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 318 THE BftlTISH EMPIRE: — NOVA SCOTIA

(1920) 632,000 acres, producing 948,000 tons; oats, 153,000 acres, pro- ducing 4,637,000 bushels; wheat, 26,000 acres, producing 512,000 bushels; barley, 11,000 acres, 298,000 bushels; potatoes, 50.000 acres, 10,209,000 bushels ; turnips, mangolds, &c, 20,000 acres, 8,611,000 bushels.

The principal minerals found in Nova Scotia are coal, iron, gold, copper, gypsum, silica, fire clays, brick clays, building stone, limestone, antimony, lead, silTer, manganese, tungsten, diatomaceous earths. The known coal fields embrace 725 square miles. The gold fields cover about 3,000 square miles. The value of the principal mineral productions in 1920 was : — Goal, 34,000,000 dollars; steel, iron and by-products, 19,720,000 dollars.

The estimated forest area of Nova Scotia is over 12,000 square miles. The principal trees are spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, birch, oak and maple. The value of the forest products in 1920 reached the sum of 17,390,000 dollars.

The fisheries of the Province are the most extensive in Canada. About 12,000,000 dollars are invested in this industry, and about 30,000 men are employed. Cod. lobsters, mackerel, herring, and haddock are the principal fish. Total market value of fish caught in 1920, 13,890,000 dollars.

The number of industrial establishments was in 1918, 2,118, with a capital of 80,187,000 dollars, employing 25,793 wage-earners ; wages and salaries, 19,966,000 dollars ; cost of materials, 47,186,000 dollars; value of products, 93,411,000 dollars.

The annual wealth of the Province in 1920 was estimated at 199,542,000 dollars.

Commerce and Communications. — The imports entered for con- sumption during 1919 were 16,500,000 dollars; the exports, 75,000,000 dollars; the duty collected, 3,000,000 dollars.

Transportation facilities in Nova Scotia are excellent. The country is covered with a network of railways, 1,434 miles in extent. There are 18,000 miles of highways. Besides thisj subsidised boats ply round the shores making regular calls at all the important ports. The principal railways are the Canadian Government Railway ; the Halifax and South Western and Inverness (owned by Canadian Northern) ; and the Dominion Atlantic (owned by the Canadian Pacific).

In 1918 there were 1,480 miles of steam railway, and 50,039 miles of telephone wire, 34,121 urban and 15,918 rural.

Books of Reference.

Official.

Brochures on Nova Scotia, by the Secretary'of Industries and Immigration. Agricultural Bulletins by the Secretary of Agriculture. Reports of various Provincial Departments.

Non-Official.

Oo«pr«*»i(H. R.), Un Peleringe an Payed'Evangeline.

Huliburlon(T. C), Historical and Statistical Account of Nora Scotia.- Ilistoi) of Nova Scotia.

Proceeding!! and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Historical Society.

Proceedings and TraiiHactious of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science.

Satmdtrt (K. M.), Three Premiers of Nova Scotia (Johnson, Howe. Tupper).

Silver (A. P.), The Call of Nova Scotia to the Emigrant and Sportsman

Smith(P. H ), Acadia.

8»a* (H. K.), Nature in Acadia.

ITillitn (BtckU*), Nova Scotia, The Pro vino* Miat has been passed by. Loudon, If 11.