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Imports I'l'om United Kingdom in 1911, 153,867^., and exports to the same, 3,557/. The imports given are exclusive of Government stores.

Food supplies are mostly imported from the United States and Canada and nearly all the export produce of Bermuda goes to those two countries. The principal imports in 1910 were: provisions, 17,214?.; flour and meal, 22,909Z. ; cotton goods, 19,371/. ; butter, 16,520/. ; ale and beer, 13,681/. ; sugar, 12,335/. ; apparel, 36,241/.; leatherwares, 16,200/.; oxen and cows, 21,518/, The principal exports in 1910 were : onions, 31,094/. ; lily-bulbs, 6,210/. ; potatoes, 38,657/.; arrow-root, 721/.

The registered shipping consisted (1911) of 5 steam vessels of 251 tons net, and 24 sailing vessels of 6,207 tons net ; total net tonnage, 6,458.

In 1910 the total tonnage of vessels entered and cleared was 688,315 tons, of which 551,421 were British. There are 167 miles of telephone wire under the control of the military, and 15 of telegraph cable. There is also a private telephone company, which has about 400 subscribers and upwards of 1,200 milesof wire in line. A telegraj^h cable connects the islands with Halifax, Nova Scotia, and another connects with Turks Island and Jamaica. There are (1910) 19 post offices in the colony ; the number of letters dealt with in the year 1910 was 821,515 ; post-cards 378,282 ; newspapers book packets and circulars, 125,384 ; parcels, 15,044. The post office revenue was 7,984/., and expenditure, 6,394/. Savings bank deposits on December 31, 1910, 37,474/. to the credit of 1,967 depositors.

There are two banks in the Island, the Bank of Bermuda, Ltd., and Butterfield and Son, Ltd., both local. The Colonial Government deals with both. Bills of exchange issued by the Treasury Chest Office in the Colony form the basis of exchange with the outside world.

The currency, weights, and measures are British, but silver coin is legal tender to any amount. There is no paper money iir circulation, except some Rank of England notes.

References : Bermuda in Colonial Reports. Annual. London.

2Vei««o» (Margaret), Glimpses of Life in Bermuda and the Tropics. London, 1S97.

CANADA.

(Dominion of Canada.)

Constitution and Government.

The territories which now constitute the Dominion of Canada came under British power at various times, some by settlement and others by conquest or session. Nova Scotia was occupied in 1627 ; the Hudson's Bay Company's Charter, conferring rights over the territories to the east and west of the Bay, was granted in 1670 ; Canada was conquered in 1759 and, along with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, was formally ceded to Great Britain by France in 1763 ; Vancouver Island was acknowledged to be British by the Oregon Boundary Treaty of 1846, and British Columbia was occupied in 1858. As originally constituted the Dominion was composed of the provinces of Canada — Upper and Lower — Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. They were U])ited under the provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in March, 1867, known as 'The British North America Act, 1867,'