1910. On Nov. 20 the Board of Trade in this City passed a strong Resolution against any idea of Union with Port Arthur.

On Aug. 28th Owen Sound voted $100,000 to aid a shipbuilding and dry-dock plant which was being organized in London and would involve a local expenditure of $1,000,000; Brantford in September reported a population of 21,964 and an Assessment of over $14,000,000; Windsor in October announced an increase of 1,400 in population and a total of 17,534, with an Assessment of $11,837,615; Petrolea was presented with a $50,000 residence and grounds for Hospital purposes by Mr. J. L. Englehart. At Sault Ste. Marie a great banquet was given by the citizens on Oct. 21 in honour of William C. Franz, General-Manager of the Lake Superior Corporation, which was attended by Messrs. W. J. Hanna and F. Cochrane of the Ontario Government, Mr. Mackenzie King of the Ottawa Government, A. M. Grenfell of London, England, T. J. Drummond (President) of Montreal, A. D. Braithwaite of Toronto, and many others. Mr. Hanna referred to the $2,000,000 Loan from the Ontario Government which helped these industries at a critical time; the Minister of Labour declared that by bounties and subsidies the Dominion Government had contributed $3,500,000 more; Mr. Franz referred to the $40,000,000 invested in the concern and its 6,000 employees. The country around the Sault was, he added, "a reservoir of untold wealth" and the town itself would be one of the greatest manufacturing centres in Canada within the near future. Statistics of the chief Ontario towns and cities may be tabulated as follows-premising that the increase of population in all the cities, towns and villages of the Province between 1901 and 1910, according to Assessment figures, was 33 per cent. and that this included Toronto's increase of 137,000, Hamilton 15,000, Ottawa 26,000, Peterborough 6,000, Niagara Falls 6,000, London 7,000, Port Arthur 9,000, Fort William 15,000, Stratford and Brantford over 4,000 each:

In Quebec City an interesting incident was the Mayoralty election in which Napoleon Drouin defeated Senator P. A. Choquette by over 300 majority. Both were Liberal in politics and Mr. Drouin had the support of Hon. S. N. Parent, formerly Mayor and Premier of the Province, to whom Senator Choquette was bitterly opposed. Though one of the strongest arguments used against Mr. Drouin was that he could not speak English very well it was understood that most of the English vote was cast for him. Sherbrooke showed a property valuation in 1910 of $6,812,545 and developed a movement for the obtaining of new industries and additional population. In St. John, N.B., there was considerable progress. The City had increased its Bank clearings by $10,000,000 in the previous ten years and they totalled $77,843,546 in 1910; expended over $6,000,000 in new buildings during the same period; increased its export of goods to the United States from $1,751,000 in 1900 to $3,417,000 in 1909; had a growth of $20,000,000 in the value of its shipping between 1898 and 1909. Lumber shipments to the United States were growing greatly, customs receipts steadily increasing, business with Cuba and Mexico being built up. The valuation of local exports for 1909-10 was $24,988,519 as against $3,744,000 in 1895 and with an increase of 4,000,000 over 1908-9. Plans for Naval construction, new docks, etc., came to a head during the year. The Globe correspondent on Jan. 16, 1911, wrote as follows: "The City has already spent over a million dollars on its own harbour improvements. The Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific have spent over 5 million dollars in improving their terminal facilities. Grand Trunk Pacific has purchased seven acres of land for terminal facilities and the granting of the Courtenay Bay foreshores to the Dominion is the initiation of harbour terminal construction on a big scale. The city has spent three quarters of a million on a water-works system, and during the present year has made outlays aggregating $100,000 on street construction."

