UC-NRLF REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE INVALIDED SOLDIERS' COMMISSION CANADA MAY, 1918 OTTAWA J. DK LABKOQUBKIE TA.CH' PRINTER TO TH3U KING'S MOST RXCEl,Li,N'i' MAJESTY 1918 Soldiers' ' GIFT OF REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE INVALIDED SOLDIERS' COMMISSION CANADA MAY, 1918 OTTAWA J. DH LABROQUERIE TACHE PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 1918 426171 \ ' CONTENTS. PAGE. List of Members 5 List of Administrative Officers 6 Introductory Letter 1 List of Hospitals 9 Summary of Accommodation 13 Branches of the Work 14 Organization -. . 15 Method of Organization 15 Method of Organization, Organization of Institutions, Vocational Organization, Works Organization, Military Organization, Employment Organization. Procedure regarding Men Returned from Overseas 16 Clearing Depots 16 Vocational Training 17 Industrial Surveys 20 Functional Re-education 21 Analysis of Invalids Returned from Overseas 23 The Tuberculoses Situation 25 List of Sanatoria Used by the Commission 26 Projected Sanatoria and Uniformity of Treatment 27 Blinded Soldiers 28 Lip Reading for the Deaf 30 Permanent Homes ^ . . . 30 Recreation Centres 30 Food Costs and Control 31 The Works Branch . . . 32 Grants by Provincial Governments or Public Authorities 33 Artificial Limbs and Minor Orthopaedie Appliances 33 Recurrence of Disability in Discharged Men 36 Treatment of Returned Officers outside of Canada 36 The Insane 36 Nervous and Mental Disabilities :' Analysis 37 Death Rate 40 Provision of Employment : Provincial Commissions 41 Ontario and Quebec 42 Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Columbia 43 Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan 44 Land Settlement . , 44 Publicity 44 The United States 48 Pensions 49 Accounts 50 Disablement Fund 51 Classification of Staff " 52 Proposals for Future Development 52 INDEX OF APPENDICES. I. Order in Council, P.C. 433, dated 21st February, 1918. Referred to on p. 7 57 II. Order in Council, P.C. 432, dated 21st February, 1918. Referred to on p. 7 62 III. Order in Council, P.C. 434, dated 21st February, 1918. Referred to on p. 7 63 IV. Order in Council, P.C. 446, dated 23rd February, 1918. Referred to on p. 7 63 V. Order in Council, P.C. 1366, dated 22nd June, 1918. New scale of pay and allow- ances for men undergoing treatment or training. Referred to on p. 20 64 VI. Scale of Pensions. Referred to on p. 50 72 VII. Soldier Settlement Act. Referred to on p. 44 75 42617 1 383251 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT PAGE. VIII. Reports of Vocational Officers (a) Ontario 77 ( & ) Quebec 84 (c) Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island 90 (d) New Brunswick 96 (e) British Columbia 97 (/) Manitoba 99 (g) Saskatchewan 101 (A) Alberta 104 DEPARTMENT OF SOLDIEKS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT. Minister: Senator the Hon. Sir JAMES A. LOUGHEED, K.C.M.Q. Parliamentary Secretary: F. B. McCuRDY, Esq., M.P. Deputy Minister: S. A. ARMSTRONG. THE INVALIDED SOLDIERS' COMMISSION. PERSONNEL OF THE COMMISSION. Chairman . F. B. McCurdy, Esq., M.P. Members The Hon. Thomas W. Crothers, P.C., K.C., Ottawa. W. M. Dobell, Esq., Quebec. Hon. Colonel Sir Rodolphe Forget, M.P., Montreal. W. K. George, Esq., Toronto. Robert Gill, Esq., Ottawa. Lloyd Harris, Esq., Brantford. J. H. S. Matson, Esq., Victoria. D. Lome McGibbon, Esq., Montreal. Hector Mclnnes, Esq., K.C., Halifax. The Hon. John S. McLennan, Sydney. W. F. Nickle, Esq., M.P., Kingston. Brig.-General Sir H. M.'Pellatt, C.V.O., Toronto. F. W. Peters, Esq., Vancouver. Lieut.-Colonel C. W. Rowley, Winnipeg. F. J. Shepherd, Esq., M.D., Montreal. Lieut.-Colonel Clarence F. Smith, Montreal. Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walker, M.D., St. John. The Hon. Smeaton White, Montreal. The Director General of Medical Services, Ottawa. Ex-officio Members The Hon. W. D. McPherson, K.C., M.P.P., Toronto. The Hon. George A. Simard, M.L.C., Montreal. The Hon. R. M. McGregor, New Glasgow, N.S. Thos. H. Bell, Esq., St. John, N.B. F. 0. Fowler, Esq., Winnipeg. The Hon. J. D. McLean, M.D., M.P.P., Victoria. The Hon. A. E. Arsenault, Premier, P.E.I. The Hon. Mr. Justice Elwood, Regina. The Hon. C. W. Fisher, M.P.P., Edmonton. 5 6 &OLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS. S. A. Armstrong, Director. Vocational Branch W. E. Segsworth, Business Administrator. T. B. Kidner, Secretary. Medical Branch Lieutenant-Colonel F. McKelvey Bell, Director of Medical Services. Engineering Branch J". H. W. Bower, G-eneral Superintendent. First Assistant to Director, F. G. Robinson. Commandant, Major C. G. Arthur, D.S.O. E. H. Scammell, Secretary. (OFFICERS WHOSE CONNECTION! WITH THE COMMISSION WAS SEVERED ON THE SlST MARCH, 1918, ON THE TRANSFER OF THE MILITARY HOSPITALS COMMISSION COMMAND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE. Lieutenant-Colonel T. J. Sharpies, O. C. Military Hospitals Commission Command. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Thompson, M.D., Medical Superintendent. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 7 ' DEPARTMENT OF SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT, INVALIDED SOLDIERS' COMMISSION, SUPERSEDING THE MILITARY HOSPITALS COMMISSION, CANADA. The Honourable the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment. SIR, The information given in the following report, while it presents a summary of the work accomplished during the past year, does not fully represent the present activities of the organization. For a considerable period there was a lack of co-ordina- tion between the medical branch of the Department of Militia and Defence and the Commission. In order to define exactly the relative positions of the two organizations, an Order in Council was passed in November last giving to the Army Medical Corps the medical work in the hospitals and institutions of the Commission. It was found that this arrangement was unworkable, as neither the Commission nor the Militia Department had control of the patients or of the institutions. Consequently, after numerous conferences, a definite line of cleavage has been reached, and by an Order in Council, P.C. 433, 21st February, 1918 (Appendix I to this Report) certain institutions equipped and operated by the Commission passed under the control of the Department of Militia and Defence. The Order in Council provides that all officers and soldiers who have not been discharged from the military forces of Canada shall remain under the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Militia and Defence, but that upon discharge they shall pass, if necessary, to the control of the Commission; that all officers or soldiers who continue to require medical treatment on account of their suffering from tuber- culosis, epilepsy, paralysis or other diseases likely to be of long duration or incurable, or on account of their being mentally deficient or insane, are to be under the control of the Commission. Any discharged men who break down as a result of service and require further treatment are to be dealt with by the Commission instead of being re-attested as soldiers. The Commission also retains the control of vocational training in the hospitals before the men are discharged, and of subsequent re-education. An Order in Council dated 21st February, 1918, P.C. 432 (Appendix II) was passed creating a new department of the Government to be called the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment. This department is charged with the provision of hospitals, convalescent homes and sanatoria, whether permanent or temporary, for the care of invalided officers, non-commissioned officers and men, or other members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who have been honourably discharged therefrom, the administration of hospitals, vocational training, the provision of employment, and all matters relating to pensions for members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. By a further Order in Council dated 21st February, 1918, P.C. 434 (Appendix III) the name of the Commission was changed from the Military Hospitals Commis- sion to the Invalided Soldiers' Commission. By P.C. 446, dated 23rd February, 1918, (Appendix IV) the Invalided Soldiers' Commission was placed under the direction and control of the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment. 8 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT On your appointment as Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishnieiit, your resig- nation as President of the Invalided Soldiers' Commission was accepted by the Govern- ment, and Mr. F. B. McCurdy, M.P., was appointed Chairman of the Commission in your place. In virtue of an arrangement made by the Government, the Works Branch of the Commission has been transferred to the Department of Public Works. In future the building of hospitals and alterations and repairs to the same will, insteal of being carried out by the staff of the Commission, be carried out by the Department of Public Works. As that department has taken over the staff heretofore in the employ of the Works Branch of the Commission, there should be no break in the continuity of the work nor in the business-like methods heretofore adopted. The Commission under the direction of the new department will continue to develop the Vocational Branch and to establish a distinct medical service of its own, and will arrange to secure closer co-operation with the various Provincial Commissions charged with the duty of providing employment for returned men. In this way, although some branches of the Commission's activities have been transferred to other departments of the Government, the problems ahead are of such a wide and important character that there is likely to be little if, any diminution in the volume of work undertaken. Some indications of this are given in the following pages. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant, E. H. SCAMMELL, Secretary. May, 1918. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT Name and Place of Institution. Convalescent Hospi tals and Homes Operated by or for the Commission. Sanatoria for Tuberculosis . Active Treatment Hospitals. Hospitals for Insane. Discharge and Clearing Depot. Operated by or for the Commission. Present Accommodation. | | 1 M & , Lady Grey Sanator- ium Ottawa . . M. D. No. 2, "D" Unit. "Spadina M.C.H., To- ronto 272 170 440 272 170 440 1,025 51 1,200 "Central M.C.H., To- ronto *North Toronto M. C. H "Military Orthopaedic, Toronto 1,025 EuclH HallM.C.H.. Whitby M.C.H.. 51 1,200 Carried forward. . . 4,692 2,539 7,231 1,410 45 258 223 936 218 1.775 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 11 Name and Place of Institution. Convalescent Hospi- tals and Homes Operated by or for the Commission. Sanatoria for Tuberculosis. *a 1 4> d 1 < Hospitals for Insane. Discharge and Clearing Depot. Operated by or for the Commission Used by the Commission. _4 H New Buildings Authorizeu but not Commenced. 1 s % 49 e Additional Accommodation under Construction. I |" 1 *Z Add itional Accommodation .gr- under Construction. a cr Present Accommodation. 2 c] ! 3 L Additional Accommodation .* cr under Construction. 3 New Buildings Authorized but not Commenced. Brought forward . . SASKATCHEWAN. M. D. No. 12, 'H' Unit. St. Chad's M. C. H., 6,892 55 150 250 75 2,839 9,731 55 150 250 75 1,444 45 746 223 1,458 718 ****** 200 1,875 Saskatoon M. C. H.. Moo^ejaw M. C. H. . . Earl Grey Sana- torium, Regina . . . Emmanuel College, Saskatoon .... 70 70 Qu'Appelle Sana- 24 24 ALBERTA. M. D. No. 13, 'f Unit. Red Cross M. C. H., Ogd en, Calgary *Strathcona M. H., Edmonton Clearing Depot, Cal- 200 200 200 200 - 70 Edmonton M. C. H., Edmonton Frank Sanatorium 209 209 84 84 18 Mount View Sana- torium, Calgary Wetaskiwin M. C. H. Central Sanatorium, '"75 18 75 400 BRITISH COLUMBIA. M. D. No. 11, 'J' Unit. *Esquimalt M. C. H ., Victoria *Resthaven M. C. H., Sidney *QualicumM. C. H... * Fairmont, M. C. H., Vancouver 150 180 200 165 235 150 300 180 200 165 360 125 *Shaughnessy, M. C. H., Vancouver Sanatorium, Balfour. Tranquille Sana- torium, Kamloops.. *G e n e r a 1 Hospital, Vancouver 120 25 32 145 3'J 150 300 200 40 *Royal Columbian New Westminster.. *General Hospital, Vernon Total . . 9,036 3,114 12,150 718 70 820 223 1,831 1,268 540 200 L945 Grand total 17,934 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 13 In the report issued by the Commission, May, 1917, beds available in civilian active treatment hospitals were shown as 1,720 as agftinst 540 in the foregoing table. It has Txten deemed advisable to show no figures for these hospitals, with the exception of those included in the table, as the number of beds available is uncertain. The following is a list of general hospitals where it is probable the Commission can secure accommodation if ncteded: Jeffrey Hale Hospital, Quebec. General Hospital, Montreal. Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, General Hospital, Kingston. General Hospital, Smith's Falls. St. Luke's Hospital, Ottawa. Protestant General Hospital, Ottawa. General Hospital, Toronto. Victoria Hospital, London. St. Joseph's Hospital, London. General Hospital, Winnipeg. St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg. General Hospital, Brandon. General Hospital, Calgary. General Hospital, Revelstoke. Royal Inland Hospital, New Westminster. St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver. St. Joseph's Hospital, Victoria. With respect to the hospitals for the insane, 46 beds were shown in the last report as available in these imstdtutio,ns. Arrangements have now been made with the Provincial Governments to provide such accommodati'oii as may be required. Several smaller institutions have been closed during the year or used fo,r other purposes. The growth of the vocational and occupational work in some be made for the treatment of men who, in addition to those suffering from tuberculosis, under the new arrangement will have to be dealt with by the Commission, cannot at present be stated, nor is.it possible to forecast bow many will come back for re-treatment after discharge. The majority of these will probably be placed in civilian hospitals, butt provision may have to 'be made for direct in-patient and out-patient treatment by officers of the Commission in the larger centres. This would necessitate the establish- ment of a certain number of special 'hospitals. In the past the Commission has been ablfe to maintain beds in excess of requirements and ^here is no doubt it will be possible to continue this condition. THE CHANGE OF ORGANIZATION. The Military Hospitals Commission was first formed by Order in Council on the 30th June, 1915. At that time it was considered that the work of providing hospitals and dealing with the rehabilitation of returned soldiers could be adequately handled by a Commission. Owing, however, to the length of the war and the resultant develop- ment of this wiork, it became necessary to orea.te 21 Home wood Sanatorium , . . . 17 * * 13 2 2 \Voodstock Newmarket 111 London Insane 46 14 32 25 2 19 Penetanguishene Mimico 5 5 5 Orillia 1 * n 1 Cobourerl . 399 * 308 91 Manitoba Selkirk 54 17 37 31 3 20 Brandon .. . 28 18 10 11 2 15 Saskatchewan Battlef ord 28 * * 2 26 .Alberta- Ponoka ,. .. . 32 10 22 23 2 7 Red Deer lg * 16 British Columbia- G8 14 54 28 1 39 Total 488 * Figures r.ot available as to whether camp or overseas. fThe same man in some cases has besn admitted to and discharged from more than one institution. l|:Cobourg is now under the jurisdiction of the A.M.C. DEATH RATE. Two hundred and seventy-seven soldiers died in the hospitals of the Commission during 1917. The following table shows the principal division of the diseases from which these men were suffering and the units in which they were receiving treatment at the time of their death. SOLDIERS 9 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 41 NUMBER and Cause of Deaths in M.H.C.C. Units from January 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917. Cause. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. Total. Tuberculosis 18 10 12 37 8 9 15 6 4 9 128 Wounds. 