transportation will not extend beyond the line of the Kings-
ton and Pembroke Railway Company, and the leave of absence will not exceed two
days, and will only be granted when it will not interfere with the requirements of the
traffic and the service, and provided the Company is not thereby put to any additional
expenses.
Article 7.
When a telegrapher is transferred by order of the proper official he will suffer no
loss of schedule wages in consequence thereof, and will be allowed reasonable time
(not to exceed four days and without pay) to arrange for the shipment of his house-
hold goods.
Article 8.
Telegraphers attending court, or investigation at the request of the proper official
of this Company will have their extra expense-s paid By the Company in addition to
their schedule wages.
Article 9.
Ttelegraphers will not be required to teach telegraphy or admit students, not mem-
bers of the station staif, to their offices.
Article 10.
Telegraphers required to work at wrecks, wash-outs and slides will, in inclement
weather, be provided with shelter and be paid the necessary expenses for the time
away from home.
Article 11.
A telegrapher securing employment with the Company will within thirty days
from the date of employment have returned to him all service cards and letters of
recommendation which have been taken up by the company, except any previously
issued by the Company.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Akticle 12.
A telegrapher leaving the service of the Company will, on request, within five
days be furnished with a certificate by the proper official stating term or terms of
service, capacities in which employed, and whether discharged or leaving the service
of his own accord. If discharged, cause of dismissal will be stated.
If detained more than five days waiting such certificate will be paid schedule
wages for all time in excess of five days. Unless otherwise requested, this certificate
will be mailed to the telegrapher at the place of last employment.
Article 13.
Telegraphers will be exempt from shovelling snow, stencilling cars, sifting coal
ashes, attending to fiower gardens, scrubbing the stations, cutting or piling wood.
The unloading of way-freight from cars and putting away into sheds shall be
done jointly with trainmen.
Article 14.
At stations where dwellings and fuel are provided, the dwelling will, as far as
practicable, be reserved exclusively for the use of the agent and his family unless he
tlect to reside elsewhere. Agents not furnished with dwellings will be allowed coal for
one stove. When wood is supplied for fuel it will be cut in length not exceeding 16
inches.
A telegrapher occupying a Company's dwelling who is dismissed from the service
will be allowed to retain the possession of the dwelling until he has been paid all
moneys due him by the Company. The Company will keep its dwellings in good
itepair; occupants must keep such dwellings and their surroundings clean and must
pay for repairs other than those due to ordinary wear and tear.
Article 15.
Telegraphers required to work on Sundays will be paid extra pro rata on schedule
salary for such service, based on thirty days per month (any portion of an hour less
than thirty minutes not to count, any portion of an hour, thirty minutes or over, to
count as one hour), with a minimum compensation of twenty-five cents (25c.) for
each call for which one hour's service shall, if required, be rendered.
Telegraphers will be required to handle commercial messages on Sunday only
during hours required for railway service, except on arrangement.
Telegraphers required for Sunday duty other than attendance on regular passen-
ger trains will be so advised the previous day.
Article 16.
If telegraphers are required to attend to switch or semaphore lamps they will
receive four dollars ($4) per month for six or less such lamps, and fifty cents (50c.)
per month for each additional switch or semaphore lamp at such station.
Nothing in this article will relieve telegraphers from their responsibilities under
the rules.
Telegraphers will keep train-order signal lamps cleaned and in good condition and
lighted when required \^ithout e.xtra compensation.
Article 17.
Telegraphers who attend pumping engines or wind mills, which work will be
optional, will be paid five dollars ($5) per month for such engines or wind mills.
Article 18.
A telegrapher required to leave his permanent location to do relief work tem-
porarily will be allowed all necessary expenses not exceeding seventy-five cents per
day (75c.) on production of voucher.
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Other telegraphers doing relief work will be paid the same wages, without
expenses as the telegraphers relieved, provided wages are not less than his own.
Article 19.
Eailway telegraphers will, during office hours, handle all commercial telegraphy
and express business offered them, and will be permitted to receive the usual com-
missions from the telegraph and express companies for such services.
Article 20.
Clause A. Twelve consecutive hours, including meal hours, shall constitute a
day's work for all telegraphers except train despatchers. Except in cases of emer-
gency, telegraphers will have eight consecutive hours' rest per day.
Clause B. Telegraphers working ten hours or more will be allowed sixty consecu-
tive minutes for a meal between either 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., or 12 noon and 2..30 p.m.
This will not apply to service rendered the express or commercial telegraphers
business.
Clause C. Overtime will be computed pro rata on schedule wag'es based on thirty
days per month, but in no case at less than twenty-five cents (25e.) per hour (less
than thirty minutes not to count), thirty minutes or over to count as one hour, except
that telegraphers required to return to or remain on duty after regular hours will be
allowed one hour overtime for the first hour or any portion thereof.
Clause D. The regular hours of duty will be specified by the superintendent to
all telegraphers.
If required for service outside these hours, telegraphers will be given an official
order as authority and excused in the same manner.
Clause E. Overtime will not be allowed unless overtime tickets are mailed to
the proi>er official within forty-eight hours from the time such service is performed,
setting forth the reason for disallowance.
Telegraphers will number overtime tickets consecutively for each month.
If overtime as claimed is not allowed, telegraphers will be notified in writing
within ten days from the time such service is performed, setting forth the reason for
disallowance.
Article 21.
If a telegrapher considers himself overtaxed, his statement to that effect to the
proper official will be carefully considered, and, if well founded, relief will be granted.
Article 22.
When the handling of express and telegraph business, for which a commission
payment is allowed, is withdrawn from any telegrapher, through no fault of his, the
wages will be adjusted to conform with that of similar stations where such work is
not performed.
Article 23.
When a telegrapher is assigned to a position and after a fair trial is found incom-
petent, he will take his place on the extra list, retaining his seniority rights.
Article 24.
Train despatchers will be allowed three weeks' leave of absence each year with
full pay.
Telegraphers who have been in the employ of the Company for four or more
consecutive years will be allowed two weeks' absence each year with full pay.
If the Company finds it inconvenient to grant leave of absence during any year
to a telegrapher entitled to it under this rule the telegrapher shall, at his option,
receive either compensation at his regular salary for the period, or in the next year
an additional leave of absence for like period.
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Application for leave of absence filed in January of each year will be given pre-
ference in order of seniority of applicant, and applicants will be advised in February
of dates allotted them. January applicants will have preference over later applicants,
and applicants after the 30th September will not be entitled to salary comix^nsation
if the Company is unable to relieve them in that year. The Company will, as far as
practicable, relieve all applicants during summer season when so desired.
In the event of a telegrapher being discharged or leaving the service on proper
notice before obtaining the deferred leave of ab^nce he will be paid lii.s salary for
same.
Aktice 25.
Telegraphers will be granted transportation for their household goods and passes
or reduced rates and a leave of absence in accordance with the general regulations of
the Company as established from time to time.
Article 2(5.
Applications may be made to the General Superintendent direct for general revi-
sions of schedule.
Article 27.
When an agent is relieved the incoming agent is to be allowed for time neces--
sarily occupied in travelling; the outgoing agent will be allowed up to the time the
transfer is completed.
Article 28.
Wage Schedule.
Station.
Position.
Salary.
Dwelling house.
No.
Godfrey
„
Oso
,1
Yes.
No.
„
,,
„
„
Relieving agents and operators will be paid actual expends, not to exceed seventy-
five cents (T5c.) per day while away from headquarters.
Article 2f).
(Old A Hide S3.)
There will he no change in the foregoing rules and rates of pay except on thirty
days' notice.
(Sgd.) J. L. Wiiitinc,
For tlie Company.
rSird.') J. Ci. O'DoNOGiiUE.
For the Telegrapher^
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
II.— APPLICATION FKOM EMPLOYEES OF THE DOMINION COAL COMPANY,
OF GLACE BAY, N.S., MEMBERS OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS
OF AMERICA— BOARD ESTABLISHED— EMPLOYEES CEASED WORK.
Application received. — March 4, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Dominion Coal Company, Glace Bay, C.B., and employees,
members of the United Mine Workers of America.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Alleg'ed discrimination asainst certain employees, members
of the United Mine Workers of America; recognition of U. M. W. A.
Number of employees affected. — 3,000.
Date of constitution of the Board. — March 22, 1909.
Membership of Board. — ^His Honour W. B. Wallace, County Judge, Halifax, N.S.,
Chairman, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation
from the other members of the Board ; Mr. G. S. Campbell, Halifax, N.S., appointed
by the Minister in the absence of a recommendation from the employing Company;
and Mr. Daniel McDongall, Glace Bay, C.B., appointed on the recommendation of
the employees.
Report received. — April 16, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — The employees concerned being unwilling to accept the iind-
ings of the Board, a strike was declared on July 6, which had not been concluded on
March 31, 1910, although it was claimed by the Company that conditions in its mines
had ceased to be affected.
Thte Minister received on April 16 the report of the Board established in the case
of the dispute between the Dominion Coal Company and its employees. In this
report the grievances referred for investigation were summarized as follows: —
(a) That mten were discharged or threatened with dismissal because they were
members of the United Mine Workers of America.
(b) That the private police force of the Company loitered around the meetings of
the United Mine Work^jrs' Association and intimidated the members.
(c) That in general the Company carried out a policy of discrimination against
members of the United Mine Workers' Association.
{d) That the Company refused to receive committees of the United Mine Work-
ers' Association, or in any other way to recognize that organization.
In the application of Messrs. James D. McLennan and Peter Patterson, officers
of the U. M. W. A., for the appointment of this Board, it was stated that approxi-
mately 3,000 i)ersons were actually affected by the dispute, this being the number of
employees of the Dominion Coal Company who had become members of the U. M.
W. A., but, it was added, that as the U. M. W. A. was increasing in numbers daily,
tlie dispute was likely to affect the whole body of the Dominion Coal Company's
employees, numbering 6,500 workmen.
Mr. Daniel JfcDougall was appointed a member of the Board on the recom-
mendation of the employees. The Company declined on its part to submit any recom-
mendation, and in the absence of such recommendation Mr. G. S. Campbell, of Hali-
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fax, was appointed the second member of the Board. The two members of the 15oard
thus appointed were unable to agree upon a chairman, and in the absence of such a
joint recommendation, the Board was completed by the appointment of His Honour
Judge Wallace, of Halifax, as Chairman.
The employees were represented at the hearings by three of their members. The
Company was not represented at the first sitting, but the Board having decided to
subpoena the general manager and certain officers of the Company, these gentlemen
undertook to appear. The Company and employees respectively were also accorded
the privilege of being represented by counsel.
The employees concerned being unwilling to abide by the findings of the Board
in this matter, a strike was declared on July 6 of such of the Company's employees,
to the number of 3,000, as btelonged to the United Mine Workers of America. A con-
siderable number of the Company's employees, members of the Provincial Workmen's
Association, declined to participate in the strike, and on December 31 renewed for
a period of two years the agreement whieli the Dominion Coal Company had entered
into with that organization on March 16, 1908, and which was based on the award
of the Board of Conciliation and Invtestigation estaldished under the Industrial Dis-
putes Investigation Act. It was claimed by the Company that the output of coal
from its mines during the winter months had practically ceased to be affected by the
strike, although a considerable number of workmen, members of the United Mine
Workers of America, still remained on strike at the end of March, 1910.
The report of the Board, as received in the Department, was signed by His
Honour Judge Wallace and by Mr. G. S. Campbell. Mr. ^fcDougall was unable to
concur therein, and embodied his views, accordingly, in the form of a minority report.
As to the all'egation that men were dismissed or threatened with dismissal because
they were members of the U. M. W. A., the Board found that this charge was not
substantiated by the evidence. The report also declared that the claim of the U. M.
W. A. that the Company's police force loitered around their meetings and intimidated
their members was not sustained.
An important question submitted for the consideration of the Board was wh'jther
the Company was justified in giving a preference to the P. W. A. On this subject
the report says : —
' Without dealing with the question whether a Company has a right under ordin-
ary circumstances, in engaging workmen to show a preference for the members of
one laboiir union to those of another labour union, in the present case there were
special circumstances which made the preference, undoubtedly shown by the Company,
a natural and reasonable one. As the result of th'3 award of a previous Board of
Conciliation, thte Provincial Workmen's Association, representing the workmen,
became a formal party to that award, unqualifiedly accepted its terms, and it was
reasonable that in the carrying out of tlie Company's operations under the award,
the Company should give special recognition to the men who coidd be relied upon to
abide by its terms, in preference to the men who had not assented to its terms and
some of whom were known to the Company as condemning the terms of the award.'
AS TO RECOGNITION OF U. M. W. A.
In the Board's opinion, the most important question which camt before it was
that of the recognition of the U. M. W. A. This organization claimeil the rip:ht to
approach the management of the Company by a committee, as is now done by the
P. W. A., and the Company refused to recognize that right. It was impracticable,
the Company said, to deal with two separate committees. In a discussion of thig
question, however, the Board ob^rved that the principal reason why the Compan.y
refused to recognize the U. M. W. A. was that the latter are ' practically a foreign
organization, having dangerous and menacing powers under their constitution.' The
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
Board believed that this constitution gave the U. M. W. A. autliorities powers which
no foreign body should be able to exercise ovter industrial interests in Nova Scotia.
The Board considered that the Coal Company was ' amply justified ' in refusing to
recognize any organization that could exercise such a dangerous and continually
menacing power. ' Forteign officials,' said the report, ' sitting at Indianapolis, should
not have the power to decree that Nova Scotia miners, even when without a grievance,
must stop working, and thereby cripple a great Nova Scotia industry.'
,; In conclusion the Board remarked ' that our labour difficultites, which will always
be with us, should be settled among ourselves, and not be subject to the control of.
any outside party.' In the present instance, the interests of the men, urged the
Board, were bound up with those of the Coal Company, and anything that tended
to hamper materially the operations of the Company must in the end prejudicially
affect also the workmen concerned.
THE MINORITY REPORT.
In his minority report, Mr. Daniel McDougall said that the principal claim in
the employees' application was in the matter of alleged discrimination. Mr. McDougall
submitted that on the part of the officials of the Dominion Coal Company there had
been the most violent cases of discrimination and that the same wtere without justifi-
ation. The Company's admission of a preference for one class of employees amounted
in his judgment, to a case of discrimination against thte other classes. As regards
the company's claim that it was carrying out the letter as well as the spirit of the
award of tlie Board of Ctinciliation and Investigation of March, 1908, by giving a
preference to the P. W. A., Mr. ^McDougall urged that this argument faded away
under the admission of the Company that any agreement, award or settlement now
existing, was binding between the Company and its employees irrespective of any
society to which they might belong.
As to the present position of the Dominion Coal Company, Mr. McDougall
claimed that evidence was given before the Board to prove that the Company not only
competed successfully in Canadian markets, but was able to pay the United States
duty and get its share of contracts in the New England states. In addition, evidence
had been given, he said, before the Board by Mr. Alex. Dick, the sales agent of the
Company, that the fact of the U; M. W. A. being solidly established in Nova Scotia
did not affect the conditions in the Canadian markets in the least.
As to the Coal Company's assertion that it would be most prejudicial to the
industry if workmen therein became subject to the control of a foreign labour union
such as the U. M. W. A., Mr. McDougall held that no evidence had been produced
to show that such a sit\iation would be prejudicial. Moreover, Mr. McDougall con-
tended the U. M. W. A. was not a foreign but an international organization. ' If
the Coal Company,' life said, 'now by their discimination and unfair treatment cause
a strike, they themselves would be to blame for the ruination of the coal trade.' Mr.
McDougall claimed that the Company first decided to crush out the union,' and ' then
started to hunt up reasons and (excuses for doing so.' He could see no reason why
the Dominion Coal Company should not grant a recognition to the U. M. W. A. and
receive committees therefrom as circumstances required.
EEPORT OF BOAED.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows: —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1907, and of a dispute between the
Dominion Coal Company and its employees.
The Board, composed of Mr. Daniel McDougall, Mr. G. S. Campbell and Judgfe
W. B. Wallace (Chainnan), met on Tuesday morning, March 30, 1909, at a public
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hall in Glace Bay, the locality of the dispute between the above parties, and having
taken the oath of oflBce, proceeded with the reference.
The employees were represented by three of their number. The Company was
not represented at the first sittings, but the Board having decided to subpiriia the
general manager and some of the officials of the Company, those gentlemen undertook
to appear. At all the subsequent sittings of the Board, when the evidl^nco was taken,
the Company and the employees respectively were represented by counsel.
The Board sat at Glace Bay every week day until the following Tuesday evening,
,when the taking of evidence was concluded, and the Board adjourned to meet again
at Halifax on Monday, April 12. After sittings at Halifax on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday considering the evidence and preparing a report, the Board now makes
the following findings: —
The complaints of the men may be summarized as follows : —
(a) That the men were discharged or threatened with dismissal because they
were members of the United Mine Workers of America.
(b) That the private police force of the Company loitered around the meetings
of the United Mine Workers' Association and intimidated the tnembers.
(c) That in general the Company carried out a policy of discrimination against
members of the United Mine Workers' Association.
(d) That the Company refused to receive committees of the United Mine Work-
ers' Association, or in any way recognize that organization.
As to the allegation that the men were dismissed or threatened with dismissal
because they were members of the U.M.W.A., the Board finde that the charge is not
sustained by the evidence.
The claim made by the U.M.W., that the Company's police force loitered around
their meetings and intimidated their members is not sustained. The evidence goes
to show that the Company's policemen were detailed to attend all large meetings
whether of the Provincial Workmen's Association or the U.M.W. in order to protect
the Compajiy's property in case of disorder, and no instructions were .giv^jn them
either to get information about the meetings or to interfere with the men who at-
tended them. There was no intimidation.
In order to understand the situation at some of the mines the following fact.^
may be stated: —
As is customary after the close of navigation, work slacked down at the mines,
and the evidence of Mr. Duggan goes to show that the demand for coal during the
past winter was considerably le.'ss than the average, the output for the last five months
being nearly one-half million tons lower than for the corresponding period last year.
In order to keep the mines partially going the Company started to bank coal, but in
spite of that a considerable number of men were laid ofF. This more pairtioularly
affected mines Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 and 14. It happens that at some of these mines the
majority of the men belonged to the United Mine Workers, and the representatives
of the men claim that it was for that reason that these mines were partially or alto-
gether shut down. This claim is not substantiated by the evidence.
Much evidence was given to support the claim of the U.M.W. that men were
discharged because they had joined that Association and were threatened with dis-
missal unless they left it. It does appear, and is admitted by the Company, that as
tlite demand for coal increased, and the men wore again taken on. preference was given
to the members of the Provincial Workmen's Association. While it appears by the
evidence that no responsible official of the Company di>;chargod a man becnuse he wn.i
a member of the U.M.W., there is no doubt that in a number of instances the sub-
ordinate officials advised their men in their own interest to join the P.W.A. in order
that they might have a better chance of early employment.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
A special reference must be made to Dominion No. 3. The Board finds in regard
to the situation at Dominion No. 3 that a section of this mine was producing less
marketable coal than other places, and in view of the dullness of the coal trade a
number of men were laid off, there was no discrimination shown when the men were
laid off, but the Board finds — without in any way reflecting upon the evidence of the
manager of Dominion No. 3 — that the men who composed the committee which waited
upon the manager of Dominion No. 3, were justified in assuming as a result of that
interview that in seeking for re-employment it would be to their advantage to sever
their connection with the TJ.M.W.
The mine managers, however, had no instructions from the general manager to
discriminate against members of the U.M.W.A. The general manager was examined
on the point and testified as follows: —
' Q. Did you give any instructions in reference to this particular organization?
— A. Well, it was represented and generally known and discussed among our peo]»le
that the TJ.M.W. was going to get recognition; that was to be their victory. We all dis-
cussed the whole question. I set it before the men and our general attitude was that
it was against the interests of the public to allow them recognition. I told our man-
ager not to recognize them in any way or do anything that might be construed into
recognition. When we were discussing with the managers as to the organization of
the succeeding year we realized the necessity of getting men they could depend on.
I think I told them merely as counsel that they ought to be careful for their own
sake not to do anything that would be construed into discrimination against this
organization. I said they should be careful not to discriminate.'
Another charge of discrimination is that certain members of the U.M.W.A., who
were deputy overmen, were discharged by the Company. The rule of the Company is
that the deputy overman is an official of the Company, and as such is not allowed to
belong to any labour organization. The representatives of the TJ.M.W. claim that a
man who is appointed to that position should not be required to give up his member-
ship in the union. As it appears by the evidence that the deputy overman is in n
position of responsibility, frequently exercising authority over a large number of
men, the Board considers the rule of the Company disqualifying him from belonging
to any labour imion to be a reasonable one. The Company made their position clear
on this question over 15 months ago, before the TJ.M.W. were organized, so that it
cannot be claimed that they put it into force in order to prejudice the TJ.M.W. The
evidence goes to show that there was no discrimination in this respect and that no
deputy overmen were allowed to retain membership of their lodge with the know-
ledge of the Company, whether they belonged to the P.W.A. or the TJ.M.W. The Board
considers this rule to be in the interest of the men themselves, as deputy overmen who
are associated with any particular labour organization would be apt to give prefer-
ence to the men of that organization or discriminate against men of a rival organiza-
tion. Another obvious objection is that it would be undesirable for the deputy over-
men having power to discipline workmen to belong to a labour union where the ex-
ercise of such power might afterwards pass under review.
Evidence was given to show that some of thb mechanics at No. 2 were discharged
because they belonged to the TJ. M. W. Special conditions exist at mine No. 2, in
that it supplies power for lighting most of the company's mines. On the con-
tinuous operation of the plant there depends the safety and efficient operation of the
other mines, and any stoppage would at once tie up all work at the other collieries.
As there were substantial grounds for believing that a strike was imminent, the engi-
neer in charge of the power plant asked his subordinates wDether he could depend
upon them to continue at work in the event of a strike being called. Those who
stated that they would go out in the event of a strike were laid off, as the engineer,
who is responsible for the operation of the plant, wished to have men under him on
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whose loyalty he could depend. As this question was asked irrespective of whether
thfe person interrogated was a member of the P. W. A. or U. M. W., there is no evi-
dence of any discrimination against the members of the latter organization, the only
men who were laid off being men whose answers or conduct showed that they could
not be relied upon to continue working.
The position at Ko. 6 also presents some special features. The formal complaint
of the men is that the mine was almost completely closed down because a large
majority of the miners there belonged to ihe U. M. W. Now, it appears from the
evidence that it costs about 20 per cent more to mine coal at No. 6 than at other
mines. During the winter coal was being banked there, principally in order to pro-
vide work for the men, but on the 9th of February the mine was closed down. Later
on, when the requirements of the Steel Company increased, the company decided to
resume operations at No. 6, and the whistle was blown for work on March 22. The
men of that pit, who were largely U. M. W., declined to go back to work, and sent
out a number of pickets, presumably for the purpose of influencing the mfen to stay
away. As a reason for not resuming work, the representatives of the U. M. W. claim
that the Company had no serious intention of resuming work there on a large scale,
and that they had not made the necessary arrangements in the way of providing
lamps, &c., for the men. The evidence goes to show that the manager blew the
whistle for the resumption of work in good faith, and while the Company could not
be e-xpected to open up the mine to its full capacity immediately, a considerable
number of men would have been employed-at once, and the remainder as soon as work
opented up.
It is gratifying to be able to state that while the Board was sitting at Glace Bay,
work was resumed at No. 6, and we understand that the men are being employed
there irrespective of the labour organization to which they belong.
An important question submitt^sd for tho consideration of the Board is whether
the Company was justified in giving preference to the P. W. A.
Without dealing with the question whether a company has a right, imdor ordin-
ary circumstances, in engaging workmen, to show a preference for the members of
one labour union to those of another labour union, in the present case ihere were
special circumstances which made the preference, undoubtedly shown by the Company,
a natural and reasonable one. As the result of the award of a previous Bnard of
Conciliation, the Provincial Workmen's Assooiation, representing the workmen,
became a formal party to that award, and unqualifiedly accepted its terms, and it
was reasonable that in the carrying out of the Company's operations under the award
the Company should give special recognition to the men who could be relied upon to
abide by its terms, in preference to the men who had not assented to its terms, and
some of whom were known to the company as condemning the terms of the award.
While officials of the TJ. M. W. now say that their association is prepared to
abide by the terms of that award, this Board must deal with conditions as they
texisted at the time of the acts complained of by the men. Moreover, the U. M. W.
still persist in maintaining the right to defy an important rule of the company in
respect to deputy overmen, which rule, on the other hand, the P. W. A. have not
questioned since the period when the Company sent the formal notification of the
rigid enforcement of this rule, about fifteen months ago.
It should be also stated that while the Company has given a preference to the
workmen of the P. W. A., the Company has shown no harshness towards the men of
the TT. M. W., and the general manager of the Company has declared that no man has
been blacklisted or will be refused emplojonent merely because he belongs to that
organization.
The most important question before the Board was that of recognition of tlif
TI. M. W. by the Company. Here there is no question of agreements, it is purely a
matter of policy. The TJ. M. W. claim the right to approach the management by
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
committee, as is done by the P. W. A. The Company refuses to recognize that right.
It may be admittted that there are advantages in dealing throngh committees with a
recognized labour union, but the Company find themselves face to face with two
rival labour organizations, and state that it would be impracticable to deal with two
separate committees whose contentions might be at variance with each other. The
principal reason, however, why the company refuses to recognize the U. M. W., is
that they are practically a foreign organization, having dangerous and ir.'anacing
powers under their constitution. It is true that the P. M. W. is international in
membership, but the principal executive officers and the great bulk of the members
reside in the United States. The Company points out that this has a very serious
bearing on the coal tradte of Nova Scotia, inasmuch as the American operators are
making serious inroads into Canadian markets. It appears in the evidence of Mr.
Duggan that since 1906, sales to the St. Lawrence markets of American bituminous
coal have increased 5.31.000 tons. As the St. Lawitence trade forms the chief market
of the Dominion Coal Company, anything that tends to interfere with it would natu-
rally affect the interests both of the Coal Company and the miners they employ. The
Board considers this objection of the Coal Company a very grave one, because with
one foreign organization controlling the miners, labour difficulties in the TTnited
States would almost certainly lead to complication in Nova Scotia. If through labour
troubles in the United States a market opened up there for Nova Scotia coal at pro-
fitablte rates, pressure would undoubtedly be brought to bear on the miners in Nova
Scotia to prevent exports of our coal to the United States. It is true that the
U. M. W. is recognized in Western Canada, but there the conditions are different,
because while Nova Scotia mines are finding it increasingly difficult to hold their
own against the United States coal in the St. Lawrence trade, the Canadian mines
of the iwest not only hold their own market, but in many cases can afford to export
to the United States notwithstanding the duty. Another and most serious objection
to recognizing the U. If. W., arises in connection with certain clauses in their con-
stitution. One clause of that constitution states ' that local unions shall be composed
of miners, mine labourers and other workmen, skilled and unskilled, working in and
about the mines, except mine managers, top boss and persons engaged in the sale of
intoxicating liquors.' Under this rule every man bxcept the superintendent and
manager of the mine is eligible for membership in the union. This the Board con-
siders to be a dangerous and unusual rule and not in accordance with the custom in
Great Britain and other mining centres. It is also in conflict with a rule of the
Dominion Coal Company, a special reference to which is made in an earlier para-
graph of this report.
But the most objectionable clause in the constitution is as follows : —
' The international officials shall at any time they deem it to the best interests
of mine workers in a district that is idle, for just and sufficient reasons order a sus-
pension in any other district or districts that would not in any way impede the settle-
ment of the districts affected, provided that such action would conserve to the best
interest of the U.M.W. of America.' This rule makes it quite possible for the execu-
tive of the Mine Workers, whose head office is in Indianapolis, Indiana, to proclaim a
strike in Nova Scotia if they considered it to be in the interest of the U.M.W. as a
whole. Inasmuch as all the dominating interests of the U.M.W. are centered in the
United States, it seems clear that the policy of the organization would be governed
by the interests of the mines there. Consequently it is not unreasonable to anticipate
that on some future occasion, although labour conditions in Nova Scotia might be
satisfactory, it would be to the interest of the U.M.W. as a whole to proclaim a strike
in Nova Scotia. That is a power which in our opinion no foreign body should be
able to exercise over our industrial interests in Nova Scotia. The Boa.rd considers
that the Coal Company is justifiiad in refusing to recognize any organization that coulc?
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exercise such a dangerous and continually menacing power. Foreign officials sitting
at Indianapolis should not have the power to decree that Nova Scotia miners, even
when without a grievance, must stop working, and thereby cripple a great Nova Scotia
industry.
In conclusion the board desires to report that, so far as it has been able to ascer-
tain, the conditions obtaining at the collieries in Cape Breton are in many respects
superior to those at most of the mines in the Fnited States. While differences of
opinion have arisen between operators and the men, they have hitherto been arranged
in a mutually, friendly and satisfactory manner.
Existing unsettled labour conditions have the effect of disturbing business, creat-
ing apprehension as to the future and thereby reacting to a large extent on the wel-
fare of the miners themselves.
Without presuming to dictate as to which union the men should belong, or as to
whether they should belong to any union, we think it is in the interest of the opera-
tors, the men themselves and the whole community, that our labour difficulties, which
will always be with us, should be settled amongst ourselves, and not be subject to the
control of any outside party. The men must see that their interests are bound up
with those of the Coal Company, and while they naturally exjyect to share in the pros-
perity of the Company, anything that tends to hamper materially the operations of
the Company must in the end prejudicially affect themselves.
The general manager has declared that his instructions were and are that there
should be no discrimination against the members of th'3 F.M.W. as such, and the Board
wish to add that all officials of the Company should be extremely careful to avoid
anything that would afford ground for suspecting discrimination or unjust favouritism.
The Board takes pleasure in expressing appreciation of the readiness of both
parties to furnish information affecting the questions at issue, of the straightforward
way in which the witnesses gave their evidence, and of the spirit of conciliation
which was manifested in an increasing degree as the inquiry proceeded.
It is the earnest wish of the Board that the investigation which has taken i)laco
may in some degree result in a better and more sympathetic imderstanding between
the Coal Company and its employees; that each may .show a conciliatory attitude
towards the other, and that all connected with the mines may work harnuuiiously
together for the success and prosperity of the coal industry of the province.
Inclosed herewith are the exhibits and evidence in this matter.
Halifax, April 14, 1909.
W. B, Wallace,
Chairman.
G. S. Campbell.
The Hon. Rodolpiie Lemieux,
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa.
MINOTMTV IJKPORT.
The text of the minority report, submitted by Jlr. Daniel ^fcDougall. is as fol-
lows : —
To THE Honourable the Minister of LAnoru,
Ottawa, Ont.
Re the dispute entitled Dominion Coal Company and employees.
The undersigned, acting on behalf of the men and parties making iiiiplication
for the Board, namely, .lames D. !Mcl.i mum and Peter Patterson, beg to rcjiort as
•follows: —
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Tour Board met in the town of Glace Bay and held sessions continuously for
seven dnys, when a great amount of evidence was produced, the same being under
oath, and has been submitted to your department.
The final sitting of the court was held in the city of Halifax to endeavour to
arrive at a settlement and of finding a recommendation to be Bubmitted to your Depart-
ment, but I having failed to agree with my colleagues on a finding, decided to submit
a minority report as follows and per evidence brought forward at the investigation.
The first and principal clause in our application for the Board was the matter of
discrimination; to this I have to say: —
That in all the evidence brought forward we proved direct cases of discrimination,
and would have brought forward more cases from all the collieries were it not that
the Company by their solicitor admitted that they were prepared to close the case
and admit that there had been discrimination. Of course the company says it was
only ' preference ' of one clas,s of employment. This being the case, it undoubtedly
maktes a case of discrimination against the other class, or, to be plainer, that the Com-
pany gave a preference to the Provincial Workmen's Association, thereby excluding
the members of the U.M.W. of A. from any privileges they were entitled to as em-
ployees of the said company, this being a deliberatt violation of section , subsection
(C) relating to the employment of children or anj- class of persons. To bring this
matter clearly before your department, I think the evidence produced will sho^ by
Mr. Curry's evidence of Michael Burns, pages 9 and 10, Thos. Accleshaw on pages 11
and 13 ; ilr. Mclnnes, manager of No. 3 mine on pages 14 and 17 ; Neil Stewart,
pages 22. 23 and 24; R. J. McNeil on page 30. and all through the evidence until we
come to page 99, Mr. Mitchell's statement, he being manager of No. 6 colliery, and,
in fact, all through the evidence, it is plainly shown our men have been discriminated
against.
I, therefore, submit that on the part of the ofiicials of the Dominion Coal Com-
pany there has been the most violent cases of discrimination. Therefore, having, in
my opinion, proven to your Department that there has been discrimination, we must,
therefore, endeavour to find any justification there may be for this discrimination
or preference, and the best way to establish that there has been no cause is by taking
the company's reply to this department. I submit that clauses 1, 2 and 3 do not in
any way justify the Company in making this discrimination, from the fact that we
consider the award of the Board held last year binding on all its employees.
In regard to paragraph four we wish to call attention to the evidence of Alexander
Dick, where he admits that he always sells more coal than the collieries can produce
during the open season and the St. Lawrence being closed is a normal thing. And
it is submitted that although the Americans increased their sales up the St. Law-
rence, there is nothing in the evidence to indicate that the St. Lawrence trade will
not keep the collieries busy this year as it has last. In fact, the only place where the
sales have decreased, according to Mr. Dick, is the New England states. But that we
say in regard to the whole paragraph four is that, even assuming it is correct, it
afforded no reason for the company in restricting its operations discriminating against
our members, since our members and our organization have not been in the least to
blame for this state of affairs (this latter has been admitted by Mr. Dick), and we
say that in the restricting of operation process work should have been divided as in
other years.
As to paragraph five, we say that this whole paragraph fades away under the
admission of the Company, that any agreement, award or settlement now existing is
binding as between the company and its employees, regardless of whether they are
P. W. A., LT. M. W. or members of neithter society, and even had this not been
admitted, a glance at the awa,rd itself would be sufScient. (See also further on in this
argument the paper of Professor Shortt). This being admitted that the award was
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for the benefit of all employees and nothing contained in. it authorizing a preference
to union or non-union men, \yhat justification for preference or discrimination is
made out in paragraph five?
As to paragraph six, practically the same observations apply to it.
As to the last paragraph of the reply, we shall deal with it by sentences.
As to the first sentence, ' The property of the coal industry in Nova Scotia
depends upon its being able to compete successfully with American coal operators
in the Canadian markets.' We admit the truth of the proposition in general, and we
say that according to the evid'ance of their own witness, Mr. Dick, they have
not been able to successfully compete in Canadian markets, but they have been
able to go into the territory of competitors in the hardest season of the year for trans-
portation, and pay the duty and get their share of contracts in the New England
states. They are also able, according to Mr. Dick, to ship coal to the Canadian mar-
kets, and pay $1 freight via Portland, and still hold their own against those terrible
Americans. And over and above all these admissions of Mr. Dick, we have his
crowning statement that the fact of the U. M. W. being solidly established in Nova
Scotia will not affect the conditions in the Canadian markets in the least.
As to the next sentence, ' It would be most prejudicial to the industry if the
workmen therein became subject to the control of a foreign labour union such as
the United Mine Workers of America, which is organized in the States where its chief
officers reside.' We say they have produced no evidence to show that it would be pre-
judicial, and that the evidence of Mr. Dick tends to show it would not. We say
further our organization is not foreign, but international, and we could have proven
had it not been practically admitted by Mr. Duggan that they are now dealing with
two such international unions — one on their railway and another in their machine
shops. It may be further noted that while Mr. Duggan was refusing to speak to
Donald Grant, an old employee, and Peter Patterson, a Nova Scotian and Canadian
international board member, because they happened to be members of this so-called
foreign labour union, he was in correspondence with Thomas Lewis, the presidient of
the U. M. W. of A., down in Indianapolis.
In answer to the last sentence of the Company's reply we need only point to the
evidence of Mr. Dick, who admits that regardless of whether the U. M. W. triumphs
in Nova Scotia, the company will always have the same competitors in the St, Law-
rence, and that so long as there is no strike in Nova Scotia their chances of holding
their own against the Americans never were better. If the Coal Company now by
their discrimination and unfair treatment, cause a strike, they themselves wiU be to
blame for the runination of the coal trade. We say finally that if the whole reply
or any part of it was intended to suggest that the opposition met in the Montreal
markets had any conection with the TJ. M. W. organization, that the Company have
failed to produce any evidence on which even to base an argiiment to that ciTcct.
And we say boldly, in view of our frequent challenges to the Company to put any
of our ofiicers, including Mr. Patterson, on the stand, and these men could give the
whole history of the organization of the Nova Scotia district.
In conclusion, we submit that the Company first decided to crush out the union
here, and then started to hunt up reasons and excuses for doing so, and we say this
is borne out by the fact that they have at different times given different reasons and
excuses.
One more point coming to mind and which lias been put forward was tlu' fact
that the Dominion Coal Company discharged some of its employees because they
were shotfirers, or what they term ' deputy overmen,' and they contended they should
not belong to any union. Wo take the stand that men of this cla.ss should not be
hindered from joining any society they wish, from the fact that the union themselves
places restrictions on those who should belong to labour unions, and further, the
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special rules of the Company have to be posted up in prominent places for the guid-
ance of the workmen according to the Coal Mines Regulation Act of the province of
Nova Scotia, and their special rules so posted up do not say that these people are
officials. We take this point, that if the Dominion Coal Company continues creating
officials the men will all be in the role, thereby leaving no room for any to escape, and
that being a fact Prof. Shortt's argument in Labour Gazette of January, 1909, page
697, has no foundation. We therefore submit to the Department that the Coal Com.-
pany, or any other company, has no jurisdiction to say if a inan should belong to a
society or not — more particularly a union.
The only matter remaining is a recognition of our union, which I personally and
in behalf of the men cannot see any just reason for the Company not receiving a
committee from us to adjust any grievances that may arise with our men. As to
cases where the matter of recognition has been accorded the United Mine Workers
of America, we would quote Reports of 1907-190S of the Department at pages 3:56,
337 and 351, which in our opinion is the only way this matter can be settled. We
therefore urge a recognition by committee as shown by Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Duggan and
other officials, that dealing with a committee is the most satisfactory method of
adjusting a grievance, and we, therefore, strongly urge and recommend it for the rea-
sons given. For the other reasouj tliat if this is not done we fear great friction may
occur and great trouble may be brought on by members being discharged. For ex-
ample, a member might be discharged for a sufficient cause and under circumstances
that no union would defend him, but if he came to his local and put his own colour-
ing to the story it might be regarded by the local as discrimination, and since this
question has now been referred to a Board the whole union might strike, whereas, if
the case was gone over by the committee and the manager, the member might be held
to be in the wrong and trouble avoided, and at least this would give time to allow
the parties to cool ofF.
If the Company agree with the employees along those lines I see no reason why
industrial peace should not prevail and a prosperous time for the Company be the
outcome.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
(Sgd.) Daniel McDougall,
On behalf of th^ men.
DEI'ARrUEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
III.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA
COPPER COMPANY. GREENWOOD. B. C— BOARD ESTABLISHEI>—
EMPLOYEES CEASED WORK.
Application receiied. — April 5, 1909.
Parties conceited. — British Columbia Copper Company aud employees.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Metal mining (copper).
Nature of dispute. — Alleged discrimination against certain employees.
Number of -employees affected. — 225.
Date of constitution of Boarcf.— April 29, 1909.
Membership of Board. — His Honour Judge P. E. Wilson, Cranbrook, B.C. (Chair-
man), appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the
other members of the Board; Mr. E. Cronyn, Toronto. Ont., appointed on the recom-
mendation of the employing Company, and Mr. John Melnnis, Pluenix, B.C., ap-
pointed on the recommendation of the employees.
Reports received. — May 21, June 3 and June 11, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Employees refused to accept findings of Board and ceased
work on June 26, 1909. Strike continued until July 24, 1909, when a settlement was
effected.
The Minister received, on May 21, the report of His Honour Judge 1'. K. Wilt^on,
of Cranbrook, B.C., as Chairman of this Board. At the same time a separate report
was received from Mr. John Melnnis, M.P.P., of Phoenix, B.C., the member ap-
pointed on the recommendation of the employees. The report of Mr. Edward Cronyn,
of Toronto, the member of the Board appointed on the recommendation of the Com-
pany, was received in the Department on June 11.
The application for the establishment of this Board, received in the Department
on March 30, alleged discrimination on the part of the British Columbia Copper
Company against two members of the Greenwood Jliners' Union, No. 22, Western
Federation of Miners, namely, T. Y. McKay, J. B. King and others, ' by discharging
them from their employment for no apparent reason but their being active members
of Greenwood Miners' Union.' The union demanded that the British Columbia Cop-
per Company cease discriminating against tiieir members and reinstate all members
so discriminated against; also that the British Columbia Copper Company adjust all
grievances that may arise in the future through a committee from the Greenwood
■ Miners' Union. The number of persons affected by this dispute was -said to be a))-
proximately 225 men. Mr. John Melnnis, M.P.P., of Phoenix, B.C., wa.-; appointed
a member of this Board on the recommendation of the employees, and ifr. Edward
Cronyn, of Toronto, was appointed on the recommendation of the Company. In the
absence of any joint recommendation from Messrs. Melnnis and Cronyn, the Board
was completed on April 29 by the appointment of His Honour Judge P. E. Wilson,
of Cranbrook, as chairman.
At the opening sitting of the Board the complaints of tiie employees concerned
were amplifie<l as follows: —
' (1) That the management of the B. C. Copper Company recognize a committee
from the Greenwood Miners' Union No. 22, W.F.M., to adjust all grievances between
the B. C. Copper Company and its employee*.
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' (2j That the B. C. Copper Company cease discriminating against members of
Greenwood Miners' Union No. 22, W.F.M.
' (3) That the B. C. Copper Company reinstate J. B. King and T. Y. McKay and
pay to them their wages in full from the time of their dismissal until j^ueh time as
they are reinstated.
' (4) That the B. C. Copper Company shall not discriminate against men on ac-
count of their political opinions.
' (5) That the B. C. Copper Company shall not alter existing conditions of em-
ployment of their employees without notifying the president or secretary of the Green-
wood Miners' Union No. 22, W.F.M., and all notifications shall be in writing.
' (6) That the management of the B. C. Copper Company, or any of its officials,
shall not use any influence or in any manner interfere with their employees in their
choice of doctor or doctors.
' (7) That the management of the B. C. Copper Company cease soliciting the
board of trade and certain individuals for the purpose of discrediting Greenwood
Miners' Union No. 22, W.F.M.'
On June 21 a strike was declared of the employees concerned in this dispute, in
which recognition was sought for the Western Federation of Miners' organization.
The strike continued until July 24 following, when a settlement was effected and
operations were resumed in the Company's mines.
SUMMARY OF SEVERAL REPORTS.
His Honour Judge Wilson in his report observed that ' the whole industrial
situation in this camp is unfortunate. A feeling of distrust prevades the whole
atmosphere, and so long as that feeling continues so long will trouble continue.' In
respect of the recognition of the union, which was one of the main points of the dis-
pute, the Company claimed that some of their employees were not members of Green-
wood Miners' Union, and that as to these it was manifestly unfair that tiey should
have to adjust grievances through the union. Judge Wilson, Chairman, and Mr.
Cr.onyii, member of the Board appointed on the recommendation of the Company, both
referred in their reports to certain letters submitted in evidence by the Comp-my in
which individual workmen had been informed by the secretary of Greenwood Miners'
Union that a fine had been placed against them for refusing to become members of
that body, and that they would be advertised as 'unfair to organized labour.' In
commenting on these letters the chairman observed that 'such action on the part, of
tlie union seems, in my opinion, to depart from the true spirit of unionism, which, as
I understand it, is to obtain a fair deal for the employees. In my opinion, the letters
strongly smack of disloyalty not only to unionism but to the laws of the country
itself, and such a course as that adopted by the Greenwood Miners' Union cannot do
otherwise than lead to distrust by the employer., and not only to that, but to non-
recognition by the employer, who should fairly recognize his non-union employees
as well as his union employees, and these letters certainly give him fair grounds for
stating that he finds it impossible to recognize the union under such conditions. If
it had not been for this unfortunate evidence, I certainly feel that there was no justi-
fication whatever for the Company refusing recognition of the union.'
The Chairman was of opinion that in fairness, not only to capital, but to labour
itself, each union should have the power to make a binding contract, and that if this
were the case ' it would do much to lessen the feeling of permanent unrest which seems
to prevail at Greenwood.' With these two points settled he saw no reason why the
parties to the dispute could not come together. The one foundation for the dispute
was the demand of the Greenwood Miners' Union for recognition at the hands of the
Company, and Judge Wilson added, ' upon elimination of the union's procedure as
against non-union men and union men who are in arrears, as above outlined, that the
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Company might and should recognize the union in dealing with union employees.'
In conclusion he recommended: (1) That the union eliminate any practice of dis-
crimination as against non-union men. (2) That upon the cessation of such pro-
cedure the Company recognize and deal with the union in regard to all questions
affecting union men. (3) That no discrimination be shown against any person by
reason of his taking an active part in the union.'
Mr. Cronyn, in his findings, gave it as his opinion that the British Columbia
Copper Company was amply justified in refusing to recognize or to deal with Green-
wood Miners' Union.
Mr. Mclnnis found that ' the charges made by the Greenwood Miners' Union
were well founded,' and gave it as his opinion that ' the difiiculties between the man-'
agement and the employees were due largely to the failure of the manager of the
Company to meet his employees in a spirit of fairness.' ' There has been,' Mr. Mc-
lnnis observed, ' scarcely any serious labour troubles for a number of years, and this
condition is due in a large measure to the fact that nearly every company operating
in the provinces recognizes the Western Federation of Miners.' He recommended,
therefore, that the British Columbia Copper Company recognize and do business
with the Greenwood Miners' Union, and that all questions affecting wages and condi-
tions between the Company and the employees be adjusted through the said union.
Mr. Mclnnis, in his report, stated that ' after all the evidence was adduced, the
Board endeavoured to get the parties to the dispute together, so that, if possible, they
might arrive at an understanding. The officials of the union signified their will-
ingness to confer and settle on reasonable terms, but the representative of the Company
refused point blank to have any dealings with the union.' The Department has re-
ceived copies of correspondence showing that in a letter, dated June 16, to His
Honour Judge Wilson, of Cranbrook, the British Columbia Copper Company dis-
puted the accuracy of the foregoing statement in Mr. Mclnnis' report, and asserted
that no such suggestion had been received by the Company. In reply Judge Wilson
declared the Company's statement in this matter to be correct, and added that a state-
ment by Mr. Cronyn that it was no use to have suggested a conference as in the face
of the evidence he (Mr. Cronyn) knew that the Company could not consider the points,
was the only ground that could exist for such a statement.
EEPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF BOARD.
The text of the finding of His Honour Judge P. E. Wilson, as Chairman of the
Board, is as follows : —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in the
matter of differences between the British Columbia Copper Company and its em-
ployees.
The Chairman of this Board begs to report as follows: —
On my appointment, at the earnest solicitation of both parties, I forthwith went
to Greenwood, and a meeting was at once held on my arrival on May 1.
The complaint as filed with the Board was amplified by the employees, who sub-
mitted a statement in writing which sots out their ground for complaint. That state-
ment is as follows : —
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Conciliation and Investigation Board.
Gentlemen, — The members of the Greenwood Miners' Union in making applica-
tion for a Conciliation and Investigation Board, under the Industrial Disputes Act,
do not wish to leave the impression on the public that we consider this Act is in any
way intended to benefit the working class.
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In fact, we consider the Industrial Disputes Act the most hostile piece of legisla-
tion on the statute-books of Canada at the present time against the labouring class.
Our reason for thinking so is that the corporations can ignore it in nearly every
case, and as shown in one case in which Greenwood miners were interested, and it
would have been to our benefit to have a Board appointed, the Deputy Minister of
Labour advised us that the Department of Labour did not consider a copper mine a
• public utility. In May, 1907, the members of Greenwood Miners' Union, believing that
- they were entitled to a higher rate of wages as the cost of living had advanced, and as
the price of copper had been over 24 cents for the previous six months, made a de-
mand on the different mining companies operating properties in the jurisdiction of
Greenwood Miners' Union for an advance of fifty cents a day in wages, and believing
that copper mines would come under the Industrial Disputes Act, we made the demand
to take effect the 1st June, 1907.
The members of Greenwood Miners' Union believed at that time that if we could
get a Conciliation and Investigation Board that we had the whip hand, as there had
been enormous losses to the B. C. Copper Company through mismanagement, and if
we could get a Board to demand the Company's books, the management of the B. C.
Copper Company would grant our demands before it would allow an investigation.
But as the charges have often been made that the Western Federation of Miners
is a lawless organization, we invite you to make a thorough investigation into our
methods of doing business, as we have nothing to conceal, and in making application
for a Conciliation and Investigation Board one of our objects is to let the public
know the true condition in Greenwood camp.
When we made the demand in May, 1907, for an increase in wages, the managers
of the different companies operating in the boundary asked the committees represent-
ing the different unions to meet them in a body as they would like to make a scale
of wages to be general all over the boundary country, and when the committees met
them they asked for time to go to New York to interview the executive board of the
different companies, or alien corporations operating in the boundary, and the com-
mittees representing the unions granted them the time on condition that they would
give an answer before 1st of June, 1907. After the managers returned and we re-
alized after meeting them that they did not intend to grant the raise on the plea that
with copper at 24 cents a pound there was very little profit for them. After showing
them that 50 cents advance in wages per day would amount to about one-tenth of a
cent on a pound of copper, taking their own report as a basis to work on, as they
claimed that they could produce copper and lay it down in New York at between 9 and
10 cents a pound. Mr. Hodges, the chairman of the managers, remarked that the
reports as they sent them out were only to hornswobble the stockholders. The com-
mittee representing the various unions then made up their minds to apply for a Con-
ciliation Board, and in answer to a telegram that we sent to the Minister of Mines,
bis deputy notified us that we did not come under the Lemieux Act, as the copper
mines were not considered by the Department a public utility. Then realizing that
we had all the power of capital with the public press, including the mining journals of
Canada and America, printing lying reports sent out by agents of the Mine Owners'
Association against us, we arrived at a compromise.
After the union voted on the scale and we adopted it, we posted a copy of the
scale on a building at the Mother Lode mine so that the men would know what they
were being paid, so that they could mark their cards supplied daily by the Company
for that and other purposes. Mr. McAllister sent word to the superintendent at the
mine to take the copy of the scale down, as he had not been notified officially by the
Greenwood Miners' Union of adoption of scale. We had then to make a trip to the
B. C. Copper Company office and notify him to that effect.
The managers of the various companies began to realize that the men by being
organized were a power to be reckoned with, and Mr. McAllister started in very soon
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
to show us that any man taking an active part in the union could not work for liini.
Xotwithstanding the fact that we did not ask for a raise in wages for six months
after copper had advanced to 24 cents, and when we did demand the raise we gave
the management over one month's notice, but when the price of copper dropped, and
the conditions in the labour market were favourable to the operators, the various
managers of the large companies got together and closed all the properties in the
boundary without even 12 hours' notice, for no other reason than to defeat the objects
of the Lemieux Act, as the Minister of Labour had given a decision after we had
settled our grievances in May, 1907, that a copper mine was a public utility.
In May, 1908, the B. C. Copper Company resumed operations under a reduced
wage scale, but as copper was nearly one cent lower than when they shut down they
cannot claim as an excuse the high wages paid in November as a reason for shutting
lown in November, 1907.
During the shut-down of the B. C. Copper Company's properties in November,
1907, and the resumption of work in May, 1908, Mr. McAllister was vei-y active in
getting the Greenwood Board of Trade to adopt certain resolutions placing all the
responsibility of the closing down of the B. C. Copper Company's properties on the
labouring class, and the same resolutions were published and comments made in a
great many of the mining journals published in America. Mr. ilcAllister also tried
to influence foremen in charge of other properties near Greenwood to not employ cer-
tain men that belonged to the union, giving as a reason that if the said foremen
employed union men that they would divide their wages with men that he was trying
to drive out of Greenwood, and he also made the remark that he had two good men
in the union to report what was going on.
In the appointment of E. C. Warren to the position of manager at the B. C.
Copper's smelter we believe we can show to the satisfaction of this Board that the only
qualifications that he had for this position was that he was president of Greenwood
Board of Trade and the recognized political boss in Greenwood of the Conservative
party in British Columbia, and that the said E. C. Warren would use his influence
to disrupt Greenwood Miners' Union.
A few of the reasons that Mr. McAllister wanted to disrupt the union were be-
cause that Greenwood Miners' Union were trying to get the benefit of certain laws
on the statute books of British Columbia, namely, the Master and Servants' Act and
the Workmen's Compensation Act, and we believe we can show to the satisfaction
of this Board that he has deliberately schemed to impose a Company doctor on his em-
ployees to defeat the object.s of said Acts. We also believe tliat we can show to the
satisfaction of this Board that there has been no effort on the part of the present
management of the B. C. Copper Company to operate the mines and smelter of the
said Company for the interest of the stockholders as a whole, but their only object
was to handle a large tonnage, and in trying to treat a large tonnage it resulted in
enormous losses to the B. C. Copper Company.
And we also accuse Mr. McAllister of using every means in his power to comiicl
Greenwood Miners' Union to call a strike so that he can place the respousibllil.v fif
liis mismanagement on to the shoulders of Greenwood Miners' Union.
Eespectfullj submitted,
AcTiNQ FOR Miners' Union.
Greenwood, B.C., May 1, 1909.
IIF.MANDS MADE BY GREENWOOD MINERS' UNION OF THE B. C. COPPER COMPANY.
1st. 'J'hat the management of the B. C. Copper Company recognize a committee
froni Greenwood Miners' Union. No. 22, W.F.M., to adjust all grievances between
the B. C. Copper C-n/ipany and its employees.
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2iid. That the B. C. Copper Company cease discriminating against membors of
Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, W.F.M.
3rd. That the B. C. Copper Company reinstate J. B. King and T. T. McKay in
their employment, and pay the said J. B. King and T. Y. McKay their wages in full
from the time of their dismissal until such time as they are reinstated.
4th. That the B. C. Copper Company shall not discriminate against men on ac-
count of their political opinions.
5th. That the B. C. Copper Company shall not alter any existing condition of
employment of their employees without notifying the president or secretary of Green-
wood Miners' Union, No. 22, W.F.M., and all notifications .shall be in writing.
6th. That the management of the B. C. Copper Company or any of its officials,
uso any influence or in any manner interfere with their employees in their choice of
doctor or doctors.
Yth. That the management of the B. C. Copper Company cease soliciting the
aid of the board of trade and certain individuals for the purpose of discrediting
Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, W.F.M.
In reply to that the Company filed a statement denying the statements.
The first complaint is that the management of the B. C. Copper Company re-
fused to recognize a committee from the Greenwood Miners' Union to adjust all
grievances between the B. C. Copper Company and its employees.
The Company undoubtedly refuse to recognize the union. Undoubtedly the great
majority of the Company's employees belonged to the union. On this point I cer-
tainly think that in fair dealing in industrial occupations there must be a recogni-
tion of the union by the employer in all matters in which a member of the union is
involved. The union simply seeks by combination to protect its members, and so
long as it does that it seems to me that it must and should be recognized by the em-
jiloyer. In this case, however, the employer objects to recognizing this particular
union. If that objection is against unionism as such, then clearly the employer is in
the wrong, but if, as the Company maintains in this case, the complaint is against
unionism in the manner in which it is adopted at Greenwood, then there may be some
grounds for the refusal to recognize the union at Greenwood. The Company assert
that they have such grounds by reason of the stand taken by the union as against
non-union men and against members of the union who refused to reinstate themselves
in the union. On that question they put in evidence certain letters which follow: —
Greenwood Miners' Union No. 22.
Greenwood, B.C., April 22, 1900.
Mr. Fricd. Hopkins,
Greenwood, B.C.
Dear Sir, — Take noticp that the inembers of Greenwood Miners' Union, at :>
regular meeting, placed a fine of $50 against you for refusing to join this organiza-
tion while working under our jurisdiction, and I was instructed' to advertise you as
unfair to organized labour, until such time as you become a member of this organiza-
tion and pay the above fine into the treasury of Greenwood Miners' Union.
(Sgd.) George Heatherton,
Secretary.
Greenwood, B.C., April 20, 1909.
Mr. Bert TIopkinp.
Greenwood, B.C.
Dear Sir,- — I wish to notify you that at a regular meeting of Greenwood Miners"
Union the members of thi& organization placed a fine of $50 against yon for refusing
to put your^lf in good standing in Greenwood Miners' Union, and I was instructed
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to advertise you as unfair to organized labour, until such time as you pay the fine
and put yourself in good standing in Greenwood Miners' Union. I remain,
Yours truly,
(Sgd.) George Heatherton,
Secretary.
Greenwood, B.C., April 24, 1909.
Mr. George Aiken,
Greenwood, B.C.
Dear Sir, — I wish to notify you that at a regular meeting of Greenwood Miners'
Union the membership of this organization placed a fine of $25 against you for refus-
ing to become a member of Greenwood Miners' Union, and I was instructed to adver-
tise you as unfair to organized labour until such time as you become a member and
pay the above fine into thi^ union. I rtemain,
(Sgd.) George Heatherton,
Secretary.
Such action on the part of the union seems, in my opinion to depart from the
true spirit of unionism, fwhich, as I understand it, is to obtain a fair deal for the
employee. In my opinion, the letters strongly smack of disloyalty not only to union-
ism, but to the laws of thb country itself, and such a course as that adopted by the
Greenwood Miners' Union cannot do otherwise than lead to distrust by the employer,
and not only that, but lead to non-reoognition by the employer, who should fairly
recognize his non-union employees as wfell as his union employees, and thesp letters
certainly give him fair grounds for stating that he finds it impossible to recognize
the union under such conditions. I cannot find, by reas,on of the date of the letters,
that they were the cause of complaint in this matter, but it seems to me that such
letters having come to the knowledge of the employer that he is to that extent justi-
fied in refusing to recognize the officials of the union that act^ in that mann'fer. If
it had not been for this unfortunate evidence, I certainly feel that there was no justi-
fication whatever for the company refusing recognition of the union.
The employer stands in a peculiar position. He must deal fairly with his non-
imion men as well as, with his union men. and it seems to me that he is not acting
outside the scope of fairness in protecting his non-union employee from an unfair
demand made by union.
Again it must be borne in mind that the employer dealing with tlu> union is
dealing with a body -which has not, in itself, any power to make a binding wmtract,
and on this point it seemsv to mo that in fairness not only to capit:il, but to labour
itself, that each iinion should ha\te tlie power to contract. If that were the case, I
think it would tend much to lessen the feeling of permanent unrest which seems to
prevail at Greenwood.
These two points being f^ettltd, I can see no reason why the parties in this dis-
pute cannot get together. Really, the one foundation for the dispute is based on this
one demand, i.e., recognition of the union, and I think that upon the ^elimination of
the union's procedure as against non-union men and union men who are in arrears,
as above outlined, that the Company might and should recognize the union in dealing
with iinion employees, I felt that there might be some question on this point. The
dismissal complained of happened at an unfortunate time. The Company was putting
down its force. There was, a feeling among the men, aiid everything that was done
on either one side or the other was looked upon with distrust by the opposite party.
T cannot find on this point that there was a clear discrimination against union men
as such. TW-'re is suspicion in regard to cause of dismissal, but as it was done at a
timte when the Company was cutting down its force, T cannot find this charge is proved.
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(3) This demand is covered by my findings in the above.
(4) As to discrimination on account of political opinions, I do not think that
existed.
(5) I think that this demand must necessarily stand or fall on No. 1. The Com-
pany, in fairness, should notify the men as to altering existing conditions of employ-
ment within reasonable scope. This matter is also one that speedily will be remedied
when an adjustment can be arrived at between the Company and the union, as to
recognition of the union by the Company.
(6) This demand is also one which I cannot find that the men have any complaint,
and one which will speedily be remedied by recosmition of the imion by the Company
(7) This demand is one in regard to the Company soliciting the aid of the Green-
wood board of trade and certain individuals for the purpose of discrediting the Green-
wood Miners' Union. On this point, I think there was no question that the men who
signed the resolution complained of did so in all fairness and sincerity for-the sood of
the community. The people of Greenwood, suffering as they did from shut-down
after shut-down, were extremely anxious, that work continue on this, the largest, pro-
perty in their community. When apparently labour troubles had been arranged, the
apptearance of a notice reque.sting the men not to return to work until further notified,
although it was accompanied by a notice calling a meeting of the union, filled their
minds with distrust as to the future of the labour situation, and they, I think reason-
ably, felt as a board of trade, that a resolution deprecating the spirit of agitation in
the district was one that would fairly meet with the approval of all parties without
it being suggested that it was in any way directed against unionism. I think they
were absolutely fair in that matter and were acting, as they thought, in the best
interests of the community, apart altogether from any solicitation by the Company.
I would recommend: —
(1) That the union eliminate any practice of discrimination as against non-
union men.
(2) That upon the cessation of such procedure the Company recognize and deal
with the union in regard ot all questions affecting union men.
(3) That no discrimination be shown against any person by reason of his taking
an active part in the union.
The whole industrial situation in this camp is unfortunate. A feeling of dis-
trust pervades the whole atmosphere, and so long as that feeling continues so long
will trouble continue. Unless some feeling can arise which will tend to a belief by
each party in human nature, even if the party is of the opposite side, no cessation of
the present trouble can be contemplated. If the 'employer will fairly recognize fair
union labour and the union will fairly deal with the employer, then trouble will cease,
otherwise it will continue forever.
(Signed) P. E. Wilson,
Chairman.
)m. cRoismsT's report.
The text of the finding of Mr. Edward Cronyn, member of the Board appointed
on the recommendation of the Company, is as follows: —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in the mat-
ter of differences between the British Columbia Copper Company and its employees.
Report of the member of this Board nominated by the Company: —
At the conclusion of the sessions of the Conciliation Board, when it became ap-
parent that it was impossible to make an unanimous report, it was arranged between
the Chairman and myself that as we were entirely agreed upon all the points in ques-
tion, that we should send in a majority report signed by both of us. Later, however.
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the Chairman advised me that after talking with some of the citizens of Greenwood
he had come to the conclusion that his report would have a more beneficial cfFect on
the labouring classes if he were not associated with the Company's nominee in making
it, although he again unqualifiedly agreed with me in the whole matter.
Having lived for some years in the mining camps of British Columbia, includ-
ing Greenwood, I am thoroughly familiar with labour conditions there. It is a fact
that the American labour organization, known as the Western Federation of Miners,
has for years been strenuously endeavouring to establi.sh itself in the mining camps
of British Columbia. It is notorious that many of the leading spirits of this organi-
zation in the states not only countenance, but encourage methods and principles
which are entirely in defiance of law and order, and it is greatly to be deplored that
this organization should have been permitted to gain any foothold whatever in Can-
ada. It is hard for citizens of the eastern part of this country to understand to what
lengths prominent members of this organization are prepared to go in their effort
to dominate other members, and to enforce their wishes upon any community in
which the.v operate. It is clear from evidence given at trials in the Western States,
that violations of the law, sometimes involving crimes of violence and even murder,
have been committed and justified by prominent members of this organization, and
their defence has been paid for by the unions and public subscriptions made for them
through the unions.
After a most careful consideration of all the evidence brought before the Board,
I am convinced that the employees of the British Columbia Copper Company have
no real grievances against the Company, and that the grievances alleged by the Miners'
Union was merely trumped up by the ofiicers of the Greenwood Miners' Union, No.
22, a branch of the above mentioned Western Federation of Miners, as they con-
sidered that the time was an opportune one to force the Company to recognition of
the union in such a way as to make it absolutely necessary for any one applying for
work in the Company to join the union.
It is quite clear from .the evidence offered that these officers were not only not
acting in the best interest of the employees of the Company in endeavouring to make
trouble with the Company, but were actually taking steps to this end in opposition of
a large proportion of the employees.
The leading spirit in the Greenwood Miners' Union appears to be one Heather-
ton, who conducted the case of the Miners' Union before the Conciliation Board, and
in giving evidence he took a pride in describing methods followed by the union in
recruiting new members, in retaining old members, and in dealing with those who
would not become members, in which intimidation and blackmail wore the leading
features.
The address made to the Board by the manager of the Company at the first session,
held on Saturday, the 1st day of May, and the answer thereto made by the above-
mentioned Heatherton on Monday, the 3rd of May, are set out at full length, as they
seem to give a reasonable indication of the spirit in which the Company and the
union approached the Board. »
The address of the Company's manager was as follows: —
' Upon receipt of the copy of the application for a Board of Concilialion we wrote
the Honourable the Minister of Labour suggesting that this Board be not appointed
as there were no matters in dispute between ourselves and our employees. The Hon-
ourable Minister decided that it was better to grant the Board, andl we have, therefore,
willingly rntered into the spirit of the conciliation and are here to assist you in every
manner in our power.
' You will note that the word " employees " while used by the Department of
Labour in its communication to us in this matter, does not appear at aU in the ap-
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plication for the Board, so that it would seem we are called ni30n to deal with a matter
respecting the Western Federation of Miners only.
'First and last we wish to emphasize that we have no dispute with this organiza-
tion, nor have we discriminated against its members. Our works are open to all
capable men seeking employment, and we never inquire whether they belong to the
Western Federation of Miners, carpenters, electrical workers or any other craft union,
but at the same time we constantly refuse to discriminate against men who do not
happen to be allied to these, nor will we countenance coercion to force our employees
to attach themselves to any organization. Our attitude is simply that while we sym-
pathize with organized labour when properly directed, we do not assume an arbitrary
stand in any direction as regards the individual, merely requiring that he performs
the duties assigned to him to cfur satisfaction.
' It is our endeavour to stand faithfully by our employees who are honest in their
endeavour to do what is right, and on this account we intend that you shall have
every evidence of the conciliatory spirit in which we appear before you. Should it
bo required we shall give you most conclusive evidence that there has been no dis-
crimination, not only in the cases cited in the application, but also at any time, and,
in addition, we shall show you why it is not practicable to accede to the demand made
in the application that any grievances that may arise be adjusted through a commit-
tee of the Greenwood Miners' Union of the Western Federation of Miners.'
The address of the secretary of the union was as follows: —
' The members of Greenwood Miners' Union in making application for a Con-
ciliation and Investigation Board, under the Industrial Disputes Act, do not wish
to leave the impression on the public that we consider this Act is in any way intended
to benefit the working class.
' In fact, we consider the Industrial Disputes Act the most hostile piece of legis-
lation on the statute-books of Canada at the present time against the labouring class.
' Our reasons for thinking so is that the corporations can ignore it in nearly
every case, as shown in one case in which Greenwood Miners' Union was interested,
and it would have been to our benefit to have a Board appointed, the Deputy Minister
advised us that the Department of Labour did not consider a copper mine a public
utility.
' In May, 1907, the members of the Greenwood Miners' Union believing they were
entitled to a higher rate of wages, as the cost of living had advanced and as the price
of copper had been over 24 cents for the previous six months, made a demand on the
different mining companies ojierating properties in the jurisdiction of the Greenwood
Miners' Union for an advance of fifty cents per day in wages, and believing that the
copper mines would come under the Industrial Disputes Act we made the demand to
take effect the 1st of June, 1907.
' The members of the Greenwood Miners' Union believed at that time that if we
could get a Conciliation and Investigation Board that we had the whip hand, as there
had been enormous losses to the B. C. Copper Company through mismanagement,
and if we could get a Board to demand the Company's books the management of the
B. C. Copper Company would grant our demands before he would allow an investiga-
tion.