The

Halifax was greatly concerned in the discussion of the C. P. R.'s possible entry into the City through its acquisition of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. It was pointed out that the chief factor in the growth of a city in these days is transportation; that Halifax could not expect to grow until the great transcontinental

lines of railway were brought to its waterfront; that no port has ever achieved success until it has been provided with great through lines of railway. Portland and the Grand Trunk, Vancouver and the Canadian Pacific, Prince Rupert and the Grand Trunk Pacific were ready examples. Mr. J. A. Johnson in his inaugural address as President of the Board of Trade (Jan. 28) declared that "no thinking person can look over Halifax without concluding that there has been a great change for the better in the last few years in everything that goes to make up a more desirable place to live in-better streets, handsomer buildings, more beautiful homes— and the gentlemen who have been enabled by persistent effort and the generosity of Sir Sandford Fleming to establish a new Park and a new point of interest in the shape of a Memorial Tower, should have the gratitude of Halifax generally." In May it was announced that the C. P. R. had acquired the Dominion Atlantic Line. Great satisfaction was expressed. Mayor J. A. Chisholm was most emphatic: "For the first time in the history of the country it puts this City in direct touch with a transcontinental railway system and makes this port the eastern terminus of the greatest railway undertaking in the world." There were many hopes expressed that Halifax would benefit by the new Naval construction scheme but nothing developed during the year and St. John in this respect won the lead. Strong presentations were made, however, as to the splendid dry-dock facilities available and possible, a million dollar bonus for the establishment of a steel ship-building plant was urged and efforts were made to get the G. T. P. and C. N. R. into the City.

In December the Nova Scotia Car Works Ltd. (purchasers of the Silliker concern) were granted by the City Council exemption from taxation for 10 years and a Civic loan of $125,000 at 4 per cent. The Assessment for 1909-10 was $28,651,000 as compared with $15,603,000 in 1879-80; the Apple shipments of the 1909-10 season reached the record total of 710,735 barrels; the growing trade with the West Indies and British Guiana through this Port totalled many millions; the 1910 valuation of property in Halifax was $24,151,050, the gross Debt (Apl. 30) was $4,455,390 and the net Debt $2,916,795; the export trade of the Port was $11,595,755 in 1909-10 or an increase of $1,580,000 over the preceding year. Sydney, N.S., made distinct progress in various directions. It declared itself ready to grant a bonus of $350,000 and free site to a ship-building company but made the mistake, through its Municipal Council, of asking the Legislature for power to control the rate of industrial wages in the City. Sydney Mines and Glace Bay made substantial progress during the year and on Dec. 31, 1909, the incorporated towns of Nova Scotia had a total bonded debt of $6,122,200 and a total assessment of $33,483,400.

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II.-Mayors in Quebec, 1910.

Notre Dame de

.....George Marcil.

J. N. Drummond.

St. Vincent de Paul. Wilfrid Auclair.

III.-New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Municipal
Interests

and Incidents
in Western
Canada

The conditions of Municipal life in the West, from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, vary greatly in detail and nature from those of the East. Cities and towns and villages in the West develop with enormous rapidity, the ordinary adjuncts of civilized life have to be created almost in a day, immigrants pour into the centres of population at a rate which is extraordinary in its interest and variety, new and changing conditions are inevitable, rapid progress is everywhere. Winnipeg, though old for its surroundings, is an ever new illustration of these statements. A Report issued in September by C. N. Bell, Secretary of the Board of Trade, proved it to be the greatest wheat market on the American continent and the second greatest market for oats. In wheat during the fiscal year 1910, Winnipeg's receipts stood at 88,269,330 bushels as compared with 81,110,410 bushels for Minneapolis and 61,084,797 bushels for Detroit. In oats the figures were 30,838,900 bushels for Winnipeg with second place after Chicago and followed by New York with 23,717,562 bushels. According to the Winnipeg Telegram (Jan. 29) the City had 19 men who ranked in the millionaire class. As a matter of record the list is interesting:

The population of Winnipeg, according to the 1910 Directory, and including suburbs was 172,865, the Assessment for 1909 was $131,402,800 or an increase of 175 per cent. and for 1910 $157,608,220, the exemptions from taxation in 1909 were $23,455,520, the rate of taxation in 1910 was 10 8-10 mills, the area of the city was 13,990 acres. The Building permits in 1910 were $15,100,000 in value as against $9,226,325 in 1909; the Customs receipts for the year were $6,219,000 or more than in any preceding year; the City's gross Debt for the year ending April 30 was $21,007,597 with a Sinking Fund of $2,078,925; the general