106 



ADA, DOMINION OF. 



The increase during the rear was 6-5 per 

 and in the past two yean more than 10 per cent. 

 The record of pardons .luring the ia>t three years 

 wa 49 in 18B-V4, M in ISM-TO, and 

 1806-lft, 



i-'ifty per cent, of the sentences are for terms of 

 lea* than 1'ifi* sentences constitute 4 

 per ivnt. of tin- total numb -,196 

 under twenty years, 085 U-twr.ii t\\cnt\ ami 



thirty. :<4S U-tue.-n thirty and forty. Mil U'tween 



tween fifty ami sixty. ami -jo 



portion oi "f the va- 



rious large religious denominations \va> : Koman 



' Lurch of Knglaml. 



JI-17 Method^' 



|-.|HTtviit.: liud- 



dhi-K ! |K-r r.-ni. f the total mnnlier of 

 i7 were native 



were natives of Can a. hi. IM ..f the 



>ml. 5? <f Ireland. 

 Scotland. There won- I'-'-' total abstainers, TOG tem- 

 perate persons, mid .V;.; intcm|>cratc in the |..-ni- 

 tcnlinrir*. Although many of th- w iv 



colored. Indian. <-r ChincM-. only 235 of them could 

 -ad. while 1.040 could both rend timl 



f the penitentiaries was * 



1805--96. compared with $:! I I.55JI in 1894-'i)5. The 

 cost per capita was reduced from $269. v 



Trade and Commerce. The trade of Canada 

 for the IK :iding .'line 30, 1897, showed a 



mark' hi 1806 the exports were $118,- 



the imports $110.588,100. In 181)7 they 



respectively s -o and $111,731,000. 



The following is tho classification of the C.\|H.I 



ARTICLES 



Animate and product* . 



AcrirtiltunU 

 Mann far 



hetsvs*,. 



Coin aod bullion 



Ttx., 

 Product of Canada.. 



1806. 



1,090,609 



NfeMBJM 



1807. 



HUB6M5Q 



njHOflftl 

 tlJSOOJMt 

 K#M* 

 10,109,197 

 mjOM 



H$4,ii8,9n 

 iUfi8,7n 



Of the products of the mine, $175,512 went to 

 Great Britain and $7.482.984 to the United States ; 

 of the fisheries, $4.462.000 went to Great Britain 

 and $3.501.671 to the United States: of the forests, 

 $12.n- Britain and $15,516,901 



States. <>rtuiim:ils ami tln>ir products 

 $32.488.801 went to Great Britain and $:i.:*85.261 to 

 th.- I'niti'd States Of miscellaneous farm produce, 

 $9,551.01 1 went to Great Britain and $:i. 

 th.- 1'nited Statos. The total .-xport was $5> ' 

 579 to Great Britain and $31,129,509 to the rnite.l 

 > .- -. 



Mineral l>.\ <!,,,, inent The central feature of 

 i a material sense was the rn-li to the 

 Ekodiln and the Mories of immense gold discov- 

 eries there and on th. r. Meanwhile. -,, 1,1 

 wa heinjf steadily produced in I'.rit i^h ( 'olumliia and 

 in th- irold mines of Ontario and Nova Scotia. The 

 great Yukon .liMri.-t of Canada, which borders upon 

 ukon district in Alaska, contains the Klondike 

 region and most of the jroUw far discovered. Dnr- 

 *ie year the Dominion <;ov.rnment ma<le every 

 possible arraniriMncnt for dmiobterinc the newly 



ntrol. Regulations 



were made as to mining- which were very liber 

 the Americans who were flocking into the region. 

 as they placed thr latter ujKin exactly a level with 

 Canadians, and pave them the rijrht to take the 

 C"M away to a foreign country. Major Walsh, of 

 the Northwest Mounted PoHc, ws* appointed Ad- 

 ministrator of the Territory, and with him went 



Juire as . In Oct.. her Mr. 



be Interior. vi>itcd the Yukon 



in his ullicial capacity, and made further arrange- 

 ments f.-r tin- manairemcnt of those who iiii^ht 

 si-itle there. Mr. William Ojjilvic. whu has xp,-nt 

 \ears in the region propei-tini: ami iu\i-ti- 

 ! ' .MIL -II ;,. 1,,-iral Sur\e\. made 

 rl diiniiu' I he summer, and di , 

 that there was $77,001 'iiof-old in si-ht. 



