Agricultural and Industrial 

 Progress in Canada 



A monthly review of Agricultural and Industrial progress in Canada, 

 published by the Department of Colonization and Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, Canada. 



VOL. 3 No. 7 



MONTREAL 



July, 1921 



Canada's Birthday 



ON July 1st, Dominion Day, Canada at- 

 tained the age of fifty-four years, born of 

 the confederation of the provinces into a 

 united Dominion in 1867. As the age of nations 

 is reckoned, she is extremely young, the merest 

 infant in comparison with those countries of 

 older continents whose national origins are lost 

 in the mists of .antiquity and which have strug- 

 gled to mature stature with the fulness of time. 

 But Canada is a precocious child, of sturdy pro- 

 portions and husky growth, with all the promise 

 of a splendid, vigorous manhood awaiting it. 



With the recur- 

 rence each year of 

 its natal day, it is 

 natural to look back 

 and measure the pro- 

 gress of the Domin- 

 ion over the past 

 twelve months. In- 

 variably is it a re- 

 trospect of gratifica- 

 tion and satisfaction. 

 Always is it found 

 that the body of the 

 giant stripling has 

 grown a little fuller 

 and the limbs a little 

 stronger as progress 

 is maintained, with 

 carefully measured 



strides, towards that maturity which is national 

 fulness. 



Fifty-four years is a considerable span in the 

 lifetime of a human being; in the existence of 

 nations it is a mere iota. Yet in this brief period 

 a comparison of Canada as she exists to-day 

 with the hesitant step and the uncertain status 

 she possessed in 1867, shows that the years in 

 between have been replete with event and 

 achievement. Canada has emerged from a 

 weakling, a dependant colony, to stand firmly 

 upon her own feet and to take her place, in 

 perfect equality, with the nations of the world. 



CANADA'S PROGRESS SINCE CONFEDERATION 



1867 Age 54 Years 



3,000,000 Population 



14,666 Immigration 



2,288 Miles of Railways 



123 Branches of Banks .... 



. . Farms under Cultivation . 

 . Acreage under Cultivation. . 

 3,800,000 . . Cattle, Horses and Swine . 

 $78,000,000. .Invested in Manufactures. . $3,034,301,000 



519,336,000 Public Revenue $451,336,000 



$52,701,000 Exports $1,287,000,000 



$67,090,000 Imports $1,064,000,000 



When a Confederated Canada was first 

 brought about it had a population of a little 

 over three million people; it is anticipated that 

 the census of the present year will return record 

 of nine million inhabitants. Immigration has 

 been the most potent factor in Canada's growth. 

 Its rate per annum in 1867 was not fifteen 

 thousand ; last year, it was nearly one hundred 

 and fifty thousand, and this year will unquestion- 

 ably be greater, as the Dominion emerges a year 

 further out of the economic maelstrom in which 

 the war precipitated her. 



Public revenue in 1867 amounted to $19,- 

 335,561. Last year wealth flowed into the coffers 



of the Dominion to 

 the extent of $451,- 

 336,029. Trade has 

 increased in a won- 

 derful way as an 

 increasing popula- 

 tion has enhanced 

 production and the 

 demand for imports. 

 At the time of Con- 

 federation, imports 

 were 67,090,159; 

 last year, they had 

 reached $1,064 mil- 

 lions. Exports have 

 jumped from $52,- 

 701,720 to $1,287,- 

 000,000 in the same 



1920 



9,000,000 



147,502 



38,896 



4,500 



800,000 



53,050,000 



15,517,000 



period. Industrially, 



the extent of the expansion is difficult for the 

 mind to grasp. Whereas at the time of the union 

 of the provinces the amount of money invested 

 in the country in manufacture was less than $78,- 

 000,000, it is now more than $3,000,000,000. As 

 further indications of prosperous growth banks 

 have increased their branches from 123 to 4,500, 

 and railway mileage has grown from 2,288 miles 

 to 38,896 miles in the same space of time. 



Agriculturally, the development has been 

 phenomenal, and where skeptics said no wheat 

 could be grown, crops were raised which 

 astounded the world. From an insignificant 