3 1 1 3 2 1 11 Disease 12 9 13 33 o 5 11 11 12 13 1 120 Accidental 2 1 2 1 5 11 Suicide 1 o 1 Unknown 1 3 o 1 o 5 Presumed 1 o o 1 o 1 Drowned \ Total 33 23 27 78 8 14 29 18 17 29 1 277 PROVISION OF EMPLOYMENT. The problem of finding employment for the men returned to civil life up to the present has not been a serious one. The demand for labour of all kinds and the sympathetic attitude of the average employer to the soldiers who have returned invalided or discharged from overseas has made it a simple matter to introduce returned men to work. All the provincial commissions have carried on this work actively and have devised systems of record and introduction which ensure the man and the vacant job coming together. Since the formation of the provincial commissions, information has been sent to them by the Military Hospitals Commission, in respect of every man returned from overseas. This information' is of such a character that the secretaries of the pro- vincial commissions are able to judge the possible requirements of the men even before they have had an opportunity of interviewing them. The head offices of the commissions are situated at^ the capitals of the provinces, except in Quebec and New Brunswick, and in nearly every case large numbers of local committees have been organized so that when a returned soldier is ready to enter upon employment the local committee can be notified and arrangements made through it to provide employment in the neighbourhood of the man's home, if it is available at this point. Many of the problems confronting one of the provincial commissions are found to have been dealt with by another. In order, therefore, that the secretaries might have '^opportunity of exchanging views and of discussing their difficulties with the officials of the commission, a conference was held in Ottawa in February, 1918, which was attended by all of the secretaries. It is hoped that in the future there will be even closer co-operation between the head office in Ottawa and the provincial commissions, as it is intended to appoint an officer charged with the duty of dealing with the ques- tion of employment, and also to appoint travelling inspectors who will constantly bo on the road. At this conference it was recommended that a uniform name should be adopted and the name selected was "Keturned Soldier Commission" preceded by 42 SOLDIERS" CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT the name of the province. The following is a list of the secretaries of the Returned Soldier Commissions with the addresses of their head offices: Ontario J. Warwick, 116 College street, Toronto. Quebec J. Pye, 294 St. Catherine street E., Montreal. Nova Scotia W. B. MacCoy, Metropole building, Halifax, N.S. New Brunswick Chas. Robinson, 49 Canterbury street, St. John, N.B. Manitoba Albert Pearce, 185 Lombard street, Winnipeg, Man. British Columbia J. H. Hill, Parliament buildings, Victoria. Prince Edward Island Miss Nellie Gillespie, Parliament buildings, Charlottetown. Saskatchewan G. Harmon Jones, McCallum* Hill building, Regina. Alberta Howard Stutchbury, 813-14 McLeod block, Edmonton. The Government has passed Orders*in-Council and regulations giving to returned soldiers the preference in the Government service throughout Canada. By virtue of these regulations and the desire on the part oi] the ministers of the various depart- ments to employ as many returned soldiers as possible, large numbers have entered the Federal service. Special consideration is given by the Civil Service Commission to the prepara- tion for Civil Service appointments, with most satisfactory results. Several thousand men have been thus employed. THE ONTARIO SOLDIERS' AD) COMMISSION. The Ontario Soldiers* Aid Commission reports that on April 1 there were 20,203 names on its records, of whom 19,610 were of men returned from overseas as medic- ally unfit. The number granted re-education courses by the Invalided Soldiers' Com- mission is quoted as 676. In February this Commission reported that it had found employment for 1,750 returned soldiers. The secretary also stated that no discharged soldiers able to work were out of employment anywhere in the province of Ontario, so far as the registers showed. In the city of Toronto there were at that time 150 vacancies for returned men on file. QUEBEC SOLDIERS' EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION. The Quebec Soldiers' Employment Commission has records of 6,410 men, of whom 5,405 have been returned to Canada as medically unfit and another 100 for other reasons. The number of "Canadian Expeditionary Force men who have not been over- seas is 861. Of these, 3,077 have returned to civil life, the overseas men among them totalling 2,216. The secretary reports 3,330 returned men who have not yet applied for assistance from the Commission. He reports that work is very plentiful at the present time, as there seems to be a shortage of labour in all lines. He also states that a great number of the returned men of Quebec wish to settle on the land. The only slight difficulty in finding any employment occurred during the winter months, but spring has elimi- nated that difficulty. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 43 NOVA SCOTIA RETURNED SOLDIER EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE. The Nova Scotia Keturned Soldier Employment Committee received up to April 1 record of 2,506 men, of whom 2,294 'had been returned from overseas as medically unfit. This committee has had to deal with only three Canadian Expeditionary Force men who have not been overseas. The total number of undischarged men under- going treatment in military hospitals at the date of the report (March 31) was 673, of whom 665 had been overseas. In the sanatoria and other institutions of the Invalided Soldiers' Commission there were 149 discharged soldiers. Exactly 800 men are reported as having returned to civil life, of whom 156 resumed their positions with their former employers and 32 went back to their own business. There are 99 discharged men taking re-education courses and 639 returned over- seas men still on military duty. Only 15 applications for work from discharged men have not yet been filled and there are 131 discharged men who have not applied for assistance. In the secretary's report to the legislature he states that the work has so greatly enlarged during the past year that the office is continually being appealed to from all over the province regarding matters affecting soldiers, either in the military or personal way. The Committee has acted as a clearing house for many matters pertaining to pension, separation allowance and assigned pay. MANITOBA RETURNED SOLDIER COMMISSION. The Manitoba Returned Soldier Commission has had record of 5,338 men of whom 5,313 were returned to Canada from overseas as medically unfit. At the time of the report there were 711 men in military hospitals and sanatoria. The secretary reports that 2,415 overseas men have returned to civil employment, of whom 242 went back to their former positions. The Federal Government has employed 184 and the Provincial Government has employed 59 men. There are 774 returned men from overseas still on military duty and 386 discharged men taking re-education courses under the Invalided Soldiers' Commission. There are only 19 applications for work which have not yet been filled, but there are 548 discharged men who have not applied for assistance. Many of these are included in tlje report of those who have returned to civil employment, however. The secretary reports that in the number of men returned to civil life are included 102 positions found by the Invalided Soldiers' Commission for men who had taken vocational training. BRITISH COLUMBIA RETURNED SOLDIER COMMISSION. According to the secretary's report, complete to April 30, the British Columbia Returned Soldier Commission has had on its records since the beginning of the war 5,722 men. Of these 2,995 were returned to Canada as medically unfit. There were at this date 1,220 men returned from overseas in military hospitals and 95 other British Columbia men who had been diverted to other provinces for treatment. Almost 1,900 men have been returned to civil life, of whom 1,812 had been overseas. Of those returned to civil life 73 went back to positions with their former employers and 55 returned to their own business, a total of 128. The Federal Government employed 310 and the Provincial Government 108. There are 119 discharged men taking re- 44 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLIKHMENT education courses and 116 applications from discharged men for work which the Com- mission have not yet filled. % THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RETURNED SOLDIERS COMMISSION. The island province has a record of the returned men from overseas of 249, of whom 124 were physically unfit. Of these 85 have been discharged and 31 are still on military duty. With the exception of 15, who are in Dalton Sanatorium, all hospital cases have been diverted to other provinces for treatment. The secretary reports that 75 per cent of the discharged men have returned to their homes and former occupations and have not applied to the Commission for assistance. SASKATCHEWAN RETURNED SOLDIER COMMISSION. The secretary of the iSaskatchewan Returned Soldier Commission reports that a comprehensive industrial survey is now in progress in that province. The Commis- sion has seven branch offices arid some 500 local leagues engaged in the business of finding employment. * LAND SETTLEMENT. While the problem of land settlement is not one with which the Commission is charged, it is so nearly related to the question of employment for returned soldiers that a good deal of attention has of necessity been given to it. The Government recently passed an ,act, known as the " Soldier Settlement Act," which provided for the appointment of a board consisting of three commissioners, to be entitled the " Soldier Settlement Board." A copy of the Act is appended hereto (Appendix VII.) The Act provides that the board may -loan a settler an amount not exceeding $2,500 for the acquisition and improvement of land for agricultural pur- poses, payment of encumbrances on such land, erection of farm buildings, purchase of stock, machinery, etc., and for such other purposes as the board may approve. Adequate security is required and the loan is repayable over a term. of years with interest. The Act is so framed as to make it easier to handle Dominion lands than lands provincially or privately owned, but it is hoped that arrangements may be made with the provincial governments which will ensure co-operation and the settlement of returned soldiers in all the provinces of Canada. The need for agricultural production is so great that it is believed that a large number of men will be induced to enter the agricultural profession. In order to determine the view point of the men overseas the National Service Board, during 1917, took a census, covering 200,000 men. The information as received is now in the hands of the commission and will shortly be tabulated so that it may be possible to estimate with a fair degree of accuracy the proportion of those who are desirous of taking up farming on their discharge from the Canadian forces. PUBLICITY. In order to interest the public in the welfare of the returned soldier, to meet with facts that interest when aroused, to- place before the soldiers information they SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 45 should have, and to encourage public co-operation in the programme of the com- mission, various methods have been utilized by the Editorial and Publicity Branches. A monthly bulletin, entitled Reconstruction, is being issued and circulated through a mailing list covering the following classes: Hospitals overseas, soldiers in Canadian hospitals, mayors of principal towns, municipal officials, Great War and Army and Navy Veterans' Associations, judges, members of parliament and provincial legislatures, doctors, nurses, school inspectors, public libraries, clergy of all denominations, grain growers and other agricultural associations, bankers, manu- facturers, trade and labour councils, secretaries of fraternal organizations, barristers, women's organizations, the Canadian press, patriotic societies, Red Cross branches, hospitals, boards of trade, professors of universities, trade and commerce, etc. The bulletin deals briefly with all branches of the work of the organization and is designed to convey information to all interested in the welfare of Canadian returned soldiers. Current news items are distributed to the press, and for one period of five months the volume was sufficiently heavy to justify the distribution of a weekly budget of such items in galley-proof form. These galleys went to all Canadian dailies and many of the leading weekly newspapers. The copy thus distributed met with a good reception and thousands of clippings or reproductions have reached the commission's office through a press clipping agency. A moving picture has been prepared, entitled " Canadp/'s Work for Wounded Soldiers," dealing with the subject under the following twelve headings: (a) Reception at Atlantic seaport, ('b) Hospitals in Eastern Canada. (c) Hospitals in Western Ontario. (d) Hospital care in Manitoba. (e) Military hospitals in Alfoerta and Saskatchewan. (f) Military hospitals in British Columbia. (g) Guelph hospitals and industries. (h) Hart House training school and functional reeducation centre. (i) Re-education of the disabled. (j) How disabled soldiers overcome their handicaps. (k) Fitting the disabled for industry. (1) Artificial limbs in the making. This picture was prepared in order that it might be shown in the hospitals in the Old Country where Canadian soldiers are convalescing. The aim was to combat discouragement and to prepare the minds of men headed for Canada for the measures which have been taken on this side of the water to assist them in returning to prosperous, independent civil life. The picture also has value as an historical docu- ment, and requests for copies have been received from Australia and the United States for informative purposes. The picture is being shown in England at the Allied Conference on the Treatment and Training of Disabled Soldiers, and as a measure of publicity it will also be shown to the general public in moving-picture theatres of the Dominion. 46 SOLDIERS 1 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT Photographs illustrating all phases of the work of the Commission have been obtained and, as far as possible, the. negatives are filed centrally in order that prints may be supplied to publications interested in the question of reconstruction and the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. In view of the great importance of the work and of the many new unprecedented phases which it presents, encouragement is given to public discussion of the subject. Pictures, engravings, matrices and articles are sup- plied to publications, especially trade papers and magazines, upon request. Several hundred special articles for individual periodicals have been written and most of these were accompanied by one or more illustrations supplied by the Commission. Slides have also been prepared, each accompanied by exhaustive lecture notes, and are available for the use of churches, patriotic societies, and other organizations. More than fifty sets of these slides are constantly on the road. In order to effect quick distribution the assistance of the secretaries of the provincial commissions has been secured in seven of the provinces, and applications 'are directed to these officials for the use of slides in their respective provinces. Three sets of slides are being shown in the United Kingdom, chiefly by Canadian Y.M.C.A. representatives who visit the hospitals where our men are treated. Ten sets have been entrusted to the Y.M.C.A. conducting officers lately appointed to ships carrying troops between Canada and England. Shown and explained by these officers during the return journey, the slides will give the home-coming invalids a clear knowledge of the methods employed for their benefit after landing. Two sets are in the United States, adding much to the value of the lessons that our neighbours are eagerly learning from Canadian experience. In Alberta several sets are being used by the Provincial University Extension lecturers, in the regular course of their work. Most of the sets, however, are being constantly circulated from the offices of the Commission in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal, and from the headquarters of the Provincial Commissions in Halifax, St. John, Charlottetown, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Victoria. The slides are sometimes shown by members of the Commission's staff, and by the secretaries of the Provincial Commissions. More than in any other way, however, they are shown by ministers of the various churches, whose valuable co-operation is highly appreciated. Many of these volunteer lecturers arrange to show the slides night after night in different villages. And even in the larger cities, where the people are almost sur- feited with picture displays, these illustrations of "the soldier's return from down and out to up and in again" have proved very useful. The following is the arrangement for distribution: Nova Scotia Secretary, Returned Soldiers' Employment Committee, 65 Metro- pole building, Halifax. New Brunswick Secretary, New Brunswick Returned Soldier Commission, 49 Canterbury street, St. John, N.B. Prince Edward Island Secretary, Returned Soldiers' Commission, Parliament building, Charlottetown. Quebec Branch Secretary, Invalided Soldiers' Commission, Drummond build- ing, Montreal. SOLDIERS 1 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 47 Eastern Ontario (up to and including Belleville and Pembroke) Editorial Branch, Invalided Soldiers' Commission, 22 Vittoria street, Ottawa. Ontario (west of Belleville) Branch Secretary, Invalided Soldiers' Commission, Keens building, Spadina avenue, Toronto. Manitoba Secretary, Returned Soldiers' Manitoba Commission, 185 Lombard street, Winnipeg. Saskatchewan Secretary, Returned Soldier Commission, McCallum-Hill build- ing, Regina. Alberta Secretary, Alberta Returned Soldier Commission, McLeod block, Edmonton. British Columbia Secretary, British Columbia Returned Soldier Commission, Parliament buildings, Victoria. The value of a striking poster, also, is very great. The first issued by this Com- mission was entitled " What Every Disabled Soldier Should Know." It was printed in two columns of alternate black and red paragraphs, as follows: WHAT EVERY DISABLED SOLDIER SHOULD KNOW. That there is no such word as " impossible " in his dictionary. That his natural ambition to earn a good living can be fulfilled. That he can either get rid of his disability or acquire a new ability to offset it. That the whole object of doctors, nurses, and instructors is to help him in doing that very thing. That he must help them to help him. That he will have the most careful and effectual treatment known to science. That interesting and useful occupations form a most valuable part of the treat- ment in convalescent hospitals and sanatoria. That if he cannot carry out his first duty by rejoining his comrades at the front, and if there is no ligjit duty for him with