As the first fishing province of Canada and pos- 

 sessing the largest salmon fisheries in the world correlated 

 industries are naturally of moment. In 1920, for instance, 

 the salmon pack of the province consisted of 1,177,045 

 cases, and the canning and packing of fish and fish oil 

 and fertilizer manufacturing gives employment to 15,500 

 employees who are paid $13,000,000 annually. There 

 are six whaling stations on the Pacific Coast engaged in 

 the extraction of oil and in the packing of whale meat, 

 and a thriving industry seems to be promised in this 

 section from the business of utilizing the various parts 

 of the sharks which infest the coast waters. 



.Mining and Agriculture 



The mining industry of the province, in which there 

 is a wonderful possibility for the future, is making a 

 healthy growth with an ever increasing annual produc- 

 tion. Five firms are engaged in the reduction and smelt- 

 ing of ores, giving employment to more than 1,000 

 persons and paying them $1,407,000. Six oil refineries 

 engage the services of 332 persons, their year's aggre- 

 gate payroll being $427,000. The iron and steel in- 

 dustry, in which is anticipated a status in the near fu- 

 ture of mammoth proportions, already gives employment 

 to 2,500 people who are paid $4,000,000 in wages. 



British Columbia's progress in agriculture has been 

 keeping pace with other phases of the province's ad- 

 vancement, especially in the development of her fruit lands 

 and the production ot fruit. An increasing market is 

 yearly being developed as is the preservation of surplus 

 stock through canning. Co -operatively and by private 

 organization this is fast becoming of prime importance 

 to the province. According to the last census there 

 were 45 fruit and vegetable canning factories in British 

 Columbia finding employment for 858 persons and paying 

 them $956,000 per year. 



Shipbuilding is an industry which maintains an im- 

 portant status in the coast province, accounting for a 

 capitalization of $6,674,530. The various lumber in- 

 dustries account for a capital of $60,000,000, and pulp 

 and paper for $32,000,000. Foundry and machine shops 

 and the meat industry are each responsible for more 

 than $3,000,000, the automobile induscry for more than 

 $1,500,000, and flour milling in excess of $1,000,000. 



Vancouver the Industrial Centre 



The province's greatest centre of industry is Vancouver, 

 also ics greatest port, the outlet to the markets of Austral- 

 asia and all the Orient, and the coming point of export 

 for half the Canadian continent. Its activities comprise 

 practically every phase of manufacture which have 

 made it the fifth industrial city of the Dominion. A 

 total of $98,434,309 is invested in industry in the cky; 

 18,983 are employed in its plants receiving $21,281,962 

 in wages; and the annual production in 1918 amounted 

 to $87,786,041. Other of the province's industrial 

 centres are: Alberni, Cumberland, Grand Forks, Green- 

 wood, Kamloops, Kaslo, Ladysmith, Merritt, Nanaimo, 

 Nelson, New Westminster, Phoenix, Pore Moody, Prince 

 Rupert, Revelstoke, Rossland, Slocum, Trail and 

 Esquimalt. 



Realizing that the main hindrance to greater and 

 more rapid development in imdustry in the province lay 

 in lack of capital, the provincial government some little 

 time ago arranged for an experimental loaning of money 

 to foster industrial concerns in need of such and whose 

 prospects appeared to justify such loans. In 1920 it 

 granted loans amounting to more than $1,000,000, a 

 total of 362 applications being received of which the 

 majority were rejected. On the word of D. B. Martyn, 

 Deputy Minister of Industries, the experiment has been 

 an entire success, only one failure being recorded, and 

 many enterprises being placed on a healthy financial 

 footing which would otherwise not have been able to 

 achieve flotation. 



Though citizens of the Dominion have every reason 

 to be pleased with the status and annual growth of 

 industry in the Pacific coast province, it is difficult to 

 calculate how potentially rich industrially the province 

 is. With a diversity of natural wealth which comprises 

 all needs, the best of shipping facilities and a market 

 which is each year widening in its scope, her industrial 

 future is assured, and at the present day offers the widest 

 possibilities for investment and industrial establishment. 



Manufacture of Kraft in Canada 



Kraft paper, or as it is better known in 

 its more common form wrapping paper, was 

 first manufactured bv a Swede named Muntzing, 

 who discovered what is known as the sulphate 

 process of pulp making. It was not until 

 1908 that Canadian paper mills began to make 

 this unique product, and then only on a very 

 limited scale. With the entry in 1912 of the 

 Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Company at 

 Three Rivers, Quebec, which specialized i 

 the making of genuine Kraft, the indust 

 began to flourish in Canada and not only wen 

 home requirements supplied but a considerable 

 quantity exported as well. No statistics of 

 production are available for the years prior 

 to 1917, but during that year the amoun 

 produced totalled 27,000 tons. With the in- 

 creasing demand and other companies devoting 

 more attention to this line of business the out- 

 put gradually rose until it reached the record 

 figure of 52,000 tons in 1920. 



Kraft is utilized in numerous ways and 

 millions of people daily handle this paper in 

 one or another of its countless fabrications 

 It is manufactured into wrapping paper, en 

 velopes, marketing bags, wall papers, window 

 blinds, chair seat coverings, bags to contain 

 practically every variety of household foods, 

 twine, and when oiled is the recognized wrapper 

 for all foods of a greasy nature. It has been 

 found to make an excellent substitute for 

 canvas owing to its ability to withhold rain, 

 and even clothing is made from this wonderful 

 product, it being largely used in the manu- 

 facture of workmen's overalls, rendering the: 

 both water and fireproof. 



Used in Manufacture of Munitions 



During the war Wayagamack Kraft was 

 supplied to the various munition boards in 

 Canada and the United Kingdom to be utilized 

 in the making of bullets. It was also used in 

 the making of sand bags, which were made 

 from material previously woven from Kraft 

 yarn, and thus the necessary strength required 

 to hold their contents and withstand adverse 

 weather conditions is obtained. 



There appears to be no limit to the many 

 and varied articles which this remarkable paper 

 can be manufactured into, and the latest is a corn 

 or cereal cover invented by a gentleman farmer 

 in the south of England. Owing to the un- 



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