industry and in the matter of silver-black foxes 

 ranking only second to its neighbor, Prince 

 Edward Island, the home of this branch of the 

 industry in Canada. At the end of 1920 licensed 

 fox farms totalled 102. There were in addition 

 12 mink farms, 8 muskrat ranches and one each 

 beaver and skunk farm. 



The total number of animals reported by 

 farmers for 1920 was 1,434, showing an increase 

 of 483 over the figures of 1919. The number of 

 silver-black foxes in captivity at the end of the 

 year was 570, an increase of 308 over the num- 

 ber reported for the previous year. Despite the 

 war-time decline in the industry there are now 

 three times as many silver-black foxes in cap- 

 tivity in the province as were reported for any 

 year before the outbreak of hostilities. 

 Many Varieties Exported 



The total revenue accruing to the province 

 from licenses, fines, and the sale of permits in 

 1920 was $8,415, whilst about $500,000 would 

 be realized at the prices prevailing last year 

 from fur skins exported during the twelve 

 months, which allowing for those shipped or 

 carried out of the province and not reported, 

 would augment this amount considerably. 

 Among the more important skins exported 

 were 11,348 weasel, 28,626 muskrat, 2,056 red 

 fox, 2,626 mink, 231 cross fox, 409 silver-black 

 fox, 1,220 raccoon, 46 bear, 66 lynx, 1,288 skunk 

 and 125 otter. 



With her important fishing industry, with 

 the annual wealth of the fruit orchards of the 

 Annapolis Valley, with the extensive coal pro- 

 duction of the Sydney field, and the increasing 

 value of its allied steel industry, Nova Scotia is 

 extensively developing her very diversified na- 

 tural wealth. Not least among these natural 

 assets must be reckoned her woods and forests 

 preserved in all the wildness and beauty of their 

 primitive state, and their tributaries the do- 

 mestic fur ranches. The one maintains one of 

 the finest hunting grounds on the American 

 continent and the other supplements the efforts 

 of conservation in insuring against any possible 

 diminution of the province's supply of wild furs. 



Across Canada Fredericton 



Fredericton, in New Brunswick, is perhaps 

 the least widely known of the Canadian pro- 

 vincial capitals, even the governmental centres 

 of the newly developed Western provinces hav- 

 ing, in their rapid and meteoric rise, eclipsed 

 this old world legislative seat in attracting the 

 gaze and attention of the outside world. For- 

 tune decreed that the trans-continental lines in 

 their construction should pass at some little 

 distance by the historic little city, leaving it, an 

 inla/nd centre of a Maritime province, on a 

 tributary connection, away from the main 

 routes of trade and commerce, to bloom in all 

 its natural beauty of situation and environs, the 



governmental centre of one of the oldest of 

 Canada's provinces. 



The site on which the city stands, on the 

 magnificent St. John river about eighty miles 

 from its mouth, was in its earliest known exis- 

 tence, an Indian camping place. At a later 

 period it became occupied by an Acadian settle- 

 ment and was known as St. Anne's. The pro- 

 vince of New Brunswick was formed in 1786 

 and the first governor, Thomas Carleton, made 

 the little town its capital under the name of 

 Fredericton. So it has continued to this day 

 expanding in dimensions as its beauty has en- 

 hanced, progressing serely in a mellowed old- 

 world atmosphere redolent of the leisurely, the 

 literary and scholarly. 



Fredericton is, of course, of first importance 

 as the seat of the provincial government, all 

 legislative matters pertaining to its people and 

 its enormous wealth of lumber, fisheries, and 

 other resources revolving about it. It is also 

 a renowned educational centre, the seat of the 

 University of New Brunswick, the provincial 

 normal school, a military school and fine high 

 and public schools. A Dominion Experimental 

 station has been established and operated for 

 years here for the benefit and assistance of pro- 

 vincial farmers, for there is a very fine farming 

 area, capable of more extensive development, 

 in the St. John valley immediately tributary to 

 the city. The city has a population of 8,000. 



Manufacturing Activities 



Industrially it is not insignificant, though this 

 important phase of activity has always existed 

 subservient to the calmer aspects of provincial 

 life. The city's industries account for a capital 

 of $6,631,834 and an annual output of more 

 than three million dollars. Among its manu- 

 facturing activities are to be noted grist mills, 

 canoe and motor boat factories, boot, shoe, 

 larrigan, and shoepack manufactures, lumber 

 mills, woodworking plants, and tanneries. 



The nature of these industries, apart from 

 the exploitation of the province's rich heritage 

 of timber, at once gives the index to Freder- 

 icton's attraction for the outside world, which 

 is to the hunter, tourist and traveller. The city 

 is situated in the centre of what constitutes a 

 veritable paradise of a hunting ground. Sports- 

 men and fishermen are drawn to its unexcelled 

 big game and superb fishing from all over the 

 world, and Fredericton is the starting point for 

 innumerable parties annually travelling up the 

 St. John river. 



On the backwater of industrial and com- 

 mercial turbulence, Fredericton is one of the 

 most attractive seats of Canadian provincial 

 government, a city of wild and cultivated 

 beauty, a residence of exquisite leisure and calm 

 serenity, a harbor of literary and student minds 

 where generates the leaven which permeates 

 every phase of Canadian national life. 



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