acreages not included in the government returns, the total 

 tobacco crop of Canada for the year must be in the neigh- 

 borhood of 50,000,000 pounds with a value of more than 

 $13,000,000. 



Ontario and Quebec Principal Producers 



Ontario and Quebec are the principal tobacco growing 

 provinces of Canada, though the Okanagan district of 

 British Columbia is fast assuming an important position, 

 and the irrigated districts of Southern Alberta have con- 

 cluded successful years of experiments which will no doubt 

 be followed by a certain amount of commercial cultivation 

 in these areas. 



In Ontario, in 1920, the total production of the flue- 

 cured or Bright tobacco for all counties and townships 

 was 2,259,100 pounds, and the total of White Burley, 

 19,429,400 pounds. The grand total shows that the 1920 

 tobacco crop of Ontario, including all varieties, amounted 

 to 21,688,500 pounds, which is the largest crop ever grown 

 in Ontario. In 1919 the total provincial production was 

 17,000,000 pounds. Bright tobacco in this province is 

 grown in the counties of Essex and Norfolk, and White 

 Burley in Essex, Kent, Elgin, Norfolk, Brant, Lambton, 

 Middlesex, Prince Edward, Welland, Haldimand and 

 Oxford. A total of 3,009 acres was devoted to the cul- 

 tivation of Bright variety, producing 2,260 pounds, and 

 17,105 acres to White Burley, yielding 19,429 pounds. 



Quebec the Premier Grower 



Quebec is the premier tobacco province of the Domin- 

 ion, and in the year 1920 it is estimated that 33,000 acres 

 were given over to the culture. The average yield per 

 acre was 800 pounds, representing a total harvest of 

 26,400,000 pounds. The total production of 1919 was 

 16,790,000 pounds from 22,360 acres under cultivation, 

 which shows a handsome increase in both the acreage 

 devoted to growing tobacco and in the year's production. 

 The gratifying success which has for years attended 

 tobacco culture in the French-Canadian province has 

 resulted in a steadily growing interest and extended 

 acreage, which is more clearly comprehended when it is 

 noted that in 1911 there were only 12,134 acres in the 

 province devoted to tobacco cultivation, and in 1920 an 

 increase in acreage of 11,000 acres. 



In the counties of Berthier, Joliette, L'Assomption, 

 Montcalm, Portneuf, Richelieu, Rouville, Terrebonne, 

 Vercheres and Yamaska the industry is carried on on a 

 very large scale and is yearly increasing in its revenue- 

 producing importance to the farmers of those sections. 

 In one county a co-operative society has been established 

 for the promotion of the industry with a large warehouse 

 for the care and sale of tobacco; this association sells 

 annually from 500,000 to 600,000 pounds of locally grown 

 tobacco. 



Though the tobacco crop of British Columbia seems 

 insignificant when compared with that of the Eastern 

 provinces, the culture in this area is of much more recent 

 origin, and is as yet confined to that territory about 

 Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley. Fifty-two acres in 

 this region were devoted to tobacco growing in 1920, 

 which produced a yield of 60,000 pounds. This shows a 

 decided falling off from the acreage and production of 

 1919 when eighty-one acres produced 93,000 pounds. 

 All of the 1919 crop was sold to a Quebec manufacturer 

 at 20 cents per pound, whilst the latest report is that the 

 greater part of the 1920 crop is still in the growers' hands. 

 In the favorable growing season of this province, excel- 

 lent tobacco seed can be produced. 



Growth of Popularity of Product 



The clearest evidence of the growth of the popularity 

 of tobacco growing in Canada is seen in a comparison of 

 the three last years, 1918, 1919 and 1920, in which the 

 average productions per acre were respectively, 1,062 

 pounds, 1,069 pounds, and 905 pounds. In 1918 there 

 were 13,403 acres producing tobacco which yielded 



14,232,000 pounds; the 1919 yield from 31,586 acres was 

 33,770,000; and the 1920 crop of 48,088,500 came from 

 53,114 acres. This takes into account only the main 

 crop coming from the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. 



The tobacco manufacturing industry of Canada is 

 mainly confined to the province of Quebec where it is to 

 be found thriving in many parts. A good deal of the 

 Ontario tobacco crop finds its way for manufacture to 

 Hamilton, Walkerville and London, whilst the centre of 

 the British Columbia industry is the town of Vernon. 

 A notable event of 1920, in the tobacco industry of Ontario, 

 was the establishment of the Canadian Tobacco Growers' 

 Co-operative Company at Windsor which commenced 

 operations this year and is handling 100,000 pounds of 

 dry leaf daily. The corporation gained access to the 

 English markets which are prepared to receive any quantity 

 of the Canadian product, the Dominion's 1920 crop being, 

 they state, of superior quality and to be preferred in 

 manufacture. In Quebec, during the past year, a co- 

 operative move was made when the Allies Tobacco Packers 

 and Growers, Limited, purchased the tobacco concern of 

 the J. M. Fortier Company at Farnham, and in con- 

 junction are operating two farms to raise the raw material. 

 One hundred and twenty hands are employed in this 

 packing plant, with about thirty on the land. 



Capital Invested 



Though up-to-date figures regarding the tobacco 

 manufacturing industry in Canada are not available, the 

 Dominion Bureau of Statistics survey of the industry 

 covering the industry foe 1918 gives the amount of capital 

 invested in the industry at the end of that year at $23,284,- 

 799, and the value of its products, $37,883,974, leaving it 

 just outside the first twenty Canadian industries. There 

 were at that time 7,897 men and women given employ- 

 ment in its various phases, receiving salaries and wages 

 totalling $5,338,347. Since this survey was concluded 

 there has been, needless to say, an expansion in pro- 

 portion to the extension in cultivation. 



There would seem to be little doubt that the Canadian 

 tobacco industry has an assured future with a steadily 

 increasing home demand, and the favorable attention of 

 foreign markets. The Canadian government, as the result 

 of its extensive investigation and experiment, is assured 

 of the adaptability of many sections of Canadian land to 

 the culture and the national prosperity to accrue from it. 

 One of its ways of encouraging the industry among 

 Canadian farmers is by the distribution of free seed of 

 several varieties, which is put up in quarter ounce packages, 

 sufficient to plant about two acres to this crop. 



Building in Canada in 1920 



Building in Canada in 1920 exhibited a grati- 

 fying increase over the years immediately pre- 

 ceding it both in residential, business and 

 industrial construction, and indicated a steady 

 insistent movement towards the energetic activi- 

 ties of pre-war years. Building was practically 

 at a standstill during the years of hostilities, due 

 not only to a dearth of labor but a discouraging 

 mounting pf prices of all the materials used in 

 construction. An energetic attempt to alleviate 

 the situation was made in the first post-war year, 

 1919, to meet the enormous house shortage which 

 the situation had evolved, with the result that 

 twice as much construction was undertaken and 

 put through as in 1918, the last year of the 

 conflict. The activities of 1920, though still 

 hampered largely by the high prices which pre- 

 vailed for construction materials and labor, saw 

 a very large increase in the amount of building 



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