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from officials of the C.N.R. Company regarding accommodation for tourists at 

 Kawene station, but nothing definite has been proposed. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) Hugh McDonald, 



Superintendent Quetico Pari'. 

 Hon. George Howard Ferguson, 



]\linister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. 39. 



Colonization and Immigration. 



To the Honourable G. Howard Ferguson, Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ontario: — 



SiR;, — I have the honour to submit the following report of the Bureau of 

 Colonization for the fiscal year ending October 31st, 1919: 



Number of letters received 9,381 



Number of letters sent out 7,781 



Literature dispatched includes — 



" A New Land Nearby " ' 



" Farming Opportunities in Ontario " 



" Hints to Settlers in Northern Ontario " 



" Ontario Handbook " '28,568 



" Greater Ontario " 



" Heaton's Opportunities in Ontario " 



" The Province of Ontario in the War " 



Ontario maps ' 7,177 



Railway certificates issued to settlers proceeding to Northern Ontario (in- 

 cluding 821 adults and 50 children) 725 



The above figures, compared with those of last year, are indicative of the 

 growing interest in Old and Northern Ontario, particularly the latter. Our new 

 booklet, " Northern Ontario," was circulated extensively during the year, and we 

 conducted our usual newspaper and magazine advertising, but apart from these 

 mediums there has been an appreciable increase of enquiries from homeseekers 

 and others, mainly from the Western Provinces, the U.S.A. and Great Britain. 



Our Northern Ontario exhibits at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, 

 nnd the Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa, proved greater features of attraction 

 than ever before. Continuous streams of interested visitors called daily and our 

 representatives dispensed information on the possibilities of the North in general. 

 A free-to-all motion picture show exhibiting the industries of the North, such 

 as agriculture, mining, lumbering, fishing, etc., also accompanying lectures by 

 a representative gave the visitors, many of whom had but little knowledge of the 

 vastness, resources or possibilities of this section of the Province, educative and 



