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Manufacture*. — The following table shows the number of establishments, the capital, the number of employees, and the amount of their salaries and wagee, the cost of materials, and the value of products in 1917, in various groups of industries. The totals for 1918 are also added.

Num- ber of

Employees.

Group of

Cost of

Value of

Industries.

Estab- lish- ments

Capital.

Number.

Salaries and

materials. Dollars.

product*.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Dollars. 754,637,940

Food products

$,009

299,032,5S9

58,746

46.125.1S8

564,959,467

Textiles ....

4,112

203,308,5S7

86,875

53,930,314

141,953,358

43,565

Iron and steel

products. ..

1,049

307,407,980

77,159

78,737,983

204,732,121

400,3S5,086

Timber, lumber,

4,463

2S9,169,396

98,962

68,447,156

87,159,851

225,522,189

Leather and pro-

ducts ....

1,249

76,315,861

21,167

.4,311

61,S03,94S

104,804,689

Taper and printing

1,819

224,176,986

47,746

39,898,894

51,219,102

148,396,426

Liquors and beve-

•s ....

482

48,178,985

5,895

4,864,231

12,859,171

20,985,226

Chemicals and

allied products

3SS

117,903,392

17,884 16,258,389

•5,575,226

1 83,61 S,658

Clay, glass, and

stone products

913

79,420,372

12,077 10,S05,2S4

5,408,152

82.374,060

Metals and pro-

ducts not other-

wise specified.

2.311

123,459,129

29,687

-50,967

90,790,104

171,650,905

Tobacco & mannf.

176

27,277,858

10,236

5,991,835

19,092,845

46,786,288

Vehicles ....

970

219,766,079

53,554

49,623,904

102,258,684

197,488.776

Vessels ....

201

42,966.932

13,161 13

13,385,^78

37,244,67S

Hand trades. .

5,976

47.»S0,234

3-1,190 27,868,105

29.731,838

80.'

Other

34.392

680,385,347

155,301,195

386,420,242

Totals, 1917

■49,727

1, ''05.730,640

3,015,577,940

Totals, IBIS

35,745

2,891,782,291

■71,003

1,732,969,101 3,1*2,440,759

Note — This table includes all establishments, irrespective of the number of perions

employed.

The water power resources of Canada have been estimated at 20 million hone power. The plants existing in 1919 utilised about 2,400,000 horse power (Ontario, over a million, Quebec, 900,000, British Columbia, 300,000).

Commerce.

The customs tariff of Canada is protective, but there is a preferential tariff in favour of the United Kingdom and most of the colonies ; the duties on direct imports from the United Kingdom and the colonies, kc, being reduced, but alcoholic liquors, liquid medicines, tobacco, and refined sugar from raw sugar produced elsewhere than in British colonies, are excluded from the reduction.

The returns of values of imports and exports are those supplied in entries at the Customs, where imports must be entered for duty at their fair market value as for home consumption in the country of purchase. Quantities are ascertained from invoices and by examination, wines are gauged and spirits tested. The country whence imports are received is the country of purchase or whence shipment was made to Canada ; the country of destination is that to which shipment is made. Thus, Canadian wheat, purchased by New York dealers shipped to and entered in bond at New Tork, and thence exported to Great Britain, would appear only as exported from Canada to the United States. The only Canadian port where transit trade is recorded is Montreal, such trade comprising chiefly goods received from the United States and transhipped to other countries by the St. Lawrence route. Transit trade is not included in the general trade, which comprises all other imports into and exports from Canada. The term "special trade," in Canada, is applied to imports from Newfoundland which are exempt from duties leviable on similar ;»oods from other countries.

All export entries are delivered at the ' frontier port of exir,' and the totals thereof are credited to the respective ports where the goods rass Outward from Canada.