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VH. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES ON CANADA
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- ,“Canada, as I see it today, is on the threshold of one of the most astonishing eras of expansion and development that the world has ever known. To watch her in this process, to watch her expansion and development, must be to those who know the Dominion personally a matter of absorbing inter- est ., . . . Canada, with all her natural resources, both human and material, still has room for some of the three commodities essenfial to national pro- gress and prosperity. These are, I think, good brains, good money, and good work. She needs more of all of these things, and if I have learned‘ anything in my eight years’ experience in Canada it is that she wants to be British.
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SIE JOHN A. MacDONALU, CANADA'S FIRST PREMIER
Canada's Greatest Year-i1b92v7
A year oi unparallelled construction.
Best industrial employment year since 1_920.
Motor tourists spent $276,000,000 in Canada,
News print production reached two billion ions.
Water power development nearing 5,000,000 hp.
Canada led tho world in wheat and fiour exports.
Llieixlsurance companies’ assets exceeded a billion.
Canada has become a billion-dollar Dominion-plus.
Canada's gross agricultural wealth rose to 6 billions.
Milling production, a new record, of nearly $250,000,000,
Montreal again premier grain shipping port on continent.
Canada had a favorable trade balance of over 0100000000.
Canada hadits banner year in the automobile industry. _
Canada's wheat yield oi 19.bushel per acre, lcd all countries.
266.000 h.p. oi electrical energy developed, this year. representing cap- ital oi 035,000,000. ' Canadasdollsr stands higher than par in thc world and has reached its " ‘ ‘ purchasing power.
Canadian stock oflerings reached new high volume oi nearly $100,000.- 000, and highest level reached in industrial stock.
Canada's Leadership
Canada leads tho world in wheat exports.
Canada has the largest inland port in Montreal.
Canada has the the greatest railway mileage per capita.
Canada has the largest bufialo herd in the world.
Canada has the largest grain mills in British Empire.
Canada has world's richest nickel and asbestos mines.
Canada has world's longest undeiended boundary lino.
Canada has the most extensive sea fisheries in the world.
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Canado has the llargest forest recources in the Emil!"-
Montreal has the world's largest grain conveying system.
Canada stands among first six nations of the world as an exporting and importing country.
Canada has one oi the highest tides in the world-SW; ieetr-in ‘N061 Bay, Bay oi Fundy.
Canada has the largest combination elevator in the world. _
Canada has one oi the largest gold 03111190 in the world-the Hvilinsvl- producing at the rate oi ovcr $12000. 0 a W81‘-
Canadian National Exhdibltion, '11. Toronto, a largest 1n world. Mad on annual attendance an area-
Ontarlofs Hydro-Electric u nsmission lincs~ iorm one oi the largest public ownership schemes in the world. em__
Canada has largest rallwaynyard? 313F111 0991M“ bl’ °“° °°"° Obi-tiara: :21: gjaefis? ptleizlicly owned ltailway‘ system in the “oglg-gililfligialrieyzltiogzrt Arthur and rm William lead the world m grain signage. capacity oi 70 million buahfiil. '
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Canada's Wealth and Finances
Canada mined more coal in 1027 t 17,411,506 tons) than in any prev- ious year.
Canada's income tax returns in 1927-20 were 89,000,000 more than in 1926-27 despite rate reductions.
Canada has 5% billions oi ioreign money in ...._.-hali from U. S.
Canada had. on Dec. 31, 1927, over 5 billions oi’ liie insurance 1n iorce Only the U. 8. exceeds Canada in per capita amount oi liie insurance.
’Canada has 500 coal mines, with a capital oi $150,000,000.
Canada's field crops value, 1027, was $1.134.102,600, including $439,- 340,000 ior 444,000,000 bushels of wheat. ‘ _
24 hours is saved by transport o1’ transatlantic mail by aeroplane between Rimouski and Montreal.
Canada retired over $100,000,000 of loans in 1927, chiefly from revenue.
Canada exports 90 per cent oi hcr newsprint.