the Canadian forces overseas, he is taken home to Canada, as soon as his condition and the shipping facilities make this pos- sible. That his strength and earning capacity will be restored there to the highest degree possible, through the Military Hospitals Commission. That if he requires an artificial limb or kindred appliance it will be supplied free. That every man disabled by service will receive a pension or gratuity in propor- tion to his disability. That his pension cannot be reduced by his undertaking work or perfecting him- self in some form of, industry^. That his pay and allowances continue till he is cured o~r till his pension begins. That an extra three months' pay, field pay, and separation allowance when there are dependents receiving such allowance, will be paid to all men returned from over- seas and honourably discharged after at least six months' service with certain excep- tions, such as members of the Permanent Force and Federal or Provincial Civil Ser- vice who can step right back into their old positions. That if his disability prevents him from returning to his old work he will receive free training for a new occupation. That full consideration is given to his own capacity and desires when a new occupation has to be chosen. That his own will-power and determination will enable him to succeed, both in the training and in the occupation afterwards. That his maintenance and that of his family will be paid for during the training he ma^y receive after discharge, and for a month longer. That neither his treatment nor his training will cost him a cent. 48 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT That his home province, has a special Commission to assist him in finding employ- ment on discharge. That hundreds of towns and villages have committees, associations, and clubs, to welcome him on arrival, and to help in securing a position for him. That the Dominion and Provincial Governments, the municipal authorities, and all sorts of employers, give the returned soldier preference in filling vacant positions. That the returned soldier wishing to take up land and farm it, will be helped to do so, under Federal and other settlement schemes. That the Military Hospitals Commission exists to carry out his restoration and training in Canada. That the Board of Pension Commissioners exists to distribute the pensions pro- vided by his country for him and his dependents. That the Military Hospitals Commission and the Board of Pension Commissioners are in the position of trustees, appointed for his benefit, and representing the whole people of Canada. That, therefore, he should write direct to the Commission or the Board if he needs advice or help. Canadians are unanimously resolved that every returned soldier shall have a full opportunity to succeed. When that opportunity is put within his reach, his success will depend on his own good sense in seizing and using it. The poster was displayed, to begin with, in all the hospitals and sanatoria contain- ing invalided Canadian soldiers, both in England and in Canada; also, in soldiers' clubs and other resorts, and in thousands of post offices in the cities, towns, and larger villages of the Dominion. A small facsimile of this poster of pocket size has been distributed among the men affected. Other posters, leaflets and pamphlets bearing on special phases of the work have been prepared and distributed among the parties interested from time to time. In addition to the foregoing great pains are taken in answering individual requests for information either by letter or by forwarding such printed material, bearing on the points raised, as is available. THE UNITED STATES. Since the entry of the United States into the war many inquiries have been received by the Commission from official, semi-official and public bodies, as well as from private individuals, regarding procedure adopted, forms used, and the general work of the Commission. Numerous delegations have visited the head office and the institu- tions of the Commission, and inquiry has been specially directed towards the vocational side of the work. The secretary and the vocational secretary have paid visits, on invi- tation, to the United States and delivered addresses and attended conferences at which the work has been fully explained. It is gratifying to know that Canadian experience has assisted the United States in many directions. As an indication of the apprecia- tion of the United States the following extract from a booklet entitled " Reconstruct- ing the Crippled 'Soldier," issued by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, of New York, is of interest : " Except for Belgium, all activities of which are necessarily nationalized, Canada is the only one of the belligerents who from the first recognized the national responsibility to her disabled soldiers. This should bo recorded to the great credit of our neighbour to the north. Erom the first year of the war, no Canadian soldier has had need to depend on charity for his convalescent care or industrial training." SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 49 PENSIONS. Pension? for persons who have served in the Naval and Military Forces of Canada during the present war come within the exclusive jurisdiction and authority of the Board of Pension Commissioners of Canada, consisting of three members appointed by the Governor in Council. The recent reorganization, transferring the Board of Pension Commissioners from the Department of Finance to the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, in no way affects the powers of the Commissioners who still have exclusive jurisdiction and authority to consider and make all grants or payments of military and naval pensions, and of gratuities, allowances and assistance to persons wounded, injured or incapacitated in the military or naval service of Canada, or to their dependent relatives and to deal with all matters pertaining to such pension gratuities, allowances and assistance. No appeal exists from the decisions of the Board, but every applicant for a pension or pension gratuities, allowances or assistance may present his or her case either personally or by counsel before the full Board sitting for the purpose of hearing the complaints of those who may have been dissatisfied with the decisions given hi the ordinary course of administration. All pensions are determined by the disability of the applicant without reference to his occupation prior to enlistment, and no reduction can be made from the amount awarded owing to the man having undertaken work or perfected himself in some form of industry. This applies especially to those disabled men who are granted courses of re-education by the Invalided Soldiers' Commission. Of particular interest to the Invalided Soldiers' Commission, which is charged with the institutional care of discharged men from the Naval and Military Forces of Canada, is the provision by which these subalterns, N.C.O.'s and men who are totally disabled and who are in addition helpless, so far as attending to their physical wants are concerned, may be granted a further allowance not exceeding $300 a year and subject to review from time to time. Claims by members of the forces for pension must be made within two years of the date of the appearance of the disability in respect of which the claim is made, but the time spent in hospital or on service is not taken into account in computing the two-year period. Since the organization of the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, which brings the Board of Pension Commissioners and the Invalided Soldiers' Commission under one cabinet minister, the close co-operation which has existed between the two organizations has been increased and several changes, as in the case of the provision of minor orthopedic appliances, have been made. These changes are for the most part administrative and do not greatly affect the pensioners or other discharged soldiers. During the past year far-reaching amendments to the pension regulations were passed. The number of classifications of disability was increased from six to twenty and annuities are now granted for disabilities from 6 to 20 per .cent, whereas previ- ously men with 20 per cent or less disability were merely given a gratuity, and only men having disabilities of less than 5 per cent now receive a gratuity. While the increase in scale amounted to 25 per cent, the regrading and other features increased the 42617- 4 50 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT total amount payable by 'Canada for pensions and allowance by approximately 40 per cent. This increase affected only those of the lower ranks, that is all up to and including the rank of sub-lieutenant in the Canadian Navy and lieutenant in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The scale of pensions and allowances will be found in Appendix VI. ACCOUNTS. Since the creation of the Commission authorization for expenditure under War Appropriation Vote has been granted by Orders in Council up to the end of the fiscal year 1917-18, as follows: November 4, 1915, Order in Council No. 2569 20,000 00 January 8, 1916, " . No. 30 50,000 00 March 28, 1916, " No. 6459 100,000 00 January 22, 1916, " No. 1482 100,000 00 January 22, 1916, " No. 1471 4,000 00 September 1, 1916, " No. 2078 250,000 00 October 5, 1916, " No. 2395 7'5,000 00 December 19, 1916, " No. 313B 250,000 00 January 30, 1917, " No. 2801 494,575 00 January 30, 1917, " No. 2801 128,400 00 April 7,1917, " " No. 971 25,00000 1,496,975 00 April 7, 1917, " ' No.' 971 475,000 00 May 29, 1917, " ' No. 1446 832,650 00 July 27, 1917, ' No. 2070 1,097,940 00 July 27, 1917, ' No. 2071 1,109,829 28 September 5, 1917, ' No. 2454 105,000 00 September 28, 1917, ' No. 2'672 1,600,000 00 November 29, 191?, ' No. 3292 1,500,000 00 January 8, 1918, ' No. 3503 2,614,100 00 January 26, 1918, ' No. 204 680,000 00 January 30, 1918, " No. 217 200,000 00 January 30, 1918, " No. 222 2,400,000 00 April 10, 1918, No. 825 500,000 00 Total $ 14,611,494 28 The expenditure of the Commission to end of the fiscal year 1917-18 is as follows : Buildings and Improvements $ 4,221,398 69 Equipment 1,207,091 09 Cost of Maintenance of Hospitals, general administration and expenses 5,908,020 01 Expenses of Vocational Branch including maintenance of men undergoing re-education .- 717,711 04 Total expenditure $ 12,054,22083 Amounts advanced to Units and Hospitals and travelling expenses to be accounted for 454,401 72 Total disbursements $ 12,508,682 56 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 51 The following is a summary according to units :- Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit WY" Unit. . . . Discharge Depots. Head Office. . $ 1,036,826 51 1,259,629 37 689,925 56 2,631,845 44 192,092 02 1,136,978 30 1,079,851 05 583,673 66 680,116 61 -. 884,088 81 257,656 67 810,604 77 493,202 57 736,191 21 $ 12,508,682 55 The above expenditure does not include rail transportation of returned soldiers or officers of the Commission, or civilian clothing supplied at the clearing depots, these having been paid for by the Department of Militia and Defence. There has been a steady increase in the cost of operation, due to the increasing number of men returning, to the necessary building of new hospitals and to the greater demands for vocational training and re-education. FINANCIAL STATEMENT DISABLEMENT FUND TO 31ST MARCH, 1918. Amount contributed as per Appendix 15, Military Hospitals Commission report, May, 1917 $' 125,548 93 Amounts since contributed : Employees R.M.S., Winnipeg 5 00 M. P. Davis, Esq 1,000 00 I.O.D.E., Dawson, Y.T 50 00 Employees R.M.S., Manitoba 55 00 Canadian Yukon Patriotic Fund 2,474 50 Employees R.M.S., Vancouver 2,133 52 Mrs! W. A. Morrison, Boston, Mass 25 00 Mrs. I. Hayward, Social Service Department, Cambridge, Mass 50 00 5,793 02 Total subscriptions 131,341 95 Interest as per last report 2,439 89 Interest to December 31, 1917 7,571 95 10,011 84 $ 141,353 79 Loans 63100 Amounts in hands of Officers of Commission for pur- poses of temporary loans 2,531 00 War Loan ($130,000) 124,45381 Victory Bonds ($7,000) 7,015 92 Balance in Bank 31-3-1S 21550 Less outstanding cheques 6,8-00 4'2 6,937 56 $ 141,353 79 42617 4i 52 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT COMPOSITION OF MILITARY HOSPITALS COMMISSION STAFF AS PER PAYROLL SlST MARCH, 1918. Number. Administration and Discipline 1,513 General House Staff 704 Kitchen and Dining Room 495 Care of Patients : Paid by M.H.C. Medical Officers 52 Nurses and N/Sisters 207 P. T. and Massage 193 Orderlies, etc 174 626 Vocational Officers and Staff 383 Farm and Garden Staff 35 Works Branch Staff.. 126 Industries 264 4,146 CLASSIFICATION OF STAFF I PAYROLL MILITARY HOSPITALS COMMISSION, SlST MARCH, 1918. Number. Soldiers and Nursing Sisters paid by M.H.C 1,021 Patients on Working Pay only 453 Military Staff 1,474 Discharged Soldiers 492 Male Civilians Female Civilians 1,393 Civilian Staffs 2,672 4,146 MILITARY HOSPITALS COMMISSION STAFF BY UNITS. Place Number. H.Q 290 "I" " 356 'A' Unit 186 "J" " 405 B' ' 254 "K" M ^ 91 'C' 230 Whitby 262 D' 926 Clearing Depot, Quebec 101 E' 50 " "St. John 13 F' 394 " " Halifax 50 'G' 377 'H' 161 4,146 PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORK. Demobilization is, next io the winning of the war, the most important war problem before the Government of Canada. The duties and powers of the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment extend to and include the following: The provision of employment, and all such assistance therein as may be requisite or advisable for members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who have been honourably discharged therefrom and generally for their rehabilita- tion in civil life and activities. The provincial governments have given valuable assistance and useful co-operation in .the work hitherto performed and doubtless this will be continued in the future. But as in mobilization, so in demobilization, the chief responsibility will rest upon the Federal Government. Among the proposals now under consideration by the department the following may be mentioned: 1. That the department place an officer in charge of the problem of employ- ment, to be known as the Director of Employment, and arrange, through the provincial governments or otherwise, for the extension or establishment of employment offices. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 53 2. That three or more inspectors should be engaged to travel the country continuously in order that the work of the provinces may be supervised, and that methods found especially effective or advantageous in any province may be utilized in others. These inspectors should, if possible, be returned soldiers. 3. That as the work of the provincial commissions is increasing the secre- taries should in all cases devote their entire time to the duties involved, and a portion of the cost of maintenance of the provincial offices should be borne by the department. 4. That each provincial government should be invited to increase or change the personnel of the provincial commissions by the addition or substitution of at least three returned soldiers. 5. That the department should at once consider the possibility of employ- ing in state industries able-bodied men who after demobilization may be unable otherwise to obtain employment. In this connection the future utilization for peace purposes of factories now engaged in the production of munitions might be considered. 6. That the Soldier Settlement Board should establish a central training farm in each province where standard wages would be paid and where training could be given to those desirous of taking up land, and to which men out of work might be sent for such period as might be necessary. 7. That a committee of each provincial commission be appointed, to be known as the " Soldier Settlement Committee " preceded by the name of the province, to act in co-operation with the Soldier Settlement Board. 8. That the departments of the Federal Government, the provincial govern- ments and municipalities be asked to indicate what public works are contem- plated at the conclusion of the war, so that the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment may be in a position to direct those skilled in the building trades or who are suitable for employment in those trades to the locality where such work will be carried on. 9. That the department should arrange in the near future for conferences with (a) manufacturers, (b) labour unions, (c) farmers' associations, and (d) any other organizations whose assistance or co-operation might be useful. It should be borne in mind that some 100,000 men were out of employment throughout Canada at the outbreak of war, and that many occupations in which only men were formerly employed are now in the hands of women. While, doubtless, some of the latter will retire when normal conditions once more prevail, a very large num- ber now engaged will be permanently added to the national payroll. Further, in view of the record made by Canada in the war and the knowledge overseas of the provision made for dealing with returned soldiers, there may be a considerable immigration from the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe as soon as transportation facilities are available. It is desirable that there be greater production and, therefore, that the agricultural population of Canada be increased as much as possible. The following estimate was recently made by the Hon. John S. McLennan: " The non-invalided who will return at the close of the war may be divided, roughly, into three classes: " I. Students, business and professional men. " II. Artisans Men who require in addition to intelligence a high degree of accuracy and speed in muscular co-ordination; e.g., such artisans as type- setters, watchmakers, and machine tool tenders. . . . " III. Hand labourers Those whose occupation calls for muscular effort . . . e.g., farmers, woodsmen, railway men, and other occupations in which strength and endurance . . . are required. 