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Under these circumstances, it seems evident that when the college shall have been completed by adding the necessary quarters for cadets and professors to the extent required for the authorised establishment, the usefulness of the institution will be so far assured as to create a just pride in its possession as a Dominion work of first importance.

I bave, &c.,

W. POWELL, Colonel,

Adjutant-General, Militia.

NOTE. The occupations of those who graduated from the Royal Military College prior to 1st July 1886 are as under, so far as reported to the secretary of the Graduates Club in 1886 :-

Imperial army

Canadian service :-

Adjutant, active militia

-

51

1

Permanent corps

4

Instructors in R. M. College

2

N.W. mounted police

Geological survey

2

Department of militia

Hydrographic survey of great lakes

2

2

Do.

customs

Do.

interior

1

-

Do.

post office

1

Civil engineers

Mechanical engineers

Commerce

Agriculture

29

4

4

2

1

Clergyman

Contractors

Banking

SIR,

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No. 77.

CANADIAN Defences.

LORD LANSDOWNE to SIR H. T. HOLLAND.

Government House, Ottawa,

April 12, 1887.

WITH reference to your despatch of the 20th of January requesting to be furnished with a return showing the preparations made and the expenditure incurred in defence against aggression by maritime powers, I have the honour to forward here- with a copy of an approved report of my Privy Council in which is embodied a statement drawn up by my Minister of Militia and Defence giving the required information under the beads specified in your despatch.

I have, &c., (Signed)

The Right Hon. Sir Henry Holland,

&c.

&c.

&c.

LANSDOWNE.

CERTIFIED COPY of a REPORT of a COMMITTEE of the HONOURABLE THE PRIVY COUNCIL FOR CANADA, approved by his Excellency the GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL on the 12th April 1887.

THE Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch, dated 20th January 1887, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, requesting to be furnished with a return showing the preparations made and the expenditure incurred in defences against aggression by maritime powers.

The Minister of Militia and Defence, to whom the despatch was referred, submits the following statement with reference to the total expenditure incurred by the) Dominion of Canada on defensive measures under the different heads therein specified.

1. Personnel. Canada maintains an Active Militia Force, strength 37,350 officers and men, composed as follows:-

Occupations unknown

Total

Number of cadets remaining in the college at end of 1886, 72.

122

The North-West mounted police consists of 1,000 mounted men, stationed for duty in the North-West Territories. They are exclusive of the militia, and are under a separate department for administrative purposes.

NUMBER, TONNAge, and Value of VESSELS and BOATS; VALUE of FISHING MATERIAL, &C.; and NUMBER of MEN engaged in FISHING in the several Provinces of the Dominion, during the Year 1885.

Men.

Vessels and Steam Tugs.

Boats.

Gill Nets.

Trap and Pound Nets, Weirs,

and

Brush

Fisheries.

-dy

Value.

Lobster Factories, Freezers,

and other Fixtures.

proximate Value.

Permanent Force.

Active Militia Force. Officers and

Men.

Total Strength,

Cavalry

43

1,944

1,987

Field Artillery

1,440

1,440

Garrison Artillery

329

2,013-

2,342

Engineers

179

179

R. M. College Cadet Corps

64

Mounted Infantry -

105

64 105

Infantry and Rifles

319

30,914

31,238

Total.

796

36,554 37,850

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Reference :-

C.O.

8855 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Provinces.

Number.

Number.

Tonnage.

Value.

Number.

Value.

$

Fathome.

Value.

Number.

$

31,285 1,428,308 12,695 316,677 1,475,913 566,550

78,836 4,879 147,567

Value.

Total.

The expenditure for this and the other services specified in the Colonial Office Circular, since the withdrawal of the Imperial Forces from Canada in 1871, up to January 1887 has been approximately as follows:-

I. Pay and maintenance of the force above specified

II. Armaments, military service, including ordnance, shot and shell, &c., small arms and ammunition, camp equipment and general stores

Armaments, Naval service:

$

$

Nova Scotia

29,905

711

New Brunswick

10,185

196 3,297

480,788 941,360

P. K. Island

8,535

58 2,044

Quebec

11,828

Ontario

British Columbia

2,716 1,830

160 98 34

8,784 2,598

845

55,900 340,679 68,810 $4,500

1,089 84,695 7,949 187,880 1,045 191,868 44,195 867

47,985 24,649

207,368 160,428 2,011 710,680 96,222 141,850 180,080

916283,720 464,745 8,010,000 288 112,690 495,426 1,075,879

1,600 876,369 126,048 115,878

913

498,143 980,358 71,765 23,114 378,274 580,980 809,805

'rotala

III. Fortifications, viz., erection of batteries at Esquimalt

Harbour, British Columbia, in 1878

59,498 1,177 48,798 2,091,638 28,479 862,257 3,014,8841,919,284 8,378 | 545,828 2,058,469 6,697,459

NOTE.-The 59,498 men engaged in fishing are exclusive of those employed on merchant vessels, of whom there are no oficiai returns. The 1,177 vessels and steam tugs are included in the returns of Merchant Shipping registered in the Dominion. All the above returns, however, relate to the value of the plant employed in the fishing industry.

IV. Military buildings and establishments, viz., erection of barracks, military buildings, and repairs to existing buildings and fortifications

V. Floating defences

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VI. Submarine mine apparatus

3 D 2

8

12,467,533

1,585,215

3,820

1,350,512