Industrial Nova Scotia 



\ova Scotia's claim to national and world 

 attention arises from many sources, all of which 

 spring from the numerous gifts a bountiful na- 

 ture bestowed upon her. With one of the 

 finest fishing fields off her coast, with a wealth 

 of coal deposits readily accessible to mining and 

 transportation, and possessing one of the finest 

 stands of timber yet remaining on the American 

 continent, she pursues her own way so steadily, 

 supplying these world needs, that her progress is 

 often overshadowed by that of newer areas gain- 

 ing their youthful inches. with much vociferation. 

 And whilst maintaining her importance in rela- 

 tion to those cardinal points in production, she 

 advances steadily in other directions. In indus- 

 try, for instance, she is no laggard, but in this 

 regard advances with other lines of development. 



Of the 35,797 manufacturing industries re- 

 porting to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at 

 the end of the year 1918, Nova Scotia accounted 

 for 2,125, and in its aggregate capitalization of 

 S133, 262,649 of the total Dominion capitaliza- 

 tion of $3,034,301,915, ranked fourth among the 

 provinces of Canada, following Ontario, Quebec 

 and British Columbia. It occupied the same 

 relative position in the 1915 census with 968 

 industrial establishments, the increase in the 

 three years being strikingly indicative of the 

 growth of industry both in the province and in 

 the Dominion as a whole. The value of pro- 

 vincial industrial production in 1918 was $160,- 

 409,890, the cost of materials used in achieving 

 this being $93,540,657 .There were 29,036 persons 

 employed in these industrial establishments re- 

 ceiving annually salaries and wages totalling 

 vS24,814,229. 



Many Manufacturing Industries 



There are ten manufacturing industries in 

 the province whose annual production value, 

 according to the last available returns, is in 

 excess of a million dollars. Iron and steel products 

 lead with $10,457,279. The value of output 

 increased annually by five million dollars during 

 the war years. Railway cars and car works take 

 second place with $6,457,279. This industry' 

 also boomed in the years of war and added a 

 million a year to its production value. The pre- 

 served fish industry is credited with third place 

 with a value of $4,436,413. Logs and lumber 

 products industry is in excess of three millions; 

 house building exceeds a million by nearly one- 

 i ! i; and electric light and power is also sub- 

 stantially over the million mark. 



The iron and steel industry of Nova Scotia 

 centres about Cape Breton Island and the county 

 of Pictou, where coal deposits are available and 

 the necessary ores most easily imported. Apart 

 from this area the principal industrial points are 

 Halifax, Dartmouth, Truro, Amherst, Sydney and 

 New Glasgow. These are engaged in the manu- 

 facture of chocolate, biscuits and confectionery', 



office and other furniture, textiles and clothing, 

 hats and caps, condensed milk, paint, railway 

 cars, oil, and sugar refining. 



Foreign Export Trade 



There is a great future for industry and tlu- 

 foreign export trade in Nova Scotia, and the 

 Maritime province, from its physical position 

 and features, offers many and great inducements 

 to the industrial investor. Her water powers 

 are powerful and widely distributed, whilst her 

 supply of coal is abundant and easily mined. A 

 wealth of raw material of every kind awaits 

 utilization within her confines. She is in the 

 most advantageous position for reaching the 

 overseas -market, and her harbors and shipping 

 facilities second to none. Halifax Harbor is 

 undergoing developments which will make it one 

 of the finest in the world, and Sydney harbor, 

 which for ten months of the year has hardly a 

 rival in the North Atlantic, with its fifteen miles 

 can hold "all the shipping in the world." 



If further inducement were needed, the ships 

 to carry away the manufactured produce can be 

 built, completed, and fitted out in the excellent 

 shipyards of the province. 



Industrial Outlook in Western Canada 



By John Sweeting, Industrial Agent, Western Lines, 

 C. P. R., Winnipeg, Manitoba 



Business is picking up in the West, has picked up, as 

 a matter of fact, and is looking to better times as the 

 months roll along. Recent surveys show that actual 

 volume of goods sold equals previous years, but naturally, 

 with reduction in prices, the volume in dollars and cents 

 is less. There is no doubt, so far as the West is concerned, 

 that a marked improvement is being shown along all lines; 

 in addition, there is the added confidence which comes with 

 the brighter outlook making it more easy to assume 

 that with the turn of the year, capital is likely to branch 

 out again and recommence development. 



Many problems have had to be faced and dealt with 

 during the past summer and fall months, but the Western 

 people appear to have the happy faculty of meeting diffi- 

 culties, and seeing that they are satisfactorily settled. 



Winnipeg held a "Shoppers Exposition" under the 

 auspices of the Board of Trade, when the retail merchants 

 displayed their wares, marked with 1920 and 1921 values. 

 It was successful in demonstrating to the purchaser that 

 there really had been a steady downward tendency in 

 retail prices and that the purchasing value of a dollar 

 showed a decided increase. The exposition was a happy 

 inspiration on the part of Winnipeg business men and the 

 public showed its appreciation by visiting it in thousands. 

 This is an example of the effort which is being made by 

 the trade generally to overcome a number of prejudicial 

 ideas which have been adversely affecting trading condi- 

 tions; it enabled the public to appreciate present day 

 prices and values and to realize that efforts are being made 

 to get costs down to a reasonable basis, having regard to 

 existing conditions. 



The Pacific Coast Province 



In _ Vancouver and on the Pacific Coast generally, 

 there is a distinctly better tone, merchants speaking of 

 conditions as showing an appreciable improvement with 

 the likelihood of still better times ahead. Export lumber 

 business is building up and heavy shipments to Great 

 Britain, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan have 

 taken place, and prospects appear to be for the further 

 opening up of South American markets. In the interior 



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