54 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT " Statistics prepared by the Militia Department as at December 31, 1917, regrouped in accordance with the above classifications, give: Per cent Class 1 22.75 Class II 43.92 Class III 33.33 " . . , . Class II corresponds to the l Skilled Workers ' defined by the Militia Department as follows : ' Carpenters, bricklayers, stone masons, plumbers, electricians, engineers, painters, joiners, sawyers, railway men, chauffeurs, mechanics, bakers, butchers, cooks, firemen, policemen, soldiers, sailors, gardeners, printers, miners/ . . . The Militia Department's figures are as follows: Percentage. Professionals 3.75 Employees and merchants .- 1.79 Clerical workers 14.29 Skilled labourers 43.92 Unskilled laooureis 18.39 Farmers 14 . 0(5 Ranchers 0.8-8 Students 2.92 100% " Class L This group . . . varies from those who at twenty or under gave up academic preparation for life work ... to the man in business . . . The relatively high degree of intelligence and power of expression, make this group powerful for good or unrest. " Class II. Craftsmen whose work requires delicate, rapid and accurate movements. There are probably between one hundred thousand and one hundred and thirty thousand men of this class in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. . . . When a man of this class resumes his former occupation, he finds himself rusty; . . . hence a danger of restlessness may follow ... as this class of artificers is above the average of intelligence . . . He resumes his trade, with the handicap of longer or shorter disuse of its special co-ordina- tions, and finds that ... he has to attain a higher standard than prevailed in Canada when he enlisted. This occurring when there is no surplus of employment, may lead to the impossibility of his retaining positions, to dis- couragement, to nomadic tendencies, . . . possibly to decadence in occupa- tion and consequent loss of productiveness." It will be evident from the foregoing that the Government may have to arrange to ^ive a period of special training to many of the men just referred to. Such training if in agriculture would be simple, but in industrial occupations it may involve a short period in a technical institute or school or what virtually would be an apprenticeship in a workshop or factory. The problem of the student or of the young man who has not entered upon his intended career will require the most careful handling. If such a man is disabled he will be entitled to "re-education" which will enable him to start in life with a fair chance of competing on equal grounds with the man who has not been so handicapped. It is probable, however, that provision may have .to be made to grant a period of train- ing to students generally, irrespective of their physical condition on discharge. If this is done the value from a technical, scientific and industrial standpoint will be apparent for the next two generations. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 55 Class HI. As doubtless there will be a large demand for unskilled labourers for public works, general building operations, farming, etc., at the close of the war, there should be no difficulty in absorbing the majority of this class. It is self-evident, that the foregoing plans will involve expenditure but a recon- struction programme such as is outlined, under capable and efficient management, can- not fail to give even more than an adequate return. These suggestions commence with the return of the soldiers to Canada. It is probable that in the long wait which, through the lack of transportation facilities, must ensue after the declaration of peace before complete demobilization can take place, an opportunity may be provided for undertaking some of the work indicated in England or France. To this end the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment might establish an office and staff in England in order that all preparatory steps might be taken. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 57 APPENDIX I. P.O. 433. AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT OTTAWA, THURSDAY, the 21st day of February, 1918. PRESENT : HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL: Whereas there was laid before His Excellency the Governor General in Council a memorandum from the Right Honourable the Prime Minister calling attention to the Minute of Council, approved on the 29th day of November, 1917 (P.C. 3264), which contains provisions with regard to the relative powers, responsibilities and duties of the Department of Militia and Defence, and of the Military Hospitals Commission, in the care and treatment of returned invalided soldiers, and stating that the arrange- ments therein provided have not proved useful or indeed practicable; And whereas it is represented to be essential that a certain point of time should be fixed up to which power, responsibility and duty are conferred and imposed upon the Department of Militia and Defence and after which corresponding power, duty and responsibility should be conferred .upon the Military Hospitals Commission, or some similar administrative organization; And whereas the Prime Minister states that he has discussed the subject and other matters relative to demobilization, such as the care of returned soldiers, vocational training and re-employment, with the Minister of Militia and Defence and the Pre- sident of the Military Hospitals Commission and the conclusion reached fixes the date above mentioned as the date upon which the soldier receives his discharge from the military service. The arrangements based upon such conclusion are hereinafter set forth and have received the approval of the Minister of Militia and Defence and of the President of the Military Hospitals Commission; Therefore His Excellency the Governor General in Council, "on the recommenda- tion of the Right Honourable the Prime Minister, is pleased to order and it is hereby ordered as follows : 1. Officers detailed by the General or other Officer Commanding the Military Dis- trict in which lie any of the institutions mentioned in the first and second schedules hereto shall for the purpose of medically examining and striking off the strength or discharging the officers and soldiers now inmates of such institutions, or under treat- ment or in attendance thereat, be forthwith permitted access thereto and to all records relating to such officers and soldiers and shall also in the case of any institution men- tioned in the first schedule hereto be further given access to all records relating to such institution, the terms upon which it is occupied, any outstanding contracts relating thereto, the members of the staff employed thereat and the duties and remuneration of each. 2. The control, administration and command of each of the institutions or parts of institutions described in the first schedule hereto shall, on a date to be fixed by the Governor in Council, be transferred to the District Officer commanding the Military District within which such institution is situate and the institutions so transferred 58 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT shall thereafter continue under the direction of the Minister of Militia and Defence in Militia Council. A different day may, if necessary, be named for the transfer of each such institution as aforesaid. 3. The personnel employed in any such institution at the date of transfer (except the employees of the Vocational Branch of the Military Hospitals Commission) shall from such date be under the direction and control of the District Officer Command- ing, acting under the direction of the Minister of Militia and Defence in Militia Council, and the individuals concerned shall, until other dispositions are made, continue to perform the duties theretofore performed by them and to receive the same remuneration as they theretofore received. 4. Any contracts outstanding at the date of transfer with respect to any such institution, whether for its occupation, the supply thereto of food, fuel or services or otherwise shall be carried out notwithstanding the transfer. 5. On and after the date of such transfer the provisions of the Minute of Council approved on the 24th June, 1916 (P.C. 1469) shall cease to apply to any such institu- tion so transferred. 6. Such further hospital accommodation as may be necessary for the proper medical care and treatment of all officers and soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force shall be provided as the Governor in Council may determine. 7. The Military Hospitals Commission shall, by arrangement with the officer in charge of any receiving depot or of any military institution for the care and treatment of officers and soldiers, be permitted access to the medical and other records in such institution or depot relating to any officer or soldier and to the officers and soldiers themselves. 8. From the institution administered and controlled under the direction of the Minister of Militia and Defence there shall be evacuated by being struck off the strength or discharged, all officers and soldiers who have ceased to require medical treatment or who continue to require such treatment on account of their suffering from tuberculosis, epilepsy, paralysis, or other diseases likely to be of long duration or incurable and requiring institutional treatment, or on account of their being ment- ally deficient or insane.- 9. The general or other officer commanding a military district shall forthwith on the transfer from one district to another, or the striking off the strength or discharge of any officer or soldier, give notice of the date of such transfer, striking off the strength or discharge to such persons as may be designated by the Military Hospitals Commission, and if such officer or soldier is struck off the strength or discharged, shall transmit to such person Form M.H.C.F. 21 duly completed. 10. All officers and soldiers so struck off the strength or discharged shall there- after, on such conditions as may be laid down, be entitled to the facilities for educa- tion or permanent treatment or care which may be provided for such purposes as hereinafter set out. 11. The institutions and parts of institutions described in the second schedule hereto shall continue to be administered as heretofore by the Military Hospitals Com- mission. 12. On and after the first day of April, 1918, the provisions of the Minute of Council approved by Your Excellency on the 24th day of June, 1916 (P.C. 1469), shall, so far as they deal with command and discipline, cease to apply to the institu- tions described in the second schedule hereto and any other institutions which remain under the control of the Military Hospitals Commission and to the headquarter staff and district headquarter staffs of the Military Hospitals Commission Command, pro- vided that such arrangements may be made as may seem advisable for the continued employment of the personnel of the staffs concerned. 13. Provision shall be made so that the Military Hospitals Commission may continue to carry on educational and vocational training in the military institutions for the care and treatment of officers and soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-E8TABL18HMENT 59 Force before they are struck off the strength or discharged, and facilities shall be furnished by the officers in charge of such institutions for the effective and continuous carrying on of such training by instructors appointed by the Military Hospitals Commission and under its control (such training to be subject to the direction of the medical officer in charge of the institution) and for the installation and maintenance in such institutions of such, apparatus as may be necessary therefor. 14. The Military Hospitals Commission shall continue to provide such artificial limbs, orthopaedic boots and appliances as may be required and, upon requisition by the medical officer charged with the treatment of any officer or soldier, shall furnish such artificial limbs, orthopedic boots and appliances as may be necessary. 15. The Military Hospitals Commission shall provide such premises and accom- modation as are necessary from time to time adequately to care for officers and soldiers struck off the strength or discharged for whom treatment is desirable or necessary by reason of their suffering from tuberculosis, epilepsy, paralysis, or other diseases likely to be of long duration or incurable, or by reason of their being mentally deficient or insane. 16. The Military Hospitals Commission shall also provide to the extent and in the manner from time to time determined by the Governor in Council for the medical care and treatment of men formerly officers and soldiers' who, having been struck off the strength or discharged, as not requiring- further treatment, nevertheless sub- sequently require such treatment by reason of disabilities due to or aggravated by service. 17. Any institution which may at any time be under the direction and control of the Military Hospitals Commission or of the Minister of Militia and Defence may, with the approval of the Governor in Council be transferred to the control and admin- istration of the Minister of Militia and Defence or of the Military Hospitals Commis-' sion as the case may be. KODOLPHE BOUDKEATJ, Cleric of the Privy Council. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. Institutions and parts of institutions to be taken over generally by the Militia Department : 1. Hospital trains. Military District No. 1. Name of" Institution. Beds. 2. Military Convalescent Hospital, London 108 Military District No. 2. 3. Spadina Convalescent Hospital 227 4. College Street Convalescent Hospital - .. 126 5. Oakville Convalescent Home, St. Catharines 25 6. MiMtary Orthopaedic Hospital 7. Victoria Convalescent Hospital, Hamilton 8. Duneilin Convalescent Hospital, Hamilton 9. Brant House, Convalescent Hospital, Burlington 10. National Cash Register Building- 440 20 9 242 600 11. Officers Convalescent Hospital, Toronto IS Military District No. 3. 12. Queens Military Convalescent Hospital 3SO 13. Fleming Convalescent Home, Ottawa 14. Ontario Military Convalescent Hospital, Cobourg 152 15. Elmhurst Convalescent Hospital, Kingston 46 60 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT THE SECOND SCHEDULE. Continued. Name of Institution. Beds. Military District No. 4. 16. Drummond Convalescent Home, Montreal 171 17. Grey Nuns' Convalescent Home 285 18. Khaki League Home 50 19. Ste. Anne's Military Hospital. Military District No. 5. 20. Savard Park Convalescent Hospital, Quebec _.: 114 21. Discharge Depot (old immigration buildings). Military District No. 6. 22. Camp Hill Convalescent Hospital 300 23. Pine Hill Convalescent Home 123 24. Military Hospital Pier 2 475 25. Ross Convalescent, Sydney 31 26. Moxham Convalescent Home, Sydney 79 27. New Military Hospital, Charlottetown 200 Military District No. 7. 28. Armouries Military Convalescent Home, St. John 231 29. Military Hospital, Fredericton. 30. Discharge Depot. Military District No. 10. 31. Manitoba Military Convalescent Hospital (except the Machinery Hall, Horticulture Building, farm and farm buildings) 534 32. Deer Lodge Convalescent Home 48 33. Keefer Convalescent Home. Port Arthur. . 22 34. I.O.D.E. Hospital, Winnipeg 60 35. Receiving Depot, Winnipeg 23 Military District No. 11. 36. Esquimau Convalescent Hospital 110 37. Resthaven Convalescent Home 131 SS. Qualicum Convalescent Home 150 39. Fairmont Convalescent Home 140 40. Vancouver General Hospital (1) 300 41. Shaughnessy Convalescent Hcme , .. .. 203 42. Vernon Convalescent Hospital 36 43. Columbia Hospital Annex, New Westminster 200 Military District No. 12. 44. St. Chads Military Convalescent Hospital 52 45. Moosejaw Military Convalescent Hospital (1) 241 Military District No. 13. 4fi. Ogden Military Convalescent Hospital, Calgary 179 47. Edmonton Military Convalescent Hospital (to become an educational insti- tution and transferred back to the M. H. C. upon the completion of the proposed extension to the Strathcona Military Hospital) 180 48. Strathcona Military Hospital 156 49. Calgary Convalescent Hospital (54 50. Wetaskiwin Convalescent Home 50 51. Discharge Depot. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 61* THE SECOND SCHEDULE. Institutions and parts of institutions to be retained by Military Hospitals Com- mission : Name of Establishment. Military District No. 1. Beds. 1. Byron Sanatorium 90 2. Freeport Sanatorium 32 3. Military Convalescent Hospital, Guelph (1) 726 Military District No. 2. 4. Euclid Hall, Toronto, for incurables 31 5. Muskoka Free Sanatorium 61 6. Mountain Sanatorium, Hamilton 144 7. Newmarket Hospital for the Insane 150 8. Whitby Convalescent Hospital 648 Military District No. 3. 9. Mowat Memorial Sanatorium, Kingston 141 Military District No. 4- 10. Laurentian Sanatorium 49 11. Laurentide Inn Sanatorium 67 Military District No. 5. 12. Lake Edward Sanatorium 60 Military District No. 6. 13. School for Blind, Halifax. 14. Dalton Sanatorium, Prince Edward Island 27 15. Kentville Sanatorium 154 Military District No. 7. 16. River Glade Sanatorium 40 Military District No. 10. 17. Ninette Sanatorium 99 18. Machinery Hall Horticulture Building, Farm and Farm Buildings now part of the Military Convalescent Hospital. Military District No. 11. 19. Balfour Sanatorium 102 20. Tranquille Sanatorium, Kamloops 31 Military District No. 12. 