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than that of England or France. In 1902 the value of the soap pro- 
duced was approximately $3,000,000.7° 
GLYCERINE. 
This necessary bye-product in the manufacture of soap is refined in 
some cases by the producers themselves; others sell it to firms engaged 
more particularly in the refining trade. Among these might be mentioned 
the St. Henri Chemical Company, of Montreal, who buy waste lyes from 
the soap manufacturers, recover the salt from the lye, refine the glycerine, 
and sell to the makers of nitro-glycerine. The capacity of these works 
is 10,000,000 pounds of waste lye yearly.*! 
VI.—REFINED CHEMICALS AND DRUGS. 
There are very few makers of refined chemicals in the Dominion. 
The small demand for pure chemicals is mainly accountable for the lack 
of local manufacturers, the market being necessarily a small one, and most 
buyers of pure chemicals for laboratory uses are apt to demand articles 
of the make of one or other of the large and old established German or 
English houses. One can hardly doubt but that the Canadian maker 
must desire a higher tariff on imported material. Of heavier chetnicals, 
however, the Canadian Process Co. has recently begun the manufacture 
and the work is proving very successful. Such products are bisulphite, 
sulphide, thiosulphate (hyposulphite), sulphite and sulphate of soda, lime, 
and zinc salts, lactic acid, casein, etc. -Messrs. Lyman Bros. and Company 
are continuing to extend along the lines of refined chemicals, their gold and 
silver salts being much in demand. Along with these they produce and 
refine such high grade chemicals as chloroform, ether, iodide of potassium, 
bromides, scale preparations, iron and zine salts, acids of phosphorus, 
syrups, tinctures, and flavouring extracts. Most of the raw materials are 
imported. In the drug department this firm has probably the best grind- 
ing machinery in Canada, where, besides their own work, they do a consider- 
able amount of grinding for other firms. In the strictly pharmaceutical 
business, Messrs. Parke, Davisand Company, Walkerville; H. K. Wam- 
pole, Toronto; F. Stearns, Windsor; and John Wyeth and Bro., Montreal, 
have manufacturing establishments. Recently the brand ‘‘Made in 
Canada”’ has been much in evidence, and many buyers prefer such goods, 
even if they are slightly more expensive, to the imported article. 
A few years ago the Liquid Carbonate Company of Toronto conimenced 
the manufacture of carbon dioxide on a commercial scale, and is now 
(30) Mr. Knight, of the Sunlight Soap Co. 
(31) Letter from the President of the Company. 
