FEDERAL INSPECTION OF FOOD IN CANADA. 
I value the opportunity given me by The Royal Society of Canada 
to put on record in a consecutive way, the history of Food Inspection 
in Canada; and I realize that, for some future historian of the social 
and economical development of our young Country, the facts presented 
in these papers may possess an interest scarcely perceived by us of the 
period. 
In my last year’s paper I mentioned that the present Adulteration 
Act became first effective in the year 1876. In that year four analysts 
were appointed, one in each of the cities of Halifax, Montreal, Toronto 
and Quebec. Later, additional nominations were made in St. John, 
N.B., London, Ont., Winnipeg, Man., and at Ottawa. Each of these 
analysts was named for a District identical with the Excise District 
of which the city specified was the official centre. 
It soon came to be recognized that, for the proper criticism and 
interpretation of the reports of the local analysts, as well as for the 
immediate and authoritative solving of questions which presented 
themselves to the Executive, it was desirable and needful to have an 
analyst attached directly to the staff of the Department at Ottawa. 
In consequence of this conviction, Mr. H. Sugden Evans, F.C.S., 
F.R.M.S., etc., was appointed with the title of Chief Analyst, 15th 
August, 1884. Since this date which marks the beginning of the 
Laboratory of the Inland Revenue, the following chronicle records the 
growth of this laboratory; and it may be noted here that experience 
has demonstrated the advantage, both in economy and efficiency, of 
extending the work and the scope of these laboratories, rather than in 
making appointments at outside places. Indeed, the only local appoint- 
ments created since 1884, have been at Victoria, B.C. (1898) and at St. 
Hyacinthe, Que. (1901). 
1884—H. Sugden Evans, F.C.S., etc., Chief Analyst (died 1886). 
1886—F. X. Lefebvre, Assistant Analyst (resigned 1892). 
1886—John F. Waters, B.A., Assistant Analyst (transferred to the 
Department of the Secretary of State, 1886). 
1886—Thomas Macfarlane, C.E., F.R.8.C., ete., Chief Analyst 
(died 1907). 
1887—Anthony McGill, B.A., B.Sc., ete., Assistant Analyst. 
1889—Fred W. Babington, Assistant Analyst (transferred to the 
Customs Department, 1898). 
