REPORT

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL We, Your Excellency’s Commissioners appoi better organization of the Department of Adjut investigate and report upon the bes

vince, and of providing an efficient vince; and, Third]

nted, Firstly—To report a plan for the ant General of Militia. Secondly—To

€ to Parliament at its next Session, do most respectfully report to Your Excellency, as follows :—

REORGANIZATION OF MILITIA.

Preamble,

3. In framing our recommendations as to the best means of reorganizing the

Militia of Canada, we have taken for the ground work of our considerations the following facts, which must be self-evident to all who consider the circumstances and position of the Province,

4. Firstly.—That Canada presents a frontier, upwards of 1,000 miles in extent, assailable by land or water at every point ;

5. Secondly.—-That she Possesses a population amounting to little 2,500,000 souls (less than the Population of London), throughout her full extent;

6. Thirdly.—That the adjoining country vastly superior in numbers to that of Canada with excellent méans of communication, heart of the nation and leading to all this Province;

7. Fourthly.—That as the revenue of a country must depend in a very great degree upon the amount of her population,

the extent of the frontier in this Province to be defended must necessarily be disproportioned to her income

Amount of Force Required.

more than thinly but unevenly scattered

—Possesses great resources, and abounds

diverging from the on the frontier of

8. In order to provide an of opinion that a far greater hitherto been sanctioned, and r ing to about 50,000 men of all to the map of Canada will, we think would be insufficient, without th body of regular troops and a powerful fleet of gun boats on the lakes.

General System of Defence.

Commissioners, have abstained from offering any direct Seneral strategic defence of the Province, or the de-