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Buoy Service on the Great Lakes and Georgian Bay, 

 Canada. 



There are 4 gas buoys and 5 bell buoys on the Great 

 Lakes and Georgian Bay and a large number of wooden 

 buoys. 



Total Number of Buoys in the Waters of the Dominion 

 of Canada. 



The total number of buoys in the harbours, bays, rivers 

 and lakes is about 3,700 made up as follows ; 



Steel buoys 315 



Gas buoys . 68 



Wooden buoys 3>3 2 5 



More important than merely the increase in the number 

 of wooden buoys, is the increase in localities or harbours 

 buoyed. The harbours and districts in the Dominion now 

 buoyed number about 330, an increase since the year 1896, of 

 50 districts. 



Ocean and River Service. 



The foregoing particulars relate to improvements in Light- 

 house and Coast Service, but an equally remarkable increase in 

 expenditure and efficiency in Ocean and River Service has 

 taken place. The lighthouses and fog-alarms require periodical 

 delivery of illuminants, coal and other supplies, and the Coast 

 and St. Lawrence River buoys constant attention and renew- 

 ing. Additional steamers have been built and others pur- 

 chased, to effectively meet the requirements of the various 

 branches of the service. Although all the steamers are not 

 classed under Ocean and River Service, yet for convenience the 

 steamers added to the fleet of Dominion steamers under the 

 control of the Marine and Fisheries Department, is given in 

 the following statement : The " Lady Laurier " was built to 

 replace the "Newfield" which was wrecked on the coast of 

 Nova Scotia. This steamer is equipped with the newest and 

 most improved cablejlaying and lifting gear, and will be used 

 when necessary for cable work between Halifax and th e 

 Magdalen Islands. 