' But as the charges have often been made that the Western Federation of Miners
is a lawless organization, we invite you to make a thorough investigation into our
method of doing business, as we have nothing to conceal, and in making application
for a Conciliation and Investigation Board, one of our obj'aflts is to let the public
know the true condition in Greenwood camp.
' When we made the demand iia May, 1907, for an increase in wages, the man-
agers of the different companies operating in the Boundary asked the committees
representing the different unions to meet them in a body, as they would like to make
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a scale of wages to be gtoeral all over the Boundary country, and when the com-
mittees met them, they asked for time to go to New York to interview the executive
boards of the different companies operating in the Boundary, and the committees
representing the different unions granted them the time on condition that they would
give an answer before 1st of June, 1907.
' After the managers returned and we realized, after meeting them, that they did
not intend to grant the raise on the plea that with copper at 24 cents a pound there
was very little profit for them. After showing them that 50 cents per day advance in
wages would amount to about one-ttenth of a cent on a pound of copper, taking their
own reports as a basis to work on, as they claimed they could produce copper and lay
it in New York at between 9 and 10 cents per pound. Mr. Hodges, the chairman of
the managers, remarked that the reports as they sent them out were only to ' horn-
swobble ' the stockholders.
' The committee representing the various unions then made up their minds to
apply for a Conciliation Board, and in answer to a telegram we sent to the Minister of
Mines, his deputy notified us that we did not come under the Lemieux Act, as the
copper mines were not considered by the department as a public utility. Then, rea-
lizing that we had all the power of capital, with the public press, including the min-
ing journals of Canada and America, printing lying reports sent out by the agents
of the ^line Ownfers' Association, against us, we arrived at a compromise.
' After the union voted on the scale and we adopted it, we posted a copy of the
scale on a building at the Motlier Lode mine, so that the men would know what they
were being paid, so that they could make their cards supplied by the Company daily
for that and other purposes. Mr. McAllister sent word to the superintendent of the
mine to take the copy of the scale down, as he had not been notified officially by the
Greenwood Miners' Union of the adoption of the scale. We had then to make a trip
to the B. C. Copper Company and notify him to that effect.
' The managers of the various companies began to realize that the men, by being
organized, were a power to be reckoned with, and Mr. McAllister started in very soon
to show us that any man taking active part in the union would not work for him.
' Notwithstanding the fact that we did not ask for a raise for six months after
copi)er had advanced to 24 cents, and when we did demand the raise we gave the
management over one month's notice, but when the price of cdpper drf)))]x^(l and the
conditions in the labour market were favourable to the operators, the various man-
agers of the larger companies got together and closed all the properties in the Bound-
ary without even 12 hours' notice, for no other reasons than to defeat the objects of
thte said Lemieux Act, as the Minister of Labour had given a decision after we had
settled our grievances in May, 1907, that a copper mine was a public utility.
' In May, 1908, the B. C. Copper Company resumed operations under a reduced
wage scale, but as copper was nearly one cent lower than when they shut dtown, they
could not claim as an excuse tlie high wages paid in November as a reason for «hnt-
ting down in November, 1907. During the shut down of the B. C. Copper Compatiy's
properties in November, 1907, and the resumption of work in May, 190S. Mr. Mc-
Allister was very active in getting the Greenwood Board of Trade to adopt certain
resolutions placing all the responsibilities of the closing down of the B. C. Copper
Company's properties on the labouring class, and the same resolutions were published
and comments made in a great many of the mining journals published in America.
Mr. McAllister also tried to influence forcTnen in charge of other properties near
Greenwood to not employ certain men that belonged to the union, giving as a reason
that if the said foremen employed union men that they would divide their wages
with the men that he was trying to drive out of Greenwood, and ho also made the
remark that he had two good men in the union to report what was going on.
' Tn the appointment of E. C. Warren to the position of manager to the B. C
Copper Company's smelter, we believe that we can show to the satisfaction of the
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Board that the only qiialification he had for the position was that he was president
of the Greenwood Board of Trade, and the recognized political boss in Greenwood of
the Conservative party in British Columbia, and that the said E. C. Warren would
use his influence to distrust Greenwood Miners' Union.
' A few of the reasons that Mr. McAllister wanted to disrupt the union for were
because the Greenwood Miners' Union were trying to get the benefit of certain laws
on the statute-books of British Columbia, namely, the Master and Servants Act and
the Workmen's Comijensation Act, and we believe that we can show to the satisfac-
tion of the Board that he has deliberately schemed to impress Company doctor on his
employees, to defeat the objects of said Acts. We also believe that we can show to
the satisfaction of this Board that there has been no effort on the part of the present
management of the B. C. Copper Company to operate the mines and smelter of the
Company for the interests of the stockholders as a whole, but their only object was
to handle a large tonnage, and in trying to treat a large tonnage it resulted in enor-
mous losses to the B. C. Copper Company, and we also accuse Mr. McAllister of using
every means in his power to compel Greenwood Miners' Union to call a strike, so
that he can place the responsibility of his mismanagement on to the shoulders of
Greenwood Miners' Union.'
Attached to the address of the secretary of the union were the following
demands : —
1st. That the management of the B. C. Copper Company recognize a connnittee
from Greenwood Miners' Union No. 22, W. F. M., to adjust all grievances between
the B. C. Copper Company and its employees.
2nd. That the B. C. Copi)er Company cease discriminating against members of
Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, W.F.M.
.3rd. That the B. C. Copper Company reinstate J. B. King and T. T. McKay
in their employment, and pay the said J. B. King and T. Y. McKay their wages in
full from the time of their dismissal until such time as they are reinstated.
4th. That the B. C. Copper Company shall not discriminate against men on
account of their political opinions.
5th. That the B. C. Copper Company shall not alter existing condition of employ-
ment of their employees, without notifying the president or secretary of the Green-
wood Miners' Union, No. 22, W.F.M., and all notifications shall be in writing.
6th. That the management of the B. C. Copper Company or any of its olficials,
use any influence, or in any manner interfere with their employees in their choice of
doctor or doctors.
7th. That the management of the B. C. Copper Company cease in soliciting the
Board of Trade and certain individuals for the purpose of discrediting Greenwood
Miners' T''nion No. 22, W.F.IL
The first demand is for the recognition of the Greenwood Miners' Union No. 22
Western Federation of Miners.
The Company claimed that some of their employees are not members of the union
and as to these it is maniifestly unfair, under any circumstances, that they should
have to adjust grievances through the union. The Company also produced letters
sent to their employees, copies of two of which, omitting dates and the names of the
recipients, are as follows: —
Greenwood, B.C.
Mr. .
Greenwood, B.C.
Dear Sir. — I wish to notify you that at a regular meeting of Greenwood Miners'
Union, the membership of this organization placed a fine of $25 against you, for
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refusing to become a member of Greenwood Miners' Union, and I was instructed to
advertise you as unfair to organized labour, until such time as you become a member
and pay the above fine into this union.
I remain,
(Sgd.) George Heatherton,
Secretary Greenwood Miners' Union.
(Seal of Union.)
Greenwood, B.C.
Mr.
Greenwood, B.C.
r>EAR Sir, — Take notice that members of the Greenwood Miner's Union at a regu-
lar meeting placed a fine of fifty dollars against you for refusing to join this organiza-
tion while working under our jurisdiction, and I was instructed to advertise you as
unfair to organized labour until such time as you become a member of this organiza-
tion and pay the above fine into the treasury of the Greenwood Miner's Union.
(.ogd.) George Heatherton,
Secretary.
(Seal of Union.)
The secretary of the union, George Heatherton, was called and admitted that these
letters were regularly authorized at a meeting of the union, and that he had signed
and sealed them under such authorization and sent them to the men to whom they
are addressed, and that this was their regular method of procedure. He further testi-
fied that they got new men by ' rustling for them. They approached a man two or
three times, asking him to join the union, and if he did not do so they considered
him ' unfair to organized labour ' and advertised him in their ofiicial organs as
' unfair to organized labour.' On being asked if he thought the union had the right
to do this he said they had — that might was right in the matter.
The Company claimed that it was impossible for them to recognize or deal with
a union which would authorize such methods of blackmail and intimidation, and that
to negotiate was also impossible. I think the Company's position in this matter is
amply justified. I have frequently read in the ofiicial organs of labour unions the
advertisements referred to, and have seen many hand-bills posted in a miners' union
hall containing the names and descriptions of men who, it was alleged, were unfair
to organized labour, and were, therefore, ' scabs,' and were to get no employment of
any kind. In such cases these bills are scattered broadcast through the mining country
both north and south of the line— a terrible condition of afiairs to be permitted in
a country where law and order are supposed to prevail.
The second demand deals with discrimination against members of the Green-
wood Miners' Union. The representatives of the union brought a number of wit-
nesses who testified as to discrimination. These stated that a number of employees
had been dismissed shortly after having shown activity in the affairs of the union,
or in canvassing the employees of the Company who were not members with the object
of getting them to join the union. In the majority of the cases mentioned it was
shown that the positions of the men dismissed were filled by other members of the
miners' union, and that in all cases there was a good reason for the dismissal of the
men. These facts were brought out from the witnesses produced by the union itself,
and the Company did not bring any evidence on the point, as they claimed that no
discrimination against members of the union had been proved.
I cannot find that any discrimination has been proved, in fact it is quite clear
from .the evidence of the union's own witnesses that the Company never in:i<l<' inquiry
as to whether n man was a member of the union or not.
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The third demand embodied specific instances of alleged discrimination. The
evidence given by J. B. King shows that no discrimination was made in his case. He
admits that he was told when he ' got his time ' that the Company was reducing its
forces and was giving the preference to married men. He also testmed that men
were discharged at the same time that he was while he thought that men had been
taken on since, he was not positive of this. He admitted that he had been guilty of
infractions of the rules.
The evidence given by T. Y. McKay shows clearly that the Company was reduc-
ing its forces at the Mother Lode mine where he was employed — that quite a num-
ber of men were laid ofF before he was, and that the man who took his position on
the work- was a member of the Miners' Union. He also admitted that he had broken
some of the rules and had been absent frequently from work during the time immedi-
ately preceding his discharge.
I do not find any discrimination in either of these cases, as the Company was
justified when making a reduction of its staff in selecting the men best fitted for the
work, and the fact that union men took the places of these two shows there was no
discrimination against the Miners' Union. I do not think that any injustice was
done to either J. B. King or T. Y. McKay in their discharge, and, therefore, cannot
find that the Company should pay either of these men any wages as is demanded.
The fourth demand speaks of discrimination on account of political opinions.
There was no evidence produced that any such discrimination took place.
The fifth demand, that the Company should not alter any existing condition of
employment of their employees without notifying the union is of a very general
nature. No evidence was given by the imion supporting the demand or pointing out
more specifically the conditions referred to. I do not think it either practicable or
reasonable that the Company should be required to give such notice.
The sixth demand deals with the question of a choice of a doctor for the men.
The union produced no witnesses to show that the present system worked any hard-
ship upon any of the employees of the Company. This was the only question the
Company produced any evidence on, as its manager had taken a personal interest
and pride in improving the condition of its employees so far as medical and hospital
attendance is concerned. The Company w-ent fully into the arrangements in this
respect and showed that the change in the arrangements, which appears to be found
fault with in this demand, has operated very greatly to the advantage of the em-
ployees and their families. The change spoken of involved the election of doctors
by the employees, the majority in favour of the present doctors and of the new sys-
tem being overwhelming, and as a result the men now have a well equipped emergency
hospital and surgery at the Mother Lode mine, and all first aid necessaries at the
smelter and at the different other properties operated by the Company. The monthly
fee under the new arrangement includes a great number of common diseases for which
the men formerly had to pay the ordinary doctor's fees and the fees for attendance
on families of employees have been very materially reduced by the new system.
The seventh demand speaks of the solicitation of the Board of Trade and certain
individuals by the B. C. Copper Company for the purpose of discrediting the \mion.
The union officials produced a large number of witnesses, members of the Board of
Trade, nominally to testify to this point, but quite evidently for the purpose of in-
timidating the tradespeople and others called and of injuring their trade with the
labouring class. All these men stated positively that no solicitation of any kind had
been made to them for the purpose of discrediting the union, and I find that the man-
agement of the Company has not so solicited either the Board of Trade or other in-
dividuals as is charged.
(Signed) Edward Cronyn,
June 10, 1909. ""^
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
MR. McINNIS' REPORT.
The text of the findings of Mr. John Mclnnis, member of the Board appointed
on the recommendation of the employees, is as follows: —
The Depaetmext of Labour,
Ottawa, Canada,
In the matter of the dispute pending between the British Columbia Copper Com-
pany and the Greenwood Miners' Union, acting in behalf of the employees of this
Company, and the investigation held thereon under the ' Industrial Disputes Inves-
tigation Act.'
As the representative of the employees on the Board, I regret to say that the mem-
bers of the Board have been unable to agree on a joint report. And we were unable
to bring the parties involved to an amicable agreement.
Therefore, the undersigned respectfully submits the following report and recom-
mendation : —
After hearing the evidence given by over thirty witnesses examined, and after
careful consideration of the same, it was evident that the charges made by the Green-
wood miners were well founded. The Company by its failure to produce evidence to
the contrary, left the impression that the case as presented by the union was a very
strong one indeed. That the manager of the B. C. Copper Company is a hard man to
deal with was fully proven by the investigation, and, in the opinion of the writer,
the difficulties between the management and the employees were due largely to the
failure of the manager of the Company to meet his employees in a spirit of fairness.
In paragraph 3 (three) of the Company's reply to the employees' demand for a
Board of Investigation, we find the following : ' The Company has never had any
relations with the union,' but the evidence shows that the manager had at various
times dealt with the union in adjusting questions of wages and conditions.^
That the officials of the B. C. Copper Company were doing their utmost to dis-
rupt the union was amply proven. The discharge of men who took any active part
in the work of their organization would eventually result in crippling the union and
render it ineifective. This was the policy of the Company as proved by the evidence.
Testimony by several witnesses tended strongly to show that a ' blacklist ' exists in
this district. Men who were not not agreeable to the officials of the B. C. Copper
Company had experienced considerable difficulty in holding positions where any in-
fluence could be brought to bear by the officials of this company. That there was no
necessity or justification for the passing of certain resolutions by the Greenwood
Board of Trade was practically admitted even by those who had signed those resolu-
tions themselves.
No proof being found with which to substantiate the recitals contained in these
resolutions. After all the evidence was adduced the Board endeavoured to get the
parties to the dispute together so that if possible they might arrive at an under-
standing.
The officials of the union signified their willingness to confer and .settle on rea-
sonable terms, but the representatives of the Company refused point blank to have any
dealings with the union or recognize them in any way as a union.
The manifest wil!ingnes.s of the union to meet the Company and settle on reason-
able terms would indicate that if the Company v.'as desirous of settling the dispute it
could be settled with very little difficulty.
After taking considerable pains to pet the true facts in this dispute, and having
some knowledge of the conditions in this district, the following would, in my judg-
ment, be a fair basis of settlement.
1. That the British Columbia Copper Company recognize and do business with
Greonwnnd 'Nfiners' T^uion, No. 22, W.F.M., and that all questions affecting wages
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and conditions between the Company and their employees be adjusted^ through said
union.
2. That active participation in the work of the union, or the holding of any
political opinions, should not interfere with securing or retaining employment.
3. That every facility be given the employees to take advantage of laws upon the
statute-books of British Cohimliia for the prottetion of labour.
4. That both parties to the disputes lay aside all ill-feeling towards each other
and endeavour to have more harmonious relations in the future.
These suggestions, if put into effect, could not interfere with legitimate mining
operations, and would be mutually beneficial throughout the metalliferous mining dis-
tricts of British Columbia.
There has been scarcely any serious labour troubles for a number of years, and
this condition is due in a large measure to the fact that nearly every company operat-
ing in the province recognize the Western Federation of Miners.
The miners of British Columbia are an intelligent body of men, and in their deal-
ings with their employers they invariably show a spirit of fairness. If capital in-
vested in British Columbia is to have smooth sailing is must be represented by men
who are willing to grant their employees rights as men and citizens.
(Sgd. John McInnis.
DEPARTilEST OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
IV.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE NICOLA VALLEY COAL AND
COKE COMPANY, MIDDLESBORO, B. C— BOARD ESTABLISHED-
EMPLOYEES CEASED WORK— AGREEMENT SUBSEaUENTLY CON-
CLUDED.
Application received. — April 13, li>09.
Parties concerned. — Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company, Middlesboro, B.C.,
and employees.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Allegfed discrimination against certain employees.
Numher of employees affected. — I.IO.
Date of constitution of Board. — May Y, 1909.
Memhership of Board. — His Honour Judge P. S. Lampman, Victoria, B.C.
(Chairman), appointed on the recommendation of the other members of the Board;
Mr. The?. Kiddie, Northport, Wash., appointed on the recommendation of the employ-
ing Company; and Mr. Thos. Chas. Brooks, Merritt, B,C., appointed on the recom-
mendation of the temployees.
Reports received. — June 3, June 11, June 16, 1909.
Result of inquiry.— Ermployees ceased work during constitution of Board, and
mines were closed down until after the in\'estigation was finished, when operations
were resumed, the men being engaged under new conditions. An understanding was
subsequently I'aached between the management and the men, which was no doubt
promoted by the inquiry.
The Minister received on June 3 the report of the Board established to adjust
a dispute between the Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company of Middlesboro, B,C.,
and its employees. This report, signed by His Honour Judge P. S. Lampman, of
Victoria, B.C., Mr. Thomas Kiddie, of Northport, Wash., member appointed on the
recommendation of the Company, and Mr. Thomas Charles Brooks, member appointed
on the recommendation of the employees, showed that there were various points on
which Mr. Brooks was unable to concur in the findings of the Chairman and Mr.
Kiddie. A subsequent report was received on June 16, bearing the signatures of
the Chairman and of Mr. Kiddie, and a minority report was received mi June 11.
signed by Mr. Brooks.
The application in this matter, received on April 13, alleged discrimination on
the part of the Company in the dismissal of James ITardman, one of its employees, on
account, it was claimed by the employees, of his being an active member of the local
union of the United Mine Workers of America during the organization of this camp.
The application called for Mr. Hardman's reinstatement with compensation for lost
time. To this complaint a further statement of grievances was added during the
sessions of the Board, the principal item in which was the dismissal of another
employee for the first offence of dirty coal. The number of employees a.fFeetcd in
the dispute was almut 1.50. Mr. Thomas Charles Brooks, of Merritt, B.C., was
appointed a member of the Board on the recommendation of the employees. Mr.
Thomas Kiddie, of Northport, Wash., U.S.A., was appointed a member of the Board
on the recommendation of the Company. IIi.s Honour Judge P. R. Lampmnn, of
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Victoria, B.C., was appointed Chainnaii on the recommendation of the other mem-
bers of tlie Board. During the formation of the Board, it was announced that the
temployees affected had gone on strike.
The Company's mines were closed down until after the investigation under the
Act was concluded, when operations were resumed, the men being engaged under new
conditions. The department was informed in a letter from the Company, dated
•iiiue l"), li)09, that an understanding, which was understood to have been promoted
by the inquiry, had been reached between the management and the men.
In its findings above referred to, the Board expressed the opinion that the Com-
pany was justified in discharging James Hardman, and that there was no discrimina-
tion against him within the meaning of the complaint. The Company's charge against
Ilardman was that of firing a shot off the solid. Mr. Brooks did not agree with tliis
finding, but held Hardman innocent of the offence charged against him, and is also
of the opinion that discrimination was shown against him on the part of the Com-
pany.
In the case of W. H. Reid, who was discharged for the alleged ofience of ' dirty
coal,' the Board was of the opinion that it was shown that Reid deliberately loaded
rock in his car for the express purpose of precipitating trouble, and in such eases the
Company was justified in discharging him. Mr. Brooks, in his minority report, claimed
that a less severe punishment should have been given in this case.
At the sitting of the Board in Vancouver, a resolution passed at a mass meeting
of the Middleboro miners, held on May 21, was filed with the Board. This resolu-
tion was one agreeing to be bound by the decision of Judge Lampman, the Chairman.
An adjournment was taken to obtain the Company's decision, which was against this
proposition. Mr. Brooks, in his minority report, referring to the passage of this
resolution, claimed that this was ' refused by the representative of the Company, Mr.
Kiddie, the Company instructing him that they would be bound by no decision, which
left chances for a settlement impossible.'
REPORT OF THE BOARD.
The report of the Board was received in the department on June 3, as follows: —
May 26, 1909.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act and in the matter of
a dispute between the Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company, Limited, and its em-
ployees.
The Board, composed of Messrs. Thomas Charles Brooks and Thomas Kiddie,
with Judge Lampman as Chairman, visited the mines in the Nicola valley, and hav-
ing taken evidence and considered the various matters referred to, it begs to report
as follows : —
The nature of the complaint or grievance is given first and then the conclusions
of the Board.
1. COMPLAIKT. — The nature of this dispute is a charge of discrimination by the
Company against James Hardman, who was discharged for an alleged offence of
firing a fast shot.
Conclusion. — The Board is of the opinion that the Company was justified in dis-
charging Hardman and that there was no discrimination against him within the mean-
ing of the complaint. Mr. Brooks does not agree with this finding, and holds that the
evidence shows that Hardman did not fire the shot, and he is also of the opinion that
there was discrimination.
2. Complaint. — The case of W. H. Reid who was discharged for the first offence
of dirty coal.
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The Board is of the opinion that it was shown that Reid deliberately loaded rock
in his car for the express purpose of precipitating trouble, and in such circumstances
the Company was justified in discharging him, and that it was not incumbent on it to
invoke the provisions of Article 18 of the agreement respecting dockage.
Mr. Brooks is of the opinion that Article 18 of the agreement was broken by the
Company, and the Company was not justified in discharging, but if satisfied beyond
all doubt that the rock was loaded wilfully he would say that Eeid could have been
discharged even for a first offence.
3. CosiPLAiXT. — The case of Geo. Martiuovitch who was laid off work on account
of sickness and was refused employment upon making application after recovery.
Conclusion. — The Board does not think there is any merit in this complaint, but
Mr. Brooks thinks the Company was not justified in its course, having regard to
Article 8 of the agreement.
4 and 5. — The settlement of the price of coal in certain placc.=.
In view of the stand taken by both parties respecting a settlement, the Board
was unanimously of the opinion that no useful purpose would be served by making
an investigation in these matters, and so announced at the hearing, and its decision
was agreeable to both parties.
6. Complaint. — Request for reinstatement of Greorge McGruther as stableman.
Conclusion. — As the stableman -is included in the agreement, the men felt they
should protect him in his employment, but the Company says it had no fault to find
with McGruther, but it thought that the man appointed in his stead was better,
especially his ability to deal with sick horses. The Board is unanimously of the opin-
ion that it would be better if the stableman was not included in the agreement.
7. Complaint. — Request that the Coal Mines' Regulation Act respecting ven-
tilation be enforced and complaint against unqualified mine manager.
The Board was unanimously of the opinion that these were not matters for it to
investigate, but were rather matters for the Minister of Mines of Briti.=h Columbia
and the inspector, and the complaint was forwarded by the Board to the ]\Iinister of
Mines.
The Board regrets that its efforts to effect a settlement wore unsuccessful.
Dated at Vancouver, B.C.. this 20th day of ifay, A.D. 1909.
(Signed) P. S. Lampman.
Chairman.
T. CuAS. Brooks,
Thos. Kiddie.
On June 11 a subsequent report, bearing the signatures of the chairman and of
Mr. Kiddie, was received in the department as follows: —
A second report.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and in the matter of
a dispute between the Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company, Liinitiil. and its nn-
ployees.
The Board, coinpo.sed of Messrs. Thomas Charles Brooks and Thomas Kiddie,
with Judge Lampman as Chairman, pursuant to a previous arrangement made at a
preliminary meeting in Victoria, held its first meeting in a public hall in Merritt on
ifay IT, 1909. The mines are situated at Middlesboro, about a mile from Merritt, and
tho miners live some in the one place and some in the other. The grievance of the eni-
7jloyees as stated in the application for the appointment of tho Board wa.s in respect
to tho case of a iiiiinr named James llardnian, who had been discharged for firing
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a shot off the solid. Before proceeding, the Company, in writing, stated that it was
unwilling to be bound by the decision of the Board, and the employees, through the
union. Local No. 872 of the United Mine Workers of America, in writing, stated
that they were willing to be bound by the unanimous decision of the Board. As to
the decision of two members of the Board, according to the Act, section 46, constitutes
the decision of the Board, it will thus be seen that neither of the parties was willing
to be bound by the decision of the Board. In addition to the Hardman case there
were other matters for the Board to consider, as will be seen from the following letter
addressed to the Board: —
United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 872.
MiDDLESBORO, B.C., May 17, 1909.
To Judge Lampmax and Mejibers of Board of Concilutiox: —
Dear Sirs, — The following grievances in addition to the case submitted t.i Ot-
tawa. We request you to take into consideration and deal with during your sitting
at this time in order to bring about a peaceable settlement here if possible.
1. The case of W. H. Eeid who was discharged for first offence of dirty coal.
2. The case of Geo. Martinovitch who was laid off work on account of sickness',
and was refused employment upon making application after recovery.
3. The settlement of a price on coal in No. 2 slope and district.
4. The settlement of a price on coal in No. 5 mine.
5. The reinstatement of George McGruther as stableman, the Company not giving
a reasonable cause for his removal, stating the man was quite competent to hold that
position prior to his removal.
6. The Cnal Mines Regulation Act respecting ventilation be enforced.
Also qualification of mine managers and overman. The dispute is bad ventila-
tion and unqualified mine manager.
On behalf of Local Union 872,
We are. Sirs, truly yours,
D. R. McDonald.
PresiJeiit.
W. H. Eeid,
Secretary.
Immediately on our arrival at Merritt arrangements were made for the use of a
public hall, and both sides to the dispute were notified of a meeting which was held in
the evening, and the taking of evidence was commenced. The men were represented
by D. E. McDonald, president of the union, James Hardman and W. H. Eeid, while
the Company's representatives were W. H. Armstrong, general manager; J. J. Plom-
mer, secretary-treasurer, and James Gray, the mine manager. The two chief matters
of dispute were in respect to the cases of Hardman and Eeid, and it was known from
the beginning that the company took a firm stand and under no consideration would
it reinstate either, while the men, on the other hand, %vere just as firm in their resolve
to not go back to work unless both were reinstated. However, after taking much evi-
dence, the Board decided to have a private conference with the representativs of both
sides to see if some amicable settlement could not be arrived at, the Board hoping
that one or the other, if not both of the parties, would be willing to concede a littl<>
As both Eeid and Hardman were so directly interested it seemed to the Board that it
would be better if the men appointed other representatives to attend the conference,
and acting on this suggestion James Baton and Abram Eeid were appointed. It should
be mentioned that at the time the suggestion was made it was stated that it was merely
a suggestion and that the men were free to appoint whomsoever they pleased. The
men so appointed in the place of Hardman and Eeid, along with the president of the
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union, attended next morning the conference, but they stated they could not recede
from their position already stated, and as the Company's representatives also adhered
to their stand there was nothing left for us but to proceed with the taking of evidence.
1. The Hardman Case. — On Sunday (there is no general work in the mine on
Sundays). 14th February, Fireboss Raid saw indications of a fast shot, or a shot
fired oil the solid without any mining having been done before firing, in place No.
lOi in No. 2 mine, and on Monday morning he reported it to the overman. On Satur-
day morning's shift, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., two men named Lambert were in that place,
and Hardman and Brown followed them for the afternoon shift, 3 to 11 p.m., and
from then till Monday there was no work there. The next week the men changed
shifts and Hardman and Brown went in for the morning shift, but when they got
there the overman. David Gray, sent them out because of the fast shot; as ITardniaii
and Brown were the last he held them responsible and sent them out. They then saw
James Gray, the mine manager, and denied having fired the shot; the manager told
them he would investigate. He saw the fireboss, W. N. Eeid, who he says told him he
saw the place at 2.20 p.m. Saturday; the Lamberts had quit at 3 p.m. Saturday, and
Hardman and Brown had gono on, and there were then no indictions of preparations
being made for a shot. Overman David Gray saw the place at 2.40 p.m., and saw no
preparations; David Forsyth, who was timbering in the place during the Lamberts'
shift, told him no shots were fired out of the solid while he was there, and Robert
Henderson, who was mining in place No. 10, told him he heard one shot in lOJ at
about 6 p.m. Hardman came to the ofiice for his pay cheque, as it was pay day, and
the manager told him he had concluded he had fired the shot, and Hardman's repl.y
was, 'Can you prove it?' Gray told him he could. At that time the Company had
no agreement with the union, but under the agreement with the employees then in
force provision was made for meetings between the management and a committee of
six men. The manager asked this committee, called the Pit Committee, to inspect
the place. This the committee did, and the manager told them he had discharged
Hardman, and added that if Hardman did not fire the shot he wanted to know who
did. Complaints had been made to the management before about Hardman firing
off the solid; Fireboss Reid had told him that he would have trouble with Hardman
as he would not mine his coal. Brown had a good reputation, and the manager re-
instated him, but not Hardman.
On 23rd February, Hardman went to work at the Diamond Vale Colliery, and
worked there till it shut down on 20th March.
The case on behalf of Hardman as presented to us was that Hardman was dis-
chargefl without justification, and that there was discrimination against him by the
management.
In the first place, it should be pointed out that it was impossible for the Board
to arrived at a really satisfactory conclusion on the fact a.s tn who fired the shot,
because of the fact that many of the most important witnesses had left the camp; in
many cases the absentees had made statements in vrriting, but not much reliance
could be placed on these, as they were not seen by the Board, and there was no oppor-
tunity to cross-e.\amin'a.
The evidence adduced on behalf of TTardman was his own. in wliifli he denicil
the charge and contended that the manager had a grM(lg(> against him. He said
that in February he took his case to the union, but as an agreement with the company
was then under negotiation, he agreed to wait rather than prejudice the chances of
an agreement being reached. Ho Raid that he and the manager once had a dispute
over a place in which he refused to work, as he considered it unsafe. He produce<l
a letter from Tim Lamlbrt in which Lambert admitted firing the shot, and stated
that he hoped Hardman would forgive him ; also a declaration from Brown to the
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effect that when he and Ilardman went into the place on Saturday they found the
shot blasted off the solid and they could not work until they timbered the place up.
Abram Reid, a miner, testified to a conversation with Lambert's brother, who
said he fired a shot in the place, but he did not know if it was the one for which
Hardman was discharged, also to a conversation with Tim Lambert, who admitted
he fired the shot to spite Hardman, because one night on the street he would not
recognize him; Reid admitted Tim Lambert was drunk at the time of this conversa-
tion.
Fireboss W. N. Reid testified to examining the place at 1.50 p.m. on Saturday
(not 2.20 as stated by the manager), and to Tim Lambert teUing him Hardman did
not fire the shot; he had instructions from Gray to watch Hardman and to report
him if he caught him firing off the solid.
Joseph Westwood was working in No. 11, Saturday afternoon's shift, and says
he thinks one or two shots were fired in 10 or lOi at quitting time, i.e., while the
Lamberts were on.
John Holdsworth, with whom Gray boarded in Deetember, testified to hearing
Gray say that the first chance he got he would discharge Hardman
Andrew Kalien, who was working in 10 on Saturday afternoon, testified to Hard-
man's helper coming to in 10 for clay, and saying they were going to fire a nigger
head in lOJ.
For thte Company, Benjamin Borwitt. the certificated mine manager, gave unim-
portant testimony; in cross-examination by Hardman he said that Gray never told
him that he (Hardman) was born with a drill in his hand, but that there was a mini
who told him that and that Hardman wanted to shoot off the solid. Hardman did
not ask who the man was.
Bruce R. Warden, the superintendent engineer, testified to having returned) to
the mines from England on 1st March, and 6th March, Hardman saw him about
the case, and as he (Warden) knew nothing about it he asked if he (Ilardn.ian) had
seen Gray about it, and Hardman said ' no,' but that it was up to Gray to prove that
he fired the shot. Warden then told him he should see Gray, as he could not expect
the manager to run after him over the trouble. The agreement (to take effect 1st
March) between the local union and the Company was accepted by both parties on
15th March, and the first intimation that the Company had that the men intended to
interfere in the Hardman case was on 20th March, when the copy of the application
for Board of Arbitration to Minister of Labour, dated 19th March, was reeeivpd by
mail.
Lewis Beltner testified to mining with Hardman and seeing him fire shots off
the solid.
David Forsyth testified to being in the Lamberts' placo timberinor. and not hear-
ing any shot, or seeing any preparation for or after effects of same; he had to go
occasionally about 400 feet for props, but heard no shots while away.
Hugh Gillespie, overman, testified to seeing Hardman the afternoon he was dis-
charged, and he then told Hardman he should get all those that worked in that place
up at the office andl try to find out who fired the shot, but he never tried to get an
investigation. There had been some evidence by the mine ninnager to effect that
Hardman said one time in the blacksmith shop in his presence that he carried his min-
ing in his powder can, and Gray then told him he must mine his coal and not shoot off
the solid. Gillespie testified to Ward, the tlion president of the local uuion. saying
to him (Gillespie) that he had told Hardman that he was a fool to make such a state-
ment in the presence of the manager. Gillespie also said he had seen in No. 2 mine
in Hardman's place indications of shots having been fired off the solid.
David Gra.y, thte overman, who had sent Hardman and Brown out, testified that
the Lamberts denied to him having fired the shot.
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A written statement by ilartin Lambert denying that he or ms partner fire.l the
shot was put in.
The Chairman asked for a member of the pit eonnuittbe to state what the eciin-
mittee did. Thomas Skelton came forward from the body of the hall and testilied
that he was one of the committee, and that along with the other members he examined
the place; that they reported to the union, and that the dispute was not taken u|).
On Hardman's behalf John Moon was afterwards examined in Vancouver. He
was helper to Hardman and BrowTi. lie testified to finding the place full of smoke
at 3 p.m. on Saturday when he went in ahead ot Hardman and Brown ; the fast shot
had just been fired and the place was in a bad state. Timbering was done by Hard-
man, and a nigger head was broken up; he went in the next place for the eiav ami the
shot used in the nigger head was the only one in that place during tlij shift. The
whole shift they worked clearing the place up and sending out the coal blown down
by the fast shot. He said he told the manager that the shot was not fired that shift.
On this evidence the Board was asked to nnu that Hardman did not fire the shot
and that therefore he was unjustly discharged, but the Board is of the opinion tluit
the mine manager, on 15th February, when he made his investigation, was quite
justified in coming to this eonchision. All the necessary witnesses were then on the
spot, and he was in a better position to get at the truth than was the Board. In the
first place, he was quite right in holding that Hardman and Brown were resiwnsible,
as it was in their place, and they had been there in the shift before it was discovered.
Hardman seemed to think he must be proved guilty before any action could be taken,
bnt imder the circumstances the onus was on him to prove the shot was not fired
during his shift. He knew he w.is being watcned, and if he found the shot, smoke,
&c., as soon as he went on at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, he could easily have
removed suspicion from himself by at once reporting it. Then, again, if he had a
good case, it is strange that he did not convince the pit committee of it and get them
to take it up; this feature of the ease the Jjoard considered very significant.
Of course, if Moon's evidence is given full credit, it would clear Hardman, but
Moon could not conceal the fact that he had a strong feeling against the company.
Besides, if Moon's story is correct, Forsyth's must be wrong, as it is hardly possible
that the shot could have been fired in the Lambert's place without Forsyth's knowl-
edge, especially in view of the smoke, &c., that Moon told of. The evidence of Moon
and of Forsyth offset each other.
As to the charge of discrimination, this entirely failed. There was no evidence
of Hardman ever being prominent as a union man, and the management had nothing
against him on that score. Some attempt was made to show that Hardman's place
w-as a dangerous one, and that he wa.s especially picked out for a bad place. The
reports on the different places by the fire bosses were produced, and for a long time
before 13th February, and after it appeared that No. 104 had a good average record
as to its condition in regard to safety, &c. The mine nuniager had no doubt said he
would discharge Hardman if he did not mine his coal and he had probably some feel-
ing against him, but he apparently did not let that feeling act unfairly. Brown had
a good reputation and TLirdmau a bad one as to firing on the solid, and no fault
should be found with the decision to reinstate the man with the good reputation.
While on account of the suspicion that the Lamberts might have been resjKinsible
for the shot, the Board had some doubt about tlie Hardman ease, it is of the niiinion
that Hardman failed to make out a case for reinstatement.
2. The Reid Case. — On 12th April, William H. Reid and one Tully were mining
on contract work in place No. .5 in No. 1 mine, and about 10 a.m., Hugh Gillespie,
an overman, noticed a car come out of the mine with a hit nf rock mi the top; hi^
looked at the tally on the c».r and saw it was from Rt^id'-^ iihui'. As Oillespie's cvi-
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dence is important, ad as it is practically uncontradicted, a part of it is here set
out in full: —
' On Monday morning, April 12, between 7 and 8 a.m., Mr. Gray and myself went
into No. 1 mine. We went into all the working places, including the place in which
Wm. Reid and Thos. Tully were working. After examining the said place Reid
brought up the subject of rock in his place. Mr. Gray referred to the schedule, say-
ing that it covered all the abnormal places. Reid stated to Gray that if he could get
a reasonable price for the rock he would prefer it rather than work for $3.30 on day
work. Gray asked Reid how much he would like for the rock, and Reid asked for
$1.50 x>er yard. Gray said he thought that it was too much and offered Reid and his
partner $1, which they agreed to as being sufficient to cover the deficiency, and Mr.
Gray warned Reid to fill his coal as clean as possible I met Reid and Tully
coming out, and saw that they were prepared to go home. I stopped them and told
them I did not intend them to go home. All I wanted them to do was to go out and
look at the car in question and return to work and to fill cleaner coal. Reid went
over to the car and exclaimed that it was a hell of a note if men were to be called
out from work to look at the like of that. I said that it was too bad, meaning the
amount of rock. I again asked them to return to work, and Reid said there had been
enough trouble in the Crow's Nest Pass over the sending in the mine for men for
the same thing. I then told Reid and his partner the reason that I sent in the mine
for them was that Reid had made the remark in my presence that Gray had it in for
him, and I wanted them to see that there was no crooked work going on in regard to
this car. Reid seemed satisfied with that, but still refused to go back to work, saying
that once he came out of the mine he thought it was unlucky to return the same day.
I then told Reid that I would dock the ear and see how much rock was in it, and he
told me if I did dock it he would call a sjx'cial meeting of the union and that there
would be trouble. I told Reid to go ahead and call all the meetings he liked. The
Company could not stand for any such stuff coming out of the mine. He said any-
how the little coal they would produce that day would not affect the output much,
and I said that it woidd not, so they went home. I went over 'to the office about half
an hour after. Gray was in and I brought up the subject with him. I asked him
if he would take a look at the car and tell me if I had done right in asking the men
to come out and look at the car, and he told me I had done right. I then told him
that I had requested the men to return to work, but they would not do so, so we called
the weigher along and told him to mark the car and pick out all the rock, lay it aside
separately for future reference. About 2 o'clock Warden, Gray and myself were
standing on the mine tracks when the weigher came up and told us he was going to
dump the car, and if we wished to see it to come on to the tipple. We went out and all
the rock, which is in the office, which came out of that ear, amounting to 364 lbs.,
one piece of which was 81 lbs., and six other pieces weighed 61 lbs. Gray then
decided to discharge the men, which he did. Tully came to me the next day and took
his time, making no remarks to me as to the place being underpaid, he having made
$4.77 during the time he worked it. Reid admitted to me that when they received
the word to come out and see me he said to his partner, that's about our coal.'
The union took up Reid's case, and after he was off eight or nine days the com-
mittee and the manager arranged that he should go back at Company work, and as
to just what was meant by that a dispute arose which brought about the strike. Reid
had been working underground and the minimum wage there when on Company work
was $3.30 for eight hours. Reid was put at outside work and as soon as he found out
he was to get only $3 for nine hours he quit, and in consequence of this and the delay
by the Company in answering the application for the appointment of a Board of
Conciliation the men went on strike, and on 23rd April the Company received the
following communication : —
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Jkiddlesboro, B.C., April 23, 1909.
To THE Nicola Vallev Coal and Coke Co.: —
Dear Sm, — Referring to the conversation which took place between Mr. Plom-
mer and our district representative, Mr. 0. Brooks, as to what terms our nicu will
return to work, we have to submit to you the following ultimatum, dictated by your
employees, and upon which they will resume work.
1. That James llardman, who was discharged by tiring a shot from the solid,
which has since been proved he was innocent of, is reinstated, with compensation for
time lost.
2. That W. Reid, who was discharged for the first offence of dirty coal, is also
rtjiustated in his old position prior to discharge, or a similar one.
3. That Geo. Martinovitch, who was laid off sick, and has since applied repeat-
edly for employment, without results, is given back employment.
4. That the check-off system be put into effect by the management, re the signing
up.
5. That the prices for work in No. 2 slope and district, also No. 5 mine, be satis-
factorily settled.
6. That the management will refrain endeavouring to bring about individual
contracts on any class of work, as per agreement.
7. It being distinctly understood that the management will refrain from personal
prejudice or discrimination on matters affecting the U. M. W. of A.
On behalf of the local union 872, U. M. W. of A.
(Signed)
Committee: D. R. McDonald, President.
W. N. Reid,
Jas. Paton,
B. R. Barlow,
A. B. Reid,
T. Chas. Brooks, Rep. Dis. 18.
Article 18 of the agreement between th-a Company and its employees, and which
had just been entered into, was as follows: —
To offset refuse or other material in car, 28 lbs. shall be added to the tare of
che mine cars; but any miner filling rock in his coal in excess of 200 lbs. in any one
car, shall be liable as follows: —
First offence, warned.
Second offence, docked 500 lbs.
Third offence, docked ].0r)0 lbs.
Fourth offence, he shall lose his car.
Fifth offrnce, he shall be suspended throe days.
Sixth offence, he shall be discharged, provided the offences have all occurred
within thirty days.
But before dealing with this article the evidence respecting the car of coal sent
out by R</id should be considered. Reid's defence was that the place had very poor
vrntiiatinn, and "in consequence it was full of smoke; that the coal was intcrsnersed
with bands of rock and that the roof was in bad shape with hanging rock; that it was
impossible to load coal becau.'^e there was so much rock and that the big piece must
have fallen from the roof. Gillespie's account of what happened was uncontra-
dicted, and the dispute was over the question as to how the rock got in the car.
Witneffiws were called by Reid to show that the place contained a lot of rock, and that
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a miner on contract work could not make pay and load clean coal, but as a matter
of fact the men that followed Reid in the place ran $3.52 per day. They also said
the roof was bad and likely to fall, and that some of the rock may have fallen from
the roof into the ear.
For the Company evidence was given to the effect that where the car stood rock
falling from the roof could not fall into the car. Frederick Shields, who owns a
building in Middlesboro in which the Middlesboro Social Club has its rooms, was
called, and deposed to a conservation he had with Reid before the strike while he
boarded at Eeid's house. He said that Reid said he did not have to work for the
Cojnpany, and that he would give tbem an opportunity to fire him, but if they did
not do it in a proper way he would make it warm for them. Shields acts as a barber
and bartender at the club, whose members are largely officials of the Company.
Now, in considering the question as to whether or not Reid deliberately loaded
rock in his car, it should be mentioned that he is a good miner; the records showing
that while mining he has earned as high as $8.85 on one shift, and for some months
he has worked as a fire-boss, and he is not so likely to mix rock with coal unwittingly
as a less competent workman. The rock had been saved, and the Board and repre-
sentatives of both parties inspected it. The largest piece was about 3 feet long and
so thin that it would probably have broken if it had fallen into the car from the roof.
It certainly was not put in on a shovel, and the experienced miner if lifting it in
with his hands would detect the difference in weight. Reid argued that under Article
18 of the agreement the Company cannot discharge a first offence of loading dirty
coal even though loaded wilfully. The Board accepted Shields' statement in full, and
is of the opinion that Reid deliberately loaded the rock and intended to make the
Company work out the tedious procedure of Article 18 as to discharging him, and if
it did not, that he would bring about just about the very trouble that his act caused.
The Board is of the opinion that Article 18 is intended to apply to cases of careless-
ness, and that where a man loads rock wilfull.y it is not incumbent on the company
to invoke the provisions of that article as to discharging. Reid's excuse of the place
being full of rock is a poor one, and he waS" paid $1 a yard for rock and it was his
business to separate it from the coal. The inspection of the box of rock taken from
the car caused the Board to think that it was unfortunate that this rock was not at
once placed on view so that all the miners might see it (McDonald, McNab and Hard-
man, the representatives of the men at the inspection, had not seen it before), as in
that case it is doubtful if they would have felt justified in taking up Reid's fight to
the extent they did. There can be no doubt that the men as a whole considered that
the Company had broken its agreement (Article 18) when it discharged Reid for a
first offence. Subsection (/) of Article 2 of the agreement provided that ' any breach
of this agreement by any of the parties hereto is not to render this agreement void,
but the agreement is to continue in full force and effect,' and the Company considered
that the men in quitting work had committed an offence according to section 5fi of
the Act.
A copy of the application for the appointment of a Board of Conciliation was
mailed by the men to the Company at Middlesboro on 19th March; this was forwarded
to the office of the Company in Vancouver, but on receipt there was mislaid unread,
and it was not until the department (on lYth April) sent a copy of the application 1o
the Company that the matter was dealt with by the Company, and its reply is dated
28th April. The men knew nothing of the cause of this delay, and quite reasonably
considered they were being ignored, and having this feeling and thinking that the
agreement they had just entered into had been broken by the Company, they quit
work. Under the circumstances the Board did not feel justified in saying anything
about any offence against the provisions of the Act having been committed.
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3. The Case of George MAnriKoviTCH. — Articles 7 and 8 of the agreement were
as follows : —
Article 7. The Eight to Hihe and Discharge. — The management of the mine
and the direction of the working forces are vested exclusively in the Company, and
the U. M. W. of A. shall not abridge this right. It is not the intention of this provi-
sion to encourage the discharge of employees, or the refusal of employment to ap-
plicants because of personal prejudice or activity in matters affecting the TJ. M. W.
of A.
Article 8. Absence from Work. — When any employee absents himself from his
work for a period of over two days (unless through sickness or by first having arranged
with the pit boss), he may be discharged. Any employee whose absence would cause
any stoppage of work must, prior to absenting himself, arrange for such absence,
otherwise he may be discharged.
This man had been discharged by the mine manager who succeeded Gray, but as
this was unknown to Gray, he engaged him as a labourer, but the other Servians
objected to him and would not have him back with them loading cars. He got hurt
and was unable to work for some time, and on his recovery the manager would not take
him back. When asked how he got hurt, he said he was shooting rabbits and fell into
a brush pile, and in falling his arm came in contact with a razor he had in his pocket
and he received some bad cuts. This to the Board seemed a lame story, and from tiio
manner in which the men in the hall took it, it was evidently not the truth; that
he was in some sort of fight would likely be nearer the truth.
Grievances 4, 5, 6 and 7 have been dealt with in the report, dated May 26, as in
respect to them the Board was unanimous.
There had recently been a change in the management, James Gray having taken
the place of Alexander Faulds, and the new manager's new way of having things done
seemed to cause some friction, and there was a strong antipathy on the part of the'
men against Gray. The men had a feeling that he was bringing in new men and giving
them the good positions, and the fact that some of the new men were his relatives
added to their feeling of resentment. It is only natural and in some cases necessary
for a new manager to make changes and to appoint to some positions of trust under
him men with whose work he is acquainted, but to bring in relatives without creating
discontent is well nigh impossible.
From an inspection of the buildings around the mines and the facilities afforded
for the convenience and accommodation of the men — boarding houses, wash houses,
&c., it appeared that the Company had done very well
The Board regrets that its efforts to settle the trouble were unsuccessful, and al-
though it at one time had hopes that some arrangement might be come to whereby
Hardman — whose offence was caused by carelessness or laziness, and lacked the design
and purpose present in the case of Eeid — might be reinstated, still it does not feel
that it would be justified in going the length of recommending that he be reinstalcd.
At the sitting in Vancouver a resolution passed at a mass meeting of the ^liddles-
boro miners held on May 21 was filed with the Board. This resolution was one agree-
ing to be bound by the decision of Judge Lampman, the Chairman. An adjournment
was taken to get the Company's decision, which was against the proposition.
The minutes of evidence and the exhibits produced at the hearing accompany this
report.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
fSigncd) P S. Lampman,
Chairman.
Thos. IOddie.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 3f
MIXORITY REPORT.
The text of a minority report, bearing the signature of Mr. Thomas Charles
Brooks, member of the Board, appointed on the recommendation of the employees,
was received in the Department on June 11, as follows: —
Re Nicola Valley Dispute.
Merrit. B.C., May 29. 1909.
The Minister of Labour.
Ottawa.
Honourabl'j Sir, — In forwarding to you my report, which is a minority one, 1
have to state that 1 am myself disappointed over the fact that no possible settlement
could be reached in this matter; at the same time I can only, on behalf of the employees,
refer you to the fact that prior to the decision of the Board at Vancouver, a resolu-
tion was placed in Judge Lampman's hands to thte effect that ' the employees were
willing to the bound by Judge Lampman's decision.' This was again refused b.y the
representative of the Company, Mr. Kiddie, the Company instructing him that they
would be bound by no decision which left chances for a sfettlement impossible.
Over the decision I am still somewhat confused, for notwithstanding the fact
that Judge Lampman, during the sittings of the Board recommended that James
Ilardman be reinstated, and William Rteid be di.^ehnrged, his decision eventually is
that the Company were justified in discharging him, and that there was no discrimi-
nation.
In the face of this also there is a written statement, signed by two witnesses, from
the man Lambbrt. stating that he had fired the shot, and was sorry for the wrong he
had done Ilardman, besides two sworn affidavits from men who were working all the
shift with Ilardman. to the effect that Ilardman did not fire that shot; if there was
no discrimination why was Ilardman picked out. as he was from the rest, and was
the only one discharatd. when five men in all were working in that particular place
where the shot was fired ? Are not the men compelled to think that Ilardman was
discriminated against, being that there had been a little misunderstanding betw'aen
him and the Mine Superintendent a very little time before that? On the othter hand,
there is absolutely no sign whatever in the evidence put up by ^he Company to show
that Ilardman was guilty of firing that shot, and upon those grounds. I consider that
I am fully justified in opposing the decision rendered by Judge Lampman at Van-
couver.
Re the ca^ of William Reid, who was discharged for first offence of dirty coal,
evidence given showing that he was working in an abnormal place; the Company
themselves states this, and being that there is a dockage clause in the agreement
drawn up between the Company and the employees, which states that thtere shall be
in excess of 200 lbs. of rock before first offence, is sufficient to say that the Company
are not prepared to livte up to their agreement on any of its weak places ; at the same
time, I would refrain from encouraging any one to take advantage of a clause of this
nature, and avill readily agree that if it had been proven that Reid delit>eratbly
loaded this rock for the purpose of taking advantage of that clause, the Company
would have been eneouragted by the organization to have this man discharged, after
his case had been investigated, but being this was the first offence of any kind, and
the possible chances there are in this mine for thfe rock to fall from the roof into his
car, I think a less severe punishment should have been given for the first time: also
considering this was the first casfe of dockage under the agreement, which has been
in force since March 1. 1909. which distinctly shows the men do not wish to impose
on the weak parts of the agreement, tn the detriment of the Company is sufficient to
convince me that this was not done with malicious intent.
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Be case of Geo. Martinovitch: I can only say that the Company again ignore
living up to Article 8 of the agreement, which covers this man's case entirely.
The other cases rel\;rred to the Board for adjustment were imanimously dealt
with us, which I trust will be accepted satisfactorily by you.
Taking the dispute as a whole, Judge Lampman considered the men (or em-
ployees) were not opbn to punishment for ceasing work at the time they did. and
ruled it out when the Company appealed for this to be done; therefore he must have
had just cause to think they were justifHsd in doing so. Speaking for myself, I do
not want to encourage or see the laws of our country violated at any time by any
one; at the same time, I have to admit that the men had gone thirty days from the
timte their application was made, and had been told by the officials of the Company
that they would get no Conciliation Board, which went to show they would cause
delay, if possible; and when questioned on the reason for stating to the Department
that they had not received a copy of the application, which was registered to them
on March 19, the only defence put up was tliat tlie application was pinned at the
back of other correspondence forwarded from here, and had not beten read by the
secretary in the general office. Does this look feasible?
In conclusion, Sir, I have to state that imfortunately I am foreted to think that
an attempt has been made to bring discredit on ' the Industrial Disputes Investig-
tion Act,' from none other than the opposition party, who frankly state that no law
can stop the corporations from discharging a man or men if they wish to do so ; and
being that this is dii'actly against the laws of the labour organization of the men to
do so, without a sufficient and reasonable cau^e for so doing, nothing but fricton can
be expected by such a statement or decision.
I am, sir, your truly,
(Signed) T. Chas. Brooke.
INDUSTIfl.iL DISiPUTEt^ INVESTIGATION ACT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
v.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE WINNIPEG ELECTRIC RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, WINNIPEG, MAN.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— STRIKE
AVERTED.
Application received. — April 20, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Winnip'^g Electric Railway Company, Winnipeg, Man., and
employees.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Street railway.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conaitions of labour.
Date of constitution of Board. — May 10, ^o(>^.
Membership of the Board. — Rev. Dr. C. W. Gordon, Winnipeg, Man., Chairman,
appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the
other members of the Board ; ilr. W. J. Christie, Winnipeg, Man., appointed on the
recommendation of the employing Company; and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Toronto,
Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — June 1, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Two years' agreement concluded on all points, strike being
thereby averted.
The Minister received, at the end of May, the report of thte Board established in
the case of the dispute between the Winnipeg Electric Railway Company and its
employtees. The dispute in question related to the reduction of hours of labour,
increase of wages and to working conditions as set forth in a memorandum which
accompanied the employe'os' applica.tion. It was stated that a duly elected com-
mittee of the employees had brought this demand before the management of the Com-
pany on several occasions and also ysfore the Board of Directors, but that the Com-
pany had refused to make ' any reasonable concessions, so all attempts at adjustment
having failed a mass meeting of the men was held on the 12th of April, 1909, in
which the employees rejected the propositions of the Company and by unanimous vote
demanded an arbitration of the matters in dispute.'
In the application of Messrs. James Potter and T. E. Robbins, for the establish-
ment of a Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this matter, it was stated that
the diffei'jnces in question affected directly 500 and indirectly 100 persons.
Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Toronto, was appointed a member of the Board on
the recommendation of the employees. Mr. W. J. Christie, Winnipeg, was appointed
second membljr of the Board on the recommendation of the Company. In the
absence of any joint recommendation from these two members of the Board, the
Board was completed by the appointment by the Minister of Rev. C. W. Gordon, D.D.,
Winnipeg, as Chairman.
The sittings of the Board were held in Winnipeg, and resulted in a report signed
by all three members. The award stated that ' the points at issue weite without much
difficulty narrowed down to the questions of hours and wages. To these matters your
Board gave its very best attfention, and after full investigation and negotiations with
both parties, your Board is happy to report its unanimous agreement upon the points
in dispute.'
In a schedule attached to the report of the Board the proper officials of the Com-
pany wfere called upon to re-arrange the schedule of all the regular runs on or before
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July 1, to couform as nearly as possible to a nine-hour day insteaa of the present
ten-hour day, and the Board recommended that it should be the privilege of conduc-
tors and motormen to elect a tten-hour day should they so desire, and that it should
be distinctly understood that neither by the Company nor by the men would there
be any discrimination against any motorman or conductor for his action in this
regard. In clause 10 of the schedule provision was made for a scaltj of wages]
increasing from 21c. per hour for the first six months of service to 27c. per hour for
the fourth and succeeding years of continuous service.
The D'apartment was informed, on June 10, that the employees had accepted the
Board's findings as a basis of settlement of the matters in dispute, and that an agree-
ment had been reached in accordance with the findings.
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of th'^ Board is as follows: —
Winnipeg. Man., May 20. 1909
To THE Honourable
The Minister of Labour.
In the matter of the dispute between the Employees of the Winnipeg Railway Com-
pany and the Winnipeg Electric Railway Company, your Board of Conciliation
ibspectf ully beg to report as follows : —
The Board began its sitting on the llth of May in the Company's board room,
which was courteously placed at the disposal of the Board, and completed its work
on the 29th May, 1909.
The negotiations were greatly facilitated by the spirit of fairness shown by both
parties and thbir entire willingness to assist the Board in its investigations.. The
Board was pleased to find that the best of feeling prevails between the Company and
its men. There is on the Company's part an evident desire to provide in every way
possible for the safety and comfort of its employees, the cars being equipitod with
all the mo-t modern safety appliances and the vestibules electrically heated and pro-
vided with glass fronts.
It also emerged that the men making complaint were always accorded a court-
eous hearing by the management, and that an attempt was made to mtbt their demand.
The conductors and motormen on their part evidently showed a willingness to
co-operate with the Company to the btest of their ability in rendering an efficient,
prompt and courteous service to the public. The Board is much gratified to discover
that by iK-ither the Company nor its men is there the slightest twidoncy to discrimi-
nate against any employees on the score of belonging to, or not belonging to a labour
organization.
Tlie points at issue weite without much diffieulty narrowed down to the questions
of hours and wages. To these matters your Board gave its very best attention, and
after full investigation and negotiations with both parties, your Board is happy to
report its unanimous agreement upon th'j points in dispute upon the basis of the
^'ollowing schedule:
(Signed) Charles W. Gordon,
Chairman.
W. J. (Jhristie,
For the Company.
J. G. O'DONOCHUE,
X or the Men.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36i
Working Conditions for Molormcn and Conductors of the Winnipeg Electric Bail-
way Company.
Clause 1. — Neither the Company nor its men will discriminat'd against any motor-
man or conductor by reason of his being or not being a member of any Street Rail-
way Employees' Union.
Clause 2. — All cars will be cleaned and fully equipped with proper appliances for
operating the car before leaving the sheds for their respective runs ; the motorman
and conductor of each car, before leaving for the run, must see that the car is fully
equipped with proper appliances, and if anything is found to be lacking, must report
at once to an inspector or foreman. Conductors and motormen must also keep the
vestibules clean while on thfeir respective runs, and report any defects or anything
wrong with the car at the end of the run.
Clause 3. — Seniority, subject to efficiency, will be given preference in all I'agular
runs posted up for selection, and each motorman and conductor will have the oppor-
tunity of selecting his run in aecordanc'3 with his age in the service of the company;
all runs to be posted for motormen and conductors to make their selections as to the
run they may desire at least every four months.
Clause 4. — Motormen and conductors will be paid their wages semi-monthly, and
will be paid on the fifteenth and last day of each month, if possible. If, however, the
above dates should fall on Sunday or a holiday, payment will be made the day previous
if proper arrangements can be made to do so.
Clause 5. — Conductors coming within the scope of this argreement will be sup-
plied with tickets and change to the amount of twenty-five dollars, after signing the
Company's form of agreement for the return of the money when called upon to do so.
Clause 6. — Free transportation will be granted to all motormen and conductors
on all city lines of the Winnipeg Electric Railway Company when in uniform or wear-
ing a badge furnished by the Company. Reasonable free transportation at such times
and in such manner as the manager may think best will be granted to all motormen
and conductors on all outside lines controlled by the Company upon application for
same being made at the General Offices.
Clause 7. — The proper officials of the Company will be willing to treat at all
times with its motormen and conductors or any committee of them on any subject
in the interests of the Company or its motormen and conductors.
Clause 8. — All reasonable complaints or grievances will be heard by the proper
officials of the Company, and any motorman or conductor or committee failing to get
satisfaction from the officials of the Company have the right to appeal at any rea-
sonable time to the Board of Directors.
Clause 9. — All motormen and conductors required to work overtime on the fol-
lowing public holidays, namely : New Year's Day, 24th of May, Dominion Day,
Thanksgiving Day, Civic Holiday, Labour Day and Christmas Day will be paid at
the rate of time and one-half for such overtime. Exhibition time included.
Clause 10. — On, from and after May 1, 1909, the following scale of wages be in
force : —
Twenty-one cents per hour for the first six months.
Twenty-three cents per hour for the second six months.
Twenty-four cents per hour for the second year.
Twenty-six and one-half cents per hour for tJie third year.
Twenty-seven cents per hour for the fourth and succeeding years' continuous ser-
vice with the company.
Clause 11. — The proper officials of the Company will re-arrange the schedule of
all the regular runs on or before July 1 to conform as nearly as possible to a nine-
hour day instead of the present ten-hour basis. Whereupon it shall be the privilege
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
of any conductor or motorman to elect a ten-hour day should he so desire. It is dis-
tinctly understood that neither by the Company or by the men will there be any dis-
crimination against any motorman or conductor for his action in this regard. Hav-
ing due regard to all the conditions of the service, the manager imdertakes that the
schedules will be so arranged that the hours of work on the cars will be put in within
the least number of hours as, in his opinion, will be considered practicable and con-
sistent with the service performed by the Company.
Clause 12. — All motormen and conductors working Sundays to receive ten hours'
pay for eight and one-half hours' work ; overtime to be paid on the basis of ten hours-
pay for eight and one-half hours' work ; eight and one-half hours' work to constitute
a day's work on Sunday.
Clause 13. — As far as practicable no motorman will bo compelled to leave his
regular run to take special runs.
Clause 14. — All front vestibules on closed cars will be fitted with curtains, or in
such other manner as may be tliought best, to darken the front vestibule at night.
All open cars will be fitted with glass fronts for motormen.
Clause 15. — No conductor at any time will be required to operate more than one
car, and no motor car pull more than one trailer, as far as practicable in the discretion
of the management.
Clause 16. — Reasonable leave of absence will be granted to all motormen and con-
ductors when their services can be spared. Any motorman or conductor taking other
empfoyment during leave of absence will be considered to have terminated his ser-
vices with the Company. Any service, however, that a conductor or motorman may
be called upon to render in a representative capacity on behalf of his fellow motor-
men and conductors shall not be considered as covered by the word ' employment ' as
used in this clause; such absence, however, not to exceed one year.
Clause 17. — That when any motorman or conductor has been suspended or dis-
charged from the service of the Company, and after investigation has been found not
guilty of sufficient cause to warrant such discharge or suspension, he shall be reinstated
and paid for all time lost.
Clause 18. — No motorman will be compelled to take cars from the barns without
doors, or with broken vestibules or windows, between October 15 and April 15.
Clause 19. — All motormen's vestibules shall be fitted with heaters and made as
tight and comfortable as possible.
Clause 20. — Stools will be furnished for the motormen's use on such routes or
parts of routes as the management may think proper.
Clause 21. — Any motorman or conductor who has been six months or more in the
Company's service and leaving of his own accord, shall upon application for same
be furnished with reference as to length of service, character and ability while in the
Company's employ. Regular printed forms to be used for such purpose.
Clause 22. — Each conductor will be furnished once every two years with a uni-
form pea-jacket, and each motorman will be furnished once every two years with ii
uniform overcoat; and any motorman or conductor leaving the service of the company
from any cause within six months after receiving his pea-jacket or overcoat will be
charged the amount actually advanced by the Company.
Clause 2.3. — The Company will pay one-half the cost of first uniform; all uni-
forms thereafter will be furnished free, and a suitable cap will also be provided.
Winter caps will be issued not later than November 1, and summer caps not later
than May 1.
Clause 24. — The conductors operating on outlying lines will be allowed all neces-
sary time over ten minutes when required to and from the general offices; and' any
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niotorman required by the Company to come to the general offices shall receive the
same consideration.
Clause 25. — The above conditions to remain in force from May 1, 1909, to Alay
1. 1911.
CSgd.) Charles W. Gordon,
Chairman.
W. J. Christie,
For the Company.
J. G. O'Donoghue,
For the Men.
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VI.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE NOVA SCOTIA STEEL AND
COAL COMPANY. LIMITED. SYDNEY MINES N.S., MEMBERS OF
THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA— BOARD ESTABLISHED
—NO CESSATION OF WORK.
Application received. — April 26, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, Limited, Sydney
Mines, C.B., and employees, members of the United Mine Workers of America.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Wages, conditions of lubuur, and demand for recognition of
the IT. M. W. A.
Number of employees affected. — 340.
Date of constitution of Board. — June 7, 1909.
Membership of Board. — His Honour Judge J. P. Chipman, Kentville. N.S., chair-
man, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the
other members of the Board; His Honour Judge A. McGillvray, Antigonish, N.S.,
appointed by the Minister in the absence of any recommendation from the employing
Company; and Mr. Daniel McDougall, Glace Bay, C.B., appointed on the recommenda-
tion of the employees.
Report received. — July 23, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — The report of the Board found against the claims of the em-
ployees, whilst the minority report by Mr. Daniel McDougall supported their claims.
There was, however, no cessation of work.
The Minister received on July 23 the report of the Board of Conciliation and
Investigation to which was referred the dispute between the Nova Scotia Steel and
Coal Company, Limited, and members of the Florence Local 1746 of the United Mine
Workers of America, said union being one of the locals of the district of Nova Scotia,
No. 26. The Board consisted of His Honour Judge Chipman, of Kentville, N.S.,
chairman ; His Honour Judge McGillvray, of Antigonish, N.S., appointed for the
Company, and Mr. Daniel McDougall, of Glace Bay, N.S., appointed for the em-
ployees. Judge McGillvray was appointed by the Minister of Labour, the Company
having declined to make any recommendation. The report of the Board was signed
by Judge Chipman, chairman, and Judge McGillvray, while a minority report v»as
also received in the department signed by Mr. D. McDougall. The first session of
the Board was held at Florence, N.S., on June 23. The employees were represented
before the Board by Joseph Belshaw of the District Board of District No. 26 of the
U. M. W. A., and by James Knovvlea, president of the Florence LTnion, and James B.
McLachlin, district secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W. A. The Company was repre-
sented by Mr. Thomas J. Brown, general sui^erintendont. Neither party was repre-
sented by counsel.
The subjects in dispute were as follows, namely: (1) An increase of wages con-
sequent upon the introduction of closed lights (safety lamps) in lieu of open lights,
and (2) that since the Company recognize the Provincial Workmen's Association they
should also recognize the union of the TTnitnd Mine Workers of America, and should
Rrant no preference to one class of their employees.
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Tho Board pointed out that while the application in the present matter was be-
fore the Department, the Company adjusted with the Provincial Workmen's Associa-
tion an increase of wages to the extent of 2 cents per ton in the following proportion :
Machine runners, Jc. ; shot firers, Jc. ; loaders, Ic, and this allowance or increase
was added to the wage bill for the month of May last, and paid to each of their em-
ployees in these classes, entirely irrespective of their membership in the P. W. A. or
U. M. W. A.- ' The demand made by the employees,' added the Board, ' asked for an
increase of 2c. for shot firers and machine runners and 5c. for loaders, equivalent to
9c. per ton.'
On the general question of closed lights the Board found that the introduction
of closed lights had undoubtedly had the effect of causing more inconvenience and
a greater disadvantage in mining than other lights, but, on the other hand, the work-
men who were examined all frankly admitted that both life and property were thereby
rendered safer and more secure. ' Surely,' the Board commented, ' if such a result
is attained, the workmen should be willing to accept a reasonable increase in their
wages and allow the improved condition of the mine thereby so signally safeguarded,
both as to the preservation of their lives and the property in which they procure their
livelihood, to weigh in the scale and counterbalance the difference between the extra
amount granted by the Company and the demand therein made.'
