The new distribution of parliamentary representation, determined this year, gave the House of Commons a total membership of 214, apportioned as follows; Quebec 65 (as guaranteed by the Confederation Act); Ontario 86; Nova Scotia 18; New Brunswick 13; Manitoba 10; British Columbia 7; Northwest Territories 10; Prince Edward Island 4; the Yukon 1. The basis was one representative for each 2500 people. Ontario lost 6 seats, Nova Scotia 2, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 1 each; all the other provinces gained, British Columbia to the extent of 7 seats, the Northwest Territories 4, and Manitoba 3. CANADA: A. D. 1902. Colonial Conference at London. See (in this Volume) BRITISH EMPIRE. {66} CANADA: A. D. 1903. Discovery of the cobalt silver mines in Ontario. Ore bodies carrying values in silver, cobalt, nickel, and arsenic were discovered in 1903, during the building of the Temiskaming and North Ontario Railway near the town of Haileybury, at a distance of about 103 miles from North Bay. The railway line ran over the most important vein that has been found, and signs of the latter were noticed in the spring of the year named. Prospecting was begun in the fall with quick results of important discovery, and the rapid attraction of a large mining population to what has become famous as the Cobalt District. The production of silver in the district increased from $111,887 in 1904 to $9,500,000 in 1908. The ores are said to be unique among those of North America. _16th Annual Report of Ontario Bureau of Mines._ CANADA: A. D. 1903 (May). Adoption of "Empire Day" in Great Britain. See (in this Volume) ENGLAND: A. D. 1903 (May). CANADA: A. D. 1903 (October). Settlement of the Alaskan boundary question. See (in this Volume) ALASKA: A. D. 1903. CANADA: A. D. 1903-1904. Measures to establish sovereignty over land and sea of Hudson Bay region.