Canada Yearbook - 1920

PUBLIC DEFENCE 673
war on August 4, 1914, successive contingents of troops of all arms
have been. recruited, equipped, trained and despatched by the
Canadian Government to Great Britain for active service as part of
the Imperial forces. When hostilities ceased on November 11, 1918.
there had been sent overseas for active service in the Canadian
Expeditionary Force about 418,000 officers, non-commissioned officers
and men.
Table 22 showing the militia expenditure and revenue for the
five fiscal years 1916 to 1920, is taken from the Report for the year
ended March 31, 1920, of the Militia Council. This table shows that
the ordinary expenditure of the Department of Militia and Defence
for the year ended March 31, 1920, was $4,634,516, as compared
with $3,444,954 for 1919, $3,893,896 for 1918, and $4,359,289
for 1917. The ordinary revenue amounted to $194,820 for the year
ended March 31, 1920, as compared with $118,019 for 1919, $86,354
for 1918 and $169,254 for 1917.
22.—Expenditure and Revenue of Militia for the Fiscal Years 1916-1926.
Schedule. 1916.
Allowances for drill instruction, can
of arms, and postage
Annual drill
Cadet Corps
Clothing and necessaries
Contingencies—including guards of
honour, escorts and salutes
Custom dues
Departmental Library
Dominion arsenal
Engineer services
Grants to artillery and rifle associations
and to regimental bands
Gratuities and compassionate allow-
Maintenance of military properties..
Fay of Insp.-Gen. and military mem
bers of Militia Council (statutory)
Pay of headquarters staff
Pay of division and district staffs
Permanent force—pay .provisions and
supplies
Printing and stationery
Royal Military College
Salaries and wages of civil employees
Schools of instruction—pay of active
militia attending
Topographical survey
Transport and freight
Warlike stores
Training areas
Miscellaneous small votes
Ordnance, ammunition, tents, wagons,
saddlery and harness and equipment
generally, excepting clothing
Consolidated Revenue, Workmen's
Compensation Act
Total Militia Expenditure.
18427—43
$
68,643
84,972
31,670
26,004
895
299,678
690,755
47,878
500
175,053
18,450
74,956
109,241
2,116,245
70,000
135,685
232,797
178,898
25,440
60,567
233,085
4,084
4,685,586
1917.
%
47,573
80,311
39,191
23,214
68,780
641
29,924
396,89.
7,981
164,166
18,290
84,766
123,536
2,396,183
70,000
147,576
205,801
81,384
31,274
43,923
15,753
224,623
57,504
1918.
$
70,794
90,771
16,344
2,212
61
364,529
10,258
173,344
18,152
93,998
112,397
2,297,228
69,871
162,293
232,913
7,899
31,406
41,306
68,838
22,670
6,058
1919.
51,283
68,770
5,338
1,043
304,144
2,549
1,002
101,352
18,010
103,154
113,693
1,947,304
61,667
201,885
210,066
31,082
16,698
4,643
190,371
9,752
1,148
4,359,289 3,893,896 3,414,954
1920.
91,214
34,059
74,414
8,762
974
319,486
27,328
3,326
120,962
18,010
127,844
161,599
3,088,691
52,391
219,160
197,459
40,522
24,854
5,041
15,731
1,278
1,411
4,631,516