21. Earl Grey Sanatorium, Regina 67 22. Qu'Appelle Sanatorium ' 22 23. New Sanatorium, Prince Albert (1) 44 24. Emmanuel (New M.H.C.), Saskatoon "72 25. Saskatoon Convalescent Hospital 149 Military District No. 13. 26. Frank Sanatorium 61 27 Mountain View Sanatorium 25 52 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT APPENDIX II. P.O. 432. AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT OTTAWA. THURSDAY the 21st day of February, 1918. PRESENT : His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL: Whereas by reason of the war and the magnitude and national importance of the work consequently connected with the several services for the administration of which provision is hereinafter made it has become necessary and advisable in the public interest to establish a department of the Government for the purposes hereinafter defined : Therefore His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommenda- tion of the Right Honourable the Prime Minister and under and in virtue of the powers vested in the Governor in Council by the War Measures Act, 1914, or any other enabling authority, is pleased to order and it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. There shall be a department of the Government of Canada, to be called the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment, over which the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment, who may be appointed by a Commission under the Great Seal, shall preside and of which he shall have the management and direction. 2. The Governor in Council may appoint a senator or a member of the House of Commons to be Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re- Establishment, who shall have and perform such powers and duties as the Governor in Council may from time to time prescribe. 3. The Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment shall receive a salary of $7,000 per annum, and the Parliamentary Secretary of the department shall receive a salary of $5,000 per annum. 4. The Governor in Council may appoint a Deputy Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment, and such other officers, clerks and employees, including a private secretary for the Minister, as may be required for the proper conduct of the business of the department, all of whom shall hold office during pleasure. 5. The duties and powers of the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment shall extend to and include the following: (a) The providing of hospitals, convalescent homes and sanatoria, whether per- manent or temporary, for the care or treatment of invalid officers, non-commissioned officers, men or other members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who have been honourably discharged therefrom, and the administration, control and direction of all such hospitals, convalescent homes and sanatoria, whether heretofore established or to be established; (b) The vocational, educational and other requisite training for civil occupation of all persons who have served in and who have been honourably discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Force; (c) The provision of employment, and all such assistance therein as may be requisite or advisable for the persons aforesaid, and generally for their rehabilitation in civil life and activities; SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLIKH.IIENT 63 (d) All matters relating to pensions for the persons aforesaid; provided that nothing herein shall interfere with or affect the powers or authority of the Board of Pension Commissioners. 6. The salaries hereinbefore authorized, together with such salaries as may, within the limits provided by the Civil Service Act, be authorized by the Governor in Council for the Deputy Minister and such officers, clerks and employees as may be appointed pursuant to the foregoing provisions, shall, until provision therefor is made by Parlia- ment, be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. 7. The Senate and House of Commons Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, chapter 10, shall be construed and interpreted as if in sections 12 and 13 of the said Act the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establish- ment were included among the office holders therein mentioned, and the said Minister and Parliamentary Secretary shall be eligible as members of the House of Commons in like manner, and shall enjoy the same immunities to all intents and purposes as the Ministers mentioned in the said sections. RODOLPHE BOUDREAU, Cleric of the Privy Council. APPENDIX III. P.C. 434. CERTIFIED COPY of a Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the 21st February, 1918. The Committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, advise that, as in future officers and soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force will, until they are struck off the strength or discharged, be cared for and treated in institutions administered and controlled under the direction of the Minister of Militia and Defence and will pass under the care of the Military Hospitals Com- mission only upon their being so struck off the strength or discharged, the said Com- mission shall hereafter for the purpose of better indicating its scope and functions be known as the " Invalided Soldiers' Commission." RODOLPHE BOUDREAU, Cleric of the Privy Council. APPENDIX IV. P.C. 446. CERTIFIED COPY of a Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved ly His Excellency the Governor General on the 23rd February, 1918. The Committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Right Honourable the Prime Minister, advise that the Invalided Soldiers Commission be under the direction and control of the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment. RODOLPHE BOUDREAU, Clerk of the Privy Council. 64 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT, APPENDIX V. P.O. 1366. CERTIFIED COPY of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved "by His Royal High- ness the Governor General on the 22nd June, 1918. Whereas by Order in Council of the 21st of February, 1918 (P.O. 432), there were conferred upon the Minister of Soldiers' 'Civil Re-establishment certain powers with respect only to "persons. who have served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and who have been honourably discharged therefrom " ; And whereas by Bill 12 introduced at the First Session, Thirteenth Parliament, 8-9 George V, 1918, intituled "An Act respecting the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment " there has been conferred upon the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment " the management and control of all matters relating to the re-estab- lishment in civil life and activities of all persons who have served in the Naval or Military Forces of His Majesty or any of His Majesty's Allies during the present war and the dependents of such persons and the administration of any statutes or of any regulations or orders enacted or made by the Governor in Council for such purpose " ; And whereas it is expedient to extend the powers conferred by the aforesaid Order in Council in accordance with the terms of the aforesaid Act ; And whereas it is necessary to authorize and establish a scale or scales of allow- ances to be paid by the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment (hereinafter referred to as the Department) to persons undergoing treatment or training by the Department ; And whereas it is necessary to make further regulations respecting the retirement or discharge, pensions, treatment and training of the aforesaid persons; Therefore His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommenda- tion of the Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment and under and by virtue of the powers vested in the Governor in Council by the Waf Measures Act, 1914, or any other enabling authority, is pleased to Order and it is hereby ordered as follows : p^sons L The P rovisions of the Order in Council of the 21st of February, eligible for ^ 1918 (P.C. 432), with respect to treatment and training, shall extend and apply to all persons who have served in the Canadian Naval or Military Forces of His Majesty during the present war and who have been retired or discharged therefrom and who may now or hereafter be resident in Canada, and may in the discretion of the Department be extended to all persons who have served in the Naval or Military Forces of His Majesty or any of His Majesty's Allies during the present war and who have been retired or discharged therefrom and who may now or hereafter be resident in Canada and who were bona fide resident in Canada at the outbreak of' the present war (hereinafter referred to as former member of the Forces), pro- vided that treatment shall be given by the Department to a former member of the Forces only for a disability which, m the opinion of a Military Medical Board or of a Medical Officer of the Depart- ment, is due to or was aggravated by service and which, except as provided by Clause (18) ; in the opinion of such Board or Officer, prevents such former member of the Forces from obtaining or con- SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 65 tinning employment, and provided that training shall be given by the Department only to a former member of the Forces who has a disability which, in the opinion of a Military Medical Board or of a Medical Officer of the Department, is due to or was aggravated by service and which, in the opinion of a Medical Officer of the Depart- ment, prevents such former member of the Forces from returning to his previous trade or principal occupation. 2. The Department may, from time to time, and in its discretion T reatment and make arrangements through the Officer paying Imperial Pensions Training pro- at Ottawa, or with the Government of any of His Majesty's SXiibS'S^L Dominions, for the treatment and training of all persons who have M. Forces other served in the Naval and Military Forces of His Majesty other than than Canadian, those of the Canadian Forces during the present war, and who have been retired OT discharged therefrom and who may now or hereafter be resident in Canada, whether bona fide resident in Canada at the outbreak of the present war or not, and may render accounts for the cost of such treatment or training and may, subject to such arrange- ments, during the period of such treatment or training pay such persons and their dependents the allowances hereinafter set out. 3. The Department may, from time to time, and in its discretion Treatment and make arrangements for the treatment and training of all persons Training ar- who have served in the Canadian Naval and Military Forces of members C.E.F. in His Majesty during the present war, and who have been retired or Great Britain, discharged therefrom and who may now or hereafter be stationed or resident in the United Kingdom and may pay the cost of such treatment or training and may, subject to such arrangements, during the period of such treatment or training pay such persons and their dependents the allowances hereinafter set out. 4. The Department, with the approval of the Governor in Council, Treatment and may, from time to time, and in its discretion make arrangements Training pro- r, , ^ - -r-1- -nr > AIT < ' j. visions regarding with the Governments of His Majesty's Allies for the treatment ex-members Allied and training of all persons who have served in the Naval 'or Military Forces. Forces of His Majesty's Allies during the present war, and who have been retired or discharged therefrom and who may now or hereafter be resident in Canada, whether bona fide resident in Canada at the outbreak of the present war or not, and may render accounts for the cost of such treatment or training and may, subject to such arrangements, during the period of such treatment or training pay such persons and their dependents the allowances hereinafter set out. 5. Treatment and training by the Department under the authority Treatment and of Clauses (2), (3) and (4) of the persons mentioned in those clauses clauses 8 ^" 3 and shall be subject to the provisions contained in Clause (1). 4 governed by Clause 1. 6. The allowances payable, while he is undergoing training by Training the Department, for a former member of the Forces who is without allowances to men i TI i ^f^ i -i-i /chff\\ 1 without depen- dependents shall be fifty dollars ($50) a month. dents. 426175 66 SOLDIERS 1 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT Training allowances to married men. Training allowances to widowers with children. Training allowances to men with dependents other than wife and children. Training allowances are maximum. 7. The allowances payable, while he is undergoing training by the Department, for a former member of the Forces, who has a wife, or a wife and child, or a wife and children, and for such dependent or dependents, shall be as follows : (a) for such former member of the Forces.. ..$ 38 00 a month. (&) for his wife ; 35 00 (c) for his wife and one child 42 00 " (d) for his wife and two children 47 00 (e) for his wife and three children 50 00 " (/) for his wife and four children 53 00 " (g) for his wife and five children 55 00 " (h) for his wife and six children 56 00 " t (i) for each of seven or more children. ...... 3 00 " 8. The allowance payable, while he is undergoing training by the Department, for a former member of the Forces who is a widower with_a child or children and for each dependent or dependents, shall be as follows: (a) for such former member of the Forces.. ..$ 38 00 a month. (b) for one child, an amount not exceeding. . . 35 00 (c) for two children, an amount not exceeding. 40 00 " (d) for three children, an amount not exceeding 43 00 " (e) for four children, an amount not exceeding. 46 00 " (/) for five children, an amount not exceeding. 48 00 " (ff) for six children, an amount not exceeding. 49 00 " 9. The allowances payable, while he is undergoing training by the Department, for a former member of the Forces who has neither a wife nor any children, but who has a parent or parents, or a person or persons in the place of a parent or parents, or a brother or a sister, or brothers or sisters, any of whom are wholly or mainly dependent upon him for support, and for such dependent or depen- dents shall be as follows: (a) for such former member of the Forces.. ..$ 38 00 a month. (&) for such parent, an amount not exceeding.. 35 00 " (c) for such parent, and one such brother or sister, an amount not exceeding 42 00 (d) for such parent and two such brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 47 00 " (e) for such parent and three such brothers or sisters, an amourtt not exceeding 50 00 " (/) for such parent and four such brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 53 00 " (fir) for such parent, and five such brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 55 00 " {h) for such parent, and six or imore such brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding. 56 00 " (i) for one such orphan brother or sister, an amount not exceeding 35 00 " O') for two such orphan brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 40 00 " (fc) for three such orphan brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 43 00 " (0 for four such orphan brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 46 00 " (m) for five such orphan brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 48 00 " (n) for six or more such orphan brothers or sisters, an amount not exceeding 49 00 " provided that if such former member of the Forces has two parents wholly or mainly dependent upon him for support, one of them shall, for the purpose of estimating the allowances payable in respect of such dependents, be regarded as a brother or sister. 10. The allowances set out in Clauses (8) and (9) for children of widowers, or for parents, or for brothers or sisters, shall subject to the provisions of Clause 13, be the maximum allowances payable for 80LDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 67 such dependents, but if in the discretion of the Department less amounts are sufficient for the maintenance of such persons the Depart- ment may award such less amounts. 11. No allowances shall be payable while he is undergoing training t n ^f~ of by the Department, for a former member of the Forces or for his payment under dependent or dependents, under more than one of Clauses (7), (8) ^^ and (9), but any person or persons to whom a former member of the be included . Forces who is undergoing treatment or training by the Department stands in loco parentis shall, at the discretion of the Department for the- purpose of estimating the allowances payable to such former member of the Forces and for such dependent or dependents, be regarded as his child or children. 12. No allowances shall be payable, while he is undergoing treat- Training ment or training by the Department, for any dependent or dependents ^jj^ts De of a former member of the Forces other than those mentioned in pa rtment to decide Clauses (7), (8), (9) and (11), and the decision whether or not a dependency. person is dependent upon a former member of the Forces shall rest with the Department, and any allegation of dependency shall be corroborated by such evidence as may from time to time be required by the Department. 13. If a former member of the Forces who is undergoing training Training by the Department is receiving subsistence from the Department there shall be deducted from his allowances the sum of $30 per month, provided that if such former member of the Forces has a dependent or dependents for whom .allowances are payable under this Order in. Council, and is at the commencement of his training by the Department residing with such dependent or dependents and owing to his undergoing such training is unable to continue to reside with such dependent or dependents the deduction shall be $22 per month and the Department shall increase the amount of the allowances to such dependent or dependents by an amount of $8 per month. 