After quoting elaborate statistics prepared by the Company as part of its case
with respect to wages paid to workmen in the classes affected by the change, the
Board continued as follows : ' Such being the case the Board with due regard to all
the conditions and circumstances appearing from the evidence is of the opinion that it
cannot conscientiously recommend and decide otherwise than that the Company has
met the men at least half way in the offer it has made for the inconvenience and loss
occasioned by the installation of safety lamps in the colliery in question.'
RECOGNITION OF THE U. M. W. A.
On the general question of the recognition of the United Mine Workers of
America, the Board quoted as follows : ' The U. M. W. A. is a foreign corporation,
the majority of its members residing in the United States, as also do their executive
officers. Under its constitution it is quite possible that the members of the societies
of the province of Nova Scotia might be called out on strike to assist the American
members of the society, which would be a very great detriment to the operators of
this country and the province generally. If it should be considered in the interests
of the whole body of the U. M. W. to proclaim a strike in Cape Breton, either to,
assist the U. M. W. or the operators in America who are placing coal in the Canadian
markets in direct competition with the mining industries in this province, the result
would be di.?astrous, and we believe this power is too great tojjlace in the hands of
any foreign body as it practically means the control of our mining industries. Our
Company look upon the society with a great deal of apprehension and fear, as it is
quite natural to assume that a society governed and controlled in the United States
will have its first interests in that country. The constitution of the U. M. W. states
that all employees about the colliery except the superintendent and manager of the
mine, shall be members of the U. M. W. This Company will not agree to the officers
of the collieries being members of this or any other labour society.'
The Board then commented thus on the situation: —
' These reasons, coupled with the facts and circumstances set forth in the evi-
tleuce and exhibits, seem to be sufficiently cogent for a finding in favour of the Com-
pany, and such is our mature and deliberate opinion.
' Both the Company and employefes have a right in this country to settle their
own business, and in such a dispute as we are now investigating it is our duty, fail-
58 VEl'AliTMEM' Of LABOUli
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
iug an agreement, to make such recomeudatioiis to the Depaiuntuit as mis'iii. it
accepted, briug about a ^ttlement.
' The growing- sentiment in this country is strongly in favour of managing our
industrial and commercial interests without being subject to the dictation or control
of our neighbours across the line, and now would seem to be an opportune time for a
mo\bment to be made for the establishment of a labour union for Canada alone,
which shall be incorporated on the lines best calculated to create harmony and peacf,
ami the prevention of strikes, so suicidal and detrimental to both employer and
emploj'jes, and the province of Xova Scotia as well.
' In the meantime, the two societies now warring with each other should get
together and endeavour to work out the problems before them in a spirit of loyalty
to th'e country in which they live and aro earning their daily bread.
' We cannot close our report without referring to the good feeling whicli exists
between the general superintendent of the Company and its employees. The wit-
nesses testified truthfully and candidlj', and the representatives eonductt>d their cast*
with fairness, ability and good judgment.
' Mr. Brown had good reason to compliment uoth men and representatives, and
the Board is surtj that the feelings he entertains for them are mutual and reciprocal.
Few men can have so careful, painstaking and competent an employer, and the
interests of his men should be, and we believe are, safe in his hands.'
Mr. Daniel McDougall, member of the Board appointed on the recommendation
of the employees, in a minority report observed tluit ' from tiie evidence aiKluced. 1
cannot say that 2 cents per ton increase which the Company had given its men was
sufficient for the changed conditions and the amount of inconvenience to which the
men were subjected.' In his judgment, therefore, the demands of the men were
not unjustified. He is also of opinion that the increase should be 4 cents per ton,
as follows: Machiirt,- nuiner, ] cent; shot firer, 1 cent: loader. 2 cents. The eviilcn'c.
ho thinks, went to show that men, under the present circumstances, cannot earn as
much as formerly on account of the insufficiency of the light, and that tiiey nnist
work longer hours under less favourable conditions than before prevailed. ' Another
matter of great importance,' he adds, ' is that the eyesight of the miner using tlie
closed light becomes affecl'ad from the overstrain on the optic nerve, and that in tinu!
the eye is completely crippled.'
On the question of the recognition of the union, Mr. McDougall stated : —
' Regarding recognition for the United Mine Workers of America, that matter has
assumed such a character in Nova Scotia, both in numbers and public sympathy, that
I feel the Board cannot do otherwise but recommend the Company to give recogni-
tion to this union, as far as committees to wait upon them and arrange meetings to
adjust any trouble or grievance that may arise between the men and the Company,
and also that a pit committee from the local should be given the power to make
visits to the mine for the purpose of examination, as provided for in the Coal ^finc^
Regulation Act, and many other matters that become necessary for the protection of
life and property.
■ I wish to point out one very serious occurrence in one of the collieries owned
by this Company that might have been the cause of great destruction, and the TJ.M.W.
committee could not get an audience with the Company to have the matter adjusted,
and they accordingly had to go to the Government Inspector of Mines to have th'j
matter investigated. Under that investigation it was clearly shown that prnetiees
were in operation that made it hazardous to the life of the miners and endangered the
Company's property. This, therefore, goes to show that the Companv, failing to treat
with our organization, puts the miners who belong to this union in such a positioTi
as to make it impossible for them to approach the Company in their own interests.
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and we contend that having at this particular place 95 per cent of the miners in ouv
society, it is very unfair to treat with the P. W. A. who only represent five per cent of
minlirs at Florence and not treat with the United Mine Workers of America.
' Their chief aim being to educate the working class of all countries, we claim
that tho United Mine Workers are not an American organization, and that the oper-
ators of this country, when the people say so, should meet the union, more parti -ii-
larly when 90 per cent of their workmen are members of the organization, Canadian
or American, from the fact, first, that it is international, and second, that it is already
successfully operating in British Columbia and Alb'erta, and that by having one great
coal mining organization of an international character the time will be hastened
when industrial peace shall prevail and misunderstandings between employers and
temployees put right.
The Department was not informed whether the findings of the Board were accept-
able to the parties concerned, but no cessation of work occurred in the opteration of
the mine. •
EEPORT OF BOARD.
Tho te.xt of the findings of the Board is as follows : —
In the matter of the ' Industrial Disputes Act. 1907,' and of a dispute Itetween
the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, Ltd., and members of the Florence local
1746 of the United Mine Workers of America, said local being on*a of the locals of
the District of Nova Scotia, No. 26.
The Board, composed of Judge McGillivray, of Antigonish, Mr. Daniel McDougall
of Glace Bay, and Judge Chipman, of Kentville, N.S., Chairman, pursuant to notice
held its first session on Wednesday, the 23rd day of June, 1909, in the Workmen's
Hall, Florence; this locality (No. .'! colliery of the said Company) being the locus
within which the subject matter of the present proceeding arose.
Befoite entering upon the duties pertaining to the reference, the members of the
Board took the prescribed oath of office.
The employees were represented by Joseph Belshaw, district board member of
District No. 26 of thte United Mine Workers of America.
James Knowles, president of said Florence local, and James B. McLaughlin,
district secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W.
The Company was not represented. An application was then madte for the issue
of a subpcena for Thomas J. Brown, general superintendent of the Company. This
application was immediately granted, and on advice of the action of the Board in
this rbgard he forthwith advised the Board that he would attend, and thereafter was
present and represented the Company.
Neither party desired the presence of counsel and none attended.
The Board sat at Florence on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of June, and on this last
named date the evidence tendered on behalf of the employees was completed.
In order to obtain a more intelligent and practical knowledge of the work, which
the three classes of worlcmen, viz. : the machine runners, shot firers and loaders actually
performed underground, it was decided by the Board and acquiesced in by the partites
hereto, that a visit to the mine should be made.
In due time the ntecessary preparations were made, and the descent down the
slope, a distance of over 5,000 feet, was successfully accomplished. Every assistance
was rendered by the ofiicials of the Company and Mr. Belshaw, and the Board was thus
privileged to witness an ocular demonstration of the work these men do in the due
performance of their duties.
Prior to going down the mine, Mr. Brown, on behalf of the Company, applied for
an adjourimient until iTonday, the 2Sth of June, for the presentation of the Company's
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case. This application was favourably eoleitained by the Board, and on this date the
Company's case was finally closed, and the Board announced that further proceedings
would be postponed until Wednesday, July the 14th prox., when the Board would meet
at Halifax to deliberate on the evidence and formulate its report for transmission to
the Department.
In passing we may say that the Board held two sessions on Saturday, the 26th
June, at Glace Bay, examining and considering the evidence then given by the em-
ployees.
After sessions at Halifax on the 1-lth, 15th and 16th of July, weighing and de-
liberating upon the evidence submitted and in the preparation of this report, the
Board submits the following findings : —
Two issues only are involved in this dispute, i.e. :
(a) An increase of wages, consequent upon the introduction of closed lights
(safety lamps) in lieu of open lights, and
(6) That since the Company recognize the Provincial Workmen's Association they
should also recognize the union of the United Mine Workers of America and should
grant no preference to one class of their employees.
While the application for this Board was being considered, but before it was
granted, the Company adjusted with the P. W. A. an increase of wages to the extent
of two cents per ton in the following proportions : Machine runners, Jc. ; shot firers,
Jc. ; loaders, Ic, and this allowance or increase was added to the wage bill for the
month of May last and paid to every employee in these classes, entirely irrespective"
of their membership in the P. W. A. or U. M. W.
The demand made by the employees asked for an increase of two cents for shot
firers and machine runners and five cents for loaders — equivalent to nine cents per ton.
The mine was shown to be well equipped and in splendid condition ; in fact, all
of the witnesses who were asked in reference thereto admitted that the air and ventila-
tion therein were better than in any other mine in which they had previously worked.
The introduction of closed lights has doubtless had the effect of causing more
inconvenience and a greater disadvantage in mining than other lights, but, on the
other hand, the workmen who were examined all frankly admitted that both life and
property were thereby rendered safer and more secure. Surely if such a result is
attained the workmen should be willing to accept a reasonable increase in their wages,
and allow the improved condition of the mine thereby so signally safeguarded, both as
to the preservation of their lives and the property in which they procure their liveli-
hood, to weigh in the scale and counter balance the difference between the extra
amount granted by the Company and the demand herein made.
The Company, as part of its case, prepared for and handed to the Board tabulated
statements of the wages earned and paid to the workmen in the classes mentioned,
and from these it api^ears that loaders received the following average wages per day
from September, 1908, to May, 1909, inclusive. (Sixty-two men are classified) : —
LOADERS.
1908— September $2 16
October 2 22
November 2 24
December 2 41
1909— January 2 32
February 2 24
March 2 09
April ■ 2 18
May 2 22
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MACHINE RUNNERS.
1908— September $4 46
October 4 29
November 4 40
December 4 35
1909— January 4 10
February 4 00
March 3 59
April 3 67
May 3 83
(Twenty-six men classified.)
SHOT FIRERiS.
1908— September $4 44
October 4 38
November 4 40
December 4 38
1909— January 4 16
February 4 01
March 3 90
April 3 Y9
May 4 08
The average wages per day for the months of March, April and May are shown
to be: —
Shot firers $3 90
Machine runners 3 70
Loaders 2 13
And the daily average production: —
Shot firers 29 tons.
Machine runners 27 "
Loaders 10 "
The increase granted at Jc. per ton amounts to 14ic., 13jc. and 10c. for the work-
men in the order named, and equal to at least $25 to $40 per year and in the same order
the demand or claim made would be 58c., 54e. and 50c. per day.
Other tables will be found among the exhibits and in order to place before the
Board the possibilities of a wage earner the wages of six of the highest men (same
classes) are given for the months of March, April and May.
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Days.
Total Wages.
A verage.
26
S cts.
118 31
100 (10
83 09
101 33
117 8H
100 01
94 31
87 85
70 30
92 51
99 00
81 19
93 42
82 05
68 08
74 69
97 33
52 99
$ cts.
4 55
25.
18
4 02
4 61
,,
23
4 40
„
26
20
23. ...
4 53
April
5 00
4 01
21
4 68
15
21
23
19
19
4 68
4 40
4 30
4 27
4 92
17
4 86
"
15
17
4 54
4 39
19.
5 12
,,
12
4 42
March
13
27
23
58 01
163 57
108 71
94 08
103 57
91 95
84 65
174 62
92 92
99 25
80 24
104 81
82 67
11 ; 73
72 03
85 68
84 84
81 19
4 46
6 06
4 73
22
4 27
22
21
4 61
4 38
20.
4 23
24
6 15
19
4 89
20
4 96
19
4 54
May
19
17
5 61
4 .S6
19
5 88
15 ...
18
4 80
4 76
15
5 65
13
6 24
22
72 36
73 61
38 36
30 04
28 80
75 52
65 88
61 07
45 08
33 17
59 01
63 79
45 30
41 84
26 14
20 36
34 10
30 98
3 29
26
2 83
14
2 74
11
2 73
14
2 77
„
21
3 59
April
17
3 87
21
2 91
17
2 65
14
2 37
18. . . ...
3 28
17
3 75
May
115
3 02
16
2 79
13
1 93
12
1 69
16
2 13
n..--
2 82
The average hours worked per day are considerably less, in the
, designated, than nine hours.
above
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The introduction of safety lamps, which were first brought into commission on
the 8th day of March last (1909) cost the Company $2,000 and their maintenance
amounts to $200 per month.
The increase granted has not been added to the wages for May. This increase
for the year figures up $6,000 and the claim, if granted, would total no less a sum than
$27,000.
The representatives when pressed to make an amicable settlement intimated that
they would prefer to leave the adjustment of the wages as well as other matters for
the Board to deal with.
Such being the case, the Board, with a due regard to all the conditions and cir-
cumstances appearing from the evidence, is of the opinion that it cannot conscien-
tiously recommend and decide otherwise than that the Company has met the men
at least half way in the offer it has made for the inconvenience and loss occasioned
by the installation of safety lamps in the colliery in qu&stion.
The Board desires to thank the witnesses and representatives for courtesies ex-
tended and will entertain the hope that the finding now made will be acceptable to
them and all concerned.
What shall be said with regard to the second issue and which the Board believes
to bo the crucial issue for consideration.
The IT. M. W. earnestly desire recognition and the Company just as strenuously
and persistently refuse to comply therewith. It is certainly a vexed question and we
fear that anything we can say or do will not effect the desired object.
Employees who belong to the U. M. W. claim that they should have the right,
whenever they have a grievance requiring redress, to approach the Company through
a committee appointed for this i)n,rpose by their union, and more particularly in the
presentation of a grievance which may directly or indirectly endang'jr the lives of
some of their members.
Much of the evidence given in this regard had rcfei'ance to practices in the mine,
wliich the witnesses considered should be remedied or abolished.
* The Coal Mints Regulation Act ' (which is very comprehensive in its terms)
provides ways and means by which any violation of the Act may be inquired into
and rectified.
The general superintendent, jMr. Thos. J. Brown, also has given it to be distinctly
understood, and has. enjoined upon thte men, that he is always ready and willing to
receive and confer with the employees or employee who desire to approach him in
referencfe to any grievance that he or they may tlrink should be brought to his notice,
providing the interview is sought by them as individuals, and not as representatives
of the n. M. W.
It would therefore seem that the objections or rteasons urged by the employees
are fairly well met and that it becomes more a matter of sentiment with them than
•itlierwise wWjn they are seeking recognition.
Mr. Brown, in his answer to the employees" claim for recognition, says : —
'Dealing with the second part of the matter before the Board, I would simply
state the position that the Company takes in connection with the recognition of the
society which is claiming recognition, and I am stating on behalf of the Company
that while the Company had decided Jo recognise the P. W- A., there has been no
case th.lt wte know of where any discrimination or harshness has been shown towards
the men who bavf thrown in their lot with t,l)0 U. M. W.. and the Company will And
if impracticable to deal with two separate societies whose contentions and demands
may be nuite at variance with each other. In other words, the Company considers it
impossible to serve two masters.
' The U. M. W. is a foreign corporation, the majority of its members residing in
the United States, as also do their executi\'j officers. Under its constitution, it is
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quite possible that the members of the societies of the Province of Nova Scotia might
be cnlled out on a strike to assist thb iVmerican members of the society, which wouUl
be a very great detriment to the operators of this country and the Province generally.
If it should be considered in the interests of the -whole body of the TL M. \V. to pro-
claim a strike in Cape Breton, either to assist the TJ. M. W. or the operators in
America who are placing coal in the Canadian markets in direct competition with
raining industrites in this province, the result would be disastrous, and we believe this
power is too great to place in the hands of any foreign body, as it practically means
the control of our mining industries. Our Company look upon the society with a
great deal of apprehension and fear, as it is quite natural to assume that a society
govemBd and controlled in the United States will have its first interests in that coun-
try. The constitution of the U. M. W. states that all employees about the colliery
except the superintendent and manager of the mine, shall be members of the TJ.M.W.
This Company will not agree to the oflBcers of the collieries being members of this or
any other labour society.'
These reasons, coupled with the facts and circumstances set forth in the evidence
and exhibits, seem to be sufficiently cogent for a finding in favour of the Company and
such is our mature and delibterate opinion.
Both the Company and employees have the right in this country to settle their
own business, and in such a dispute as we are now investigating it is our duty, fail-
ing an agreement, to make such recommendations to the Department as might, if
accepted, brincr .about a settlement.
The growing sentiment in this country is strongly in favour of managing our
industrial and commercial interests without being subject to the. dictation or control
of our neighbours across the line, and now would seem to be an opportune time for
a movement to be made for the establishment of a labour union for Canada alone,
which shall be incorporated on the lines best calculated to create harmony and peacte,
and the prevention of strikes, so suicidal and detrimental to both employer and
employees, and the province of Nova Scotia as well.
In the meantime the two societies now warring with each other should get
together and endeavouf to work out the problems before them in a spirit of loyalty
to the country in which they live and are earning their daily bread.
We cannot close our report without refarring to the good feeling which exists
between the general superintendent of the Company and its employees. The wit-
nesstes testified truthfully and candidly and the representatives conducted their ease
with fairness, ability and good judgment.
Mr. BrowTi had good reason to compliment both men and representatives, and
the Board is sure that the feelings he entertains for them are mutual and reciprocal.
Few men can have so careful, painstaking and competent an employer, and the
interests of his men should be, and we believe are, safe in his hands.
Herewith will be found the exhibits tendered with the evidence.
All of which is reapoctfully submitted.
(Sgd.) .1. P. CHIPMAN,
Chairman.
A. MacGii.livray,
"Member of Board.
The Honoitrable Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa.
II
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
MINORITY REPORT.
The text of the minority roiiort in this matter is as follows: —
To THE Honourable
The Minister of Lauour,
Ottawa, Ont.
In the matter of the dispute between the employees of the Nova Scotia Steel and
Coal Company and the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, I beg leave to submit a
minority report, as the Board could not come to g unanimous decision, and my report
shall be as follows: —
Your Board met in its sessions at Florence, Sydney Mines, the seat of the dis-
pute, and began its hearing on Tuesday, Junte 23, and continued its sitting until June
28. The iinal sitting was in Halifax on July 1-1-15, to render a decision of the evi-
dence produced.
I feel pleased to state that the Evidence produced by the witnesses was of a high
character, and the negotiations were greatly assisted to finis'i speedily by the fairness
of both parties, and their willingness, to assist the Board in ils investigations.
The Board also found the best of feeling existing between the men and the Com-
pany.
The question for the Board's consideration embraced an advance oni rates on
account of a change from open lights in the mine to closed lights. Your Board, to
more fully qualify to take a fair-minded view of the situation, made a visit under-
ground in the colliery aflfeeted, and show the conditions as they existed.
The other question submitted being that the United Mine Workers of America
were not accorded the same treatment as the Provincial Workmen's Association.
In regard to those subjects, I must say first, — That upon the Board .sitting and
after the Board had been granted, the Company gave the mbn an advance of 2 cents
.per ton, as follows: Machine runners J-cent, shot firers ^-cent, loaders 1 cent. This
made it rather diiEcult for the Board, but the evidence was heard and gone into veiy
fully, and I, as a member of the Board, and from the evidence produced, i^annot say
that 2 cents of an increase for the changed conditions and the amount of inconveui-
eucte to tne men, is sufficient. I would, therefore, say that in my opinion the increase
should be 4 cents, as follows: Machine runner 1 cent, eliol firor t cent, loader 2 cents.
I would further state that the demands made by the men, in my opinion, are not
unjustified.
The evidence produced goes to show that men, under circumstances as now exist,
cannot earn as much money as formerly, for the reason that it becomes so much more
laborious to do their work on account of the insufficiency of the light produced by
tho lamp, aiiil tlify iniiPt work longer hours, under less favourable conditions thmi
bbfore.
Another matter of great importance is that the eyesight of the miner using the
clos(!d light becomes affected from the overstrain on the optic nerve, and after a time
the eye is completely crippled. This in itself is one great reason why the miner shouM
receive more compensation.
I made those recommendations from the fact of my knowledge of tho differen<'e
in change of conditions, and after a careful perusal of the evidence produced. I have
come to the decision that no less than 4 cents per ton would in any way give the
miners the difference they are entitled to on account of changed conditions.
Regarding recognition for the United Mine Workers of America, that matter has
assumed such a character in Nova Scotia, both in number and public sympathy, that
I feel the Board cannot do otherwise but recommend the Company to give recogni-
tion to this union, as far as committees to wait upon them and arrange meetings to
adjust any trouble or grievance that may arise between the men and the Company,
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and also that a pit committee from the local should be given the power to make visits
to the mine for the purpose of examination, as provided for in the Coal Mines Regu-
lation Act, and many other matters that become necessary for the protection of life
and property. .
I wish to point out one very serious occurrence in one of the collieries owned by
tliJs Company that might have been the cause of great destruction, and the U. M. W.
committee could not get an audience with the Company to have the matter adjusted,
and they accordingly had to go to the government inspector of mines to have the
matter investigated. Under that investigation it was clearly shown that practices
were in operation that made it hd^ardous to the life of the miners and endangered
the Company's property. This, therefore, goes to show that the Company, falling to
treat with our organization, puts the miners who belong to this union in such a posi-
tion as to make it impossible for them to approach the Company in their own in-
terests, and we contend that having at this particular place 95 per cent of the miners
in our society it is very unfair to treat with the P. W. A. who only represent 5 per
cent of miners at Florence and not treat with the United Mine Worker* of America.
I wish to point out the fact that the objection to the United Mine Workers being
an American organization, that the organization is just as much a Canadian organiza-
tion. We repudiate that statement, and say that the organization is an international
organization whose aim is to promote the welfare, advance the interests, bless the
homes, and bring peace into the country where they locate. Their chief aim being
to educate the working class of all countries, therefore, we claim that the United Mine
Workers are not an American organization, and that the operators of this country,
when the people say so, should meet the union, more particularly when 90 per cent of
their workmen are members of the organization, Canadian or American, from the
fact, first, that it is international, and, second, that it is already successfully operating
in British Columbia and Alberta, and that by having one great coal mining organiza-
tion '•"f an international character the time will be hastened when industrial peace
shall prevail and misunderstandings between employers and employees put right.
Trusting that the efforts of the Board may be successful to bring about peace and
harmony.
I have the honour to be.
Your obedient servant,
(Sgd.) Dan McDougall,
On behalf of the Employees. .
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
VII.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE DOMINION TEXTILE COM-
PANY, MONTREAL, QUE.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— UNANIMOUS RE-
PORT BY BOARD— STRIKE AVERTED.
Application received.— April 27, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Dominion Textile Company, Montreal, Que., and niule spin-
ner.s in its employ.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned.- — Textile.
Nature of dispute. — Wages.
Numher of employees affected.— Directly, 70; indirectly, 3,000.
Date of constitution of Board. — May 25, 1909.
Membership of Soartf.— Honourable Mr. Justice Thos. Fortin, Montreal, Que.,
Chairman, appointed on the recommendation of the other members of the Board;
Mr. F. G. Daniels, Montmorency, Que., appointed on the recommendation of the em-
ploying Company, and Mr. A. A. Gibeault, Montreal, Que., appointed on the recom-
mendation of the employees.
Report received. — May 25, 1909.
- Result of inquiry. — Report of Board accepted by both parties to the dispute, a
strike being thereby averted.
The Minister received on May 27 the report of the Board established in the case
of the dispute between the Dominion Textife Company and certain of its employees
in Montreal. In this report the grievances referred for investigation were stated to
be; (1) to re-establish for the mule spinners the pay-list in force in April, 1908, from
which a reduction had been made in ^lay of the same year of from 10 to 25 per cent;
(2) the doing away with what is called the 'black list.'
In the application of Messrs. F. Fafard and C. Donais, of Montreal, for the estab-
lishment of a Board it was stated that 70 mten were directly affected, and that 1,600
men and 1,400 women were affected indirectly. The textile industry not beinar one
of those to which the Industrial Disputes Act applies the Board was established by the
mutual consent of the parties affected expressly as provided by section 63. Mr.
Arthur A. Gibeault, of Montreal, was appointed on the recommtendation of the
employees, and Mr. F. G. Daniels, of Montmorency, on part of the Company. The
Honourable Mr. Justice Fortin, of the Superior Court. Montreal, was appointed
Chairman on the rteommendation of Messrs. Daniels and Gibeault.
The report showed that on May 4, 1908, a reduction had been made in the sala-
ries of the mule spinners and other employees of the Dominion Textilfe Company of
10 per cent and upwards, which led to a strike on the part of the operatives. The
Board, in its review of the case, found that this strike was terminated on a promise
by the Company that when trade conditions improved, wages would again be raised
to the old schedule, and held that the question therefore wa.s to determine wliLitlicr
there had been such an improvement in the conditions of this industry as would war-
rant the claim of the spinners. In the opinion of the Chairman of the Board and of
Mr. Daniels, it was proven that there had been no improvement in respect of profits
durin.ff the year, but that on the contrary there had been a continued dtepression
res"ltin<r in a diminution of the earnings in the Montreal mills, and that 'the Com-
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pany is justified in refusing to re-establish the scale of prices existing before the last
reduction in wages.' Mr. Gibeault, the other member of the Board, was of opinion
that the Company should increase the present schedule of wages by five per cent. The
Board found no evidence to establish t\\\i existence of any ' black list.' On Slay 28
the Department was informed that the findings of the Board were accepted by the
Company as a basis of settlement of the matt'ers referred for investigation. On
June 7 the Department received word also from the representatives of the employees
to the effect tliat the findings were aec'^pted by them and that the Company on its
part had promised to re-engage five spinners who had been out of employment for a
EEPORT OF BOARD.
The text of thb findings of the Board is as follows: —
Hon. Eodolphe Lemieux^
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa. Ont.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, anu in the matter of
differences between the Dominion Textile Company and its teniployeis.
1. By the application in this matter, two questions were submited to this Board:
(a) To re-establish, for the mule spinners, the pay-list in force in April, 1908, and
from which a reduction had been made in May of the same year of from 10 to 2,") pei'
cent;
(6) The doing away with of what is called the ' black list.'
2. It appears that, during the years 1906 and 1907, th'3 mule spinners belonging
to the union at Montreal, that is, in the mills of St. Henri and Hochelaga, were first
granted an iiicreaso of salary of 0 per cont, then uii increase oi 10 to 12 per cbnt,
followed by another increase of 10 per cent, and, finally another increase of 2 to 2i
per cent, making a total of 30i per cent for the mule spinners. During those two
years, the cotton industry is shown by the evidence adduced before us to have been
very prosperous. But, at the end of 1907 a seveife depression set in, and was still
in existence in the spring of 1908.
3. On the 4th of May a reduction was made on the salaries of the mulb spinners
and others of 10 per cent, as far as the St. Henri mill is concerned, and a reduction
of a little over 10 per cent in some othter cases, as regards the Hochelaga mills.
This reduction led to a strike, which was followed by a return to work of tlie
operatives, who were promised that when trade conditions improved their wages
would again be raised to the old schedule.
Now, this Board was called upon to inquire as to the mule spinners only of the
Montreal union, aggregating about 70, and had nothing to do with the other opera-
tives, numbering about 6,000.
4. The question before us was then whether there had been such an improvement
in the conditions of the industry as woulil warrant the claim of the .spinnt'rs.
It became a delicate matter to determine what should be the proper basis from
which it could be ascertained whether conditions had improved. Was it to comi)are
the operations of the mills in Montreal only, or to take the general operations of tlu;
Company for the year that had elapsed? In order to avoid possible error on this
point, the Board thought proper to examine both the operations of tlie mills in Mont-
real, and the general operations of the Company for that year.
5. For that purpose the Board has sat and examined witnesses, as well on this first
point as on the other question. It was thought proper to examine witnesses as fully
as possible, and the Board has sat continuously on the 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st and 22nd
instant.
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As far as the operations of the mills at Montreal were concerned, it was provbd
that there had been no improvement in the earnings of profits during the year. On
the contrary, thbre was aj the result of continued depression, a diminution in the
earnings of those mills.
As to the general operations of the Company, the same result was shown. The
operations of the last year have shown a considerable falling ofi in the profits, and it
was proved that the depression which had set in at the end of the year 1907 has con-
tinued and still exists at the present time.
It was proved that the main cause for the acute depression in this country is
that the depression, being universal, foreign manufacturers have cut prices to such an
extent that the tariff protection, which is suiScient in ordinary times, has proved
inadequate under present conditions.
So it appears to the majority of the Board that the Company is justified! in
refusing to re-establish the scale of prices existing before the last reduction in wages.
6. In the opinion of Mr. Gibeault, the Company ought to increase the present
schedule by t> per cent. It appears to Mr. Gibeault that since this Company has
been organized the bondholders and shareholders have received interest and divi-
dends in such a way that an increase which would, if applied to all the employ-
ees of the Company, mean an outlay of no more than $75,000 a year, would be
justified under the circumstances.
7. Upon tlie second question submitted to u.s we find that there was not in exist-
• ncB w'lal is usually termed a ' black list,' and the question of fines was not pressed
before us.
W'e find, however, that some of the spinners who had been employed up to the
strike of May, 1908, have not, since secured employment from the Company. In
some cases this was apparently due to the fact that personal difficulties had occurred
between thte men and the overseers. Some of those men have since found cTnploy-
ment elsewiicre, but some have not.
The Board feels justified in recommending that those whose names were the sub-
ject of part'cnlar consideration should be given another opportunity of giving their
services to the Company in th'a same departments, and believes it has reason to hope
that this recommendation may soon be carried into effect.
In conclusion, we have much pleasure in stating that our proceedings have been
carrited on in the most harmonious way. and with the most evident desire on the part
of all to render justice to all concerned.
(Sgd.) Thomas Fortin^
Chairman.
F. G. Daniels,
A. A. Gibeault.
Montreal, May 22, 1909.
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VIII.— APPLICATION FROM RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS, MEMBERS OF
THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS, EMPLOYED BY THE
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY— BOARD ESTABLISHED
UNANIMOUS REPORT BY BOARD— STRIKE AVERTED.
Application reoiived. — May 7, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Canadian Pacific Railway Company ami its railroad tele-
graphers, members of the Order of Eailroad Telegraphers.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Natum of dispute. — Alleged unfair dismissal and breach of contract.
Number of employees affected. — 1,600.
Date of constitution of Board. — May 29, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Honourable Mr. Justice Thos. Fortin, Montreal, Que.,
Chairman, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint I'^comniendation
from the other members of the Board; Mr. '\\ aliace Nesbitt, K.C., Toronto, Out.,
appointed on the recommendation of the employing Company; and Mr. W. T. J. Ltee,
Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — June 11, 1909.
Btssult of inquiry. — Unanimous report of Board was accepted by both parties to
the dispute, a strike being thereby averted.
The Minister received on June 11 the report of the Board established to adjust
diffeifenees between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and its railroad tele-
graphers relating to the following claims which had been made in the employees'
application: (1) Unfair dismissal of l\fr. L. H. Devault from the position of train
despatcher at Farnham, Que., December 18, 1908; (2) Breach of contract with the
Order of Railroad Telegraphers by displacing despatchers from regular positions at
Montreal, contrary to the terms of Article 2 of schedule agreement since January
1, 1909.
The telegraphers called for the reinstatement of Mr. Devault with payment for
lost time and requested also that the displaced despatchors should be allowed their
regular positions and reimbursed for loss of salary sustained by their removal. The
application in this matter was signed by Messrs. D. Campbell and G. D. Robertson,
of Toronto, and it was therein stated that l.COO employc'js were likely to be affected.
Mr. Wallace Ncshitt, K.C., Toronto, and Mr. W. T. J. Lee, Toronto, were
appointed members of the Board on the recommendation of the Employers and
employees respectively. In the absence of a joint recommendation from Messrs.
Nesbitt and Lee, the Honourable Mr. Justice Fortin. Montreal, was appointed by thb
Minister as Chairman of this Board.
The unanimous findings of the Board were to the otTcct that the officiiils of the
Company were justified in the dismissal of the said Devault andi the contention of
the Company was tlicrcfore .sustained. Tu ihi' matter of Rose, the Board con-
cluded that the contention of the Order of Railroad Tolcj-raphers as to the rnnstruc-
tion to ^3 placed on Rules 1 and 2 was incorrect, and that the contention of Ihc Com-
pany was therefore sustained.
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On June 17, the Department was advised of the acceptance by the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company of the report of the Board in this matter, and on June 21,
word was received of the acceptance of the findings by the Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers.
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows: —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and of the dispute
between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, employer and th'j Order of
Railroad Telegraphers, employees.
The undersigned having been appointed as a Board of Conciliation and Investi-
gation und'jr the above Act. held at i^lontreal on the 3rd day of Jaine, 1909, and hav-
ing heard the parties, proceed to investigate the following claims: —
IN THE MATTER OF ROSE.
The Board came to the conclusion that the contention of the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers ns to the construction of Rul'es 1 and 2 was incorrect and the Company
were justified in appointing the said) Rose to the position of first train
despatcher.
The contention of the Company is, therefore, sustained.
IN THE JIATTER OF L. H. DEVAULT.
Thb Board having heard the parties, are of the opinion that the ofiicers of the
Company were justified in the dismissal of the said Devault, and the contention of
the Company is therefore sustained.
Dated at Montreal this 4th day of June, 1903
(Sgd.l Thomas Fortin,
Chairman.
Wallace Nesbitt,
For C.P.R.
W. T. J. Lee.
For Employees.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
IX.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF COMPANIES COMPRISING THE
WESTERN COAL OPERATORS' ASSOCIATION, AS FOLLOWS ;— ALBERTA
RAILWAY AND IRRIGATION COMPANY, H. W. McNEILL COMPANY,
PACIFIC COAL COMPANY, LEITCH COLLIERIES, LIMITED, WESTERN
CANADIAN COLLIERIES, LIMITED. INTERNATIONAL COAL AND COKE
COMPANY, LIMITED, AND HOSMER MINES, LIMITED— BOARD ESTAB-
LISHED—EMPLOYEES CEASED WORK, BUT AGREEMENT CONCLUDED
LATER BASED ON REPORT OF BOARD.
Application received. — May 5, !!)()!).
Parties concerned. — Western Coal Operators' Association ami Vuiiployees.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Coal miiiine-.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees aifecizd. — 2,100.
Date of constitution of Board. — May 15, 1900.
Membership of Board. — Rev. Hugh Grant, Fernie, B.C., Chairman, appointed by
the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from tli'a other membersi of
the Board; iMr. Colin JfacLeod. ^facLeod. Alta., appointed on the recommendation
of the employing Companies; and Mr. F. H. Sherman, Taber, Alta., appointed on the
recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — June 21, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Employees cfeased work on March 31, 1909, on the expiry of
the agreement under -which they had previously been working. Strike continued dur-
ing sessions of Board, and was terminated cm. June 30, 1909, by the signing of a new
agreement, effective to March 31. 1911, which was based on the report of the Board.
The Minister receiv'^d on June 21 the report of the Board established to adjust
certain differences between the members of the vv'cstcrn Coal Operators' Association
and their employees, as signed by the Rev. H. E. Grant, Chairman, and Mr. F. H.
Sherman, member appointed on the recommendation of the employees; also a min-
ority report signed by Mr. Colin MacLeod, member appointed on the I'jconnnendation
of the Western Coal Operators' Association.
This, dispute arose out of a 'failure to aprce uiion the terms and i-dniliti.ui.s ipf
working agreements which expired on March 31, 1909.' The Board, in its report,
expressed the opinion that these old airrpements were agreeable to both partic>s, and
therefore recommended a general agreement based on the old form of agreement
effective from April 1. 1909. to March 31. 1911.
In this case, Mr. Colin MacLeod, of MacLeod. Alta. and ,Mr. K. 11. Slicnnan.
of Taber, Alta., were appointed members of the Board on the recomnK'n<lation of the
Wester Coal Operators' Association and of the employees respectively. Rev. Hugh
Grant, of Fernie, B.C., was appointed by the ^Vlinister as Chairnmn in the absence of
a joint recommendation from the other two members. In the application it was
stated that this dispute affected directly 2,100 men, and indirectly jirobably 10,000
others. The Board began its labo\irs. on ^lay 20 and exerted itself to induce the par-
ties concfrnod to adjust their differences by mutual agreement, but as no settlement
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was reached in this way tlie BoRrd visited the various mines affected and took evi-
dence on the questions at issue. In its findings it was referred to a dispute respect-
ing differential rates on pillars and contract rates at Lille, Bellevuc, riillercst auj
Culeman mines, and expressed the opinion that if the parties each made an earnest
effort they could easily settle, by mutual agreement or joint committee, any difficul-
ties outstanding in this connection. On the subject of discrimination, the Board
advised that the und'arstanding arrived at with regard to discrimination, as reported
by the Deputy Minister of Labour in the report of the Department of Labour in 1007,
be observed by the parties to the present agretement.
The effect of the report of the Board, if accepted, would be. the Chairman
^jxplaincd in a covering letter, to give neither a ' closed shop ' nor an ' open shop.'
but to continue an agreement which had worked out amicably for two years.
The minority report of Mr. Colin MacLeod was in substantial agreement with
the report of the Board. Mr. MacLeod had discussed at some length the merits of
t!ie points at issue, and finds the chief dispute to be ' the matter of the preamble and
check-off clause, the miners contending that the preamble and check-off clause sub-
mitted by them would constitute a legal and binding agreement, the opei-ators reply-
ing that it would not improve the legal aspects of the agreement heretofore existing
and that its only effect was the establishment of a '' closed shop." to which they could
not agree.' Mr. MacLeod submitted that th'3 preamble prepared by the miners did
not improve the legal and binding effect of the preamble, used in the old agreement,
nor on the other hand should th'3 preamble, he thought, of the operators be adopted.
Mr. MacLeod had incorporated in his report a draft agreement covering all
points in dispute between the Western Coal Operators' Association and its employ'3es.
On the subject of a check-off clause. Mr. MacLeod said in his report: " The applicants
are undoubtedly entitled to a check-off clause in their agreement, but the check-off
clause submitted by them being inconsistent with the laws in force in British Colum-
bia and Alberta should not be accepted, and the check-off clause of the old agrc'jmeuts
should be continued, the same being shown in the agreement above referred to.'
The Minister received early in the month of July a communication from ilr.
Lewis Stockett, president of the Wostorn Coal Operators' Association, stating that
on June .30, an agreement was signed terminating the differences which had existed
for a period of three months between the Western Coal Operators' Association and
District No. 18, United Mine Workers of America, the Companies affected by the
agreement being as follows, namely: The Bankhead Mines, Limited; The H. W.
McNeill Co., Limited ; Coal Department of Alberta Eailway and Irrigation Company ;
Leitch Collieries, Limited; Eoyal Collieries, Limited; West Canadian Collieries,
Limited (Bellevue and Lille mines) ; Hillcrest Coal and Coke Company. Limited.
International Coal and Coke Company, Limited, and the Hosmer Mines, Limited.
The new agreement entered into on June 30 between the Western Coal Op'ara-
tors' Association and workmen in its employ, as repres'3nted by District 18 of the
v. M. W. of A., covers many jMDints not referred to in the agreement between the
same parties of 1907, and differs therefrom in certain other respects. In the main,
the agreements are along substantially similar lines. Four of the coal mining Com-
panies who were parties to the old! agreement, namely, the Crowsnest Pass Coal
Company, the Pacific Coal Company, the Breckenridge and Lund Coal Company,
and the Canadian American Coal and Coke Company, do not appear as signatories to
the agreement of June .30, 1909. On the other hand, the new agreement contains the
names of five Companies who had not taken part in the agreement which was entered
into between the Western Coal Operators' Association and the V. M. W. A. two years
ago, namely, the Coal Department of the Alberta Railway and' Irrigation Company,
Royal Collieries, Leitch Collieries, Hillcrest Coal and Coke Company and Hosmer
Mines.
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In respect of wages, no change is made in tlie scale g-overning- outside wages.
The inide scale of wages which governed during the period from March, 1907, to
March, 1909, is also continued in effect during the life of the new agreement, with
the following exception: Machine men to be rated at $3.50 per shift and machine
help<»r& at $3 per shift. The schedule of the old agreement relating to couplers,
pushers, loaders, buckers, locomotive engineers, motormen, switchers and ctigers is
annulled in the new contract.
A clause is embodied in the new agreement declaring that the right to hire and
discharge, the management of the mine and the direction of the working forces are
vested exclusively in the Company, and that the United Mine Workers of America
shall not abridge this right.
A clause has also been added enumerating the employees who are not under the
jurisdiction of the F. M. W. A., viz.: It is also agreed that all men working on
improvements and extensive repairs are not included in the jurisdiction of the
U. M. W. A.
Penaltites are imposed for absence from work and for stoppage of work. Other
clauses of the new agreement not included in the agroement of 1907 deal with the
following subjects: Check weigkmen, preference of employment, minimum rate,
miners taken to do company work, delivery of timber, loading of coal from chutes,
doctor and hospital arrangements, store, holidays, funerals, sub-contracting, sinale
shift, wet places, rock miners, brushing, retirement, oil, pay day, definition of schedlule
rates, turn in cars, back hands, contract prices, local couditlons.
The Department was further informed that a mutual understanding was reached
as between the parties with reference to the question of discrimination, and tb"t it
was agreed that th^2 witnesses to the signatures attached to the agreement slmuld
write a joint letter to the Minister of Labour setting forth the fact that this miitual
understanding was effected and to be binding upon both parties, and that the Minister
should be reqiitsted to have the same published in the fir?.t issue of the Lahmir
Gazette. Accordingly, with the letter addressed to the Minister by the President of
the Western Coal Operators' Association, was forwarded a ioint communication to the
Minister from Messrs. T. E. .Tames and ITatnilton P. Fuller expressing the terms of
the understanding effected on the subject indicated and requesting that the same
might be published in the Lahovr Gazette.
The following Is the text of the joint communication from Messrs. James and
Fuller, which was duly published as requested in the Labour Gazette for July, 1909,
p. 79 :—
THE WESTERN CO.M, OPERATORS' ASSOCIATIOX.
Hosmer, B.C., June 30, 1909.
To THE Honourable
The MrNisTER of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
Sin, — In accordance with an agreement entered into this date between District
No. 18, United Mine Workers of America, and the Western Coal Operators' Associa-
tion, to which agreement we are the witnesses, to the signatures of both parties, and
carrying out the following:
Witnesses to the signaturtes of the agreement, to write a letter to the Minister
of Labour stating, ' tint the settlement reached was based on the iinderstanding that
it is distinctly understood and agreed between the parties that there i.s to be no dis-
crimination on the part of the Companies against union men, or on the part of the
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union men against non-union men employed, and that it is agreed that tlite same bo
published in the Labour Gazette.'
Kindly have the above published in the Labour Gazette and oblige,
Your obeditent servants,
(Sgd.) T. E. James,
Hamilton B. Fuller.
EEPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows: —
Fernie, B.C., June 15, 1909.
To TIII3 Honourable
The Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
Sir, — Having concluded our investigations, and bearing in mind the interests of
the parties involved, and the suffering in consequence of the dispute, we have the
honour to recommend the following as the basis of a sfttlcment:
Wo believe that the old agrcpmbnts. expiring on March ?,\. 1909, are agreeable
to both parties, and we therefore recommend a general agreement, based on the old
agreement, expiring on the above date, the term of the agreement to date from 1st of
April, 1909, to the 31st March, 1911.
DIFFERENTIAL OX PILLARS AND CONTRACT RATES AT LILLE.
We are of the opinion that if the parties each make an earnest effort they can
feasily settle any difficulties that may exist at Lille, Bellevue, Hillcrest and Coleman
mines, in the same manner as heretofore, by mutual agreement, or by the joint com-
mittee and indfepeudent chairman, as provided for by all previous agreements between
the parties. We, therefore, recommend that this course be adopted and a definite
settlement be madfe within thirty (30) days of signing an agreement.
DISCRIMINATION.
We recommend that the understanding arrived at with regard to discrimination,
as reported by the Deputy Minister of Labour, in the report of the Department of
Labour, in 1907, be observed by the parties in this agreement.
We have the honour to bfe, sir.
Your obedient servants,
(Sgd.) H. E. Grant,
Chairman.
F. H. Sherman,
Member of Board.
DEPARTMEM OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
MINORITY EEPORT.
The text of the miuority report is as follows : —
MacLeod, Alta., June 16, l!)();i.
To THE Honourable
The AIiNisTEu of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in the matter
of a dispute between tlio Western L'oal Operators' ^Association, and the employees
of the above Companies, as represented by District No. 18, United Mine Workers
of America.
Sir, — I have had the advantage of seeing the award of my colleagues, and regret that
notwithstanding we are agreed as to the matters in dispute, we differ as to the con-
ception of our duties. I feel that under section 26 of the Industrial Disputes Investi-
gation Act, it is incumbent upon the Board to deal with each item of the reference,
and that the Board should not hesitate to give an opinion upon the questions it is
called upon to decide. The objection I have to signing the award of my colleagues
will, no doubt, be your objection to accepting it — it is not an award. Moreover, Sir,
I feel that after the prolonged investigation had in this matter, that the Board kIiouIiI
be in a position to render a decision upon at least one of the questions in clispute. and
that it should not return the reference to you without a word of comment as to the
merits of the case. Since the 20th day of May last the Board has practically been
in continuous session, during which time voluminous evidence was taken, and after
full and thorough investigation and inspection I beg to rteport on the matters in dis-
pute as follows: —
This dispute arose by reason of the parties, being unable to renew an agreement
which expired on the 31st day of March, 1900. From the evidence adduced it appears
that during the month of March the parties, by their representatives, met in confer-
ence, and made an agreement satisfactory to th'j representatives, which the operators
agreed to adopt, and which was submitted to the several local unions for consideration
on a referendum vote This vote carried by a large majority, but notwithstanding
this vote and the agreement of the committees, operations were suspended by the
applicants.
The following is the text of tlic npplicatidii and reply: —
Application.
It is hereby agreed, between the Western Coal Operators' Association, consisting
of the Pacific Coal Company, Limited; the H. W. McNeill Company, Limited; the
Leitch Collieries, Limited; the West Canadian Collieries, Limit<xl; the Hillcrest Coal
and Coke Company, Limited; the International Coal and Coke Company, Limited; the
Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company, of the one part, and the employees of the
said Companies, as represented by the United Mine Workers of America, District No.
18, of the other part, that the agreement existing prior to April 1, 1909, respecting
general provisions and scales of contract prices and wages, .shall govern the parties
hereto for the period of two years, commencing April 1, 1009. and ending March 31,
1911, in so far as the same may not be modified or affected by the provisions of this
agrroment; it being understood and agreed that the parties hereto will meet in con-
ference sixty days prior to the expiration of this agreement to discuss a renewal
thereof. This agreement covers all the mines, coke ovens and outside plants oper-
ated by the Companies, and all persons accepting employment at these mines sbail
be governed by the following rules and regulations. —
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' The Company will require eaoh person employed by them, or to be employed by
them, as a miner, mine labourer, or otherwise, in and about the mines and coke ovens
of the prospective Companies, to sign this agreement, as a condition precedent to
continued employment of the person already employed or to be employed. The agree-
ment to be placed in a book, together with a legal check-off clause and signed by all
employees.
HOURS OF LABOUR.
' All imderpround wages shall be computed from the time of entry at the surface
of tlie mine to the time of return to the surface of the mine, based upon the eight
(8) hour bank to bank shift.
I.ILLE COLLIERIES.
' A contract price to be agreed upon for the seams at present being worked at
nilc'
Tho Wfslerii Coal Operators' Association, above mentioned, state in reply to the
application 'made herein as follows: —
' 1. That a strike exists at the following named collieries, viz. : Bankhead Mines,
Tyiuiited, The E. W- McNeill Company, Limited; Coal Department of the Alberta
Railway and Irrigation Company; Royal Collieries, Limited; the Leitch Collieries,
J.imited; the Ilillcrest Coal and Coke Company, Limited; the West Canadian Collie-
ries, Limited; the International Coal and Coke Company, Limited, and the Hosmer
Mines, Limited, and the employers at said collieries are members of the Western Coal
Operators' Association.
• 2. The applicants have caused the said strike to be declared at each of the said
collieries named, and the Board should inquire into the dispute existing at each and
nil of said collieries.
' 3. That the discontinuance of operations at the said collieries is the result of a
strike ordered by the president and secretary of District No. 18 of the United Mine
Workers of America, contrary to the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Investi-
gation Act, 1907.
' 4. That the demands of the applicants as shown on page 1 of said application is
unfair and should not be allowed, and in lieu of the said demands the following
should be adopted: —
' It is Hereby Agreed, between the Western i~'oal Operators' Association (con-
sisting of Banlvhead Mines, Limited; the H. W. McNeill Company, Limited; Coal
Department of the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company; Royal Collieries,
Limited; the Leitch Collieries, Limited; the Hillcrest Coal and Coke Company,
Limited; the West Canadian Collieries, Limited; the International Coal and Coke
Company, Limited, and the Hosmer Mines, Limited), of the one part, and the em-
ployees of the said Companies, as represented by the United Mine Workers of America,
District No. 18, of the other part, that the following agreement, respecting general
provisions and scale of contract prices and wages, shall govern the parties hereto for
the period ending March 31, 1912, it being understood and agreed that the parties
thereto will meet in conference thirty days prior to the expiration of this agreement,
to discuss a renewal thereof.
' 5. That the agreement made between the parties hereto at the conference hcM
in March, 1909, sholflrl be adopted, with the exception of the modifications following:
(a) The check-off clause should be struck out.
(h) After the twenty-fifth word in the discriinination clause the words ' or inter-
ference with ' should be inserted.
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(c) In the schedule relating to outside and inside vrages the clause in regard to
minimum and higher wages should be omitted.
(d) There should be a differential on all pillars and a reduction on some of the
contract rates in the previous agreement.
(e) A blacksmith charge of fifty cents per month per miner, and a uniform rate
of $2.50 per ton for run of mine coal, and $3 for screened coal delivered to employees
residing at the mines.
(/) Ko check-oS clause or deductions shall be allowed other than as provided
for by the laws of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.'
You will note the chief dispute between the parties is the matter of the preamble
and check-off clause, the miners contending that the preamble and check-off submitted
by them would constitute a legal and binding agreement, the operators replying that
it would not improve the legal aspects of the agreements heretofore existing, and that
its only effect was the establishment of a ' closed shop ' to which they could not agree.
The matters relating to hours of labour, contract prices at Lille and differential on
pillars hajve arisen since the cessation of work, and their existence is due largely to
the friction now existing between the parties.
Taking up the questions as they appear in the reference and in the reply, I am of
the opinion that the Board's award in respect of the several matters should be : —
1. That the preamble submitted by the applicants does not improve the legal and
binding aspects of the preamble used in the old agreement, nor should the preamble
submitted by the operators be adopted, but, on the other hand, the preamble which is
set out in the agreement hereafter recommended should be adopted.
2. Check-off clause.— The applicants are undoubtedly entitled to a check-off
clause in their agreement, but the check-off clause submitted by them being incon-
sistent with the laws in force in British Columbia and Alberta should not be accepted,
and the check-off clause of the old agreements should be continued, the same being
>ihown in the agreement above referred to.
3. Hours of labour. — After hearing the evidence on this question, it is quite
apparent to the Board and to the parties that no grievance existed between them on
this question, but that by reason of a misunderstanding between them, this demand
was made; moreover, the matter being governed by the statutes in force in British
Columbia and Alberta, the Board has no jurisdiction to deal with the same.
4. LiLLiE coLLLERiES. — The applicants demanded at these collieries that a contract
price be fixed on what is known as ' iJi :ir \allcv Xo. 1 seam,' and the Company ob-
jected to grant a new rate on the ground that this seam is the original Lille No. 1
seam already under contract rates, and that by reason of a fault they were obliged to
work this seam under the rates applicable to abnormal conditions. From personal
inspection of the mine and the evidence adduced, the Board is of the opinion that the
contention of the operators as to the identity of the Beam is correct, but, on the other
hand, recommends that there should be some consideration given to the miners for
the extra timbering required.
5. Differential on pillars. — The Board is also of the opinion that the system of
paying for timber in the pillars at Coleman and Hillerest mines constitutes a griev-
ance on the part of the Companies, and in view of the fact that the evidence discloses
that differential on pillars should exist in all pitching seams, the Board recommends
that thi.s matter together with the demand relating to differential on pillars at Bcllc-
vue be referred to the special committee.
6. Other demands. — The demands relating to blacksmith charge and price of
coal at mines being trivial, the Board cannot recommend any variance from the Mac-
leod agreement, to which each party ha.s committed itself.
Y. DisCRiMrNATiON. — The Board says in regard to the matter of discrimination
that having heard the evidence submitted by the applicants to the effect that some
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managers discriminated between non-union and union men, and that union men have
discriminated against non-union men, and being satisfied that such evidence is correct,
the Board is of the opinion that a discrimination clause should be embodied in the
agreement to be made between the parties.
Unfortunately one of the members of the Board, who has a practical knowledge
of mining, is ill and unable to discuss and advise with me, therefore, I hesitate to
fix any definite award in regard to the Lille, Bellovue, Hillcrest and Coleman mines,
but in lieu thereof recommend the same to the consideration of the special committee
as provided for in the agreement hereafter written, and recommend also that it be
embodied in the agreement that the special committee meet at the earliest possible
moment.
Having in mind the agreements which existed between the parties prior to the
Ist day of April, 1909, and the Macleod agreement, which was approved of on a ref-
erendum vote, I have compiled an agreement based on these agreements, which I
would recommend to the parties for acceptance, subject to the findings of the special
committee in regard to the Bellevue, Hillcrest, Coleman and Lille mines, which, when
made, should constitute a part of the said agreement.
The agreement referred to is as follows: —
Agreement between the Western Coal Operators, Association (consisting of Bank-
head Mines, Limited, the H. W. McNeill Co., Limited, Coal Department of the Al-
Alberta Eailway and Irrigation Company; Royal CoUieriea, Limited; the Leitch Col-
lieries, Limited ; the Hillcrest Coal and Coke Company, Limited ; the West Canadian
Collieries, Limited; the International Coal and Coke Company, Limited; the Hosmer
Mines, Limited, of the one part and the employees of the said Companies as represented
by the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 18, of the other part, 'with
respect to prices to be paid at the several collieries, and with respect to other matters
governing the relations between the said parties : —
Outside wages. — The outside scale of wages, which governed the parties hereto
on March 31, 1909, shall continue in effect during the life of this agreement.
Inside wages. — The inside scale of wages, which governed the parties hereto on
March 31, 1909, shall continue in effect during the life of this agreement, with the
following exceptions: Machinemen are to be rated at $3.50 per shift, and machine
helpers at $3 per shift, and schedule ' D ' of the agreement expiring March 31, 1909,
is annulled.
Contract prices. — The scale of contract prices which governed the parties hereto
on March 31, 1909, shall continue in effect during the life of this agreement, in so
far as the same are not modified or affected by the provisions herein.
It is expressly agreed between the parties hereto that the matter of the timber
grievance in No. 1 seam at Lille mine, timbering in the pillars at Hillcrest and Coleman
mines and a differential on pillars at Hillcrest, Bellevue and Coleman mines, shall
be referred to a special committee, said committee to consist of five members, two
appointed by the president or vice-president of District No. 18, United Mine Workers
of America, and two appointed by the president of the Western Coal Operators' As-
sociation, at the time of the signing of this agreement, the fifth member to be ap-
pointed immediately by the Minister of Labour. The committee thus constituted
shall take up the matters referred to and render a decision on the same within ten
days, this decision to be binding on the parties and become part of this agreement,
and to take effect from the date hereof.
Management of mine. — The right to hire and discharge, the management of the
mine, and the direction of the working forces are vested exclusively in the Company,
and the United Mine Workers of America shall not abridge this right.
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Duties of pit committee. — The Pit Committee shall be a committee of three in
each colliery, or other plant covered by this agreement, selected by the employees
working at such colliery or other plant from amongst their own number, except one
member may be a checkweighman or an officer of the local union, not necessarily an
employee of the Company. This member must previously have been selected as check-
weighman or officer from amongst the employees of the aforesaid colliery or other
plant ; due notice of such selection properlj' certified shall be given to the Company.
The duties of the Pit Committee shall be confined to the settlement of disputes
between the pit boss or foreman, and any employee working in or around the mine,
arising out of this agreement, and all agreements madte in connection therewith, the
pit boss or foreman, and man or men having failed to agree.
The Pit Committee in discharge of its duties, shall under no circumstances go
around the mine for any cause whatever, unless called upon by the pit boss or fore-
man, or by a miner or day man, who may have a grievance which he has first tried to
and cannot settle with the boss.
Members of the Pit Committee employed as day men shall not leave their places
of duty during working hours, except by permission of the pit boss or foreman, or
in cases involving the stoppage of the mine.
SETTLEMENT OF LOCAL .A.ND GENERAL DISPUTES.
A. — In case any dispute or grievances arise under this agreement, or any local
agreement made in connection therewith, whether the dispute or grievance is claimed
to have arisen by the Company or any person or persons employed or by the men as
a whole, then the parties shall endeavour to settle the matter a.s hereinafter provided.
But before any grievance or disputes shall be submitted to the Pit Committee, the
person or persons afiected shall endeavour by x)ersonal application to the pit boss,
overman or foreman in charge of the work where the dispute arises to settle the
matter, and in the event of their agreeing their decision shall be final.
B. — In ease of any local dispute arising in any mine and failure to agree between
the pit boss, overman or foreman in charge of the work where the dispute arises, and
any employee, the Pit Committee and mine superintendent, or mine manager, shall
endeavour to settle the matter, and if they agree their decision shall be final.
C. — In the event of the failure of the Pit Committee and the mine superintendent
or mi^e manager to settle any dispute so referred to them, as well as in the event of
other disputes arising, the matter in dispute shall be referred to the general super-
intendent or general manager of the Company and the officers of District No. 18,
United Mine Workers of America, to settle, and if they agree their decision shall be
final. Should they fail to agree it shall be referred to a joint committee, said com-
mittee to be made up of three operators appointed by the Western Coal Operators'
Association and three miners appointed by District 18, United Mine Workers of
America, for settlement. If they agree, their decision shall be binding upon both
parties. A majority of a full committee must vote in favour of any action before it
can be declared carried.
In the event of a failure to agree, the committee shall endeavour to select an
independent chairman, and failing to agree upon an independent chairman the Min-
ister of Labour shall be asked to appoint such chairman, the decision of the commit-
tee thus constituted shall be binding on both parties.
The joint committee shall meet every three months on the second Tuesday or at
any time on the joint call of the president of the Western Coal Operators' Association
and the president of District 18, United Mine Workers of America.
D. — In the meantime, and in all cases while disputes are being investigated and
settled, the miners, mine-labourers and all other parties involved must continue to
work pending investigation, and until final decision has been reached, but where
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miners, mine labourer or mine labourers has or have been discharged by the Company
he or they shall not remain in the employ of the Company while his or their case is
being investigated and settled. If a claim be made within five days where a man or
men has or have been unjustly discharged the ease shall be dealt with according to
this article, and if it is proven that he or they have been unjustly dealt with he or
they shall be reinstated. If claim is made for compensation for loss of time in cases
where reinstatement has followed, it shall be left to the joint committee to decide
what amount, if any, is to be paid.
E. — Any breach of this agreement by any of the parties hereto is not to void the
said agreement, but the same is to continue in full force and effect. It is not in-
tended, however, by this subsection to abridge the right of a man to suspend work
after the final settlement as herein provided, if any operator or operators refuse to
be bound by any decision given against them under this article.
New work. — Whenever any new work arises, the price for which has not been
provided for in this agrement, on the request of the Company or the miners, the
joint committee of the Western Coal Operators' Association and Distrct No. 18 of
the United Mine Workers of America shall meet within thirty days after the said
request and arrange a price. Meantime and until such price has been arranged all
men shall be paid upon the day wage scale.
Employees not under jurisdiction. — The following employees are not under the
jurisdiction of the United Mine Workers of America, mine manager or superintendent,
overman or pit boss, or assistant overman or pit bosses, fire bosses, boss driver, stable
boss, master mechanic, electricians, weighmen, head carpenter, tipple or breaker ^fore-
man, loader boss, night watchman, coke oven foreman, outside foreman and all other
foremen, time keepers, coal inspectors and head lampmen.
Construction and extensive repairs. — It is agreed that all men working on im-
provements and extensive repairs are not included in the jurisdiction of the United
Mine Workers of America. The erection of head frames, tipples, breakers, washers,
buildings, coke ovens, scales machinery, railroad tracks, switches, &c., necessary for
the completion of the plant all being in the nature of construction work and extensive
repairs or rebuilding of the same class of work are to be considered as improvements
and extensive repairs, and the employees there are to be excluded as above when
employed on such work only.
Check-off. — The Company will give to the United Mine Workers of America
full recognition and concede the check-off system ; that is to say, upon the individual
request in writing of any of the Company's employees the Company shall deduct
such moneys from their wages each month as are designated for dues, assessments,
fines and initiation fees, in other words, the Company will retain from the wages
due employees any sums they may have given orders upon the Company for in writing
payable to such ofiieers of the United Mine Workers of America as may be designated
in such orders.
DiscRiiiiNATiON.— No person shall be refused employment or in any way discrim-
inated against on account of membership in labour organizations, and there shall be
no discrimination against any employee who is not a member of a labour organiza-
tion by members of such an organization.
Penalty for absence from work. — When an employee absents himself from his
work for a period of two days unless through sickness or by first having properly
arranged with the pit boss or foreman and obtained his consent, he may be discharged.
All employees whose absence would cause any stoppage of work must, before absent-
ing themselves, properly arrange with or notify the pit boss or foreman of their
absence, otherwise they may be discharged. Any employee who habitually to the ex-
tent of five days per month absents himself from work may be discharged.
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Pesaltv for stoppage of work. — If any employee or employees shall cause a
stoppage of work in violation of this agreement, he or they shall be subject to dis-
charge by the Company without recourse.
Check weighmax. — The Company will grant the riglit to the miners to employ
check-weighers, and will grant the said check-weighers every facility to enable them
to render a correct account of all coal weighed and will allow the cars to be tareil fnmi
time to time, and the machine to be properly tested from time to time and will de-
duct from the wages of all contract miners such amounts as may be designated from
time to time, and -will pay over the same to the secretary of the local union for waL-^es
of check-weighers.
Preference of kmpi.oy.mkxt.— In case an employee is thrown out of cniploymi nt,
unless discharged, he shall be given preference over now men in other mines in the
same camp operated by the same Company.
MiNlMlM RATE. — When a miner's working place becomes drticient owing to any
abnormal conditions preventing him from earning the minimum wage of ■$:? per
shift, and should the Company desire to continue to work such place or places,
the mine manager and Pit Committee shall examine said place or places and agree
upon a rate to be paid a miner for such deficient work. Failing to agree upon such
rate the place if worked .shall be worked on the day wage scale per miner.
Mi-VERS TAKEN TO DO COMPANY WORK. — The Company shall pay the sum of $3 pei
day for all miners taken from contract work to do Company work.
Dki.iveuv of timber. — In accordance with the Coal Mines Regulation Act of
British Columbia and Alberta the Company shall irt all times deliver an adequate
supply of suitable timber, rails, ties and sheet iron at the nearest cross-cut to the face
of all raise workings, and in i)laces where the regular pit cars go the working face
without being handled b.v the miner; they shall be delivered on the curs at the working
face; in other places across pitch, the timber, rails, tics, planks and sheet iron shall
he delivered at the mouth of the room.
LoAuiNO OF COAL FROM CHUTES. — In pitching scams where chutes are used the
Company will handle all coal placed in chutes b.y the miners.
Doctor and hospital. — The matter of doctor and hospital arrnngenients is to be
arranged between the employees and the management, and when so arranged the Com-
pany agrees to make collections for that purpose. This is subject in British Columbia
to the laws of the province.
In camps where doctor and hospital arrangements have already been niiidc and
itro satisfactory, the customs prevailing in such camps shall continue.
The joint committee shall at their first meeting provide rules for the mode of
procedure for the making of arrangements between the employees and the manager.
Store. — It shall be understood and agreed that the employees shall be ni perfect
liberty to purchase goods wherever the.v may choose to do so.
Holidays. — The following days only shall be observed as holidays: — New Year's
Day, Victoria Day, Dominion Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Da.v, District and In-
ternational Election Da.y, Christmas Day.
FcNERALS. — In the event of an instantaneous death by an accident in the mine
or outside the mine, the miners underground and all other employees except in the
seam where the accident occurred shall continue to work until the day of the funeral
when it is optional with them whether they shall work or not.
Backhands. — The present practice of working miners cither as partners or with
miners and labourers as it exists in the several camps at the present time, shall be
adhered to.
With the following provisions, that the clauses in regard to the same in the agree-
ments expiring March 31, 1909, shall remain in effect.
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On all Company work the Company shall employ such class of men as the work
requires, and at the rates of wages provided for in this agreement.
Subcontracting. — No subcontracting shall be allowed in any mine operated by
the Company, but this shall not apply to tho employment of backhands.
Employees to care for mine. — In case of either local or general suspension of
mine, either at the expiration of this contract or otherwise, the engineers, firemen and
pumpmen shall not suspend work, but shall, when mining is suspended, fully protect
all the Company's property under their care and operate fans and pumps and lower
and hoist such men and supplies as may be required to protect the Company's property,
and any and all coal required to keep up steam at the Company's coal plant, but it is
understood and agreed that the Companies will not ask them to hoist any coal for
sale on the market.
Single shift. — The single shift system in rooms and pillars shall be adhered to
as far as practicable.
Wet places. — The working place in the mine where water drips from the roof
in quantities sufficient to wet a man's clothing or where standing water is sufficient
to wet a man's clothing above his knees shall be considered a wet place ; a ijlace where
the use of gum-boots will keep a man's feet dry shall not be considered a wet place.
EocK miners. — Where a man is continually engaged en rock work where hammer
and steel are used, he shall be considered as a rock miner and paid a rock miner's
wages.
If an air drill is used, the driller shall be paid machine wages, and the helper
machine runners helpers' wages; the other men engaged shall be classed as miners or
labourers as may be.
Where a man is engaged on work in both rock and coal, if the amount of rock
is greater than the amount of coal he shall be classed as a rock miner, and where the
amount of coal is greater than the amount of rock he shall be classed as a coal miner.
Brushing. — ^Where a man is engaged in continuous brushing either top or bot-
tom using the usual drills and tools, he shall be classed as a coal miner ; if the brush-
ing is done by hammer and steel he shall be classed as a rock miner.
Timbermen taking out rock while engaged in retimbering or repairing shall not
be classed as rock miners.
