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Details of expenditures, years ended March 31, 1942 to 1946

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Details of expenditures, years ended March 31, 1942 to 1946
	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946
	$
Ordinary expenditures
Agriculture	8,429,788	8,492,275	8,841,403	9,424,274	10,318,960
Auditor General's Office	456,907	441,506	347,589	360,851	379,238
Civil Service Commission	399,038	426,737	455,918	460,441	479,632
External Affairs, including Office of Prime Minister	1,047,490	1,156,066	1,596,406	1,974,367	4,582,676
Finance
Interest on public debt	155,017,901	188,556,249	242,681,180	318,994,821	409,134,502
Cost of loan flotations	16,349,517	13,837,949	19,285,402	20,678,683	22,310,720
Subsidies to provinces	14,408,622	14,490,085	14,449,353	14,445,267	14,446,629
Payments to provinces under Dominion-provincial taxation agreements	21,120,443	94,214,558	95,434,862	93,333,930	98,051,769
Other grants and contributions	530,944	525,860	528,458	530,505	617,505
Superannuation	435,018	391,397	345,628	325,316	298,988
Government contribution to Superannuation Fund	2,347,226	2,341,302	2,298,594	2,340,793	2,696,038
Old age pensions¹	29,611,796	29,976,014	30,377,468	32,187,185	*
Premiums, discount and exchange	-	-	-	16,348,193	14,733,764
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Dominion Fuel Board Administration, coal subsidies and subventions	4,880,172	**	**	**	**
Other departmental expenditure	3,816,899	4,187,983	4,481,128	4,724,155	13,404,607
Fisheries	1,679,072	1,698,909	1,696,035	2,159,170	3,262,018
Governor General and Lieutenant Governors	225,925	224,627	222,042	222,757	226,615
Insurance	180,924	182,000	183,132	185,305	198,964
Justice Department
Justice	2,384,747	2,667,164	2,672,667	2,696,188	3,258,067
Penitentiaries	2,786,552	2,771,615	2,799,368	2,935,727	2,847,964
Labour Department
Labour (including technical education)	803,424	716,581	1,169,462	1,446,016	1,620,934
Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940
Administration	2,343,599	4,657,394	5,170,900	5,112,627	6, 184,964
Government contribution	7,287,122	11,487,058	12,344,422	12,746,179	12,513,779
Government annuities—payments to maintain reserve	616,982	497,790	32,180	257,288	293,798
Legislation
House of Commons	1,406,298	1,826,852	1,916,484	1,613,923	2,235,744
Library of Parliament	72,503	76,533	76,873	71,682	73,846
Senate	423,567	554,814	562,023	484,349	726,817
General	47,255	60,608	84,455	94,644	98,035
Chief Electoral Office, including elections	281,541	1,447,357	88,128	178,766	3,091,391
Mines and resources
Administration and general expenditures	175,735	160,574	169,558	167,623	164,776
Immigration and colonization	1,289,261	1,267,701	1,260,594	1,309,034	1,523,246
Indian Affairs	5,000,456	4,977,854	5,177,044	6,161,994	4,466,983
Lands, Parks and Forests	1,958,992	1,753,289	1,586,162	1.831,040	2,688,657
Surveys and Engineering	1,128,453	1,129,149	1,270,934	1,610,166	1,322,694
Mines and Geological Survey	1,155,448	1,139,594	1,124,281	1,215,674	1,302,733
Munitions and Supply
Dominion Fuel Board Administration, coal subsidies and subventions	***	4,965,434	2,165,110	2,737,031	2,339,285
Other departmental expenditure	12,000	12,000	14,150	19,270	14,012
National Defence
General Services	260,482	415,128	8,173	67,294	126,543
National Health and Welfare
Administration and general expenditures	-	-	-	1,726,203	7,293,560
Family allowances	-	-	-	-	172,632,147
Old age pensions¹	***	***	***	***	33,715,092
National Revenue (including income tax)	13,427,996	15,190,523	17,720,659	20,114,268	22,630,175
National War Services	682,058	427,627	547,158	837,719	5,183
Pensions, war, military and civil	41,244,221	39,699,351²	38,997,920²	†	†
Pensions and National Health	14,089,972	14,079,352	15,843,443	*†	*†
Post office	41,501,869	44,741,987	48,485,009	54,629,281	57,729,646
Privy Council	54,105	62,126	79,800	81,030	418,621³
Public Archives	123,152	122,656	123,735	123,558	126,877
Public Printing and Stationery	194,634	245,422	234,762	232,299	238,136
Public Works	11,937,005	12,013,845	12,280,674	13,168,726	16,283,531
Reconstruction	-	-	-	969,206	2,089,020
Royal Canadian Mounted Police	5,603,294	6,241,962	6,677,804	7,182,689	7,283,610
Secretary of State	822,692	819,518	831,371	863,541	954,418
Soldier Settlement	564,369	567,287	836,945	†	†
Trade and Commerce
Mail subsidies and steamship subventions	615,655	615,596	799,652	868,699	993,773
Canada Grain Act	1,909,339	1,918,036	2,089,136	2,333,381	2,302,566