14. The allowances payable, while he is undergoing treatment or Treatment and training by the Department, for a former member of the Forces or mTnn^r^oiTpay- for the wife of a former member of the Forces shall be paid direct ment. to him or her unless, in the discretion of the Department, it is deemed advisable to pay such allowances to such other person as the Department may determine, and the allowances payable, while he is undergoing treatment or training by the Department, for the dependent or dependents of a former member of the Forces, other than his wife, shall be paid to such person as the Department may determine. 15. If a former member of the Forces is unmarried or a widower Training without children at the time his training is approved by the Depart- ment, he shall, for the purpose of estimating the allowances payable final. for him and for his dependent or dependents, while he is undergoing training by the Department, be regarded as a single man, notwith- standing that he may have married after the date of such approval. 16. (a) The allowances payable while he is undergoing treat- Treatment ment by the Department for a former member of the Forces passed immediately on discharge by the Department of Militia and Defence an ce in lieu of or by the Department of the Naval Service to the Department for Patriotic Fund. 42617 5i 68 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT further treatment which prevents him from obtaining employment and for a former member of the Forces who is accepted by the Depart- ment for treatment for a recurrence of disability due to or aggra- vated by service which prevents him from obtaining or continuing employment and for his dependent or dependents, shall be equivalent to the amount of the pay and allowances paid by the Department of Militia and Defence or by the Department of the Naval Service, at the time of his discharge less subsistence allowance, but with the addi- tion of the following allowances for the dependent or dependents of such former member of the Forces who has held a rank below com- missioned rank in lieu of the Patriotic Fund allowances, if any, paid at the time of his-discharge to the dependent or dependents of such member of the Forces. Wife only $ 10 00 a month. Wife and one child 19 00 Wife and two children 2'6 00 " Wife and three children 31 00 " For each child in excess of 3 children $5 iper month with a max- imum allowance of $45 per month for wife and children. (&) There shall be deducted from the allowances payable to such former member of the Forces the sum of $20 per month or such sum as he had while on active service assigned to his dependent or dependents whichever be the greater, and this sum together with an amount equivalent to the amount of separation allowances to which, but for his discharge, he would be entitled under the pay and allow- ance regulations of the Department of Militia and Defence or the Department of the Naval Service shall, subject to Clause 14, be paid direct to such dependent or dependents. (c) In the event of such former member of the Forces being granted out-patient treatment, provided that in the opinion of the Department his disability is such as to prevent him from obtaining or continuing employment, there shall be added to the allowances payable to him under the authority of this clause, an amount equiva- lent to the subsistence allowance to which, but for his discharge, he would have been entitled under the pay and allowance regulations of the Department of Militia and Defence or the Department of the Naval Service. (d) No former member of the Forces, who is undergoing in- patient treatment by the Department and is entitled to the allowances payable under this clause, shall unless specially authorized by the Department be paid, for his personal use, a larger sum than $8 per month out of such allowances and the balance of his allowances shall be retained by the Department or be deposited by the Department in a bank or in the Post Office Savings Bank to his credit and paid or handed to him on tbe conclusion of his treatment. 17. (a) When a former member of the Forces not undergoing training is directed by an Officer of the Department, or by a medical practitioner, acting under the authority of the Department, to report Treatment allowances for men called in for medical ex- renew ais^ortho- at an institution for examination or observation or for treatment for paedic appliances. a period not exceeding one week or when a former member of the Forces is directed by an officer of the Department authorized in that behalf to report at an institution or other place for repairs to an fc SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 69 artificial limb or other orthopaedic appliance, he shall be entitled to receive the following allowances: Return transportation, first class, with sleeping berths if necessary, $1 per day for the time absent from his home plus $1.50 for every night spent at a hotel or lodgings at his own expense, and 50 cents for every meal (3 meals per day) pur- chased by him while absent from home, provided that the time occupied shall not be longer than one week. (Z>) When the institution or other place to which such former member of the Forces not undergoing training is required to report is in the same town as or contiguous to his place of residence, he shall be entitled to receive the sum of $3 per day in lieu of the allowances set forth in section (a) of this Clause provided that the time occupied shall not be longer than one week. (c) When it is necessary for a former member of the Forces not undergoing training to remain at an institution for observation or for repairs to his artificial limb or other orthopedic appliance or should the repairs to his artificial limb or other orthopaedic appliance take such time as to keep him from his home or prevent him follow- ing any remunerative occupation for longer than one week he shall, after the first week, receive the allowances set forth in Clause (16) hereof, less the amount of his pension, if any. (d) When a former member of the Forces who is undergoing training is directed by an officer of the Department to report at an institution or other place for examination or for treatment or for repairs to an artificial limb or other orthopaedic appliance, his allow- ances, subject to Clause 19, shall continue and he shall not be entitled to receive the allowances set forth in subsections A and B of this clause, but any reasonable expenses which he may incur shall be paid by the Department provided that such expenses were authorized and approved by an officer of the Department, authorized in that behalf prior to their being incurred. 18. Subject to Clause (17) hereof from and after the date when Treatment and a former member of the Forces is accepted for treatment or com- Training -,,_, T\ ^ i stoppage and menoes training by the Department no lurtner payment or payments continuation of of pension and allowances by the Board of Pension Commissioners pension. Ti T> j -r, j XT ^i Arrangements or the Pension and Claims Board other than the payment or pay- f 0r outpatients. ments of such pension and allowances already made shall be made to such former member of the Forces and the allowances payable under the authority of this Order in Council .shall commence from the date of such acceptance for treatment or commencement of training, provided that when a former member of the Forces is undergoing treatment by the Department of such a nature as not to prevent him from obtaining or continuing employment, his pen- sion and allowances, if any, shall be awarded or continued during the period of such treatment and he shall be entitled to receive from the Department an amount, in the discretion of the Department, not exceeding $1 for each attendance for treatment and all reason- able travelling expenses in attending for such treatment. 70 SOLDIERS 1 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT Treatment and Training institutional treatment for men undergoing training. Treatment- men refusing to undergo treatment misconduct. Treatment and Training post treatment and training allowances. Department's re- quirements to be observed in discharges. Treatment and Training Department's dis- ciplinary powers and regulations. Treatment and Training age limit child dependents. 19. If a former member of the Forces who is undergoing train- ing by the Department requires institutional treatment during the period of his training his allowances and the allowances for his dependent or dependents shall continue provided that if such treat- ment is likely to be of long duration his allowances for training and the allowances for his dependent or dependents shall be cancelled and lie shall be placed on the allowances herein set forth for former mem- bers of the Forces undergoing treatment. 20. If a Military Medical Board or a Medical Officer of the Department reports that a former member of the Forces should undergo treatment and such former member of the Forces unreason- ably refuses to undergo such treatment or if by reason of the mis- conduct of such former member of the Forces while undergoing , treatment it is necessary in the discretion of the Department to dis- continue such treatment the pension to which he would otherwise be entitled may, in the discretion of the Board of Pension Commis- sioners for Canada, be reduced by not more than fifty per cent, and any post discharge pay- to which such former member of the Forces may at the time such report is received, or such treatment is dis- continued by the Department be entitled may, until the Depart- ment has certified to the Officer i/c of Post Discharge Pay that such former member of the Forces has undergone and completed to the satisfaction of .the Department the treatment so recommended or that such misconduct has been excused, be withheld. 21. The payment of allowances authorized by this Order in Council may be continued for one month after the completion of treatment or training of a former member of the Forces provided that (a) in the opinion of the Department his conduct while under- going treatment or training has been satisfactory; (fc) his treat- ment or training has occupied a longer period than two months; (c) he is not, at the completion of such treatment or training, entitled to receive any payment of post-discharge pay; (d) in the opinion of the Department, such continuation of payment is neces- sary to assist him in obtaining employment. 22. In carrying out the retirement or discharge of any person who has served in the Canadian Naval or Military Forces of His Majesty during the present war the requirements of the Depart- ment shall so far as possible be complied with. 23. The Department shall have power to make regulations respect- ing the administration and discipline of, and allowances payable for, a former member of the Forces while undergoing treatment or training by the Department and the allowances payable for hia dependent or dependents and all deductions from or cancellations of such allowances for the purpose of discipline, and to require that before becoming entitled to treatment or training by the Depart- ment a former member of the Forces shall sign a document agreeing while undergoing treatment or training to submit to all such regu- lations. 24. No allowance shall be paid under the authority of this Order in Council for any child or brother or sister of a former member of the Forces who, if a boy, is over the age of sixteen, or, if a girl, is ov>er the age of seventeen years. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 71 25. The provisions of the following Orders in Council are Cancellation of hereby rescinded: P.O. 1472, dated 29th June, 1916; P.O. 976, dated 12th April, 1917; P.O. 3513, dated 4th January, 1918; P.O. 1018, dated 7th May, 1918, but the allowances which at the date of this Order in Council are being paid under the provisions of P.C. 976, dated 12th April, 1917, to a former member of the Forces under- going training and to his dependent or dependents may, in the dis- cretion of the Department, continue to be paid until his training has been completed. 26. The decision as to what under the provisions of Clause (20) Treatment constitutes unreasonable refusal or misconduct shall rest with the ^ Department and its decision shall be final. 20 27. The decision of a Military Medical Board or of a Medical Officer of the Department under the provisions of Clause (1), and departmntal de- the decision of the Department under the provisions of Clauses (1), cision final. (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (16), (18), (19), (20), and (21), and the decision of the Board of Pension Commissioners for Canada under the provisions of Clause (20), shall be final. 28. The provisions of this Order in Council and of the Order in Treatment and Council of the 21st of February, 1918 (P.C. 432), shall not, unless ^whonTorder the Department otherwise directs, extend and apply to any person in Council does who has served in the Naval or Military Forces of His Majesty not a PP 1 > r * during the present war who (a) has been cashiered or dismissed the service by sentence or court-martial; (fr) has been deprived of his commission or warrant by reason of misconduct; (c) has been called upon to retire or to resign his commis- sion or warrant by reason of misconduct; (d} has been discharged, having been sentenced to be dis- charged with ignominy, or in the Naval Forces with or with- out disgrace; (e) has been discharged, having been sentenced to penal servitude or having been sentenced by court-martial to imprison- ment for two years or more; (/) has been discharged during his service, having been con- victed by the civil power of an offence punishable by imprison- ment for more than two years committed either before or after enlistment; or (#) has been discharged for misconduct; or to any person who has served in the Naval or Military Forces of any of His Majesty's Allies during the present war who has been retired or discharged on any like ground. 29. The provisions of this Order in Council shall be operative Treatment and from the 21st day of February, 1918, and the allowances hereby d authorized shall be for such period or periods as the Governor in from, Council may by Order in Council hereafter provide. F. K. BENNETTS, Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council. 72 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT APPENDIX SCHEDULE "A." SCALE OF PERCENTAGE OF DISABILITY CLASS AND Rank or Rating of Member of Forces. Rate per Annum. Class 1. Total 100% Class 2. 99%-95% Class 3. 94%^90% Class 4. 89%-85% Class 5. 84%-80% Class 6. 79%-75% Class 7. 4%-70% All Ratings below Petty Officer (Naval): Rank and File ( Militia) Member of Forces Each Child $ cts. 600 09 96 00 $ cts. 570 00 93 00 $ cts. 540 00 90 00 $ cts. 510 00 87 00 $ cts. 480 00 84 00 $ cts. 450 00 81 00 $ cts. 420 00 78 00 Chief Petty Officer and Petty Officer (Naval); Squad., Battery or Com- pany Sergt. -Major and Q.M. Sergeant (Militia) ; Sergeant, including Staff- Sergt. and Colour-Sergt. (Militia) Member of Forces Each Child 637 50 96 00 605 63 93 00 573 75 90 00 541 88 87 00 510 00 84 00 478 13 81 00 446 25 78 00 Naval Cadet and Midshipman (Naval); Master Gunner not W.O. (Militia) ; Regimental Sergt.-Major not W.O. (Militia) ; Regimental Q.M. Sergt. (Militia) ' Member of Forces 775 00 736 25 697 50 658 75 620 00 581 25 542 50 Each Child 96 00 93.00 90 00 87 00 8400 81 00 78 00 Warrant Officer and Chief Warrant Officer (Naval) ; Warrant Officer (Militia).. Member of -Forces Each Child 850 00 96 00 807 50 93 00 765 00 90 00 722 50 87 00 680 00 84 00 637 50 81 00 595 00 7800 Sub-Lieutenant (Naval); Lieutenant (Milit'a) Member of Forces 900 00 855 00 810 00 765 00 72000 675 00 630 00 Each Child 96 00 93 00 90 00 87 00 84 00 81 00 78 00 Additional Allow- ance for Married Members of the Forces 96 00 91 20 86 40 81 60 76 80 72 00 67 20 SCHEDULE " B."-iSCALE OF PERCENTAGE OF DISABILITY CLASS AND Rank or Rating of Member of Forces. Rate per Annum. Class 1. Total 100% Class 2. 99%^95% Class 3. 94%,-90% Class 4. 89%-85% Class 5. 84%-80% Class 6. 79%^75% Class 7. 74%-70% Lieutenant (Naval) ; Captain (Militia) .. Member of Forces Each Child $ cts. 1,000 00 96 00 $ cts. 950 00 93 00 $ cts. 900 00 90 00 $ cts. 850 00 87 00 $ cts. 800 00 84 00 $ cts. 750 00 84 00 $ cts. 700 00 8400 Lieutenant Commander (Naval) ; Major (Militia) Member of Forces Each Child 1,260 00 96 00 1, 197 00 96 00 1,134 00 96 00 1,071 00 96 00 1,008 00 96 00 945 00 96 00 88200 96 00 Commander and Captain under three years' seniority (Naval) ; Lieutenant Colonel (Militia) Member of Forces Each Child 1,560 00 120 00 1,482 00 120 00 1,404 00 120 00 1,701 00 120 00 1,326 00 120 00 1,248 00 12000 1, 170 00 120 00 1,092 00 120 00 Captain (Naval) ; Colonel (Militia) Member of Forces Each Child 1,890 00 120 00 1,795 50 120 00 1,606 50 120 00 1,512 00 120 00 1,417 50 120 00 1,32300 120 00 Commodore and higher ranks (Naval); Brigadier-General and higher ranks (Militia) Member of Forces Each Child 2, 700 00 120 00 2,565 00 120 00 2,430 00 120 00 2, 295 00 120 00 2, 160 00 120 00 2,025 00 120 00 1,890 00 12000 SOLDIERS 9 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 73 VI, PENSIONS FOE DISABILITIES. ANNUAL AMOUNT OF PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES. Class 8. 69%-G5% Class 9. 64%-SO%. Class 10. 59%-55% Class 11. 54%-50% Class 12. 49%-45% Class 13. 44%-40% Class 14. 39%-35% Class 15. 34%-30% Class 16. 29%~25% Class 17. 24%-20% Class 18. 