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Corps  Address

67th  Regiment Woodstock,  N.B.
15th  Regiment Belleville

101st  Regiment Edmonton

13th  Battery Winnipeg

15th  Battery Montreal

105th  Regiment Saskatoon

22nd  Battery Montreal

35th  Battery Montreal

39th  Battery Montreal

69th  Regiment Williamstown . . ..
38th  Regiment Brantford

102nd  Regiment Kamloops

51st  Regiment Sault  Ste.  Marie.
N.C.O.'s

Officers

and  Men

37

600

61

1.750

187

2,910

23

343

7

197

130

575

17

233

4

235

9

90

32

325

91

2,211

4,386

20

602

A  vigorous  effort  developed  in  March  to  raise  a  force  for  Home
defence  which  would  be  distinct  from  the  Army  on  active  service.
As  the  young  and  eligible  men  would  no  longer  volunteer  in  any
large  numbers  it  was  hoped  to  obtain  their  support  for  a  service
which  would  not  divorce  them  from  home-ties  and  occupations
and  yet  would  give  them  a  certain  amount  of  training  and  perhaps
develop  a  military  and  patriotic  spirit  which,  in  turn,  would  induce
them  to  enlist  for  active  service.  Meanwhile,  they  would  help
to  guard  Canada  against  complications  from  Germans  in  the  States
which  then  were  feared,  and  enable  the  50,000,  or  so,  of  troops
in  local  training  for  the  Front  to  go  overseas.  It  was  understood
to  be  a  last  effort  of  Sir  Edward  Kemp  as  Minister  to  obtain  voluntary
enlistment  and,  on  Mar.  16,  he  announced  the  details  of  the  scheme.
