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APPENDIX X

FEDERAL AID TO UNIVERSITIES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON HIGHER EDUCATION*

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      1948-49
$
AGRICULTURE
Grants to Universities for specific research activities   -- 10,100
FISHERIES
Grants to Universities for Extension work among fishermen   -- 80,000
LABOUR (Paid to the Provinces)
Youth Training -- Student Aid Programme
Outright grants $130,000)
Loans -- repayable by students 75,000) -- 205,000
MINES AND RESOURCES
--Indian Affairs -- Negligible amount for
Indians at University level
--Lands and Development -- Three
Scholarships in N.W.T.
  -- 1,200
NATIONAL DEFENCE
--Defence research Board
Grants to Universities   -- 693,277
research Contracts with Universities   -- 4,000
Equipment for loan to Universities   -- 18,198
--NOTE --The Department maintains two colleges,
Royal Military College and Royal Roads,
for which Public Accounts show costs in
1948-49 to be $1,150,000

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NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE
(With exception of the schools of social work
the grants are paid to the provinces).
* Tuition Fees (Professional training, venereal
disease, mental health and T.B. Public Health
  -- 30,641
Bursaries -- Mental Health -- (Payable to
qualified trainees)
  -- 186,000
Grants to Universities -- (Mental Health, General
Public Health, Public Health Res. and Schools of
Social Work)
  -- 160,440
* Certain other assistance to students viz.
allowances for travel, books, etc., were not
included by the Department in drawing up this total.
TRADE AND COMMERCE
--Atomic Energy Control Board Payment to
Universities for capital and operating costs of
research and investigations required by the Board
  -- 142,500
--National research Council Scholarships
and bursaries
At National research Laboratories   -- 27,502
At Universities   -- 170,000
--Grants-in-aid-of research
At Universities   -- 711,343
At Hospitals, Foundations, etc.   -- 63,000
research Contracts     (not given)
University of British Columbia     (not given)
TRANSPORT
--Grants to Schools of Navigation
Extension work among navigators   -- 8,700
Total   -- 2,511,901
VETERANS AFFAIRS
--University Training
Veterans' Allowances   -- 16,000,000
Fees   -- 5,750,000
Supplementary Grants   -- 3,000,000
Loans   -- 32,000
    -- 24,782,000
GRAND TOTAL   -- $ 27,293,901

* From: Canada. Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences. Report. Ottawa : King's Printer, 1951. By permission of the Privy Council Office.

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