19%-15% Class 19. 14%-10% Class 20. 9%-5% Sets. 390 00 75 00 $ cts. 360 00 72 00 $ cts. 330 00 66 00 $ cts. 300 00 60 00 $ cts. 270 00 54 00 $ cts. 240 00 48 00 $ cts. 210 00 42 00 $ cts. 180 00 36 00 $ cts. 150 00 30 00 $ cts. 120 00 24 00 $ cts. 90 00 18 00 $ cts. 60 00 12 00 1 cts. 3000 600 414 38 75 00 382 50 72 00 350 63 66 00 318 75 60 00 286 88 54 00 255 00 48 00 223 13 42 00 191 25 36 00 159 38 30 00 127 50 24 00 95 63 18 00 63 75 12 00 31 88 6 00 503 75 75 00 465 00 7200 426 25 66 00 387 50 60 00 348 75 54 00 310 00 48 00 271 25 42 00 232 50 36 00 193 75 30 00 155 00 24 00 116 25 18 00 77 50 12 00 38 75 6 00 552 50 75 00 510 00 72 00 467 50 66 00 425 00 60 00 382 50 54 00 340 00 48 00 297 50 42 00 255 00 36 00 212 50 30 00 170 00 24 00 127 50 18 00 85 00 12 00 42 50 6 00 585 00 75 00 540 00 72 00 495 00 66 00 450 00 60 00 405 00 54 00 36000 48 00 31500 42 00 270 00 36 00 225 00 30 00 180 00 24 00 135 00 18 00 90 00 12 00 45 00 6 00 62 40 57 60 52 80 48 00 43 20 38 40 33 60 28 80 24 00 19 20 14 40 9 60 4 80 PENSIONS EOR DISABILITIES. ANNUAL AMOUNT OF PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES. Class 8. 69%-65% Class 9. 64%~60% Class 10. 59%-55% Class 11. 54%-50% Class 12. 49%-45% Class 13. 44%-40% Class 14. 39%~35% Class 15. 34%-30% Class 16. 29%~25% Class 17. 24%-20% Class 18. 19%-15% Class 19. 14%-10% Class 20. 9%-5% $ cts. 65000 84 00 $ cts. 600 00 84 00 $ cts. 550 00 66 00 $ cts. 500 00 60 00 $ cts. 450 00 54 00 $ cts. 400 00 48 00 $ cts. 350 00 42 00 $ cts. 300 00 36 00 $ cts. 250 00 30 00 $ cts. 200 00 24 00 $ cts. 150 00 18 00 $ cts. 100 00 12 00 $ cts. 50 00 600 819 00 96 00 756 00 96 00 693 00 66 00 630 00 60 00 567 00 54 00 504 00 48 00 441 00 42 00 378 00 36 00 315 00 30 00 25200 24 CO 189 00 18 00 126 00 12 00 63 00 6 00 1,014 00 120 00 936 00 120 00 858 00 06 00 . 780 00 60 00 702 00 54 00 62400 48 00 546 00 42 00 468 00 36 00 390 00 30 00 312 00 24 00 234 00 18 00 156 00 12 00 78 00 600 1,228 50 120,00 1,134 00 120 00 1,039 50 66 00 945 00 60 00 850 50 54 00 756 00 48 00 661 50 42 00 567 00 36 00 472 50 30 00 378 00 24 00 283 50 18 00 18900 12 00 94 50 6 00 1,755 00 120 00 1,620 00 12000 1,485 00 66 00 1,350 00 60 00 1,215 00 54 00 1,080 00 48 00 945 00 42 00 810 00 36 00 675 00 30 00 540 00 24 00 405 00 18 00 270 00 1200 135 00 600 74 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT SCHEDULE "0". SCALE OF PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES FOR DEATHS. Ratep ir Annum. Rank or Rating of Member of Forces. Widows or Dependent Parents. Each Child or each Dependent Brother or Sister. All ratings below Petty Officer (Naval) Rank and file (Militia) . ... $ cts. 480 00 $ cts. 96 00 Chief Petty Officer and Petty Officer (Naval) ; Squad", Battery or Company Ser?t.- Major and Q.M. Sergeant (Militia); Sergt., including Staff Sergt. and Colour Sergt (Militia) 510 00 96 00 Naval Cadet and Midshipman (Naval); Master Gunner not W.O.. (Militia); Regi- mental Sergt.-Major not W.O. (Militia); Regimental Q.M. Sergeant (Militia) 620 00 96 00 Warrant Officer and Chief Warrant Officer (Naval) ; Warrant Officer (Militia) 680 00 96 00 Sub- Lieutenant (Naval) ; Lieutenant (Militia) 720 00 9C 00 SCHEDULE "D". SCALE OF PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES FOR DEATHS. Rank or Rating of Member of For:es. Widows or Dependent Parents. Each Child or each Dependent Brother or Sister. Lieutenant (Naval) Captain (Militia) $ cts. 800 00 $ cts. 96 00 Lieutenant Commander (Naval) ; Major (Militia) 1,008 00 96 00 Commander and Captain under three years' seniority (Naval) ; Lieutenant-Colonel (Militia) 1,248 00 120 00 Captain (Naval)' Colonel (Militia) 1 512 00 120 00 Commodore and higher ranks (Naval) ; Brigadier-General and higher ranks (Militia) . 2, 160 00 120 00 Rate per Annum. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT, 75 APPENDIX VII. 7-8 GEORGE V. CHAP. 21. An Act to assist Returned Soldiers in settling upon the Land and to increase Agricultural production. [Assented to 29th August, 1917.] His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 1. This Act may be cited as The Soldier Settlement Act, 1917. short title. 2. In this Act and in any regulation made under the provisions Definitions of this Act, (a) "Board" means the Soldier Settlement Board; (fr) "Minister" means the Minister of the Interior; (c) "settler" means any person who has served in the naval or military expeditionary forces of Canada during the present war, or who was engaged in active service during the present war in the naval or military forces of the United Kingdom or of any of the self-governing British Dominions or Colonies, or who, being a British subject resident in Canada before the war, has been engaged in active service at one of the seats of war in either the naval or military forces of any of His Majesty's allies in the present war, and who has left the forces with an honour- able record or who has been honourably discharged, and the widow of any such person who died on active service. 3. (1) The Governor in Council may appoint a Board consisting Boar(L of three Commissioners to be called " The Soldier Settlement Board." (2) Each Commissioner shall hold office during good behaviour, Term of Office, but may be removed at any time by the Governor in Council for cause : Provided that a Commissioner shall cease to hold office upon reaching the age of seventy years. (3) One such commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor Chairman, in Council to be chairman of the Board. (4) The chairman shall be paid a salary of six thousand dollars Salaries. per annum, and each of the other commissioners shall be paid a salary of five thousand dollars per annum, and such salaries shall be paid monthly out of any unappropriated moneys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. (5) There shall be attached to the Board such officers, instructors, staff, clerks, stenographers and other employees as the Board, with the approval of the Governor in Council, at any time appoints, with such salaries and remuneration as the Governor in Council may approve. All persons so employed shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board. 76 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT Dominion lands to be reserved. Lapse of reservation. Free entries. 4. (1) The Minister, at the request of the Board, may reserv* Dominion lands for the purposes of this Act. (2) Any such reservation shall lapse three years after the close of the present wo*. (3) The Minister may grant to any settler recommended by the Board a free entry for not more than one hundred and sixty acres of such reserved lands, subject to such conditions as, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, are necessary to secure the use of the land for the purpose for which it is granted. Loans. Supervision of expendi- ture. Conditions upon which loans may be made. Application to be made in writing. Information. First charge and rate of interest. Amortization. Deferring two first payments. Loan may be paid off at any time. 5. (1) The Board may loan to a settler an amount not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars for any of the following purposes : (a) the acquiring of land for agricultural purposes; (fe) the payment of incumbrances on lands used for agricultural purposes; (c) the improvement of agricultural land; (d) the erection of farm buildings; (e) the purchase of stock, machinery and equipment; and, (/) such other purpose or purposes as the Board may approve. (2) The money loaned shall be expended under the supervision of the Board. 6. (1) No loan shall be made until the Board is satisfied, (a) that the value of the security offered is sufficient to justify the loan, the value to be estimated on the basis of the agricul- tural productiveness of the land, and the commercial value of any other security given; (fc) that the applicant has the ability to make from the land a fair living for himself and his family, after paying the interest and amortization charges and other payments that will be due and payable with respect to the land. (2) No loan shall be considered except upon the written applica- tion of the borrower, and such application shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the Board, and shall set forth distinctly and definitely the purpose for which the loan is required. (3) An applicant for a loan shall furnish such additional details, references and information as the Board may at any time require. (4) All loans upon Dominion lands shall constitute a first charge against the land, and all loans upon other lands shall be secured by first mortgages, and all loans shall in all cases bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum. (5) Payments of principal and interest shall be made in equal annual instalments extending over a period of not more than twenty years. (6) The Board may defer the payment of the whole or part of the first two instalments to such later date as it may deem expedient, such deferred payments to continue to bear interest at the rate aforesaid. (7) The settler may at any time pay to the Board the whole or any part of the money borrowed, with interest. Interest shall be payable up to the date of such payment. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 77 (8) When a loan has been made upon Dominion lands, no patent Patent only shall issue until the loan and all interest thereon have been paid in p^JJnient 6 full. 7. The Board may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, Agricultural make provision for, instruction. (a) the placing of returned soldiers with farmers in order that they be instructed in farming 1 : (fr) agricultural training stations for returned soldiers; (c) farm instructors and inspectors to assist settlers with infor- mation and instruction in farming; (d) training in domestic and household science for settlers' wives and female dependents. 8. (1) The Board may, with the approval of the Governor in Regulations. Council, make regulations, (a) prescribing the manner in which entries for land and appli- .cations for loans may be made; (fe) prescribing the conditions upon which free entries and patents for the land may be granted and issued; (c) prescribing the security to be given for loans, the conditions subject to which loans shall be made, and the manner and dates in and at which such loans shall be repaid; (d) prescribing the manner and conditions upon which settlers may transfer their rights; and, (e) with respect to any matter deemed necessary by the Board - for the carrying out of the purposes of this Act. (2) All regulations made under this Act shall be published in the Canada Gazette and be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fifteen days after the making thereof, and, if Parliament is not then tions. sitting, within fifteen days after the opening of the next session of Parliament. 9. All expenditure made under this Act shall be paid out of such Expenditure, moneys as Parliament may appropriate for the purpose. APPENDIX VHI (a). BEPORT OF THE VOCATIONAL OFFICER FOR ONTARIO. Previous to September, 1917, the work of the Vocational Branch in Ontario was handled entirely by the 'Soldiers' Aid Commission of Ontario. Early in that month the greater part of the work was taken over for the Military Hospitals Commission by the office of the Vocational Officer for Ontario. The appoint- ment of instructors and the control of the instruction in the classes, however, remain- ing with the Soldiers' Aid Commission left the matter of vocational training under a dual control, with the two spheres of influence not clearly defined, a condition of : affairs presenting many difficulties. 78 SOLDIERS* CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMBNT Vocational officers had been stationed at some of the institutions, but there wag little or no organization to deal with the rapidly growing demands of such an important branch. The Vocational Branch in Ontario since September has been building up a very necessary organization, the difficulty of obtaining suitable men being a serious handi- cap, and it is only now that the organization is approaching a strength sufficient to deal adequately with the requirements. Almost without exception returned men are engaged in the work and only men with previous experience in the industries, a large percentage being technically-trained engineers. Such men inherently hold the viewpoint that is most desirable, possessing the requisite broad outlook upon both the industrial and educational phases peculiar to the commission's operations. / The growth of the work has been rapid. In September about 470 soldiers' files were taken over from the Soldiers' Aid Commission. There are now over 7,000, repre- senting the number of returned men who have been interviewed by vocational officers. In September there were, approximately, 165 discharged and 47 undischarged re-educa- tional cases and 660 convalescent cases, attending vocational classes in Ontario. There are now about 680 discharged, 17 undischarged and 675 convalescent cases. The surveying of the returned men with the purpose of placing them in classes is handled by 21 vocational and assistant vocational officers. In addition to this work the important special activities of the branch may be reviewed under the following heads : INDUSTRIAL SURVEYS. The Department of Industrial Surveys, Ontario, was organized late in December and had for its object the surveying of the industries from the point of view of the wounded man and the placing of men in these industries for special training. The functions of this department may be briefly summarized as follows : l.*To make personal contact with the heads of the industries in Ontario and establish friendly relations and confidence. 2. To survey these industries thoroughly by personal visits, making a tour of inspection of all departments, usually with an expert guide, in some cases spending days in the very heart of the works making notes and absorbing the desired informa- tion. 3. To write a comprehensive report on each industry so surveyed, setting forth, together with the character of the concern, the general working conditions, nature of the buildings, modern or otherwise, sanitary conditions, hours of 'labour, attitude of employer towards employee, care taken to safeguard and make employees satisfied, rate of wages and prospects together with the general feeling of all towards the returned soldier. 4. To determine the desirability and possibilities of placing partially disabled returned soldiers for training, the number that could be placed to advantage, the length of time required to train in the various departments or trades before becoming suffi- ciently proficient to earn a living wage, the prospect of their being absorbed and becoming part of the permanent staff, also the general feeling of those in authority and of the workmen regarding the training of the returned man. 5. To distribute these surveys and other information to the different vocational officers throughout the province, to assist them in selecting openings for training suitable for any particular man, taking into account his previous occupation, educa- tion, temperament and disability. 6. To keep in personal touch with the various vocational officers, both in convales- cent homes, hospitals, and discharge depots, and act more or less as a bureau of information, keeping them posted and up to date as to new openings and opportunities as they occur, and assisting them to select suitable trades or openings for men of peculiar disabilities or qualifications. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 79 7. To take these men after their course has been granted and to place them with the industry their course requires, doing this personally so that no misunderstanding can exist between man and employer, arranging for hours of attendance, tuition or instruction to be given and how, and creating a feeling in the man that he is being looked after and taken an interest in and very often arranging for the man's being encouraged by being promised permanent employment in his chosen calling on the completion of his term of training at a rate of pay higher than his vocational pay and allowances. 