280, British Columbia 65, and the Yukon 113. 

 Silver foxes born on farms in 1919 numbered 

 4,877, patch or cross foxes 495, red foxes 162, 

 mink 40, and raccoons 2. 



Over 2,000 Silver Fox Pelts 



A total of 2,028 silver fox pelts of the value 

 of $482,364 were sold from fur farms in 1919, 

 distributed by provinces as follows: Prince 

 Edward Island 1,570, value $369,194; Nova 

 Scotia 113, value $28,543; New Brunswick 103, 

 value $23,155; Quebec 84, value $30,525; 

 Ontario 44, value $6,417; Manitoba, Saskatche- 

 wan and Alberta 63, value $13,180; British 

 Columbia 8, value $1,330; and the Yukon 43, 

 value $10,020. There were also sold from fur 

 farms 305 patch or cross fox pelts, value $20,914; 

 156 red fox pelts, value $4,156; one blue fox pelt, 

 value $65; 56 mink pelts, value $1,030; and 

 2 raccoon, value $30. In all, during the year 

 1919, the number of pelts sold by Canadian fur 

 farms was 2,548, a value of $508,549. 



As this is the first survey of the industry 

 conducted by the Government, it is not possible 

 to give comparative figures, but it is clear to 

 anyone in touch with the situation that the 

 industry, of but recent initiation, has made 

 rapid strides in the past few years. Since these 

 figures were compiled, for instance, the Govern- 

 ment has given permission for the establish- 

 ment of many beaver ranches, whilst interest 

 has been devoted to the muskrat and skunk as 

 animals feasible of domestic rearing. 



Across Canada Winnipeg 



Perhaps no city of the entire globe has 

 attained greater or more rapid world prominence 

 than Winnipeg, which is indisputably to-day 

 one of the potentially greatest cities of the 

 American continent. Winnipeg is the capital of 

 the province of Manitoba, but this thriving hub 

 of agriculture and industry stands for much 

 more in Canadian economic life. Situated 

 almost midway between Atlantic and Pacific, 

 and only sixty miles from the United States 

 boundary, it is the logical centre of the great 

 Dominion, the division of East from West, and 

 the gateway to the vast storage houses of the 

 three prairie provinces and the ultramontane 

 territory of British Columbia. 



Winnipeg has a not insignificant place in 

 Canadian history, and its transition from prairie 

 to the trading post of Fort Garry, and to the 

 splendid modern city at present standing at the 

 juncture of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, has 

 been both romantic and sensational. The site 

 of the future city saw the arrival in 1812 of Lord 

 Selkirk with his sturdy band of pioneer settlers; 

 as a village it passed through many harassing 

 and retarding viscissitudes consequent upon the 

 factions of the great trading companies, and 



figured prominently in the Riel rebellion. It 

 was incorporated as a city in 1873, and saw a 

 period in its progressive youth when lots on its 

 Main Street were selling for more than land on 

 Michigan Boulevard, Chicago. 



The Chicago of Canada 



Winnipeg has, in fact, so many features of its 

 growth and development in common with the 

 middle-west American city, that it is popularly 

 termed the Chicago of Canada. A city system- 

 atically planned from its earliest days with a 

 view to combined beauty and utility, it is har- 

 moniously laid out on the prairie at the converg- 

 ing of the two rivers, and grows yearly in the 

 same orderly manner. With wide, spacious, 

 cleanly thoroughfares flanked by tall, handsome 

 public buildings and utilities, it has not neglected 

 its parks and open spaces, providing adequately 

 for its two hundred thousand people. 



The grain sown by the Selkirk settlers ushered 

 in the new era of Manitoba and the prairie 

 provinces, and Winnipeg owes the foundation of 

 its real development to its situation as the 

 centre of the unsurpassed agricultural territory 

 which surrounds it. As the outlet of the vast 

 plains of grain fields, it has attained the distinc- 

 tion of being the world's greatest grain market. 

 Practically the entire Western Canadian grain 

 crop passes through its portals, both the exports 

 for European points and for the United States 

 market. Its railroad terminals are a veritable 

 maze of radiating lines, giving the city the most 

 intimate touch with the entire American con- 

 tinent. Its stockyards are yearly becoming a 

 more formidable rival of those of Chicago, whilst 

 farm produce of every description passes through 

 the city on its way to the world's export markets. 

 Winnipeg's exports to the United States alone 

 in 1920, consisting largely of cattle, fish, wheat, 

 butter and farm produce, amounted to 

 $50,000,000. 



Industry has progressed hand in hand with 

 agriculture, and now Winnipeg is in a position 

 to produce practically all the requirements of 

 the Western farmer and householder, and acts 

 as the main distributing centre for the entire 

 West. In a total of some six hundred manufac- 

 turing plants, there is about $85,000,000 

 invested. These plants, in 1920, had an output 

 valued at $120,000,000. Fresh industries are 

 starting each year, new incorporations in the 

 province in 1920, exceeding a capitalization of 

 $100,000,000, and most of them have their 

 headquarters in the capital city. The city's 

 wholesale turnover exceeds $250,000,000 

 annually. 



Great Water Power Development 



In the Winnipeg river the city of Winnipeg 

 has excellent water transportation, and one of 

 the richest sources of water power development 

 on the continent. The plant of the Winnipeg 



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