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CANADA.

latter country in the year ending June 30, 18G8. Previous to 1862 Canada took from the United States an average of ten millions of goods ; since then the average did not exceed half that amount. The reverse was the case with Great Britain, the imports of which were less than 16 millions in ten years previous to 1868.

The subjoined tabular statement exhibits the commercial inter- course of the North American Colonies with the United Kingdom, giving the total value of the colonial exports to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manu- factures into the colonies, in each of the ten years I860 to 1869 : —

Tears

Exports from the North American Colonies to Great Britain

Imports of British Home Produce

into the North American

Colonies

1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869

£ 6,826,962 8,667,920 8,499,393 8,165,613 6,850,744 6,350,178 6,867,563 6,767,512 6,772,253 7,734,531

£

■ 3,727,350 3,689,953

• 3,991,010 4,813,482 5,611,276 4,77,7280 6,862,402 5,862,402 4,847,688 6,157,083

The imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures were divided as follows, during the five years 1865-69, among the diffe- rent North American Colonies : —

Colonies

1865

. 1866

. 1867

1868

1869

£

£

£

£

£

British Columbia

161,446

152,069

62,609

74,051

103,206

Hudson's Bay Company

Settlements

67,146

. 50,379

. 49,187

. 38,648

49,720

Newfoundland.

382,817

487,984

. 385,998

261,723

354,450

Canada.

2,448,077

3,926,307

3,729,528

3,054,669

3,144,901

New Brunswick

454,521

747,848

695,390

491,503

598,116

Prince Edward Island

129,439

169,156

103,742

107,352

129,725

Nova Scotia

Total of North American "1 Colonies • " • ' J

1,064,283

1,291,217

928,121

819,614

776,965

4^707,728 6,824,960

5,862,402

4,847,560

5,157,083

As regards the exports 'to the United Kingdom, those of Canada form a much larger proportion of the whole than those of British imports into the North American Colonies. The. exports from Canada, which varied, in the five years 1865-69, from 4^ to near 6 millions sterling, consist principally of the two great staple articles,