your political parties and reconstruct them in terms of 

 this larger civilization. The process will not start until 

 every man and woman has his or her chance. We are only 

 beginning, so don't try to do it all at once. Let each one 

 in kindliness remember that the other fellow is human 

 also; let us all put our hands to this task and smile when 

 the clouds are dark and when the winds blow. Let us 

 give our allegiance to the task, all that is in us, because we 

 are working out the processes of God. Let us take from 

 other civilizations and other nations the best they have 

 and give back the best we have, so that working in our 

 little generation, let us each go to our task with faith in 

 ourselves, faith in our civilization and faith in God, and 

 when eventide comes, having done a square day's work 

 in a square man's way, it will bring light to us, and there 

 can be no blessing fall on you in this dear land of my birth 

 too beautiful to satisfy me, who think of Canada so often 

 as the home land." 



Canadian Toy Industry 



What promises to develop into a new industry 

 of importance in Canada is the manufacture of 

 toys. In a normal year it requires 

 considerably more than a million 

 dollars' worth of toys at manufac- 

 turers' prices to satisfy the demands 

 of the Canadian market. Before 

 the war the larger part of these 

 came from Germany and Austria, 

 but with the opening of hostilities 

 the export ceased, German-made 

 playthings were banished from the 

 nurseries, and Canadian children 

 faced somewhat of a shortage in 

 cheap toys. Many eyes were, 

 however, open to the opportunity 

 offered, and to-day the manufacture 

 of toys is an industry which has got 

 away to a successful start, and 

 under government encour- 

 agement promises to assume 

 great prominence among 

 Canadian manufactures, and 

 partially if not wholly sup- 

 plant the product of other 

 countries upon the home 

 market. 



To determine the status 

 of the industry and to encourage the utilization 

 of waste wood material in this way by Canadian 

 manufacturers, a conference and fair was held 

 recently in Toronto under the auspices of the 

 Department of Trade and Commerce, which 

 disclosed in a surprising manner the healthy 

 progress of the toy industry in the years 

 since its inception. Through engaging the co- 

 operation of Montreal and Toronto dealers in 

 toys, it was possible to gather together about 

 20,000 articles of Canadian manufacture, the 

 contribution of forty-nine exhibitors. This was 

 considered most gratifying for an industry but 

 recently incepted and lacking as yet efficient 

 organization. 



Canadian Toy Association 



At the conclusion of the toy fair, a Canadian 

 Toy Association was formed and a committee 



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elected. Among the many important resolu- 

 tions was a decision to mark all Canadian 

 manufactured toy goods uniformly with a maple 

 leaf and the words "Made in Canada." A 

 meeting of women's organizations at the same 

 time drew up several resolutions for the encour- 

 agement of the purchase of Canadian made toys 

 among Canadian women by drawing their 

 attention to the manufacture. 



One very gratifying feature of the fair was 

 that buyers of many wholesale houses and 

 departmental stores placed orders for thousands 

 of dollars' worth of Canadian toys, a number of 

 exhibitors receiving orders enough to keep 

 them busy throughout the year. Some, indeed, 

 were obliged to refuse orders on arcount of 

 financial resources or limitation of staff. 



Home Market a Million Dollars 



In the question of the manu- 

 facture of Canadian toys, the 

 home market is an important 

 factor. In the fiscal year 1914, 

 which ended four months before 

 the outbreak of the war, the total 

 value of toys imported into Canada 

 was $1,037,000, of which about 

 $580,000 worth came from Ger- 

 many, and $5,600 from Austria. 

 In that year, Canada imported 

 from the United States toys to 

 the value of over $293,000; from 

 the United Kingdom, $91,000; 

 from France, $33,000; from Japan, 

 $26,000; and small quantities from 

 Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, 

 Italy and China. Canadian 

 production at that time 

 was practically nil, but the 

 success of manufacture since 

 that date, with the high 

 excellence of the product 

 and the favorable prices 

 at which it can be turned 

 out, promises to eliminate 

 the foreign market and to supply the Canadian 

 market which, conservatively, at the present 

 time, amounts to over a million dollars a 

 year. 



It is interesting to Canadians to know that 

 the manufacture of toys is rapidly becoming an 

 important industry in the United States, 

 because the general feeling is that what can be 

 done across the border can be done in Canada, 

 the labor conditions of the two countries being 

 much the same, with Canada probably having 

 the advantage as regards supplies of raw mate- 

 rials. In the future, the waste products of the 

 lumber camps and the woods products factories 

 will not be consigned to the ever burning incin- 

 erator, but will be increasingly used for the 

 manufacture of toys to put an all-Canadian 

 product into the homes of Canadian children. 



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