Canada is increasingly able to finance her own industrial develop- ment.
Though less than 30 per cent. oi the population in Canada are en- gaged in iarming, over 36 per cent. oi the national wealth is attributed to" agriculture. Less than one-filth 0i the 300,000,000 acres of land suit- able ior farming in Canada is under cultivation, .yet Canada is the world's second greatest producer oi wheat and oats and the principal wheat exporting country. _
Canada has 600 electric‘ power- plants. representing a capital oi $800,000,000.
Wheat is Canada's greatest single item oi production. 1927 crop was 39 p.c. of total agricultural production value. Retums to farmers oi 1027 crop, $457,602,000, or $48 per head oi total production. 75 p.c. of total crop is exported, viz; 255,132,360 bush. 1927, worth $342,127,673, 75 p.c. going to the United Kingdom.
--_-_-ooa>—-——— Canada's Assets
Canada's population, to-day, esti-
Practically aii the valuable min- erals are found in Canada. " .
Canada's mineral production oi’ 1927 was valued at nearly 250 mil- lions.
Canada ranks third among the world gold producing countries.
Cdnada has the greatest nickel deposits in the world.
Canada has, it is estimated. 100.- 000 square miles oi coal-bearing lands,
The Crow's Nest coal beds are estimated to hold enough coal which, ii mined at the rate oi 4 million tons a year, will last for 5,-- 000 years.
Canada has, it is estimated. n million square miles 0t standing timber.
Canada has the largest white pine areas leit on the continent.
Canada has 52,000 miles o! tele- graph wires.
Canada was the first colony of the Empire to have a penny post.
Canada began the twentieth cen- tury witli the same number as the U. S. began the nineteenth.
Canada has 50 countries and na- tionalities ln her population.
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Canada's Big Farrn, Etc.
Canada has the largest contin- uous wheat field in the world.
Canada's wheat field is approxim- ately 300 miles by 900 miles in ex- tent.
Canada's northwest land area is 50 per cent. -larger than ten oi’ the western states.
Canada has given 57,000,000 acres
"oi land to railway companies in the
Northwest. _v
Canada has 10,000 miles oi rivers wcst oi Lake Superior navigable by steamers.
Winnipeg is Canada's half-way houso between oceans.
Canada has. it is estimated, 100,- 000,000 acres oi grazing land in the west.
Fifty years ago the cattle indus- try oi the west was represented by 20 hood: now a million and a hali in Alberta. _ ’
The first col-load oi cattle was shipped from the west in 1690.
Canada’: Distances
Canada has a continuous ma.» way oi Mlkmileo from the mouth
oi the St. Lawrence to the head oi
Lake Superior.
Canada's lilckensio river ls, with its tributaries. 2.500 miles long, or equal to 2- oi the distance across Ce . .
Canada has 0,000 miles oi wom- waysrromlbsetlowrerlcoto the Mackenzie with lacs thin ‘I50 B11108 ofalondbream. -. l» -
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Signs of Canada's De- velopment
U. S. increase in exports'ln 15 years was 149 per cent. Canada's increase, 310 per cent.
Canada has more telephones in proportion to population than any other country, except the U. S.
Canada's Pro-Cambrian Shield has already yielded a ‘billion in val- ue and is scarcely scratched.
Canada's estimated coal resourc- es, oi 1,234 billion tons, will last for 40,000 years, at present rate oi con- sumptlon.
There is enough nickel ore in Northern Ontario to supply world needs ior over 100 years at the pre- sent rate.
Canada exports three times as much grain as she onsumes.
C -‘ is becoming one oi tile leading big game countries oi the world.
Oi mining investments ln C " . 54 per cent. is Canadian capital, 30.6 United States, 13.4 British.
A new Canadian gold process pro- mises to revolutionize existing mill- ing methods, which will increase the per-ton result from low-grade ores.
Canadian products are now sold in 120 countries.
Canada has some of the greatest and largest national parks and for- est reserves in the world, chiefly in the Rocky Mountains.
