DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1937 



Classified by locality, these figures appear as follows: 



SALES 



1932-33 



Algoma 11 



Cochrane 595 



Kenora 14 



Nipissing 11 



Sudbury 72 



Temiskaming 113 



Thunder Bay 39 



Sundry 62 



Totals 917 



956 



683 



514 



' FREE GRANTS 



(including Soldiers and Sailors) 



1932-33 1933-34 1935-36 1936-37 



Algoma 2 2 3 2 



Kenora 56 62 102 56 



Nipissing 47 36 57 20 



Sudbury 134 60 38 27 



Parry Sound 34 24 35 16 



Thunder Bay 136 77 74 46 



Muskoka 46 10 20 6 



Rainy River 110 110 106 93 



Sundry 37 35 98 85 



Totals 602 416 533 351 



In the last annual report of the Department it was pointed out that the 

 sale or location of settlers' lots in any way remote from existing roads, required 

 very close attention. During the year many applications have been declined 

 because the bush lot was too far from a road and the application suggested 

 that the motive in making application was to obtain pulpwood and not farm 

 land. 



It must also be remembered that no new Free Grant lands have been 

 set aside for many years and what remains has been available for so long 

 without being located that it is an indication that such land is not desirable 

 to the prospective settler due to non-arability or other similar cause. 



For these and kindred reasons both Sales and Free Grants have consistently 

 decreased this past year, every district showing a decrease as set forth in the 

 foregoing table. 



Included in the Free Grants are locations in Sale Townships to Returned 

 Soldiers to the number of 46. 



The names, addresses, and salaries of Crown Lands Agents and Home- 

 stead Inspectors, with dates of respective appointments, appear in Appendix 2. 



