argument to say that the treatment of corporations in Quebec is different to Ontario, for I must remind you that there are many taxes imposed in Ontario that are not enforced here. We have done much to establish Technical Education in this Province and are prepared to do more. We spend $400,000 in good roads this year and expect to spend double that amount next year; but all this takes money and if the Tax complained of, which nets us a revenue of $600,000, is abolished there would be a certain deficit next year." Reduction might be discussed but abolition was impossible. Appreciation of the Government's policy in Educational matters was expressed by McGill University which, on Nov. 3rd, conferred the Honorary degree of LL.D. upon the Premier. It was stated in this connection that only posterity could do justice to this work; in 1905 the expenditure on Education was $480,000 and now it was over a million and steadily increasing. In the Premier's reply stress was laid upon the great needs of elementary education and the low salaries still paid to teachers. A few days later (Nov. 8) the Council of the Montreal Board of Trade declared that the time had come for Government support to be given McGill and Laval Universities; and, on the 17th, a deputation from McGill, headed by C. M. Hays and Sir Edward Clouston, urged that $100,000 a year or a capital sum of $1,000,000 each should be granted these institutions. The Premier was doubtful as to the matter. "We are now giving about a million more to primary education than in 1896. I feel that an annual subsidy of $100,000 to one institution would compel us to increase our grants to primary education, and to other institutions of higher education, to figures that we could not meet." On Nov. 23rd the University of Bishop's College also requested assistance and were told that whatever was done for McGill and Laval they would receive in proportion. Speaking at the opening of the Canadian Health Association at Montreal on Dec. 13th Sir Lomer stated that the Government proposed to divide the whole Province into ten sanitary districts, each of which was to be placed under the direction of an expert who would report direct to the Government. Arrangements for this were already under way and it was the intention to appoint these hygienic experts from the Universities of McGill and Laval by competitive examination. Amongst the public incidents of the year was the Report of the Minister of Public Works and Labour (Hon. L. A. Taschereau) showing an expenditure for the fiscal year of $474,493 with recorded subsidies to Quebec railways totalling $10,798,230 of which $8,395,310 were paid up to June 30th and $2,287,802 had lapsed, been transferred or abandoned; the organization on Apl. 18, 1911, of a Provincial Labour Bureau at Quebec with Felix Marois as Superintendent and from which, so far, 398 positions had been filled; the Dominion Government's disallowance on June 9th of a Provincial Act to enable the General Trust Company to do a general exchange business-including certain banking powers; the Report of the Department of Colonization, Mines and Fisheries in January which stated the Colonization expenditure of the Province at $174,000, the settlement of 1,399 Colonist farmers during 1910, and estimated the value of Canada's Fur trade at $5,000,000 a year. The Report of the Metropolitan Parks Commission (J. L. Perron, K.C., Chairman) of Montreal made various recommendations with the following steps stated to be immediately necessary: "The preparation of a general plan for Montreal and its environs and the adoption of the necessary steps for carrying it out; the preparation and enforcement of regulations respecting the establishment of quarters, with model dwellings, for the working classes; the establishment of parks, squares, drive-ways and other means of communication as the development of the city and environs justifies the same.' It was stated that Chicago spent $2,385,000 on its parks, Philadelphia $1,200,000 and Toronto $1,294,000. Toronto was said to have 1,600 acres of parkland and Montreal only 672. Since 1892 Boston had spent $18,000,000 on its parks and the cost of their annual up-keep was $856,000. Other incidents included a return showing the work of the National Battlefields Commission, its progress in purchasing properties, and a balance of moneys in hand on Feb. 1st, 1911, totalling $336,778; the appropriation for this year of $250,000 for betterment of Provincial roads; a Return to the Legislature showing $584,000 paid to the newspapers of the Province from 1905 to March 14, 1911, for subscriptions, advertisements, printing, binding, etc., and including $70,114 to the Quebec Telegraph, $211,602 to Le Soleil and $136,258 to Le Canada; the statement of Hon. J. E. Caron, Minister of Agriculture, on May 8th, that the Government would approve of assuming three-fourths of the cost ($89,000) of the King Edward VII. road from Montreal to Rouse's Point-connecting there with the New York State road for which $1,500,000 had just been appropriated; the election of C. E. Therrien (Lib.) in Sherbrooke by acclamation, in place of Dr. Pelletier, and of P. M. L. Roy (Lib.) by 578 majority in Lévis to replace J. C. Blouin, resigned. Official publications of the year showed $28,374,765 of authorized capital in 1910 for 180 new incorporations; a record for the Province in 1909 of 33,818 deaths, 13,467 marriages, 71,078 births and a total population of 1,845,745; a total of prisoners in the gaols of the Province (1909) numbering 7,320 of whom 5,985 were men and 1,335 women and of whom 5,289 were French-Canadians; the fact that from July 1, 1909, to June 30, 1910, the Provincial Immigration Office at Montreal found place and employment for 10,129 immigrants and that in the same period 8,191 Canadians were repatriated via the Rutland Rail way from the United States; that on Dec. 31, 1909, there were 641 Farmers Clubs in the Province with 60,033 members and a Government grant of $27,650. The following were the chief appointments of the year: Protestant Board of School Commissioners. Provincial Archivist Provincial Agent to Federal Government. Provincial Board of Health.. Provincial Board of Health. Provincial Board of Health.. Corporation of the Higher Commercial Studies Commissioner re Provincial Water-Powers. Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. Clerk of the Crown and of the Peace, Montreal King's Councillor Sheriff of Quebec. of Rev. W. B. Young, D.D. Hon. F. X. Lemieux. J. P. Mullarkey. Hon. S. N. Parent. . Albert Bishop. C.E. . J. Cleophas Blouin, M.L.A. An important matter was the publication early in the year of the Report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis (1909-10) composed of E. P. Lachapelle, J. George Adami, T. G. Roddick, J. J. E. Guerin, J. Edward Dube, Elzear Pelletier of Montreal, M. J. Ahern, C. R. Paquin, Arthur Simard and Arthur Rosseau of Quebec and G. Bourgeois of Three Rivers-all physicianswith C. M. Holt, K.C., and Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Burland of Montreal. It was a most elaborate study of conditions in Canada and elsewhere with the following recommendations for immediate action: (1) Stricter application of laws contained in the Statutes regarding Tuberculosis; (2) elementary instruction on hygiene in the primary schools, normal schools and other Educational institutions; (3) popular instruction under the direction of the Provincial Board of Health and medical inspection of schools, shops and factories; (4) the establishment and maintenance of anti-tuberculosis dispensaries in the principal centres of the Province; (5) isolation of advanced cases among the poor and establishment of open-air schools for weak children who are prone to Tuberculosis; (6) treatment of curable diseases by the "class method," and legislation to prohibit the employment of young children; (7) investigation and legislation regarding the hours of labour of adults in factories; (8) legislation as to alcoholism, Meat inspection, and control of the sale of milk. Other and gradual steps to be taken included the establishment of Preventariums and creation of Sanitariums; establishment of farm and vacation colonies and improvement of dwellings for the working classes; legislation to better hygienic conditions in cities and towns. The following general conclusions as to a disease which was described as infectious, transmissible and due to a special bacillus, were of wide interest: 1. The experience of all civilized nations shows that Tuberculosis is avoidable like all other infectious diseases. 2. Tuberculosis is responsible for a mortality one-third higher than all other ordinary contagious diseases combined and the mortality from Tuberculosis in the Province of Quebec is higher than that of the Province of Ontario and the adjacent United States. 3. The death rate from Tuberculosis amongst our rural population equals that of the urban population which lives under much more antihygienic conditions. 4. The higher death rate from Tuberculosis amongst our women is a fact peculiar to this Province for, in all other countries, man pays a greater tribute to the disease. Finally, statistics show that more FrenchCanadians die of Tuberculosis than Anglo-Canadians. The 1911 In the absence, through illness, of Sir C. A. P. Pelletier, the Administrator, Sir Louis Jetté, opened the 3rd Session of the 12th Legislature of the Province on Jan. 10th with a Speech from the Throne which first referred with regret to the absence of the Lieut.-Governor. His Honour then mentioned "the striking success" of the International Eucharistic Congress of 1910 in Montreal and its proof that Quebec was not only a land of faith but also a land of liberty; described the Provincial Governments as having met at Ottawa in December to discuss the representation of the Provinces in the Federal Parliament without coming to a conclusion; stated that six new Normal Schools for girls had been established in six years, that the School for Higher Commercial Studies at Montreal was in successful operation, that Technical Schools there and in Quebec were well under way and that several Educational appropriations would be increased; promised special grants to School Boards which intrusted the education of boys to male teachers with diplomas and adequate salaries and promised, also, a Bill for higher pensions to superannuated female teachers; intimated the initiation of a proper system for teaching drawing in schools and the further promotion of instruction for girls in house-keeping; stated that the bad condition of rural roads made improvement and special legislation necessary, that larger amounts would be required for the building of iron bridges and that the coming Report of the Turnpike Commission would facilitate the abolition of tolls; referred to the development of the mining industry, the work of geological explorations, the Chibougamou Engineers' report and the commencement of the Forestry School's operations; promised better supervision and direction of lumbering and the opening of Employment bureaux in Quebec and Montreal. The Address was moved by A. Galipeault of Bellechasse and seconded by John Hay of Argenteuil. The Opposition leader (J. M. Tellier) who possessed 11 Party supporters and 5 inde |