DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1928 11 



speaks with optimism of the efforts shown by numbers of the "trail blazers" 

 who are making good in the great North land. 



Details of land sold for all purposes and of areas that have been resumed to 

 Crown may be found in Appendices 12 and 13. 



Practical discussions have been held with the representatives of the Overseas 

 Settlement Board and the Dominion Government in preparation of a tripartite 

 agreement involving a co-operative arrangement for the placing of British, 

 migrants on improved farms in the clay belt of Northern Ontario, and it is 

 earnestly hoped that the consummation of such an agreement will result in 

 substantial numbers from the old land taking up residence in the Great Clay Belt. 



Negotiations are under way with the Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, 

 to conclude a Treaty with the Indians inhabiting an area North and West of the 

 Albany River, comprising 128,000 square miles, the only remaining territory 

 in Canada unceded by the Red Man. 



Clergy Lands 



While no new sales are being made under this heading moneys being 

 arrears on old sales are still being collected to a very limited extent, only $455.95 

 was received from this source. 



Common School Lands 



The collections from this source amounted to $952.75, being moneys due 

 on sales made years ago of land where the occupants failed to get title until 

 recently. 



University Lands 



Some 499 acres were sold and on these and previous sales the sum of $431.00 

 was collected. 



Grammar School Lands 



Collection of arrears on sales of these lands made many years ago accounted 

 for $992.15. 



Crown Lands 



For agriculture, townsite, tourist and various other purposes the total 

 area sold and leased comprised 92,218.21 acres, less than the year previous by 

 32,650.18 acres. Such sales and leases totalled $120,618.60, but there was col- 

 lected on such sales and leases and on others hitherto made, the sum of $317,280.70, 

 less than the last fiscal year by $27,045.34. For details on the last five headings 

 see Appendix No. 3. 



Provincial Land Tax Act 



For the year 1927, the first during which this tax was collectable, the sum 

 of $76,088.68 was collected. As anticipated this tax met with some opposition 

 but the general principle is admitted to be just and that is that all property 

 whether in organized or unorganized territory should bear a fair proportion of 

 taxation for general benefits received. This tax is applicable only to property 

 in unorganized districts where much land privately owned by persons and 

 companies and corporations who are beneficiaries directly or indirectly of 

 transportation facilities and other developments made at the expense of the 



