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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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Forestry.— The fore.st area is officially estimated at about 568,500,000 acres : —

Acres Acres

182,000,000 Quebec 20,000,000

New Brunswick .... 11,000,000

180,000,000 Nova Scotia 5,500,000

70,000,000

British Columbia. ..

Manitoba, Sask, Alberta,

and territories. . ..

Ontario

The forest products exported to the United Kingdom in 1911 amounted in value to $11,965,131, out of a total of $45,439,057. The exportable surplus of the wood pulp industry was $5,715,532 in 1911, chiefly to Great Britain and the United States. The Crown forests belong to the Provincial Governments, except in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Rail- way Belt (forty miles wide) in British Columbia, where they belong to the Dominion.

Fisheries. —The total value of the produce of the fisheries of Canada in 1910-11 was $29,965,433, and in 1911-12, $34,667,872. The values of the principal catches in 1910-11 were: cod, $5,921,248; salmon, $7,205,871; herring, $1,551,814; lobsters, $3,784,099; mackerel, $400,182. In 1910-11, according to provinces, the values were : Nova Scotia, $10,119,243; British Columbia, $9,163,235; New Brunswick, $4,134,144; Quebec, $1,692,475; Ontaiao, $2,026,121; Prince Edward Island, $1,153,708; Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, $1,676,507.

Mining. — Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Quebec, N. and W. Ontario, Alberta, and Yukon Territory are the chief mining districts. The total value of the mineral produce was in 1911, $102,291,686; in 1910, $106,823,623. The princijml metals and minerals produced in 1910 and 1911 were as follows : —

1910

Product

Quantity-

Copper

Gold

Pig-iron from Canadian ore>^

r>ead

Nickel

Silver

Asbestos ....

Coal

Gypsum ....

Natural gas .... Petroleum ....

Salt

Cement, Portland. Clay products—

Brick ....

Sewer pipe, fireclay, drain tile,

Lime

Limestone ....

Lbs. Ozs.

Tonsi Lbs.

Ozs Tonsl

Brls.

Tonsl

Bils.

&c. .

Bush.

55,692,369

493,707

104,900

.S2,9S7,508

37,271, 0.S3

32,Se.0,2"i4

77,508

12,909,152

525,246

315,R95

84,092

4.753,975

5,848,146

Values

Dels.

7,094.094

10,205,835

1,650,849

1,216 249

11,181,310

17..^80,455

2..55.5,974

30,909,779

934,446

1,346,471

38S,550

409.624

6,41;', 215

6,007.710 1,622,246 1,137,079 2,249 576

1911

Quantity Value 2

55,848,665

42,186 23,525,050 34,098,744 32,740,748

100,893 11,291,553

505,457

291,092

91,582

5,635,950

7,227,310

Dols.

6,911,831

9,762,096

613,404

818.672

10,229,623

17,452,128

2,922,062

26,378,477

97s, 863

1,820,923

357,073

443,004

7,571,299

6,521,558 1,790,151 1,493,119

2.282,146

1 Tiie ton used throughout is that of 2,000 lbs.

2 The metals copper, lead, nickel, and silver, are, for statistical and comparative purposes, valued at the final average value of the refined metal. Pig-iron is valued at the tnrnace, non-metallic products at the mine or point of shipment, and structural material and clay products at the point of shipmeTit.

3 The total production of pig-iron in Canada in 1910 was 800,797 tons, valued at 11,245,630 dols. , of which it is estimated that 695,851 tons, valuea at 9.594,773 dois., should be credited to imported ores. The total production in 1911 was 917,535 tons valued at 12,306,860 dols., of which it is estimated that 875,349 tons valued at 11,693 456 dols should be credited to imported ores. ''