dries, breweries, oil refinery, sugar refinery, 

 agricultural implements, cotton and woollen 

 goods, paper, musical instruments, gunpowder, 

 mattresses, soap, candles, paints, chocolates, and 

 spices. The largest sugar refinery in Canada, 

 with a capacity of 4,200 barrels, is located there. 

 In 1920, the city's exports amounted to $54,562,- 

 947, consisting, in the main, of apples, hay, 

 potatoes and lumber. 



Construction has been under way for some 

 time to vastly improve harbor facilities at a cost 

 of $30,000,000, of which two-thirds has been 

 expended. The new ocean terminals, nearing 

 completion, will have docking accommodation 

 for two score of the world's largest ships at the 

 same time, and the transit sheds will be the 

 largest in Canada. In 1920, the port tonnage 

 was 8,953,803. 



Halifax, for Canada, in a way combines the 

 old with the new. Reminiscent to a degree of 

 Canada's colonial days, it sees the arrival of new 

 peoples from overseas, and ushers them in to 

 create future history. Both imperially and 

 nationally, it is of prime importance as a port 

 and outlet for the Dominion's exports, and, as a 

 capital city, the affairs of an important province 

 and section of Canada revolve about it. 



The Canadian Red Cross 



For the first time it has been possible to 

 obtain a comprehensive idea of what the Cana- 

 dian people achieved for the merciful work of 

 the Red Cross during the war, when statistics of 

 operations, which extended until well after the 

 armistice, were presented to the Tenth Inter- 

 national Red Cross Conference at Geneva. The 

 publication is an illuminating illustration of the 

 splendid manner in which the people at home 

 supplemented the heroism of the Canadian 

 Corps in the field, and the record of continuous 

 labor and substantial donations is a remarkable 

 one for a nation largely undeveloped and of 

 small population. 



The Canadian Red Cross Society is affiliated 

 with the British Red Cross Society, being 

 founded in 1896, the first overseas branch in the 

 British Empire, its primary duty being to furnish 

 aid to sick and wounded during war. By Dom- 

 inion legislation in 1919, it set a new and national 

 object: " In time of peace or war to carry on and 

 assist in work for the improvement of health, 

 the prevention of disease, and the mitigation of 

 suffering throughout the world." 



Up to the end of the year 1919, the Canadian 

 Red Cross collected from its members and by 

 public subscription for war work and after-war 

 relief, the sum of nine million dollars, made up 

 as follows: Alberta, $486,253; British Columbia 

 $469,468; Manitoba, $965,371; New Brunswick, 

 $66,107; Nova Scotia, $398,166; Ontario, $3,737,- 

 994; Prince Edward Island, $51,362; Quebec, 



$491,071; Saskatchewan, $1,746,404; Yukon 

 Territory, $31,147; United States, $609,816; 

 Cuba, $20,000; others, $321. 



Gifts to France and Europe 



Supplies sent overseas during the war 

 totalled 341,325 cases, of which 147,270 were 

 supplied to hospital units in England. Assistance 

 was also afforded to the French hospitals, par- 

 ticularly after the enemy drive of March, 1918, 

 and to Serbia, Belgium, Roumania, and Italy. 

 The work of the Society overseas as an auxiliary 

 of the Canadian Army Medical Corps included 

 part of the buildings and equipment of the 

 hospitals at Taplow, Bushey Park, Ramsgate, 

 Bexhill, Buxton, and Shorncliffe. Supplies were 

 issued to all these hospitals, as well as to military 

 hospitals in France, whilst two convoys of 

 ambulances were provided and maintained in the 

 field. 



A valuable and highly consolatory work was 

 carried on by the society for prisoners-of-war 

 throughout hostilities, and after their liberation 

 from foreign camps at the armistice. Only the 

 supplies of the society made possible the exten- 

 sive feeding and assistance rendered the tens of 

 thousands of civilians the Canadian Corps found 

 on its hands after capturing and liberating the 

 Cambria area. Gifts to France in money amounted 

 to nearly five million francs, in addition to 

 94,000 cases of supplies valued at nearly five 

 million dollars. 



The Canadian Red Cross Society, with a 

 fine war record, carried on its good work in the 

 period of post-war adjustment. Hospital equip- 

 ment and supplies were returned to Canada for 

 use in civil and military hospitals. The hospital 

 huts at Bushey Park Hospital were presented to 

 the London County Council as a home for 

 delicate children, and those at Taplow to the 

 City of Birmingham for conversion into a 300- 

 bed hospital for tubercular and crippled children. 

 A highly satisfactory record of a work of mercv 

 in time of war and peace 



Teaching Future Farmers 



With agriculture the first industry of Canada 

 and likely to remain so, the farmer is a factor of 

 paramount importance in the Dominion's national 

 life, and the better farmer he is, the greater the 

 benefit to the country. His sons and daughters 

 are the farmers and farmers' wives of to-morrow, 

 and so their education is really one of the most 

 important problems of the country. To keep 

 the children of the farm on the land, a love of 

 the farm and all that pertains to it must be 

 inculcated in early years, and so it is incumbent 

 upon all who have national agricultural progress 

 at heart to make the education of the young 

 people along agricultural lines as pleasant as 

 possible. Agriculture is a life profession, the 



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