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APPENDIX "E" 

 32. NIAGARA BARRACKS. 



These Barracks are situated on or near the River Niagara, which conducts the 

 waters of Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, — -They consist of Butler's Barracks, which 

 are distant half a mile from the River. Ferry Barracks on the Riverside, and Fort 

 Mississagua also on the riverbank. Butlers and Ferry Barracks were built in 1817. 

 Fort Barracks in 1838, the Tower in 1816. The soil on which all these Barracks 

 stand is clay. They are constructed. Butlers Barracks, Fort and Ferry of wood 

 and the Tower of Brick. 



Butlers Barracks, built of wood, accommodates 7 officers, 188 men; and is 

 occupied by 3 officers, 61 men and 48 women. It has also an officers' mess, a reading 

 room, a school, canteen, sjtores and tailors shop. This Barrack as well as all the 

 others at Niagara are occupied by the Canadian Riffies, of whom, owing to their 

 settled married condition, there is not so much fear of desertion as of the other 

 regiments and corps of Her Majesty's Army. 



Fort Mississagua accommodates 2 officers and 47 men; it is occupied by 15 

 men and 15 women. 



The Ferry accommodates 56 men, and it is at present occupied by 9 men and 

 9 women. 



There is no other ventilation than that obtainable by the windows and doors. 



The Barracks are warmed by stoves and lighted at night by candles. 



The school room is much too small for the requirements of the Barrack. 



There are no lavatories or modern improvements of any kind. 



The privies are emptied into cess pits. 



Three pumps and one well furnish a supply of water. 



The following return gives statistics of Barrack accommodation (at the Ferry 



Barracks) : — 



No. of men's barrack rooms 2 . 



No. of men at 600 c. ft. per man 32 . 



Actual number in each room 4. 



Dimensions of rooms, length 48 . 



Dimensions of rooms, breadth 25 . 



Dimensions of rooms, height 8.0 



Cubic feet per room 9600 . 



Cubic feet per man 2400 



Distance between feet of opposite beds 11.0 



Windows, No 6 . 



Windows, height 3.0 



Windows, Width 3.8 



Dominion Archives, from Ordnance Reports, No. 533, pp. 108 et seq. 



Report on the Canadian Barracks, visited and inspected in October, 1863. 