BFTiKEMENT.^Where any employee has drawn his time before the regular pay
day he thereby severs his connection with the Company, and any alleged grievance
he may have ceases to be a question for consideration under this agreement.
Chinese labour.— The United Mine Workers of America does not in any way
prohibit the employment of Chinese in or around the mines, but where such labour
is employed they shall be paid the scale for such work with the following provisions;
that is, that where they are now emploj'ed at Bankhead and Canmore the present rates
shall not be interfered with in any way by the United Mine Workers of America dur-
ing the life of this agreement.
Oil. — Present conditions to prevail.
Pay day. — The Companies will continue to pay the regular pay rolls according to
the present customs at the several mines. Statements to be issued two days before
pay day.
Any employee desiring to leave the service of the Company shall on his request
be paid all moneys due him within two days after his stoppage of work.
Market restrictions. — It is agreed that District No. 18, United Mine Workers of
America, will not in any way restrict or interfere with the marketing of coal or coke
to any person, firm or corporation.
Local conditions. — The same as those existing at the several mines previous to
the 31st day of March, 1000.
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This agreement shall govern the parties hereto for the period ending Jlarch 31,
1912, and it is understood and agreed that the parties hereto shall meet in conference
thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of this agreement to discuss a renewal thereof.
Hoping that this recommendation may be acceptable to you and the parties con-
cerned in the dispute.
I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Colin MacLeod,
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X.— APPLICATION FROM EMPLOYEES OF THE CUMBERLAND RAILWAY
AND COAL COMPANY, SPRINGHILL, N.S., MEMBERS OF THE UNITED
MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA— BOARD ESTABLISHED— EM-
PLOYEES CEASED WORK.
Application received. — May 10, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Ciunberland Eailway aud Coal Company, Springhill, N.S.,
and employees.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Wages, conditions of labour, and demand for recognition of
the United Mine Workers of America.
Number of employees affected. — 1,550.
Date of constitution of Board. — June 5, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Honourable Mr. Justice J. W. Longley, Halifax, N.S.,
Chairman, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation
from the other members of the Board; Mr. Chas. Archibald, Halifa.x, N.S., appointed
by the Minister in the absence of any recommendation from the employing Com-
pany; and Mr. E. B. Paul, M.P.P., Springliill, N.S., appointed on the recommenda-
tion of the employees.
Report received. — July 23, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — The Board's findings were not accepted by the employees,
and strike was declared by them on August 9, 1909, which resulted in the closing down
of the Company's mines until early in the month of March, 1910, when operations
were resumed on a limited scale. A number of the Company's former employees still
remained on strike at the end of the month of March.
The Minister received, on July 2.3, the report of the Board of Conciliation and
Investigation, to which was referred for adjustment the differences between the
Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, Limited, and certain of its employees,
members of Local Union No. 469 of the United Mine Workers of America. The
Board was composed of the Honourable Mr. Justice Longley, Judge of the isupreme
Court of N^ova Scotia ; Mr. Charles Archibald, Halifax, appointed for the Company,
and Mr. E. B. Paul, M.P.P., appointed for the employees. Mr. Archibald was
appointed by the Minister in the absence of a recommendation from the Company.
The first meeting of the Board was held on June 22, at Springhill, N.S. The
employees were represented by Messrs. Seaman Terris, D. C. Matheson and Charles
Betts. The Company was represented by Messrs. D. Stewart. as.sistant general man-
ager; W. D. Mathews, assistant manager, and C. J. Alboom, official measurer.
The employees concerned being unwilling to abide by the findings of the Board
in this matter, a strike was declared on August 9, which resulted in the closing down
of the Company's mines. Oi)erations were resumed on a limited scale early in the
month of March, 1910, but a considerable number of the Company's former employees
still remained on strike at that time.
The report of the Board was signed by the three members of the Board, but was
accompanied by a foot note signed by Mr. Paul individually, modifying in some
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degree his acquiescence in the findings. The specific demauds contained in the
application for tlie Board in this matter were as iollows, viz.: —
1. Recognition of the union.
2. To determine the standard WL-ight of a box of coal for the piirpo.se of forming
a basis from which the rate per ton shall be arrived at.
3. To establish a schedule of prices for all classes of work in and about the mines.
4. To establisii a docking system.
The Board remarked, ' while these are the special and specific matters which are
to be considered and adjudicated upon by the iioard, the circumstances surrounding
the whole inquiry seem to require a general statement in order that the position
should be fairly understood.'
The Board thereupon recited the circumstances under which three separate Boards
of Conciliation and Investigation had been ap^Dointed during the last two years to
inquire into disputes between this Company and its employees and enumerated the
leading features of the different investigations, dwelling particularly upon the strike
of thirteen weeks which occurred in the autumn of 1907, and which was brought to
a termination only by the acceptance on the part ot the men of the findings of the
Board of Conciliation first established to adjust the differences between the Company
and its emploj'ees.
Taking up first the question of the recognition of the union, the Board recited
the circumstances and sets forth the arguments used by the respective sides to sustain
their positions in the negotiations that had taken place.
RECOGNITIO.X OF U. M. W. A.
It was claimed before the Board by the employees that they have a perfect right
to choose for themselves what form of organization they should adopt, and that the
constitution and methods of the United Mine Workers were more advantageous to
them than association with the Provincial Workmen's Association.
The Company, on its part, stated that it was prepared to receive individuals or
committees of the employees on all matters pertaining to employment, and that no
nnin or men had been refused a hearing by the Board of Management unless he or
they came as a committee from the local union of Mine Workers. The Company con-
tended that it should not be required to help support what is regarded as a foreign
labour organization, the main body of whose members are working, it says, to pro-
duce coal to supplant the Nova Scotia product in Canadian markets; that determined
efforts were already being made by American operators to capture the St. Lawrence
trade from the Nova Scotia producers; that the cost of producing coal in the United
States was only one-third of the cost of putting coal f.o.b car.s in the deep mines of
the mainland of Nova Scotia ; that if this invasion continues Nova Scotia operators
would either have to close down or reduce the cost of production. Objection was
taken by the Company to the Constitution of the U. M. W., and it was ' claimed that
the P. W. A. is under the legislative control of the Province, while the U. M. W. as
a body had neither standing nor property in Canada and are not under legislative
control.'
The Board declared that whilst recognition of the IJ. M. W. by this Company
might at the moment remove one source of friction between the parties it was by no
means clear to the Board 'that any right exists on the part of the Department of
Labour to enforce upon any Company operating a mine or any other industrial enter-
prise, a compulsion to give official recognition to any labour organization formed
among its employees.' It did not appear to the Board that recognition of labour
organizations is by any means a universal rule in such cases. The Board added that
' certain large employers of labour have refused and continue to refuse to recognize
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aijy labour organization, and transact their business with individvial employees or
committees representing them. In the present instance the Board consider that it
ought to be left to the judgment and discretion of the Comijany as to how far it will
officially recognize an organization having its central authority outside the province
and largely under the control of interests that may be at some time in acute com-
petition with the interests of the Company.'
With reference to the second point of the reference to the Board regarding the
method of determining the standard weight of a box of coal the Board advised that
' Section 22 of Chapter 8 of the Nova Scotia Acts of 1908 provides a method by which
any existing system of weighing can be changed or modified by arbitration and this
Act is enforceable by penalties. It seems clear to your Board that this constitutes a
nmch more effective method of remedying any grievance than any mere empty recom-
mendation of a Conciliation Board.'
On the question of the employees' claim for a schedule of rates the Board fouiul
that counsel for the employees was not disposed to press this branch of their claim ' in-
asmuch as it had already been dealt with by the Board presided over by Judge Pat-
trrs^iin." The Board was not disposed to differ from the general proposition that a
schedule of rates when practicable is eminently desirable, but ' nothing,' it asserted,
' is clearer than that the Comjjany is not now in a position to admit of any increase
whatever in the cost of production.'
The Board did not think that the docking system is at present working unfairly
or resulting in any palpable injustice to the miners. In some few secfious of the
m'ne owing to the character of the chutes, the Board said it is possible that the sys-
tem now in vogue may in some instances work injustice. The most effective remedy,
in the judgment of the Board, would be for the miners in those special districts to as-
sume the care of the chutes through which they work. The Board recognized tlint
it would be extremely difficult to apply to the whole mine the system of fines or dock-
ing, which would only be specially applicable to certain parts of the mine and not
applicable to all. Instead of the present system the Board recommended ' that when
a box contains 50 lbs. of stone, and not exceeding 75 lbs., a fine of 500 lbs. of coal
be imposed. When it contains 75 lbs., and not exceeding 100 lbs., a fine of 1,000 lbs.
of coal be imposed. When a box contains 100 lbs. or more of stone the box would be
docked.'
coiip.\ny's statement.
During the inquiry the Company sublnitted a statement relating to its operations
(luring a number of years past, which the Board considered of sufficient importance
to embody in fidl in the report. This statement covers many pages and contains many
important statistical calculations. The statement is headed ' Losses in Operation,'
and is intended to show, as the ojwning paragraph indicates, ' that the Company can-
nut continue to operate under conditions which have prevailed for the past three
years and four months is manifest from the statements which are herewith sub-
mitted.'
In the Company's statement it was claimed that deficits on its operations since
1000 amounted in the aggregate to $299,090.17. The statement also sets forth the
cost of fhe coal, the selling price and the difference between the same respectively
since 1906. For the year 1909 (four months) the cost of coal is herein given as $2.95
and the selling price $2.50 per ton, being a net loss of 39 cents. ' There is no other
operation in Nova Scotia,' the Company observes, ' where the cost of production is
Vv'ithin 50 to 95 cents per ton of the foregoing figures, and it is plain that this Com-
pany is handicapped to such an extent with an abnormally high cost of mining and
comparably low average selling price that to carry on in this untenable position will
quickly result in disaster. There is no hope for the property under these adverse
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terms.' The statement also enumerates various accidents and other occurrences as
being among its experiences during the past twenty years. ' Add to these disasters,'
comments the Company, '22 strikes, and it must be admitted that in mining each
year there are contingencies to provide for, the expense of which cannot be avoided.
The contingent account in mining is never closed.'
The Board found that the accuracy of the figures given in this statement was
no't seriously called into question by counsel for the employees, and that inaeed it is
not likely that they are open to question. The leading purpose, it said, of the cross-
examination by counsel for the employees was to show, if possible, that some of the
losses in the operation of the mine were due to defects in management, but in the
judgment of the Board not much that was definite in this regard was elicited, but
even if this were so, it would not in the Board's view diminish in the slightest degree
the gravity of the situation. ' Springhill is a town of some 6,000 or 7,000 people, wliicn
has been brought into existence almost entirely as the result of the mining operations
of this Company and its predecessor. The closing of these mines would mean very
largely destruction of valuation at Springhill and a great depopulation of the town.
It would mean also a serious loss to the provincial revenues. Operations in this
mine cannot be carried on as economically as in most of the mines in Cape Breton
or even those on the mainland.
' Under these circumsances it seems to your Board unreasonable and .impractic-
able that the employees should ask or expect higher rates of remuneration under ex-
isting conditions. The price of coal has fallen in large and important contracts as
compared with last year when a net loss resulted. The figures for five months of the
present year indicate that the loss for 1908 is likely to be very much greater.
' Under these circumstances, your Board cannot help recognizing that the only
rational policy to be pursued by all parties concerned is one of conciliation and fore-
fcearance in order that this large and important industry may not be compelled to
cease operations with most far-reaching and disastrous consequences to all, includ-
ing the business men of the town. Heavy losses have been already entailed by twenty-
two strikes which have exhausted the energies and wasted the resources of the Com-
pany. In the judgment of the Board, the present is not a time to agitate for changes,
but rather a time a common effort should be made to improve the situation and
secure the permanence of industry.'
In what the Board described as a careful review of the whole situation and all
the surrounding circumstances attending the history of the mine during the past
twenty-six years during which it has been under the control of the present Company,
the Board expressed the view that it might tend to allay long-standing friction and
secure a better state of feeling between the Company and the employees if a change
could be made in the methods of management.
MANAGEMENT OF COMPANY.
' Your Board saw tokens during the somewhat lengthy investigation of the mat-
ters in dispute that unpleasant feelings, if not distinct hostility, existe(l between a
large number of employees and the management. It would perhaps be invidious to
attempt to place the responsibility for this, but the Board feel it their duty to bring
this state of afEairs to the attention of the directors of the Company in a formal
manner by means of this report.
' This Board recommends the directors to make a careful investigation into this
unpleasant feature of existing relations with the hope that they may be able to adopt
such a policy or make such changes as will prevent the possibility of these unfortunate
conditions prevailing in the future.
'Your Board, altho\igh conscious of having endeavoured to give their best con-
sideration to all matters touching the welfare of both the Company and its employees.
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are yet painfully sensible that small results are likely to flow from any immediate
recommendations they make, unless, indeed, it shall result in such a change in exist-
ing conditions as will obliterate the unfortunate consequences of long-standing differ-
ences.'
NOTE BY MR. E. B. PAUL.
The foot note appended to the report and signed by Mr. E. B. Paul is as follows :
' With most of the facts stated in the above I concur, but in respect of some of
the recommendations made, I feel compelled to dissent.
' 1st. I think the recognition of local union No. 469 by the Company would result
in allaying friction and tend generally to a better understanding between the man-
agement and the employees. .1 think the employees should have the right to organize
under any conditions and regulations which suit them best. So long as such organi-
zation contains no provisions or obligations which conflict with our laws, provincial
or general. ' '
2nd and 3rd. I am not disposed to disagree with the recommendations in respect
of these two items submitted to the Boai'd. I believe in a schedule of rates, and
that operations would be carried on more smoothly and satisfactorily if such were
in operation at Springhill, as well as other coal mines in Nova Scotia, though I do
not moan by this that higher rates should be imposed than are at present paid.'
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows. —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes) Investigation Act and of the Cumberland
Railway and Coal Company, Limited, employer, and certain employees, mem-
bers of Local Union No. -169 of the United Mine Workers of America, employees.
The Board composed of Mr. E. B. Paul, jil.P.P., representing the employees;
Mr. Charles Archibald, appointed by the Minister to represent the Company, and Mr.
Justice Longley, Chairman, met pursuant to notice at Springhill on the 22nd day of
June, 1909.
The employees. Local Union No. 469, U.M.W., were represented by three men.
Seamen Terris, D. C. Matheson and Chesley Betts.
The Company was represented by D. Stewart, assistant general manager ; D. D.
Mathews, assistant manager, and C. J. Allbon, omcial measurer.
The usual course was taken of suggesting an amicable adjustment of the difii-
culties between the parties concerned, but this proved entirely hopeless, the repre-
sentatives of the Company stating that they were not prepared to accept in any form,
any of the propositions propounded by the employees in their application for con-
ciliation.
In making application for this Board of Conciliation four specific demands were
made, as follows : —
1. Recognition of the union.
2. To determine the standard weight of a box of coal for the purpose of forming
a basis from which the rate per ton shall be arrived at.
3. To establish a schedule of prices for all classes of work in and about the mines.
4. To establish a docking system.
While there are the special and specific matters which are to be considered and
adjudicated upon by the Board, the circumstances surrounding the whole inquiry
seem to require a general statement in order that the position should be fairly under-
stood.
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Within tlie past two years three Boards of Conciliation have previously heeu
appointed to make and have made inve^^tigations as to the difficulties between this
Company and their employees, and issues involved in some of the matters now suh-
mitted for our consideration have already been more or less investigated and reported
upon by previous Boards, but under circumstances somewhat diflering from those
now existing. In the ease of the Board of which Mr. Justice Graham was Chairman
which held inquiries in May and July, 1907, the parties appeared before the Com-
mission without counsel and consequently without that searching and complete
inquiry which coidd be reached when experienced advocates were employed to prove
matters fully. Subsequent to the report made by Mr. Justice Graham and his asso-
ciates, a long strike took place, continuing for thirteen weeks until October, 1907. .
During the progress of the strike a Board of Conciliation consisting of Judge
Patterson, Mr. P. S. Archibald and Mr. K. R. Murray was appointed, and after
making some progress the Company declined to go on with the matter, on account
of the continuance of the strike, and Mr. Archibald withdrew from the Board. Thi'
strike, as far as this Board has been able to gather, resulted in failure on the part of
the strikers, and they resumed work, and immediately after the Company issued a
general order by the general manager on or auout the 20th of October, in the follow-
ing terms: —
' The men may resume work on the distinct understanding that they must abid(>
by the award of the Board of Conciliation and that there cannot be any increases in
wages in the district covered by the award now or later. The president and directors
of this Company are firm in their determination, as they have been, all along, that
the men must return under exactly the same terms and conditions as existing 'wlieii
they quit on the 31st of July against the ruling of the Board of Conciliation. 'Vhv
Company cannot afford to make, and will not make, advances on; the abnormally high
rates now being paid. The cost of production must not be increased. Let this bo
plainly understood, and the men can go back to work.'
Shortly after resuming work on November 21, 1907. the employees applied for a
further Board of Conciliation and Investigation to adjust diiferences between the
Company and their employees. Judge Patterson, Mr. Hiram Donkin and Mr. I\. P.
Murray constituting such a Board, which met on the 8th of January and heard
evidence and reported on the 18th of January. On this occasion, the Company was
wholly unrepresented, and did not appear before the Board, and a report was sent in
by the Board basetl entirely upon such evidence and representations as were submittod
by the employees.
When this Board met on the 22nd of June no counsel appeared ns has been
already represented, and the employees had declined up to that time to have counsel
heard. But after spending some hours in presenting their case and finding the Com-
pany present and prepared to go into all matters now submitted for consideration,
the representatives of the employees concluded that it would be necessar,y to have cotm-
sel in order to properly submit their case, and an adjournment was asked in order
that counsel might be obtained and instructed. On meeting again on the morning
of the 23rd., Mr. C. R. Smith, K.C., of Amherst, appeared on behalf of the employees,
and a.sked for a further adjournment of one week in order that he might have ample
opportunit.y to prepare himself for the due and effective presentation of the case on
behalf of the employees. Mr. II. Mclnnis, K.C, of Halifax, api)earcd then as co\inpel
for the Company, and agreed to this proposition of adjournment. The Board ac-
cordingly adjourned until Thursday, the 1st day of Jul.y, when it resumed meeting at
2 o'clock p.m. The whole case was then thoroughly submitted in ample form. Wit-
nesses were produced on both sides and subjected to thorough cross-examination, and
this Board is of the opinion that tlie matters in dispute between the employer and
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eniploj-ees, some of which are of long standing, have been more completely and satis-
factorily probed than on any of the previous occasions.
(1) Recognition of the U. M. \V. of A.
The first matter to which the Board had iU attwitiou directed was a demand on
behalf of Local Union No. 469 to receive recognition by the Company as a labour
organization embracing the greater number of its employees. The circumstances
as submitted to the Board are as follows : Since 1879, Pioneer Lodge of the Provincial
Workmen's Association has been in existence at Springhill. Some intimation was
made in the course of the evidence that for a period of a year or two this lodge was
not in regularly organized existence but practically for thirty years this was the
recognized labour union at the mines. Subsequently Mechanics' Lodge was also
organized at Springhill under the auspices of the P. W. A., and the two lodges con-
taining different classes of men were the recognized labour unions in connection with
this mine. The organizations were officially recognized by the Cumberland Railway and
Coal Company practically during all the period in which the Company has been
operating the mine, for twenty-six years.
In the last days of 1908 the Pioneer and Mechanics' Lodges ceased to exist.
By a referendum vote it was determined by a large majority to cease to work
under the P. W. A. and to affiliate with the L'nited Mine Workers of America, and
immediately after Local Union No. 469 was organized, and so far as the 'evidence
goes it already embraces 1,000 or 1,200 of the employees of the mines. Upon its
formation official notification was sent to the general manager of the C. K. & C. Com-
liiiny announcing the dissolution of Pioneer and Mechanics' Lodges and the fornia-
tiun of Local Union No. 469, U. il. W., and demanding recognition.
On the 15th of January, 1909, the general manager in reply intimated that he
was advised that litigation has been begim at Sydney by the Grand Council of the
P. W. A. in reference to the affairs of Pioneer Lodge, and imtil advised as to the
result of the litigation the Company merely acknowledged the receipt of their com-
munication.
In April, 1908, the local union made a long representation to the general manager
of the Company asking for u meeting with the management to discuss the situation
and thereby avoid friction. The general manager declined to receive any deputation
from the union, but did receive' a delegation from the miners who, while really a
committee from the local union, did not declare themselves as such, and business was
transacted with this delegation.
On behalf -of the employees it was urged that the constitution and by-laws of
the United iline Workers was better adapted for the purposes and interests of an
organized body of miners than the Provincial Workmen's Association; that its
methods of working were more favourable to pleasant relations between the manage-
ment and the men, and the sundry advantages derived from connection with a body
having a large membership extending over various portions of the continent of North
America. It was also claimed by the employees that men employed in any large
mining enterprise had a perfect right to choose for themselves what form of organiza-
tion they should adopt.
To this the Company reply that they are prepared to receive individuals or com-
mittee of the employees in all matters pertaining to employment; that no man
or men have been refused a hearing by the board of management unless they came
as a committee from the local vmion of Mine Workers.
The Company contends that it should not be required to encourage and help
support a foreign labour organization, the main body of whose members are working
to produce coal to supplant Nova Scotia product in Canadian markets the demora-
lization of its bu.siness and possible annihilation of its property. The Company further
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saj' that owing to the depression in the United States last year and this, a determined
efiort has been and is being made by American operators to capture the St. Lawrence
trade and large quantities of American coal have been sold to the extent of depriv-
ing Nova Scotia companies of their rights in important Canadian markets. The
result of this intrusion is to make local competition in the province keener and depreciate
values to such a degree as to either compel Nova Scotia operators to cease producing
or force them to make a reduction in wages. The cost of producing coal in the
United States is only one-tliird of the cost of putting coal f.o.b. cars in the deep
mines and heavy pitching seams on the mainlands of Nova Scotia, and the result,
if this invasion continues will be that Nova Scotia operators will either close down
or the cost of production he reduced.
Objection is also made by the Company to the fact under the constitution of the
U. M. W. all employees of the mine must become members of the same, except those
having power to hire or discharge men, and under this provision their underground
managers and all other officers in connection with the management of the Company,
including examiners, will have to belong to the union, whereas under the provisions
of the P. W. A. only those occupying non-official positions in the mines were eligible,
the advantage of 'whioh latter provision is that the officials being apart from the union
are in a position if necessary to fire the boilers, operate pumps, fans, engines, &c.,
make necessary repairs and guard the property of the Company and Crown until work
is resumed in the case of a strike. It is claimed that the P. W. A. is under the legis-
lative control of the Province, while the U. M. W., as a body, have neither standing
nor property in Canada and are not under legislative control.
The Board has given due consideration to the representation.'! made on both sides
in this matter with a view of suggesting such action as will be most mutually ad-
vantageous to both parties and to the interests of the industry in general.
It is quite possible that recognition of Local Union No. 46!), U. M. W., by the
C. E. & C. Company would at the present moment remove one unpleasant source of
friction between the parties. It is, however, by no means clear to your Board that
any right exists on the part of the Department of Labour to enforce upon any com-
pany operating a mine or any other industrial enterprise a compulsion to give official
recognition to any labour organization formed among its employees. Undoubtedly,
under certain circumstances, such a recognition results in convenience of various
kinds in the transaction of the delicate relations which must always subsist between
employer and employees in enterprises involving large numbers of the latter. From
all the information which your Board has been able to obtain, however, it does not
appear that such recognition is by any means a universal rule in such cases. Certain
large employers of labour have refused and continue to refuse to recognize any
labour organization and transact their business with individual employees or com-
mittee representing them.
Section 26 of the Industrial Disputas Investigation Act provides ' that the Board's
recommendation shall deal with each item of the dispute and shall st.atc in plain
terms, &c., what in the Board's opinion ought or ought not to be done by the respec-
tive parties concerned.'
In the present instance, this Board does not feel, under all the circumstances,
that it ought to definitely express an opinion that the Company should recognize Local
Union 469 of the. U. M. W. It may or may not be desirable that the Company should
do this, but it seems to your Board that in view of the representations made it would
be exceeding the just limitiS of its functions to express any definite opinion as to
what the Company ought to do in this regard. We think it ought to be left to the
judtrment and discretion of the Company as to how far it will officially recognize an
organization having its central authority outside the province, and largely under the
control of interests that may be at .=onie time in acute competition witli tlie iiiter(>sts
of the Company.
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(2) To Determine the Standard Weight of a Box of Coal for the Purpose of Form-
ing a Basis from which the Bate per Ton Shall he Arrived at.
The counsel representing the employees intimated that this matter having been
dealt with fully and presumably satisfactory to the men in the report of the Board
of Conciliation of which Judge Patterson was Chairman in January, 1908, they did
not desire to re-open the matter. The Company declined to accept this view, the
matter having been raised distinctly by the employees in their request for a Board
of Conciliation and the report made by Judge Patterson and his associates having
been based entirely upon ex parte testimony which did not fully and fairly present
all sides of the question, they desired to avail themselves of the present opportunity
of having the matter thoroughly investigated in order that a more just and satis-
factory presentation of the case be made to the Department.
The Board deeming it in every way desirable that these long-standing matters
of difference between the parties should be subjected to the fullest inquiry concurred
in the view, that evidence could not be properly excluded, and therefore they i)er-
mitted the Company to state its ease fully and hear all that could be urged in support
of the contentions of the employe&s as embodied very fully in the report of Judge
Patterson and his associates in January, 1908.
The history of the relations between the parties in this regard are fully set forth
in the statement made by the Company and attested to under oath by one of its offi-
cials. As it seems impossible to condense this statement, it is submitted in full.
The only additional light thrown by the employees in respect of this statement is that
it was not accepted by the members of Pioneer Lodge, although assented to and signed
by the Grand Master and Grand Secretary of the P. W. A.
STAND.\RD WEIGHT OF A BOX OF COAL.
The agreement existing concerning filling of mine cars or boxes from the 13th
of January, 1893, is as follows: —
Jfemo. of agreement made this 13th day of January, 1893, between the manage-
ment of the Cumberland Eailway and Coal Company and those employed in the
Springhill Collieries of said Company, in respect of filling of boxes.
1. That all boxes be properly filled level full at the face.
2. That the management see that all boxes are properly filled level full at the face.
3. That the ' sender ' or ' senders ' of any box or boxes the contents of which are
below six inches of level full on reaching the bank ue fined 20 cents for short measure
for each box.
4. That the bankhead foreman and checkweighman determine all deductions for
short measure.
5. That this agreement be adhered to until scales are placed on the bankheads.
6. That this agreement be registered in the Commissioner of Mines Office, Hali-
fax, N.S.
On behalf of the management,
(Sgd.) Alex. McInnes, Manager.
C. HAnoREAVF.s, Assistant lixanager.
A. D. Ferguson, Underground Manager No. 1.
M. Blue, ITndergTound Manager No. 2.
W. D. Matthews, Underground Manager No. 3.
On beh.ilf of the employed,
(Sgd.) James Murphy,
John Fletcher,
Matthew McPherson,
John McVicar,
Thomas Ptoott,
Committee of Pioneer Lodge.
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This undertaking, refiling of luine ears, covers a period of fifteen years.
In accordance with this agreement, on each underground examiner's report the
following query is to be found : —
' Are all places worked to best advantage for large coal and mine cars tilled level
full at the faces and chutes?'
Pioneer Lodge, Xo. 1, P.W.A.. made a demand, !March 2, litOT, for s.calcs, as
follows : —
The above lodge demands the weigh scales placed on the banks of Nos. 2 and 3
slopes of Springliill Collieries, without delay.
To J. R. Cow.^NS, Esq.,
General Manager.
(Sgd.) Edward Eit.\DLEV, Conv.
Wm. W'^ ATKINS, Secy.
Replied to, viz. : —
Springhill,^N.S., March 13, 1907.
Wm. Watkixs^ Esq.,
Secy. Pioneer Lodge No. 1, P.W.A.,
Springhill, N.S.
Dear Sir, — Referring to your notice of the :;iid inst., tor weigh scales, I would
advise you that scales will be installed on both bankheads as requcstod, with as little
delay as possible.
lours very truly,
(Sgd.) J. R. Cowans.
Another communication from Pioneer Lodge, as follows: —
Springhill, N.S., March Ifi, 1907.
.1. R. Cowans, Esq.,
General ^Manager.
Dear Sir, — T beg to inform you that the above lodge demands the scales installed
on No. 2 and 3 banks by June 1, 1907.
Believe me, yours faithfully,
(Sgd.) Edward Buadi.kv,
Conv. Management Committee.
Accordingly, weigh scales were installed <luring the strike of 1907, and duly
inspected on the 12th of November, 1907, by Mr. J. J. Chisholm, Assistant Government
Tn.spector of Weights and Measures, and certificates of inspection posted in each
weifih house. The check weighnicn were invited to take tlxir places in scale liouse
and check the scale weights. For some reason or other they failed to do so.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
On the 16th November. 1907, the members of Pioneer Lodge were requested, viz. :
Springhill, N.S., November 16, 1907.
\Vm. Watkins, Esq.,
Secy. Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, P.W.A.,
Springhill, N.S.
Dear Sir:^
In the matter of Scale.
In order to prevent any possibility of dispute regarding weights if your check
weiizhmen do not check scale weights, the Company will put on sworn weighers imme-
diately.
Yours very truly,
(Sgd.) J. R. Cowans.
No notice was taken by Pioneer Lodge or check weighmen, and certified, sworn
we ghers were brought from Halifax, to check and certify to all gross and tare weights
from the 21st to 30th November, inclusive.
The members of Pioneer Lodge or miners were particularly requested to come
together and agree between themselves to name a date or dates covering the nine days
between and including the 21st and 30th of November, to reach the standard average
weight of contents of mine cars at each mine, with a notification that if the miners
did not interest themselves in the proposed change of their own demand', the Company
would take it for granted that the miners were satisfied that the total returils for the
nine days above mentioned should be taken to arrive at a standard base weight at
each mine.
The gross and tare weights were computed by weighers checked by office staff.
rechecked and affirmed on oath by sworn weighers.
Further, in order that there might be no question as to the accuracy of the
weights, during the every day practice of nine consecutive days' hoisting, an independ-
ent audit was made on the weights b.v comi>etent accountants outside the Company's
service altogether, and these returns fixed the base weights rate at No. 2 mine of
1,843 lb~., and at No. 3 mine 2.009 lbs., as per following statement of independent
audit: —
Weights of coal raised from the Cumberland Eailway and Coal Company's mines
Nos. 2 and 3, from November 21 to 30 inclusive, 1907, exclusive of coal loaded on
Company tallies by Company hands.
.No. 2 Mine.
Date.
Number
Loaded Mine
Cars.
Gross Weight.
Number
Empty Mine
Cars.
Weight
Empty Mine
Cars.
Noveiiilit-r 21
22
2X. . ...
25
26
" h'.'. '.'.'.'.".'..'.'.'....'.' ■■;■■;■;■
29
:io
964
1,146
1,030
1,118
1,133
615
1,201
1,231
1,094
2,676,225
3,169,425
2,85.3,400
3,087,225
3,144,2.50
1,699,200
3,306,325
3,389,475
3,019,925
92
85
54
53
116
99
80
32
3
85,050
78,675
49,800
48,725
106,750
91,350
72,973
29,150
275
9,532
26,345,450
614
565,225
Total gross weight, lbs
Average gross weight mine car. . .
Average weight empty mine ear.
Average net weight per mine car.
26,345,450
2,764
921
1.843
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
No. 3 Mine.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Date.
Number
Loaded Mine
Cars.
Gross Weight.
Number
Empty Mine
Cars.
Weight
Empty Mine
Car.s.
mber 21
938
836
911
1,070
947
524
1,156
1,144
932
8,458
2,778,0.50
2,463,650
2,703,175
3,154,425
2,801,500
1,536,450
3.423,475
3,397,300
2,769,125
70
49
37
66
140
52
70
33
9
65,650
22
47,050
23
25
35,425
61,975
- 26
27
133,775
49,175
28
67,675
29
31,400
30
8,725
25,027,150
527
500,850
Total gross weight, lbs 25,027,150
Average gross weight per mine car 2,959
Average weight empty mine car 950
Average net weight per empty car 2,009
We hereby certify that we have verified all the figures shown above, and the
average net weights are correct.
(Sgd.) E. B. Fairbanks,
Manager Canadian Bank of Commerce.
J. H. Turner,
Manager Bank of Nova Scotia.
F. G. Morehouse,
Principal Public Schools.
Springhill, N.S., December 18, 1907.
I certify that the attached is a true copy of statement compiled by Messrs. Fair-
banks, Turner and Morehouse of weights of coal raised from Nos. 2 and 3 mine,
November 21 to 30, inclusive, 1907, and empty mine cars.
(Sgd.) D. Stewart.
Declared before me at Springhill, in the county of Cumberland, this 19th day
of December, A.D. 1907.
(Sgd.) John M. Hunter, J.P.,
County of Cumberland.
Important notice to miners was posted, viz. : —
IMPORTANT notice TO MINERS.
Commencing to-day, the 2nd December, miners of their own demand will fill by
the ton instead of by measure.
Please remember that properly filled mine cars will net profitably to the sender
on the scales, and load accordingly.
Instruct your loaders not to send short filled cars.
By order.
(Sgd.) C. Hargreaves,
Manager.
Springhill, N.S., December 2. 1907.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
To pave the way for an amicable settlement the members of the lodge were
addressed as follows : —
Springhill, N.S., December 2, 1907.
Wjir. Watkins, Esq.,
Secy., Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, P.W.A.,
Springhill, N.S.
Dear Sib, — As requested by the members of your lodge, weigh scales were installed
on the banks of Nos. 2 and 3 mines, and duly inspected on the 12th of November, 1907,
by Mr. J. J. Chisholin, Assistant Government Inspector of Weights and Measures,
and certificates of inspection hung up in each weigh house.
On the 16th ult., you were requesteil, viz. : —
' In order to prevent any possibility of dispute regarding weights, if your check
weighmen do not check scale weighv;s, the Comi)any will put on sworn weighers imme-
diately.'
As your check weighmen did not take their places in the weigh-house, sworn
weighers were put on, and have checked and certified to all gross and tare weights
from the 21st to 30th of November, inclusive.
It is the desire of this Company that the change from payment by measurement
to payment by weight be made in actual practice to avoid unnecessary friction, and
also to conform with the terms of the Company's ultimatum, under wlfich the men
resumed work after the recont strike. ,
The Company, therefore, asks the miners to agree amongst themselves and name
one. two, three or more work days between and inrliiding the 21st to the 30th ult. to
arrive at a standard basis of the average contents of mine cars. The average net
weights of the day or days selected by the miners during the period when sworn
check weighers certified to gross and tare weights to be fixed as a standard at both
Tniues from which to establish base rates to change from payment by measurement to
payment by weight.
The Company oonsidor.s that to make the ejiange in actual practice is the fairest
and most liberal treatment that can be accorded its miners in this matter.
If the miners do not consider the question of the change made at tiieir own
demand and choose the days for computation by which the results duly certified may
bo obtained, the Company will take the total returns during the period named and
arrive at a .'standard base weight at eaoh mine, certified and affirmed on oath.
It will be necessary for the miners to decide upon dates during the term of
sworn inspection, not later than the 6th inst.. in order to make up the accounts.
Yours very truly,
(Sgd.) J. R. Cowans.
'J"1k^ matter stood in abeyance for some time, when the managing committee of
Pioneer Loilge suggested to the management that a box of coal be tested from each
mine.
The committee was aildressed as follows, on this proposal: —
Springhill, N.S., February 20, 1908.
Messrs. McPiikrson, ct al,
Committee, Pioneer Lodge, No. 1. P.W.A..
Springhill, N.S.
Sin.li;CT — SCALES.
Deai! Sirs. — As to your proposal that we test a box of coal from each mine, I
would advise that we had an experience in respect to filling of boxes in 1893, and it
was far from satisfactory. In the first place, the box or car referred to was indiflFer-
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ently filled. Then the driver made his way to the bottom of the slope with the car
at a gait which was calculated to shake the contents down as low as possible in
tiansit. Everybody's hand seemed to have been against this box, with the result that
it arrived on bank six inches short of level full. Any j^ractical miner will admit
that a box properly loaded level full at the face will not shrink six inches in transit
to bank with any kind of fair treatment. We have no intention of making further
tests of this sort.
But the matter of scales is not a subject for test, but one of practice.
The understanding was when scales were placed on the bankhead at the demand
of the men that the change be made without additional cost to the Company. In
other words, the Company and miners were to change from payment by measure to
payment by weight in the average weight of contents of mine cars in actual practice.
The lodge was asked to send check weighmen to check the weights, and its fail-
ure to do so compelled the Company to put on sworn weighers.
Nine consecutive working days output was taken and the average return fixed
the standard weight at each mine.
The Company considers the subject disposed of fairly and finally, but, in order
to show the men that it deals equitably and to disabuse the minds of all concerueil
of any intention to take an undue advantage in the matter of change from payment
by measure to payment by weight, is willing to give the miners another opportunity
of selecting days' output to arrive at a standard for each mine.
As all coal has been weighed since November 21 to date, inclusive, the Company
buggests that the miners do respectively entreat His Honour the Lieutenant Gover-
nor of Nova Scotia to select for them any number of working days during his term to
compute the average weight of contents of mine cars, both mines, and thus determine
the standard weights, providing of course that such results finally dispose of the
question, and that there will be no appeal from the conclusion later.
If the miners do not avail themselves of this opportunity the standard weights
fixed by nine consecutive days' hoisting under sworn inspection will stand.
The above offer is for immediate acceptance.
Yours very truly,
(Sgd.) J. E. Cowans,
Again, the Company, in its desire to dispose of the matter amicably, suggested
that Premier Murray select the dates.
The open letter in the press read as follows : —
The Company says, ' Let Premier Murray select the dates.'
To THE Editor of ' The Tribune/
Springhill, N.S.
Deau Sir, — Wlien I was in Halifax last week the officials of the Mines Depart-
ment made inquiries about standard weights. I went over with them, what they were
already familiar with, as to how the official tests had been conducted, and further
stated to them, a fact of which they were not aware, and that I had made the men
the following offer : —
Springhill, N.S., Feb. 20, 1908.
' As all coal has been weighed since the 21st November to date inclusive, the
Company suggests that the miners do respectfully entreat His Honour the Lieutenant
Governor of Nova Scotia to select for them any number of working days during this
term to compute the average weight of contents of mine cars both mines and thus
determine the standard weights, providing of course that such results finally dispose
of the question and that there will be no appeal from the conclusion later.
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' If the miners do not avail themselves of tne opportunity the standard weight
fixed by the nine consecutive days' hoisting under sworn inspection will stand.'
I pointed out, what is the fact, that clauses 1 and 2 of the agreement of the
]3th January, 1893, on file in the Mines Office in reference to the method of filling-
boxes had not been changed. The clauses of the agreement are: —
1. That all boxes be properly filled level full at the face.
2. Tiiat the management see that all boxes are properly filled level full at the face.
We now make this further offer: That the Honourable Mr. Murray, the Premier
of the province, should select on behalf of the men any day or days or the whole of
them from the 15th November to date, March 26, to arrive at a base weight at each
mine. The question is so simple that it should resolve itself. There is so much coal
hoisted in so many cars. Divide the number of cars into the total weight of coal,
and the result is the average weight of contents of cars — and standard weight for
each mine.
The Company pays out the same amount of money distributed over the senders
of cars. Miners who load full measure make a gain x>n each car. Miners who load
slack and below the standard show loss. The scales and not the Company tell the
miner how he is loading, the difference is between loading by measure and by weight,
and the miner who loads well earns well, as he is paid for all he fills.
(Sgd.) J. R. Cowans,
General Mali age r.
Cumberland Railway and Coal Co.
Springhill, N.S., March 30, 1908.
But all to no purpose; the members of Pioneer Lodge would not consent to change
from payment by measure or box to payment by weight in practice, as was under-
stood when the demand for scales was made.
The question remained in statu quo until Grand Master McNeil and Grand Sec-
retary MolTatt came to Springhill on behalf of the men to discuss with the manage-
ment the possibility of arriving at a standard weight satisfactory to all parties.
Present at meeting, Saturday, April 4, 1908: John Moffat, S. B. McNeil, Kent
Foster, Daniel Ross, Duncan Blue, Alex. Wilson, Alex. E. McPherson, Samuel D.
Beaton, grand officers and committee Pioneer Lodge; and J. R. Cowans, C. llar-
greaves, W. D. Matthews, W. Lorimer, D. McSaveney, C. Allbon, D. Stewart, com-
pany management.
Mr. Moffatt insisted that the only means of settlement which would satisfy the
men was to dump coal from mine cars on bankheads and reload with shovel cars level
full and weigh for standard.
The management contended that the standard weights were determined by sworn
weighers and independent audit weights by competent outside accountants and fixeu.
After a lengthy conference, nothing was settled, but an appointment was made
to meet the grand officers and committee again Monday at 10 o'clock. Monday,
Grand Officers McNeil and Moffatt and Alex. E. McPherson, convener of committee,
came down to the office as agreed.
The management offered and asked that Grand Master McNeil go to the scales
on one bankhead for one hour and Grand Secretary Moffatt on the other bankhead,
weigh contents of mine cars as they passed over the scales and fix a standard each
mine themselves according to the average weights of an hour's run or more each
mine at their option. Grand Officers McNeil and Moffatt declined the offer, but were
willing to take a number of mine cars loaded level full of dry coal on the bank at
each mine for a standard weisrht as the men desired. This the management assented
to with an earnest desire to dispose of the question to the satisfaction of the men.
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On the way to the baukhead, Messrs. Mclscil and ilotfatt were asked to take
charge of the proceedings, select any rake or run of coal that they might consider a
fair sample of the run of the mine, order the cars stopped and the contents dumped
on the floor, reloaded by shovel level full, contents weighed and cars retared, to arrive
at standard weight both mines.
On arrival at jSTo. 2 bankhead, Messrs. McNeil and Moffatt, after consultation
with check weighman, decided to weigh coal of certain tallies, said to be the lightest
in the mine. The management offered no objections. They set aside two rakes of
their own accord set aside the cars containing wet coal, selected 13 cars of dry coal,
had contents dumped on the coal floor, cars reloaded by members of Pioneer Lodge,
with shovels, level full, and the tops of the cars planed with a straight edge so that no
coal would stand above the sides. These ears were then weighed by the grand officers
and convenor of committee, coal dumped, and cars tared by them also. The same
method was adopted on No. 3 bankhead.
The grand officers and convenor of committee took the matter in hand, selected
cars containing dry coal only, had coal dumped on the floor, cars refilled with shovels,
and every precaution taken that no coal was loaded above the sides of the cars. Took
gross and tare weights themselves, and the same afternoon computed weights and
fixed standard at No. 2 at 1,907 and No. 3 at 1,908. Mr. Stewart, assistant to general
manager, checked weights on behalf of the Company.
All the papers in this connection are attached.
Springiiill, N.S., April 4, 1908.
Meeting, committee Pioneer Lodge with Grand Ofiicers McNeil and Moffatt and
Company management.
John Moffatt, S. B. McNeil, Kent Foster, Daniel Eoss, Duncan Blue, Alex. Wil-
son, Alex. E. McPherson, Samuel D. Beaton, grand officers and committee Pioneer
Lodge, and J. E. Cowans, C. Hargreaves, W. D. Matthews, W. Lorimer, D. McSaveney,
C. Allbon, D. Stewart, Company management.
Mr. Moffatt. — Re difficulty scales and schedules.
Scales. — ^Dump coal from cars on bank and load cars level full and weigh for
standard.
CoMPAKY. — The whole question is, we contend and prove by scales, that the
standard is right. The men contend that the cars are overloaded.
The foregoing memos, were made by me at and during time of meeting between
committee of Pioneer Lodge, Messrs Moffatt and McNeil of the P. W. A. and officials
of the Company on Saturday, 4th April, 1908.
(Sgd.) D. Stf.wart.-
No. 2 mine.— Tally 32, 1,875; 32, 1,825; 9, 1,825; 32, 1,775; 54. 1,825; !), 1.S25;
9, 1,725; 47, 1,875; 47, 1,775; 37, 1,725; 49, 1,925; 49, 1,825; 54, 1,775. Total, 23,575.
Add 13,000 lbs. on beam for gross.
(Sgd.) D. STliWAIlT,
" John Moffatt,
S. B. McNeil.
April 6, '08.—
No. 2 mine, tares, 900, 900, 900, 900, 950, 900, 925, 900, 900, 925, 900, 875, 900.
Total, 11,775.
(Sgd.) D. Stewaut,
" John Moffatt,
S. B. McNeil.
April 6, 1908.—
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23,575
13,000
36,575
11,775
1,324,800 (1907)
No. 2 WINE.
Alex. E. McPherson, convenor of Pioneer Lodge committee, was present when
weighing was done. Moffat sat in chair directly in front of scales dial. McPherson
and myself on either side and McNeil directly behind MofFatt. We carefully weighed,
read over weights, and signed each others slips; that is, Moffatt, McNeil and myself.
Scales balanced perfectly at zero before weighing of loaded and empty cars.
(Sgd..) D. Stewart,
Springhill, N.S., April 6, 1908.
No. 3 mine, car numbers.— 1, 1,950; 2, 1,850; 3, 1,725; 4, 1,800; 5, 1,850; 6, not
weighed; 7, 2,000; 8, 1,950; 9, 1,975; 10, 1,925; 11, 1,975; 12, 2,025; 13, 1,925; 14,
1,975. Total, 24,925.
(Sgd.) D. Stewart,
" John Moffatt,
" S. B. McNeil,
April 6, '08.
No. 3 mine, tares.— 1, 950; 2, 951; 3, 850; 4, 975; 5, 925; 6, not weighed; 7, 925;
8, 950; 9, 900; 10, 925; 11, 975; 12, 975; 13, 925; 14, 950. Total, 12,175.
(Sgd.) D. Stewabt,
" John Moffatt,
" S. B. McNeil,
April 6, '08.
24,925
13,000
37,925
12,175
1,325,740 (1908.)
No. 3 MINE.
Alex. E. McPherson, convenor of Pioneer Lodge committee, was present when
weighing done, also James Matthews as well as Moffatt, McNeil and myself; same
procedure as at No. 2.
Scales balanced perfectly at zero before weighing of loaded and empty cars. Ball
on beam at 1,000 lbs. to facilitate weighing, as dial alone has not capacity to indicate
gross weight.
(Sgd.) D. Stewart,
Springhill, N.S., April 6, 1908.
Every effort was made by the Company to effect the change fairly and amicably,
and to arrive at standard average weight of contents of mine cars in ordinary prac-
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tice. The Company ofiered to take the average weight of nine consecutive days hoist-
ing each mine, either one or more of all the days at the men's option from November
21 to 30 inclusive, 1907, when all coal was weighed by sworn weighers.
Then the Company suggested to the miners to respectfully ask His Honour the
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia to select any number of working days during the
term when sworn weighers were engaged to average weights of contents of mine
cars and determine standard weights.
Then, again, the Company further offered that Premier Murray be requested by
the men to select any day or days from the 15th November, 1907, to March 26, 1908,
a period of four months and eleven days, to arrive at the average standard weight of
contents of mine cars.
No notice was taken of any of these offers of the Company to the men to dispose
of the questions at issue, and it remained for the Grand Officers McNeil and Moffatt
to como to Springhill to learn froni the men that the only means of settlement which
would satisfy them was to dump coal from cars on bank, load some cars level full,
weigh contents and average for standard. All this was done to the satisfaction of
the grand officers who fixed standard at No. 2 as 1,907 and No. 3 at 1,908, and these
fixed weights have been in effect since April 9, 1908. This closed the matter definitely.
Miners have since accepted their pay without demur.
(3) Schedule of Rates. —
As already intimated, the counsel for the employees was not disposed to press
this branch of their claim, inasmuch as it had already been dealt with by the Board
presided over by Judge Patterson. Evidence, however, was given on behalf of the
employees in respect of this schedule, and this Board deems it necessary to deal with
the matter fully.
The arguments put forward on behalf of the employees is that a schedule of rates
is desirable, as it tends to prevent misunderstanding and enables each workman, even
though previously inexperienced in respect to the computation of payments, to under-
stand in advance precisely what he is to receive for any given work. Evidence was
given that such a schedule of rates is in operation in other mines with satisfactory
results. The employees submitted a schedule of rates which they desired the Com-
pany to consider, not necessarily to adopt in precise terms the rates set forth in such
schedule, but to make it the basis of consideration and discussion with the Company
with a view of agreeing to such rate as would be mutually satisfactory. The schedule
submitted was substantially the same as that which had been submitted to Judge
Patterson and in the main approved by that Board.
The Company upon being notified of the findings of Judge Patterson's Board
promptly declined to accept the same, upon the ground that the adoption of such a
schedule would result in a substantial increase of wages which the Company could
not accept owing to the fact that it was already losing money and because it was in
violation of the terms under which the men resumed work on the 28th of October,
1907, which have been already quoted. In the statement of the conditions of re-em-
ployment it was emphatically stated: ' The Company cannot afford and will not make
any advances in the abnormally high rates now being paid.'
The Company maintain that there is and has long been in operation a schedule
of rates at the Springhill mines which were in operation on the 28th of October, 1907,
and which have been recognized and accepted ever since. It is quite true that this
schedule is not absolute nor fixed in all particulars, but it is claimed by the Com-
pany that a fixed schedule of rates in Springhill is unworkable. With thick and
thin seams of more or less varying nature, with irregular dips of the measures, local
disturbances of faults and heavy superincumbent pressure, it is impossible to arrive
at a fixed scale of wages for such variations in the conditions under which the mines
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are operated. Eates as fixed are entered and appear on the payrolls, and every man's
rate is given in his monthly statement.
Where conditions are exceptional or appear to be, men make demands on the
Company for extra considerations, many which are not always supported by existing
conditions. A schedule would leave unsettled so many rates to be covered by local
conditions and ability and willingness of the men that it would be almost worthless.
That the absolutely fixed rate would be impracticable is fairly apparent from
clause 55 of the schedule of rates now submitted, which declares, ' change in the state
of coal, faults and other unusual conditions to be dealt with as they arise.'
Notwithstanding the fact that a fixed schedule of rates seems under the circum-
stances to be extremely difficult to obtain, the Board are not disposed to differ from
the general proposition that a scedule of rates when practicable is eminently desir-
able, and they would have been glad if the Company could have been induced to con-
sider the scale submitted with a view of so modifying its claims as to make it conform
to the condition that there should be no increase in the wages now and hitherto paid,
but this the Company did not seem disposed to do.
To adopt the present schedule seems to this Board to be out of the question, as
it was stated openly by the solicitor for the Company that its adoption would involve
an increase of 40 per cent on wages paid to those working underground and 28 per
cent to those working overground. Nothing is clearer than that the Company is not
now in a position to admit of any increase whatever in the costs of productionJ
(^4) To estahlish a Docking System. —
The system of fines and docking stone existed in the working of Springhill mines
dating back to 1890. Its introduction led to a strike which lasted nine weeks, at the
conclusion of which an agreement was entered into between the Company and a
committee of Pioneer Lodge in which the following clause appears : ' Respecting the
agreement in the matter of stone dockage it is agreed that the maximum of stone be
twenty-four pounds per box. If over twenty-four pounds a fine of 20 cents to be im-
posed, and if over forty-five pounds the box to be forfeited.'
This system remained in force for ten years, when at the instance of Pioneer
Lodge a rearrangement of rates for docks and fines was submitted to a local board
of arbitrators formed by mutual agreement between the Company and the lodge, who,
on September 21, 1900, determined as follows: 'All boxes containing 60 pounds of
stone or upwards to be docked. All boxes containing 40 pounds of stone or upwards
to be fined 20 cents.' This system has been in operation ever since.
The men now ask and desire a modification of the system upon several grounds.
First, that owing to the conditions prevailing in certain parts of the mine, the amount
of stone incurring a fine and dockage is too small. Second, that the docking system
itself works in some instance injustice. Third, that as the operation in many parts
of the mine is conducted through chutes, the timbering of which is liable to get out
of repair and lead to the falling of stone, that men are liable to be docked for stone
in the boxes and cars for which they are in no way responsible. Fourth, that the Com-
pany's screens have been changed from J-line screen to J-inch mesh, which discovers
more small stone.
Evidence was given of some instances in which men were docked for a large pro-
portion of cars sent up within a given period, and their remuneration for their labour
thus reduced to an extremely small amount. A table was submitted containing a
statement of the docks and fines imposed in No. 2 and No. 3 slopes respectively in
the years 1906, 1907, 1908, which is herewith attached.
Docks and fines for 1908 represent approximately 21,000 tons of coal, and after
making liberal allowance for the actual weight of stone found in the boxes, the Com-
pany will have appropriated some 20,000 tons of coal, which, if paid for, would repre-
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
sent at least $8,500 additional wages to the miners, in respect of this coal that they
have been compelled to mine for nothing.
No. 2 Slope.
1906.
1907.
1908.
Docks.
Fines.
Docks.
Fines.
Docks.
Fines.
January
February
2G1
203
2?7
151
125
59
113
111
103
131
121
118
142
118
174
79
36
46
62
98
64
70
67
63
116
204
184
254
267
150
188
57
91
141
182
174
155
142
273
223
237
231
404
418
282
329
311
412
574
425
320
375
218
211
May
308
348
July
190
Strike.
193
September
October
217
247
91
247
193
183
424
598
1,T33
1,028
1,827
1,260
4,219
3,561
No. 2 Slope.
Docks.
Fines.
Docks.
Fines.
Docks.
Fines.
January
February
March
911
635
530
319
247
380
367
350
478
585
119
158
178
109
138
93
93
76
74
96
118
93
18
15
270
990
600
613
656
503
C82
Str
397
910
42
173
144
188
123
til
51
ike.
49
49
837
835
1,163
994
1,013
1,266
1,058
1,076
1,425
1,365
1,467
1,798
406
195
144
72
M^y
144
264
July
202
110
September
October
229
114
184
December. ...
548
5,079
1,101
5,621
831
14,297
2,582
Docks.
Fines.
Docks.
Fines.
Docks.
Fines.
6,812
2,12i
7,448
2,091
18,516
6,143
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Also statement for five montlis of 1909 in No. 3 mine : —
STATEMENT OF DOCKS AND FINES IN NO. 3 MINE.
Number. Tally.
1909.
Month.
No. of
Boxes.
Docks.
Fines.
34
TaUy
January
1,173
103
49
37
681
152
es
February
H3C
54
12
73
„
51
38
1
31
March
224
43
19
37
1,0H1
225
2U
73
1)
213
55
10
34
April
1,068
124
33
37
1,056
232
24
43 . ...
May :;;■.■.;::
334
505
1,046
594
81
88
85
115
10
57
15
12 .... : ..
10
34 .
12
05
453
82
8
Evidence was given that in some of the slopes the timbering was out of repair,
and that the split booms which are placed against the roof of the mine are often
insufficient in strength and lead to the fall of stone from the roof.
Of course, it is unthinkable that a system should prevail whereby a man was
fined or docked for stone in the boxes which had been placed there by means and
agencies over which he had no control, and your Board, therefore, felt it necessary
to go into this matter most thoroughly and exhaustively.
The answer of the Company to these statements may be stated in order.
First, they say, which, of course, is incontrovertible, that it is of the utmost
importance to the Company and its employees that coal free from stone and impuri-
ties be marketed. Inspection on coal has become so rigid that it is a com-
mon occurrence to have coal inspected that is thrown back on the Company's
hands. In view of the importance of shipping clean coal, the Company has
expended at both bankheads the sum of $58,000 on remodelling bankheads and
equipping with steel shaking-screens and picking-belts. Forty-five men are employed
at both bankheads simply picking stone out of the coal as the coal is carried by the
picking-tables from the screens to the railway cars.
The local Board of Conciliation, in July, 1907, determined that two cents extra
per box had been allowed for removing stone and to compensate miners for separating
stone in coal and also in loading in pillar working. In close and narrow work stone is paid
for at the rate of five cents per inch, with the understanding that the stone be removed
in mining or loading and not sent to the bank with the coal. In No. 2 mine where
the seam is clean and free from stone the rate per mined car for cutting and loading
is 39 cents. Where coal is streaked with bands of stone, 42 cents per car is paid. In
No. 3 mine, where no local stone is encountered, 40 cents per car is paid. Where
local stone partings are in evidence. 43 cents, 46 cents, 48 cents and 52 cents per car
is paid for mining and loading and separating the stone from the coal, which goes
to show that miners working under the disa?lvantage of having to handle local stone
partings are fully compensated for their trouble in extra price per car to cover tne
time emnloyed in separating the stone from the coal in mining and loading.
Dealing with the dockage for the five months of 1909, the Company show that
out of 222,080 cars, 8,004 were docked and 4,004 subjected to fines, equivalent to 360
docks and 194 fines.
It is claimed by the Company that good wages have been made in what is called
the local stone districts, and that in No. 2 mine where stone exists in the seam the
106 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
average rate per man per day for the mouth of April, 1909, was $3.07. In No. iJ
mine, where all the trouble arose over local stone, the average rate per man per day
for April was $2.90.
Second, in respect of the claim made by the employees that the slopes get o\it
of repair and cause the falling of stone in the chutes, the Company declare that for-
merly it was the custom of the miners to repair their own chutes and keep them in
order, but of late years in most places they have refused to do this. The Company
made contracts with the men that they should repair their own chutes; the lodge re-
cused to allow the men to do so, though the men were willing and the Company offered
to pay extra for it. The Company have therefore been compelled to employ shiftmen
tu repair the chutes, and it is mitiiifest that a.s these men cannot always be at all
the chutes that they cannot he kept in as good condition as if they were cared for by
the cutters themselves. The Company declare that where the miners repair the chutes
themselves no troublt in respect of docks occurs.
It is not easy for your Board to appreciate fully the reasons which have inducetl
the lodge persistently to resist the application of this system of miners repairing their
own chutes, which would seem to apply a remedy to the complaint now made that
these chutes are not infrequently out of repair and lead to the falling of loose stone.
Third, the Company say that it is compelled to pay for all the stone under 45
pounds, which is removed from the picking tables and that this amounts in the
aggregate to nearly as much as is gained by the fining and docking process.
Fourth, in certain portions of the mine and in respect of coal sent up by certain
miners scarcely any docking occurs. The fining and docking is applied to certain
special workings and to certain men. In respect of a single instance where one man
had been docked a large percentage of boxes sent up it was shown by the assistant
manager of the mine that this coal had not been in the chutes at all, and therefore,
not subject to the risk of having loose stone fall from the roof into the chute.
What recommendation should be made by the Board in respect of the fining
and docking system is a matter which involves great delicacy and difficulty. In
respect to the operation of the mines generally, we do not think that the docking
system is at present working unfairly or results in any palpable injustice to the miners.
In some few sections of the mine, owing to the character of the chutes, it is possible
that the system now in vogue may in some instances work injustice. The most
effective remedy in the judgment of the Board would be for the miners in those
special districts to assume the care of the chutes through which they work.
The employees urge that the docking system entirely cease, and that fines only be
imposed as a penalty for excessive stone, and they urge that the quantity of stone
resulting in a fine be raised to 150 pounds per box.
In view of the necessity of maintaining the standard quality of coal for market
the Board feel some reluctance in undertaking to recommend absolutely the abolition
of the system of docking, and in any case the raising of the amount to 150 pounds
instead of 00 pounds for either docking or fining would, we fear, tend to the depre-
ciation of the coal and lead to greater carelessness in mining. It would be extremely
difficult to apply to the whole mine a system of fines or docking which would only be
specially apiilicable to certain parts of the mine, and not applicable to all. The man-
agement state that where there is satisfactory evidence that there has been an increase
of stone in the box due in any way to the falling of loose stone from insufficient
timbering, an allowance is made, but the evidence in support of this must be clear.
The only recommendation which the Boar^ can make in this respect is that in
view of the additional stone now found in working the mine, as compared with that
found when the present docking system was established, and also in view of the
introduction of the half-inch mesh screen in place of the tlireerquarter-inch long
screens, which retains a larger quant'ty of stone; that the system be based somewhat
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on the value of the box, which differs according to the conditious under which it is
mined. Instead of the present system, we recommend that when a box contains fifty
pounds of stone and not exceeding seventy-five pounds, a fine of 500 pounds of coal
be imposed. When it contains seventy-five pounds and not exceeding 100 pounds,
a fine of 1,000 pounds of coal be imposed. When a box contains 100 pounds or more
of stone the box should be docked.
The Board have now dealt with all the special matters specifically presented to
them. They feel, however, that their work would scarcely be done unless they devoted
a little attention to certain serious considerations which were elicited by the inves-
tigation.
The Company, for reasons of its own, has taken the responsibility of submittinp
to the Board in a public manner and for public use a detailed statement of their
present financial condition and of the results of the operation of the mine for a period
of 15 years. They also embody in this statement the amount of wages paid for min-
ing: a given quantity of coal at the present time as compared with its cost 15 years
ago. This statement has, in the judgment of the Board, such an important bearing
upon the whole situation at Springhill that we have thought it best to embody it i'.i
this report.
LOSSES IN OPERATION.
That the Company cannot continue to operate under conditions whicdi have pre-
vailed for the past three years and four months is manifest from the statemeaits
which are herewith submitted : —
The deficits are as follows: —
1906 $ 77,715 45
1907 156,992 17
1908 22,004 62
1909 (four months) 42,977 9.3
$299,690 17
The cost of coal and selling price and difference in these years are, viz. : —
Year.
Cost of
Coal.
Selling
Price.
Loss.
1906
$ cts.
2 80
3 17
2 91
2 95
$ cts.
2 60
2 66
2 74
2 m
Cts.
20
1907
51
1908
1?
1909 (four months)
39
There is no other operation in Nova Scotia where the cost of production is within
50 to 75 cents per ton of the foregoing figures, and it is plain this Company is handi-
capped to such an extent with an abnormally high cost of mining and comparably low
average of selling price that to carry on in this untenable position will quickly result
in disaster. There is no hope for the property under these adverse terms.
In presenting these statements it may be said that there was an accident in No.
3 mine in 1906, a strike in 1907, but press into this Company's experience of the past
20 years the following accidents : —
A disastrous explosion in 1S91.
Loss of one mine by fire and subsequent flooding of workings.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Destruction of two bankheads and surface plants by fire.
Cob-heating or heating in waste workings No. 2 mine.
Explosion in No. 3 mine or heating in waste workings.
Explosion of boiler in battery No. 2 mine (surface).
Total destruction of hoisting engines No. 2 mines.
Surface fires and other casualties which affected output.
Add to these disasters 22 strikes, and it must be admitted that in mining each
year there are contingencies to provide for, the expense of which cannot be avoided.
The contingent account in mining is never closed.
That the business of coal mining has been unprofitable in SpringhlU must be
admitted from the following memo, re cost of coal, selling price and the differential
in profit and loss from 1894 to 1909 (4 months) inclusive: —
Year.
Cost of
Coal.
SellinR
Price.
Difference.
Gain.
Loss.
1894
189."..
$ cts.
1 55
1 64
1 64
1 60
1 63
1 67
2 43
2 51
2 20
2 49
2 60
2 44
2 80
3 17
2 91
2 95
S cts.
1 58
1 52
1 ti3
1 51
1 56
1 72
2 44
2 60
2 43
2 62
2 45
2 50
2 60
2 66
2 74
2 56
Cts.
3
Cts.
■■•■j^2 ••
1896
1
1897.
9
1898
1899 . ...
itoo
5
1
9
23
13
6 '
7
1901
1902.
1903
1904 '.
1905. .
15
1906
20
1907.
51
1908
1909 (four months)
17
39
There were in the past fifteen years and four months seven years of slight gains
and eight years and four months of heavier losses.
During the period from 1899 to 1903, when there were profits, two small dividends,
one of 3 per cent and another of 2i per cent on the capital stock of $2,000,000 were
paid. (And only these two small dividends have been paid in the twenty-six years
of the Company's existence). The earnings were put back into the property to pro-
vide better equipment and development of the workings, with an earnest desire to
benefit the Company and the employed, and with a degree of exjx^ctation of obtain-
ing results in the future, which have certainly not been realized.
Since 1906 no expenditure has been made for betterments. The Company has not
had means for improvements or extensions, and has had great difficulty in financing
to meet current expenditures, as the figures submitted verify.
COAL VALUES HAVF. DECLINED.
That this Company cannot grant any advance or further concessions in these
or any other demands may be determined not only from the fact that the Company
has been losing money in its operations for .several years, as the statements will show,
but that the average selling price of coal has declined to a marked extent this year.
The Intercolonial railway, one of the Company's largest customers, only awarded
this Company 48,000 tons of coal, one-half the usual supply, at a reduction of 2.') cents
per ton f.o.b. cars at Springhill Junction.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
The Canadian Pacific railway forced a deduction of 12 cents per ton, which with
increased freight rate for British over Norwegian ships (excluded from carrying
coastwise after 1st July) makes a further reduction of 15 cents per ton, and with 5
cents additional cost of discharge, equals a total reduction of 32 cents per ton in all,
on this the largest contract which the Company holds.
The foregoing reduced contracts came into effect 1st July, which will still further
reduce (bring down) the average selling price and (still further) increase loss in
operation.
In the United States, where the bulk of the culm is exported, prices rule so low
this year that it was necessary in order to secure part of this business to accept an
offer 15 cents per ton under last year's price. The cost of transportation also by
British instead of Norwegian register on this coal will still further reduce the net
f.o.b. price 15 cents per ton, or a total of 30 cents per ton reduction on export trade
to the United States.
If the telegraphic reports in the press are correct as to the joint action of the
Senate and Congress, the duty on all coal (including slack or culm) will be fixed at
50 cents a ton. This Company sold the greater part of its culm in the New England
states under an existing duty of 15 cents a ton. If this duty is increased under the
Payne Tariff Bill to 50 cents a ton on all coal, including culm, our export trade to the
United States will be killed, and there is not sufficient market in Canada accessible
to this Company to take the large portion of culm that it produces.
The government of the United States, at the instance of the coal operators, will
thus completely debar Nova Scotia coal from the United States market. The United
States coal operators have captured a large part of the coal orders in Montreal that
belong to Nova Scotia products, and now, to crown all, the United Mine Workers'
Association seek to tie to a United States chariot wheels the employees of every mine
in Nova Scotia, and thus have the industry more absolutely at the control of the
United States operators and workmen who are now working under agreements.
Is it any wonder that the operators of Nova Scotia view with alarm this com-
bination of all United States coal interests to control their business and feel it their
duty in their own interests, as well as in the interest of the province, to resist to the
utmost such far-reaching and powerful forei-gn interests united against them.
It is submitted that the government of Nova Scotia, which depends for the main-
tenance of its public service upon coal duties, and every good citizen who has no
personal interest at stake, ought to stand with the coal operators in resisting the in-
vasion of this foreign combination.
If the American government exclude Nova Scotia coal, American operators set
out deliberately to capture the markets which belong to Nova Scotia mines in Canada,
and the American unions control our miners, all that will be left to the operators
will be the mines without markets, excluded as thej' are by tariff from the United
States, driven from their own markets in the St. Lawrence by ' dumped ' coal which
is carried by the railways under cost, and their workmen subject to be called out on
strike (sympathetic or otherwise) at the dictation of their foreign masters.
Every important contract this Company has closed this year has been at a reduc-
tion. American coal and American competition is crowding Cape Breton and Pictou
coals out of the St. Lawrence and other markets into the home or provincial markets,
which makes local competition all the more aggressive and has the effect of depreciat-
ing values.
