At the end of the year 1918 out of a 

 total of $3,034,301,915 invested in industry in 

 Canada, the sum of $1,508,011,435 was held by 

 Ontario corporations and manufacturing com- 

 panies. The 15,365 plants in the province had 

 that year a production of $1,809,067,001, utiliz- 

 ing material valued at $1,008,824,704. A total 

 of 333,936 persons were employed, drawing 

 wages and salaries aggregating $261,160,214. 



Of the twenty most important centres of the 

 Dominion, as reported by the government Bu- 

 reau of Statistics, fourteen are located in the 

 Province of Ontario: Toronto, Hamilton, 

 Ottawa, London, Kitchener, Brantford, Peter- 

 borough, Gait, Guelph, Welland, St. Cather- 

 ines, Sarnia, Stratford and Windsor. Toronto 

 comes second only to Montreal in industrial 

 importance with 2,835 establishments employ- 

 ing 106,128 persons, with a capitalization of 

 $392,945,178 and a production of $506,429,283. 

 Hamilton, with 685 establishments, a capital- 

 ization of $31,901,388 and production of $188,- 

 456,598 is the third manufacturing city of the 

 Dominion. 



A Distributing Centre for the West 



Ontario is the manufacturing and distributing 

 area to a large extent, for the expansive field of 

 the great Canadian West and its industrial ac- 

 tivities cover a wide latitude, practically every 

 necessity of town or rural settlement being sup- 

 plied. The agricultural implement industry is 

 therefore naturally, an important one and ac- 

 counts for a capitalization of more than $77,- 

 000,000. This is, however, exceeded by the 

 pulp and paper industry in which Ontario is 

 proving herself a serious rival of Quebec with 

 an investment of nearly $100,000,000. The 

 wealthy forests of the province are reflected in 

 the importance of the lumber industry in which 

 more than $46,000,000 is invested, whilst many 

 smaller allied trades help to swell the aggregate 

 of works dependent in the first instance upon 

 forest growth. 



Flour milling has reached important propor- 

 tions in Ontario with over $40,000,000 engaged 

 in actively propagating the industry. Several 

 cities and towns have virtually secured a mon- 

 opoly of the Canadian automobile trade, many 

 of the plants operating being branches of United 

 States organizations, and in all over $50,000,000 

 is invested in this manufacture. 



Ship and boat building is of moment on the 

 inland waters of the province and this industry 

 accounts for more than $31,000,000 in the pro- 

 vincial capitalization. Electrical apparatus 

 manufacture accounts for another $25,000,000. 

 Clothing, textiles, and boots and shoes are all 

 important in this province. More than $10,- 

 000,000 is engaged in each of the industries, 

 cotton textiles, men's wear and boots and shoes, 

 whilst in hoiery and knit goods nearly $27,000- 



000 is invested. Also worthy of mention are 

 Ontario's 23 rubber plants, its 88 canning fac- 

 tories, and its 22 packing plants with 4 abat- 

 toirs. 



All Facilities for Industrial Growth 



Ontario has all the natural advantages and 

 facilities for industrial growth. These have al- 

 ready given her the ascendancy in Canada in 

 this regard, a position which she easily main- 

 tains in her rapid expansion, an augury of tre- 

 mendous future manufacturing importance. 

 She possesses within her confines a wealth of 

 raw material and fine transportation facilities of 

 economic operation, for import and export. 

 Her industrial growth is aided in a wonderful 

 way by^her possession of enormous water powers, 

 for which the Hydro-Electric Commission of 

 Ontario acts in the capacity of trustee for the 

 people in the matter of their development, sup- 

 plying electric current for lighting and power 

 purposes at cost. 



The rate at which Ontario is expanding as an 

 industrial area may be gauged from the fact 

 that in the year 1920 the City of Toronto, its 

 first centre, received the addition of twenty- 

 eight large new industries, whilst twenty-five 

 settled at Hamilton, next in manufacturing im- 

 portance. These covered many lines of manu- 

 facture, many of which were entirely new to the 

 province. A notable feature of the province's 

 expansion has been the large ntimber of plants 

 operated by United States capital and the estab- 

 lishment in so many cases of branch houses of 

 United States firms. In the city of Toronto 

 alone, there are 175 United States branch in- 

 dustrial plants in operation. 



Flying in Canada 



The Great War in the tremendous impetus i 

 gave to invention of many kinds, thrust aviation 

 forward by several epochs. Great strides were 

 made toward perfection in apparatus and 

 thousands of men were trained for the various 

 branches of the pursuit who in the ordinary 

 course of events would never have dreamt of 

 this novel vocation, and to whom, in the ma- 

 jority of cases, opportunity for following it 

 would never have presented itself. The end of 

 the war found thousands of machines with the 

 work for which they had been manufactured 

 accomplished, and thousands of men specially 

 trained to operate them going back to their 

 ordinary civil avocations. 



Reviewing Canada's part in the war, it was 

 the most natural thing that with intelligent 

 government appreciation and support, flying 

 should receive a great boost in the Dominion. 

 Many of Canada's sons favored this hazardous 

 branch of war aviation and Canadians con- 

 situated nearly fifty per cent, of the Imperial 





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