Other departmental expenditures	6,199,670	4,566,049	4,196,194	3,497,390	4,052,984
Transport
Administration and miscellaneous expenditures	385,779	374,947	399,904	404,850	410,728
Air Service	3,385,784	3,334,146	3,594,187	3,939,341	4,195,664
Marine	4,009,578	4,256,974	4,503,797	4,894,037	4,890,409
Railways and Canals	3,694,147	3,339,580	4,086,574	4,259,690	4,392,423
Maritime Freight Rates Act	3,935,177	4,894,281	5,057,857	4,733,209	4,345,513
Railway Grade Crossing Fund	25,101	11,792	16,613	33,954	31,918
Veterans Affairs	-	-	-	81,031,273	72,849,232
Total, ordinary expenditures	444,777,696	561,251,063	630,380,760	767,375,933	1,061,902,119
Capital expenditures
Railways	4,517	37,555	692,382	629,639	2,313,241
Public works	3,425,930	3,238,130	1,929,596	2,534,113	2,194,999
Total, capital expenditures	3,430,147	3,275,685	2,621,978	3,163,752	4,508,240
Special expenditures
Unemployment relief	8,500,359	5,013,305	3,751,537	3,868,682	4,422,678
Western drought area relief	12,270,822	406,011	2,794,424	1,483,113	12,379,224
Wheat acreage reduction payments including administration	30,633,764	25,868,562	30,950,346	1,967,546	556,500
Canadian Wheat Board
Provision for reserve to meet deficits resulting from operations not previously provided for	12,570,828	-	-	186,445	-
Total, special expenditures	63,975,773	31,287,878	37,496,307	7,505,786	17,358,402
War and demobilization expenditures
War and Demobilization Appropriation Acts	1,339,674,152	2,724,248,890	3,674,419,874	3,615,100,612	2,668,180,597
War Appropriation (United Kingdom Financing) Act, 1942	-	1,000,000,000	-	-	-
War Appropriation (United Nations Mutual Aid) Act, 1943 and 1944	-	-	912,603,220	803,345,703	909,768,600
Write-off of Air Training Plan Loans and Advances as per United Kingdom Financial Agreement Act, 1946	-	-	-	-	425,000,000
Total, war and demobilization	1,339,674,152	3,724,248,890	4,587,023,094	4,118,146,315	4,002,949,197
Government-owned enterprises
Losses charged to consolidated deficit account
Prince Edward Island Car Ferry	423,651	591,095	698,365	773,384	687,800
National Harbours Board	32,515	-	29,488	58,907	85,859
Loans and advances (non-active)
National Harbours Board	758,090	657,526	579,108	525,767	559,758
Total, government-owned enterprises	1,214,256	1,248,621	1,306,961	1,358,058	1,333,417
Other charges
Write-down of assets chargeable to consolidated deficit account
Reduction in soldier and general land settlement loans	270,826	50,707	553,385	324,875	35,517
Yearly established losses in seed grain and relief accounts	58,408	42,058	28,847	36,006	45,436
Cancellation of Canadian Farm Loan Board capital stock	9,613	7,355	4,592	1,146	962
Reduction of immigration and colonization assisted passage loans	97	-	-	-	-
Provision for reserve for possible losses on ultimate realization of active assets	25,000,000	25,000,000	25,000,000	25,000,000	25,000,000
Provision for reserve for conditional benefits under Veterans' Land Act, 1942	-	-	-	-	464,175
Write-down of active assets to non-active assets
Canadian National Railways securities trust stock—reduction because of line abandonments	2,539,187	4,575,999	252151⁴	626,871⁴	2,115,089⁴
Non-active accounts
Capital gain on repatriation of Canadian National Railways securities.	99,274	11,072,593	2,430,284	-	-
Increase in Dominion's equity in the Canadian National Railways because of surplus earnings of the Canadian National Railways System for the calendar years 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945	4,016,327	25,063,268	35,639,412	23,026,925	24,756,130
Total, other charges	31,993,732	65,811,980	63,424,405	47,762,080	48,177,131
Grand total, expenditures	1,885,066,056	4,387,124,117	5,322,253,505	5,245,611,924	5,136,228,506
* Included under National Health and Welfare.
** Included under Munitions and Supply.
*** Included under Department of Finance
† Included under Department of Veterans Affairs.
Notes: - Dashes in this table indicate that the corresponding stub item is not applicable for those years. - Many terms used in the Canada Year Books are no longer used today for reasons such as their offensive connotations, changes in place name or organization name, or terms becoming obsolete. These terms have been left as they appear in the original yearbooks.
1. Includes pensions to blind persons.
2. Excludes civil pensions.
3. Includes Federal District Commission.
4. Not comparable with previous years because of a change in the method of dealing with the item.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.