Canada is the second best trade customer oi the United States.
' Some Sarnple High Spots
Canada's 1,300 flour mills produce llcarly $200,000,000 worth annually,- includlng 20 million barrels ship- ped to over 50 countries.
Canada's hens produce over 250 million dozen eggs in a year, worth $80,000,000.
Canada grows between 2 and 3 million barrclsor apples a year.
Canada's agricultural wealth has risen to 8 billion dollars, showing an increase of nearly ll millions in a single year.
Canada's net debt was decreased by $87,000,000 as on March 31, 1920,
, a" la. invested $1.350 in other countries. .
Canada's water power develop- mcnt under construction or planned will add 2 million horse power by end oi 1930, requiring additional capital oi 200 millions. This will bring the total to well over 5 mil- lion h. p. '
Canada's estimated national wealth. (outside o! undeveloped nat- ural resources) has risen to over‘ 25* billion dollars. or $2,772 per icaplta‘, one of the highest in the world. The agricultural wealth oi 07.632.000.000 makes the largest item.
Canada's gross agricultural-rev- enue rose, in 1927, to 01.736.000.000, an increase 0i over $52,000,000‘in a year.
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Vancouver's wheat shipments have risen from half a million bushels to ovcr 70 million bushels in 7 years. ,
Canada's production oi newsprint paper increased from 794,567 tons in 1919 to 2,092,000 tons in 1927.
Canada's primary forest produc- tion totalled. in 1926, $204,436,328.
Canada's trade with the United States totalled, in 1927-28, $1,210.- 102941 tan increase of $49,745,190 over 1926-27). Exports were $496,- 646,067; imports, $719,455,954.
Canada's trade with the United Kingdom totalled, in 1927-26, $500.~ 664,695 (a decrease oi $13,293,464 ov- er (1926-27). Exports were $412,- 770,114; imports $185,666,561.
It is predicted that Canada's gold production by the end oi 1926 will be between $44,000,000 and 047,000,- 000. which would give the Dominion a place in production ahead oi the United. States and second among all countries of the world.
Canada is second only to the Un- ited States in auto production.
Canada's forest products trad» with the U. S, of $211,354,661 pro- vides a larger balance than any oth- er class oi products. ~
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Canada's Area and Status
Canada was the first oi’ Britain's colonies to receive sell-governing powers.
Canada was the first British C011- ony to iorm a confederation.
Canadeflhas had 14 governors-gen- eral sirlce Confederation.
Canada has 900 legislators.
Canada extends over an area eq- ual irom Athens to the north pole.
Only one-iourth oi Canada is oc- cupied.
Canada's proportion oi population is less than three to the square mile.
Canada is as large as 30 United Kingdoms, . . . .
Canada is as large as 10 Germ- anys.
Canada's area 1s nearly double Britain's Indian possessions.
Canada is larger than the United States and Alaska.
Canada is 18 times as large as France, 20 times as large as Spain.
Canada is 33 times as large as Italy,
Ontario is over 4 times as large as England. ‘ _
Quebec is nearly 3 times as large as the United Kingdom.
Manitoba is as large as England and Scotland.
Canada's 3 iar northern districts
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are larger than China. (proper). .
British Columbia could hold 25 Switzerlands.
The Maritime Provinces are near- ly as large as England and Wales.
The Yukon district is almost as large as France.
Other Big Canadian Figures
More farm lands were taken up in the Canadian West the last 20 years than in the preceding 300.
United States had a population of 75,000,000 before the foreign trade
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Passenger autos built in Canada are running in 30 diflerent coun- tries.
Canada raised 82.000.000.000 in war loans and made 01.000.000.000 worth oi war explosives.
Canada's Foreign trade expanded at a higher rate in recent years than elsewhere;
The total production oi the field,
- orchard, garden and live stock ex-
ceeds 9,000,000,000 annually. The Hudson Bay Railway will
l shorten the distance irom Westoru
Canada to Liverpool by over 1,000 miles.
