Assist Prospective Manufacturer 



Additional information kept on file which is of great 

 assistance to the manufacturer considering C'anadiiin 

 establishment, is that of empty factories, plants which 

 may have become vacant and available through a variety 

 of causes. An example of this is the large number of 

 munition plants which, with the termination of the war, 

 became available for other work. A number of wide-awake 

 United States manufacturers, who were on the look out 

 for premises in Canada, have been located in the past 

 three years in empty munition plants, so much so, in fact, 

 that the supply is now almost entirely exhausted. 



One consideration in locating, and possibly the most 

 important in making a decision of this nature, is that of 

 railway rates between different points, and we are in a 

 position to furnish comparative rates between all points, 

 eliminating a great deal of correspondence and effecting 

 a saving of considerable time. 



The Industrial Department exists, in fact, for the 

 free use of foreign manufacturers selling in Canada who 

 have awakened to the fact that in order to enter into com- 

 petition with Canadian manufacturers it is necessary for 

 them to establish branch plants here. As a matter of fact, 

 in view of the Dominion's tremendous possession of water 

 power and the cheap and contented Canadian labor 

 market, a large number of United States manufacturers 

 have arrived at the conclusion that it not only paid them 

 better to manufacture in Canada for the local trade but 

 for export to British possessions and all other parts of the 

 globe. 



In addition to its tremendous railroad mileage, the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway operates steamships on the 

 Atlantic and Pacific and on the inland lakes, linking up 

 its steel where topographical conditions have broken it 

 and giving an uninterrupted service from points in Canada 

 to many parts of the globe. This greatly facilitates the 

 export trade and is to the enormous advantage of the 

 manufacturer engaging in the export trade who is located 

 on the Company's line. Shipments can be billed from a 

 point in Canada to other points within the Dominion, to 

 the United States, Europe or the Orient, and the agent at 

 the point of distribution bill the cargo through, combining 

 railroad and ocean rates, thus ensuring rapidity in an 

 uninterrupted journey to its ultimate destination. At the 

 end of December last there were forty-three of these ocean 

 and coastal steamships, and since that time other vessels 

 have been purchased to run on the Atlantic and Pacific. 

 There are in addition, serving in Canada, twenty-one lake 

 and river steamers. 



Establishment of Bureaus of Information 



To give every possible assistance to those seeking 

 information on Canada on any conceivable phase, the 

 Department of Colonization & Development maintains 

 Bureaus of Canadian Information at its offices in Montreal, 

 New York and Chicago. Here there are well equipped 

 libraries of matter on all phases of Canadian life which are 

 at the disposal of visitors, and inquiries of every nature 

 are answered by staffs with the aid of the wealth of material 

 the libraries contain, and drawing upon their own wide 

 experiences covering many sides of Canadian progress. 

 In the brief time these Bureaus have been in existence, 

 they have adequately justified themselves in furnishing 

 answers to a multitude of inquiries. Business houses, 

 colleges, students, intending immigrants, all have found 

 them of the utmost assistance in extending to them matter 

 they are in search of. In the establishment of these Bu- 

 reaus of Information we do not, by any means, limit our 

 information to events and developments along our own 

 lines but collect and distribute authentic information on 

 all Canadian provinces, all parts of Canada. Naturally, 

 we are anxious to locate both industries and immigrants 

 along our own lines, but in cases where the inquirer desires 

 facts regarding parts of the country foreign to our system, 

 we give him without reserve, the fullest possible informa- 

 tion. 



It is not unreasonable to say that with a system so 



large and far-reaching as the Canadian Pacific, any pro- 

 gress or development that affects Canada must, in one 

 way or another, affect our system, and that the future 

 progress of the Canadian Pacific is !>ound up intimately 

 with the future progress of Canada as a whole. 



Supplementary to these Information Bureaus, we 

 issue monthly a small publication or semi-house organ 

 wliich covers, as far as possible in the limited space avail- 

 able in its twenty pages, developments in each of the nine 

 provinces agricultural, trade, mineral, fishing, forestry, 

 furs, water powers, municipal affairs, etc., etc. This goes 

 to all of our home and foreign representatives, is indexed 

 and kept on file and is a ready reference to things Cana- 

 dian for intelligent reply to the hundreds of inquiries that 

 weekly come to their offices. As it may interest this Con- 

 vention to see this monthly publication, "Agricultural & 

 Industrial Progress in Canada," a limited number have 

 been distributed on the seats in this hall. 



It is, of course, obvious that the maintenance of an 

 Industrial Department by a railway is not an altruistic 

 work or one purely national. The establishment of new 

 industries on its lines means the conveyance of more raw 

 materials, and, after manufacture, the transportation of 

 the finished article. The transportation of the finished 

 article means an increase in freight earnings with lit t It- 

 corresponding increase in the cost of haulage. Considering 

 the almost illimitable wealth of raw material which Canada 

 possesses and the minute portion which is yet exploited, 

 no country at the present time offers such great advantages 

 to the manufacturer who will exploit them. 



Inducements to U. S. Manufacturer 



One of the greatest inducements Canada holds out to 

 manufacturers considering establishment is the wealth 

 and availability of water powers and their supply of light 

 and power at low cost. Canada leads the world in her 

 wealth of water powers and they are widely distributed 

 over the various provinces. Though only a fraction of 

 that available has yet been developed or utilized, sufficient 

 power for industrial needs is generated at all centres for 

 supply to the manufacturer at low rates. 



There has been at ajl times, . more especially marked 

 since the period of the war, a desire on the part of the 

 Canadian public to purchase " Made-in-Canada " goods, 

 and the adverse balance of exchange existing between 

 C'anada and the United States has had the effect of 

 strengthening this and increasing the anxiety to secure 

 only goods manufactured within the Dominion. This has 

 been an added inducement to the argument for the estab- 

 lishment of United States branch houses in Canada. There 

 are several other reasons, prominent among which are 

 the preferential tariffs in trading with the many parts of 

 the British Empire which can be taken advantage of by 

 Canadian manufacturers. 



In our work it is our endeavor to secure the closest 

 co-operation with Boards of Trade and similar organiza- 

 tions in the various towns along our lines, and we are in a 

 position to be of considerable assistance to them in many 

 ways. For instance, we may receive a letter from a certain 

 town to the effect that it has been negotiating with an 

 industrial concern in the United States which is desirous 

 of locating in Canada and is looking for bonuses, tax 

 exemptions, etc. Our practice then is to write our agent 

 in the nearest place to this town location to secure a report 

 on the standing of this firm, and in very many cases after 

 investigating the manufacturer we are in a position to fully 

 advise the town of the business standing of the firm in 

 question and their desirability or undesirability as a 

 future Canadian industry. 



Most of the principal cities and towns of Eastern 

 Canada have, in the past few years, appointed Industrial 

 Commissioners of their own who are hot on the trail to 

 secure new industries for their particular towns. In co- 

 operation with Boards of Trade, our Industrial Depart 

 ment and other organizations working for the same end 

 notable work has been accomplished, and it may interest 

 you to know that in the past few years approximately 

 six hundred "branch factories of United States industries 



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