

Ontario accounted for the highest mineral rev- 

 enue with $78,749,178, followed by British 

 Columbia with $38,044,915. Alberta jumped 

 from the previous year to the third place in 

 value, with $33,721,898; Nova Scotia was close 

 behind with $30,187,533, whilst Quebec pro- 

 duced to the extent of $27,722,502. Manitoba's 

 mineral revenue was nearly four millions ; New 

 Brunswick's two and a quarter millions; Sas- 

 katchewan's over one and a quarter millions, 

 and the Yukon's about the same. 



With a production value of more than 

 $81,000,000 copper was Canada's most valuable 

 mineral in 1920. Nickel was next with more 

 than $61,000,000, and zinc third, with $40,000,- 

 000. Lead was worth $33,000,000; coal $16,- 

 000,000; silver $12,000,000; lime $9,000,000; 

 slate $6,5000,000 ; and cement $6,500,000. On- 

 tario accounted for 36.16 per cent of the Do- 

 minion's total production ; British Columbia 

 17.47 per cent; Alberta 15.49 per cent; Nova 

 Scotia 13.86 per cent; and Quebec 12.73 per 

 cent. 



The combined mineral production value of 

 Canada during 1920 was the highest the Do- 

 minion has ever reached, and one attained in 

 conditions of economic depression, falling 

 prices, and a considerable cessation of opera- 

 tions at points which makes the outlook all 

 the more pleasurable for future mineral pro- 

 duction. The metallic production which in 

 1918, when the pinnacle of wartime efforts was 

 attained, was valued at $114,549,152, and fell to 

 $73,262,793 in 1919, came back to $77,236,370 

 in 1920, whilst the total value of the non-me- 

 tallic production which in 1918 was $96,752,745, 

 and increased in 1919 to $103,423,507, increased 

 again in 1920 to $140,538,710. About $23,000,- 

 000 of this increase is due to coal alone. 

 Exhibits Substantial Increments. 



Just how Canadian minerals are being ex- 

 ploited and their production increased is evi- 

 dent on a survey of production for figures cov- 

 ering the last thirty-five years. In 1886 the 

 mineral production of the whole of Canada was 

 only $10,221,255, or $2.23 per capita. In the 

 next five year period, or at the end of 1891, this 

 production value had increased to $18,976,616 

 and $3.92 per capita. Another substantial in- 

 crement had been added by 1896, when the pro- 

 duction for the year was valued at $22,474,256, 

 and the increase in the next half decade was re- 

 markable, bringing the total for the year 1901 

 up to $65,797,911. Thereafter the progress was 

 commensurate with the giant strides the Do- 

 minion was taking in other lines of activity. 

 By 1906 the yearly output was valued at more 

 than $79.000,"000 ; by 1911 at $103,000.000; and 

 in the following five year period the value 

 nearly doubled, accounting for $177,201,534 in 

 1^16. A war-time spurt brought it up to 

 $193,000,000 in 1917, and this movement 



reached its zenith with $211,000,000 in 1918. 

 There was naturally a depression in the first 

 war year, but as has been seen, a recovery was 

 made last year in such a fashion as to create 

 a record for Dominion mineral production. 



Canada's Fisheries 1920 



The total value of the fisheries production 

 of Canada in 1920 was $49,321,217, according 

 to a preliminary report prepared by the Do- 

 minion Bureau of Statistics. This shows a de- 

 crease from the previous year of $7,187,262, 

 which is, however, to be accounted for by the 

 general decline in prices experienced during 

 this period. In very catch there was an in- 

 crease in quantity, amounting to substantial 

 proportions in cases, and the Dominion has 

 reason to be satisfied with the record of the 

 year as recording a steady and maintained de- 

 velopment of her wonderful waters. 



Salmon continued to hold the premier place 

 among Canadian fish in point of value ac- 

 counting for a sum of $15,595,970, or nearly 

 one third of the total value. Lobsters came 

 next with $7,152,455; cod, $6,270,171; halibut, 

 $4,535,188; herring, $3,337,738; whitefish, $1,- 

 992,107; haddock, $1,552,680 and mackerel, 

 $1,126,703. Trout, sardines, smelts, pickerel 

 and pilchards came in the order named be- 

 tween a million and a half million dollars in 

 value. 



British Columbia to the Fore. 



Her gigantic salmon catch keeps British Col- 

 umbia to the fore among the provinces of Can- 

 ada, and in 1920 she continued in the suprem- 

 acy with a fisheries' value of $22,329,161. Nova 

 Scotia with her fertile sea fisheries assumes 

 second place with $12,742,659. Following in 

 order are New Brunswick, $4,423,745 ; Ontario 

 $3,410,750; Quebec, $2,591,982; Prince Edward 

 Island, $1,714,663; Manitoba, $1,249,607; Al- 

 berta, $529,078; Saskatchewan, $296,472; and 

 the Yukon, $33,100. 



The amount of capital represented in the 

 vessels, boats, nets, traps, piers, and wharves, 

 etc., engaged in the primary operations of 

 catching and landing the fish during the year 

 1920 was $29,663,359. The number of em- 

 ployees engaged in these operations was 57,660. 

 In fish canning and curing establishments 

 there was a sum of $20,512,265 invested, and 

 these plants gave employment to a total of 

 18,499 work people. 



Timber in the Prairie Provinces 



It seems a contradiction in terms to speak of 

 timber or the lumber industry in regard to Mani- 

 itoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, that vast territory 

 so widely known as the prairie provinces. Bu>t it is 

 the term whitfh is at fault for the appellation is a 

 misnomer and only the southern section of these 

 provinces, that area first penetrated and settled, can 



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