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The following table showing total highway accidents in the Province ot Ontario from 1933 to 1938 indi- 'ie,,", a positive reduction in every tem: During the put year the exten- sions to the highway system were carried out in s manner than maln- tained the high stand .rds necessary under modern traffic demands. Deparfmenf of Highways No. of Ach- Person: Property Year dents Deaths Injured Damage 1933 8.634 403 1.877 ' EMA42 IAN 9.045 31: 8.990 942.722 In New Ontario we graded for future pavement 200 miles of road through very difficult country. Pavement was completed on eighty- two miles and a bituminous gravel surface placed on an additional forty-seven miles. We also con- structed fifty-three bridges of a major type. A real problem con- fronts the department in this north. ern work in that early construe. tion was intended to serve from a local point almost exclusively. We have found that directness plays a paramount part because of the enormous distances. Tourist trat. tie will not traverse this northern section unless it can reach its des. tination with a minimum of time. in the work we are doing we are obliged to abandon much of the old locations, realigning and regrad- ing. A typical example of an im- provement of this kind is the work 'that is being performed on our great northern highway between Severn Bridge and Timmins, where we will save. because of realign- ment and improving the grades, a distance of seventy-one miles. Pavement and Grading In order to further reduce the accident toll the width of road grades has been increased and wherever possible the alignment chosen is that with the least amount of curvature. These im- provements are particularly no- ticeable on main travelled high- ways in both the north and south sections of the province " well as on the divided highways in Old Ontario. We have continued our policy of separating highway traffic from railway traffic by the construction of subways or over- heads, and also of separating traf- fic on heavily travelled intersect- ing roads. as a further safety measure. An experimental section of lighting has been added to our system between Oakville and To- ronto with a view to improving night driving conditions. and the results have well warranted the expenditure. In old Ontario 100 miles of grad- lng was completed. mostly for di- vided highways. In addition, eighty miles of pavement of various types were built. We also completed thirty-one bridges, several of which were on divided highways. and were of a dual type. Our dual highway construction was continued in those areas of dense traffic and the grading was 90 per cent completed between St. Catharines and Osh- awa. The construction of roads is a valuable factor in providing em- ployment. as a large portion of the cost is paid in direct wages. 10.648 1 t.3ttft 13," 13.Tts 3.427 10.251 11M 11." 00.732 37387.0" 1.".(34 1.341.851 1.712.467 1370." 000 in foreign money was left in lthls province. We, therefore. feel satisfied that the expenditure we are making in our highways is well justified. In order to assure a con- tinuance of this tourist traffic. we must provide easy entrances to the; province and we have assisted in the construction of the approaches of two new international bridges. one at Point Edward and the other " Ivy Lea. The assumption of 1.651 miles of country roads as King's Highways will he of material assistance to the municipalities. as they will thus be relieved of further expense to- ward their maintenance. Our policy ot lightening the burden ot road construction in the municipalities has been continued by subsidies to townships and counties. n is estimated that our subsidy to townships this year will amount to $3,110,000. and to the counties. $2,547,000. These figures are particularly striking when one realizes within a compara- tively short period the province has advanced from the stage where it paid no subsidy to munici- palities at all to the position where we now pay over Mt per cent of the entire cost of " roads throughout the province. Savings of " Per Cent hy Counties on King's Highways. 1935-15 (actual) .............$ 993,000 193-37 'dilet8 ............. 1,711,000 1937-38 mews) ............. 3.729.000 1938-39 (estimated) .......... 3,026,000 1937-38 (actual) .. 1938-39 (estimated) Savings of no Per Cent to Town-hips by Int-routed Subsidy. Forelgn touriat registration dur- ing 1933 showed that 2.004.940 ears crossed the Ontario border. Last year 2.790.198 cars passed the same points, an increase of 785.258. or almost 40 per cent of an advance. From the information we are able to obtain. we are assured that this vast army ot cars came to Ontario because ot its road development. Studies made by the Bureau of Statistics to determine as to reve- ly indicate that at least 8108.000.- Tourist Registration Pavement must be considered as part of our program, particularly in the northern part of the province wnere many miles of grading have been completed to permit of sur- facing. It has been found that tour- ists will not follow gravel surfaces when they are accustomed to paved highways at home. Some States last year went so far as to warn their motorists to stay away from the northern part ot the Province of Ontario until such times as int.. provement in surfaces might be ex. pected. This condition will be remedied just as fast as funds can be obtained to permit of the work being completed. The Department of Highways is quite seized with the desirability of providing the northern part of the province with paved highways at the earliest possible time, and will continue the present high standard being set so that in the final analysis work throughout the entire province will he brought to the same quality. regardless of lo. cation. Total K)rurftlitrhway' - -.. - .... -.iSStiiil,itL1 11fiiaik T012 f 39. ','liy'i', may." '2,pt,iieii','dhii',1 iiiiGiG paved 1338 .......... MAM 3,016.39 Miles 7,188.17 Miles 2,219.42 Mlle: 3,348.88 Mlle: "Us 993,000 .... 1.T11,000 .... 3,T29,000 .... 3,026,000 89,459,000 '1,020,000 624,000 ' Approximately 120,000 placements 'have been made by the Ontario Government offices of the Employ- ment Service of Canada during the fiscal year, and a. large proportion of this number were placements of iyoung persons between the ages of ',18 and 30. New branches of the service were opened at Owen Sound, Welland and Simcoe, and a branch of the Toronto office was estab- lished in York Township to serve the district north of the city. The Departmentf ofLabor has taken a very active part in the work of the Dominion-Provincial youth train- ing program, and many young peo- ple of this province are taking ad- vantage ot the instruction offered. The courses are varied and are planned with a view to meeting the need for skilled workers. Since the inception of the program approxi- mately 4,608 young persons. both boys and girls, have been assisted in twining for useful occupations, and 3,038 of them have been placed in employment at the completion of their course of training, or have jobs waiting for them. Of those trained this fiscal year, approxi- mately 87 per cent have been placed in employment, which may be con- sidered a very high percentage. as make for safety in the operation of power plants. There was an in. crease of more than 25 per cent in the number of examinations held by the board of examiners of operating engineers and an increase in the number of plant registration certifi- cates issued by the board. The report of the apprenticeship branch indicates that considerable progress is being made in re-estab- lishing apprenticeship as the means of teaching young men and women the various trades. The number of apprentices indentured has increased from 319 in 1934 to 1,409 in 1930, the last figure being an increase of over 27 per cent, as compared with last year. The extension of the conciliation services of the Department of Labor has resulted in a decided decrease in the losses of the people of the province because of strikes. This fiscal year there has been less than one-quarter the amount of time-loss due to strikes, as compared with last year. The chief conciliation ot. ficer has negotiated increasing num- bers of agreements which provide wages, hours and conditions of labor satisfactory to both employers and employees, and through the concili- ation service strikes are being set- tled more quickly than formerly. The establishment of schedules pur- suant to the Industrial Standards Act is another factor making for industrial peace, since there has been no strike in connection with wages and hours in any industry The task of establishing fair and proper wages is being carried on with a view to protecting workers and eliminating the practice of un- fair competition among some em- ployers in the province, and better conditions have been maintained in industry through the efforts of the inspection staff. Since January the annual inspection of uninsured boil.. ers and other pressure vessels has been undertaken by qualified inspec- tors of this department, which change should result in increased revenue to the government. as well where schedules are in force. At present there are eighty-tive such schedules operating which affect ap- proximately 33,000 workers. All branches of the Department of Labor increased their services to the public during the past fiscal yenr, Department of Labor 120,000 Placements