To All Postmasters, and Other Persons Employed in the Postal Service of Canada:
Department Order No. 2.
Post Office Department,
Ottawa, 1st March, 1868.
The Post Office Act, passed on the 21st December, 1867, for the regulation of the Postal Service, will come into operation throughout the Dominion on and from the 1st April, 1868.
A copy of the Statute, and of the General Regulations founded thereon, will be forwarded to every Postmaster, whether in charge of a regular Post-Office, Way Office or Sub-Office, and to every Railway Mail Clerk; meanwhile the following summary of the principal provisions of the Act, as affecting the organization of the Department, in relation to the several Provinces of the Dominion, the postage rates to be charged from and after the 1st. April, etc., etc., is supplied for the information of Postmasters and other persons employed in the Post Office Service of Canada.
Organization of the Department.
1. The Superintendence and Management of the Postal Service of Canada is vested in the Post Office Department, at the seat of Government, Ottawa, under the direction of the Postmaster General of Canada.
2. Subject to the directions of the Postmaster General, the general management of the business of the Department will be with the Deputy Postmaster General of Canada.
3. The local Superintendence of Post Office business, and performance of such duties as are assigned to them by the Statute, or entrusted to them from time to time by the Postmaster General, will be confided to the Post Office Inspectors, of whom there are seven, stationed and exercising their powers and functions in the undermentioned Postal Divisions.
| Postal Division. | Post Office Address. |
|---|---|
| Nova Scotia | Halifax, N. S. |
| New Brunswick and the Bay Chaleurs, Coast of Gaspé | Frederickton, for the present |
| Province of Quebec, as far West as Three Rivers | Quebec |
| Province of Quebec, from Three Rivers Westward | Montreal |
| Province of Ontario, as far as Cobourg | Kingston |
| Province of Ontario, from Cobourg to Hamilton | Toronto |
| Province of Ontario, from Hamilton Westward | London |