8. To visit the man at least once a week, pick up his attendance sheet and get a general report on his progress, conduct and health, and see that he is satisfied and taking an interest in his work. 9. If found necessary, to recommend a change of course and arrange for this, especially where unforseen conditions arise that affect the man's health or in case of nervous trouble. To date, over sixty large representative industries in Toronto have been sur- veyed, covering almost every field of labour, and there are openings for training over 300 men with reliable firms, over 75 per cent of whom agree to absorb all the men they train who make good. Since this branch has been opened the co-operation of some of the largest industries in Canada has been extended, such as Canadian Allis- Chalmers, Limited, Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd., Canadian Westinghouse Co. Ltd., Russell Motor Car Co., Ltd., and many others, who have all signified their willingness to co-operate in throwing open their factories to train returned disabled soldiers. Seventy men have been placed for training in industries and over 90 per cent of these will be absorbed on the completion of their courses. In order to get the best results it is almost essential to make use of a man's previous training or occupation, not necessarily in the same trade, but in something kindred, and with proper care and handling this can generally be done. It has been found that there is scarcely an industry in which a man cannot be trained in a given time so that he is able to earn a good living wage, always providing that his past experience is taken into consideration. The staff of the Industrial Survey Department has been increased to ten returned men with previous industrial experience. Of these one is employed as Industrial Sur- veyor in London and others are being trained to send to. Hamilton, Whitby, Guelph, and Kingston. Before leaving for these different points, these men are given a train- ing in industrial surveying, office management, keeping of records and the system of looking after the men once they are placed in the industries. MR. RUSSELL'S EXPERIMENTS. Mr. T. A. Russell of the Russell Motor Car Co., early in January, instituted a most valuable experiment. A shop was set aside and specially equipped for the training of returned soldiers. This shop was placed in the hands of an experienced superintendent and was conducted in all particulars as a commercial shop, with the exceptions that only disabled men were employed, and the basic idea was training rather than output. The men receive vocational pay and allowances, and they may also receive a bonus from the t company. On the 31st of March there were five men working eight hours a day and seventeen men working four hours a day, and the number is steadily increasing. The men graduate from the four-hour to the eight-hour period when they show ability to do the work. While the men are attending the four-hour period, a certain time each day is spent in special classes of the University of Toronto where instruction is given in draft- ing and other subjects suitable to the needs of the men. Should the experiment continue to work out satisfactorily it is expected that similar shops will be established by other large industries in the near future. 80 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE^ESTABLISHMENT Mr. Kussell has extended his experiment by operating in a similar way a tract of 75 acres a short distance from Toronto where the returned crippled man is given every facility for instruction in poultry and hog raising and truck gardening. It is Mr. Russell's idea that the men should go on the farm and live there and actually do all the work required on it. At the end of the season the profits derived from the summer's work are to be divided among the men in proportion to the length of time put in. FARM TRACTORS. Farm tractor classes were started as a result of an inquiry from the Ontario Department of Agriculture as to the possibility of repairing farm tractors in conjunc- tion with the training of returned soldiers to operate them. The Vocational Branch undertook to repair sixty farm tractors for the opening of the ploughing season. This opened up a new field for the placing of returned soldiers in desirable employment and classes were immediately formed for their instruction in the operation and care of farm tractors. The Ontario Government were in great need of experienced farm tractor operators, its greatest difficulty being the securing of farmers with a knowledge of farm tractors or tractor men with experience in ploughing. The Government, there- fore, was anxious to secure and guaranteed to employ all men who completed the course satisfactorily. Expert mechanics from the factories constructing the tractors were employed and the repair of the tractors under expert supervision was combined with the instruction of the men in their care and operation. Practical men from the International Har- vester Company and the Oliver Chilled Plough Works were also secured to lecture to the classes on the gang-plough, its construction, setting up and care under actual working conditions. Upon being approached on the subject, the International Har- vester Company, the Sawyer Massey Company, and Goold, Shapley & Muir Company donated tractors of their manufacture to the classes in Ontario and agreed to assist similarly any classes which might be formed in the west or other parts of the Dominion. Successful classes have been formed at Kingston, Whitby, Guelph, and London, and the University of Toronto is organizing at the present time what promises to become the most modern and complete of the farm tractor classes. About forty competent farm tractor operators from these classes will be available for employment by the Ontario Government this spring. A few are already at work. CO-OPERATION OF UNIVERSITIES. Of outstanding importance is the co-operation of the Universities in the work of the Yocational Branch. Queen's University, Kingston, has placed its class-rooms, laboratories, and staff at the disposal of the Commission. Classes in eleven different subjects are held at Queen's and arrangements have been completed for extending this list materially. (See statement appended.) The University of Toronto has been conducting a class in mining subjects to enable the returned crippled miner to obtain occupation in the mining camps and arrangements have now been completed for extensive work in a variety of subjects, utilizing the laboratories and special equipment and training facilities of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. The professors of the engineering faculties in Queen's and Toronto are trained and experienced engineers, with intimate knowledge of the industries, and have shown a marked willingness and ability to adjust themselves to the special type of training in short intensive courses for the returned man. TECHNICAL AND TRADE SCHOOLS. At the Central Technical School, Toronto, as shown in the appended list of classes, sixteen subjects are taught to more than 200 convalescent and discharged men. The facilities of the technical schools of Hamilton and London are also used for the returned men. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 81 In addition to the special classes organized ^independently of established schools and colleges, the policy of the Vocational Branch in Ontario has been to use every form of teaching institution that lends itself to the work. Plans are being prepared for the larger use of the splendid workshops of the Commission's Industries at Guelph. At the present time there are nine different shops open to the returned man for instructional purposes, commercially equipped for the manufacture of articles of all kinds in hard and soft woods, machinery, beds and hospital furniture, blankets and brooms. There are also six hundred acres for cultivation and poultry and stock raising, in conjunction with which are greenhouses, a creamery and an abattoir. The list of classes appended shows the extent to which vocational training in Ontario has grown and indicates the great variety of subjects provided. In Hamilton, Whitby, and London, in fact in all stations where classes are in operation, there has been a steady increase of accommodation necessary. New classes are continually being formed. The whole situation in Hamilton has grown to such proportions as to necessitate a central office for the District Vocational Officer and a complete reorganization of the work in hand. This station will undoubtedly become a re-education centre of importance in the province. BEDSIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING. Bedside vocational training has been progressing satisfactorily at Spadina Mili- tary Hospital, Central Convalescent Home and Euclid Hall in Toronto. This work is carried on by members of the staff of the Vocational Branch under the general supervision of the Medical Officers of the different hospitals. Some of the subjects dealt with are : Elementary mechanical drawing, freehand drawing and stencil pattern making, hand weaving, reed work, raffia work, handwork on bed looms, etc. The co-operation of the medical officers and nursing sisters, once the endeavour is tinder- stood and appreciate^, has been most encouraging. In February the University of Toronto established a class for training women as instructors in Bedside Vocational Training and over thirty are in attendance. TUBERCULAR SANATORIA. Training in sanatoria for tuberculosis requires special care, but if wisely planned is valuable, not only in providing training for the earning of a livelihood when the patient leaves the sanatorium but also in assisting his cure while in the institution. At the beginning of this year there was no vocational training given in the Muskoka Free Hospital at Gravenhurst. At the present time, of the sixty-four patients, forty- five all that are physically fit are taking vocational training and are studying such subjects as poultry and bee-keeping, music, languages, fancy work and stenography. All this intensive training of crippled, war-shocked men is a new problem in which there is no precedent by which to be guided. The staff is composed of educationalists, civil, mining, and mechanical engineers, architects, men from commercial life and from the industries, workmen, foremen and managers. I have never seen such sustained, all-round keen activity in any civil organization before. We make mistakes, but without doubt we are progressing. The problems are approached from many different angles and special effort is made to disseminate throughout the staff the information being constantly accumulated. This particular phase of the work is being developed at the present time by a special department. The majority of the invalided soldiers respond to their environment in a remark- able way and when taken in hand at an early stage by the Vocational Branch recover the initiative of the civilian. Their experiences have generally given them a more 426176 82 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT serious outlook on life and thus they often become, under training, more ready and more able to assume responsibility than before they enlisted. From my short experience in the work (based on many years in industrial life) I am confident that this training is making many of the men better civilians and better citizens than they were before the war, despite the handicap of their disabilities. On the other hand, there are many cases so disabled, or so upset mentally that they can never be able to hold their own in the competition of industrial life, and there is an immediate need for an industrial colony where there will be possibilities of sheltered employment for these dependent cases. At the present time every invalided soldier returning to Ontario is interviewed by a vocational officer, but before the present organization was built up many were discharged from hospital without coming under the influence of this Branch. To reach these and also to attract the attention of the men now returning, one-page bulletins are issued. The first of this series is given below. It so appealed to the G-W.Y.A. that they asked for 10,000 copies for distribution. H. E. T. HAULTAIN, Vocational Officer for Ontario. Toronto, 31st March, 1918. TKAINING SERIES NO. 1. WHO WANTS TO BE IN THE DISCARD? NOW'S YOUR CHANCE. LEAVE NOTHING TO LUCK. "We have to convince the disabled," says John Galsworthy, the great English novelist, " that to be re-educated, not only physically but professionally, is absolutely essential to them, against a future which, fat enough for the moment, is going in a few years' time to be very lean and hard; and, for men handicapped as they will be, simply impossible except for charity, which one imagines is the last thing they want. " It can't be said too often that the situation while the war lasts is utterly mis- leading. All civilians now feel grateful and want to pet and serve the wounded soldier. Labour is hard to find, so that any one even the handicapped can get a, job. All that will have gone by the time the war has been from five to ten years in its grave. Most of our disabled soldiers have thirty, forty or fifty years before them. The man that slips his chance now, and trusts to luck and gratitude, will find himself on a beach where he will get more kicks than ha'pence, ten years hence." Taking Education Classes will not influence your Pension in the slightest degree ABSOLUTELY. SEE YOUR VOCATIONAL OFFICER AT ONCE. Issued from Office of Vocational Officer for Ontario, Invalided Soldiers' Com- mission, 185 Spadina Ave., Toronto, March 26, 1918. SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 83 Statistics Department, Vocational Branch, I.S.C., April 17, 1918. LIST of Classes, with Names of Vocational Officers. Cobourg Ontario Military Hospital 1. Show Card Writing. 2. Arts and Crafts. 3. Basketry. Kingston Prof. M. B. Baker, D.V.O. Lt. D. C. Spear, assistant. Mowat Sanatorium Capt. Fairfull, V.O. 1. Civil Service. 2. Motor Mechanics. 3. Embroidery. 4. Commercial Subjects. 5. Barbering. Queen's M. C. H. Capt. J. McNab. 1. Machine Shop Practice. 2. Elementary Subjects. 3. Commercial Subjects. 4. Civil Service. Unit. 5. Stationary Engineering. 6. Telegraphy. 7. Highway Engineering. 8. Motor Mechanics. 9. Woodwork. 10. Shoemaking. 11. Electrical Engineering. 12. Farm Tractors. Ottawa Sir Sandford Fleming Home Lieut R. S. Kennedy, A.D.V.O. 1. Stenography and Typing. 2. Commercial. 3. Elementary. 4. Woodwork. 5. Telegraphy. 6. Motor Mechanics. Unit. Gravenhurst Muskoka Free Hospital Lieut. F. P. Flett, V.O. 1. Fancy Work. 2. Stenography and Typing. 3. Poultry and Bee-keeping. 4. French. 5. Music. Burlington Lieut. E. S. Smyth, V.O. 1. Shoe Repairing. 2. Machine Shop Practice. 3. Commercial. 4. Carpentry and Cabinet Making. Hamilton Lieut. S. T. J. Fryer, D.V.O. Mountain Sanatorium. 1. Civil Service and Commercial Subjects. 2. Woodworking. 3. Music. 4. Telegraphy. Technical and Art School. 1. Mechanical Draughting and Civil Service. 2. Woodworking. 3. Machine Shop Practice. 4. Commercial Design. 5. Electricity. Toronto Brunswick Avenue School. 1. Commercial. 2. Stenography. 3. Book-keeping. 4. Telegraphy. Central Y.M.C.A. 1. Elementary and Civil Service. 2. English for Foreigners, and French. 3. Telegraphy. Canadian Linotype School. 1. Linotype Operating. 616 College Street. 1. Shoe Repairing. Euclid Hall Lieut. W. Tyrell, V.O. Elementary. 42617 6 Toronto Con. Lansdowne School. 1. Elementary and Civil Service. Broadway Church. 1. Music. University of Toronte. 1. Farm Tractors. 2. Milling and Assaying. 3. Draughting. Military Orthopaedic Hospital Lt. J. Bizley, V.O. 1. Mechanical Draughting. 2. Book-keeping. 3. Telegraphy. 4. Woodworking. 5. Elementary and Civil Service. 6. Shoe Repairing. Central Technical School. 1. Steel and Cement lasting. 2. Electric Wiring. 3. Moving Picture Operating. 4. Plumbing and Sheet Metal Work. 5. Printing. 6. Motor Mechanics. 7. Art and Design. 8. Cabinet Making. 9. Machine Shop Practice. 10. Electricity. 11. Power Plant Engineering. 12. Machine Designing. 13. Architectural Draughting. 14. Cabinet Making. 15. Industrial Chemistry. 16. Oxy- Acetylene Welding. Whilby Military Convalescent Hospital Captain W. E. C. McCarthy, 1. Shoe Repairing. 2. Special Pupils. 3. General Study. 4. Commercial Subjects. 5. Arts and Crafts and Mathematics. 6. Draughting and Manual Training. 7. Motor Mechanics. 8. Telegraphy. 84 SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT LIST of Classes, with Names of Vocational Officers. "F" Unit. GuelpJi Military Convalescent Hospital Lieut. H. D. Robertson, V.O. K. D. McDonald, Assistant. 1. Elementary and Commercial Subjects and Civil Service. Manual Training. Stationary Engineering 1 and Electrical instruction, but in many cases it is. The men who have completed their courses satisfactorily usually secure good positions in SOLDIERS 1 CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT 107 work similar to their course of training, but there are instances where the attraction of a good salary has lured them away. In a very few cases, as might reasonably be expected in dealing with large numbers, men after completing their training have not shown a keen inclination to secure a position. No blame can be attached to the in- terviewer because men discontinue their courses or after completing their training enter a different occupation from what they were being trained for. The explanation is simply that a good position with only light work and a fair salary fell vacant and the man took it. Nor can any blame be placed on any person for the fact that a very few men do not want a job. It is probably the fact that no training can be devised which will deal adequately with this problem. On the whole, almost all the men who leave the schools, unless their disabilities still hinder them, prove successful in their new positions. It is extremely interesting and gratifying to the administrative staff and the instructors to watch the gradual process of change from the attitude of indifference to one of normal interest in the affairs of every day life. The fact that the men have recovered more or less completely from the handicap of their disabilities, that they have been brought back to their former selves, and that they are content to return to the activities of normal civilian life is excellent evidence that the efforts and expenditures of the Commission are manifestly worth while. Number of men who received preliminary and final interview, April 1, 1916, to March 31, 1918 : 1. Number of men who received preliminary interview April 1, 1916, to March 31, 1917 251 Number of men who received preliminary interview April 1, 1917, to March 31, 1918 1,965 Total number of men surveyed, April 1, 1917 to March 31, 1918... 2,216 2. Number of applications for Vocational Re-education dealt with by D.S.T.B.. April 1, 1916 March 31, 1917 194 Number of applications for Vocational Re-education dealt with by D.S.T.B., April 1, 1917 March 31, 1918 696 Total applications dealt with by D.S.T.B., April 1, 1916 March 31, 1917 890 J. F. BOYCE, District Vocational Officer. Calgary, May 6th, 1918. DATE "*"**" a 5>ED F"OB e- . *JA1 J. o T?t>Tst YC 63 no- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY