158 •• KEPOKT OF THE No. 3 



Dominion iDepartment of Agriculture; Dominion Department of Interior; De- 

 partment of Lands, Forests and Mines, Ontario; Department of Lands and Forests, 

 Quebec; Department of Lands and Forests, New Brunswick; Canadian Lumber- 

 men's Association; Canadian Nursei-ymen's Association. 



9. That the moneys necessary to carry out the work should be appropriated by 

 the governments concerned and placed at the disposal of the Commission. 



10. That the total annual amount necessary to carry out this work will be 

 about $100,000. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



E. J. Zavitz, 



Provincial Forester. 



Appendix No. S5. 



Eeturned Soldiers' and Sailors' Land Settlement Scheme. 



Considerable progress has been made in connection with the above plan of 

 settlement during the past year. A temporary training school, accommodating 

 about thirty men was constructed at Monteith, and a much larger permanent build- 

 ing is nearing completion. At Kapuskasing, in the Township of O'Brien, sub- 

 stantial buildings have been erected for the accommodation of the first colony of 

 returned men. The chief buildings consist of nineteen dwellings, fronting on 

 Kapuskasing Eiver, occupied by some of the married men and their families ; a 

 large dwelling and office for the superintendent and clerk ; a dormitory accommodat- 

 ing fifty men, with kitchen, dining-room and living-room attached; a modern 

 school house which will be in use in January of 1918; a freight shed; a store and 

 several other buildings of a minor class. Some forty-one men are now at Kapus- 

 kasing, to be joined at the first of the year by twenty-four of their comrades now at 

 Monteith. 



The men in the first place cleared a site for the buildings, and in addition 

 some thirty acres on the Provincial Government farm, which will be maintained at 

 the Colony. This clearing will be placed in crop in- the spring of 1918. Their 

 labours are now being directed to the clearing of 10 acres on the front of each 100- 

 acre lot. When sufficient 10-acre clearings have been made to accommodate each 

 member of the party one lot will be allowed to each man. -1 



■ The men are .paid from the time they enter the training school until they go 

 on their respective lots-; the rate of pay varies from $65 to $84.10 per month, ac- 

 cording to the number of thdr depeiidents, 



The men seem satisfied with their prospectS; for the future, and undoubtedly 

 this plan of settlement" wilj, overcome a great many, of the difficulties pertaining to 

 .settlement in any new country. Over 500 applications are on file. ^ . -. , 



Major T. L. Kennedy, of Dixie, f^lso. a returned soldier, is in charge. of i^^ 

 Kapuskasing Colony. . ./ * 



fj ^■•«^.:; ' ■ '^^' ..^^, Albert Grigg, . ■ 



Deputy Minister. 