Railways, The report of the (irand Trunk 



EOT the half year ending Dec. :n. 1896, wai 

 most 8atisfactor\ ; n sh<.\\rd a >urplus of $-1^ 

 The net delicil o'f its two Am. terns c|,i- 



cagp and Grand Trunk, and I>etn.n. (,r.md Il;i\-n 

 and Milwiuikei amounted, however, to $s7(i.ll-l 

 for the half year. The half year show, d a d. . 

 .f 1 i 1 "U per cent., in the nnml"T of j.a-.- 



Sengers carried coin ja red with the corresponuing 



half of 1895, and a d< i i p. r 



lit., in i.' - under that head. Ther- 



however, an increase in the mail and < 



ceipts. so that the net decrease in the receijits fr->m 



passenger trains was $104,468. It wa* in the freight 



and live-stock trallicthe advance w.i- mad. . 



total trallic for the half year v. 



incn-a-e of % j:;!'.in tons compared with the trallic 



of H.. .ndiiiK' half of the pivxion- 



The receipts from this branch of the trallic I 

 half year showed an increase of 1 

 percent.. <, m pa red with the figures for the 1 1. 

 ber half of 1S!5. The ratio of working expen 



lereipN ha- l.eell reduced from T'J-57 |,e: 



to To-:; pel-cent., and the working expense- per t rain 

 mile have l.een reduced 6*8 per cent. The Amer- 

 ican branches operated by the (Jrand Trunk Com- 

 pany are still H heavy drain on the road's y< 

 ret urns, but the year ISJH; showed an impro\ement. 

 The annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific Kail- 

 way Company was held in Montreal on April 7. 

 Sir William Van Home declared the property of 

 the road to be in an excellent condition, and that 

 there was an increase of $345,<HX) in the gross 

 revenue, 



The (|uestion of building the Crow's NY-t line 

 by private initiative with (Jovernment aid. by the 

 Canadian Pacific Kailway alone or with (Jo\ern- 

 mcnt help, or as a distinct (Jovernment road.. 

 wide and bitter diM-u ion. Finally a c..mpp 

 was tITected by which the Canadian Pacific Kail- 

 way was to bni'ld th- i part o,"it-o\\; 

 tem, but snliject to certain defined rates, and 

 turn f..r (Jovernment help was to lower it* nr 

 t ran-jiortat ion of \\Y-tern irrain to the seaboard. 



Tin- position of the Intercolonial was also a sub- 

 ject of much discussion in connection with a pro- 

 posed bridge across the St. Lawrence at Montreal, 

 and the purchase of the Drum mond Kailwa 

 branch line connect ing it with Montreal fron 



l.ec. At the end of 1HW) the mileage of the< 



dian Pacific Kailway was 6,216, the (irand Trunk 

 Kailwav :5,101. and the Intep-.-lonial l.::;n. The 

 total mileage of Canadian milwav- The 



total nnmi n carrie.l during th- 



\v;.^ I4.sio.4o7. an Increaw of SIMMKMI : the tons oi 

 freight were LM 



the earnings were $50,545,560, an i n< 

 000; the work in- .xpen-es were $35.o|-j.i;.v,. a n in- 

 crease of x The total capital of pr 

 lines was $840.800,200, and that of Ciovem 

 lines ^:,!.(H7.(;iO. The Canadian IV-ific in 

 carried 8,0 jers :ind 1. 

 fn-itrht : the (irand Trunk passengers aid 



Melons of freiglit : the Intercolonial. 1. 



-issengers ami 1 n-of freight. 'I'hc 



.t- of the firt were $i20.1?-V s ">. and e\|>cnses 

 $12.20->.:{M: of the second. $ir,.:,nr,.s7H sind $11,- 

 544,625; of the third, $3,104,117 and $3,237,066. 



