ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42 



The amount collected during this period was the largest recorded in any one 

 particular year during the entire existence of the Department, and exceeds by prac- 

 tically $200,000.00 the revenue of the previous year. It is also $168,000.00 in excess of 

 the total amount collected in the previous best financial year, i.e. 1939-40, when for the 

 first time our revenue exceeded the one million dollar mark. 



One significant fact which merits favourable comment and more than cursory 

 attention is the amount derived from the sale of non-resident angling and hunting 

 licenses. Upon reference to the foregoing statement of revenue it will be noted that 

 the sum derived from these sources totalled $600,884.95, which is more than fifty per 

 cent of the revenue collected by the Department from all sources during this period, 

 and almost $132,000.00 in excess of the revenue collected from these sources in the pre- 

 vious fiscal year. By far the greater proportion of this total would result from the 

 sale of such licenses to visitors from the United States, which is an indication of the 

 importance of the tourist trade to the country generally, as this sum would represent 

 but a small percentage of the total funds such visitors would of necessity have to expend 

 for transportation, meals, accommodation and entertainment or recreation additional 

 to hunting and fishing during the period of their visits within the Province. The efforts 

 devoted by the Government to attract visitors to Ontario and thus develop the tourist 

 traffic within the Province were showing substantial dividends, but it is altogether prob- 

 able that the entry of the United States, on December 8th, 1941, into the present con- 

 flict, will undoubtedly be followed by a noticeable retrogression of this traffic due to 

 diminished numbers of American citizens visiting this country for vacation purposes, 

 particularly during the period in which the existing restrictions governing travel and 

 transportation conditions prevail. Other sources from which increased revenue was 

 derived include the fees received from the sale of the various resident licenses 

 required for hunting purposes, from the sale of trapping licenses and from the collection 

 of fur royalties. 



The subjoined table will be of interest by reason of the fact that it depicts com- 

 parative revenues derived from these sources during the year under review, the two 

 previous fiscal years, and the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1936, the first complete 

 twelve-month period under the present regime: — 



