nual Survey of Education in Canada, 1925, issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This number was distributed among the various educational institutions as follows: Publicly controlled kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools, 1,965,832; private kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools (exclusive of such schools as were affiliated with universities or colleges and which were included under preparatory university or college courses), 72,104; Indian schools, 14,222; schools for the deaf and blind, 1,561; agricultural, technical and night schools or courses under college grade, 95,684; schools for teacher-training, including vocational teacher-training and Departmental summer schools, 10,220; private business colleges, exclusive of correspondence schools, 16,046; preparatory courses at universities and colleges, 4,995; short special and correspondence and extension courses at universities and colleges, 11,941; classical colleges in Quebec (including non-subsidized classical schools), 9,899; regular courses in colleges other than classical 8,531, and regular courses in universities, 22,723. Of 2,378 students in correspondence courses in universities, 1,233 were reported as being in courses leading to degrees and not elsewhere included with the regular students while the remaining 1,145 correspondence students were clearly doing work of university grade, so that there were at least 32,000 in regular university and college courses. The total of 2,228,869 in all educational institutions excluded 3,260 in business colleges and 1,547 in Indian schools who might be elsewhere included under private schools. A certain percentage should be deducted from the total on the score of pupils being counted more than once in changing from one school to another within the year. A special Report on Illiteracy and School Attendance in Canada was issued by the Bureau in 1926. Basing his investigations on the Census of 1921, with supplementary data, M. C. MacLean, M.A., the author of the Report, stated that of the total population of the Dominion of five years and over, numbering 7,730,833, there were 58,254 or seventy-five per cent. who could read only, 715,617 or 9.25 per cent. who could neither read nor write, and ten per cent. who could not both read and write. Of the population of ten years and over .064 per cent. could read only, 5.10 per cent. could neither read nor write, and 5.74 per cent. could not both read and write. Of the population of twenty-one years and over, .79 per cent. could read only, 5.92 per cent. could neither read nor write, and 6.71 per cent. could not both read and write. Of the native white population of the Dominion 3.98 per cent. were unable to read or write. Of the population born outside of the country 5.89 per cent. were unable to read or write, and of foreign whites (the population of the Territories not being included) 11.15 per cent. were unable to read or write. The class of Canadian born with the lowest percentage of illiteracy was that with one parent Canadian and the other British. This class had a population over ten years of 375,068 with 4,054 or 1.08 per cent. illiterate, that was unable to read or write. Of British born parentage 1.25 per cent. were unable to read or write; of those with one parent Canadian or British and the other foreign 2.07 per cent. were unable to read or write; with foreign born parentage 3.79 per cent. were unable to read or write; with Canadian born parentage 5.77 per cent. were unable to read or write. Where the parentage was not stated the percentage of illiteracy rose to 13.02 per cent. Department The number of inmates in Canadian penitentiaries at midnight, Mar. 31, 1926, was 2,473, according to the Report of the Superintendent of Penitentiaries. The average daily population was 2,396. The cost per capita per diem was $1.35 and the total net expenditure was $1,551,888. Of those in penitentiaries at the end of the year, 1,508 were born in Canada, 183 in England or Wales, 31 in Ireland, 62 in Scotland, and 24 in other British countries, making a total of 1,808, with birth places in British countries. The foreigners numbered 665 of whom 206 were born in the United States, 107 in Austria-Hungary, 91 in Russia, 65 in Italy, 36 in China, 22 in Roumania, and 138 in other foreign countries. There were among the inmates 144 serving a life sentence; 21 with sentences of 25 years and over; 34 serving 20 and under 25 years; 62 serving 15 and under to total births was 2.56. Illegitimate births were divided among the Provinces as follows: Prince Edward Island, 38; Nova Scotia, 501; New Brunswick, 268; Ontario, 1,829; Manitoba, 400; Saskatchewan, 341; Alberta, 388; British Columbia, 192. The total number of still births in the Registration Area was 5,279 and the percentage of still births to total births was 3.4. Among causes of death the diseases of the heart ranked first with 111 per one hundred thousand population; cancer came second with 81, and