As this Company was not making but losing money when prices were maintained,
it must necessarily go from bad to worse financially now that prices are declining,
and it cannot concede any advance or make any concessions whatever which will tend
to increase the cost of production. It is simply out of the question to consider further
demands from the men.
DEl'ARTUEM OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Springhill is a very expensive operation, the most costly in the province, with
its deep mines, average hoist 3.500 feet, seams pitching from 18 degrees to vertical,
and over present workings 2,000 feet of superincumbent pressure.
Pumping, as high in spring and fall as 4f tons of water to o;;e of oral, and a
costly system of ventilation.
The coal is highly bituminous, cross-fractured, and consequently frialih;. espe-
cially in the steep measures, producing a larger proportion of small than any other
coal in the province. It is running half screened and half culm, over i inch
square mesh openings.
Culm is e.xported at a low price to the United States, which reduces the average
selling rate so much below the cost of production that the Company has been losing
money heavily in its operation for three years, as the statements will show.
Statement showing marked increases in amount of wages paid annually, Mines
Department, and output from 1895 to 1908, inclusive.
Year.
Wages.
Output.
$ cts.
377,239 36
379,445 .34
273,121 45
324,968 89
367,864 91
492,955 49
602,426 4'(
684,015 64
778,405 88
874,621 21
674,073 70
789,813 47
684,435 35
837,067 13
Tons.
375,778
1896
405,042
302,581
340,669
369,269
428.777
1901
1902
411,214
469,570
1903
468,446
1904
505,804
1905
476,247
428,010
1907
338,857
1908
450,292
This Company carries all its old employees. No man has been discharged for
advanced years. All aged employees are provided for as long as they present them-
selves for work, and all crippled and disabled employees are found employment at
suitable work.
In Report of Commission, appointed under chapter 10, Acts 1907, entitled 'An
Act re.«peeting Old Age Pensions and Miners' Relief Societies,' statistics as to num-
ber and age of men employed in the coal mines of Nova Scotia are, viz. : —
Name of Mine.
Under 20.
20 to 30.
30 to 40.
40 to 50.
50 to 60.
60
and over.
Total.
Ciimberland Ry. 4 C. Co
249
7
17
26
22
31
43
35
1.38
34
202
577
2,000
8.370
4S9
29
22
42
48
106
104
103
296
101
103
316
1,183
406
21
29
27
31
55
90
.38
186
46
40
181
.516
239
13
10
23
15
45
36
27
111
36
5
68
224
91
5
2
17
9
25
28
.30
73
20
1
28
79
54
1
4
7
6
9
12
10
36
7
1,528
76
84
142
ChigTiecto .
Acadia Coal Co.—
131
271
313
263
835
\llan Shaft
2.34
.351
N.S.S.&CO
7
13
1,207
4,015
2,942
1,086
842
4.38
166
9,450
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
The above table plainly shows that there is in this employ a very marked larger
proportion of elder men than in any of the other Companies; and farther that they
are looked after.
ABSENTEES.
That high wages are not conducive to steady work and maintenance of output
may be gathered from the following statements of absentees from work, underground
and overground, each mine, and on the surface for January, February, March, April
and May of the current year, and to 12th June: —
ABSKNTEES-.TANUARY, 1909.
-
No. 2.
No. 3.
Surface.
Total.
New Year
Idle.
49
41
47
33
35
35
26
23
41
32
44
103
55
57
64
54
56
75
Delaney's
34
34
35
41
39
•a. Idle.
Idle.
55
50
127
89
' 58
61
40
46
64
44
62
185
48
64
76
76
71
90
funeral.
40
52
48
74
85
2
4
5
24
14
17
20
33
29
11
18
16
24
30
72
20
31
23
28
19
24
128
105
6
7 .
142
8
9
11
12 .
125
77
87
13
14
121
16
18
360
123
19
142
20
21
163
158
22 . .
146
23
25
189
26
6
11
26
17
29
80
27
97
109
132
163
28
29
1,053
],595
542
3,190
Average ...
45
70
24
139
112
DEPARTMEST OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
ABSENTEES-FEBRUARY. 190!i.
-
No. 2.
No. 3.
Surface.
Total.
Feb. 1
5(1
80
27
157
76
125
37
238
3
91
110
29
230
45
60
29
134
5
65
67
32
164
6
48
74
27
149
34
51
8
93
9
41
58
15
114
10
41
m
19
119
11
49
73
28
150
12
49
48
15
112
13 (pay day)
48
46
44
138
15
48
53
36
137
42
46
50
48
20
32
112
17
126
18
44
45
23
112
19
44
41
16
101
20
40
38
21
99
45
34
16
95
79
86
55
57
18
19
152
162
25
143
152
42
337
40
60
48
67
22
24
110
151
1,334
1,539
599
3,492
Av
57
64
25
146
ABSENTEES-MARCH, 1909.
-
X... 2.
No. 3.
Surface.
Total.
March 1
51
60
27
1.38
2
59
94
26
179
3
G3
41
10!)
73
48
20(i
45
74
99
94
80
83
163
78
23
26
32
22
24
30
33
16
166
235
175
155
q
.399
10 •■ ••
156
16
74
54
24
37
153
12
137
13 (pay day)
15
^1
73
44
24
28
154
157
53
83
100
99
20
34
173
17
216
18
74
96
27
197
19
09
61
36
166
20
77
97
31
205
22
70
73
21
164
23
67
77
31
175
24
73
63
32
168
25
61
67
34
162
26
62
63
16
141
fiS
72
60
17
24
145
2fl •••
173
44
59
50
57
20
32
114
31 (pay day)
148
1,876
2,110
725
4,711
Average
69
78
27
174
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. '36
ABSEXTEES— APRIL, 1909.
113
-
No. 2.
No. 3. 1 Surface.
Total.
April 1
103
139
55
297
2
91
11
45
250
3
97
106
31
233
0
85
61
34
180
6
51
66
61
61
18
14
130
7
141
8
50
Idle
GO
Good
8
Friday.
26
9
16
118
9
10
39
15
21)
71
37
56
136
12
61
13
92
14
25
50
21
96
15 (pay day) .
40
56
22
118
16
52
113
34
199
17
&1
122
34
240
19
33
56
15
104
20
63
72
45
51
60
65
73
69
57
76
25
22
23
Ifi
19
153
167
22
137
124
24
155
67
45
29
52
41
41
' 52
59
27
18
15
23
135
27
104
96
29
134
37
52
23
112
1,357
1,744
593
3,712
55
70
25
148
ABSENTEES— MAY 1909.
May
6
7
8
10
11
12
13
14
15 (pay day).
17
18
19
20
21
22
24
25
26
27
28
29 (pay day).
31
36—8
108
155
102
100
70
• 70
89
93
90
86
71
83
81
84
83
58
63
77
61
74
62
64
47
Idle.
Idle.
Idle.
69
Idle.
108
132
61
74
62
67
59
73
87
Idle.
Idle.
Victoria Day.
110
79
61
49
56
19
61
65
Idle.
Idle.
60
48
305
231
181
216
199
179
180
175
161
148
140
104
277
168
166
161
121
224
135
123
141
114
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
ABSENTEES— JUNE 1909.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
No. 2.
No. 3.
Surface.
Total.
131'
81
Idle.
69
71
76
86
62
60
60
91
85
80
23
17
239
2
178
3 ... ....
4
96
88
70
102
68
67
51
Idle.
13
5
15
18
17
10
7
16
178
5 ...
164
. 7
8 ...
161
206
9
147
. 10
137
, 11
118
. 12 .....
107
787
707
. 141
1,635
78
78
14
163
NUMBER DAYS LOST MONTHLY FOR 1909.
January .
February
March . . .
April
May . , . .
June 12..
1,595
1,539
2,110
1,744
1,600
707
542
599
725
593
615
141
3,190
3,492
4,711
3,712
3,936
1,635
20,676
AVERAGE EMPLOYED OFF WORK DAILY.
January.
February
March . .
April . . .
May . . . .
June 12 .
139
146
174
148
171
163
There were, therefore, 20,676 days work lest by employees in this period, or an
average of 159 men off work daily, equal to 10 per cent, of the total employed.
The absentees vary from 9 per cent off work between pay days to 20 per cent
after pay davs.
This indifference to work on the part of the employees must be attributed to too
much money, too easily earned. No other class of artisans do or can afford to lose so
much time.
This utter neglect of duty on the part of employees falls most heavily on the
Company in reduced output, increased cost, and correspondingly poor returns, and is
largely responsible for the deplorable results in operation, which have obtained for
the last three years and four months.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
ADVANCE IN WAGES.
There were two general advances in wages, one of 10 per cent, on 1st May, 1900,
and another of 12 per cent on 1st January. 1901, 22 per cent in all, conceded all
employees.
Besides these two general increases on all earnings since 1S99, concession;; after
concessions have been wrested from the management at the point of the pistol, till
wages have soared in the several departments to the impossibility of producing results
financially under which the Company can exist.
Per cent.
Miners' earnings have advanced 60 to 70
Engineers' (stationary) earnings have advanced 60
. .Firemen's (stationary) earnings have advanced 50
Engineers' (railway) earnings have advanced 62
Conductors' (railway) earnings have advanced 51
Firemen's (railway) earnings have advanced 52
Brakemen's (railway) earnings have advanced 41
Machinists' and blacksmiths' earnings have advanced 34
Unskilled labour earnings have advanced SH
Stores have advanced .* 40
Timber has advanced 40
And on top of all these advances the cost of screening, picking and preparation
required for the coal to meet the demand has doubled in recent years.
The question is continually asked, why are the coal companies of Nova Scotia
not making money? The answer, so far as this Company is concerned, is obvious.
In 1908 the extra amount paid in wages over 1899-1900 to meet the two general
advances of 10 per cent and 12 per cent to 22 per cent was $147,034.23, equivalent to
40-61-100 cents per ton on shipments.
Since May 1, 1900, this Company has paid 138 employees on the 22 per cent
advance or bonus $1,184,949.75, besides the many concessions which have been obtained
by employees, until to-day the miners are working shorter hours, performing less
work, and earning the highest average rates of any miners in the province.
The cause mainly responsible for the disastrous results of the past few years is
the astounding fact of the unp'-ecedented increase in average miners' wages since
1895. and the incredible falling off in the average daily production per man, as
follows : — •
36— 8A
DEI'ARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Average daily
earned by miners per
day.
Production
of coal pel miner
per day.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902
1903.
1904.
1905.
1906.
1907.
1908
January. .
February.
March
April .
May. .
1 95
1 83
1 92
1 90
2 27
2 51
2 63
2 88
2 98
2 97
3 18
3 14
3 00
2 81
2 96
2 92
2 93
2 97
10% advance.
Three months strike.
Trade dull in summer
months due to mild
open winter and
financial and n
dustrial depression.
Output curtailed by
local trouble and ir-
regular work on part
of employees.
19,041 days work have
been lost in these five
months.
3 74
3 07
3i)2
4 01
Miners' wages have increased no less from lowest to highest average than 74 per
cent, while in return for these enhanced wages miners have of their own design
restricted output to the ruinous extent of 38 per cent per man per day, which is prac-
tically a reduction of 60 per cent in production. Sufficient in itself to drive any
Company to the wall.
For $1.35 average increase in wages daily, miners are giving 2-22 tons less in
return in production in the same seams with more superincvimbent pressure to assist
in mining, improved machinery for handling the coal taken, barring accidents, from
miners as it is made.
When the average daily wage was only $1.83 the production per miner was the
highest, viz., 5-89 tons. Now, with an average of $3 the average yield is below four
tons
Not only is the Company unable to continue under existing alarming conditions,
but the directors insist that there must either be a readjustment of mining rates or
a suspension of operations. There is no other alternative. The instructions are
definite and will be carried out, due notice of which will be given.
The order reads as follows : —
Montreal, June 1, 1000.
.T. R. Cowan, Esq.,
General Manager.
Dear Sir, — At the meeting of the directors of the Company hold in this office on
Wednesday, May 26, the application of the 11. M. W. for a Board of Conciliation was
submitted, claiming recognition of the TJ. M. W.. adjustment of the system of weigh-
ing coal, to establish a schedule of prices?, and to establish a docking .system.
jyOisTinAL DI.SPLTEti lyVEsriaATIOX ACT 117
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36 ,
I submitted to the meeting statements of the results of the operations of the
Company for the year 1906, 1907 and 1908, as well as for the four months of the
present year, duly verified by the auditors, which I now inclose to you.
It was decided that in view of these statements not only was it impossible for the
Company to grant any increase involving greater cost in operation, but if we could
not succeed in reducing costs that it would be impossible for the Company to con-
tinue business much longer.
This view was materially strengthened by the fact that prices for coal have this
year suffered a serious drop from last year's figures, which will inevitably make the
position of the Company much more precarious at the end of the year, unless im-
mediate steps are taken to reduce the cost of producing coal; I need not go into details
of this; you know that the railway contracts involving over one-half of our sales are
lower, I may say much lower, and that small coal is at present a drug in the markel,
and the prices offered us are ridiculous when the cost of production is considered.
You will see that the Companj' went behind in those years as follows : —
1906 $ 77,715 45
1907 156,992 17
1908 22,004 62
1909 (four months) 42,977 93
Total $299,690 17
Nothing that I can say can add to the gravity of these figures, any intelligent
man can see that no Company however strong can stand such a drain for long.
The Board felt that it was necessary to have these statements laid before the
arbitrators, and the men in our employment, so that they would be no longer in
ignorance as to the actual posifion of the Company, and might be able to be pre-
pared to make such sacrifice as are absolutely essential if the Company is to continue
business.
In making such reductions I wish to say that the process will start at the top
(the Board in fact have already decided to accept no further pay till the position has
changed for the' better) and that the president will be the first to suffer whatever
reduction may be necessary and that others will have to follow suit.
As you are aware, the Company was only kept going through these years by the
shareholders subscribing fresh capital in the shape of bonds, which give them a lien
on the property, and should the Company fail to pay the interest, as now seem prob-
able, that it will be in their power to foreclose their mortgage, and take the whole
concern away from the shareholders, who in that case will lose everything; that the
shareholders are by no means all well off is well known to you.
The directors, therefore, gave instructions that these statements should be laid
before the Board of Arbitrators and the men; that it was utterly beyond their power
to increase costs in any way, and that, therefore, no demands could be considered;
that costs must be reduced, and if this was not done the Company would have to sus-
pend operations, and that these instructions be transmitted to you with orders that
you report in detail what steps you consider must be taken to give effect to them.
The situation is most serious, but I trust that the good sense of our men (and
the ability of our staff) once they are put in full possession of the facts, will enable
us to pull through.
I do not intend to enter into recriminations, the situation is beyond that point
now, but I would point out to you that the constant succession of strikes and talk of
strikes at Springhill have done a great injury, indirect it may be, to Springhill in
the eyes of customers and the public generally, and the present situation is the direct
result of the demands that have been forced upon us since 1899.
113 DEFARTMEM OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The inevitable end of Springhill as a mine, and Springhill as a town, if this is
continued, it needs no prophet to foretell.
Tours truly.
(Sgd.) H. R. Drummond,
President.
The Company's statements, certified by Messrs. Macintosh & Hyde, chartered
accountants, are respectfully submitted to the Board of Conciliation, and the
employed of this Company.
The accuracy of the figures given in this statement was not seriously called in
question by the counsel for the employees. Indeed, it is not likely that they are open
to question. On cross-examination it was shown that the railway with which the
company operates pays a small annual profit by making an arbitrary allowance of
20 cents a ton for all the Company's coal hauled over it to Springhill Junction and
Parrsboro, respectively. Without this the road is operated at a loss so far as general
public traffic is concerned. These profits counting in the 20 cents a ton paid for the
transportation of coal are all taken into account in the operation of the mine. The
Company is also carrying on some timbering enterprises which have produced a small
annual profit, and these too are taken into account in the figures submitted.
The leading purpose of the cross-examination by counsel for the employees was
to show if possible that some of the losses in the operation of the mine were due to
defects in management. In the judgment of the Board not much that was definite
in this regard was elicited, but even if this were so it would not diminish in the
slightest degree the gravity of the situation. Springhill is a town of some 6,000 or
7,000 people, which has been brought into existence almost entirely as the result of
the mining operations of this Company and its .predecessor. The closing of these
mines would mean very largely the destruction of valuations at Springhill and a
great depopulation of the town. It would mean also a serious loss to the Provincial
revenues.
Operations in this mine cannot be carried on as economically as in niost of the
mines in Cape Breton or even those on the mainland.
Under these circumstances, it seems to your Board unreasonable and impracti-
cable that the employees should ask or expect higher rates of remuneration under
existing conditions. The price of coal has fallen in large and important contracts
as compared with last year, when a net loss resulte 1. The figures for five months
of the present year indicate that the loss for 1909 is likely to be very much greater.
Under these circumstances, your Board cannot help recognizing that the only
rational policy to be pursued by all parties concerned is one of conciHatinn and for-
bearance in order that this large and important industry may not be comiielled to
cease operations with most far-reaching and disastrous consequences to all, including
the business men of the town. Heavy losses have been already entailed by twenty-
two strikes, which have exhausted the energies and wasted the resources of the Com-
pany. In the judgment of the Board, the present is not a time to agitate for changes,
but rather a time a common effort should be made to improve the situation and secure
the permanence of the industry.
Your Board fully appreeiate that it is not a necessary part of their functions to
make suggestions outside of the .specific matters referred to them. Nevertholpss it
does not seem inappropriate for a Board appointed to reconcile differences and secure
peace and harmony in connection with a large mining industry to seek to ascertai.i
as far as possible the fimdamental causes of differences and misunderstandings nml
to s-ek if possible tn discover a remedy.
The control and management of this corporation is vested in its officers and direc-
(ors and under the exc?iisive control of its shareholders, and no one has a right, it it
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
fully conceded, to interfere in any way with its methods of operation; nor would this
Board think of making reflections upon its management or call in or question ita
methods of managing its property. Nevertheless, from a careful review of the whole
situation and all the surrounding circumstances attending the history of the mine
during the past twenty-six years during which it has been under the control of the
present Company, your Board feel that it might tend to allay long-standing friction
and secure a better state of feeling between the Company and employees if a change
should be made in the methods of management.
Your Board saw tokens during the somewhat lengthy investigation of the mat-
ters in dispute that unpleasant feelings, if not distinct hostility, existed between a
large number of employees and the management. It would perhaps be invidious to
attempt to place the responsibility for this, but the Board feel it their duty to bring
this state of affairs to the attention to the directors of the Company in a formal
manner by means of this report.
This Board recommends the directors to make a careful investigation into this
uuplea-sant feature of existing relations with the hope that they may be able to policy
or make such changes as will prevent the possibility of this unfortunate condition
prevailing in the future.
Your Board, although conscious of having endeavoured to give their best con-
sideration to all matters touching the welfare of both the Cpmpany and its employees,
are yet painfully sensible that small results are likely to flow from any immediate
recommendations they make, unless, indeed, it shall result in such a change in exist-
ing conditions as will obliterate the unfortunate consequences of long-standing differ-
ences.
(Sgd.) J. W. LOKGLET,
Chairman.
Charles Archibald,
E. B. Paul,
(Subject to foot note.)
FOOT NOTE BY MR. E. B. PAUL.
^Yith most of the facts stated in the above, I concur, but in respect of some of
the recommendations made I feel compelled to dissent.
1st. I think the recognition of local union No. 469 by the Company would result
in allaying friction and tend generally to a better understanding between the man-
agement and the employees. I think the employees should have the right to organize
under any conditions and regulations which suit them best. So long as such organi-
zation contains no provisions or obligations which conflict with our laws, provincial
or general.
2nd and 3rd. I am not disposed to disagree with the recommendations in respect
of these two items submitted to this Board. I believe in a schedule of rates, and that
operations would be carried on more smoothly and satisfactorily if such were in
operation at Springhill, as well as other coal mines in Nova Scotia, though I do not
mean by this that higher rates should be imposed than are at present paid.
(Sgd.) E. B. Paul.
DEl'ARTlIEXr OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 191 ■
XI.— APPLICATION FROM FEEIGHT HANDLERS EMPLOYED BY THE
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AT OWEN SOUND, ONT.—
BOARD ESTABLISHED— AGREEMENT CONCLUDED.
Application received. — ^May 17, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Canadian Pacific Railway Company and freight handlers ;it
Owen Sound, Ont.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Transportation.
Nature of dispute. — Wages.
Numher of employees affected. — 250.
Date of constitution of Board. — June 2, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Mr. Donald Ross, Barrie, Ont., Chairman, appointed by
the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the other members
of the Board; Mr. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recom-
mendation of the employing Company; and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Toronto, Ont.,
appointed on the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — June 17, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Employees who had declared strike returned to work on apply-
ing for Board. Employees later accepted employment on basis of Board's report.
The Minister received on June 17 the report of the Board established to adjust
a dispute between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and longshoremen in its
employ at Owen Sound, Ont. In their application for the appointment of this Board
the employees claimed that the wages paid were not suiSeient compensation for their
•services nor on a par with the wages paid at other ports on the great lakes for similar
tvork. The matters of difference brought to the attention of the Board were, how-
ever, three in number, the first being the question of wages, the second a question of
what was described as discrimination, and the third the claim of the employees to be
paid fortnightly instead of monthly as at prasent. The number of employees likely
to be afFected was stated to be between 250 and 500 as the season advanced. Pending
the negotiations between the Company and its employees for a settlement in this
matter some 200 longshoremen refused to return to work, but later decided to apply
for a Board of Conciliation and Investigation, and thereupon resumed their positions
in the Company's employ. Mr. Wallace Nesbitt and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, both of
Toronto, were appointed members of the Board on the recommendation of the em-
ployers and employees respectively, and in the absence of any joint recommendation
from Massrs. Nesbitt and O'Donoglnii'. Mr. Donald Ross, of Barrie, was appointed
by the Minister as Chairman.
The members of the Board were unanimously of opinion that it is impossible to
suggest any remedy for the so-called discrimination. The Board also found that
desirable as it might be in the interests of the employees to have payment fortnightly,
the difficulties suggested by the Company in doing this lyid maintaining a proper sys-
tem of audit over their extensive system were in.superable.
On the question of wages to be paid the Board advised that there should be an
nlteration in favour of the men in the rate of wages agreed to by a written contract
by each of the men at the beginning of the season. It is remarked in the report that
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
' where the men would expect the Company to be bound by a contract to pay a certain
wage, they themselves, in aU fairness, should abide by a contract which they have
entered into; otherwise there can be no confidence in bargains made which are repudi-
ated as soon after as it appears to be in the power or to the advantage of either party
to do so.' In the present case the men had agreed to take 15c. per hour for week days
aud 16c. per hour for night and Sunday work, and 20c. per hour for the handling of
grain and coal. The majority of the Board agreed, however, that 17c. per hour for
week day work (7 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and 18c. per hour for night (6 p.m. to 7 a.m.) and
Sunday work should be paid and accepted, and 2.3c. per hour for the handling of
grain and 25c. per hour for the handling of coal. These figures were .slightly higher
than in the negotiations between the parties, and higher than the Company stated
they would accept, and slightly lower than the men stated they would be content to
receive.
In the minority report Mr. J. G. O'Donoghup, member of the Board appointed on
the recommendation of the employees, expressed the opinion that the only diiBculty
in the way of bi-monthly payment of wages was one of bookkeeping and ' that the
necessities of the men should not be sacrificd for any such reason.' The evidence
before the Board showed, in his opinion, that the cost of living in Owen Sound was
miich higher than at Midland, Collingwood, Windsor and other points where similar
work was performed, yet the wages paid at Owen Sound^were much below thoso
paid at these other towns and cities. The season for this class of work was, ho urged,
about seven months long, and the average wage received by the men during that time
probably less than $300. Mr. O'Donoghue advised that the following rates should be
paid: Shedmen, 22c. by day and 25c. by night; grain men, 30c. by day or night, and
coal men the same, with double time for all Sunday work.
On June 21 the department was advised that the majority report of the Board
in this matter had been accepted by the employees concerned. On June 23 the de-
partment was advised that the report of the majority of the Board was accepted by
the Company. i
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the report of the Board is as follows : —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and of the dispute
between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, employer, and longshoremen in
its employ at Owen Sound, Ontario, employees.
The Undersigned, together with Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, having been appointed
as a Board of Conciliation and Investigation under the above Act, held sittings at
Owen Sound on the 10th day of June, 1009, and having heard the parties aud con-
sidered the evidence, beg to report as follows: —
There were three matters of difference brought before the Board, the first, or sub-
-stantial one, being the question of the wages which .should be paid; the second being
a question of what was described as discrimination, and the third, the claim by the
employees to be paid fortnightly instead of monthly, as at present.
All the members of the Board were of the opinion that it was impossible to sug-
gest a remedy for the so-called discrimination, a view which the employees them-
selves, after discussion, we inferred concurred in. It seems diflicult, if not iuipuo-
sible, to lay down any rule by which there are. say, 100 men seeking the employment
of unloading a boat on her arrival, and only 80 required, to avoid the natural desire
upon the part of the employer to select those best fitted and capable to pci-forin tlic
work.
122 DEFARTilEM OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The Board also agreed in the view that desirable as it might be in the interests
of the employees to have payment fortnightly, the difficulties suggested by the Com-
pauy in doing this and maintaining a proper system of audit over their extensive
system, were insuperable.
On the question of wages to be paid, the undersigned, the majority of the Board,
after weighing the matter carefully under all the circumstances have come to the
conclusion that there should be an alteration in favour of the men in the rate of
wages agreed to by a written contract by each of the men at the beginning of the
season. It is to be remarked that where the men would expect the Company to be
bound by a contract to pay a certain wage they themselves in all fairness should
abide by a contract which they have entered into ; otherwise there can be no confidence
in bargains made which are repudiated so soon as it appears to be in the power or to
the advantage of either party to do so. The men, also, seemed to have gone on strike
in direct violation of the law. So far as these considerations are concerned, the
course followed was improper and unwise. The men, however, could have given
thirty days' notice and terminated the contract, and the Board have only felt them-
selves called upon to deal with the evidence as to what, in their opinion, under all
the circumstances, and in the present condition of the labour market, would be a
proper wage to suggest that the employer should pay and the employee should be con-
tent to accept for the various classes of work described.
The men had agreed to take 15c. per hour for week-day work and 16c. per hour
for night and Sunday work, and 20c. per hour for the handling of grain and coal.
The majority of the Board have come to the conclusion that 17c. per hour for
week-day "work (7 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and 18c. per hour for night (fi p.m. to 7 a.m.), and
Sunday work should be paid and accepted, and 23c. per hour for the handling of grain
and 25c. per hour for the handling of coal. These figures are .'^lightly higher than
in the negotiations between the parties the Company stated they would accept, and
slightly lower than the men stated they would be content to receive, and the majority
of the Board, after anxious consideration of the views of both parties, beg to report
that the figures given above are in their opinion fair.
Dated this 15th day of June, 1909.
(Sgd.) Do^fAI.D Eoss^
Chairman.
Wallace iVesbitt
i'or C. P. R.
MINORITY REPORT.
The text of the minority report of Mr. .7. O. O'l")onoghuo is as follows:—
To the HOSOURABLE THE MINISTER OF LaBOUB,
Ottawa.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and of a dispute
between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, employer, and Longshoremen
in its employ, employees.
The men asked for three things: (1) an increase in wages; (Z) that they be paid
bi-weekly instead of monthly, a.s at present; and (3; that certain discrimination be
discontinued. The last-named complaint was not one that could very well be arranged
by any board. , , , „ i ^ -•
The n-en. in mv view, made out a good case for the change they sought from a
monthly to a bi-weekly pay day. The only difficulty in the way of the company is
r.,ie of bookkeeping, and the necessities r,f the men should not bo ..arnficod for any
such reason.
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The evidence before the Board was conclusive that the cost of living in, Owen
Sound is much higher than at Midland, Collingwood, Windsor and other points where
similar work is performed. Yet the wages paid at Owen Sound are much helow
what are paid in these other towns and cities. The following figures show the differ-
Shed Men.
Day. Night & Sunday
Midland 30 45
Owen Sound 15 16
Collingwood 20 20
Windsor 25 30
Port Arthur 22-J 224*
Hamilton 25 25
Toronto 25 25
Montreal 27J 32J
Grain Men.
Owen Sound 20 20
Midland .30 30
Collingwood ,30 30
Hamilton 25 25
Montreal 274 32i
Coal Men.
Owen Sound 20 20
Midland 30 30
Collingwood 30 30
Hamilton 25 25
Montreal 324 32 J
The evidence disclosed that the men have to be ready for a call at any hour of
the day or night, and. though they may respond, say at midnight, to a call, if the
boat should not take the dock until noon next day. they got nothing after waiting
that length of time on duty.
Nor can they take other work whilst waiting for a call from the Company.
In the Winnipeg Street Eailway arbitration, recently concluded, every one, includ-
ing the members of the Board and the Company officials, conceded that it was a
liard.ship on the men to have to work 16 hours in order to make ten. In this case,
apparently, the Canadan Pacific Eailway Company sees no hardship in making the
men work, perhaps 48 or more hours in order to make 10.
The reason apuears to be about seven months long, and the average wage received
by the men during that time is probably less than $300. If that is not a starvation
wage, then I don't know what is. The men, though living frugally, are no doubt
indebted to every butcher, baker, grocer and other tradesman in Owen Sound. Theso
have to suffer as well as the men.
• And 2Jc. bonus.
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I think the following rate.s should be paid: —
Day. Night.
Shed men 22 25
Grain men .'!0 I'O
Coalmen 30 30
A workman sells so many hours out of every twenty-four. Any employer who
wants his services outside of the regular period, should pay at least time and one-
half for those services.
The general sentiment of the country is opposed to Sunday labour. The amount
paid for Sunday work should be in the nature of a penalty, so as to discourage it
altogether. For that reason, I should say that double time ought to be paid for all
Sunday work. The Company can save itself money minimizing the amount of work
to be done on that day. An instance was mentioned of a boat being loaded on Sun-
day, recently, the men working until 2 a.m. Monday. The boat left on the following
Tuesday, and the men had no work to do on the Monday intervening. This is a case
where a little horse sense and consideration could have avoided the Sunday work.
I have the honour to be, yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) J. G. O'DONOGHUE.
Toronto, June 11, 1909.
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XII.— APPLICATION FROM ENGINEERS. FIREMEN, CONDUCTORS, BRAKE-
MEN, BAGGAGEMEN, AND YARDMEN EMPLOYED BY THE GRAND
TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY— BOARD— ESTABLISHED-
UNANIMOUS REPORT BY BOARD— AGREEMENT CONCLUDED AND
STRIKE AVERTED.
Application received. — June 3, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Grand Trunk Pacific Kailway Company and engineers, fire-
men, conductors, brakemen, baggagemen and yardmen in its employ.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees affected. — 300. ,
Date of constitution of Board. — June 24, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Honourable R. F. Sutherland, M.P., Windsor, Ont.. Chair-
man, appointed on the .ioint recommendation of the other members of the Board;
Mr. F. H. McGuigan, Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the em-
ploying Company; and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recom-
mendation of the employees.
Report received. — August 14, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Agreement concluded on all points in dispute. No cessation
of work occurred.
The Minister received on August 14 the unanimous report of the Board established
in the matter of a dispute between the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and its en-
gineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, baggagemen, and yardmen, members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen.
In the application which was made on May 29 for the establishment of a Board
in this matter it was stated by the employees concerned that the differences related
to ' the consideration and adoption of schedules of rates of pay and rules governing
the service and working conditions of engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen,
baggagemen and yardmen, including provision therein as to the dismissal and pro-
motion of employees; the investigation of the dismissal of employees who, it is sub-
mitted, have been wrongfully dismissed; the consideration of the sufficiency of sleep-
ing and eating accommodation furnished to employees, the same being, it is sub-
mitted, unclean and improper; the quality of the food provided.' The number of em-
ployees affected was stated to be 300 directly and 800 indirectly. Mr. F. H. McGuigan.
of Toronto, and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, of Toronto, were appointed members of this
Board on the recommendation of the Company and of the employees respectively, and
on the joint recommendation of Messrs. McGuigan and O'Donoghue the Board was
completed on June 24 by the appointment of Hon. R. F. Sutherland, M.P., of Windsor,
Ont.. as chairman.
In the report of the Board it was stated that a very fair, friendly and conciliatory
disposition was displayed on all hands and that the representatives of the employees
expressed reasonable confidence in the present oflScials of the Company and were dis-
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posed to concede that the conditions of their service as regards a number of the
matters in dispute liave recently been somcwLiit Improved. The Company's officers
laid much stress on the fact that as yet the road is in but the constructive stage with
the usual accompanying difficulties as to wages, supplies, and general conditions, and
that in consequence some of the claims made on behalf of the employees were prema-
ture. The report continued: 'After a full hearing and consideration, the matters in
dispute were amicably adjusted with the exception of the claim of the employees that
' engineormen detained on their engines, at terminals, two hours or more before com-
mencement or after completion of trip, will be paid for same at schedule rates, such
detention to be paid for in addition to mileage run, but to be deducted when com-
puting overtime,' 'n respect to which a majority of the Board was disposed to agree
with the contention of the employees.
' While it appeared that in some cases the food supplied to the employees, the
method of serving same, the sleeping accommodations provided, and the general sani-
tary conditions may not have been entirely satisfactory it also appeared that in a
general way these were similar to and on the whole as good as those usually provided
in the early stages of railway construction. The Board is of the opinion, however,
and would recommend that a regular inspection and report of all conditions of the
construction camps, buildings and conveniences of the Company be made by its
physicians with a view to better the condition of the employees and secure, if possible,
that these be satisfactory in so far as food, lodgings and sanitation are concerned.
' The Board is of opinion that the cases of certain of the men whose alleged
grievances were the subject of investigation and discussion might well be reconsidered
by the officers of the Company with a view to their restoration to its service.
' Your Board is glad to report an adjustment of the matters in dispute and its
unanimous agreement upon the basis of the attached schedules to remain in force
for one year from August 15, 1909, and thereafter subject to the termination on
thirty days' notice by either party.'
Attached to the findings of the Board in this matter is a schedule of rates of pay
and rules troverning the service of engineers, firemen and hostlers on all owned.
leased and onerated linQS of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway west of Fort William :
also a schedule of rates of pay and rules for conductors, baggagemen, br.nkcmen find
yardmen on the lines of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway west of Fort William.
Subsequent to the receipt of the Board's findings a question was raised by the
employees with respect to an alleged error in paragraph 7 of the same respecting the
adjustment of certain of the matters in dispute, and as a result a further sitting was
held of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation, at which this paragraph was
amended so as to read as follows: —
' After full hearing and consideration the matters in dispute wore amicnbl.f
adjusted, with the exception of the claim of the employees that "road engineers will
be paid for switching at terminals and turn around points at through freight rates,
time to count from time engine is ordered for until switching is completed, each six
minutes to count as one mile; this in addition to mileage made on trip".'
Tn a letter dated .Tune 22 the change in question wag accepted by the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway Company. Following the amendment of the report in this
particular further correspondence was exchanged between the department and the
parties concerned respecting the attitude of the employees towards the Board's find-
ings in other respects. At the end of the year the department had not been informed
of any formal acceptance of the findincs by the Company and the employees con-
cerned, but no cessation of work had taken place.
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REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this
matter is as follows : — -
Toronto, August 11, 1909.
To THE Hon. W. L. Mackenzie Kdjg,
Minister of Labour.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and of a dis-
pute between the Grand Trunk Pacifi.j Railway Company find its employees.
The members of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation established by the
Minister of Labour under the above Act, on the 24th day of June, 1909, and to which
the dispute herein was referred under the provisions thereof, beg to report as follows:
1. The first meeting of the Board was held in Winnijieg on the 17th of July, and
its meetings thereafter continued in the office of the general superintendent of the
Company in the Somerset block on Portage avenue until the 24th of July, 1909, when
its work was completed.
2. The matters in dispute were at first complicated by the fact that the Company
having issued bulletins in general terms, which it claimed provided for the matters in
dispute, was not disposed to consent to the framing of schedules. On the other hand,
the employees had prepared and presented to the Board for it^ consideration detailed
and somewhat complicated schedules.
3. Taking the bulletins referred to and the Grand Trunk Railway system opera-
tion rules, which the officers of the Company alleged to have been in use in a general
way as a starting point, the matters in dispute, and as particularly set out in the
said schedules prepared by the employees, were fully investigated and considered.
4. A very fair, friendly and conciliatory disposition was displayed on all hands.
5. The representatives of the employees expressed reasonable confidence in the
present officials of the Company and were disposed to concede that the conditions of
their service as regards a number of the matters in dispute had recently been some-
what improved.
6. The Company's officers laid much stress on the fact that as yet the road is
in but the construction stage with the usual accompanying difficulties as to wages,
supplies and general conditions, and that in consequence some of the claims made
on behalf of its employees were premature.
7. After a full hearing and consideration, the matters in dispute were amicably
adjusted with the exception of the claim of the employees that ' enginemen detained
on their engines at terminals two hours or more before commencement or after com-
pletion of trip will be paid for same at schedule rates, such detention to be paid for in
addition to mileage run, but to be deducted when computing overtime,' in respect to
which a majority of the Board was disposed to agree with the contention of the em-
ployees.
8. While it appeared that in some cases the food supplied to the employees, the
method of serving same, the sleeping accommodations provided and the general .sani-
tary conditions may not have been entirely satisfactory, it also appeared that in a
general way these were similar to, and on the whole as good as, those usually pro-
vided in the early stages of railway construction. The Board is of opinion, however,
and would recommend that a regular inspection and report of all conditions of the
construction camps, buildings and conveniences of the Company be made by its
physicians with a view to better the conditions of employees and secure, if possible,
that these be satisfactory in so far as food, lodgings and sanitation are concerned.
The Board is of opinion that the cases of certain of the men whose alleged griev-
ances were the subject of investigation and discussion might well be reconsidered by
the officers of the Company with a view to their restoration to its service.
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Your Board is glad to report an adjustment of the matters in dispute and its
unanimous agreement upon the basis of the attached schedules to remain in force
for one year from August 15, 1909, and thereafter subject to termination on thirty
days' notice by either party.
(Sgd.) R. r. Sutherland.
Chairman.
" F. n. McGuiGAN,
Representing the Company.
" J. G. O'DOXOGHUE.
Representing the Employees.
SCHEDULE.
Schedule of rates of pay and rules governing the service of the engineers, firemen
and hostler? on all owned, leased and operated lines -west of Fort William, Ontario: —
. . Engineers. Fxremen.
Passenger trains, per mile. Cents. Cents.
Engines 50 to 100 and 300 4-00 2-50
Engines 1 to 26 4-10 2-70
Engines 200 to 225 4-25 2-90
Engines 500 to 509 4-50 3-05
Freight service, per mile
Engines 50 to 100 and 300 4-40 2-60
Engines 1 to 26 4-50 2-80
Engines 200 to 225 4-65 3-00
Engines 500 to 509 4-90 3-25
Construction and other worl- trains, per hour.
Engines 50 to 100 and 300 40- 23.50
Engines 1 to 26 41- 25.50
Engines 200 to 225 42-50 27-50
Engines 500 to 509". 45- 30-
Light running and piloting, paid for class of .service performed.
Operating rotary plow 4-90 3-25
Switt-hing rates, per hour 37-50 22-50
Watching and caring for ongin&s, per hour. . . . 40- 25-
On regularly assigned way-freight runs twenty-five cents (25 cents) to engineers,
and fifteen cents (15 cents) to firemen will be allowed in addition to through freight
rates for each one hundred (100) miles and pro rata for any fraction thereof.
ARTICLE III.
Delenfinn.
(1) On all passenger trains not otherwise specified, detention will be paid for the
time used in making the trip in excess of the time necessary to complete the trip at
an averagie speed of fifteen (15) miles per hour.
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(2) On all way-freight, through and mized trains, not otherwise specified, deten-
tion will be paid for the time used in making the trip in excess of the time necessary
to complete the trip at an average speed of eleven (11) miles per hour.
(3) Detention will be computed from the time crew is called to go to work until
it is registered in at the arriving terminal. Time of work trains will commence
thirty (30) minutes before leaving time of train.
(4) Fractions of an hour less than thirty (30) minutes will not be counted; frac-
tions of an hour over (30) minutes will be counted one hour.
(5) Terminal delays in road service before departure will be reported on sepa-
rate ticket, and will be paid for at detention rates. Delays of less than one hour
and thirty minutes (1 hr. 30 min.) will not be counted. The time so made will be
deducted from any detention earned on the trip.
(6) Terminal delays in road service after arrival to be reported on separate
ticket, and will be paid for at detention rates. Delays of less than forty-five (45)
minutes will not be counted. Delays over one hour and thirty minutes (1 hr. 30 min.)
to count two houre.
Terminal delays will begin when train is registered in arriving at terminal and
end when engine is delivered in engine house yard.
(7) Detention will be paid at mileage rates for the class of service jwrformed,
based on detention speed limits. Enginemen should be pr^omptly notified and reason
given when time shown on time tickets is not allowed.
ARTICLE IV.
Miscellaneous Service rates.
(1) Enginemen acting as pilots will receive the engineer's rate for the class of
service performed.
(2) Authorized dead-heading on Company business, two hundred (200) miles or
less, will be paid minimum passenger rates for actual miles. Distances in excess of
two hundred (200) miles, half minimum passenger rates.
(3) Engineers assigned to specified runs will be paid extra for work done ont-
side of the regular run and work performed either before or after time card hours at
the rates effective for the class of service performed, and failing to make a full month,
will be paid pro rata for the service performed.
(4) Shop time, including time acting as hostlers, will be computed at the rate
of throe dollars ($3) for each day of ten (10) hours; five (5) hours or less will be
paid half day, over (5) hours and less than ten (10) hours, one day.
Enginemen in freight or passenger liervice will be paid mileage from the track
where they take the engine to track where they deliver it. Round trips 100 miles or
more one way will be paid for as separate runs.
Eoad enginemen called and cancelled within three (3) hours, having made no
mileage, will be paid for (3) hours and stand first out. For less than five (5) hours
or fifty miles, pay for five (5) hours or (50) miles will be allowed. When over five
(5) hours or fifty (50) miles, pay for ten (10) hours or one hundred (100) miJe.s will
be allowed.
StnfrJi Engineers.
Enginemen on switch engines will be paid five (5) hours for five (5) hours or
less: over five (5) hours, actual time.
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ARTICLK VII.
Engineers held under orders for train or other service or attending court or
coroner's inquests on legal cases for the Company will be allowed four dollars ($4)
for each twenty-four (24) hours or portion thereof, detention from duty. Firemen will
be allowed two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) for each twenty-four hours' or portion
thereof, detention from duty. When such service is done on a day upon which regu-
lar work is also i)erformed payment will be made pro rata for the time so occupied.
When such service is done on a lay-off day the full rate will be allowed. Expenses
will be allowed at the rate of two dollars ($2) each for twenty-four (24) hours away
from home station. The court witness fees and mileage will be assigned to the Com-
pany.
ARTICLE vni.
Enginemen in charge of dead engines will be paid enginemen's minimum freight
rates and overtime, if made.
ARTICLE IX.
Enginemen on snow plough trains will be allowed actual mileage, including sid-
ings ploughed.
ARTICLE X.
Enginemen on work trains will be allowed pay for making repairs to engines
before or after hours at pits or other work train points where there is no locomotive
staff. Such work to be reported on a separate ticket.
Enginemen in work train service, if not required on Sunday, will be furnished
passes and allowed to go home when such leave will not interfere with the service.
As assigned work crew running thirty (30) miles or more to or from work, mile-
age so run will be paid for at through freight rates; time so occupied not to be
included in time paid for at work train rates.
Work train crews will be given opportunity for meals at reasonable hours and
provided with reasonable sleeping accommodation.
ARTICLE XT.
When an engineman in regular service is called upon temporarily to perform
duties other than his own, except tihat of hostler, he will receive not less than his
own rate of pay. This not to apply to extra men.
ARTICLE XII.
Enginemen will not ordinarily be required to back up or run tender first in
inclement weather or after dark except with work or construction trains or in case
of emergency.
ARTICLE XIII.
The engineer in charge of an engine ordered over any section or branch with
which he is not familiar will, wlien necessary, oe furni.shcd witli a competent pilot.
ARTICLE XIV.
The hanrlling of freight crews in the movement of traffic under normal conditions
will, so far as practicable, be so arranged by the Company as to avoid excessive lay-
jover at other than home terminals.
ARTICLE XV.
Enginemen taking engines from one terminal or division to another will be fur-
nished passes to return home and will not be required to run out of any other than
their home terminal unless agreeable to them or in case of emergency.
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ARTICLE XVL
Engines running through terminals where roundhouse staff is employed, whether
on round trip or over more than one section, will, where convenient, have coal
shovelled ahead and fire and ash pan cleaned by roundhouse staff.
ARTICLE xvii.
Engine cabs will be furnished with the usual seats and boxes suitable for storing
clothes.
Engines should be so maintained that excessive and unnecessary steam blowing
from any part will be avoided.
During cold weather the engine will be equipped with frost glasses on front cab
window, side and back curtains, and back boards, and all openings about the cab, in
running board and around the reverse lever, will be kept closed.
ARTICLE XVra.
When an engineman is discharged or resigns he will, as soon as practicable, be
paid and given a certificate stating term of service and in what capacity he was
employed.
ARTICLE XIX.
If an engineman he taken off his run for any cause "he shall, if he so desires, be
given a hearing at which he shall have the right to have another engineman of his
own selection appear and speak for him, and shall have the right to appeal from the
decision of the local or the general ofiicers of the Company. Should no decision be
rendered within fifteen (15) days he shall receive pay until decision is rendered, and
if proved innocent be reinstated and receive compensation for time lost.
ARTICLE XX.
A revised seniority list of enginemen shall be posted at each, roundhouse on the
1st of January each year.
ARTICLE XXI.
Enginemen's seniority will date from day of commencing work.
ARTICLE xxn.
Firemen will, conditions permitting, be called upon to pass examination for pro-
motion in seniority turn and will be notified in writing within thirty (30) days there-
after of the results of such examination.
When conditions will not permit of a fireman taking his examination he will
forfeit no rights thereby.
In the event of a fireman refusing to take or failing to pass the required examina-
tion he may be called upon again within six (6) months to pass a second examination
Firemen refusing to take or failing to pass a second examination will be placed at
the foot of the eligible list or their services dispensed with, at the option of the Com-
pany.
ARTICLE xxm.
When necessary to transfer an engineman from one district or division to
another, junior men will be transferred. If necessary for them to remain one year
they will be classed as permanent men and retain seniority.
Promoted engineers put back firing will have priority over hired engineers and
choice of runs, according to seniority.
ARTICLE xxrv.
Engineman taken over with another road will hold their seniority on the lines
acquired. '
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Enginemen assigned by the Company to contractors' service will retain their
seniority.
ARTICLE XXV.
Senior enginemen will have precedence in promotion and runs, dependent tipon
their general good conduct, faithful discharge of duty, and ability to assume in-
creased responsibility, the master mechanic to be the judge.
ARTICLE XXVI.
Any enginemen refusing a run to which he is assigned will forfeit his rights
to the man accepting it.
ARTICLE xx\'n.
If an engine assigned to a regular run is taken off such run, the engineman
assigned to such run will be furnished with another engine.
ARTICLE XXVm.
If a regular run be vacant for thirty (30) days or less the senior extra engine-
man available will be used. If vacant for more than thirty (30) days the senior
engineman desiring the run will be used.
ARTICLE XXIX.
The number of crews on a district shall be regulated so far as possible as to en-
able the men to make at least twenty-six hundred (2,600) miles or twenty-six (26)
days per month.
ARTICLE XXX.
Should enginemen through sickness or injury become incapacitated, for perform-
ing their work they may be assigned to such other service as they are capable of
performing.
ARTICLE XXXI.
Eegularly appointed members of the Adjustment Committee of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-
men will, when required to do committee work, be relieved from duty and furnished
necessary transportation.
ARTICLE XXXn.
At stations where no regular force is provided enginemen will be paid
for turning and properly housing each locomotive, day and night.
ARTICLE XXXm.
When enginemen whose compensation is on a mileage basis are obliged to double
grades on account of train tonnage exceeding rated capacity of locomotive, or to run
for supply of coal or water, such mileage will be paid for at rate specified for district.
The time so made will be deducted from any detention made. In other words, the
Company shall not be required to pay twice for the same service.
ARTICLE XXXrV.
Through freight locomotives and enginemen not assigned to preferred freight
runs will be run first in, first out on the district to which they belong, as far as prac-
ticable, in the service to which they are assigned.
ARTICLE XXXV.
The spare list will be posted, it being the duty of spare men to give continual
attention to it, and be prepared for duty at any time, unless they shall have received
permission to be absent.
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ARTICLE XXXVI.
Spare men not appearing when called will lose their turn and fall to the bottom
of the list.
ARTICLE XSXVII.
Enginemen must respond promptly to the call of duty. A grievance, real or
imaginary, should take the form of a complaint to be inquired into and dealt with at
the proper time. It does not justify refusal to comply with instructions.
ARTICLE XXXVm.
A caller will be kept at stations, where necessary, to call enginemen.
ARTICLE XSXn.
Men will be called at their regular registered residences and as near as possible
two (2) hours before leaving time of train.
Each man when called must sign a call book which will show the time called
and the departure time of the train called for.
ARTICLE XL.
Enginemen who are assigned to regular runs will not be called for trains leaving
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.
ARTICLE XLI.
Enginemen after continuous service of fifteen (15) hours or more shall have eight
(8) hours' rest before they are again called for service, except in case of emergency.
ARTICLE XLn.
Leave of absence must be obtained from the foreman in charge in the event of
illness. Notice must be immediately given so that a substitute may be provided.
ARTICLE XLm.
Frequenting saloons, the use of intoxicating liquors or insubordination will be
sufficient cause for dismissal.
ARTICLE XLIV.
General Duties.
(1) To economically handle and use the oil, coal, sand, water, waste and other
supplies ;
(2) To report for duty and register out forty-five (45) minutes previous to the
time called to leave and to be on hand and have the locomotive in readiness to start
with train at the time called to leave;
(3) To examine bulletin books and notice boards before leaving a terminal.
(4) To enter rest required immediately on arrival at terminal in book provided
for that purpose. If leave of absence on account of sickness or for any reason other
than for rest is desired, to report personally to the foreman or his substitute.
(5) To assist in every manner possible in the event of a locomotive failure or
casualty, to avoid delay to the train and to clear the main line.
(6) To make the light repairs which may be necessary to keep the locomotives
in good condition for service until they can be taken to the roundhouse or terminal.
Duties at Roundhouse Terminals.
ENGINEERS.
(1) To make the usual hammer test inspection of the locomotive both before
and after leaving terminal, and engineers will be held responsible for any defects
found inside the frame of engines except where they have booked inspection to be
made, which must be only at points where and at times when there are no means of
making inspection.
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(2) To see that the locomotive has its proper equipment and a full supply of oil,
sand, water, coal and other supplies before leaving the roundhouse to go out on a
run. In the case of locomotives requiring to be equipped with tools before going
into service such work will be attended to by the shop staff.
(3) To test the air pump, both injectors, lubricators and steam heating equip-
ment and to know that they are in proper working order previous to leaving round-
house to go out on run.
(4) To personally test the air brake and signal whistle equipment by operating
the engineer's brake valve and the angle cocks at the rear end of the tender, and to
see that this equipment is in good working order, previous to leaving roundhouse
tracks to go out on a run.
(5) To adjust the feeds of all oil cups and to close the feeds immediately on
arrival at a terminal.
(6) To see that the automatic coupler knucKles are closed and that the air and
steam ^hose are coupled to their respective fastenings, before the locomotive is
delivered at a terminal.
(7) To see that heaters are applied during severe weather to all pipes requiring
such and before locomotives are delivered at a terminal.
(8) To drain the water of condensation from the main and auxiliary reservoirs,
triple valves, drain cups, and all other portions of the air brake equipment, to prevent
its accumulation, and in addition to see that the engine and tender and air appli-
ances that are liable to damage by frost are properly drained when an engine becomes
disabled for service.
(9) To see that a judicious amount of water is left in the boilers of locomotives
before they are delivered at a roundhouse after arriving at a terminal.
(10) To register in immediately on arrival at a terminal and to make out the
trip tickets and forms used in reporting train detention, casualties, personal injuries,
stock struck, fires, &c., when such reports are necessary, before leaving the Company's
premises.
(11) To make, immediately on arrival at a terminal, a complete written report
of all work necessary to be done by the roundhouse force on the assigned locomotive.
(12) To keep in adjustment the travel of the driver and engine truck brake
cylinder pistons, when the same can be reached from the outside, and to remedy or
make prompt report of all irregularities.
(13) To care for the trimming of eccentric straps, also for the trimming of tlie
top of the driver boxes where they can be conveniently got at. When this work is
reported it will be attended to by shop staff.
(14) To pack the steam and air stuffing boxes on the boiler head and other steam
throttles when it can be done with steam in the boiler and can be conveniently
reached. This work to be done by the shop staff when reported.
(15) To pack the steam and air end stuffing boxes of the air pump piston rod.
(16) To apply swabs to the valve stem, piston rod and air pump piston rod
glands.
(17) To pack the valve stem and piston rod stuffing boxes of locomotives not
equipped with metallic packing.
(18) To clean and care for the head lamp, reflector, burner, chimney and the
glass to the cage.
(19) To care for the locomotive equipment.
(20) To care for the air pump and see that it is kept in a clean condition and
properly lubricated.
(21) To make a complete and intelligent report of work necessary to be done on
locomotives going to the shops for repairs.
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Duties in Service on the Eoad.
engineers.
(1) To make as many intermediate inspections of the locomotives as opportunity
may afford.
(2) To renev? the water gauge and hibricate glasses.
(3) To tighten the nuts of all bolts found to be loose.
(4) To close the feeds of all lubricators and oil cups when lying at stations or
on side tracks for over five minutes.
(5) To see that the heaters are applied properly to all injectors, steam heat, rail
cleaner and other pipes requiring such heaters during severe weather.
(6) To be responsible for the steam pressure and water in the boiler and the
steam heat line, and the air pressure in the train and signal lines being maintained
and not increased.
(Y) To prevent such firing of a boiler as will produce black smoke and cause the
steam to be relieved through the pop valves; all the surplus steam to be blown into
the tender feed water.
C8) To see tliat the firemen attend to the duties assigned to them and that they
comply with the instructions in effect.
(9) To handle the locomotive in such a manner as will give the best result, both
as regards economy and efficiency; to make up all the time possible with trains that
may be late or important and to handle the air brake and steam heat equipment in
accordance with instructions, and to render the best of service.
(10) To make a telegraphic report to the master mechanic of slid or flat wheels
under locomotives, and of accidents which result in damage to machinery or jiersonal
injury, and of causes for unusual delays to trains which may be chargeable to the
motive power department.
(11) To immediately notify the conductor in the event of a locomotive becoming
disabled on the road so as to cause delay to trains, as to the reason of the failure,
how soon the locomotive will be ready to proceed and with what portion of the train,
so that tlie trainmaster can be advised and issue the necessary instructions.
Duties of Firemen at Roundhouse Terminals.
(1) To draw the necessary supply of oil. waste and stores immediately on arrival
at the roundhouse or previous to going out on a run.
(2) To fill the lubricator and the head-lamp oil reservoir, also the cab blizzard
and hand signal lamp reservoirs on arrival at the terminal.
(3) To care for all lamps but the head-lamp, and to clean the cage of the latter.
'(4) To assist the engineer in caring for the locomotive equipment.
(5) To shovel the coal from the rear end of the tender at least once during each
week, and to trim the coal from the sides of the tender at all terminals or imme-
diate coal stations.
(6) To keep the rear end tender deck around the water hole clean at all times,
and the drains open. ;
(7) At points where no shop staff is employed, if required, before or after hours,
to clean the fires of pilot, pusher or switch locomotives, and to wipe the running gear
and the tenders of such pilot, pusher or switch locomotives, they shall be paid at
regular rates for such services.
(8) To keep all tender tool and equipment boxes and the equipment contained
therein in a clean and orderly condition.
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DtJTIES IN' SERVICE ON THE ROAD.
(1) To be subordinate to the engineer.
(2) To be held strictly responsible to the engineer for the condition of the grates,
ashpan and dampers, and all the rigging pertaining thereto, and to know that the
necessary firing tools are on the locomotive previous to leaving the roundhouse tracks
to go out on a run.
(3) To comply with the instructions in effect in regard to the economical firing
of locomotives and the use of surplus steam.
(4) To be on the lookoiit for and to receive all the signals which may be given
or located on the left side of the locomotives, and to transmit them promptly and
correctly to the engineer.
(5) To be on the lookout for and to report to the engineer promptly all irregu-
larities which may be detected in the operation of the locomotive.
(6) To have the fire in readiness for the run, and the full pressure of steam in
the boiler at the time the locomotive is coupled to the train and the latter is ready to
leave.
(7) To keep on the locomotive one red and one white lantern, lighted and in
readiness for immediate service from sunset to sunrise. Four torpedoes must be
attached to the frame of the red lantern.
(8) To keep the cab foot plate clean and dampened, and the coal wetted down
and well raked in from the sides of the gangway during the trip over the road.
(9) To leave the locomotive at the end of the trip or day's work with a bright fire
on the grates, and especially next to the tube sheet.
(10) To remove from the locomotive all the train signal flags and lights imme-
diately on arrival at the roundhouse terminal.
(11) Road firemen will be relieved from all brass scouring and all cleaning outside
the cab while the engine is in service, but will clean the cab interior and sweep the
caib and deck, provided such parts are in a cleanly condition when the engine is
turned out for service.
(Sgd.) R. r. Sutherland,
Chairman.
(.Sgd.) F. II. McGuiGAN,
For the Company.
(Sgd.) J. G. O'DONOGHUE,
For the Employees.
SCHEDULE.
Schedule of rates of pay and rules for conductors, brakemen, brakemen and yard-
men. Grand Trunk Pacific lines west of Fort William.
Passenger trains, for average monthly mileage of 5,000 miles or less :—
I Per month.
Conductors will be paid $ 135 00
Brakemen will be paid Y2 75
All mileage in excess of 5,000 miles per month will be paid pro rata.
Condi:ctors. Brakoinen.
Throiii.,h freight trains per 100 mile $3 80 $2 60
Way-freight and mixed trains per 100 mile. ... 4 18 2 86
Work train, helper or pusher, per hour 0 38 0 26
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Rules for Trainmen.
ARTICLE I.
Light running and piloting will be paid for at rates for class of service performed.
The mixed trains as at present run, and similar runs added, will be classed and
paid as way-freight runs.
ARTICLE n.
Snow plough and flanger trains will be paid for at through freight rates. Train-
men will not be required, except in case of emergency, to ride in plough, but will be
supplied with a caboose or other suitable car.
ARTICLE m.
Trainmen deadheading or travelling passenger on Company's instructions will
be paid at the same rate as the corresponding men running the train on which they
travel.
The crew standing second out will dead head and will stand first out of the
distant terminal.
(h) Trainmen deadheading on passenger trains at the instance of the Company.
200 miles or more, will be paid one-half passenger rates ; otherwise they will be paid
as per clause (a).
ARTICLE IV.
Through freight trainmen regularly required to load or unload way-freight en
route will be paid at way-freight rates for the time so occupied, but not in excess of
way-freight rates for the full trip, such time to be deducted in computing overtime.
ARTICLE v.
When a passenger train averages less than fifteen miles an hour, and any other
train less than eleven miles per hour, overtime will be paid pro rate for time consumed
in excess of these respective averages from the time crew is called to leave terminal
until booked oS duty at the arriving terminal — less than thirty minutes not to count,
thirty minutes or over to be counted one hour. In work train service time will be
computed beginning thirty minutes before leaving time, except spotting crews.
ARTICLE VI.
When obliged to double grades on account of train tonnage exceeding rated
capacity of locomotive, or to run for coal or water, such mileage will be paid for at
rate specified for the district. The time so made will be deducted from any over-
time earned.
ARTICLE VII.
Trainmen called and cancelled within three hours, having made no mileage, will
be paid for three hours and stand first out. For less than five hours or fifty miles,
pay for five hours of fifty miles will be allowed. For over five hours or fifty miles, pay
for ten hours or one hundred miles will be allowed.
ARTICLE vni.
(a) Trainmen on wrecking trains will be allowed actual mileage to and from
working limits, and work train rates while at work.
(b) Trainmen will be furnished passes and allowed to go home for Sunday if the
train service will permit and it will not interfere with the work service.
(c) Unassigned freight crews will, when practicable, be selected for work train
service, seniority to govern.
ARTICLE IS.
Trainmen held under orders for train or other service will be paid ten miles per
hour at freight rates for the last ten hours or portion thereof in every twenty-four
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hours so held, less any mileage or time otherwise paid them during the said twenty-
four hours. When attending court away from home on Company's instructions will
also be allowed $2 per day expenses. Witness fees and mileage shall be assigned to
the Company.
ARTICLE X.
Trainmen required to coal engines en route will be paid at the rate of thirty-
three cents per hour for the time so occupied, and this time will he deducted in com-
puting overtime.
ARTICLE XI.
Trainmen shall be promptly notified and reas6n given when time shown on time
tickets is not allowed.
ARTICLE Xn.
When the business of the Company requires temporary transfer of men from one
district or division to another, the competent junior men in service shall be trans-
ferred and hold their seniority on the districts to which they belong. Promoted
conductors put back braking will have priority over hired conductors and choice of
runs according to seniority.
ARTICLE xni.
Trainmen who have been on duty twelve hours or more will not be called again
for immediate duty if they require rest, the men to be judge of their own condition,
but eight hours' rest is to be considered sufficient, except in extreme cases. The
required rest must be booked on arrival.
ARTICLE XIV.
Freight trainmen living within one mile of yard office and passenger trainnieti
living within one mile of the passenger station will be called as nearly as possible in
time to be on duty forty-five minutes and thirty minutes respectively before leaving
time of train. Caller will be furnished with a book in which the time the train is
to leave will be registered and in which trainmen will sign their names. Regular
men assigned to trains leaving between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. will not be called.
ARTICLE XV.
Trainmen assigned to regular runs will not be required to remain in caboose at
terminal points, and unless notified that they will be required before th^sir regular
runs will not be considered absent from duty if address is given where they can bo
called if required, and crews so advi.^ed will be given their turn out with unassigtuvl
crews.
ARTICLE XVI.
Unassigned crews in freight service will be run first in, first out of terminals.
ARTICLE XVII.
The number of crews on any district shall be regulated .so far as possible to
enable the men to make at least 2,600 miles, or 26 days per month.
ARTICLE xvni.
If a trainman bo taken off his run for any cause, he shall, if he so desires, be
given a hearing at which he shall have the right to have another trainman of hi.s own
selection appear and speak for him, and shall have the right to appeal from the
decision of the local to the general officers of the Company. Should no decision bo
rendered within fifteen days, he shall receive pay until decision is arrived at, and if
proved innocent shall be reinstated and receive compensation for the time lost.
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ARTICLE XIX.
When a trainman is discharged or resigns be will, as soon as practicable, be paid
and given a certificate stating term of service and capacity employed.
ARTICLE XX.
Senior trainmen will have precedence in promotion and runs, dependent upon
their general good conduct, faithful discharge of their duty and ability to assume
increased responsiblity, the superintendent to be the judge.
A revised seniority list of trainmen shall be posted at each terminal on the first
of January each year.
ARTICLE XXL
Trainmen will not, if avoidable, be compelled to handle, in trains, cars, the draft
gear of which is defective and requires to be chained, beyond next terminal.
ARTICLE xxn.
Members of adjustment committees regularly appointed shall be relieved when
required to do committee work, and furnished necessary transportation, sufficient
notice to be given superintendent so that service will not suffer.
ARTICLE xxra.
Crews assigned to regular runs will not be called upon to do other work when it
can reasonably be avoided.
ARTICLE XXI\'.
Trainmen running snow ploughs will be allowed actual mileage, including sid-
ings ploughed.
ARTICLE XXV.
Should trainmen through sickness or injury become incapacitated for perform-
ing their work they may be assigned to such other service as they are capable of
performing.
ARTICLE XXVI.
Trainmen will, conditions permitting, be called upon to pass their examinations
for promotions in seniority turn, and will be notified in writing within thirty (30)
days thereof of the results of such examinations.
When conditions will not permit a trainman taking his examinations, he shall
forfeit no rights thereby.
In the event of a trainman refusing to take, or failing to pass, the required
examination, he may be called upon again within six (6) months to pass a second
examination. Trainmen refusing to take, or failing to pass, a second examination,
will be placed at the foot of the eligible list or their services dispensed with, at the
option of tne company.
ARTICLE XX^TI.
Trainmen taken over with another road will hold their seniority on the lines
acquired.
Trainmen assigned by the Company to contractors' service will retain their
seniority.
ARTICLE XXVm.
Any trainman refusing a run which he is assigned will forfeit his rights to the
man accepting it.
ARTICLE XXIX.
If a trainman assigned to a regular run is taken off such run the trainman
assigned to such run will be furnished with another run.
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ARTICLE XXX.
If a regular run be vacant for thirty (30) days or less the senior extra train-
man available shall be used; if vacant for more than thirty (30) days, the senior
trainmen desiring the run shall be used.
ARTICLE XXXI.
A revised seniority list of trainmen shall be bulletined on the 1st of January of
each year.
Trainmen's seniority will date from the day of commencing work.
ARTICLE XXXII.
TJnassigned trainmen running work trains thirty (30) miles or more to or from
work, the mileage so run will be paid for at through freight rates, the time so occupied
not being included in time paid for at work train rates.
ARTICLE XXXni.
Trainmen will be given opportunity for meals at reasonable hours.
ARTICLE XXXIV.
The handling of freight crews in the movement of traffic under normal condi-
tions will, so far as practicable, be so arranged by the Company as to avoid excessive
lay over at other than home terminals.
Rules and Rates for Yardmen.
Eates. Day. Night.
Yard foremen, per hour $0 35 $n 37
Yardmen, per hour 0 32 0 34
Ten hoiir.s will constitute a day's work.
ARTICLE I.
Articles 11, 20 and 27 in trainmen's schedule will apply to yardmen.
ARTICLE n.
When held off duty on Company's instructions, yardmen will be paid schedule
rates for time so lost and will receive $2 a day for expenses while away from home.
ARTICLE ra.
Overtime will be paid pro rata on basis of one-tenth of one hour for every six
minutes worked, less than three minutes not to count, three to six minutes to count
as one-tenth of an hour.
ARTICLE rv.
Yardmen, when possible, will be allowed one hour for meals between the fifth and
seventh hour after coming on duty. Failing this, they will be paid for meal hour,
and allowed twenty minutes for lunch.
ARTICLE v.
Except in ease of emergency, yardmen will not be compelled to work with an
engine not properly equipped with foot boards, grab irons and automatic couplers.
R. F. Sutherland,
Chairman.
F. n. MCGUIGAN,
For the Company.
J. G. O'DONOGIIUU,
For the Employees.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
Xm.— APPLICATION FROM MAINTENANCE-OF-WAY EMPLOYEES OF THE
CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY ON LINES WEST OF
PORT ARTHUR, ONT.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— AGREEMENT CON-
CLUDED ON ALL POINTS— STRIKE AVERTED.
Application received. — June 8, 1909.
Parties concerned. — -Canadian Northern Railway Company and its maintenance-
of-way employees on lines west of Port Arthur, Ont.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees affected. — Directly, 1,100; iuuirectly, 700.