Canada has spent $275,000,000 on canals. The first canal in North America was dug by the Royal En- gineers on tho St, Lawrence in 1701.
Canada has a higher per capita pl ' capacity than any other country except the U. S.
Canada produces 50 per cent. of the wood pulp used. in the world manufacture oi rayon. , _
Eighty per cent. oi Canada's min- eral resouroes are still unpi- peciod.
Canada ranks second among world producers oi natural gas.
Canada is now the largest purch- aser of her own bond issues.
Canada's Story Cont'd.
Canada has more than a third oi _the Empire area.
Canada has six soismograph sta- tions ior measufing and receiving earthquake shocks.
Canada has 160 species oi hard- woods, and S1 oi soitwoods-a total oi’ 101.
Government wireless stations have been established in the For North at Aklsvlk, in the Mackenzie River delta. .
Canada leads the world in the us: oi electrical energy per capita oi
rCranoda is the second largest inan-
Canada has two of the world's largest dry docks, in St. John and Esquimalt. =
Ocean vessels drewinl 100F999" ieet. oi water make their way over 2.000 miles mm the heart oi Canada from the Atlantic to the head oi.’
-7- THE BRITISH PREMIER ON CANADA'S m FUTURE _;
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Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin: “Canada has _an enormous future. The future is with you; do not be in too much ofa hurry. Your country is a. coun- try for men of, the. North, virile races. Quality be- fore quantity any day. Build up with the best. What does it matter if it is a hundred years, or two hundred years, or -more, before your country is full? Keep the stock you have, and the men and women you have, and see to it that the coming gen! erations are in no whitinfelior to them. I have often thought that it is as dangerous a. thing to the morale of a. nation to get rich quickly as it is to an individual. Time is all on your side. Maintain the values; maintain the standards.”
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. Striking Story of a Single Year in ._ Canadian Development " ‘ Increpg; in a year Canada's total production (Agriculture, Forestry, Mining,
Electric Power, Building, Manufacturing, etc.) 1926—$6.80fl.341.62l , _ 1927-—05.765,796,700 .... .... ........ Increase aaasssmc
Dairy Production . _ I925—~$24l,609,420 _, _ l926—$249,7l0,067 . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . Increase $ 9,040,747 FleldCrop Values- 1926—Q1,105.520,000 __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1927-—$1,141.367,000 ........................ .. Increase e sssaaooo Cross Agricultural Wealth- . ., ,_ 1s2e-4l.slv.'lla.ooo .................. Increase 0 140,142,000 1927—~$7,963,460,000 \ -
Field Crop Yields- * 1926—97'l,075,550 bus.
1927-—1,057,133,300 bus. ............... .. Increase thus.) 00.06am
No. oi m.» Stock— ......... 1926-—19,470,99l p _
192'7—20,551,590 ........................ .. Increase mo.) 1,000,500
Bank Deposits (Demand and Notice)- Dec. l926—$l.981.652,491 . _ Dec. 192"l—$2,129,959.946 . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . .. Increase 414730240 Bank Assets- Dec. 1926—$3.939,900.790 Dec. 1927-—$3,33l,658,305 ................ .. Increase $291,751,501 Bank Note Circulation Dec. 1026—$l75,083,234 Dec. 1927-—~$182,747,049 ...... .................. .. Increase I 7.000.015 Bank Reserve Fund Dec. 1926—l25.441,700 Dec. 1927--l35,566,700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,. Increase I 10,125,000 Canada purchased her own Bonds in ' 1926 to extent oi $249,056,387 1927-00 extent oi $305,461,100 . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Increase $56,404,709 Canada's Net Debt- Dec. 31, l926—$2,343,364.000 Oct. 31, 1927-42,269,317,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Decrease 0 74,047,000 Mineral Production- . 19204240331123 1927—$241,773,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase I 1,936,401 Coal Output Value— _ 1925-440361351 _ 1026-059,B75.004 . . . . . . . . . , . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Increase $ 10,013,141 Canada's Total Coal Output- 1926—l6,478.13l 0on0
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