Edward Island, $660,704; Nova Scotia, $287,990; 

 New Brunswick, $225,871 ; and the Yukon Terri- 

 tory, $140,169. 



Muskrat led as the principal item of revenue 

 with $5,966,762, being only slightly in advance 

 of beaver with a value of $5,336,067. Marten 

 returned $1,787,940, and mink over the million 

 mark with $1,697,561. Silver fox accounted for 

 $932,602; fisher, $859,178; and then in order of 

 importance, coyote, white fox, red fox, ermine, 

 skunk, otter, lynx, patch fox, raccoon, timber 

 wolf and black bear. 



The most significant feature of the fur indus- 

 try in the course of the past yeaf has been in that 

 of fur marketing, a phase previously seriously 

 neglected and attended with a corresponding 

 commercial loss of some magnitude. All indica- 

 tions point to Canada's ascension in the market- 

 ing of furs to that place which her prominence as 

 a producer, both as to quality and quantity, 

 justifies. The initial effort in this endeavor, 

 which was attended with the most gratifying 

 success, was made in the spring of 1920, when the 

 first Canadian fur sale was held at Montreal and 

 more than five million dollars worth of raw skins 

 were disposed of. Buyers were attracted from the 

 United States and the British Isles, France, 

 Russia and Japan, and furs for disposal came from 

 as wide an area including distant Australia. The 

 second sale, this spring, under conditions in 

 which fur prices had suffered a considerable 

 slump, brought in more than two million dollars 

 arAl evoked the same international interest and 

 response. 



Winnipeg Establishes Annual Sale 



Encouraged by Montreal's success, a bid for 

 the same prominence has been made by the City 

 of Winnipeg, the gateway of the west, alike to its 

 great fur producing areas as to its fertile grain 

 fields. The northern areas of the four western 

 provinces together with the Northwest Terri- 

 tories constitute a rich hunting and trapping 

 field, accounting for about ten million dollars 

 worth of furs annually. Winnipeg, with its com- 

 mercial importance and facilities of access, is a 

 handy point of accumulation and storage and 

 logical point for sales. 



The success which attended the first Winni- 

 peg sale, with the co-operation of vendors and 

 buyers, is considered to have already firmly 

 established the city as a fur marketing centre, 

 to maintain and protect, with Montreal in the 

 east, Canadian sales of Canadian produced furs. 

 Interest in the future of the city in. this respect 

 was evidenced in the attendance at the sale 

 which, in addition to Winnipeg and Montreal 

 dealers, included buyers from New York, 

 Chicago, St. Louis and the states of Minnesota, 

 Indiana and others. 



There is no doubt but that as the world's first 

 fur producer, both as to the number and richness 



of the pelts, Canada can attract fur buyers from 

 the entire globe, and should therefore maintain 

 her own markets and reserve her sale for the 

 Dominion's benefits. That she can do this suc- 

 cessfully, and will attain greater heights in this 

 regard, would seem to be indicated in the suc- 

 cesses of the Montreal and Winnipeg ventures. 



Across Canada Regina 



Regina, the capital of the province of Sas- 

 katchewan, is a stripling among Canadian cities 

 which has risen to its present agricultural and 

 industrial importance with the development of 

 the new west and the Prairie Provinces. Situ- 

 ated on the main line of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, about midway between Winnipeg and 

 the Rocky Mountains, it has become the princi- 

 pal centre of the middle west with all that this 

 implies. Recent as is western Canadian history, 

 Regina figures in many of its romantic pages, 

 and as the capital of the old Northwest Terri- 

 tories, featured prominently in the Riel rebellion 

 and other Indian disturbances. When the 

 province of Saskatchewan was created in 1905, 

 in the subdivision of the former Northwest 

 Territories, Regina as the leading centre became 

 its capital. Its remarkable progress is illus- 

 trated in its increase of population from 2,249 in 

 1901 to 40,000 in 1919. 



As a prairie city settled on a treeless plain of 

 tremendous expanse, it belies its description.but 

 to the full sustains all the regal qualities its 

 name implies the Queen City of the prairie. 

 Parks of remarkable beauty with a profusion of 

 verdure are to be found within its confines, and 

 the clean orderly streets are lined with a density 

 of shade trees. It has a collection of fine public 

 buildings, prominent among them being the 

 parliament buildings of the Saskatchewan legisla- 

 ture, and is a comfortable residential city of 

 beautiful homes. 



Centre of Rich Agricultural Area 



Regina is the centre of a rich and expansive 

 agricultural territory which it adequately serves 

 by twelve railway lines radiating from it. The 

 many needs of the towns, villages and rural 

 centres of this wide area are distributed from 

 Regina, and agricultural implements alone sent 

 out each year amount in value to more than 

 $5,000,000. It has several colleges and academies 

 and fine high and public schools. From the 

 organization of the Royal North West Mounted 

 Police it has been the headquarters of that force, 

 and since their amalgamation with the Dominion 

 Police, under the name of Royal Canadian 

 Mounted Police, it still remains the training 

 ground for recruits. 



Naturally, Regina is important industrially, 

 being the most active manufacturing and dis- 

 tributing centre between Winnipeg and Calgary, 



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