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. 10 



MONTREAL 



October, 1921 



An Eventful Month. 



EVENTS transpiring during the past month 

 have been of more than usual interest 

 and give solid ground for growing con- 

 fidence and optimism. 



The western rrop on which the eyes of 

 commercial and industrial Canada have been 

 earnestly turned has proved up to expectations 

 and is being rapidly garnered and shipped. 

 Western railway mileage is already feeling the 

 beneficial effect. Farmers showed an incli- 

 nation to market their grain early with the result 

 that by the middle of the month over 1000 

 cars a day were arriving at the head of the 

 Great Lakes; since September 1st, 1920, nearly 

 a hundred thousand 

 carloads of wheat 

 had been unloaded 

 at Fort William 

 compared with fifty- 

 seven thousand for 

 the same period of 

 the preceding year. 



FUR FARMING GROWS 



The early move- 

 ment of grain has had 

 an excellent effect 

 on Western business 

 and a good fall trade is anticipated. 



It is not without significance that the 

 general managers of two Canadian banks have 

 visited the West Indies though the visit was 

 ostensibly a holiday one. Sir John Aird of 

 the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Mr. H. 

 A. Richardson of the Bank of Nova Scotia 

 are both heads of banks whose branches are 

 extensive in West Indian territory. In an 

 interview in the Jamaica Gleaner, Mr. Richard- 

 son pointed out that it was the policy of Cana- 

 dian steamship lines to place ships on routes, 

 in the interests of exporters, to all points that 

 promised development in trade relations, and 

 he hoped that shipping interests would receive 

 sufficient encouragement, both from Canadian 

 and West Indian ends, to warrant regular and 

 increasingly frequent sailings. 



1919 1920 



Number of Farms 419 582 



Value of Animals $3,968,591 $4,632,605 



Fur farming is carried on in every province of the 



Dominion. There are fourteen ranches in the 



Yukon Territory. 



The Canadian Pacific has extended it s 

 ocean services to Italy, to Danzig on the Baltic, 

 and announces winters cruises to the Mediter- 

 ranean, the West Indies and the Spanish Main 

 with the S. S. Empress of Scotland and S. S. 

 Empress of Britain. 



The apple crops in the Okanagan Valley, 

 British Columbia, and the Annapolis Valley of 

 Nova Scotia are record ones. 



Annual fall fairs and exhibitions have 

 graphically displayed the improved quality of 

 the country's produce, livestock and manu- 

 facture and drawn large, interested crowds. 

 The Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, 

 opened so auspiciously by Lord Byng, 



the G o v e r nor 

 General, officially 

 declared the largest 

 attendance in its 

 history, whilst fairs 

 at Ottawa, London, 

 Quebec, Sherbrooke 

 and Eastern and 

 Western circuits 

 generally, have 

 reported excellent 



entries and results. 

 President Bogart of the Canadian Bankers 

 Association spoke confidently of Canadian 

 business conditions when he said: "I think the 

 most gratifying feature about the situation at 

 present is the active demand in Great Britain 

 and Europe for Canadian foodstuffs. For the 

 next two months more space has been engaged 

 from Canadian ports for shipment to Europe 

 than for many years past. We should look 

 for an early marketing of Western grain* and 

 with the proceeds in circulation expect* a re- 

 duction in liabilities and an increased activity 

 in nearly all lines of business." 



Mr. E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, interviewed on his western tour 

 when reaching Winnipeg, predicted a gradual 

 return to prosperity in Canada and affirmed 

 his faith in the soundness of the country. 