others followed in this order: pneumonia, 75; violent deaths, suicides excepted, 57; diseases of the arteries, 56; tuberculosis of the lungs, 55; nephritis, 42; cerebral hemorrhage and apoplexy, 33; influenza, 32; diarrhoea and enteritis, 32;. senility, 31; congenital malformation, 16; appendicitis, 14; puerperal causes, 13; anaemia and chlorosis, 12; tuberculosis of organs other than the lungs, 11; paralysis, 10; bernia and intestinal obstruction, 10; suicides, 9; diptheria, 9; diabetes mellitus, 9; whooping cough, 8; bronchitis, 6; typhoid, 5; scarlet fever, 4; meningitis, 4; measles, 3. The revised Report on Vital Statistics for 1924 among other special information stated that there were fifty-nine deaths of reputed centenarians during that year, as compared with sixty-five in the previous year. Thirty-three of the centenarians lived in Ontario; fourteen in Nova Scotia; five in Manitoba; four in Prince Edward Island; and one each in New Brunswick, Alberta and British Columbia. There were 832 brides of sixteen years or under married during that year. Six hundred and seventy-six were sixteen years of age; 137, fifteen; 18, fourteen; and one, thirteen. Of the total of sixteen years and under the largest number, 106, married grooms of twenty-one years. Ninety-one married grooms of twenty-two and 82 grooms of twenty-four. In one case the groom was fifty-three years of age and in two cases he was fifteen years old. Divorces in Canada in 1926. There were 608 divorces granted in Canada by Parliament and the courts during the year 1926 as compared with 551 during 1925. The 1926 total was the largest so far recorded in any one year. The number of divorces granted during 1926, by provinces, was; 167 in British Columbia, 113 in Ontario, 154 in Alberta, 85 in Manitoba, 48 in Saskatchewan, 19 in Nova Scotia, 12 in New Brunswick, 10 in Quebec and none in Prince Edward Island, where, indeed, only one divorce had been granted since Confederation. The largest increases in divorces granted during the year were in Alberta and British Columbia, in which provinces the 1926 figures showed increases of 53 and 17 respectively. Manitoba and Saskatchewan each showed an increase of six. Decreases were shown in all the Eastern Provinces, Nova Scotia, with 11, showing the largest drop, Ontario having eight less, while New Brunswick and Quebec each showed a reduction of three. Of the total number of divorces 292 were granted to husbands and 316 to wives. The distribution among the provinces is as follows: Nova Scotia, husbands 6, wives 13; New Brunswick, husbands 5, wives 7; Quebec, husbands 2, wives 8; Ontario, husbands 54, wives 69; Manitoba, husbands 44, wives 41; Saskatchewan, husbands 27, wives 21; Alberta, husbands 79, wives 75; British Columbia, husbands 75, wives 92. In Alberta there was an increase from the previous year of twenty-one in the number of divorces granted to husbands, while in the number of divorces granted to wives the increase in Alberta was thirty-two and in British Columbia thirteen. The Report of the Divorce Committee of the Senate for the Session of 1926-27 stated that 198 petitions for divorce had been presented in the Senate. Of these, 150 were recommended, 6 were rejected, 2 were withdrawn, 2 were partially heard and not proceeded with, while 38 were not dealt with owing to the fact that the necessary time had not elapsed after the notices were published for the consideration of these petitions by the Senate. The ground of the divorce in all but two cases was adultery. A Bill was passed by the Senate during the Session to establish a divorce court in Ontario but it received only a first reading in the House of Commons. Education. The number enrolled in all educational institutions in Canada in 1925 (the latest year reported) was 2,228,869, according to the An nual Survey of Education in Canada, 1925, issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This number was distributed among the various educational institutions as follows: Publicly controlled kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools, 1,965,832; private kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools (exclusive of such schools as were affiliated with universities or colleges and which were included under preparatory university or college courses), 72,104; Indian schools, 14,222; schools for the deaf and blind, 1,561; agricultural, technical and night schools or courses under college grade, 95,684; schools for teacher-training, including vocational teacher-training and Departmental summer schools, 10,220; private business colleges, exclusive of correspondence schools, 16,046; preparatory courses at universities and colleges, 4,995; short special and correspondence and extension courses at universities and colleges, 11,941; classical colleges in Quebec (including non-subsidized classical schools), 9,899; regular courses in colleges other than classical 8,531, and regular courses in universities, 22,723. Of 2,378 students in correspondence courses