Date of constitution of Board. — June 24, 1909.
Membership of Board.— Ris Honour Judge R. H. Myers, Winnipeg, Man., Chair-
man, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the
other members of the Board; Mr. W. J. Christie, Winnipeg, Man., appointed ou the
recommendation of the employing Company; and Mr. J. G. O'Douoghue, Toronto,
Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — July 21, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Agreement concluded on all points; strike being thereby
arerted.
The Minister received on July 21 the report of the Board established in the matter
of a dispute between the Canadian Northern Railway Company and its maintenance-
of-way employees, to the number of 1,000, members of the International Brotherhood
of Maintenance-of-Way Employees; also a minority report in the same matter signed
by Mr. W. J. Christie, member of the Board appointed on the recommendation of
the employers. This Board, which was composed of Mr. W. J. Christie, of Winnipeg,
member appointed on the recommendation of the employers; Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue,
of Toronto, member appointed on the recommendation of the employees ; and His
Honour Judge Myers, of Winnipeg, chairman, appointed by the Minister of Labour,
was established on June 14, and assembled in Winnipeg on July 5.
Upon receipt of the findings of the Board, inquiry was made by the Minister of
Labour to ascertain whether the same were acceptable to the parties as an adjust-
ment of the dispute. A letter was received under date of July 17 from Mr. A. B.
Lowe, president of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employees,
in which it was stated that the employees concerned had accepted the findings of the
Board in this matter. On August 13 the Minister of Labour was informed by the
Canadian Northern Railway Company that a settlement had been arrived at between
the Company and its maintenance-of-way employees. On August 17 a letter was
received from Mr. A. B. Lowe, president of the International Brotherhood of Mainten-
ance-of-Way Employees, in which it was stated that the whole matter was happily
settled by the acceptance of the award by the Company and the signing up by the
men's r£presentative and by the manager of a schedule based upon the Board's award.
In a circular addressed by President Lowe to members of the International Brother-
hood of Maint«nance-of-Way Employees on the Canadian Northern Railway system,
it was stated that 'in my last circular I told you of the deadlock between your com-
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mittee and the management over the revision of your schedule which had been in
operation for about two years. You are also aware that the whole matter of rules and
rates was referred to arbitration under the Lemieux Act. The award, I am glad to
say, was generally favourable to you, but was not regarded by the Company as being
quite fair to them. Both, however, accepted the award, but in the adjustment of
your schedule to the award by the management and your joint protective board, some
slight changes were mutually agreed to, so that while the schedule is not in the exact
terms of the award, it was satisfactory both to the management and your joint protec-
tive board, and meets with my hearty approval. The permanent sectionmen retain
their $1.75 per day; the pump repairers, who were not on the schedule before, are
now upon it and receive $3 per month more than the award gave them. All section
foremen, bridge and building and water service men receive an increase, and no less
than eight sections have been given yard rates, an increase of 20 cents per day to each.'
When the Board met it was learned that several of the questions in dispute had
been practically settled and that the Company had submitted a draft agreement
leaving unsettled only two matters, viz. : 1. The wages to be paid the sectionmen or
permanent labourers on the entire system, and, 2, the compensation to be paid re-
pairers. This draft agreement was acceptable to the men and the efiorts of the Board
were accordingly confined to the outstanding matters aforesaid. The permanent
labourers had been receiving during the past two years $1.75 per day from the Cana-
dian Northern. This class of workmen were paid on the Canadian Pacific railroad
the sum of $1.75 at the terminal yards. Fort William, Winnipeg, Brandon and Moose-
jaw, and $1.70 per day at all other places. The Canadian Northern Railway Com-
pany desired to reduce the wages of this class of men in their employ to a corres-
ponding or similar rate to that paid by the Canadian Pacific. The Board, however,
found that the wages paid by the Canadian Northern Railway to other classes of
maintenanee-of-way men were less than the wages paid similar classes in the service
of the Canadian Pacific, and that, on the whole, the general difference is not ap-
preciable. The representatives of the men, while demanding an increase to $1.80
per day for these permanent labourers, seemed willing to accept the rate of $1.75
along with the schedule of wages as proposed for all such other classes. The Board
found that the Company offered little evidence in support of their desire for a reduc-
tion of the men's wages and that the Canadian Northern should continue to pay these
permanent labourers $1.75 per day.
In respect of the pump repairers, the Board was of opinion that the wages now
paid to them, viz.: $90 per month, without an allowance for expenses while away
from headquarters, should not be disturbed. While the conclusion arrived at with
regard to pump repairers did not meet with the approval of Mr. O'Donoghue, yet he
consented to subscribe to this report in order to obtf)in a settlement of all outstand-
ing differences.
In his minority report Mr. W. J. Christie declared that ' the principal evidence
on behalf of the employees was given by Mr. Fljozdal and Mr. Lowe, who both live
in a foreign country and could not give evidence from personal experience of the
conditions that exist in Western Canada.' Mr. Christie, in declining to subscribe
to the report of the Board, expressed also the opinion that ' sufficient effort was not
made to bring about a settlement and that settlement could not be justly made with-
out asking for evidence and considering the case of the men employed in every de-
partment of the maintenance-of-way.' The report of the Board, in his judgment,
asked the Canadian Northern Railway Company to pay 5 cents a day more for perm-
anent labourers and 6 cents a day more for section foremen than the highest wages
paid by any of the railway companies they are competing with. Mr. Christie at-
tached to his report a draft agreement which he desires to make operative from July 1,
1909, to June 30, 1911.
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TEXT OF REPORT.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows : —
Winnipeg, Man., July 16, 1909.
The Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. 1907, and of a dispute
between the Canadian Northern Railway Company, employer, and the said Com-
pany's maintenance of waymen employees.
Sm, — The Board of Conciliation and Investigation appointed herein under the
provision of the above named Act and composed as follows : John G. O'Donoghue,
of Toronto, Ontario, recommended by the employees;; William John Christie, of
Winnipeg, Manitoba, recommended by the Company; and His Honour Judge Robert
H. Myers, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, appointed by the Minister of Labour as chairman
of the Board, beg to report as follows: —
All the members of the Board attended all the meetings and these meetings were
all held in Winnipeg, commencing on Monday, the 5th day of July, 1909.
Sessions of the Board were held by mutual agreement in- the office of the general
superintendent of the Company, the men being represented by Mr. Lowe and Mr.
Fljozdal. and the Company by Mr. Cameron and Mr. Warren. Witnesses were ex-
amined on behalf of each party and all statements made and evidence tendered were
heard. Conferences were also had with the representatives of the men and with
General Manager MacLeod and General Superintendent Cameron and diligent efforts
made to effect an amicable settlement of the differences during the whole of last
week and the three days of this present week.
When the Board first met it was learned that several of the questions in dispute
had been practically settled, and that the Company had submitted the draft agree-
ment hereto annexed, leaving unsettled only two matters, namely, (a) the wages to
be paid section men or permanent labourers on the entire system, and (6) the com-
pensation to be paid or allowed pump repairers. This draft agreement was acceptable
to the men and therefore our efforts were limited to the two matters aforesaid.
The permanent labourers had been receiving during the past two years $1.75 per
day from the Canadian Northern. This class of workmen were paid on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad the sum of $1.75 at the termianl yards. Fort William, Winnipeg,
Brandon and Moosejaw, and $1.70 per day at all other places.
The Canadian Northern Ralway Company desired to reduce the wages of this
class of men in their employ to a corresponding or similar rate to that paid by the
Canadian Pacific.
The Board, however, fiild that the wages paid by the Canadian Northern to other
classes of maintenance-of-way men are less than the wages paid similar classes in
the service of the Canadian Pacific, and, on the whole, the general difference is not
appreciable.
The representatives of the men, while demanding an increase to $1.80 per day
for these permanent labourers, seemed willing to accept the rate of $1.75 along with
the schedule of wages as proposed for all such other classes. ^The Canadian Northern
offered little evidence in support of their desire for a reduction of the men's wages.
The Board considered and discussed all phases of the differences in an endeavour
to effect a concilation, tut found it impossible to secure an agreement on this one
point. The representatives of the Company at the final conference seemed willidir ,.->
recommmend that the permanent labourers be paid $1.75 per day at the terminal or
divisional yards at Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Dauphin and Edmonton (estimated at
about 50 men) and $1.70 per day at all other points (estimated at about five
144 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
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hundred and thirty men), but the representatives of the men refused to accept less
than a renewal of the old wage scale, namely, a daily wage of $1.75 to each permanent
labourer without distinction as to place employed.
After hearing and considering all the evidence and arguments and statements
advanced, the undersigned members of the Board feel, especially in view of the cost
of living, the wages generally paid to labourers and the importance of the services
rendered, that the Canadian Northern should continue to pay these permanent lab-
ourers $1.75 per day and that figure should he inserted in the wage schedule attached
to the draft agreement where the blank space has been left for the amount fixed
upon.
The case for the pump repairers (of whom there are nine) was ably presented
to the Board by Mr. Keyes and the above named representatives of the men, but the
Board are of the opinion that the wages now being paid to them, namely, $90 per
inonth without ar^y ajlowance for expenses while they are away from hendquartji"?,
should not be disturbed, and that this sum be set opposite the pump repairers in the
above mentioned wage schedule.
While the conclusion arrived at with regard to the pump repairers does not meet
with the approval of Mr. O'Donoghue, yet he has consented to subscribe to this re-
port in order to obtain a settlement of all outstanding differences.
Wo recommend that both employer and employees accept our decision abovi
stated and unite in completing and concluding the said annexed agreement 'as above
suggested, the date from which same shall be effective to be inserted as the 1st of
July, 1909.
Our colleague, Mr. W. J. Christie, takes the view that these permanent labourers
should not be paid by the Canadian Northern more than is being paid by its chief
competitor, the Canadian Pacific, and will submit a minority report.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
(Sgd.) E. Hill Myers,
Chairman.
" J. G. O'Donoghue,
For the Men.
Agreement between the Canadian Northern Railway Company and its Mainten-
ance-of-Way Employees.
Section. — By permanent maintenance-of-way employees is meant men employed
in the track, bridge and building department, signalmen, pumpmen aad pump repair-
ers on such parts of the line that are open for traffic, and who have been in the liiain-
tenance-of-way service continuously for one year or more, or who have had one year's
cumulative service during the three years immediately preceding, and the .same vv'ill
hereafter be referred to as ' employees.' Labourers in extra gangs, unless practically
engaged all the year round, will not be ranked as permanent employees.
Section 2. Ten hours shall constitute a day's work. When required to work in
excess of ten hours, time and a half will be allowed for such excess work and for
work done on Sundays and Christmas day.
(a) The hours of track and bridge watchmen and signalmen will be twelve hours
in each twenty-four. Twelve hours either continuously or intermittingly will con-
stitute a day, but they shall receive at least eight hours continuous rest in each
twenty-four.
(h) At regular pumping stations, where the amoimt of work is such that it is
necessary for pumpmen to work continuously for twelve hours in order to keep the
supply up, overtime, if worked, will be paid pro rata up to 24 K. and 24 K. and Y TC,
at rate of time and a half. ■ I \
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(c) In cases of emergencies employees will not be required to work more tlian
twenty-four hours continuously without a rest of eight hours.
(d) Section foremen and sectionmen travelling on orders of the Company to
and from work after regular working hours will be allowed straight time. Members
of bridge and building gangs travelling on orders irom the Company to and from
work after their regular hours, will be allowed straight time, except when provided
with boarding and sleeping cars to carry them to and from work. Members of regu-
lar bridge and building gangs travelling in boarding cars at the request of the Com-
pany on Sunday between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. will be allowed straight time.
Section 3. Employees taken off their regular sections temporarily to work on
snow or tie trains or other work, will be compensated for the extra expense they
necessarily incur, such expenses not to exceed fifty cents per day.
Section 4. Employees required to attend to and light semaphore or switch lamps,
before or after regular working hours, will receive therefor $4 per month for six or
less lamps, and 50 cents per lamp per month for those in excess of six. When lamps
are located beyond the yard limit they will be attended to during regular working
hours.
Section 5. Employees will be promoted hereafter on tlieir respective superin-
tendent's divisions in order of seniority, provided they are qualified. The several
senior qualified employees shall be advised of all vacancies in the position of fore-
men, and their applications if presented within five days after being notified will be
considered. Employees may be transferred from one division to another for extra
gang work or on opening of new lines, or when the necessary qualified men for main-
tenanee-of-work are not obtainable on the division.
(a) In promoting employees to the position of roadmaster or bridge and build-
ing master, men may be taken from any point on the system, according to seniority,
if competent.
(h) Employees refusing promotion will become junior to those accepting such
promotion.
(c) An employee who is transferred to another department or from the bridge
and building department to the track department, or vice versa, at his own request
will lose his seniority ."Standing.
(d) Employees unable to read or write English need not be promoted.
(c) A list of all employees will be prepared for each superintendent's division,
and such lists will show the seniority standing of each employee. The lists will be
revised from time to time to agree with the length of service and promotions made,
and a copy will be furnished to the employees' representative, which will be open
for inspection and correction on proper representation.
(/) In the event of a reduction in the number of men employed, those longest
in the service shall be given preference of employment.
(g) The position of track and bridge watchmen and signalmen is not one sub-
ject to the general rules of promotion, being intended to take care ol men in any
department who become unfitted for other service.
Section 6. Leave of absence and free transportation will be granted to members
of duly appointed committees for the adjustment of matters in dispute between the
Company and employees so far as is consistent with good service, within ten (10)
days after request in writing has been made on the proper officers.
Section 7. Employees suspended or dismissed, who consider they have been unjust-
ly treated, will receive full and impartial hearing, and will be advised of decisions
reached within fifteen days after the time of their suspension or dismissal. Should
the investigation show that the suspension or dismissal was unjust, time will be
allowed and employee reinstated. Appeals from decisions must be made in writing
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by the employee through his roadmaster or bridge and building master within fifteen
(15) days after being advised of such decision.
(a) Permanent employees, leaving the service of the Company, from any cause
whatever, will he furnished with service letter if requested.
Section 8. Employees will be granted leave of absence four times a year. Such
free transportation will not extend beyond their superintendent's division, and the
leave of absence will not exceed two days, and then only when consistent witli good
service, and provided the Company is not put to any additional expense.
Section 9. Permanent employees will he granted once per year transportation to
any system in favour of themselves and members of their families, dependent upon
them for support.
Section 10. The Company will keep all section houses in good repair, the cost
of repairs, other than ordinary wear and tear, to be charged to occupants.
Section 11. Where water is transported for use of section gangs, good water will
be provided.
Section 12. A member of the household of permanent employees will be furn-
ished with free transportation once a month to and from points where reasonable
prices prevail for the purpose of purchasing supplies. Such transportation may be
used by any member of the family only.
Section 13. Free transportation will be granted to nurses, when their services
are required by employees in isolated districts from points where they are obtainable,
on presentation of a certificate from attending physician.
Section 14. Bridge and building gangs shall be composed of: —
1st. Foremen.
2nd. Carpenters, who shall be skilled mechanics in house and bench work, and
have a proper kit of carpenter's tools.
3rd. Bridgemen, who shall be rough carpenters, expert saw, axe and hammermen,
and have a general experience in bridge work.
RATES OF PAY FOR TRACKMEN.
Yard foremen —
Per day.
Port Arthur, Winnipeg and Edmonton $ 2 75
Yard foremen —
Atitokan, Rainy River, Portage la Prairie, Dauphin, Kamsnck,
Humboldt, N. Battleford, Vermilion, Emerson, Belmont,
Brandon, Swan River, Prince Albert, Saskatoon, Ncep-
awa, Morris, Fort Francis, Moranville and Kipling. ... 2 60
Sectionmen —
Assistant foremen 2 50
Section foreman in charge of snow plough or flanger 3 20
Foremen in charge of extra gangs $2 50 to 3 45
Rates of pay for signalmen —
Signalmen at crossings 1 50
Signalmen at interlocking crossings 1 75
Rates for pay for hridge and huildino men—
Foremen $3 20 to $3 45
Carpenters 2 80 to 3 00
Bridgemen 2 15 to 2 80
Labourers
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Rates of pay for pumpmen —
Per month.
Pumpmen, oae pump $48 00
Pumpmen, two pumps 58 GO
Pumpmen t, three pumps 58 00
Pump repairers
These rules will not take away any privileges that are now in effect with em.-
ployees. They will become effective , and will remain in force
until either party desiring a change gives the other party sixty (60) days' notice.
For Maintenance-of-Way Employees:
General Chairman.
Vice-Chairman.
Por Canadian Northern Eailway Co.:
General Superintendent.
MINOEITT REPOKT.
The minority report of Mr. W. J. Christie, member of the Board appointed on
the recommendation of the Company, is as follows: —
Winnipeg, Man., 15th July, 1909.
The Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Canada.
Sm, — In the matter of dispute between the maintenance-of-way employees of the
Canadian Northern Railway Company and the Canadian Northern Railway Company.
The Board of Conciliation and Investigation appointed by you under the Industrial
Disputes and Investigation Act of 1907, being composed of His Honour Judge Robert
H. Myers, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, chairman of the Board; J. G. O'Donoghue, of To-
ronto, Ontario, recommended by the employees; and W. J. Christie, of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, recommended by the Company, beg to report as follows : —
The Board began its sittings on the 5th day of July, 1909, in the Company's
offices, which were courteously placed at their disposal. Ay meetings were attended
by the full Board.
The employees were represented by Mr. Lowe and Mr. Fljozdal. hoth citizens of
the United States, and the Company by Mr. Cameron and Mr. Warren, of Winnipeg.
The witnesses were not examined under oath.
Besides Mr. Lowe and Mr. Fljozdal only one witness was examined on behalf of
the employees. This man was at one time a tank repair employee, but has some time
since left the service of the Company, so that practically no evidence was offered
from anybody at present employed in the service of the Company.
The principal evidence on behalf of the employees was given by Mr. Fljozdal and
Mr. Lowe, who both live in a foreign country, and could not give evidence from per-
sonal experience of the conditions that exist in Western Canada.
As it was supposed the employees were asking for a change it was only reasonable
to think that they would offer some evidence direct from their numuer.
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In opening the case it was suggested that the Company and men differed on
wages in only two classes of workmen; that is, the pump repairers and labourers
employed on sections who have been in the service of the Company for one year or
more. This proved not to be the condition that existed.
On investigation it was found that Mr. Cameron, general superintendent of
the Company, was willing to recommend to the management a schedule of wages for
all classes of workmen employed in the maintenance-of-way, but would not do so
until the full schedule was accepted by the employees. This appeared to be accepted
by the men with the exception of wages of the pump repairers and permanent labour-
ers. Mr. Cameron agreed to recommend that the permanent labourers should be paid
the same wages as similar men employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway, but when
the complete schedule of wages was not accepted by the men the duty of the Board
of Conciliation was to open the case, take evidence of the wages of each class of men
employed and use our best efforts to bring the men and the Company together, as
one can readily realize the hardship a strike means to the families of the employees.
Evidence was only taken as to the wages paid the permanent labourers and those
employed in repairing pumps. The evidence submitted was that the permanent
labourers were paid by the Canadian Pacific Railway $1.75 peT day in first-class yards
and $1.70 per day in second-class sections, and that the Great Northern Railway and
Northern Pacific Railway south of the boundary line east of the Rocky Mountains
paid $1.40 per day for foreign labourers and $1.50 per day for Ji,nglish-speaking
labourers. There was no evidence offered to dispute the above facts.
Mr. Cameron agreed to recommend to the management of the Canadian Northern
Railway that permanent labourers be paid the same wages as paid by the Canadian
Pacific Railway, which are the highest paid by any of the three railways mentioned,
and all competing for trafiic of this northwest country.
From the evidence it was found that the men employed in repairing pumps and
gasoline engines were paid by the Canadiaan Northern Railway $90 per month flat
rate; they have to pay their expenses while away from headquarters. The Canadian
Pacific Railway pay similar men $78 per month and 75 cents a day expenses while
away from home, and the evidence went to show that they were away at an average
of from eighteen to twenty day.s per month. This would mean that the Canadian
Pacific Railway men were paid about $92 per month, and Mr. Cameron of the Cana-
dian Northern Railway, agreed to recommend to the management that they increase
their men's wages to $92 per month.
It was strongly urged by one member of the Board that as a large percentage of
the men affected by the dispute were either section foremen or permanent labourers
that evidence shoiild be taken as to the actual condition of the former, but the Chair-
man refused to take this matter up.
The offer that Mr. Cameron stated he woiild recommend the Company to make
was that they pay $2.50 per day to section foremen other than those mentioned in
the following schedule, and charge them a rental for section houses of $2 per month,
which is 7A cents per day, including house rent, and on new lines where they have
not had time to build section houses the Company to give them the use of a box car
free of charge.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company are paying similar section foremen
$2.55 per day and charging them $5 per month rent for section houses, which amounts
to lO^'^Aoo cents per day. making a net wage of $2..36 per dav. including house rent,
so you can readily see that the offer Mr. Cameron recommended the Canadian North-
em Railway to accept was to pay this class of men over 6 cents per day more than
the Canadian Pacific Railway.
As the permanent labourers and sc^ctionmen number about eight hundred and
ninety CROO), it would be only fair to the Canadian Northern Railway that the per-
manent labourers be paid $1.70 per day, section foremen $2.55 per day. and charged
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$5 per mouth for section houses and $2 per month when they occupied box cars,
which the Company will make comfortable for them. This wouM be the highest
wages paid by any of the railways that the Canadian Northern have to compete with.
From the evidence taken it is a pleasure to report that the Company have made
every effort to provide for the comfort of their employees.
The Chairman submitted a report which I objected to signing for the following
reasons : —
1st. That in my opinion, sufficient effort was not made to bring about a settle-
ment, and this settlement could not be justly made without asking for evidence and
considering the case of the men employed in every department of the maintenance-
of-way.
2nd. That the report is not in accordance with what is asked for in section 26
of the Act, 'The investigation and details of each item of the dispute,' and not
recommending a period during which proposed settlement should commence and end.
His report asks the Canadian Northern Railway Company to pay 5 cents a day
more for i)ermanent labourers and 6 cents a day more for section foremen than the
highest wages paid by any of the railway companies they ar& competing with.
It was certainly surprising to me that in a dispute of this kind the employees
called in men to settle it who were not residents of Canada but residents of a foreign
country, and that the man recommended by them as a member of the Board of Con-
ciliation was not a resident of the district in which the dispute has taken place.
If men that lived in this country and were familiar with the conditions were
called in one would readily suppose that a settlement could be arrived at much better
than through men living in a foreign country.
I very much regret that the Board could not arrive at a unanimous decision and
recommend settlement on the points in dispute. I would submit settlement upon the
basis of the following schedule and that settlement shall commence on the first day
of July, 1909, and end on the thirtieth day June, 1911.
Agreement between the Canadian Northern Railway and its Maintenance-of-Way
Employees.
Section 1. By permanent maintenance-of-way employees is meant men employed
in the track, bridge and building department, signalmen, pumpmen and pump repair-
ers on such parts of the line that are open for traffic, and who have been in the main-
tenance-of-way service continuously for one year or more, or who have had one year's
cumulative service during the three years immediately preceding, and the same will
hereafter be referred to as ' employees.' Labourers in extra gangs, unless practically
engaged all the year round, will not be ranked as permanent employees.
Section 2. Ten hours shall constitute a day's work. When required to work in
excess of ten hours, time and a half will be allowed for such excess work and for
work done on Sundays and Christmas Day.
(a) The hours of track and bridge watchmen, and signalmen will be twelve hours
in each twenty-four. Twelve hours either continuously or intermittingly wiU con-
stitute a day, but they shall receive at least eight hours' continuous rest in each
twenty-four.
(5) At regular pumping stations, where the amount of work is such that it is
necessary for pumpmen to work continuously for twelve hours in order to keep the
supply up, overtime, if worked, will be paid pro rata up to 24 K. and between 24 K.
and 7 K., at rate of time and a half.
(c) In cases of emergencies employees will not be required to work more then
twenty-four hours continuously without a sest of eight hotirs.
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(d) Section foremen and sectionmen travelling on orders of the Company to and
from work after regular working hours will be; allowed straight time. Members of
bridge and building gangs travelling on orders from the Company, to and from work
after their regular hours, will be allowed straight time, except when provided with
boa.'rding and sleeping cars to carry them to and from work. Members of regular
bridge and building gangs travelling in boarding cars at the request of the Company
on Sundays between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. will be allowed straight time.
Section 3. Employees taken ofF their regular sections temporarily to work on
snow or tie trains or other work, will be compensated for the boarding and lodging
expenses incurred.
(o) Bridge and building employees taken from their places of residence or board-
ing outfits over night will be compensated for the extra expense they necessarily in-
cur, such expense not to exceed fifty cents per day.
Section 4. Employees required to attend to and light semaphore, or switch lamps,
before or after regular working hours will receive therefor $4 per month for six or
less lamps, and 50 cents per lamp per month for those in excess of six. When lamps
are located beyond the yard limit, they will be attended to during regular working
hours.
Section 5. Employees will be promoted hereafter on their respective superintend-
ent's divisions in order of seniority, provided they are qualified. The several senior
qualified employees shall be advised of all vacancies in the position of foremen, and
their applications, if presented within five days after being notified, will be con-
sidered. Employees may be transferred from one division to another for extra gang
work or on opening of new lines, or when the necessary qualified men for mainten-
anee-of-way work are not obtainable on the division.
(a) In promoting employees to the position of roadmaster or bridge and build-
ing master, men may be taken from any point on the system, according to seniority,
if competent.
(h) Employees refusing promotion will become junior to those accepting such
promotion.
(c) An employee, who is transferred to another department, or from the bridge
and building department to the track department, or vice versa, at his own request,
will lose his seniority standing.
(d) Employees unable to read or write English need not be promoted.
(e) A list of all employees will be prepared for each superintendent's division,
and such lists will show the seniority standing of each employee. The list.s will be
revised from time to time to agree with the length of service and promotions made,
and a copy will be furnished to the employee's representative, which will be open for
inspection and correction on proper representation.
(/) In the event of a reduction in the number of men employed, those longest
in the service shall be given preference of employment.
(g) The position of track and bridge watchman and signalmen is not one sub-
ject to the general rules of promotion, being intended to take car© of men in any
department who become unfitted for other service.
Section 6. Leave of absence and free transportation will be granted to members
of duly appointed committees for the adjustment of matters in dispute between the
Company and employees so far as is consistent with good service, within ten (10)
days after request in writing has been made on the proper officers.
Section 7. Employees suspended or dismissed, who consider they have been un-
justly treated, will receive full and impartial hearing, and will be advised of decisions
reached within fifteen days after the time/ of their suspension or dismissal. Shnuhl
the investigation show that the suspension or dismissal was unjust, iime will be
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allowed and emploj-ee reinstated. Appeals from decisions must be made in writing
by the employee through his roadmaster or bridge and building master within fifteen
(15) days after being advised of such decision.
(a) Permanent employees, leaving the service of the Company, from any cause
whatever will be furnished with service letter if requested.
Section 8. Employees will be granted leave of absence four times a year. Such
free transportation will not extend- beyond their superintendent's division, and the
leave of absence will not exceed two days, and then only when consistent with good
service, and provided the Company is not put to any additional expense.
Section 9. Permanent employees will be granted once per year transportation
to any system in favour of themselves and members of their families, dependent upon
them for support.
Section 10. The Company will keep all section houses in good repair, the cost
of repairs,, other than ordinary wear and tear, to be charged to occupants.
Section 11. Where water is transported for use of section gangs, good water will
be provided.
Section 12. A member of the household of permanent ejnployees will be furnished
with free transportation once a month to and from points where reasonable prices
prevail, for the purpose uf purchasing supplies. Such transportation may be used
by any member of the family only.
Section 1.3. Free transportation will be granted to nurses, when their services
are required by employees in isolated districts filom points where they are obtainable,
on presentation of a certificate from attending physician.
Section 14. Bridge and building gangs shall be composed of: —
1st. Foremen.
2nd. Carpenters, who shall be skilled mechanics in house and bench work, and
have a proper kit of carpenter's tools.
3rd. Bridgemen, who shall be rough carpenters, expert saw an<i liammer-meu,
and have a general experience in bridge work.
rates of pay for trackmen.
Yard foremen — -
Per day.
Port Arthur, Winnipeg and Edmonton $ 2 Y5
Yard foremen —
Atitokan, Rainy River, Portage la Prairie, Dauphin, Kamsack,
Humboldt, N. Battleford, Vermilion, Emerson, Belmont,
Brandon, Swan River, Prince Albert, Saskatoon, Neepawa,
Morris, Fort Francis, Moranville and Kipling 2 60
At all other points 2 65
Sectionmen or permanent labourers on entire system except
Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Dauphin and Edmonton 1 70
At Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Dauphin and Edmonton 1 75
Assistant foremen 2 50
Section foreman in charge of snow plough or Sanger 3 20
Foremen in charge of extra gangs $2 50 to 3 45
Bates of pay for signalmen —
Signalmen at crossings 1 50
Signalmen at interlocking crossings 1 75
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Rates of pay for bridge and building men —
Per day.
Foremen $3 20 to $3 45
Carpenters 2 80 to 3 00 •
Bridgemen 2 15 to 2 80
Labourers
Rates of pay for pumpmen —
Per month.
Pumpmen, one pump $48 00
Pumpmen, two pumps 53 00
Pumpmen, three pumps 58 00
Pump repairers 92 00
These rules will not take away any privileges that are now in eflFeet with em-
ployees except that a charge of $5 per month rent be made for section houses and $2
per month rent for box cars.
That this schedule will commence on the 1st day of July, 1909, and end on the
30th day of June, 1911.
EespectfuUy submitted.
(Sgd.) W. J. Christik.
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XIV.— APPLICATION FROM CANADA WEST COAL COMPANY, TABER, ALTA.
—BOARD ESTABLISHED— UNANIMOUS REPORT BY BOARD— EM-
PLOYEES CEASED WORK— AGREEMENT CONCLUDED BASED ON
REPORT OF BOARD.
Application received. — June 15, 1909.
Parties concerned.— Canada. West Coal Company, Taber, Alta., and employees
Applicants. — ^Employers.
Nature of industry concerned. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees affected. — 300.
Date of constitution of Board.— Ju\j 3, 1909.
Membership of Board. — His Honour Judge E. Winter, Lethbridge, Alta., Chair-
man, appointed on the recommendation of the other members of the Board; Mr. Colin
MacLeod, Macleod, Alta., appointed on the recommendation of the employing Com-
pany; and Mr. W. C. Simmons, Lethbridge, Alta., appointed on the recommendation
of the employees.
Report received. — July 19, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — A unanimous report was presented by the Board. An agree-
ment based on the findings of the Board was subsequently signed by the parties con-
cerned, effective from July 30, 1909, to March 31, 1911. The employees who had been
on strike from April i!3 returned to work on July 30.
The Minister received, on July 19, a report signed by the three members of the
Board to which was referred, on July 2, the dispute between the Canada West Coal
Company, Limited, of Taber, Alberta, and its employees. The cause of the dispute
in question was defined in the Company's application for the establishment of this
Board -as a failure to agree upon the terms and conditions of a working agreement
which expired on March 31, 1909. The number of employees affected was, duectl.y,
300, and indirectly, more than 5,000.
Mr. Colin MacLeod, of Macleod, Alberta, was appointed a member of the Board
on the recommendation of the Company, and Mr. W. C. Simmons, of Lethbridge,
Alberta, on the recommendation of the employees. His jj.onour Judge Winter, of
Lethbridge, was appointed Chairman on the joint recommendation of the other two
members of the Board. The Board, on assembling at Taber, on July 8, inquired
whether the respective parties would agree to be bound by the findings. The report
of the Board stated that the representatives of the Company expressed their assent,
v.'hile the representative of the employees stated that they did not care to be bound
by the decision.'
The questions at issue related to the iwages and contract prices, and including (a)
whether coal was to be computed at 2,240 pounds or at 2,000 pounds; (b) whether
coal was to be paid for on the screened weight or unscreened weight. An effort was
made to adjiist the dispute by conference between the parties, but as no settlement
was achieved in this way the Board met on July 9 for the hearing of evidence.
The report stated that the employees of the Canada West Coal Company ceased
work on April 22, and that up to that date the wages were paid on the basis of ton-
nage of unscreened conl at 2,240 pounds to the ton. The report says: 'The Compnny
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contended that the coal should be screened and were willing that the ton should be
calculated at 2,(KX) pounds, urging that this would be fair to the employees and to
themselves, on the grounds that the payment for unscreened coal tended to make the
men careless in getting the coal if they were paid by the weight irrespective of
whether such coal was made up of saleable coal, or coal partly saleable (such as lump
coal) and of slack or dust, which passed through the screen and was unsaleable. The
employees, on the other hand, claimed that if they were paid on the screened coal
basis they would, not be getting paid for all the coal which they produced, as a cer-
tain percentage, i.e., in respect of the slack or screenings, would be lost to them.'
The Board found that the appliances for screening coal at the Company's mine
are not adequate in their present state to carry out the operation of screening with
fairness to the miners, but the Company's representatives stated that it was intended,
as soon as practicable, to adopt methods similar to those in use at the Gait mines at
Lethbridge ,to screen the coal. The Board recommended, therefore, that until such
change was completed the rates for outside day wages, inside day wages and the con-
tract prices for unscreened coal at 2,240 pounds to the ton, hitherto used, should apply
between the Company and its employees, and that so soon as the Company has
installed screens of similar construction and equal to the diamond bar J-inch screens
now in use at the Gait mines, Lethbridge, that contract prices for screened coal at
2,000 pounds to the ton, set forth in an attached schedule, shall be substituted for the
rates now in force.
The Board recommended that the employees resume work on the above basis,
and that the terms hereby recommended be continued until March 31, 1911.
The Department of Labour was informed on ^-iugust 7, by the representative
of the employees that negotiations for a settlement were continued after the findings
of the Board were communicated to the parties and that an agreement was signed on
July 31, operations in the mine being resumed on the Monday following, August 2.
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows : —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in the matter
of differences between the Canada West Coal Company, of Taber, Alta., and its
employees.
The Board constituted under the provisions of the above Act attended at Taber
on the 8th July, 1909, when the members took the oaths of office before Mr. S. J.
Layton, J.P,
Messrs. Valdar S. Kidd, Xewis Stockett and O. E. S. ivhiteside appeared aa
representatives for the Canada West Coal Company.
Messrs. C. Stubbs, H. Evans and D. L. Miller appeared as representatives for the
employees.
At the opening of the reference the respective parties were asked whether they
would agree to be bound by the decision of the Board. In reply to this inquiry the
representatives of the Company expressed their assent, while the representatives of
the employees stated ' that they did not care to be bound by the decision.'
The questions at issue between the parties appeared to consist of the prices to
be paid by way of wages and contract prices to the employees, including in such
questions fa) whether the coal was to be computed at 2,240 pounds or at 2,000 pounds;
(li) whether the coal was to be paid for on the screened weight or unscreened weight
of such coal.
In view of the differences being comparatively limited in extent, the represen-
tatives were requested to prepare particulars in support of their respective contentions
and discuss the matters in difference between them at a conference apart from the
Board, to whom they were to report later in the day.
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Particulars accordingly -wer© furnished by both parties, but the employees'
representatives were unwilling to accept the condition providing for payment on the
screened coal basis. A further adjournment was then made in order that the repre-
spntativns of the employees might confer with the general body of the employees,
and obtain full instructions as to making further concessions, and if possible come
to an agreement.
On the following morning, July 9, 1909, the Board met again, all the represen-
tatives being present, and it appearing that a solution of the points at issue could not
be arrived at, evidence was adduced on behalf of both parties, occupying the whole of
thai day (July 9, 1909), after which the Board desired to hear evidence relating to
the Gait mines iit Lethbridge, it being conceded that the general conditions there were
similar to tjiose at the mine of the Company at Taber.
Accordingly, on the 10th of July, 1909, the Board met at Lethbridge and received
further evidence on behalf of both parties, and then adjourned to the 13th July in-
stant for the purpose of making this report.
The employees of the Canada West Coal Company ceased working at the end of
the 22nd day of April, 1909. Up to that date it appeared from the evidence that the
wages paid to the employees for coal mined by them was paid on the basis of the
tonnage of unscreened coal, the ton being calculated at 2,240 pounds to the ton. The
Company contended that the coal should be screened and were willing that the ton
should be calculated at 2,000 pounds to the ton, urging that this would be fairer to
the employees and to themselves on the grounds that the pajTuent for unscreened coal
tended to make the men careless in getting the coal, if tney were paid by weight irre-
spective of whether such weight wa.s made up of saleable coal, or coal partly saleable
(such as lump coal) and of slack or dust which passed through the screen and was un-
saleable. The employees, on the other hand, claimed that if they were paid on the
screened coal basis they would not be getting paid for all coal which they produced,
as a certain percentage, i.e., in respect of slack or screenings would be lo.st to them.
This point was practically the principal issue between the parties.
The table of rates of wages paid to the miners up to the 22nd April, 1909, when
the mines ceased to be worked, is divided under three heads, viz. :—
1. Outside day wages.
2. Inside day wages.
Contract prices.
As regards the first two heads no dispute arises, but the screening of coal will
affect the items included under the third head.
At this time it appears to be beyond question that the appliances for screening
coal at the Company's mine are not adequate in their present state to carry out the
operation of screening with fairness to the miners, but the Company's representatives
stated that it was intended as soon as practicable to adopt methods similar to those
in use at the Gait mines at Lethbridge to screen the coal.
The Board, therefore, recommended that: —
(a) Until such change is completed, the rates shown under heads 1, 2 and 3 of
the table of rates hitherto used, and which is subjoined, shall apply between the Com-
pany and its employees, and that as soon as the Company has installed screens of
similar construction and equal to the diamond bar |-ineh screens now in use at the
Gait mines at Lethbridge, the rates under head No. 4 shall be substituted for those
under head No. 3.
(i) That in the event of any work not being included in such table of rates, the
rates applicable on the 22nd April, 1909, between the same parties shall apply.
(c) That the employees resume work now on the above basis and that the terms
hereby recommended be continued until the 31st day of March, 1911.
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The table of rates above referred to is as follows : —
1. Outside day wages —
10 hours.
Dumpers . . .$ 2 00
Car trimmers 2 00
Screen engine tender None.
Box car loader engine 3 00
Timberman 2 00
Blacksmith 3 00
Blacksmith's helper $2 00 to 2 50
Leading carpenter 3 50
Car repairers 2 50
Haulage engineer 3 00
Leading fireman 2 75
Fireman helpers and ash wheelers 2 00
2. Inside day wages —
8 Hours.
Bratticemen $ 3 00
Bratticemen helpers 2 50
Timbermen 3 00
Timbermen helpers 2 50
Drivers * . 2 80
Tracklayers 3 00
Tracklayer's helpers 2 50
Miners 3 00
Pumpmen 3 00
Pushers 2 50
Pick carrier boys $1 10 to 125
Trappers 1 10
3. Contract prices — Unscreened coal — Zj2JiO Ihs. to the ton —
Cutting and scraping in rooms $ 0 30 per ton
Cutting and scraping narrow work 0 42J "
Loading in rooms 0 50 "
Loading narrow work 0 82 J "
Loaders square booms, entries 0 20 per set.
Loaders round booms, entries 0 50 "
4. Contract prices — Screened coal — 2,000 Ihs. to the ton —
Cutting and scraping in rooms $024 per ton.
Cutting and scraping narrow work 0 .% "
Loading in rooms 0 50
Loading narrow work 0 Y7
Loading square booms, entries 0 20 per set;
Loaders round booms, entries 0 50 "
Dated at Lethbridge this 13th day of July, 1909.
(Sgd.) EoLAND Winter,
Chairman.
(Sgd.) CoLTN MacLeod.
(Sgd.) W. 0. Simmons.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
XV.— APPLICATION FROM LABOURERS EMPLOYED BY THE CORPORATION
OF SASKATOON, SASK.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— NO CESSATION OF
WORK.
Application received. — July 8, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Corporation of Saskatoon, Sask., and labourers in its employ.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned.- — Municipal public utilities.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees affected. — Directly, 150; indirectly, 150.
Date of constitution of Board. — August 4, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Mr. E. J. Meilicke, Dundurn, Sask., Chairman, appointed
by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the other members
of the Board; Mr. Alex. Smith, Saskatoon, Sask., appointed on the recommendation
of the corporation of Saskatoon; and Mr. E. Stephenson, Winnipeg, Man., appointed
on the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — September 9, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — No cessation of work.
The Minister received, on September 6, the report of the Board established in
the matter of a dispute between the corporation of the city of Saskatoon, Sask., and
certain labourers, members of the Saskatoon Federal Labour Union No. 12, SOI. The
report as received was signed by Mr. E. J. Meilicke, of Dundurn, Sask., Chairman,
and by Mr. Alexander Smith, of Saskatoon, Sask., member appointed on the recom-
mendation of the city. The name of Mr. E. J. Stephenson, member appointed on the
recommendation of the employees, was not appended to the report, but at the close
of the month, no dissenting report had been received from Mr. Stephenson.
The differences referred for investigation were set forth in the report of the
Board as follows, namely: —
1. That 25 cents per hour be the minimum rate of pay for all unskilled labour;
2. That all contractors or corporations conducting public works shall furnish
adequate cribbing after a depth of six feet; also that the board of works shall acquaint
the above-mentioned contractor or corporation with the Saskatchewan Workmen's
Compensation Act;
3. That it be mentioned in all contracts that residents be employed as far as
possible ;
4. That all public works shall provide jjroper sanitary arrangements for employees;
5. That all contractors and corporations shall pay employees fortnightly and not
keep more than one day's pay on hand. Also that the aforementioned pay shall be
in cash, and not in the form of cheques.
The number of employees affected by this dispute was 150 directly and 150
indirectly. Mr. Edward J. Stephenson, of Winnipeg, Man., and Mr. Alexander
Smith, of Saskatoon, Sask., were appointed members of the iJoard on the recom-
mendation respectively of the employees concerned and of the civic authorities of
Saskatoon, and in the absence of a joint recommendation from the foregoing, the
Board was completed, on August 4, by the appointment by the Minister of Labour
of Mr. E. J. Meilicke, of Dundurn, Sask., as Chairman. The Board held fifteen
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sessions in all, and heard tweuty-three witnesses in support of the employees' com-
plaints, and nine on behalf of the city of Saskatoon, the points in dispute beinj;
taken up in turn until all were disposed of as far as possible. In the report of the
Board it is stated that ' the parties to the dispute reached an agreement on all the
differences except the minimum wage scale and recognition of the Federal labour
union.'
The department was not informed whether the findings of the Board were accept-
able to the parties concerned, but it was understood that no cessation of work had
taken place.
EEPORT OF BOAED.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this
matter is as follows: —
Saskatoon, Sask., Sept. 4, 1909.
To the Honourable Mackenzie King^
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa.
Sir, — On the 3rd of July, 1909, an application was made for the appointment
of a Board of Conciliation and Investigation to adjust differences between the mem-
bers of the Saskatoon Federal Labour Union No. 12,801 and the corporation of the
city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The application was made on behalf of the em-
ployees and signed by Alfred J. Sibley and Albert E. Edjington, both of the city of
Saskatoon.
The Board, which was duly constituted on August 13, 1909, consisted of E.
Stephenson, Winnipeg, recommended by the employees, Alexander Smith, of Saska-
toon, recommended by the corporation of the city of Saskatoon, and E. .7. Meilicke,
of Dundurn, appointed by the Minister of Labour. Honore Jaxon, A. J. Sibley and
Francis Kuntz, president of the Federal Labour Union, appeared on behalf of the
labourers, and Mayor Hopkins and Alderman Mcintosh, chairman of the Board of
Works, appeared on behalf of the city.
The Board held its first session in the Court House, Saskatoon, on August 13,
1909, at the hour of ten o'clock a.m., having been furnished with approved copies
from the Minister of Labour of the claims of the labour union and replies thereto
from the corporation of the city of Saskatoon.
The points referred for investigation were analysed by the Board as follows: (1)
Have senior men with equal ability been dismissed while junior men were retained?
(2) Have the men been unjustly discriminated against? (3) Have they been discri-
minated against, in certain cases, on account of their being members of the Cana-
dian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees? (4) Does the Board admit the claim made
by the representatives of the Intercolonial railway, that the responsible officials
must be the judges in the selection of the men for retention or dismissal from the
employ of the railway?
In respect of the first point the Board found that in certain instances men were
retained in the employ of the Intercolonial Railway who were junior to some of those
dismissed, the reason for such action on the part of the Company being apparently
based on qualifications for special duty possessed by some of the junior men, or on
the comparative records of the men as to their conduct and ability. In the case of
Joseph Gibson, one of the men dismissed, and Alexander Murphy, retained in the
employ of the Compnny. the Board found that the evidence does not disclose any rea-
son to show that Gibson should be considered as less able or efficient than Murphy.
In respect of the second point the rSoard was unable to establish to its satisfac-
tion that any unfair discrimination had been exercised.
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In respect of the third point that discrimination had been exercised in certain
cases against men on account of their being active members of the Canadian Brother-
hood of Railroad Employees, the Board found that the evidence does not justify it
in believing this to be the ease.
With respect of the claim that the responsible officials of the Intercolonial Rail-
way must be the judges in the selection of men for retention or dismissal, the Board
admitted this claim, but at the same time deemed it necessary to point out that in
dealing veith a very large number of employees some instances of undue hardship
imposed upon the latter will unavoidably occur. The Board advised that where men
belong to a duly incorporated or recognized union which has no schedule of agree-
ment with the railway, and that when the employees' grievances* entail reference to
officials who are not accessible to the men at the place where they are employed they
should be allowed to present them through the medium of duly qualified officers of
the union to ovhich the complainants belong.
The Board, in conclusion, recognized the willingness and the good spirit shown
by both parties to the dispute in procuring the evidence which was required.
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this
matter is as follows: —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in the matter
of diiierences between the Intercolonial Railway and certain of its round-house
employees, members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees, Divi-
sion No. 15.
To the Honourable
The Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
Sir, — We, the undersigned members of the Board of Conciliation and Investiga-
tion, appointed by you on the 25th of September, 1909, in the above matter, beg
respectfully to submit the following report : —
The members of the Board first met in the Board of Trade rooms at Halifax,
N.S., on the morning of the 19th of October, and, after being duly sworn, proceeded
to acquaint themselves with the details of the case submitted to them, as set forth
in the documents accompanying the application for the Board.
The employees had two duly authorized representatives present, but owing to a
misunderstanding, the representatives of the Intercolonial Railway were absent, and
the Board adjourned to the following morning, in order to have all parties present.
Telegrams were sent to the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Interco-
lonial Railway and to the General Superintendent to inform them of this.
The Board met on the following morning, there being present, besides the three
members, Messrs. Jos. Gibson and Charles Squires, delegated by the Canadian Bro-
therhood of Railroad Employees, Division No. 15, representing the employees, and
Messrs. F. P. Brady, member of the Board of Management and General Superintend-
ent of the Intercolonial Railway, and G. R. Joughins, Superinten lent of Motive
Power, representing the Company. The day was spent in discussing the points at
issue with the representatives of the parties and in endeavouring to bring about an
amicable settlement. The representatives of the employees submitted a list of
names of men dismissed and of men retained to prove the complaint contained in
the application for a Board of Conciliation and Investigation, and when the Board
adjourned in the afternoon it was with the understanding that the representatives of
the parties would confer together before the next meeting of the Board to see if the
basis of an amicable agreement could be arrived at.
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The next morning, when the Board resumed its sitting, tlio parties reported that
no agreement had been arrived at, and General Superintendent I-irady stated that he
desired the Board to pronounce on the principle of 'whether the men should be the
judges of who should be retained or dismissed from the service of the railway.'
It being evident that no agreement was possible, the Board proceeded to hear the
witnesses asked for by the parties and to receive the documentary evidences submitted.
The testimony was taken xmder oath, and the documentary evidence duly attested,
and this occupied the Board on the 21st, 22ud and tlie morning of the 23rd of
October.
On the 20th of October the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Inter-
colonial Railway hSd telegraphed to our Chairman as follows: —
Ottawa, October 20, 1909.
Sm George Garxeau,
Halifax, N.S.
I am desirous of appearing before the Board before concluding its work to pre-
sent views of management on points at issue. May I ask you to adjourn from Hali-
fax to Montreal at conclusion, as it is impossibli: lur me to go so far east owing to
pressure of public business.
(Sgd.) M. J. Butler.
All the witnesses in Halifax having been heard, the Board adjourned on the 23rd
of October to meet again on the 27th.
The meeting in Montreal was held in the Intercolonial oiEces, all the members
of the Board being present, as well as representatives of the railway, and Mr.. Jos.
Gibson, representing the employees. Mr. Nelson M. Hand, who was master mechanic
on the Intercolonial Railway when the dismissals took place, and who had been sum-
moned as a witness, gave his evidence, and the Chairman of the Board of Manage-
ment, Mr. Butler, presented the views of his Board on the principle involved in the
points at issue. The investigation was then closea and the members of this Board
proceeded to review the evidence and discuss the findings.
An analysis of the question submitted to the Board reduces it to the following
points : — •
1. Have Fenior men with equal ability been dismissed while jvinior men were le-
tained?
2. Have the men been unjustly discriminated against?
3. Have they been discriminated against, in certain cases, on account of being
members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees?
4. Docs the Board admit the claim made by the representatives of the Intercloni.il
Railway that the responsible officials must be the judges in the selection of the men
for retention or dismissal from the employ of the railway.
The following is the unanimous opinion of the Board : —
1. The Board finds that, in some instances, men were retained in the employ of
the Intercolonial who were junior to some of those dismissed, the reason for such
action on the part of the Company being apparently based on qualifications for special
duty possessed by some of the junior men, or on the comparative records of the men
as to their conduct and ability.
Nevertheless, in the case of Joseph Gibson, one of the men dismissed, and Alex.
Murphy, retained in the employ of the Company, a careful comparison of the records
and evidence before the Board establishes that Gibson was the senior man in length
of service and does not disclf)se any reason to show that he should be considered ns
less able or efficient than Murphy.
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The Board cannot establish to its satisfaction that unfair discrimination has
been exercised. The manner in which the selection of the names of the round-house
employees, J;o be retained in the service or dismissed was made could not be clearly
established by the investigation, and, under these circumstances, the Board recom-
mends that the seuority and qualifications of the roundhouse employees who have
been dismissed be carefully looked into by the higher officials of the railway and com-
pared with those of the men in the same class who have been retained, so that any
involuntary injustice which might have been committed be remedied without un-
necessary delay.
The differences referred for investigation were demands on the part of the
employees, as follows, viz. : —
1. That 25 cents per hour be the mininlnm rate of pay for all unskilled labour.
2. That all contractors or corporations conducting public works shall furnish
adequate cribbing after a depth of six feet ; also that the Board of Works shall
acquaint the above-mentioned contractor or corporation with the Saskatchewan Work-
men's Compensation Act.
3. That it be mentioned in all contracts that residents be employed as far as
possible.
4. That all public works shall provide proper sanitary arrangements for em-
ployees.
5. That all contractors and corporations shall pay employees fortnightly and not
keep more than one day's pay on hand. Also, that the aforementioned pay shall be
in cash, and not in the form of cheques.
The city's replies to the complaints are as follow, viz. : —
1. The corporation pays 20 cents per hour for unskilled labour. This is the full
value of such labour in Saskatoon. •
2. All trench work done by it is substantially and carefully protected with crib-
bing.
3. It employs resident labourers as far as possible.
4. No complaint has ever been made to the city engineer of lack of sanitary
arrangements.
5. Wages were paid regularly every fortnight.
6. Employees are never discharged without a satisfactory reason.
7. The civic works are properly inspected, and due care taken of the life, limb,
and health of the employees.
8. The accident mentioned in the application, by the caving in of trenches, did
not happen upon works carried on by the corporation.
9. The proposal that the Board of works shall acquaint contractors with the
provisions of the law is quite unreasonable. Firms and corporations can acquaint
tliemselves with the public statutes, and the workmen's unions may do so in case they
think their interests require it.
10. A clause is inserted in all corporation contracts requiring resident labourers,
to be employed as far as possible.
After several exchanges of ideas as to how to proceed, it was decided that each
party to the dispute be heard, and evidence submitted under oath dealing with the
several points in dispute.
The representatives of the labour unions subpoenaed several witnesses in support
of their contentions, and were in turn submitted to a cross-examination by the repre-
sentatives of the city. Before the Board rose at twelve o'clock noon, it was suo-gested
by the Board that the parties to the dispute get together and try to agree on the
points in which, to the mind of the Board, there did not seem to be any great differ-
ence: and if such agreement could be reached it would dispose of those issues thus
expediting the proceedings of the Board, and would obviate references to them when
dealing with further witnesses.
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This suggestion was not agreed to, but insistence made that the whole evidenoi'
must be placed before the Board.
The minimum diameter of struts to be 3 inches for trenches thre^ feet wide
between the dirt; 1 inch additional in diameter for each additional foot of length of
strut. No poplar wood to be used, but any other wood approved of by the engineer
may be used.'
It was brought out in evidence that it is the desire of the city that workmen be
protected from accidents as far as it can be made possible; inspectors continually
looking after the works. As evidence that they have been fairly successful, it is
known that up to the present time no accident of a serious nature occurred on the
corporation works.
Complaint 3. — A clause such as is asked for is already in all corporation con-
tracts. The Board recommended that the following be added to the above clause: —
' The contractor must see that they are in possession of that information which
will enable them to adhere closely to the clause. Workmen not to be imported directly
or indirectly except when necessary in the public interests to carry on the work in
progress or in contemplation expeditiously.'
The representative of the labour union on the Board uncompromisingly insisted
that to make this clause operative to his satisfaction the Federal Labour Union as a
union must be recognized. This position was interjected after all the evidence had
been submitted and while the Board was engaged in making out the report; the
other members of the Board taking the stand that as recognition of the union was
not made in the schedule of complaints or demands, it could not be now entertained
or considered by the Board.
The city maintains that as the city of Saskatoon is jieculiarly situated as being
the centre of a very large newly developing agricultural district, and to a very large
extent at present depends on the progress of agriculture for its prosperity — this dis-
trict being newly settled to a large extent by homesteaders, many of whom are men of
small means who from force of circumstances at certain seasons of the year are
obliged to earn by their labour that ready cash which will enable them to subsist
and make the necessary improvements on their homesteads until such time as they
receive returns from the product of the soil — in view of this fact, the city is averse
to have any conditions imposed upon the willing worker by recognizing the claims of
the union that ' none but union men be employed as long as available.' The city
claims tliat the progress which has characterized the city would be jeopardized and
the country's development as a whole would suiler in consequence.
Complaint 4. — On representation being made to the city by the labourers as to
the necessity of providing sanitary arrangements for their use while on works, the
same were provided by the different contractors as per instructions from the Board
of Works of the city, and were in use before the first sitting of the Board. Assur-
ance was given that in future such sanitary arrangements would be provided.
Complaint 5. — The city Act of the province of Saskatchewan, page 11, section
51, reads as follows : —
' The treasurer shall daily or as often as the council may direct, deposit in the
name of the city in some chartered bank designated by resolution of the council, all
moneys received by him in excess of $100, and he shall jointly with the mayor sign
all necessary cheques,' thus preventing the city from complying with the demands
set forth in this complaint. The city agrees to have the demand as in clause 5 in-
serted in its entirety in all future contracts, except the words ' or corporation.'
COMPLAINT — DISCHARr.E OF EMPLOYEES WITHOUT A REASON BEING Gn'EN.
It was agreed that a reason be given when an employee was discharged, and if
such reason be asked in writing that it be made in duplicate; one copy to be given
to the employee, the other to be filed with the chairman of the Board of Works.
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The parties to the dispute reached an agreement on all the difierences except the
minimum wages scale and the recognition of the Federal Lahour Union.
So long as the two parties to the dispute maintain their present attitude respect-
ing these two clauses, conciliation is absolutely impossible. The Board has exhausted
every resource within its power to bring about the much desired conciliation, but
owing to the determined stand taken by both parties on the aforesaid points, such
is impossible.
E. J. Meilicke,
Chairman.
(Sgd.) Alex. Smith.
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XVI.— APPLICATION FROM ROUNDHOUSE EMPLOYEES OF THE INTER-
COLONIAL RAILWAY OF CANADA AT HALIFAX, N.S.— BOARD ES-
ESTABLISHED— UNANIMOUS REPORT BY BOARD— STRIKE
AVERTED.
Application received. — August 11, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Intercolonial Railway of Canada and its round-house em-
ployees.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Nature of dispute. — Alleged discrimination against certain employees.
Number of employees affected. — Directly, 20; indirectly, 1,000.
Date of constitution of Board. — September 25, 1909.
Memhership of Board. — Sir George Garneau, Kt, Quebec, Que., Chairman, ap-
pointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the other
members of the Board; Mr. Jas. H. Gilmour, Brockville, Ont., appointed by the Gov-
ernment Railways Managing Board; and Mr. Aaron A. R. Mosher, Halifax, N.S.,
appointed on the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — November 17, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — A unanimous report was presented by the Board, making
certain recommendations for the settlement of the dispute which were accepted by
both parties concerned; a strike being thereby averted.
The Minister received, on November 17, the report of the Board established in
the matter of differences between the Interclonial Railway of Canada and certain
of its round-house employees, members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Em-
ployees, Division No. 15, Halifax. The report in question was signed by the three
members of the Board, viz. : Sir Geo. Garneau, of Quebec, Que., Chairman ; Mr. Jas.
H. Gilmour, of Brockville, Ont., member; Mr. Aaron A. R. Mosher, of Halifax, N.S.,
member.
In a letter dated November 26, the Department of Labour Vas advised of the
acceptance of this report by the Government Railways Managing Board, and on
December 2, a letter was received in the following terms, signifying the acceptance
of the report by the employees concerned :
CANADIAN BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
Halifax, N.S., November 29, 1909.
F. A. AcLAND, Esq.,
Deputy Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
Dear Sir, — I beg to advise you that at a meeting of Division No. 15, Canadian
Brotherhood of Railroad Employees, held Thursday, 25th inst., a resolution was
unanimously passed accepting the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Inves-
tigation appointed to inquire into the differences between this division and the Inter-
colonial Railway.
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The division also wishes to express its sincere appreciation of the manner in
which the Board conducted the case and for the consideration shown our represen-
tatives by the members of the Board.
Tours truly,
(Sgd.) Ch.\s. McTiernan,
Chairman of Grievance Committee, Division,
No. 15, Canadian Brotherhood Railway
Employees. Halifax, 2.57 Campbell Eoad.
It having appeared, in the course of the investigation, that undue interference
was suspected on the part of certain political organizations or committees in con-
nection with the selection of the names for dismissal or retention, the Board finds
that all the sworn evidence heard before it tended clearly to disprove any such inter-
ference.
3. On the question of discrimination, in certain cases, having been exercised
against the men on account of their being active members of the Canadian Brother-
hood of Railroad employees, the evidence before the Board does not justify it in
believing this to be the case.
4. The railway company, through the chairman of the Baard of Management and
one of the other members, strongly urged the claim that the officials of the Company
must be the judges of the qualifications of the men in its employ for retention or dis-
missal. The Board admits this claim, but at the same time it deems it necessary
to point out that, in dealing with a very large number of employees, some instances
of undue hardship imposed upon the latter will unavoidably occur. The higher
officials of the railway state that Ihey are always willing to investigate complaints
on the part of the men, and that such complaints may be carried up, through the
chain of responsible officials, to the general superintendent, or even to the Board of
Management. This, on principle, is eminently fair and just, but in practice it will
be found, in many instances, to entail on the men concerned expenses which are beyond
their reasonable means. It is, therefore, tlie opinion of the Board that when the men
belong to a duly incorporated or recognized union which has no schedule of agree-
ment with the railway, and when their grievances entail reference to officials who are
not accessible to the men at the place where they are employed, they should be allowed
to present them through the medium of the duly qualified officers of the union to which
the complainant belongs.
The Board desires to acknowledge the willingness and good spirit shown by both
parties to the dispute in procuring the evidence required by it.
We have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servants,
(Signed) J. Geo. Garneau,
Chairman.
" A. E. MOSHER,
" J. H. GiLMOUR,
Quebec, November 12, 1909.
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XVII.— APPLICATION FROM FREIGHT HANDLERS EMPLOYED BY THE
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AT FORT WILLIAM, ONT.
—BOARD ESTABLISHED- UNANIMOUS REPORT BY BOARD-
AGREEMENT CONCLUDED.
Application received. — August 18, 1909.
Parties concerned.- — Canadian Pacific Railway Company and its freight handlers
at Fort William, Ont.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Transportation.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of labour.
Number of employees affected. — 700.
Date of constitution of Board. — August 20, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Mr. S. C. Young, Fort William, Ont., Chairman ap-
pointed on the joint recommendation of the other members of the Board; Mr. W. J.
Christie, Winnipeg, Man., appointed on the recommendation of the employing Com-
pany; and Mr. W. T. Rankin, Fort Wiliam, Ont., appointed on the recommendation
of the employees.
Report received. — August 30, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — Employees, for most part foreigners, had gone on strike in
ignorance of the Act, but returned to work on applying for Board. Board's recom-
mendations for settlement were accepted by both parties concerned. No further
cessation of work occurred.
On Aug:ust 12 the Minster of Labour having been apprised of the occurrence of
a strike on the part of freight handlers to the number of 700 employed on the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway Company at Fort William, Ont., opened communication through
His Worship Mayor Peltier, of Fort William, with the parties concerned, as a result
of which Mr. F. A. Acland, Deputy Minister of Labour, was commissioned on August
15 to proceed to Fort William to lend the good ofSces of the department towards efiect-
ing, if possible, an adjustment of the dispute. The differences in question related to
the demands of the freight handlers for increased rates of pay and for the discon-
tinuance of a bonus system by which one cent per hour of their wages was held by
the Company until the completion of the season's work.
On August 18 the deputy minister informed the Minister of Labour from Fort
William that formal application had been made by the employees for the establi.sh-
ment of a Board under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. In this message
the deputy minister also announced that the strikers had all returned to work and
that troops which had been called out for the preservation of order had been with-
drawn. A Board was accordingly established without delay, composed of Mr. W. J.
Christie, of Winnipeg; Mr. W. T. Rankin, of Fort William, and Mr. S. C. Young,
of Fort William, the latter being appointed chairman on the joint recommendation of
Messrs. Christie and Rankin. On August 24, six days after the application had been
transmitted to the department, a unanimous report was made by the Board in terms
which were understQod to be acceptable to both parties to the dispute.
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REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER.
A full account of the circumstances attending this dispute and of the means
adopted to effect a settlement is contained in a report of the Deputy Minister of
Labour to the Minister of Labour in the following terms : —
Ottawa, August 26, 1909.
To the Honourable the Minister of Labouu^
Ottawa, Ont.
Sir, — I have the honour to present a report relating to the differences between the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the longshoremen in its employ at the port
of Fort William, Ont., and to the action of the department with regard thereto.
Dn Sunday, the 15th instant, I received from you verbal instructions, subse-
quently confirmed by writing, to proceed to Fort William, Ont., and to lend the good
offices of the department in promoting a settlement of the differences above mentioned,
and on the following day I left for the scene of the dispute, arriving there on the
evening of Tuesday the 17th instant.
The following telegrams show more precisely the nature of the mission: —
1. From Mr. Frederick Urry, correspondent of the Labow Gazette at Port Arthur,
and secretary of the Trade and Labour Council at Port Arthur, to Hon. W. L. Mac-
kenzie King, Minister of Labour, dated Port Arthur, August 14: — 'Strike committee
of freight-handlers, Fort William, request your presence here to hear their grievances
and effect settlement. Wire reply.'
2. From Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Minister of Labour, to Mr. Frederick
Urry, Port Arthur, Ont., dated Ottawa, August 15: — 'Your telegram of last night
received this morning. The deputy minister, Mr. F. A. Acland, will leave for Fort
William immediately to lend the good offices of the department towards effecting a.
settlement of the Fort William dispute. Mr. Acland was instrumental in effecting
under similar circumstances a settlement of a longshoremen's dispute at Montreal
two years ago, and I bespeak for him the confidence of each of the parties.'
It will be well to set down briefly the leading features of the dispute up to the ex-
change of telegrams leading to the intervention of the department. My statements
on these points are necessarily based on inquiries made after my arrival at Fort Wil-
liam and not on personal observation, but I am satisfied of their substantial accuracy.
There are about TOO men receiving employment to a varying degree as freight-
handlers at the freight sheds of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Fort Wil-
liam, Ont. These men are of numerous nationalities, the prevailing races being Rus-
sians, Hungarians, Austrians, Greeks, Italians and Ruthenians, with a sprinkling
of English-speaking men. The rate of wages paid during the present season up to
the time of the dispute has been 174 cents per hour for day work and 20 cents per
hour for night work, with an additional cent for each hour worked, given as a bonus
at the end of the season to the men who remained on duty until that time arrives.
The object of the bonus is obviously to induce the men to hold themselves available
for duty to a later date than they might otherwise be disposed to regard as desirable.
The system is identical with that adopted in the case of the Montreal longshoremen
three years ago on the recommendation of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation
then established to adjust the dispute between the longshoremen and the Shipping
Federation of Canada, but the amount of bonus paid at Montreal is 2J cents on each
hour worked. It is not within the scope of the present mission to pronounce in any
way upon the question of the adequacy of the rate of wages that had prevailed at Fort
William from the beginning of the season or on the effectiveness or desirability of
the bonus system, but it may be remarked generally that the rate of wages paid to
freight-handlers and longshoremen appears to depend to a considerable extent upon the
degree of permanence afforded by the work at the respective ports. Where the work
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is most irregular there, usually, the wages rule highest the transportation companies
concerned could not otherwise secure men for prompt service when occasion requires.
The rate payable is, of course, again affected by the prevailing local rate for ordinary
labour. The question of the degree of hardship imposed on the men by a bonus
system which holds them to the employing company until the end of the season regard-
less of the amount of work received, unless the extra remuneration involved be
sacrificed, similarly depends largely on local conditions and on the character of the
men employed, and is not one concerning which any general pronouncement may be
made with advantage.
During the present season work appears to have proceeded quietly enough at the
rate mentioned above until Saturday, August 7. The officials of the Company report
that no representations were made to them concerning grievances, nor do the men
claim that any such representations were made, save, it was subsequently stated on
behalf of the men (though denied by the Company), in case of some individual em-
ployees who had objected to certain of the foremen that the rate of pay was inadequate
to the work. The employing Company appears, therefore, to have been taken com-
pletely by surprise when on Monday, August 9, the men suddenly and without any
formal warning to the Company ceased work, and it is quite certain that the com-
munity of Fort William generally was unprepared for such conditions. The result
of the refusal of the men to work was to derange the shipping facilities of Fort Wil-
liam and to threaten a tie-up of steamers that might be in port or might come to
port.
APPLICATION OP INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT.
The industry involved being one involving transportation facilities brought the
dispute within the province of the Industrial Disputes Investigaton Act, 1907, and
the men were not complying with the terms of the Act in ceasing work before the
difierences between them and their employers had been referred for investigation to
a Board of Conciliation and Investigation. The men involved were, as has already
been pointed out, very generally foreigners, and with perhaps few exceptions without
more than the rudiments of education. It does not appear that they were, as a rule,
new arrivals, and many of them had lived for some years at Fort William and had been
engaged for several seasons in the work of freight handling. Theie seems good ground
for accepting, however, the claim subsequently advanced by the leaders of the men
that they were unaware of the existence of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act,
and that had they known the requirements of this Act they would not have ceased
work without their grievance having been first investigated.
