1. Has the government, or any department of the government, received a request for a subsidy for a steamboat, or for a line of steamboats intended to run between St. Francois, Island of Orleans, and Quebec ?

2. If so, by whom was the said request made, and what is the date thereof ?

3. Is it the intention of the government to grant such subsidy ?

1. Yes. [DOT]

2. Request was made under date of October 13 th, 1904.

3. The government has decided not to grant the subsidy requested.

1. From the 1st of January, 1901, to the 1st of January, 1905, has there been any correspondence between the Department of Railways and Canals, or any other department, and the mayor of the town of Beauharnois, or any other person representing the town of Beauharnois, regarding the obtaining of a water power at the fifth lock on the Beauharnois canal, or at any other lock on the said canal, for the purpose of procuring motive power for the manufactories and the electric light in the town of Beauharnois ?

2. If so, what is the nature of such negotiations, and what is the result thereof ?

1. Yes.

2. The nature of the negotiations was for the obtaining of water with a view of establishing manufacturing industries.

3. No final conclusion yet reached.

Mr. BLAIN asked :

What amount in revenue has been received from the Oshawa harbour ?

Hon. R. PREFONTAINE (Minister of Marine and Fisheries).

1. Twenty-nine.

2. -

Location. Province. Cost to Government

' $ ets.

Frog Pond. P.E.I 580 on

Alberton G7.'? 83

Miminegash 420 23

Souris 1,000 00

Ballentyne's Cove N.S 861 04

952 94

Port Hood Island M 656 80

038 71

Eastern Harbour II 745 51Ingonish II 797 16991 41Petit de Grat II 757 97481 70Port Beckerton 521 42II 1,000 00Port la Tour 690 01Clark's Harbour ll 601 44

it 1,000 00

Sandy Cove.. . Ii 713 67Shediac N.B 605 09North Kustico P.E.I 617 50N.S 800 00North Sydney. 1,000 00Ketch Harbour ii .. 700 94Bona venture Kiver Que 916 02i o o onl'ooo 00

,, 908 43

439 69

3. All the accounts for the bonus on bait frozen for the year 1904 have not yet been received.

4. Frog Pond, 11,150 pounds; Miminegash,

40.000 pounds ; Alberton, 40,300 pounds ; North Rustico, 40,084 poundsi; Bayfield, 45,500 pounds ; Eastern Harbour, 43,200 pounds ; Ingonish Ferry, 42,200 pounds ; Petit de Grat, 40,000 pounds ; Whitehead,

41.000 pounds ; Port Beckerton, 34,000 48

pounds; Shediac, 43,000 pounds ; Ketch Harbour, 42,000 pounds ; Half Island Cove,

45,000 pounds ; Sambro, 50,900 pounds ; Sandy Cove, 46,000 pounds ; La Have, 21,000 pounds ; Westport, 44,190 pounds ; Clark's Harbour, 22,000 pounds ; Bonaven-ture River, 49,800 pounds ; Caplin, 38,800 pounds.

The reports from the other freezers do not specify the quantity of bait frozen during 1904.

5. Yes ; one at Anse & le Barbe, GaspS, and another at Lockport, Nova Scotia.

Under the regulations covering the construction of these bait freezers the department pays half the cost of construction and equipment up to a sum of one thousand dollars.

6. The regulations provide that in any locality where twenty or more fishermen form themselves into an association, with a capital stock of not less than five hundred dollars, the department will give the assistance referred to in answer to question No. 5.