in universities, 1,233 were reported as being in courses leading to degrees and not elsewhere included with the regular students while the remaining 1,145 correspondence students were clearly doing work of university grade, so that there were at least 32,000 in regular university and college courses. The total of 2,228,869 in all educational institutions excluded 3,260 in business colleges and 1,547 in Indian schools who might be elsewhere included under private schools. A certain percentage should be deducted from the total on the score of pupils being counted more than once in changing from one school to another within the year. A special Report on Illiteracy and School Attendance in Canada was issued by the Bureau in 1926. Basing his investigations on the Census of 1921, with supplementary data, M. C. MacLean, M.A., the author of the Report, stated that of the total population of the Dominion of five years and over, numbering 7,730,833, there were 58,254 or seventy-five per cent. who could read only, 715,617 or 9.25 per cent. who could neither read nor write, and ten per cent. who could not both read and write. Of the population of ten years and over .064 per cent. could read only, 5.10 per cent. could neither read nor write, and 5.74 per cent. could not both read and write. Of the population of twenty-one years and over, .79 per cent. could read only, 5.92 per cent. could neither read nor write, and 6.71 per cent. could not both read and write. Of the native white population of the Dominion 3.98 per cent. were unable to read or write. Of the population born outside of the country 5.89 per cent. were unable to read or write, and of foreign whites (the population of the Territories not being included) 11.15 per cent. were unable to read or write. The class of Canadian born with the lowest percentage of illiteracy was that with one parent Canadian and the other British. This class had a population over ten years of 375,068 with 4,054 or 1.08 per cent. illiterate, that was unable to read or write. Of British born parentage 1.25 per cent. were unable to read or write; of those with one parent Canadian or British and the other foreign 2.07 per cent. were unable to read or write; with foreign born parentage 3.79 per cent. were unable to read or write; with Canadian born parentage 5.77 per cent. were unable to read or write. Where the parentage was not stated the percentage of illiteracy rose to 13.02 per cent. Department The number of inmates in Canadian penitentiaries at midnight, Mar. 31, 1926, was 2,473, according to the Report of the Superintendent of Penitentiaries. The average daily population was 2,396. The cost per capita per diem was $1.35 and the total net expenditure was $1,551,888. Of those in penitentiaries at the end of the year, 1,508 were born in Canada, 183 in England or Wales, 31 in Ireland, 62 in Scotland, and 24 in other British countries, making a total of 1,808, with birth places in British countries. The foreigners numbered 665 of whom 206 were born in the United States, 107 in Austria-Hungary, 91 in Russia, 65 in Italy, 36 in China, 22 in Roumania, and 138 in other foreign countries. There were among the inmates 144 serving a life sentence; 21 with sentences of 25 years and over; 34 serving 20 and under 25 years; 62 serving 15 and under 20 years; 44 serving 12 and under 15 years; 139 serving 10 and under 12; 42 serving 8 and under 10; 551 serving 5 and under 8; 178 serving 4 and under 5; 522 serving 3 and under 4; 61 over 2 years and under 3 years; and 675 of 2 years. Of the inmates, 257 were under twenty years of age; 1,087 from twenty to thirty years; 635 thirty to forty years; 321 forty to fifty years; 126 fifty to sixty years; and 47 over sixty years. There were 540 abstainers; 1,549 were temperate; and 384 were intemperate. The inmates who were single numbered 1,485, the married 871, widowed 116, and divorced one. There were 2,327 belonging to the white race; 48 were coloured, 54 Indian, and 44 Mongolian. The classification by creeds was as follows: Roman Catholic, 1,201; Church of England, 392; Presbyterian, 269; Methodist, 224; Baptist, 118; Lutheran, 65; Greek Catholic, 65; other Christian creeds, 47; Hebrew, 53; Buddhist, 31; other non-Christian creeds, 8. The Report of the Dominion Parole Officer for the year ended Mar. 31, 1926, stated that 302 prisoners were released on parole from penitentiaries and 406 from jails, reformatories, industrial farms, et cetera The total number of cases in which the parole was not lived up to by the prisoner was 8.05 per cent. of the number of prisoners released on parole. The latest Report of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics on general criminal statistics dealt with the year ended Sept. 30, 1925. It stated that in that year there were 17,219 cases of indictable offences in which conviction was obtained and 4,466 in which the accused were acquitted. Of the indictable offences eleven hundred were tried by jury, 3,456 under the speedy trials act without a jury, and 17,129 under the summary trials act by police or other magistrates. There were, in addition, 151,825 cases in which adults were convicted of non-indictable offences, no record being given of acquittals in these cases. In the juvenile* courts 5,299 were convicted and 294 acquitted of major offences, while 3,547 were convicted of minor offences. Of the juvenile delinquents 8,245 were boys and 601 girls. The number of females convicted of indictable offences was 2,035 or 11.8 per cent. of the total number of convictions. For every 100 offenders in 1925, 82 were convicted for the first time, 8 for the second and 10 for the third time or oftener. The number of convictions for drunkenness in the year ended Sept. 30, 1925, was 26,751, divided among the provinces as follows: Prince Edward Island, 112; Nova Scotia, 1,466; New Brunswick, 1,171; Quebec, 6,342; Ontario, 11,811; Manitoba, 1,948; Saskatchewan, 668; Alberta, 1,374; British Columbia, 1,844; Yukon and other Territories, 15. The Report also gave the number of convictions for offences against Temperance and Prohibition Acts for the same year as 11,636, divided among the provinces as follows: Prince Edward Island, 51; Nova Scotia, 235; New Brunswick, 319; Quebec, 1,919; Ontario, 5,047; Manitoba, 512; Saskatchewan, 1,078; Alberta, 758; British Columbia, 1,699; Yukon and Northwest Territories, 18. The Annual Report of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the year ended Sept. 30, 1926, stated that the strength of the force on that date was 53 officers and 910 non-commissioned officers and constables. The Report called special attention to the continued decline in strength of the police. "The shrinkage has continued for some time," said the Report, "and is throwing an increased burden of work upon our men. Six years ago the net strength was 1,532 and the number of cases handled was 10,808; four years ago our net strength was 1,145 and the cases handled numbered 14,032; this year 876 officers and other ranks dealt with 28,828 cases. Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Lieut.-Col. H. M. Urquhart, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia NOTE.-Juvenile figures are for year 1926. D.S.O., M.C., A.D.C... Date Jan. 5 Jan. 21 . Hon. Phillipe Roy, M.D..... Minister of Labour.. Hon. John Campbell Elliott.... Mar. 8 Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Alberta... Charles Richmond Mitchell.... Mar. 13 Judge of the District Court of Calgary, Alberta. Local Judge in Admiralty of the Exchequer Court of Canada for District of Quebec... Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment and Health... Commissioner to revise and consolidate the Public Statutes of Canada. Justice of the Supreme Court of Alberta. Senator. .. William Alexander Macdonald.. Mar. 13 Robert Stanley Weir........ Mar. 13 President of the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal Hon. W. L. McDougald. Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba.. Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General. Deputy Governor-General.. Chairman of the Board of Audit. Member of the Board of Audit. Member of the Board of Audit. Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington.. T. A. Burrows. .Lieut.-Col. George P. Vanier, D.S.O., M.C... Rt. Hon. F. A. Anglin. . Gordon W. Scott.. .L. Eugene Potvin. E. Jay Howson.. . Hon. C. Vincent Massey. Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Brig.-General C. H. Maclaren, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.. Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Brig.-General T. L. Tremblay, . Oct. 9 ..Oct. 24 C.M.G., D.S.O... V.D..... D.S.O., V.D.. D.S.O., V.D.. Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Colonel H. I. Stevenson, D.S.O., V.D.... .Oct. 30 . Nov. 25 . Nov. 25 . Nov. 26 Dec. 18 Dec. 18 Dec. 18 . Dec. 18 Dec. 18 Dec. 18 Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Colonel H. S. Tobin, D.s.o., v.D.. Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Temp. Colonel L. P. Sherwood, Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Lt.-Colonel H. des Rosiers, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.... Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Lt.-Colonel F. M. Steel, D.s.o... Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Lt.-Colonel Herbert Molson, C.M.G., O.R.E., M.C... Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Lt.-Colonel N. P. MacLeod, Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Wing Commander J. L. Gordon Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Commander Massey Goolden, Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Lt.-Colonel G. E. Full. . Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General...Lt.-Colonel C. B. Topp... ..... Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Commander Percy W. Nelles... Dec. 18 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General... Asst. Commissioner G. S. Worsley, (Hon. Lt.-Col., c.M.) Dec. 18 Brig.-General H. S. Birkett, |