During the two or three days following immediately after the strike, more or less
informal conferences took place between the representatives of the men and the
officials of the Company. The Company is represented locally by Superintendent J.
Graham, but Mr. J. T. Arundel, general superintendent of the Central division of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, reached Fort William on Tuesday, August 10, and Assist-
ant General Manager Bury came to the scene of the dispute a day later. The higher
officials assumed the direction of affairs, so far as the Company was concerned, dur-
ing their stay in Fort William. The demands of the men as formulated were briefly
as follows: —
1. An increase of pay. 2. An abolition of the bonus system. 3. Better treatment
from the foremen.
The strikers carefully picketed the approaches to the C. P. R. sheds from day
to day, and it being reported that some of the strikers were carrying firearms a search
was made by the city police, one man on whom was found a Colts' revolver being ar-
rested. Mr. L. L. Peltier, mayor of Fort William, received a deputation of the strikers
on Tuesday morning, August 10, at the City Hall, several hundred men being pr&scnt.
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Bosco Dominico, an Italian, acted as interpreter, and spoke for the demands of the men
and the mayor in reply, as reported in the local press, promised to do aU that lay in
his power to promote an understanding. He strongly condemned the carrying of
firearms and urged that the men go back to work and leave the dispute to be discussed
by a Conciliation Committee of which he was quite willing to be one. If this com-
mittee failed, the mayor recommended that the dispute should be referred for adjust-
ment under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, the nature of which he ex-
plained.
The mayor appears to have immediately commenced negotiations with the Com-
pany, and the differences were in a fair way to settlement without a reference to the
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act when on Thursday morning, August 12, an
unfortunate incident occurred. About 30 special constables had been brought down
from Winnipeg by the C. P. E. management for the purpose of protecting the property
of the Company. The constables were sworn in on Thursday morning before Magis-
trate Palling, of Fort William, and taken to the Company's boarding house near the
freight sheds. The arrival of the special constables appears to have had an irritating
effect on the strikers, some of whom believed or professed to believe that the new
arrivals were strike breakers and not constables.
COLLISION BETWEEN STRIKERS AND CONSTABLES.
The Company seems to have followed the customary procedure in this matter,
and it has not been seriously suggested that the powers conferred upon them under
such conditions by the provincial laws were in any way exceeded. It would seem
possible, however, that a less prominent display of force would have been dictated by
prudence and might have helped to avert the calamity that followed, and it is at
least arguable whether the public interests do not demand such an amendment of the
law as would require that the consent of the public officers responsible for the peace
of the conmiunity should be procured before so large a body of armed men is brought
within the limits of the municipality concerned.
While the C. P. R. special constables were breakfasting, the strikers gathered
around in considerable force and on the emergence of the constables an altercation
ensued, which developed quickly into the active use of firearms, with the result that
many persons were severely injured. Eleven constables were wounded and taken to the
hospital, and several of the strikers are believed also to have been wounded and
taken aw^iy by their comrades ; no wounded strikers were taken to the hospital. Mayor
Peltier, when the news of the shooting reached him, was in the act of negotiating a
settlement with the C. P. R. officials enabling the men to return to work immediately
on improved terms, with a reference to the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act in
the event of further grievances developing. The mayor immediately proceeded to the
scene of the outbreak and read the Riot Act and issued then the call for the militia,
the magistrates signing the requisition with him being Messrs. Peter McKellar and
G. W. Brown. A detachment 150 strong of the 96th regiment located in Fort William
and Port Arthur were soon on duty and order was restored. Col. Steele, D.O.C., who
was in Port Arthur at the time of the affray, assumed command, and also brought
down from Winnipeg seventy-five meniber.s of the Canadian Mounted Rifles.
The presence of the Militia had a quieting effect and no further untoward inci-
dent occurred. The strike continued, and on Friday morning over a hundred men
were brought in by the Company from the east and work was parti;ally resumed at the
freight sheds. Picketing was continued by the strikers, but without disorder. The
bearing of the militia is on all hands reported to have been excellent. Mayor Peltier
resumed negotiations looking to a settlement, and at a meeting of the men on Friday,
August 1-3, read the following telegrams exchanged between the Minister of Labour '
and himself: —
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Ottawa, August 12, 1909.
Mayor Peltier,
Fort William, Ont.
Press despatches mention you have been endeavouring to arrange settlement of
longshoremen's strike. Possibly parties are not aware that Industrial Disputes In-
vestigation Act is applicable to this dispute and that persons violating provisions of
Act are liable to prescribed penalties. Two years ago longshoremen at Montreal and
Halifax, having struck without knowledge of provisions of Act, returned to work
and had difficulties referred under its provisions once the same were brought to their
attention. Satisfactory settlements followed. Possibly strikers at Fort William will
see the wisdom of adopting a similar course. I will be pleased to establish a Board of
Conciliation and Investigation fortliwith if so requested. Copies of Act mailed yester-
day to W. Houston, secretary of Longshoremen's Union.
(Sgd.) W. L. Mackenzie Kino,
Minister of Labour.
Fort William, August 13, 1909.
W. L. Mackenzie Kino,
Minister of Labour,
Ottawa.
On August 11, by authority of Canadian Pacific Railway and over my signature
and corporation seal, I made the following proposition to strikers : — If men returned
to work to-day the Company's superintendent and general superintendent will meet
representatives of the men to-night to endeavour to adjust any grievances and settle
wage question, and if men dissatisfied they will remain working and invoke Lemieux
Act. This was not accepted. Situation well in hand. May use Act yet.
(Sgd.) L. L. Peltier, Mayor.
The mayor on Saturday, August 14, regarded normal conditions restored and re-
quested the withdrawal of military protection. The regulars and militia were accord-
ingly withdrawn on Saturday night. During the day the city police had arrested a
number of men believed to have been implicated in the affair of the 12th instant, and
the men arrested were taken to Port Arthur for trial.
DISPUTE referred UNDER INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT.
As a result jointly of the efforts of the mayor and of the knowledge obtained by
the strikers of the nature of the Industri.il Disputes Investigation Act, an understand-
ing was now reached, to have the dispute referred for investigation under its provi-
Bions, and in virtue of this understanding on Monday morning, August 10, the men
accordingly resumed work. On my arrival in the city on the evening of the 17th, aa
stated above, there was no outward evidence of the recent disturbance, but there was
indication of a tense and excitable condition of feeling being still abroad, and I re-
ceived many assurances of the necessity for prompt action in bringing the wliole
matter before a Board for full inquiry and final adjustment. I communicated im-
mediately on my arrival with the mayor and with Mr. F. Urry, by whom had been
transmitted to the Jfinister the communication on behalf of the strikers, and it was
arranged that I should on the following morning meet the members of the committee
representing the strikers and obtain from them the formal application for a Board of
Conciliation and Investigation, which it was believed they were now desirous of
presenting.
The committee met at the city hall at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, August 18, Mayor
Peltier and Mr. F. Urry being present and rendering valuable assistance. With one
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exception the committee was composed of non-English speaking persons, and the ser-
vices of translators in several languages were necessary. The application was form-
ally drawn, signed before Magistrate Palling by Messrs. C. R. Spooned and Piro
Pathakoes, respectively, as representing the committee, and formally handed to myself
as Registrar of Boards of Conciliation and Investigation. Mr. F. Urry was recom-
mended by the men for appointment to the Board. The Minister had already ex-
pressed determination to establish a Board if an application was received in due form,
and as I received a notification during the day from the employing Company that the
Company had recommended Mr. W. J. Christie, of Winnipeg, for appointment, I
communicated to the Minister the names of the persons respectively recommended
and the Minister was pleased to appoint them forthwith. I represented to Messrs.
Christie and Urry, by telegraphic messages to Winnipeg and Port Arthur respectively,
the desirability of expediting the inquiry as far as was possible and suggested, by the
Minister's direction, that they should endeavour as speedily as possible to agree on a
recommendation for the third member of the Board, and that if they could not come
to such agreement speedily, they should consider the advisability of waiving their
full rights of deliberation in this matter and refer the appointment to the Minister
In the manner provided by the Act, when the appointment would-be made forthwith.
I received a message in reply from Mr. Christie stating that he would reach Port
William on Friday evening, August 20. On Thursday, August 19. I received a letter
from Mr. TJrry stating that on reconsidering the situation he had decided to tender
his resignation as a member of the Board. Mr. Urry's note was as follows: —
Port Arthur, Ont., August 19, 1909.
i\rr. F. A. ACLAND^
Deputy Minister of Labour.
Dear Sir, — It was a surprise to me yesterday when the members of the strike
committee asked me to act for them. Without having time to consider the matter fully
I consented.
I have since come to the conclusion that in the interest of the labour movement of
these two cities it will be best that I decline the position.
Thanking you and also the Minister of Labour for your confidence in me to act
on behalf of the men by confirming their choice.
I remain, your faithfully,
(Sgd.) Frederick Urry.
It became necessary accordingly to reconvene the Strike Committee, and as the
members were now at work during the day, it was impossible to secure such meeting
until evening at 7 p.m. On Thursday, August 19, therefore, the committee, recon-
vened, and after some deliberation decided to recommend Aid. W. T. Rankin for ap-
pointment to the Board. The mayor was present at this second meeting of the com-
mittee and again lent his services for the adjustment of the difficulty.
RESOLUTION BY MEN WITH RESPECT TO ACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT.
At the same meeting of the committee the following resolution was passed relat-
ing to the action of the Department and setting forth the attitude of the employees
towards the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act : — ■
Fort William, August 18, 1909.
We, the committee representing the freight shed men employed by the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company at Fort William, appreciate the promptness with which the
Department of Labour dealt with our request for the appointment of a Board to deal
with our grievances, and had we known of the existence of the Lemieux Act, we would
not have ceased work until we had invoked the good offices of the Minister of Labour.
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The Minister appointed Mr. Eankin to the Board in place of Mr. Urry, and on
Friday, August 20, Messrs. Christie and Rankin met to confer regarding the ques-
tion of a chairman, with the result that during the day they agreed on the nomina-
tion of Mr. S. C. Young, a leading citizen of Fort William, and this recommendation
was duly confirmed by the Minister. The members of the Board were sworn in on
Saturday morning, August 21, and began immediately the official inquiry into the
dispute. The proceedings of the Board lasted throughout Saturday, considerable
evidence 'being taken as to the cost of living at Fort William as compared with other
places, and as to the bearing of this on the wage question. Evidence was also taken
on some other questions. Many of the men were present throughout the day and the
proceedings were apparently an object lesson of considerable value to them, as well
as to different leading citizens who were present during the day as witnesses or spec-
tators. In the evening the Board met in private for the purpose of endeavouring
to agree on a report, but finding it impossible as yet to make a unanimous report, it
was decided to take further evidence on Monday, August 23. The proceedings were
resumed on Monday and additional evidence was taken. On Monday evening the
Board again went into private session which continued until between five and six
o'clock in the morning of Tiiesday, August 24, in an endeavour to formulate a unani-
mous recommendation. Some details were left for final adjustment, and a copy of the
text of the finding of the Board to which then or subsequently were attached the names
of the three members of the Board, was handed me by the chairman on Tuesday
evening. This finding was understood to be satisfactory to both parties concerned.
The whole proceedings from the day on which the formal application was received
had lasted during six working days only, showing with what expedition the machinery
of the Act may be worked when there is a special urgency for the same.
The finding of the Board recommended (1) the payment of the rate of 20i cents
per hour by day and 234 cents per hour by night, a substantial advance over the figures
formerly paid, dating from August 16, when the men resumed work; (2) the abolition
of the bonus system for the future, and the payment immediately of the bonus earned
up to date. Concerning the question of ill-treatment the Board did not find that any
evidence supporting this contention had been submitted, but the Company's officers
had, it was stated, given satisfactory assurances on the subject. This report was
understood to be acceptable to both parties to the dispute. A formal report of the
finding of the Board was duly forwarded to the Minister at Ottawa.
RECAPITULATION OF PROCEEDINGS — EFFECT OF THE ACT.
It will be seen that the employees ceased work on August 9, requested the aid of
the Minister of Labour on August 15, returned to work on August 16, and made
formal application for a Board of Conciliation and Investigation on August 18, the
Board holding official inquiry on August 21 and 23, and reaching a conclusion on
August 24, fifteen days from the time of the strike, and six days, as noted, from the
date of the formal application for a Board.
The financial loss suffered by both parties to the dispute would have been, no
doubt, entirely avoided and the unfortunate affray between the special constables and
the strikers necessarily eliminated had the differences been referred for adjustment
under the terms of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act in the first place, a course
clearly dictated, moreover, by ordinary prudence as well as by the laws of the land.
As previously stated, however, the men claim to have been wholly ignorant of the
existence of any special law bearing on the question of trade disputes. This was
stated in concise terms in the application forwarded to the Minister, and also in the
resolution passed by the committee of strikers quoted above.
In the application for the establishment of the Board it was stated on behalf of
the freight-handlers concerned that ' in ceasing work, the employees, the great ma-
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jority of whom are foreigners, acted in good faith, and as they would have acted in
their own respective countries, being unaware of the existence in Canada of any Act
of Parliament requiring that before a strike was called there shall be an inquiry into
the grievances before a Board established by the Minister of Labour.'
I desire in closing this report to draw the Minister's attention to the excellent
public service rendered by His Worship Mayor Peltier throughout the difficulty, and
the substantial aid which I received from the mayor and Mr. P. Urry, secretary of
the Trades and Labour Council of Port Arthur and correspondent of The Labour
Gazette for Port Arthur, in expediting the procedure for the establishment of the
Board. I desire also to acknowledge the cordial and courteous co-operation of the
officials of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to the same end.
I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant
(Signed) P. A. Acland.
Deputy Minister of Labour.
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation established
in this matter is as follows: —
Fort William. Ont.. August 21, 190!).
To the Honourable the Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
Sir, — Tn the matter of the Industrial Dispute's Investigation Act, 1907, and of the
dispute between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, employers, and the freight
handlers of that Company, at Fort William. Out., employees, we the duly appointed
Board of Conciliation and Investigation, consisting of Samuel C. Young. Chairman,
of the city of Fort William, Ont.; William J. Christie, of the city of Winnipeg, Man.;
William T. Rflnkin, of the city of Fort William, Ont., beg to report as follows: —
The Board met in the council chamber of the City Hall, Fort William. Ont.,
Saturday, August 21, 1909.
The grievances set forth in statement A of employees were first taken up. Briefly,
they were as follows : —
1. A raise of wages from 18J cents to 22* cents per hour for day work and from
21 cents to 25 cents per hour for night work.
2. The employees complained that the cost of living in the city of Fort William
w:>rranted them in asking for the increase.
:i. That some of the men had been unjustly or harshly dealt with by some of
the Company's foremen in pursuance of their work.
4. They wished the discontinuance of the bonus system now in force whereby 1
cent per hour of their wages is held by the Company until completion of the season's
work.
Taking the questions up in order named, we went exhaustively into the matter
of wages paid for ordinary labour in this city and district, and find that ordinary, un-
skilled labour, such as is affected in this case, commands about 20 cents per hour and
wo, therefore, recommend : —
First. — That the wages to be paid to the complaints, i.e., the labourers in the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company's freight sheds at Fort William, Ont., shall be'
20* cents per hour for day work and 23J cents per hour for night work, and that these
rates shall apply from August 16, 1909.
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Second. — We find that, after very careful investigation, considering transporta-
tion charges on commodities, the cost of living in the city of Fort William, Ont.,
compares favourably with other cities, both east and west.
Third. — In the matter of complaint of employees as to harsh treatment by some
of the foremen in the employ of the Company, we could not get any direct evidence
in support of their complaint. We have the assurances of officials of the Company
that they will not tolerate any unwarranted treatment of the men if same is brought
to their attention. We have advised the representatives of the men to make com-
plaint in writing to the proper authorities should anything of this nature occur in the
future.
Fourth. — We strongly recommend that the bonus system be discontinued at once,
and that bonuses earned to August 16, 1909, be paid in full within one week. We have
the Company's consent to this proposal.
In looking into the matters which brought about the trouble between the em-
ployees and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, we find that no proper demands
were made by the men. The men left their work without notice which seriously affected
the freight handling business at this port, causing great loss to shipping and mercan-
tile interests of the country.
We have tried to impress upon the men the seriousness of their action in this
respect and we are pleased to note in their statement referred to that they realize
this and that they will not participate in such action in the future.
(Sgd.) S. C. Young,
Chairman.
(Sgd.) W. T. Rankin,
For Employees.
(Sgd.) W. J. Christie,
For C. P. Ry. Co.
Dated at Fort William, Ont., 24th day of August, 1909.
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XVIII.— APPLICATION FROM MACHINISTS AND FITTERS EMPLOYED BY
THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY OF CANADA— BOARD ESTAB-
LISHED—UNANIMOUS REPORT BY BOARD— STRIKE AVERTED.
Application received. — October 2, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Intercolonial Railway of Canada and machinists and fitters
in its employ.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Nature of dispute. — Alleged unfair dismissal of certain employees and alleged
violation of contract.
Number of employees affected. — Directly, 363; indirectly, 43.
Date of constitution of Board. — October 4, 1909.
Memhership of Board. — His Honour Judge J. A. Barron, Stratford, Ont.,
Chairman, appointed by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation
from the other members of the Board; Mr. Jas. H. Gilmour, Brockville, Ont., ap-
pointed on the recommendation of the Government Railways Managing Board; and
Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recommendation of the em-
ployees.
Report received. — December 8, 1909.
Result of inquiry. — A unanimous report was presented by the Board for settle-
ment of dispute, which was accepted by both parties concerned; a strike being thereby
averted.
On December 8 the' Minister received the report of the Board established in the
matter of differences between the Intercolonial Railway of Canada and its machinists
and fitters, members of the International Association of Machinists. The report in
question was signed by the three members of the Board, viz. : His Honour Judge
John A. Barron, of Stratford, Ontario, Chairman; Mr. James II. Gilmour, of Brock-
ville, Ontario, member appointed on recommendation of the employer; Mr. J. G.
O'Donoghue, of Toronto, Ontario, member appointed on the recommendation of the
employees.
On December 13 the Department was informed that the findings of the Board
were entirely acceptable to the Intercolonial railway. On January 27 the Department
was also informed by telegram that the findings in this matter had been accepted by
the machinists and fitters concerned.
In the application for the establishment of this Board it was stated that the dis-
pute related to : —
'I. Dismissing certain employees contrary to signed agreement or schedule.
' II. Refusal of investigation for men dismissed according to Article 4, section
3, of signed agreement, viz., " An investigation for men dismissed."
' III. Certain employees not receiving increase of pay which was promised in
October, 1908, and again in June, 1909.
' IV. Violation of Article 4, section 1, of schedule bearing on reduction of ex-
penses by reducing the force which provides for married men with families depending
on them for support to be given the preference.
' V. Men who have been a number of years in the service who are near the
age for pension being dropped from service.' ,
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The Board in its report has giving its findings on each of the points above men-
tioned. In respect of the alleged dismissal of certain employees contrary to signed
agreement or schedule the Board finds that the services of about 350 men were dis-
pensed with in pursuance of a policy of retrenchment, and that the necessity for the
reduction in the staff was explained by the management to a committee of the em-
ployees concerned. On this point the Board further observed that ' it can readily
understand the difliculty of applying the schedule under the circumstances, but no
further difference will arise on the point because all the representatives of the Com-
pany expressed their desire and intention to keep and enforce the schedule hereafter.'
Concerning the alleged refusal of investigation for men dismissed, the Board
found that a conference was held between the management and a committee of the
employees at which the reason for the dismissals was given, and that it appeared that
the raaragement could not have done more.
Regarding the claim that certain employees had not received increases of pay
promised in October, 1908, and in June, 1909, the Board found that, whilst an increase
of wages was promised to boilermakers and machinists, the annual return for the In-
tercolonial system showed a deficit and that the matter of increase dragged along
until the beginning of the present year, when the chairman of the Government Bail-
ways Management Board stated that he had a sum of money for distribution among
the men above referred to. Pending the present investigation the increase has not
been given, but the Board expressed the opinion that it should now be given, dating
from April 1, 1909.
Regarding the alleged violation of Article 4, section 1, of the schedule, bearing
on reduction of expenses through reduction of staff, which provided for a preference
to married men with families depending on them for support, the Board heard the
evidence of every one desiring to be heard. At Halifax it appears that amongst those
who were let go were men who had been a very long time in the service of the road.
The Board found that loss of employment by these men was no doubt a real hardship,
and further observes that the passage of the amendment to the Provident Fund Act
now before the House of Commons is amply justified by the consideration of these
cases. The men contended that the section of their schedule with the Company call-
ing for the application of the seniority rule should have been applied to the round-
house and the shop at Halifax as if these were one, so that the older men in each case
should be given the preference of employment. The Company, on the other hand,
claimed that if only the shop was closed the round-house should not be brought into
the matter at all. The majority of the Board thought that under the circumstances
tho seniority rule could not be enforced, inasmuch as all of the employees working
in the shop were let go, and that the round-house should not be considered. Mr.
O'Donoghuo did not see his way clear to agree to this. The Board's report further
observed that in any event the passage of the Act above referred to will do justice
to all concerned.
Regarding the claim of employees who had been a number of years in the service
and who had almost reached the age for pension being dropped from the service, the
Board expressed the opinion that the men should receive their pension under the pro-
posed amendment of the Provident Fund Act from the date of their dismissal.
The report concluded with the following observations : ' A feature in regard to
the dismissals was brought into the investigation which, though not directly referred
to the Board, the Board nevertheless did not desire to exclude, and that was that in
tho dismissal of employees political interference was had and political preference was
shown. Once the suggestion was made the Board exhausted every means to ascertain
what the facts were, and they unanimously find that the evidence establishes that
political interference or political preference had no part whatever in the dismissals
tho Board was called upon to consider.
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' The Board feels it due to Mr. Butler, Mr. Brady and Mr. Joughins to say that
their instructions in every ease with regard to the dismissals were that politics were
not to have any part in the matter.
' The Board must express its pleasure at the cordial relations existing between
the I. C. R. officials and the representatives of the men.
' Our work has been much facilitated by all parties concerned.'
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this
matter is as follows : —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, and in thfc
matter of differences between the Intercolonial Railway and its machinists and fittere,
members of the International Association of Machinists :
The Board of Conciliation and Investigation created under the statute in that
behalf, and to whom, on the 19th day of October, 1909, was referred certain disputes,
claims and demands, which said disputes, &c., are hereinafter set forth and numbered
respectively from I. to VI., respectfully report as follows : —
The said Board held a series of sittings at Montreal, Ottawa, Moncton, Halifax
and Quebec, at all of which places all evidence offered was taken, and all of which
places Charles Bleakney and John Delahirst, the parties who made the application for
investigation, were present and took part in the same, together with several others
representing the machini.'^ts and fitters of the Intercolonial system.
The said Charles Bleakney and John Delahirst were at the time of the statutory
application in these proceedings and still are employees of the Intercolonial Railway
within the meaning of Section 16, subsection 3 of the Industrial Disputes Investiga-
tion Act, 1907.
1. Dismissing certain employees contrary to signed agreement or schedule.
The Board find that the services of about three hundred and fifty men were dis-
pensed with. This very large reduction in the staff was made in pursuance of a policy
of retrenchment. The fact undoubtedly was that, in the course of many years, the
road had become over-manned, and it became apparent that if proper economy was
to be exercised the services of many men in ' the maintenance of equipment depart-
ment ' had necessarily to be dispensed with. In Halifax alone about 125 men were
laid off. This large dismissal of men at Halifax was unavoidable, because of the
fact that the employers decided to and did in fact abolish entirely all attempts at
heavy repair work for locomotive maintenance, retaining only a sufficient number of
employees for ordinary roundhouse purposes. The object in view in dismissing the
men in regard to whom this investigation was ordered was beyond dispute, to perm-
anently reduce the staff and thus put an end to over-expenditure.
When the dismissals were made the management met a committee of the men
and explained the reason for the dismissals, namely, the necessity for reduction. The
Board can readily understand the difficulty of applying the schedule under the cir-
cumstances, but no further difference will arise on the point, because aU the represen-
tatives of the Company expressed their desire and intention to keep and enforce the
schedule hereafter.
2. Refusal of investigation for men dismissed according to Article Jf, section S,
of signed agreement, viz.: — An investigation for men dismissed.
As to this, it has already been pointed out that there was a conference between
the committee and the Company at which the reason for the dismissal was given.
That same reason and no other has been given by the Company before us, so that it
appears to us that the management could not have done more than they did.
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3. Certain employees not receiving increase of pay which was promised in October,
1908, and in June, 1909.
In the fall of 1908 a committee of the men met Mr. Butler, and the latter ex-
pressed his desire to increase the wages of the boilermakers and machinists. Whilst
the matter was in hand the annual return for the road showed a deficit, and the
matter of increase dragged along until the beginning of this year, when Mr. Butler
stated that he had a sum of money for distribution amongst the men above referred to.
Pending this investigation the increase has not been given, but the Board think it
should now be given, dating from April 1 last.
4. Violation of article Jf, section 1, of schedule hearing on red'uction of 'expenses
hy reducing the force which provides for married men with families depending on
them, for support to he given the preference.
The Board heard the statements of every man who desired to give his evidence.
At Halifax it appears that amongst those who were let go were men who had been
a very long time in the service of the road. Whittle was 31 years in the service ;
Delaney, 38; Baisley, 15, and Phalen 29 or 30. At Eiviere du Loup also the same
thing happened. H. Des Rochers had been in the service 23 years; Samson, 23; Ray-
mond, 22; Lavoie, 20, and Thibierge, 12. At Campbellton, T. McDevitt, 22 years.
Loss of employment by these men was, no doubt, a real hardship, and the passage
of the amendment to the Provident Fund Act now before the House of Commons is
amply justified by the consideration of these cases. The men contend that the section
of their schedule with the Company calling for application of the seniority rule should
have been applied to the roundhouse and the shop at Halifax as if one, so that the
older men in each case should be given the preference of emplojrment. The Com-
pany, on the other hand, claimed that if only the shop was closed the roundhouse
should not be brought into the matter at all. The majority of the Board think that
under the circumstances the seniority rule could not be enforced, inasmuch as all of
the employees working in the shop were let go, and the roundhouse should not be
considered. Mr. O'Donoghue does not see his way to agree to this. In any event the
passage of the Act above referred to will do justice to all concerned.
At Moncton particular stress was laid upon the cases of Trites and LeBlanc.
Their immediate superiors spoke very highly of them, while the higher officials alleged
indifference to his work in Trites' case and slowness on the part of LeBlanc.
While all the men above referred to will come under the amendment of the Provi-
dent Fund Act, the Board recommend that they be given work at the first available
opportunity.
5. Men who have been a number of years in the service, who are near the age for
pension, being dropped from service.
This has already been covered. The Board is of the opinion that the men should
receive their pension under the proposed amendment from the date of their dismissal.
6. A feature in regard to the dismissals was brought into the investigation which,
though not directly referred to the Board, the Board nevertheless did not de.«ire to
exclude, and that was that in the dismissal of employees political interference was
had, and political preference was shown. Once the suggestion was made the Board
exhausted every means to ascertain what the facts were, and they unanimously find
that the evidence establishes that political interference or political preference had no
part whatever in the dismissals the Board was called upon to consider.
The Board feels it due to Mr. Butler, Mr. Brady and Mr. Joughins to say that
their instructions in every case with regard to the dismissals wore that politics were
not to have any part in the matter.
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The Board must express its pleasure at the cordial relations existing between the
I. C. E. ofEcials and the representatives of the men.
Our work has been much facilitated by all parties concerned. All of which is
respectfully submitted.
(Sgd.) JOHX A. B.^RRON,
Chairman.
(Sgd.) J. H. GiLMOUR,
For the I. C. R.
(Sgd.) J. G. O'DoNOGHUEj
For the Men.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
XIX.— APPLICATION FKOM EDMONTON STANDARD COAL COMPANY,
LIMITED, ALTA.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— UNANIMOUS REPORT
BY BOARD— STRIKE AVERTED.
Application received. — November 18, 1909.
Parties concerned. — Edmonton Standard Coal Company, Edmonton, Alta., and
employees.
Applicants. — Employers.
Nature of industry affected. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and dismissal of employees.
Numier of employees affected. — 75.
Date of constitution of Board. — ^December 2, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Mr. Geo. F. Cunningham, Edmonton, Alta., Chairman,
appointed on the recommendation of the other members of the Board; Mr. Frank B.
Smith, Edmonton, Alta., appointed on the recommendation of the employing Com-
pany ; and Mr. Clement Stubbs, Edmonton, Alta., appointed on the recommendation
of the employees.
Report received. — December 27, 1909.
Result of inquiry.' — A vinanimous report was presented by the Board making cer-
tain recommendations for the settlement of the dispute, which were accepted by both
parties concerned; a strike being thereby averted.
The Minister received on December 27 the report of the Board of Conciliation
and Investigation, to which had been referred certain differences between the Edmon-
ton Standard Coal Company, of Edmonton, Alta., and its employees, to the number
of seventy-five. ,
The differences in question were stated in the Company's application to have
arisen through the discharging of five employees by the pit boss, which resulted in all
the other employees quitting work for a period of two days without notification to
the Company. The application referred also to proposals which were said to be in
contemplation by the employees for increased rates of pay.
Mr. Frank B. Smith, of Edmonton, Alta., and Mr. Clement Stubbs, of Edmonton,
Alta., were appointed members of the Board on behalf of the employer and employees
respectively, and on the recommendation of the foregoing the Board was completed
on December 2 by the appointment of Mr. Geo. F. Cunningham, of Camrose, Alta.,
as Chairman. The report was signed by all the members of the Board.
On January 8 a communication was received to the effect that the findings of the
Board were acceptable to the employees, and on January 12 the Department was in-
formed that the findings had been accepted also by the Company.
In the hearing before the Board it was claimed by the employees that two of
their number had been discharged on October 27 without reason, and that when on
the following day a committee of three was appointed to inquire into the dismissal
of the said employees, the members of this committee were also discharged without
justification. It was also claimed on behalf of the workmen concerned that the pit
boss had shown discrimination in an effort to suppress organization on the part of
the employees, and that all five of the men discharged were active members of the
United Mine Workers of America.
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On behalf of the Company it was claimed that the two employees discharged on
October 27 were guilty of disobedience to the Company's rules. During the hearing
before the Board the Company claimed that these two employees should be suspended
for a period of one week for the purpose of upholding the discipline of the mine.
Acknowledgment was made, however, on behalf of the employer that the three sub-
sequent dismissals were caused by hasty and impolitic action by certain officials of the
Company, and the Company expressed its willingness to reinstate the latter. In
respect of the rates of pay a satisfactory arrangement was effected between the Com-
pany and its employees. The Company formally expressed its willingness to abide by
the decision of the Board.
The findings of the Board were confined to the question of the dismissal of two
employees by the pit boss on October 27. From the evidence submitted the Board
found nothing to warrant the discharge of the two men on the 26th of October, but
that on being reinstated they had, on October 27, committed a breach of a generally
recognized rule, and for such should be censured. The Board expressed the view,
however, that the employees in question have already been suflSciently punished. The
Board also expresses the opinion that the rules relating to the discipline of the mine
should be kept posted in a prominent place at the mine.
EEPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this
matter is as follows: —
To the Honourable the Minister of Labour,
Ottawa, Ont.
Sir, — As members of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation, established
under your hand and seal on December 2, 1909, for the purpose of investigating with
an endeavour to settle a dispute between the Standard Coal Company, Limited, and
its employees — miners, teamsters and labourers — we beg to submit to you in detail
the procedure of the Board in the effort to arrive at a settlement of said dispute.
Cause of dispute — employers' claim.
The pit boss of the Standard Coal Mine discharged five miners and all the other
employees quit work in sympathy with them for two days without notifying the Com-
pany. There were also demands for an increased rate for mining the coal which had
not been submitted to the management at date of application for a Board of Con-
ciliation, but might be at any time. A copy of the rebuttal claim recently sent to
Ottawa is appended.
COPY OF REBUTTAL CLAIM.
In the matter of an Act to aid in prevention and settlement of strikes and lock-
outs in mines and industries connected with public utilities, and in the matter of a
dispute between the Edmonton Standard Coal Company, Limited, and the employees
thereof.
"We, the undersigned, being duly sworn, do solemnly declare: —
1. The employees of the Edmonton Standard Coal Company. Limited, having its
head office in the city of Edmonton, in the province of Alberta, in answer to the ap-
plication for an Arbitration Board under the said Act claims that on or about the
2<>th day of October, 1909, the said Company discharged two of its said employees
without giving any reasons for so doing.
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2. On the 27tli of October, 1909, the said employees of the said Company ap-
pointed a committee of three among themselves to inquire into the dismissal of the
said two employees referred to in the above paragraph, and the said Company dis-
missed the said members of the said committee -without giving any cause or excuse
and without justification.
3. The allegation made on the part of the said Company that the employees
ceased work without giving the said Company notice is misleading as not setting out
the true facts.
4. When the said Company discharged the three employees appointed as a com-
mittee to investigate the discharge of the first two employees as aforementioned, then
the balance of the employees of the said Company discontinued work in sympathy with
those who had been wrongfully dismissed, and contrary to the said Act, by the said
Company.
And we make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be
true, and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath and
by virtue of the Canada Evidence Act.
Severally declared before me at the city of Edmonton, in the province of Alberta,
this 21st day of December, A.D. 1909, the same having been interpreted from English
into Euthenian by A. C. Brovey, he having been first sworn by me to well and truly
interpret the same, and the deponents seemed to perfectly understand the same and
subscribed their names or made their marks thereto in my presence.
George Lezeeuck,
his
Thomas x Kossack,
mark.
Vincent Barton,
ViNC. HOLUB,
JozEF Fridel.
(Sgd.) J. M. Cmya,
A commissioner for taking affidavits in and for the province of Alberta.
SITTINGS OF BOARD.
On the morning of the 20th day of December, 1909, the Board met, all three
members being present. After a few minutes preliminary discussion as to the method
of procedure, a J. P. of Edmonton district, in the province of Alberta (who was in
proximity to the place of meeting) was called in and the three members took the oath
of office.
The Chairman having read the application for a Board with the cause and nature
of complaint, and a rebuttal claim entered by the representative of the employees,
asked the representative of the Company if he was willing to abide by the decision
of the Board, and received a reply in the affirmative. On receiving a reply in the
negative to the same question from the representatives of the employees he then de-
cleared the sitting open for discussion and investigation of the dispute.
Evidence was then led by F. B. Smith, representative for the Company and mem-
ber of the Board, that on the 2.')th day of October, 1909, the pit boss found noxious
gases prevailing in a part of the mine at 1.30 p.m. of that day, and on inquiry found
that Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub (two miners employed in the mine) had
blasted coal with black blasting powder at or about 11.30 a.m. contrary and in dis-
obedience to a rule made eighteen months previous and still in operation, viz.: That
blasting operations should not commence before four o'clock in the evening of each
working day — that this rule was made out in the form of a notice and posted in a
conspicuous place at the mine; that this rule was made for the purpose of keeping
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the air as free as possible from noxious gases during the working hours of the miners.
Also that there were exceptions to the rule in the form of a joint understanding
between the miners and the pit boss that in some places and at certain times at the
discretion and only with the sanction of the pit boss, some men were allowed to blast
coal with a white smokeless powder; that Thomas Kossack and Tincent Holub had
not obtained this sanction, and, therefore, he contended that the pit boss had just
cause for dismissing those men to uphold the discipline of the mine; that with regard
to the three miners, George Lezeruck, Martin Rospinich and Alex. Zahon, there had
been hasty and impolitic action by certain officials of the Company. On a query
from the Chairman he admitted unjust dismissal of these three men and a guarantee
of full reinstatement. In addition to the evidence led by Mr. Smith he made the
statement that as representative of the Company, in an effort to arrive at a settlement
of the dispute, that the three miners, George Lezeruck, Martin Rospinich and Alex.
Zahon, would be fully reinstated and that for the purpose of upholding the discipline
of the mine that a suspension of Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub for two weeks
would be required.
Clement Stubbs, representative of the employees and member of the Board, then
gave evidence, contending that the pit boss had discriminated in an effort to sup-
press organization on the part of the employees. That all five members discharged
were active members of the United Mine Workers of America, that the three miners,
George Lezeruck, Martin Rospinich and Alex. Zahon, were a committee appointed to
investigate the cause for discharge of Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub. Anthony
Brovey, an official of the United Mine Workers of America, was called and duly
sworn, and testified that the organization of the men took place on the 22nd of October
present year; that the five men were active members of the local organization, and that
the miners, Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub, were discharged on the 26th October,
and George Lezeruck, Martin Rospinich and Alex. Zahon were discharged on the 27th
or after.
Frank Smith, representative for employers, disproved any connection with the
two dismissals — that the order was given in the first case by the pit boss who had
charge of the mine and was responsible for its safety and well-being. In the second
case or discharge of the three miners, the order was given by the financial manager
for the Company, and the cause of it was the posting of a strong notice at the mine
signed by some of the miners. On a query from Mr. Stubbs, Mr. Smith said he did
not have the notice there, but it was in the Company's office. On this notice being
sent for it was found to read thus : —
Notice.
We started a union yesterday, and nobody should come to work until they take
those two men that got fired yesterday.
Alex. Zahon and Dzonex Lezeruck,
Pit Committee.
The Chairman then called attention to the fact that in the case of the last three
miners discharged, blame had been admitted on the part of the officials of the Com-
pany and full reinstatement guaranteed, that the dispute now devolved into a ques-
tion of proof or disproof of whether Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub did or did not
do acts contrary and in disobedience to a rule or rules of the mine.
Mr. Stubbs then requested Mr. Smith, as representative of the Company, to with-
draw a clause in the application for a Board of Reading. There are also demands for
an increase rate of mining the coal which have not been submitted to the manage-
ment up to date, but may be at any time, as this part of the dispute was settled,
^fr. Smith asked for an adjournment to prepare a paper to be placed before the Board
in the afternoon. The request being acceded, the Board adjourned.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
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PROPOSALS OF THE COMPANY.
On a resume of the sitting in the afternoon, F. B. Smith submitted the appended
proposals : —
Edmonton, Alta., December 20, 1909.
Chairman of Concilution Board,
Edmonton Standard Coal Company and Employees.
Sir, — I beg to state that with regard to the Edmonton Standard Coal Company's
application for a Conciliation Board to investigate a dispute between tlig above, the
latter part of the application stating the nature of the dispute has entirely been an-
nulled, as everything has been satisfactorily arranged between the Company and the
United Mine Workers of America. The former part of the dispute is still being con-
sidered by the Board, and the Company have authorized me to make a compromise in
the case so that matters can be amicably arranged.
To uphold the discipline of the mine, they have asked that the Board concur in
their wish to have the two men, Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub, suspended for
one week on account of their disobedience to the orders of the pit boss by firing a
shot at an unreasonable time without his sanction. The Company trust that the
Board will consider this matter favourably, but they are entirely willing to abide by
their decision in the matter.
Tour very truly,
(Sgd.) Frank B. Smith,
Representative for the Edmonton Standard Coal Company.
, After a good deal of discussion by the Board it was decided to adjourn to allow
Mr. Stubbs to place the latter proposal before a meeting of the employees in order
to try and arrive at an amicable settlement.
The Board then adjourned for the day.
second day's sitting of the board.
On the morning of the 21st day of December, 1909, the Board again met, all
three members being present. Prior to the meeting and in accordance with the wishes
of all the members of the Board, the Chairman had received the result of the meet-
ing between the representatives of the employees and the employers, which result was
unfavourable to a settlement on the proposals put forward, and having received the
names of the witnesses he subpoenaed the following: Joe Firdel, Vance Barton, Thomas
Kossack, Vincent Holub, George Lezeruck, Alex. Zahon to give evidence before the
Board, and A. C. Brovey as interpreter.
The first witness called upon was Joe Fridel, who, on being duly sworn, testified to
queries from the Chairman that he was a Polander ; that he was a miner at the
Edmonton Standard Coal Mine for four years; that he was not at work on the 25th of
October; that he was at work on the 2Cth and 27th.
Q. Wero the two men, Thomas Kossack and Vincent Holub, discharged on the day
you were not at work, or 25th October — A. I think the day after.
Q. Did you ever see a notice posted at the mine relative to times for blasting
operations? — A. Yes.
Q. Did you read the notice? — A. Yes.
Q. What did the notice specify? — A. That the miners could only blast at fifteen
minutes to twelve and 4.15.
Q. Can you read English? — A. A little.
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Smith to Chair. — Test him on any clause in the Act.
On test. Failed to make out reading clause No. 21.
On test. Made better attempt at typewritten reading.
Q. Do you understand "Knglish by reading? — A. Understand partly; didn't under-
stand the notice fully, but was told what did not understand.
Q. Did every one fire according to rule? — A. Yes.
Q. "How long did that rule prevail? — A. Until this summer.
Q. After that what happened? — A. The pit boss told the men to blast only once
;; day.
Q. At what time? — A. In the evening.
Q. Did the men blast in the middle of the day after that? — A. Yes.
Q. Did they get permission? — A. I do not know.
Q. Did you get permission ? — A. No.
Q. Did you know that you were not to fire in the middle of the day? — A. Yes,
•''verybody did.
Q. Did you ever ask for sanction ? — A. Yes, about two weeks ago.
Q. Did you get it?— A. Yes, but was told not to use too much powder.
Q- Do you work near the two men, Thos. Kossack and Vincent Holub? — A. Yes,
All the same entry.
Q. Were you at work the day they were discharged ? — A. No.
The next witness called was Vance Barton, who, on being duly sworn, testified
that he was Polish by nationality; that he had worked five years in the Edmonton
Standard Coal Mine; that he did not remember seeing notice; that he understood
there was one; that he only knew what the other men said, which was that miners
could blast at 11.45 a.m. and 4.15 p.m.; that this rule prevailed until a year ago this
summer; that the pit boss told them to blast only once a day on account of ventilation;
that shooting once a day still prevails; that any time he wanted to blast during the
day he got sanction from the pit boss; that he got white powder to blast with from
the pit boss during the day or any blasting before 4.15 p.m. ; that he worked far away
from the two men discharged.
The ne.xt witness called was Thomas Kossack, who, on being duly sworn, testified
to queries from the Board that he was Polish by nationality; that he had worked for
three years at the Edmonton Standard Coal Mine; that he never knew anything about
ji notice relative to blasting; that the custom was to blast when they had no coal to
load; that the custom still prevails; that he did not understand question; that sanc-
tion had to be obtained; that once a day blasting had been in operation for a year;
that he had never asked permission; that he was discharged by the pit boss on the
26th of October and that the pit boss did not give any reason; that he did not shoot
on the middle of the day on the 26th, hut shot in the middle of the day on the 25th;
said afterwards he did not shoot until evening 25th; that he was discharged 3.30 p.m.
26th; that he was working on the 27th; that he did blast in the middle of the day on
the 27th; that he had got his work back because the committee had seen the pit boss;
that the pit boss went into his place with some men on the 27th; he thought man-
agers had stopped the place ; that pit boss had asked him if he shot before noon ; that
he had; that he was at work on the 30th; that no reasons were given for discharging
him, or giving him back his work ; that pit boss was in his place between the 21st and
26th October; that the pit boss did not ask him if he had joined the union; that the
liit boss was sore at him ; that he did not have any reason to be sore at him ; that he
(lid not work in the same place; that he was shifted to the east; that he thought he
was discharged because be belonged to the union; that he had not any reason for so
thinking; that he never shot in the middle of the day prior to the 26th; that he did
not know sanction had to be obtained.
Tlio next witness called was Vincent Holub, and on being duly sworn testified
-.to queries from the Board that he was Polish by nationality; that he had worked
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during the last eleven months at Edmonton Standard Coal, mine ; that he had worked
there previously, but one year had elapsed between ; that he did not see any notice
relating to blasting; that he had heard some people say that there had been a notice
posted, and that it read shooting should be done at 11.45 a.m. and 4.15 p.m.; that
that practice was followed ; that that practice prevailed until lately ; that he meant
by lately until now ; that the men only got blasting in the middle of the day when they
were out of coal; that he did not know if with or without permission; that he blasted
once without permission; that he had permission; that he did not know what date;
that he had asked permission because lie had no coal; that he did not know if the
pit boss gave out white powder; that he was discharged on the 26th; that he was
again discharged on the 27th; that no reason was given in either cases; that pit boss
had asked him if he had fired a shot in the middle of the day ; that he replied he had ;
li(! started work on the 30th October; that it was in the same place; that he was not
wovkins; now; that his place had stopped since the 14th December.
In the afternoon Vincent Holub, was again called and placed on the witness
stand. He testified that the pit boss had never asked him if he was in the union.
The next witness called was George Lezeruck, who, on being duly sworn, testified
to queries from the Board that he was Ruthenian by nationality; that he had worked
at the Edmonton Standard Coal for three and a half years; that he had not been in
the employ between May and September last; that he saw a notice posted at the mine;
that he read it; that he could not read English good, but sufficient to understand it;
that the wording of the notice was that the men should only shoot twice a day, at
11.45 a.m. and 4.15 p.m.; that this prevailed a long time; in fact, there was not any
other notice; that he did not know of any verbal notice; that there was no other
written notice ; that he had never notice personally ; he did not know of any other
custom prevailing; that he only shot in the evening; that he never shot in the middle
of the day; that many others shot in the middle of the day; that he did not know
whether they asked permission from the pit boss or not; that he worked in the third
west; that he has heard that the pit boss gave out white powder to shoot in the middle
of the day, but did not know definitely. A question asked by Mr. Stubbs if there
was any conversation between him and the pit boss between the dates of October 21st
and 26th, was objected to as irrelevant by Mr. Smith, the Chair ruling the question
in order. Witness testified that he had conversation on the 22nd October; that the pit
boss said : ' I hear you are one who is starting a union here, and if I find that to be
correct I will discharge you the next morning.' That he was appointed on the com-
mittee to investigate the cause of discharge of the first two men discharged; that the
committee saw the pit boss at his office on the 26th October in the evening and on the
morning of the 27th; the information they got was that the places in which the men
worked were stopped until the engineers would survey the mine; he was sure of the
date of the conversation with the pit boss relative to joining the union, that it was
tho 22nd, because the men were organized in the evening. He was also discharged,
being told that his place was stopped. He did not shoot in the middle of the day.
Alex. Zahon was the next witness called, and on being duly sworn testified to
the queries from the Board that he was Ruthenian ; that he had worked in the Edmon-
ton Standard Coal Mine three months; that he also worked two weeks last spring; that
he had never seen or heard anything of a notice; that he did not know of any rule
relative to blasting in the mine; that he shot at quitting time because of the smoke;
that he worked in the third west; that he did not need to shoot in the middle of the
day as he always had coal; that he had heard shots in the middle of the day, but did
not know any particular one that shot; that there was no one close to him who blasted
in the middle of the day; that he was on the committee to investigate the discharge
of the two men; that the pit boss said that he wanted to stop the place on the morning
of the 27th men could not go to . work until surveyors surveyed the mine ; that the-
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committee saw the pit boss on two occasions, on evening of 26tli and morning of 27 th ;
that on the morning of the 23rd the pit boss asked him if he had joined the union.
He made no threats.
This being all the evidence the employees wished to submit, the Chairman asked
Mr. Smith if he wanted to produce any evidence in behalf of the Company. On re-
ceiving a reply in the negative, the Board dismissed the witnesses present.
The Board immediately made a review of the evidence, and after some discussion
proposals were made and drafted as a basis of unanimous findings.
Mr. Smith asked for suspended decision to allow him personal deliberation of
the proposals drafted.
The Board then adjourned for the day.
FURTHER SESSION.
Edmonton, Alta., December 22, 1909.
The Board again met this morning at 10 a.m., and after further discussion of the
evidence it was decided to have it all typewritten so that the members could more
readily discuss the matter in question as taken down verbatim by the Chairman.
Board adjourned until afternoon.
EEPORTS AND FINDINGS OF THE BOARD.
On resuming, the Board fully discussed the questions involved and unanimously
came to the following findings: —
That on the charges specified in the application relative to the discharge of three
of the employees, and also to the claim that there would be a demand for an increase
scale of wages, the Company by consent of the Board withdrew; this brought the dis-
pute to a point where it devolved on the discharge of two of the miners.
In the evidence submitted we find nothing to warrant the discharge of the two
men on the 26th October, 1909, but, on being reinstated, they did on the 27th day of
October, 1909, deliberately commit a breach of a generally recognized rule, and for
isuch should be censured. Having, however, in our opinion been punished sufficiently
for such breach of discipline, wo would recommend that Thomas Kossack shall remain
in the employ of the Company and that Vincent Ilolub shall present himself at thp
mine and be given a working place as soon as possible.
The Board has not had the evidence submitted to them why the two men were
discharged on the 27th October. But if the action of the pit boss in discharging the
men was taken on a violation of the aforementioned custom, relative to the firing of
shots in the middle of the day. then the Board uphold his action so the better to
preserve the discipline of the mine and the comfort of the employees. We would,
however, add that all such rules relating to the discipline of the mine should be kept
posted in a prominent place at the mine.
(Sgd.) George F. Cunningham,
Chairman.
(Sgd.) Frank B. Smith,
Representative Edmonton Standard Coal Company.
(Sgd.) C. Stubbs,
Representative of the Employees.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
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XX.— APPLICATION FROM JAMES W. BLAIN, CONTRACTOR FOR OUTPUT
OF CARDIFF COAL COMPANY, LIMITED, CARDIFF, ALTA.— PROCEED-
INGS SUSPENDED OWING TO AGREEMENT— STRIKE AVERTED.
Application received. — December 2, 1909.
Parties concerned. — James W. Blain, contractor for output of CardiS Coal Com-
•pany, Limited, Cardiff, Alta., and employees.
Applicants. — Employer.
Nature of industry affected. — Coal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Wages and conditions of employment.
Number of employees affected. — Directly, 60 ; indirectly, 15.
Proceedings in connection with this application were discontinued in view of an
agreement being reached by the parties concerned.
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XXI.— APPLICATION FROM TELEGRAPHERS AND STATION AGENTS EM-
PLOYED BY THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY ON LINES
EAST OF DETROIT, MICH.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— NO CESSATION
OF WORK.
Application received. — December 3, 1909.
Parties concerned.— Grand Trunk Kailway Company and telegraphers and station
agents in its employ on lines east of Detroit, Mich.
Applicants. — Employees.
Nature of industry concerned. — Railways.
Nature of dispute. — Wages, advertising of vacancies, &c.
Number of employees affected. — 760.
Date of constitution of Board. — December 21, 1909.
Membership of Board. — Mr. J. E. Atkinson, Toronto, Ont., Chairman, appointed
by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the other members
of the Board; Mr. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., Toronto, Ont., appointed on the recommenda-
tion of the employing Company; and ifr. W. T. J. Lee, Toronto, Ont., appointed on
the recommendation of the employees.
Report received. — February 24, 1910.
Result of inquiry. — No cessation of work occurred.
The Minister received on February 24 the report of the Board of Conciliation and
Investigation which had been established on December 7 for the adjustment of cer-
tain matters in dispute between the Grand Trunk Railway Company and its tele-
graphers and station agents to the number of 760 employed on the Company's lines
east of Detroit. The differences in question related to a demand on the part of the
employees for an increase of wages, extra pay for Sunday work, annual vacations
without loss of salary, advertising of vacancies and the adoption of a wage scale in
the form of a schedule. Mr. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., of Toronto, and Mr. W. T. J. Lee,
of Toronto, were appointed members of the Board on the recommendation of the Com-
pany' and of the employees respectively, and, in the absence of any joint recommenda-
tion from the foregoing, the Board was completed by the Minister on December 21
by the appointment of Mr. J. E. Atkinson, of Toronto, as Chairman.
The Board assembled in Montreal, the Grand Trunin Railway Company being
represented by Mr. Chas. M. Hays, president; Mr. E. H. Fitzhugh, first vice-president;
and Mr. W. G. Brownlee, general transportation manager; and the telegraphers being
represented by Mr. D. Campbell, third vice-president of the Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers, and Messrs. J. A. Bell, A. E. Austin, P. A. Robertson. V. Mongeau and B. .T.
Rowell.
In the hearing it was asked that the men on the Canada Atlantic Railway should
be brought under the same schedule as the other lines east of Detroit. The Company,
in reply, announced that the employees in question would be brought under one
schedule with the Company's other telegraphers and agents, but that only the portion
of the road between Swanton and Ottawa should be classed as ' main line,' and the
remainder as ' branch line.' It was proposed by the employees that the ' 23 ' message
should be adopted by the Company, by which all the men in a division would be noti-
fied by bulletin five days in advance of all vacancies and permanent positions coming
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under the schedule and ten days allowed the men during which to file applications
for the same. The Company was unwilling to agree to this proposal. It was also
proposed by the men that an official wage list should be published showing the salaries
of all positions governed by the schedule. The- Company was, however, unwilling to
agree to the publication of a wage list. The Company, moreover, could not see its
way to shorten the hours of the day's work, nor to accede to any other of the men's
proposals. On the point of wages, however, it expressed its willingness to add $14,000
to the pay roll covered by the schedule of January 1, 1908, and $4,000 to the Canada
Atlantic schedule, to be apportioned as the Company would decide, but without mak-
ing it apply necessarily to the minimum salaries. The Company's position was that
the financial condition of the Grand Trunk and its obligations to its shareholders
would not warrant giving the men more than this. The proposal in question was not
acceptablo to the men, who pointed out that the employees on the Canada Atlantic
would, by tho abolition of their separate schedule, lose the two weeks' holidays which
they at present enjoy.
The Board were unanimous in agreeing that the rules and rates of pay governing
agents and telegraphers, effective January 1, 1908, should remain in efFeet. subject to
certain exceptions, and that the same should become effective upon the Canada At-
lantic Railway whose liijes should be classed as ' branch lines ' except from Swanton
ta Ottawa. The Board were also unanimous in the opinion that article 21, of Rules
and Rates of Pay, of January 1, 1908, should be amended so as to provide for mini-
mum salaries 'per month, as follows : —
Branch
Line.
Agent and telegrapher, with dwelling, fuel and light 50 4ti
Agent and telegrapher, without dwelling, fuel and light 55 51
Telegraphers 50 -10
Relieving agents or telegraphers' relieving agents
A regular telegrapher called away from home to relieve a telegrapher will be paid a minimum rate of $5
more than his regular salary.
The Chairman and Mr. Lee were of opinion that the Company should also be
asked- to increase salaries by an amount equal to six per cent of the schedule of Janu-
ary 1, 1908. Mr. Nesbitt, on the other hand, considered that after accepting the above
new minimum salaries the Company would be meeting the needs of the case by distri-
buting $12,000 to salaries which were above the minimum of the schedule of January
1, 1908. Upon the question of extra pay for Sunday work, Mr. Nesbitt considered
that if the Company would recognize the amount of Sunday labour as one factor
influencing the distribution of the above mentioned amount of $12,000, it was as far
as it could be asked to go. The Chairman and Mr. Lee were agreed that the Company
should be asked to substitute for article 13 of the schedule of January 1, 1908. the
following : —
' 13. Telegraphers required to work on Sundays will be paid extra for such work
pro rata on schedule salary based on a thirty-day month (less than thirty minutes not
to be counted — over thirty minutes and less than sixty minutes to be counted as one
hour) with a minimum compensation of twenty-five cents for each call for which one
hour's service shall, if necessary, be rendered.'
It was also proposed, in the report of the Board, that the rules and rates of pay
thereyn provided for should be effective February 1, 1910, and thereafter, subject to
ninety days' notice of change.
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On February 28 the Department was informed on behalf of the employees of the
latter's willin^ess to accept the findings of the Board as a basis of settlement. On
March 7 a letter was received from the Company expressing a willingness to accept
certain of the recommendations of the Board on which a unanimous finding had been
given. The Company further promised to endeavour to meet the spirit of the recom-
mendation of the Board in the abolition, as far as possible, of Sunday work, and also
promised to revise the work of administration so as to reduce to the- smallest possible
compass the necessity of such Sunday work. In conclusion the Company stated: —
' As to further pay, the Company proposes to set aside a larger lump sum than
the difference between 6 per cent of the total pay and the increase to the minimum
schedules would give, but not as large a sum as a general increase of Sunday pay
based upon present conditions would give plus 6 per cent recommended. The Com-
pany proposes to deal with such sum as far as possible to cover the question of re-
cognizing some additional remuneration for Sunday work when it is necessary, and to
distribute such additional sum as the particular conditions in each case may warrant,
having regard to the duties and responsibilities involved, so as to promote and reward
as far as possible individual effort. We think this the best practical way of dealing
with the situation, while as far as possible meeting what we understand to be thd result
desired to be arrived at by the Board.'
REPORT OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board is as follows : —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 190Y, and in the mat-
ter of differences between the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada and its
employees, being telegraphers and station agents.
As members of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation appointed to deal
with the dispute between the Grand Trunk Railway Company and its employees.
being telegraphers and station agents, we beg to report a-s follows: —
The Grand Trunk Railway Company was represented by Mr. Charles M. Hays,
president; Mr. E. H. Fitzhugh, first vice-president, and Mr. W. G. Brownlee, general
transportation manager.
The telegraphers were represented by Mr. D. Campbell, third vice-president of
the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, and Messrs. J. A. Bell, A. E. Austin, P. A. Rob-
ertson. Y. Mongeau and B. J. Rowell.
The Board met at Montreal and held sittings on the 8th, 9th and 14th days of
February, 1910. and subsequently met for consideration and interviews with the parties
on the 16th. 17th, 18th, 21st and 22nd days of February, 1910.
The men proposed that a number of changes should be made in the existing
schedule of rules and rates of pay.
Two of these proposed changes may be linked together, namely, (1) the '' 23 '
message by which, if adopted, all the men in a division should be notified by bulletin
five days in advance of all vacancies and permanent positions coming under the
schedule, and ten days allowed the men during which to file applications for such
vacancies; and (2) in order that the salaries attached to all positions may be known
to the men, they asked that an official wage list showing the salaries of all positions
governed by the schedule be attached and become part of the schedule.
Overtime pay was asked for work done on Sundays and legal holidays, the pay to
be pro rata on schedule salary.
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Overtime pay for meeting late or early trains outside the hours covered by the
day's work had been limited to those whose salary, including receipts from all sources,
during the preceding year did not exceed $60 per month.
The men asked that this limitation should be eliminated.
They asked that ten consecutive hours, including meal hour, should constitute
a day's work at offices where one or two telegraphers are employed, and that eight
consecutive hours, including meal hour, should constitute a day's work at offices
where more than two telegraphers are employed.
The men asked that article 13 of the schedule which provides conditionally that
work on Sundays and certain legal holidays be paid for extra, should be made to apply
tinconditionally to all men coming under the schedule.
Two weeks' holidays, with pay, each year were asked for.
It was asked also that the men on the Canada Atlantic should be brought under
the same schedules as the other lines east of the Detroit and St. Clair rivers, and
that the Canada Atlantic should be classed as a ' main line.'
On the question of wages, the men asked for increases ranging from twelve and
one-half per cent to seventeen per cent.
In reply to these projiositions the Company announced at the outset that the
Canada Atlantic employees would be brought under one schedule with the Company's
other telegraphers and agents. It proposed, however, that only the road between Swan-
ton and Ottawa should be classed as ' main line,' and the remainder as ' branch line.'
The Company did not agree to the '23' message and the publication of the wase
list.
It could not see its way to agree to shorten the hours of the day's work, nor to
any other of the men's proposals.
On the point of wages, however, it expressed its willingness to add $12,000 to the
pay roll covered by the schedule of January 1, 1908, and $4,000 to the Canada Atlantic
schedule, or a J;otal of $16,000 to be apportioned as the Company would decide, but
without making it apply necessarily to the minimum salaries.
This was not acceptable to the men. They pointed out that the men on the
Canada Atlantic would, by the abolition of their separate schedule, lose the two weeks'
holidays which they enjoy under it. So that taking from the proposed $4,000, there-
fore, the amount represented by the lo.?s of holidays, the total sum of money which
the Company proposed to distribute would be reduced to less than $16,500 a year.
With this increase they would not be satisfied.
The Company's position was that the financial condition of the Grand Trunk
and its obligations to its shareholders would not warrant giving the men more than
this.
The Board, after very fully going into every point raised by either party, and
giving careful consideration to the interests of the men on the one side and the posi-
tion of the Company on the other, were unanimous in agreeing that the rules and
rates of pay governing agents and telegraphers, effective January 1, 1908, should
remain in effect subject to the exceptions hereinafter noted, and, with the same limi-
tation should become effective upon the Canada Atlantic Railway whose lines should
be classed as ' branch lines ' except from Swanton to Ottawa, which should be classed
as ' main line,' the schedule of the Canada Atlantic of 1907 to be cancelled.
The members of the Board were also unanimous in the opinion that article 21
of rules and rate of pay of January 1, 1908, should be amended so as to read as follows :
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21. The minimum salary per month will be as follows : — ■
Branch
Line.
Agent and telegrapher, with dwelling, fuel and light 50 46
Agent and telegrapher, without dwelling, fuel and light 55 51
Telegraphers 50 4(5
Relieving agents or telegraphers' relieving agents 75 75
A regular telegrai>her called away from home to relieve a telegrapher will be paid a minimum rate of ®5>
nore than his regular salary.
At this point the unanimity of the Board ceased. The Chairman and Mr. Lee
vN'ere of the opinion that the Company should be asked to increase salaries by an
amount equal to six per cent of the schedule of January 1, 1908. That in order to
eft'ect this it should be ascertained what amount of money represents six per cent of
the annual wage list, and that after the increases represented in the above minimum
salaries be deducted from that amount, the balance should be divided and apportioned
by the Company to salaries which are above the minimum schedule of January 1, 1908.
Mr. Nesbitt, on the other hand, con.sidered that after accepting the above new
minimum salaries the Company would be meeting the needs of the case by distribut-
ing $12,000 to salaries which were above the minimum of the schedule of January 1,
1908.
Upon the question of extra pay for work on Sundays, Mr. Nesbitt considered
that if the Company would recognize the amount of Sunday labour as one factor
influencing the distribution of this $12,000, it was as far as it should be asked to go.
The Chairman and Mr. Lee went further than this, and agreed that the Company
should be asked to substitute for article 13 of the schedule of January 1, 1908, the
following : — ,
13. Telegraphers required to work on Sundays will be paid extra for such work
pro rata on schedule salary based on a thirty-day month (less than thirty minutes
not to be counted, over thirty minutes and less than sixty minutes to be counted as
one hour) with a minimum compensation of twenty-five cents for each call for which
one hour's service shall, if necessary, be rendered.
As amended in accordance with the report herein of the majority of the Board
the rules and rates of pay should be effective February 1, 1910, and thereafter, sub-
ject to ninety days' notice of change.
(Sgd.) J. E. Atkinson,
Chairman.
Wallace Nesbitt,
W. T. J. Lee.
Toronto. February 22, 1910.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
XXn.— APPLICATION FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA COPPER COMPANY,
GREENWOOD, B.C.— BOARD ESTABLISHED— FINDINGS COMMUNI-
CATED TO EMPLOYEES.
Application received. — January 8, 1910.
Parties concerned. — ^British Columbia Copper Company, Greenwood, B.C., and
employees.
Applicants. — Employer.
Nature of industry concerned. — Metal mining.
Nature of dispute. — Employees' unwillingness to work with non-union men.
Number of employees affected. — 350.
Date of constitution of Board. — January 22, 1910.
Membership of Board. — Mr. J. H. Senkler, Vancouver, B.C., Chairman, appointed
by the Minister in the absence of any joint recommendation from the other members
of the Board; Mr. J. A. Mara, Victoria, B.C., appointed on the recommendation of
the employing Company; and Mr. John Mclnnis, M.P.P., Phoenix, B.C., appointed
on the recommendation of the employees.
Reports received. — March 1 and March 29, 1910.
Result of inquiry. — Rejaort of Board was accompanied by minority report signed
by Mr. John Mclnnis, member appointed on behalf of the employees. The Board's
report was in favour of the Company and the minority report in favour of the men.
The Minister received on March 29 the report of the Board of Conciliation and
Investigation to which had been referred certain differences between the British
Columbia Copper Company, of Greenwood, B.C., and certain of its employees, mem-
bers of Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, of the Western Federation of Miners. The
report in question was signed by Mr. J. H. Senkler, of Vancouver, B.C., Chairman,
and Mr. J. A. Mara, of Victoria, B.C., member appointed on the recommendation of
the employer. On March 1 a minority report on the differences in question was re-
ceived from Mr. J. Mclnnis, of Phoenix, B.C., member appointed on behalf of the
employees.
This di-spute arose out of a communication which was addressed to the manager
of the British Columbia Copper Company on December 8, 1909, by the secretary of
Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, of the Western Federation of Miners, in which
the Company was informed that ' unless every man (except officials and shift-bosses)
working in the mines and smelter, under our jurisdiction, has a paid-up card in our
union by noon, the 11th of January, 1910, we will go out on strike and refuse to work
with the non-union men.'
In its report the Board declared that the sole question to be considered by it was
whether it was in the interests of the employers, employees and immediate community
that the demand of the Western Federation of Miners, as contained in the letter of
the 8th of December, 1909, should be complied with by the Company or not. In its
hearing of evidence bearing on the present dispute, the Board was informed of the
circumstances attending a strike which occurred in the Company's mines in the sum-
mer of 1909, and of the terms on which this dispute was terminated. The Board
found in its report that there is no justification whatever for the union's demand
above mentioned, and said: 'We are of the opinion that the Company should not be
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deprive'd of its undoubted right to hire and discharge its employees so long as it ex-
ercises no discrimination amongst them. Indeed, if the present demands of the union
were conceded, the Company would be most unjustly discriminating against those of
its employees who do not belong to the Western Federation of Miners. It is undis-
puted that general conditions at the Company's works and mines are good, no com-
plaint being made against the wages or working hours, every employee who gave evi-
dence agreeing to this.'
In conclusion, the Board observed that ' while the Board, at the conclusion of its
sittings was unable to conclude a settlement between the parties to this dispute, we
are confident that the members of the union will, upon careful reconsideration of the
questions involved in this dispute, agree with us that the proposed strike is quite
unnecessary and, indeed, unreasonable, and will not declare a strike which would
result in the closing down of the Company's plant and mines, loss of employment to
hundreds of men and consequent want and distress to themselves and their wives and
children, and general loss to the community which is dependent practically upon the
pay-roll of the British Columbia Copper Company for its existence.'
In his minority report Mr. John Mclnnis expressed himself as unable to agree
with his colleagues upon the points in question. It was, he said, a difficult matter
indeed to convey to those who were not familiar with local conditions in the Boundary
district a thorough idea relative to the facts connected with ths various aspects of
this dispute. Briefly stated, it was a controversy arising from an endeavour on the
part of the Miners' Union to maintain their jurisdiction against the encroachment
of a so-called ' Electricians' Union.' In bringing this matter to an issue, the miners'
union had adopted, in his judgment, the only methods that could promise a reason-
able measure of success. The miners' stand against the formation of dual unions in
the mining industry was, he adverted, absolutely correct, both in regard to the interests
of the workmen and of the industries as well. Mr. Mclnnis observed in conclusion:
' It is regrettable that the parties to the dispute have been unable to come to some
understanding that would avoid a suspension of work, and until such time as both
parties are willing to lay aside the mutual distrust that exists between them, there
seems to be but a slim chance to arrive at an adjustment containing any degree of
permanency.'
REPOET OF BOARD.
The text of the findings of the Board of Conciliation and Investigation in this
matter is as follows: —
In the matter of the Industrial Disputes Act, 190Y, and of a dispute between the
British Columbia Copper Company, Limited, of Greenwood, British Columbia (em-
ployer) and its employees, members of the Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, of the
Western Federation of Miners : —
The application for a Board of Conciliation and Investigation arose out of a demand
made by the Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, of the Western Federation of Miners,
as contained in a letter dated December 8, 1909, directed to J. E. McAllister, manager
of the British Columbia Copper Company at Anaconda, and which letter is as follows :
Greenwood, B.C., December 8, 1909.
Mr. J. E. McAllister,
Manager B. C. Copper Coy.,
Anaconda, B.C.
Dear Sir, — At a special meeting of Greenwood Miners' Union, December 6, 1909,
at Mother Lode mine, the following motion was carried unanimously: —
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Kegularly moved and seconded, that the secretary be instructed to notify the
manager of the B. C. Copper Company that unless every man (except officials and
shift-bosses) working in the mines and smelter, under our jurisdiction, has a paid-up
card in our union by noon, the 11th of January, 1910, we will go out on strike and
refuse to work with the non-union men.
At a special meeting of Greenwood Miners' Union, at Greenwood, December 7,
the above motion was endorsed by a unanimous vote.
Yours truly,
George Heatherton.
At the outset of the investigation we were of the opinion that the sole question
to be considered by the Board was as to whether it was in the interests of the em-
ployers, employees and immediate community that the demand of the Western Fed-
eration of Miners, as contained in the above letter of the 8th of December, 1909,
should be complied with by the Company or not.
As must nececsarily occur where proceedings such as these are not restricted to
that class of evidence, which should be received in a court of law, a tremendous
amount of irrelevant matter was introduced as evidence at our sessions, but after
hearing it all and again reading the stenographer's notes thereof, we are most firmly
convinced that the above question is the only one to be considered. The facts do not
appear to be disputed, and are as follows: —
In, or about, the month of March, 1909, the same union of the Western Federa-
tion of Miners asked for a Board of Conciliation under this Act, their principal com-
plaint being that the Company had discriminated against their men and that the
Company had not recognized their union as such. The then Board of Conciliation
or a majority thereof, found adversely against the applicant union on the point of
discrimination, and held that the Company should recognize the union as such.
Subsequently, in or about the month of July of the same year, a strike was de-
clared by the union, although it appeared that at the time, because of a shortage of
coko consequent upon a strike at the adjacent coal mines, the Company's plant had
been shut down.
After some negotiations between the Company and the employees, and with the
assistance of Mr. John McKinnon, who was president of the Western Federation of
;Miners in Canada, a settlement was arrived at between the employers and the em-
ployees. This settlement is contained in a letter dated July 23, 1909, written by the
British Columbia Copper Company to the secretary of the union, and answered by
that union on the 26th day of July, 1909, copies of which appear hereunder.
July 23, 1909.
W. B. Embeee, Esq.,
Acting Secy. Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22,
Greenwood, B.C.
Dear Sir, — We have your letter of the 19th inst., and have noted what you say
regarding the stand taken by the union. Since the receipt of your letter, Mr. John
l^fcKinnon and Mr. Chas. Brice have discussed the situation with us, which discus-
sion we now write to confirm.
We told these gentlemen that it was our intention to accord your organization
the same measure of recognition a.s was given it by the other large operating com-
panies in this district. We believed that the adoption of a standard policy in this
direction would tend towards maintaining industrial peace and be of mutual benefit
to the companies and the employees.
To concur in your request for a free choice of doctor and a written apreoment
would be an immediate violation of this policy, and, in our opinion, could not be
productive of anything but unsatisfactory results. In addition to what hna already
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
been told your committee and to the union in our letter of the 17th inst. regarding the
subject of doctor, we told Messrs. McKinnon and Brice to-day that the matter was
one absolutely in the hands of our employees, the Company insisting on only the one
point, that the work should be handled by one physician, who should have one or more
assistants. This matter being one of mutual benefit to the Company and its em-
ployees, and not being in violation of any union principle (being adopted by union
men elsewhere in the district), we are unable to consider it otherwise.
Regarding discrimination, we contended that there had been none in the past
and assured your representatives that there would be none in the future. The right
to hire and discharge such men as we think necessary in our interests must of course
remain with us, but any man claiming to be discriminated against could take the
matter up with his union and the committee would be given a hearing.
It is our intention to resume operations next week, and we hope by that time
your members will be ready to go to work. We have endeavoured to set the stand of
the Company clearly before you, and having offered the same recognition, the same
wages and the same conditions of employment as the other large operating com-
panies of the district, we cannot see how, in fairness to us and yourselves, you can
continue this strike.
Your truly.
Per General Manager.
Greenwood, B.C., July 26, 1909.
Mr. Edw. G. Warren,
Act. Gen. Man. B. C. C. Co.
Dear Sir, — The members of this union have accepted the conditions you stated
in your communication of July 23 and declared the strike off.
I was instructed to inform you that we expect you to live up, not only to the
letter of your communication, but to the spirit of the sentiments you expressed to our
■committee.
Yours very truly,
Wm. B. Embree,
Act. Sec. Treas.
On the 8th December the union notified the Company as stated above.
From the evidence, we concluded that there are employed at the smelter from
twelve to fifteen men who are not members of the Western Federation of Miners, of
which a small proportion are non-union men, the remainder being members of craft
unions which are affiliated with the American Federation of Labour. There was
nothing definite in the evidence as to the number of men at the mines of the Com-
pany who did not belong to the Western Federation of Miners, but it appeared that
the proportion there was about the same as at the smelter,_and in round numbers from
fifteen to twenty.
While Mr. Heatherton, in his address to the Board, suggested that the employees
had some slight grievances against the Company, it is quite clear that these supposed
grievances do not exist, and we find as a fact that the sole reason why this demand
of the 8th of December, 1909, was made by the union was its desire for more power,
Mr. Heatherton's own evidence being clear and distinct on this point.
We cannot find in the evidence that the Company has in any way broken its
agreement as contained in the letters of the 23rd and 26th days of July, 1909, no
charges of discrimination having been proved, and it appearing that the Company had
recognized and dealt with the union as such.
Some considerable time of the Board was taken up in hearing evidence as to the
power of the union to declare a strike without taking a referendum vote as required
198 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
by section 1 of article 5 of the Constitution and By-laws of the Western Federation
of Miners, which reads as follows: —
STRIKES AITD ADJUSTMENTS.
' Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any union to enter upon a strike unless
ordered by two-thirds of the votes cast upon the question; such question shall be
decided by a referendum vote, notice of such referendum vote posted three days in
advance, vote to be by ballot, and polls to be open for not less than eight hours. No
call shall be made for a referendum vote on a strike until after having received the
approval of the Executive Board of the W. F. M.'
And while we are of the opinion that by said constitution the union must not
declare a strike for any reason without first having complied with that section, still
that has very little to do with the present matter except as evidence to show that the
union has not exercised that care and deliberation in its proceedings, particularly
amongst its own members, which are undoubtedly necessary in connection with so
serious a matter as a strike, such as the present contemplated one. Neither do we
think it necessary to draw more than passing attention to the fact that from the
evidence it appears that the actual carrying out of the strike is left with the chief
officers or executive of the Western Federation of Miners at its headquarters, we
think, in Denver, Colorado.
From these facts we can come to but one conclusion, that there is no justifica-
tion whatever for the union's demand of the 8th of December, 1909. We are of the
opinion that the Company should not be deprived of its undoubted right to hire and
discharge its employees so long as it exercises no discrimination amongst them. In-
deed, if the present demands of the union were conceded, the Company would be
most unjustly discriminating against those of its employees who do not belong to
the Western Federation of Miners.
It is undisputed that general conditions at the Company's works and mines are
good, no complaint beinc- iiimlp -ifraiiist the wages or working hours, every employee
who gave evidence agreeing to this.
While the Board, at the conclusion of its sittings at Greenwood, were unable to
conclude a settlement between the parties to this dispute, we are confident that the
members of the union will, upon careful reconsideration of the questions involved
in this dispute, agree with us that the proposed strike is quite unnecessary, and,
indeed, unreasonable, and will not declare a strike which would result in the closing
down of the Company's plant and mines, loss of employment to hundreds of men, and
consequent want and distress to themselves and their wives and children and general
loss to the community which is dependent, practically entirely, upon the pay-roll of
the B. C. Copper Company for its existence.
Dated at Vancouver this 19th day of March, 1910.
(Sgd.) J. H. Senkler,
Chairman.
J. A. Mara.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
MINORITY EEPORT.
The text of the minority report of Mr. John Mclnnis, above referred to, is as
follows : —
Depaetment of Labour,
Ottawa, Canada.
In the matter of the dispute between the British Columbia Copper Company and
the Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, of the Western Federation of Miners, and the
investigation held thereon, under the ' Provisions of the Industrial Disputes Investi-
gation Act, 190Y.'
Being unable to agree with my colleagues on the Board as to a joint report, I
therefore submit herein a minority report.
It IS a difficult matter, indeed, to convey to those who are not familiar with local
conditions in the Boundary district a thorough idea relative to the facts connected
with the various aspects of this dispute. Stating it briefly, it is a controversy arising
from an endeavour on the part of the miners' union to maintain their jurisdiction
against the encroachment of a so-called ' Electricians' Union.'
The Western Federation of Miners has been organized in the Boundary district
over eleven years, and held jurisdiction over all men working in and around the mills,
mines and smelters (including skilled labour. But recently the Electricians' Union
has been making inroads upon the membership of the Western Federation of Miners.
A course, which is quite apparent, had the sanction and support of the British Colum-
bia Copper Company, as their bosses were the most active in soliciting members for
this new union. It was made plain by the evidence taken that the Electricians' Union
solicited and admitted to membership persons who were neither eligible nor qualified
to become members. Also that the employees of the British Columbia Copper Com-
pany who are affiliated with the Electricians' Union do not belong to a local lodge,
but are members of a lodge in another town in the district where the president of the
lodge is foreman in the electrical department of a large mining corporation.
In view of these facts it is not surprising that the members of the miners' union
should take steps to protect themselves when their existence as an organization was
seriously threatened.
In bringing this matter to an issue the miners' union adopted the only method
that could promise a reasonable measure of success.
The miners in taking a stand against the forming of dual unions in the mining
industry are doing what, in the opinion of the writer, is absolutely correct, both in
regard to their own interests as workmen and the industries as well. So long as the
workmen in any industry are organized into one union, they have an opportunity of
coming together and discussing matters pertaining to their welfare and taking such
steps as are best calculated to conserve the interests of all concerned.
Under this mode it is possible to restrain those who would otherwise make un-
reasonable demands. Such demands would not receive the support of the general
body. So that actions of a reasonable nature only would be supported. This system
gives every man involved a voice in all matters relating to conditions, in so far as
they are determined by the efforts of organized labour. The system that is being
introduced by the electricians' union gives each craft engaged in any industry the
right to organize into separate unions. This method would allow some eight or ten
unions in the mining industry. Such a condition would cause a continual unrest
owing to the fact that the members of any of these craft unions could go out on strike
without consulting their fellow workmen, although the effect of the strike would be
to tie up the entire industry. This being the case, there can be no beneficial results
follow the establishment of unions where the ground is already covered. To insist
200 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
on tactics of this character will have the effect of bringing about a condition of affairs
so unsatisfactory to all concerned that much loss will ensue, not only to the workinfr
class of the district, but to the employers and every person who has an interest in the
community.
When men who hold positions as bosses for corporations are permitted to hold
the most important offices in labour unions, it is high time the membership began to
look with suspicion on unions so constituted. It is regrettable that the parties to the
dispute have been unable to come to some underetanding that would avoid a suspen-
sion of work, and until such time as both parties are willing to lay aside the mutual
distrust that exists between them, there seems to be but a slim chance to arrive at
an adjustment containing any degree of permanency.
(Sgd.) John McInnis.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IXrESTIGATION ACT 201
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36
APPLICATIONS WHERE PROCEEDINGS WERE UNFINISHED AT THE CLOSE
OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR.
In addition to the applications received and disposed of prior to the close of the
financial year, the following applications had been received, concerning which pro-
<3eedings were still pending on March 31, 1910: —
1. An application from the Alberta Coal Mining Company, Cardiff, Alta., the
number of employees concerned being estimated at 35 directly and 25 indirectly.
2. An application from the conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen
employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the number of employees con-
cerned being estimated at 4,360.
3. An application from the conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen em-
ployed by the Grand Trunk Railway Company, the number of employees concerned
being estimated at 3,017.
4. An application from the conductors, baggagemen, brakemen and yardmen em-
ployed by the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Company, the number of
employees concerned being estimated at 101.
5. An application from the telegraph and station employees of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway Company, the number of employees concerned being estimated at 75.
6. An application from the employees of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Com-
pany, the number of employees concerned being estimated at 4 directly and 25 in-
directly.
7. An application from the Syndicated Longshoremen of the port of Montreal
employed by the Shipping Federation of Canada, comprising various lines of steam-
ships navigating to Montreal, the number of employees concerned being estimated at
1,800.
THE MANITOBA CARTAGE COMPAiTY DISPUTE.
In the summary statement of proceedings appearing in the chapter devoted to
the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act in this report, reference has been made to
the dispute between the Manitoba Cartage Company, Limited, of Winnipeg, and its
employees. The report of the Board in this case was received on April 1, 1909, and
will be found in the Appendix to the annual report of the department for the year
ending March 31, 1909, at pages 314 to 325.
1 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
An Act to aid in the Prevention and Settlement of
Strikes and Lockouts in Mines and Industries
connected with Public Utilities. (6-7 Edward
Vn, chap. 20, as amended by 10-11 Edward VII,
chap. 29).
HIS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as
follows : —
1. This Act may be cited as The Industrial Disputes Inves- short title,
ligation Act, 1907.
PRELIMINARY.
Interpretation.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
(a) "Minister" means the Minister of Labour; "Minuter."
(b) "department" means the Department of Labour; "Department.'
(c) "employer" means any person, company or corporation "Employer."
employing ten or more persons and owning or operating any
mining property, agency of transportation or communication,
or public service utility, including, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, railways, whether operated by steam, electricity or other
motive power, steamships, telegraphs and telephone lines, gas,
electric light, water and power works;
(d) "employee" means any person employed by an employer "Employee."
to do any skilled or unskilled manual or clerical work for hire
or reward in any industry to which this Act applies;
(e) "dispute" or "industrial dispute" means any dispute or "Dispute."
difference between an employer and one or more of his em- "induitnai
ployees, as to matters or things affecting or relating to work '^p"**-
done or to be done by him or them, or as to the privileges,
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
'Application.*'
'Trade union.'
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
rights and duties of employers or emploj'ees (not involving
any such violation thereof as constitutes an indictable offence) ;
and, without limiting the general nature of the above defini-
tion, includes all matters relating to —
(1) the wages allowance or other remuneration of em-
ployees, or the price paid or to be paid in respect of
emplojTtient;
(2) the hours of employment, sex, age, qualification or
status of employees, and the mode, terms and con-
ditions of employment ;
(3) the employment of children or any person or persons
or class of persons, or the dismissal of or refusal to
employ any particular person or persons or class of
persons ;
(4) claims on the i)art of an employer or any employee
as to whether and, if so, under what cireumslauces,
preference of employment should or should not be
given to one class over another of persons being or
not being members of labour or other organizations,
British subjects or aliens ;
(5) materials supplied and alleged to be bad, unfit or un-
suitable, or damage alleged to have been done to
work;
(6) any established custom or usage, either generally or
in the particular district affected;
(7) the interpretation of an agreement or a clause
thereof ;
(f) "lockout" (without limiting the nature of its meaning)
means a closing of a place of employment, or a suspension
of work, or a refusal by an employer to continue to employ
any number of his employees in consequence of a dispute,
(ii;ne wilh a view to compelling his employees, or to aid another
employer in compelling his employees, to accept terms of em-
ployment ;
(g) "strike" or "to go on strike" (without limiting the
nature of its meaning) means the cessation of work by a body
of employees acting in combination, or a concerted refusal
or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of
employees to continue to work for an employer, in consequence
of a dispute, done as a means of compelling their employer,
or to aid other employees in compelling their employer, to
accept terms of employment ;
(h) "board" means a Board of Conciliation and Iiiv('sliga-
tion established under the provisions of this Act;
(i) "application" means an application for the appointment
of a Board under the provisions of this Act ;
(j) "Registrar" means the Registrar of Boards of Concilia-
tion and Investigation under this Act:
(k) "prescribed" means prescribed by this Act, or by any
rules or regulations made thereunder;
(1) "trade union" or "union" means any organization of
employees formed for the purpose of regulating relations be-
tween employers and employees
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
A d m inistra Hon.
3. The Minister of Labour shall have the general adminis- Minister of
„ , . , ° Labour to
tratlOn OI this Act. administer Act.
4. The Governor in Council shall appoint a Registrar of Registrar.
Boards of Conciliation and Investigation, who shall have the
powers and perform the duties prescribed.
2. The office of Registrar may be held either separately or in
conjunction with any other office in the public service, and
in the latter case the Registrar may, if the Governor in Coun-
cil thinks fit. be appointed, not by name, but by reference to
such other office, whereupon the person who for the time
being holds such office, or performs its duties, shall by virtue
thereof be the Registrar.
BOARDS OF CONCILIATION AND INVESTIGATION.
Constitution of Boards.
5. "Whenever any dispute exists between an employer and ■'^"'^'''"''b "'rjj'jf
any of his employees, and the parties thereto are unable to condiiation^and
adjust it, either of the parties to the dispute may make appli- investigation,
cation to the Minister for the appointment of a Board of Con-
ciliation and Investigation, to which Board the dispute may be
referred under the provisions of this Act : Provided, however,
that, in the case of a dispute between a railway company and
its employees, such dispute may be referred, for the purpose
of conciliation and investigation, under the provisions con-
cerning railway disputes in the Conciliation and Labour Act.
6. Whenever, under this Act, an application is made in due Minister to appoint
form for the appointment of a Board of Conciliation and Inves- ?°^"''* °° appiica-
tigation, and such application does not relate to a dispute
which is a subject of a reference under the provisions concern-
ing railway disputes in the Conciliation and Labour Act, the
Minister, whose decision for such purpose shall be final, shall,
within fifteen days from the date at which the application
is received, establish such Board under his hand and seal of
office, if satisfied that the provisions of this Act apply.
7. Every Board shall consist of three members who shall Members of
be appointed by the Minister. Board.
2. Of the three members of the Board one shall be appointed
on the recommendation of the employer and one on the re-
commendation of the employees (the parties to the dispute),
and the third on the recommendation of the members so
chosen.
8. For the purposes of appointment of the members of the Procedure for ap-
Board, the following provisions shall apply: — pointment of
' ° ' t-r ^ members of Board
1. Each party to the dispute may, at the time of making
application or within five days after being requested so to do
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APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
Procedure for Reference of Disputes to Boards.
and the persons by whom, an application for the appointment made,
of a Board is to be made, the following provisions shall ap-
ply:—
1. The application shall be made in writing in the prescribed
form, and shall be in substance a request to the Minister to
appoint a Board to which the existing dispute may be referred
under the provisions of this Act.
2. The application shall be accompanied by —
(a) A statement setting forth —
(1) the parties to the dispute;
(2) the nature and cause of the dispute, including any
claims or demands made by either party upon the
other, to which exception is taken;
(3) an approximate estimate of the number of persons
affected or likely to be affected by the dispute;
(4) the efforts made by the parties themselves to adjust
the dispute;
and —
(b) A statutory declaration setting forth that, failing an statutory deciara-
adjustment of the dispute or a reference thereof by the Minis- t'o°.t" accompany
ter to a Board, to the best of the knowledge and belief of the appoYntmMit of
declarant a lockout or strike will be declared, and (except Board,
where the application is made by an employer in consequence
of an intended change in wages or hours proposed by the said
employer) that the necessary authority to declare such lock-
out or strike has been obtained ; or, where a dispute directly
affects employees in more than one province and such em-
ployees are members of a trade union having a general com- Declaration by^
mittee authorized to carry on negotiations in disputes between oncers of trade
employers and employees and so recognized by the employer, "'"°°'
a statutory declaration by the chairman or president and by
the secretary of such committee setting forth that, failing an
adjustment of the dispute or a reference thereof by the Min-
ister to a Board, to the best of the knowledge and belief of the
declarants a strike will be declared, that the dispute has been
the subject of negotiations between the committee and the
employer, that all efforts to obtain a satisfactory settlement
have failed, and that there is no reasonable hope of securing a
settlement by further negotiations.
3. The application may mention the name of a person who
is willing and ready and desires to act as a member of the
Board representing the party or parties making the appli-
cation.
16. The application and the declaration accompanying it signatures to
(1) if made by an employer, an incorporated company or application,
corporation, shall be signed by some one of its duly
authorized managers or other principal executive
officers ;
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DEPARTMEXr OP^LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 191T
(2) if made by^an employer other than an incorporated
company or corporation, shall be signed by the em-
ployer himself in ease he is an individual, or a
majoritj' of the partners or members in case of a
partnership firm or association;
(3) if made by employees members of a trade union,
shall be signed by two of its officers duly author-
ized by a majority vote of the members of the union,
or by a vote taken by ballot of the members of the
union present at a meeting called on not less than
three days' notice for the purpose of discussing the
question; or, where a dispute directly affects em-
ployees in more than one province and such em-
ployees are members of a trade union having a
general committee authorized to carry on negotia-
tions in disputes between employers and employees,
and so recognized Ijy tlie employer, may be signed
by the chairman or president and by the secretary
of the said committee;
(4) if made by employees some or all of whom are not
members of a trade union, shall be signed by two of
their number duly authorized by a majority vote
taken by ballot of the employees present at a meet-
ing called on not less than three days' notice for the
purpose of discussing the question.
Application to be
transmitted by
registered- letter.
17. Every application for the appointment of a Board shall
be transmitted by post by registered letter addressed to the
Registrar of Boards of Conciliation and Investigation, Depart-
ment of Labour, Ottawa, and the date of the receipt of such
registered letter at the department shall be regarded as the
date of the receipt of such application.
Party making
application to
transmit copy to
other party to
dispute.
18. In every case where an application is made for the
appointment of a Board the party making application shall, at
the time of transmitting it to the Registrar, also transmit by
registered letter to the other party to the dispute, or by per-
sonal delivery, a copy of the application and of the accom-
panying statement and declaration.
statement in reply 19. Upou receipt by either party to a dispute of a copy of
to be made and ^j^g application for the appointment of a Board such party
and to party '" shall, without delay, prepare a statement in reply to the appli-
making application cation and transmit it by registered letter, or by personal de-
livery, to the registrar and to the party making the applica-
tion.
^un-''t°" """' ^^" Copies of applications or statements in reply thereto,
transmitting copies to be transmitted to the other party under any of the preced-
of applications and jug sections whcre the other party is —
replies between
parties are to be (1) an employer, an incorporated company or corpora-
'*"'• tion, shall be sent to the manager or other principal
executive officer of the company or corporation ;
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
(2) an employer other than an incorporated company
or corporation shall be sent to the employer himself
or to the employer in the name of the business or
firm as commonly known ;
(3) composed of employees, members of a trade union,
shall be sent to the president and secretary of such
union ;
(4) composed of employees some or all of whom are not
members of a trade union, — ■
(a) Where some of the employees are members of a trade
union, shall be sent to the president and secretary of the union
as representing the employees belonging to the union; also
(b) Where some of the employees are not members of a .
trade union and there are no persons authorized to represent
such employees, shall be sent to ten of their number;
(e) Where, under paragraph (4) of section 16, two persons
have been authorized to make an application, shall be sent to
such two persons.
21. Any dispute may be referred to a Board by application r""^'''^''""-
in that behalf made in due form by any party thereto; pi-ovid- At least ten em-
ed that no dispute shall be the subject of reference to a Board p^y^^s ^ be
under this Act in any case in which the employees affected by "Lput*. ^
the dispute are fewer than ten.
22. Upon the appointment of the Board the Registrar shall Method ot referr-
forward to the chairman a copy of the application for the Board!''''"'*' *°
appointment of such Board, and of its accompanying state-
ment and declaration, and of the statement in reply, and the
Board shall forthwith proceed to deal with the matters refer-
red to in these documents.
Functions, Powers and Procedure of Boards.
23. In every case where a dispute is duly referred to a Board ^"^'^^ °'
it shall be the duty of the Board to endeavour to bring about a
settlement of the dispute, and to this end the Board .shall, in
such manner as it thinks fit, expeditiously and carefully inquire
into the dispute and all matters atTeeting the merits thereof
and the right settlement thereof. In the course of such inquiry
the Board may make all such suggestions aod do all such things
as it deems right and proper for inducing The paities to come
to a fair and amicable settlement of the dispute, .md may
adjourn the proceedings for any period the Board thinks reas-
onable to allow the parties to agree upon terms of settlement.
24. If a settlement of the dispute is arrived at hy tlie parties Where settlement
during the course of its reference to the Board, a memorandum l^'/^^- of'"™,""
of the settlement shall be drawn up by the Board and signed wUh^eport tTbe
by the parties, and shall, if the parties so agree, be binding as forwarded to
if made a recommendation by the Board under sectioa 62 of ^''°'**<"'-
this Act, and a copy thereof with a report upon the proceed-
ings shall be forwarded to the Minister.
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^^e™ "e"i^°* 35. If a settlement of the dispute is not arrived at during
to make report the course of its reference to the Board, the Board shall make
with reoommenda- a full Tcport thereon to the Minister, which report shall set
*""■ forth the various proceedings and steps taken by the Board for
the purpose of fully and carefully ascertaining a.11 the facts
and circumstances, and shall also set forth such facts and cir-
cumstances, and its findings therefrom, including the ea^se of
the dispute and the Board's recommendation for the settle-
ment of the dispute according to the merits and substantial
justice of the ease.
Form in which
rerommendation
shall be made.
26. The Board's recommendation shall deal with each item
of the dispute and shall state in plain terms, and a voiding as
far as possible all technicalities, what in the Board ':■! opinion
ought or ought not to be done by the respective parties con-
cerned. "Wherever it appears to the Board expedient so to do,
its recommendation shall also state the period during which
the proposed settlement should continue in force, and the date
from which it should commence.
Report and recom-
mendation to be
made to the Min-
ister in writing.
27. The Board's report and recommendation shall be made
to the Minister in writing, and shall be signed by such of the
members as concur therein, and shall be transQiitted by the
chairman by registered letter to the Registrar as soon a's prac-
ticable after the reference of the dispute to the Board; and in
the same manner a minority report may be made by any dis-
senting member of the Board.
Filing and dis- 28. Upou receipt of the Board's report the Minister shall
tribution of report, forthwith causc the report to be filed in the office of the Regis-
trar and a copy thereof to be sent free of charge to the parties
to the dispute, and to the representative of any new&paper
published in Canada who applies therefor, and the Jliuister
may distribute copies of the report, and of any minority i'e])ort,
in such manner as to him seems most desirable as a means of
securing a compliance with the Board's recommendation. The
Registrar shall, upon application, supply certified copies for a
prescribed fee, to persons other than those mentioned in this
section.
Publication of
report.
29. For the information of Parliament and the public, the
report and recommendation of the Board, and any minority
report, shall, without delay, be published in the Labour
Gazette, and be included in the annual report of the Depart-
ment of Labour to the Governor General.
Powers of Board
to summon wit-
nesses, compel
testimony and
produce testimony
and production of
documents.
30. For the purpose of its inquiry the Board shall have
all the powers of summoning before it, and enforcing the at-
tendance of witnesses, of administering oaths, and of requiring
witnesses to give evidence on oath or on solemn affirmation
(if they are persons entitled to affirm in civil matters) and to
produce such books, papers or other documents or things as
the Board deems requisite to the full investigation of the mat-
ters into which it is inquiring, as is vested in any court of
record in civil cases.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
2. Any member of the Board may administer an oath, and
the Board may accept, admit and call for such evidence as in
equity and good conscience it thinks fit, whether strictly legal
evidence or not.
31. The summons shall be in the prescribed form, and may Form of summons.
require any person to produce before the Board any books,
papers or other documents or things in his possession or under
his control in any way relating to the proceedings.
32. All books, papers and other documents or things pro- Documenta not to
duced before the Board, whether voluntarily or in pursuance to ^^ "^^^ p"''"'=-
summons, may be inspected by the Board, and also by such
parties as the Board allows; but the information obtained
therefrom shall not, except in so far as the Board deems it
expedient, be made public, and such parts of the books, papers
or other documents as in the opinion of the Board do not relate
to the matter at issue may be sealed up.
33. Any party to the proceedings shall be competent and Parties may be
, '' '■ ,,"' 1 , • • 1 -i compelled to Da
may be compelled to give evidence as a witness. witnesses.
34. Every person who is summoned and duly attends as a Allowance to
witness shall be entitled to an allowance for expenses accord- witnesses,
ing to the scale for the time being in force with respect to wit-
nesses in civil suits in the superior courts in the province
where the inquiry is being conducted.
35. "Where a reference has been made to the Board of a dis- Witnesses u raji-
pute between a railway company and its employees, any wit- be^'^ntftigd"*^ fr^
ness summoned by the Board in connection with the dispute transportation,
shall be entitled to free transportation over any railway en
route when proceeding to the place of meeting of the Board
and thereafter returning to his home, and the Board shall fur-
nish to such witness a proper certificate evidencing his right
to such free transportation.
36. If any person who has been duly served with such Penalty for failing
summons and to whom at the same time payment or tender *° °^^^ summons,
has been made of his reasonable travelling expenses according
to the aforesaid scale, fails to duly attend or to duly produce
any book, paper or other document or thing as required bj' his
summons, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty
not exceeding one hundred dollars, unless he shows that there
was good and sufficient cause for such failure.
37. If, in any proceedings before the Board, any person Contempt of the
wilfully insults any member of the Board or wilfully interrupts '^oard.
the proceedings, or without good cause refuses to give evi-
dence, or is guilty in any other manner of any wilful contempt
in the face of the Board, any officer of the Board or any con-
stable may take the person offending into custody and remove
him from the precincts of the Board, to be detained in custody
until the rising of the Board, and the person so offending shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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View by direction
of Board.
38. The Board, or any member thereof, and, on being
authoi-ized in writing by the Board, any other person, may,
without any other warrant than this Act, at any time, enter
any building, mine, mine workings, ship, vessel, factory, work-
shop, place or premises of any kind, wherein, or in respect of
which, any industry is carried on or any work is being or has
been done or commenced, or any matter or thing is taking
place or has taken place, which has been made the subject of a
reference to the Board, and inspect and view any work, ma-
PowerTto interro- terial, machinery, appliance or article therein, and interrogate
any persons in or upon any such building, mine, mine work-
ings, ship, vessel, factory, workshop, place or premises as afore-
said, in respect of or in relation to any matter or thing here-
inbefore mentioned, and any person who hindeis or obstructs
the Board or any such person authorized as aforesaid, in the
exercise of any power conferred by this section, shall be guilty
of an offence and be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hun-
dred dollars.
Inspection of work
How parties may 39_ Any party to a reference may be represented before the
before'' Board! Board by three or less than three persons designated for the
purpose, or by counsel or solicitor where allowed as herein-
after provided.
Parties to be
bound by acts
representatives.
40. Every party appearing by a representative shall be
bound by the acts of such representative.
Counsel or soiici- 41. No counsel or Solicitor shall be entitled to appear or be
tors excluded ex- hg^rd before the Board, except with the consent of the parties
parties^ and^o^ ° to the dispute, and notwithstanding such consent the Board
Board. may decline to allow counsel or solicitors to appear.
Members o Board 42. PersoDS Other than British subjects shall not be allowed
to be British sub- ^^ ^^,^ ^^ members of a Board.
jects.
Presence of parties. 43. If witliout good cause sliowu, any party to proceedings
before the Board fails to attend or to be represented, the Board
may proceed as if he had duly attended, or had been repre-
sented.
Time and place ot 44. The sittings of the Board shall be held at such lime
sittings of Board . ^^^ place as are from time to time fixed by the chairman, after
consultation with the other members of the Board, and the
parties shall be notified by the chairman as to the time and
place at which sittings are to be held: Provided that, so far as
practicable, the Board shall sit in the locality within which the
subject-matter of the proceeding before it arose.
Proceedings to be
public unless
otherwise deter-
mined by Board.
45. The proceedings of the Board shall be conducted in
public; provided that at any such proceedings before it, the
Board, on its own motion, or on the application of any of the
parties, may direct that the proceedings shall be conducted in
private and that all persons other than the parties, their repre-
sentatives, the officers of the Board and the witnesses under
examination shall withdraw.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
46. The decision of a majority of the members present at a Majority of Board,
sitting of the Board shall be the decision of the Board, and the
findings and recommendations of the majority of its members
shall be those of the Board.
47. The presence of the chairman and at least one other Quorum,
member of the Board shall be necessary to constitute a sitting
of the Board.
48. In case of the absence of any one member from a meet- au members of
ing of the Board the other two members shall not proceed, ^°"'^ *° ^^ '"■''^"
unless it is shown that the third member has been notified of
the meeting in ample time to admit of his attendance.
2. If any member of a Board dies, or becomes incapacitated,
or refuses or neglects to act, his successor shall be appointed
in the manner provided with respect to the original member
of the Board.
49. The Board may at any time dismiss any matter referred Trivial matters,
to it which it thinks frivolous or trivial.
50. The Board may, with the consent of the Minister, employ Employment of
competent experts or assessors to examine the books or official "'"'
reports of either party, and to advise it upon any technical or
other matter material to the investigation, but shall not dis-
close such reports or the results of such inspection or examina-
tion under this section withotit the consent of both the parties
to the dispute.
Remimcration and Expenses of Board.
51. The members of a Board shall be remunerated for their Remuneration of
services as follows :— Bo^d"'' "^
(a) to members other than the chairman, an allowance of
five dollars a day for a time not exceeding three days during
which the members may be actually engaged in selecting a
third member of the Board;
(b) to each member of the Board, including the chairman,
an allowance at the rate of twenty dollars for each day's sit-
ting of the Board and for each day necessarily engaged in
travelling from or to his place of residence to attend or after
attending a meeting of the Board.
52. No member of the Board shall accept in addition to his Acceptance of
salary as a member of the Board any perquisite or gratuity of q{fi^"^a'^\y°''nie^
any kind, from any corporation, association, partnership or bers an offence,
individual in any way interested in any matter or thing before
or about to be brought before the Board in accordance with the
provisions of this Act The accepting of such perquisite or
gratuity by any member of the Board shall be an offence and
shall render such member liable to a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars.
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
Actual neces8&rj 53^ Eacli member of the Board will be entitled to his actual
peMefofme^mbers necessary travelling expenses for each day that he is engaged
allowed. in travelling from or to his place of residence for the purpose
of attending or after having attended a meeting of the Board.
Payments of ex-
penses of Board.
54. All expenses of the Board, including expenses for trans-
portation incurred by the members thereof or by persons under
its order in making investigations under this Act, salaries of
employees and agents, and fees and mileage to witnesses shall
be allowed and paid upon the presentation of itemized vouchers
therefor, approved by the chairman of the Board, which
vouchers shall be forwarded by the chairman to the Minister.
The chairman shall also forward to the Minister a certified and
detailed statement of the sittings of the Board, and of the
members present at such sittings.
DUTIES OF THE REGISTRAR.
To receive and
deal with applica-
tions.
Assist
ing
Assist in giving
effect to recom-
mendations o
Boards.
Register particu-
lars of proceed-
ini^ before Boards
and safpp^iard all
documents relating
to proceedings.
Supply informa-
tion and necessary
forms relating to
proceedings before
Board.
Generally,
55. It shall be the duty of the Registrar : —
(a) to receive and register, and, subject to the provisions of
this Act, to deal with all applications by employers or employ-
ees for a reference of any dispute to a Board, and to at once
bring to the Minister's attention every such application;
(b) to conduct such correspondence with the parties and
members of Boards as may be necessary to constitute any
Board as speedily as possible in accordance with the provisions
of this Act;
(c) to receive and file all reports and recommendations of
Boards, and conduct such correspondence and do such things
as may assist in rendering effective the recommendations of
the Boards, in accordance with the provisions of this Act ;
(d) to keep a register in which shall be entered the particu-
lars of all applications, references, reports and recommenda-
tions relating to the appointment of a Board, and its proceed-
ings; and to safely keep all applications, statements, reports,
recommendations and other documents relating to proceedings
before the Board, and, when so required, transmit all or any
of such to the Minister;
(e) to supply to any parties, on request, information as to
this Act, or any regulations or proceedings thereunder, and
also to furnish parties to a dispute and members of the Board
with necessary blank forms, forms of summons or other papers
or documents required in connection with the effective carrying
out of the provisions of this Act ;
(f) generally, to do all such things and take all such pro-
ceedings as may be required'in the performance of his duties
prescribed under this Act or any regulations thereunder.
STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS PRIOR TO AND PENDING A REFERENCE
TO A BOARD ILLEGAL.
Prohibition of — 56. It shall be unlawful for any employer to declare or cause
strikes or lockouts 3, lockout, OF for any employee to go on strike, on account of
ToT' r^erencr"to ^uy dispute prior to or during a reference of such dispute to a
Board Board of Conciliation and Investigation under the provisions
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
of this Act, or prior to or during a reference under the pro-
visions concerning railway disputes in the Conciliation and
Labour Act : Provided that nothing in this Act shall prohibit
the suspension or discontinuance of any industry or of the
working of any persons therein for any cause not constituting
a lockout or strike : Provided also that, except where the
parties have entered into an agreement under section 62 of
this Act, nothing in this Act shall be held to restrain any
employer from declaring a lockout, or any employee from go-
ing on strike in respect of any dispute which has been duly re-
ferred to a Board and which has been dealt with under section
24 or 25 of this Act, or in respect of any dispute which has
been the subject of a reference under the provisions concern-
ing railway disputes in the Conciliation and Labour Act.
57. Employers and employees shall give at least thirty days' Relation of parties
notice of an intended change affecting conditions of employ- ^an^^^^pendinK
ment with respect to wages or hours, and in the event of such proceedings be-T
intended change resulting in a dispute, until the dispute has '""^^ ^ Boam.t
been finally dealt with by the Board, neither of the parties
affected shall alter the conditions of employment with respect
to wages or hours, or on account of the dispute do or be con-
cerned in doing, directly or indirectly, anything in the nature
of a lockout or strike, or a suspension or discontinuance of '
employment or work, but the relationship of employer and
employee shall continue uninterrupted by the dispute, or any-
thing arising out of the dispute; but if, in the opinion of the
Board, either party uses this or any other provision of this Act
for the purpose of unjustly maintaining a given condition of
affairs through delay, and the Board so reports to the Minister,
such party shall be guilty of an offence, and liable to the same
penalties as are imposed for a violation of the next preceding
section.
58. Any employer declaring or causing a lockout contrary Peniuty for cau»-
to the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a fine of not le.ss '°^ lockou .
than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars
for each day or part of a day that such lockout exists.
59. Any employee who goes on strike contrary to the Penalty for gome
provisions of this Act shall be liable to a fine of not less than on strike.
ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, for each day or part of
a day that such employee is on strike.
60. Any person who incites, encourages or aids in any Penalty for in-
manuer any employer to declare or continue a lockout, or any "'i°K. *<> lockout
employee to go or continue on strike contrary to the provisions "'' ° " *•
of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of
not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
61. The procedure for enforcing penalties imposed or author- procedure for en-
ized to be imposed by this Act shall be that prescribed by Part forcing penalties.
XV. of The Criminal Code relating to summary convictions.
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DEPARTMEXT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
Recommendation 62. Either party to a dispute which may be referred under
Tn *cfrta[n ^^es"^ ^^^^ ■^'^^ to a Board may agree in writing, at any time before or
after the Board has made its report and repommendation, to
be bound by the recommendation of the Board in the same
manner as parties are bound upon an award made pursuant to
a reference to arbitration on the order of a court of record;
every agreement so to be bound made by one party shall be
forwarded to the Registrar who shall communicate it to the
other party, and if the other party agrees in like manner to be
bound by the recommendation of the Board, then the recom-
mendation shall be made a rule of the said court on the appli-
cation of either party and shall be enforceable in like manner.
Application of
proviaiona of this
Act to any dispute
on joint applica-
tion of parties.
63. In the event of a dispute arising in any industry or
trade other than such as may be included under the provisions
of this Act, and such dispute threatens to result in a lockout
or strike, or has actually resulted in a lockout or strike, either
of the parties may agree in writing to allow such dispute to be
referred to a Board of Conciliation and Investigation, to be
constituted under the provisions of this Act.
2. Every agreement to allow such reference shall be for-
warded to the Registrar, who shall communicate it to the other
party, and if such other party agrees in like manner to allow
the dispute to be referred to a Board, the dispute may be so
referred as if the industry or trade and the parties were inclu-
ded witliin the provisions of this Act.
3. From the time that the parties have been notified in
writing by the Registrar that in consequence of their mutual
agreement to refer the dispute to a Board under the provisions
of this Act, the Minister has decided to refer such dispute, the
lockout or strike, if in existence, shall forthwith cease, and the
provisions of this Act shall bind the parties.
f MISCELLANEOUS.
Courts not to re- 64. No court of the Dominion of Canada, or of any province
cogmze reports of qj. territory thereof, shall have power or iurisdiction to recogr-
or testimony be- . y ' ..^., ^ ot-.
fore a Board, nize or cntorcc, or to receive in evidence any report of a Board,
except in prosecu- qj. j^jjy testimony or proceedings before a Board, as against any
tions for perjury. p " i-^i £ ,•
person or tor any purpose, except m the case of a prosecution
of such person for perjury.
Technicality not
to invalidate
proceedings.
65. No proceeding under this Act shall be deemed invalid
by reason of any defect of form or any technical irregularity.
Payment of ser- 66. The Minister shall determine the allowance or amounts
vices under Act. ^^ ]^q pjjj^j ^q g^]] persons Other than the members of a Board,
emploj'ed by the Government or any Board, including the
Registrar, secretaries, clerks, experts, stenographers or other
persons performing any services under the provisions of this
Act.
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under Act to be
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
67. In case of prosecutions under this Act, whether a con- „^^^g^/"^'°^''%
viction is or is not obtained, it shall be the duty of the clerk reported to
of the court before which any such prosecution takes place to Registrar,
briefly report the particulars of such prosecution to the Regis-
trar within thirty days after it has been determined, and such
clerk shall be entitled to a prescribed fee in payment of his
services.
68. The Governor in Council may make regulations as to the Minister may ^^
time within which anything hereby authorized shall be done, ^nend regulations,
and also as to any other matter or thing which appears to him
necessary or advisable to the effectual working of the several
provisions of this Act. All such regulations shall go into force
on the day of the publication thereof in The Canada Gazette,
and they shall be laid before Parliament within fifteen days
after such publication, or, if Parliament is not then in session,
with fifteen days after the opening of the next session
thereof.
69. All charges and expenses incurred by the Government Expenses,
in connection with the administration of this Act shall be de-
frayed out of such appropriations as are made by Parliament
for that purpose.
70. An annual report with respect to the matters trans- Report tolParUa-
acted by him under this Act shall be made by the Minister to '"®°''
the Governor General, and shall be laid before Parliament
within the first fifteen days of each session thereof.
1 GEORGE V.
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
A. 1911
9-10 EDWARD VII.
CHAP. 9.
An Act to provide for the investigation of Combines,
Monopolies, Trusts and Mergers.
H
[Assented to ith May, 1910.]
IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as
follows : —
1. This Act may be cited as The Combines Investigation Act. Short title.
INTERPRETATION.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — Definitions.
(a) "application" means an application to a judge for an ■■AppUcati.
order directing an investigation under the provisions of this
Act;
(b) "Board" means a Board of Investigation established "Board."
under the provisions of this Act;
(c) "combine" means any contract, agreement, arrangement "Combine.
or combination which has, or is designed to have, the effect of
increasing or fixing the price or rental of any article of trade or
commerce or the cost of the storage or transportation thereof,
or of the restricting competition in or of controlling the pro-
duction, manufacture, transportation, storage, sale or supply
thereof, to the detriment of consumers or producers of such
article of trade or commerce, and includes the acquisition, leas-
ing or otherwise taking over, or obtaining by any person to the
end aforesaid, of any control over or interest in the business,
or any portion of the business, of any other person, and also
includes what is known as a trust, monopoly or merger;
(d) "Department" means the Department of Labour; "DepartDK
(e) "judge" means, in the Province of Ontario, any judge "J"<^se."
of the High Court of Justice; in the Province of Quebec, any
judge of the Superior Court; in the Provinces of Nova Scotia,
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1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
New Brunswick, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta, any judge of the Supreme Court; in
the Province of Manitoba, any judge of the Court of King's
Bench, and in the Yukon tei-ritory, any judge of the Terri-
torial Court;
•■Minister." (f) "Minister" means the Minister of Labour;
•■Order." (g) "order" means an order of a judge under the provisions
of this Act;
■■Prescribed." (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by this Act, or Ijy any
_... rule or regulation made thereunder;
■•Registrar." (i) "Registrar" means the Registrar of Boards of Investi-
gation appointed under this Act.
ADMINISTRATION.
I
Administration.
3. The Minister shall have the general administration of
this Act.
Registrar of
Boards.
Appointment and
tenure of office.
4. The Governor in Council shall appoint a Registrar of
Boards of Investigation, who shall have the powers and per-
form the duties prescribed.
2. The office of Registrar may be held either separately or
in conjunction with any other office in the public service, and
in the latter case the Registrar may, if the Governor in Council
thinks fit, be appointed by reference to such other office,
whereupon the person who for the time being holds such
office or performs its duties shall, by virtue thereof and
without thereby being entitled to any additional remuneration,
be the Registrar.
ORDER FOR INVESTIGATION.
Order for
investigation.
Application for
order.
Form of
application.
5. Where six or more persons, British subjects resident in
Canada and of full age, are of the opinion that a combine
exists, and that prices have been enhanced or competition
restricted by reason of such combine, to the detriment of con-
sumers or producers, sucli persons may make an application to
a judge for an order directing an investigation into such
alleged combine.
2. Such application shall be in writing addressed to the
judge, and shall ask for an order directing an investigation
into the alleged combine, and shall also ask the judge to fix a
time and place for the hearing of the applicants or their re-
presentative.
3. The application shall be accompanied by a statement
setting forth, —
(a) the nature of the alleged combine and the persons be-
lieved to be concerned therein ;
(b) the manner in which the alleged combine affects prices
or restricts competition, and the extent to which the alleged
combine is believed to operate to the detriment of consumers
or producers;
Declaration
appUeanU.
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SESSIONAL PAPHR No. 36.
(c) the names and addresses of the parties making the appli-
cation and the name and address of one of their number or of
some other person whom they authorize to act as their repre-
sentative for the purposes of this Act and to receive commimi-
cations and conduct negotiations on their behalf.
4. The application shall also be accompanied by a statutory
declaration from each applicant declaring that the alleged com-
bine operates to the detriment of the declarant as a consumer
or producer, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief
the combine alleged in the statement exists and that such com-
bine is injurious to trade or has operated to the detriment of
consumers or producers in the manner and to the extent de-
scribed, and that it is in the public interest that an investiga-
tion should be had into such combine. '
6. Within thirty days after the judge receives the applica- Hearing of
tion he shall fix a time and place for hearing the applicants and application,
shall send due notice, by registered letter, to the representative
authorized by the statement to receive communications on be-
half of the applicants. At such hearing the applicants may
appear in person or by their representative or by counsel.
7. If upon such hearing the judge is satisfied that there is order for
reasonable ground for believing that a combine exists which is investigation by
injurious to trade or which has operated to the detriment of '" '''
consumers or producers, and that it is in the public interest
that an investigation should be held, the judge shall direct an
investigation under the provisions of this Act; or if not so sat- Adjournment for
isfied, and the judge is of opinion that in the circumstances further eTidenco.
an adjournment should be ordered, the judge may adjourn such
hearing until further evidence in support of the application is
given, or he may refuse to make an order for an investigation.
2. The judge shall have all the powers vested in the court of Powc™ of iud«e.
which he is a judge to summon before him and enforce the
attendance of witnesses, to administer oaths, and to require
witnesses to give evidence on oath or on solemn affirmation (if
they are persons entitled to affirm in civil matters), and to pro-
duce such books, papers or other documents or things as the
judge deems requisite.
8. The order of the judge directing an investigation shall be Transmission of
transmitted by him to the Registrar by registered letter, and ^''^^^tlT!'*''"'*
shall be accompanied by the application, the statement, a certi-
fied copy of any evidence taken before the judge, and the statu-
tory declarations. The order shall state the matters to be
investigated, the names of the persons alleged to be concerned
in the combine, and the names and addresses of one or more of
their number with whom, in the opinion of the judge, the
Minis! er should communicate in order to obtain the recommen-
dation for the appointment of a person as a member of the
Board as hereinafter provided.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
APPOINTMENT OF BOARDS.
Appointment of
Board.
9. Upon receipt by the Registrar of the order directing an
investigation the Minister shall forthwith proceed to appoint a
Board
Constitution of
Board.
10. Every Board shall consist of three members, who shall
be appointed by the Minister under his hand and seal of office.
Members of
Board.
11. Of the thre^ members of the Board one shall be appointed
on the recommendation of the persons upon whose application
the order has been granted, one on the recommendation of the
persons named in the order as being concerned in the alleged
combine, and the third on the recommendation of the two
members so chosen.
Recommendation
of tliird member.
Communications
with representa-
tives of parties.
When Minister
may select mem-
bers.
Recommendation
and appointment
of a judge as third
member.
Chairman,
Vacancies.
12. The persons upon whose application the order has been
granted and the persons named in the order as being concerned
in the alleged combine, within seven days after being requested
so to do by the Registrar, may each respectively recommend the
name of a person who is willing and ready to act as a member
of the Board, and the Minister shall appoint such persons mem-
bers of the Board.
2. For the purpose of obtaining the recommendations referr-
ed to in subsection 1 of this section it shall be sufficient as re-
spects the applicants, for the Registrar to communicate with
the representative mentioned in the statement as authorized to
receive communications on their behalf, and as respects the
persons concerned in the alleged combine it shall be sufficient
for the Registrar to communicate with the persons named in
the order, as the persons with whom the Minister should com-
municate for this purpose
3. If the parties, or either of them, fail or neglect to make
any recommendation within the said period, or such extension
thereof as the Minister, on cause shown, grants, the Minister
shall, as soon thereafter as possible, select and appoint a fit
person or persons to be a member or members of the Board.
4. The two members so appointed may, within seven days
after their appointment, recommend the name of a judge of any
court of record in Canada, who is willing and ready to act as a
third member of the Board, and the Minister shall appoint such
judge as a member of the Board, and if they fail or neglect to
make a recommendation within the said period, or such exten-
sion thereof as the Minister on cause shown grants, the Minis-
ter shall, as soon thereafter as possible, select and appoint a
judge of any court of record in Canada to be the third member
of the Board.
5. The third member of the Board shall be its chairman.
6. A vacancy in the membership of a Board shall be filled in
the same manner as an original appointment is made.
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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
13. No person shall act as a member of the Board who is one ^^°^ disquau-
of the applicants for the Board or who has any direct pecun- ^smem
iary interest in the alleged combine that is the subject of inves-
tigation by such Board, or who is not a British subject.
14. As soon as possible after all the members of the Board Notioe of personnel
have been appointed by the Minister, the Registrar shall notify °
the parties of the names of the chairman and other members of
the Board.
15. Before entering upon the exercise of the functions of Oath of office,
their office, the members of the Board shall take the following
oath : —
I, , do solemnly swear, —
That I will truly, faithfully and impartially perform my
duties as a member of the Board appointed to investigate. . . .
That I am a British subject.
That I have no direct pecuniary interest in the alleged com-
bine that is to be the subject of investigation.
That I have not received nor will I accept either directly or
indirectly any perquisite, gift, fee or gratuity from any person
in any way interested in any matter or thing to be investigated
by the Board.
That I am not immediately connected in business with any
of the parlies applying for this investigation, and am not act-
ing in collusion with any person herein.
16. The Department may provide the Board with a steno- ciencai assistance
grapher and such clerical and other assistance as to the Minis-
ter appears necessary for the efficient carrying out of the pro-
visions of this Act. The Department shall also repay any rea-
sonable and proper disbursements made or authorized and Disbursements,
certified by the judge who grants the order directing the
investigation.
17. Upon the appointment of the Board the Registrar shall Commencement of
forward to the chairman copies of the application, statement, ""^^ '^* '°°'
evidence, if any, taken before the judge, and order for investi-
gation, and the Board shall forthwith proceed to deal with
the matters referred to therein.
INQUIRY AND REPORT.
18. The Board shall expeditiously, fully and carefully inquiry,
inquire into the matters referred to it and all matters aifecting
the merits thereof, including the question of whether or not
the price or rental of any article concerned has been unreason-
ably enhanced, or competition in the supply thereof unduly
restricted, in consequence of a combine, and shall make a full Report to Minister,
and detailed report thereon to the Minister, which report shall
set forth the various proceedings and steps taken by the Board
for the purpose of fully and carefully ascertaining all the facts
and circumstances connected with the alleged combine, includ-
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
Scope of investiga-
tion.
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
ing such findings and recoramendalions as, in the opinion of the
Board, are in accordance with the merits and requirements
of the case.
2. In deciding any question that may aifect the scope or
extent of the investigation, the Board shall consider Avhat is
required to make the investigation as thorough and complete
as the public interest demands.
Report of Board.
Minority report.
19. The Board's report shall be in writing, and shall be
signed by at least two of the members of the Board. The
report shall be transmitted by the chairman to the Registrar,
together with the evidence taken at such investigation certified
by the chairman, and any documents and papers remaining in
the custody of the Board. A minority report may be made and
transmitted to the Registrar by any dissenting member of the
Board.
Publication
reports.
Distribution
copies.
Fee for^certified
copies.
20. Upon receipt of the Board's report and of the minor-
ity report, if any, a copy thereof shall be sent free of charge
to the parties and to the representative of any newspaper in
Canada who applies therefor, and the report and minority re-
port, if any, shall also be published without delay in The
Canada Gazette. The Minister may distribute copies of the
report, and of any minority report, in such manner as to him
seems most desirable, as a means of securing a compliance with
the Board's recommendations. The Registrar shall, upon pay-
ment of such fees as may be prescribed, supply a certified copy
of any report or minority report to any person applying for
it.
Reduction of
Customs duties to
secure reasonable
competition.
21. Whenever, from or as a result of an investigation under
the provisions of this Act, or from or as a result of a judgment
of the Supreme Court or Exchequer Court of Canada or of any
superior court, or circuit, district or county court in Canada,
it appears to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council that
with regard to any article there exists any combine to promote
unduly the advantage of the manufacturers or dealers at the
expense of the consumers, and if it appears to the Governor in
Council that such disadvantage to the consumer is facilitated
by the duties of customs imposed on the article, or on any like
article, the Governor in Council may direct either that such
article be admitted into Canada free of duty or thfit Ihc duty
thereon be reduced to such amount or rate as will, in the opin-
ion of the Governor in Council, give the public the benefit of
reasonable competition.
Revocation of
patent in certain
cases.
22. In case the owner or holder of any patent issued under
The Patent Act has made use of the exclusive rights and
privileges which, as such owner or holder he controls, so as
unduly to limit the facilities for transporting, producing,
manufacturing, supplying, storing or dealing in any article
which may be a sub,iect of trade or commerce, or so as to re-
strain or injure trade or commerce in relation to any such
article, or unduly to prevent, limit or lessen the manufacture
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT 225
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
or production of any article or unreasonably to enhance the
price thereof, or unduly to prevent Qr lessen competition in the
production, manufacture, purchase, barter, sale, transporta-
tion, storage or supply of any article, such patent shall be
liable to be revoked. And, if a Board reports that a patent Ex'chequer'court.
has been so made use of, the Minister of Justice may exhibit
an information in the Exchequer Court of Canada praying
for a judgment revoking such patent, and the court shall
thereupon have jurisdiction to hear and decide the matter and
to give judgment revoking the patent or otherwise as the
evidence before the court may require.
23. Any person reported by a Board to have been guilty of Combines restnct-
iindulv limiting the facilities for transporting, producing, i"8 "nanufacture,
X . . " , . . . 11- P' ^ i- r trade or competi-
manuracturmg, supplying, storing or dealing in any article tion.
which may be a subject of trade or commerce ; or of restraining
or injuring trade or commerce in relation to any such article;
or of unduly preventing, limiting or lessening the manufacture
or production of any such article; or of unreasonably enhanc-
ing the price thereof; or of unduly preventing or lessening
competition in the production, manufacture, purchase, barter,
sale, transportation, storage or supply of any such article, and
who thereafter continues so to offend, is guilty of an indict-
able otfence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one P<^'"'''*y-
thousand dollars and costs for each day after the expiration of
ten days, or such further extension of time as in the opinion
of the Board may be necessary, from the date of the publica-
tion of the report of the Board in The Canada Gazette during
which such person so continues to offend.
SITTINGS OF BOARD.
24. The sittings of the Board shall be held at such times sittings of Board,
and places as are fixed by the chairman, after consultation with
the other members of the Board, and the parlies shall be noti-
fied by the chairman as to the times and places at which sittings
are to be held : Provided that, so far as practicable, the Board
shall sit in the locality within which the subject-matter of the
proceedings before it arose.
25. The proceedings of the Board shall be conducted in Proceedings,
public, but the Board ma,v order that any portion of the pro-
ceedings shall be conducted in private.
_ 26. The decision of any two of the members present at a Decisions.
sitting of the Board shall be the decision of the Board.
27. The presence of the chairman and at least one other Quorum,
member of the Board shall be necessary to constitute a sitting
of the Board.
28. In case of the absence of any one member from a meet- Absence of
ing of the Board the other two members shall not proceed, '"«™*'e''-
unless it is shown that the absent member has been notified of
the meeting in ample time to admit of his attendance.
36 — 15
226
Appearance of
parties.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
29. Any party to an investigation may appear before the
Board in person or may be represented by any other person or
persons, or, with the consent of the Board, may be represented
by counsel.
When counsel
appointed by
Minister.
30. Whenever in the opinion of the Minister the public
interest so requires, the Minister may apply to the Minister of
Justice to instruct counsel to conduct the investigation before
a Board, and upon such application the Minister of Justice may
instruct coupsel accordingly. The fees and expenses allowed
to such counsel by the Minister of Justice shall be paid out of
such appropriations as are made by Parliament to provide for
the cost of administering this Act.
Contempt of
Board.
Penalty.
31. If, in any proceedings before the Board, any person
wilfully insults any member of the Board, or wilfully interrupts
the proceedings, or without good cause refuses to give evidence,
or is guilty in any other manner of any wilful contempt in the
face of the Board, any officer of the Board or any constable
may take the person offending into custody and remove him
from the precincts of the Board, to be detained in custody until
the conclusion of that day's sitting of the Board, and the
person so offending shall be liable, upon summary conviction,
to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE.
Witnesses and
evidence.
Oath.
Signature of
chairman.
Inspection of
documents.
Parties as
witnesses.
Expenses of
witnesses^
32. For the purposes of an investigation the Board shall
have all powers which are vested in' any court of record in civil
cases for the following purposes, namely: the summoning of
witnesses before it, and enforcing their attendance from any
part of Canada, of administering oaths, and of requiring wit-
nesses to give evidence on oath or on solemn affirmation (if
they are persons entitled to affirm in civil matters) and to
produce such books, papers or other documents or things as
the Board deems requisite to the full investigation of the mat-
ters into which it is inquiring.
2. Any member of the Board may administer an oath.
3. Summonses to witnesses and all other orders, process and
r)roceedings shall be signed by the chairman.
33. All books, papers and other documents or things pro-
duced before the Board, whether voluntary or in pursuance of
summons, may be inspected by the Board, and also by such
parties as the Board allows.
34. Any party to the proceedings shall be competent and
may be compelled to give evidence as a witness.
35. Every person who is summoned and duly attends as a
witness shall be entitled to an allowance for attendance and
travelling expenses according to the scale in force with respect
to witnesses in civil suits in the superior courts of the province
in -which the inquiry is being conducted.
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT 25
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
36. If any person who has been duly served with a sum- failure of witness
mons and to whom at the time of service payment or tender produce docu-
has been made of his reasonable travelling expenses according uienta.
to the aforesaid scale, fails to attend or to produce any book,
paper or other document or thing as required by his summons,
he shall, unless he shows Ihat there was good and sufficient
cause for such failure, be guilty of an offence and liable upon
summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred Penalty.
dollars.
37. The Board may, with the consent of the Minister, employ Experts.
competent experts to examine books or official reports, and to
advise it upon any technical or other matter material to the
investigation, but the information obtained therefrom shall not,
except in so far as the Board deems it expedient, be made pub-
lic, and such parts of the books, papers or other documents as
in the opinion of the Board are not material to the investiga-
tion may be sealed up.
REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES OF BOARD.
38. The members of a Board shall be remunerated for their Remuneration of
services as follows : — Board.
(a) To the two members first appointed an allowance of
five dollars each per day for a time not exceeding three
days during which they may be actually engaged in
selecting the third member of the Board.
(b) To each member an allowance at the rate of twenty
dollars for each day's sitting of the Board.
39. Each member of the Board shall be entitled to his actual TraveUing ex-
and necessary travelling expenses and an allowance of ten p<="^«^-
dollars per day for each day that he is engaged in travelling
from or to his place of residence for the purpose of attending
or after having attended a meeting of the Board.
40. No member of the Board shall accept in addition to his Acceptance ot
travelling expenses and allowances as a member of the Board gratuity pro-
any perquisite, gift, fee or gratuity of any kind from any per- ' "
son in any way interested in any matter or thing that is being
investigated by the Board. The acceptance of any such per-
quisite, gift, fee or gratuity by any member of the Board shall
be an offence, and shall render such member liable upon sum-
mary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars,
and he shall thereafter be disqualified to act as a member of
any Board.
Penalty.
41. All expenses of the Board, including expenses for trans- vouchers foi
portation incurred by the members thereof or by persons under expenses.
its order in making investigations under this Act, salaries of
employees and agents, and fees and travelling expenses of
witnesses, shall be allowed and paid upon the presentation of
itemized vouchers therefor, approved and certified by the chair-
man of the Board, which vouchers shall be forwarded by the
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Detailed state-
ment of sittings.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
chairman to the Registrar. The chairman shall also forward to
the Registrar a certitied and detailed statement of the sittings
of the Board, and of the members present at each of such
sittings.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Technical
irregularities.
42. No proceedings under this Act shall be deemed invalid
by reason of any defect of form or any technical irregularity.
Evidence of report. 43. Evidence of a report of a Board may be given in any
court by the production of a copy of The Canada Gazette
purporting to contain a copy of such report, or by the pro-
duction of a copy of the report purporting to be certified by
the Registrar to be a true copy.
Allowances de-
termined by
Minister.
44. The Minister shall determine the allowance or amounts
to be paid to all persons, other than the members of the Board,
employed by the Government or any Board, including the
secretaries, clerks, experts, stenographers or other persons per-
forming any services under the provisions of this Act.
Regulations by
Governor-in-
Council.
To be laid before
Parliament.
45. The Governor in Council may make such regulations, not
inconsistent with this Act, as to him seem necessary for
carrying out the provisions of this Act and for the efficient
administration thereof.
2. Such regulations shall be published in The Canada
Gazette, and upon being so published they shall have the same
force as if they formed part of this Act.
3. The regiilations shall be laid before both Houses of Par-
liament within fifteen days after such publication if Par-
liament is then sitting, and if Parliament is not then sitting
then within fifteen days after the opening of the next ses-
sion thereof.
Annual report to
Parliament.
46. The Minister shall lay before Parliament, within the first
fifteen days of the then next session, an annual report of the
proceedings under this Act.
1907, c. 11
amended.
47. Subsection 1 of section 12 of The Custotiis Tariff,
is repealed.
1907,
48. This Act shall not be construed to repeal, amend or in
any way affect The Trade Unions Act, chapter 125 of the Re-
vised Statutes, 1906.
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT 229
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
SCHEDULE.
Form 1.
Application for Order Directing an Investigation.
"The Combines Investigation Act."
{Section 5.)
Dated at this
day of ,19..
In the matter of an alleged combine {here state shortly the
nature of the combine.)
To the Honourable {here insert the name of the judge), a Judge
(or, Chief Justice as the case may be) of the {here insert the title
of the court.)
The undersigned are of opinion that a combine exists {here
state shortly the nature of the alleged combine) and that prices
have been enhanced {or, competition has been restricted by such
combine, as the case may be) to the detriment of consumers {or,
producers, as the case may be.)
The undersigned therefore apply for an order under "The
Combines Investigation Act" directing an investigation into such
alleged combine.
{Here state —
(a) the nature of the alleged combine and the persons believed to
be concerned therein; and,
(b) the manner in which the alleged combine affects prices or
restricts competition, and the extent to which the alleged combine is
believed to operate to the detriment of consumers or producers, as
the case may be.)
statement accompanying application for order.
Dated at this
day of , 19..
The undersigned hereby authorize of
{give name and place of residence) to act
as our representative for the purposes of "The Combines
Investigation Act," and to receive communications and con-
duct negotiations on our behalf.
230 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
1 GEORGE v., A. 1911
The names and addresses of the persons applying for the
aforesaid order are as follows : —
Names.
Addresses.
STATUTORY DECLARATION ACCOMPANYING APPLICATION FOR
ORDER.*
Ganada:
Province of
To Wit.
I, , of the of
in the of
do solemnly declare : —
1. That the alleged combine operates to my detriment as a
consumer (or, producer, as the case may he.)
2. That to the best of my knowledge and belief the combine
alleged in the foregoing statement exists and that such combine
is injurious to trade {or, has operated to the detriment of con-
sumers, or, producers, as the case may be) in the manner and to
the extent described.
3. That it is in the public interest that an investigation
should be had into such combine.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing
it to be true, and knowing that it is of the same force and
effect as if made under oath, and by virtue of The Canada Evi-
dence Act.
Declared before me at in the county of
this day of 19 . .
Form 2.
Order Directing Investigation.
"The Combines Investigation Act."-
{Section 7.)
In the matter of the application of {here insert the names of
applicants), dated the day of 19...
*A declaration a.s above must be made by each applicant.
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 36.
for an order directing an investigation under "The Combines
Investigation Act" into an alleged combine {here state shortly
the nature of the combine).
I, the Honourable
a Judge {or, Chief Justice, as the case may he) of {here insert the
name of court) after having read the application of {names of
applimnts), dated the day of 19..,
the statement and statutory declarations accompanying the
same and the evidence produced by the said applicants, am
satisfied that there is reasonable ground for believing that a
combine exists {here describe nature of combine) which is injurious
to trade {or, which has operated to the detriment of consumers,
or, producers, as the case may be), and that it is in the public interest
that an investigation should be held, and I do therefore direct that
an investigation" be held, under the provisions of the said Act
into the following matters, that is to say: {here set out the matters
to be investigated.)
The names of the persons alleged^ to be concerned in the
alleged combine are {here insert names and addresses) and I am
of opinion that the Minister of Labour should communicate with
{here insert the name or names, with, in each case, the address) in
order to obtain the recommendation for the appointment of a
person as a member of the Board of Investigation on^behalf of
those concerned in the said alleged combine.
Dated at this day of 19. .
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