Mining and Smelting Company at Trail, B.C., 

 and the refinery of the British America Nickel 

 Company's plant at Deschenes, Quebec. The 

 production of refined copper in 1919 was 3,467 

 tons, and in 1918, 3,809 tons. 



By provinces, British Columbia led in the 

 matter of copper production, accounting for 

 45,344,434 pounds. Ontario was next in order 

 with 31,980,067 pounds, followed by Manitoba 

 with more than three million pounds. Quebec 

 and the Yukon territory produced 768,282 pounds 

 and 334,090 pounds, respectively. 



Copper exports from Canada in 1920 included: 

 copper fine, in ore, matte, regulus, etc., 420,033 

 cwts., valued at $5,253,218; blister copper 333,348 

 cwts., valuedat $6,617,821 ;and copper "old and 

 scrap" 10,310 cwts., valued at $147,564. Imports 

 of copper and its products amounted to $8,568,- 

 035 in the same year. 



The Swordfish in Canada 



In the fishing grounds of the Grand Banks 

 and off the coast of Cape Breton, Canada pos- 

 sesses the most prolific haunts of the swordfish, 

 whose delectable cutlets find such favor in the 

 dining tables of Eastern Canada and the United 

 States. Each year the catch of this fish off the 

 Nova Scotia and Newfoundland coasts accounts 

 for a substantial amount in the revenue from 

 Canada's fisheries. During the month of Aug- 

 ust this year there were 29,800 pounds of sword- 

 fish caught in the George's Banks, and in Sep- 

 tember 38,200 pounds caught off Cape Breton. 

 Much of the Canadian catch of other years was 

 landed at United States ports, and the closing of 

 these outlets this year through the Fordney 

 Tariff led to the cancelling of the second trip to 

 the banks, so that the present total catch will 

 probably show a decrease after having increased 

 for some years. The catch in 1918 amounted to 

 4,320 cwt., valued at $26,952; in 1919 it rose in 

 value to $49,364, though production was less, 

 being 3,645 cwt., and last year it amounted to 

 7,411 cwt., valued at $96,017. 



The swordfish, which is so called from its 

 prolongation of the upper jaw into a long, pointed, 

 sword-like weapon w r hich it uses for defence and 

 aggression, is a sea dainty of universal popular- 

 ity. In Canadian waters it ranges in size from 

 seven to twelve feet and in weight from three 

 hundred to six hundred pounds, though speci- 

 mens are occasionally caught which run to six 

 and eight hundred pounds. Its food consists of 

 the smaller species of fish, which it secures by 

 dashing into schools, spearing as many of its 

 number as possible, and devouring them at leisure. 



Schooners Specially Fitted 



The capture of the swordfish forms a regular 

 branch of che Canadian Atlantic fishing industry, 

 the season being in the late summer months, and 

 numbers of fishermen engage in the pursuit. 



Schooners at this time are especially fitted out 

 for the chase, a platform being raised on the 

 bowsprit where a constant look-out is kept and 

 from which the harpooning is done. At this 

 time of year the swordfish, which usually follows 

 schools of other fish, which form its prey, are to 

 be found as a rule basking in the sun on the top 

 of the water. The schooner approaches them 

 and from the raised platform the fish is speared 

 with a harpoon. The tether of the weapon is 

 attached to one or two casks which, thrown over- 

 board, act as a drag to the impaled fish in its 

 endeavor to get away. A dory is then lowered 

 from the schooner and the exhausted fish pursued, 

 overtaken and despatched with a bayonet. 



The chase is not altogether bereft of excite- 

 ment and hazard, the fish often turning on the 

 dory, with what danger to its occupants may be 

 realized when it is considered that the sword- 

 like proboscis is capable of penetrating a six-inch 

 oak plank. Thus the schooner pursues its way, 

 harpooning and bringing on board such swordfish 

 as it encounters until a substantial catch has 

 been made, when a return is made to shore and 

 the fish marketed. 



Canada's Pulpwood Resources 



Though Canada is drawing on her timber 

 wealth to satisfy a wide variety of needs, the 

 principal phase of interest at the present time, 

 both from an internal and external point of view, 

 isinherpulpwood possessions. TheUnitedStates 

 and other countries by reason of the depletion of 

 their own once valuable resources are constantly 

 drawing more heavily on the Dominion's stores, 

 whilst Canada, with the lamentable examples of 

 timber -depleted lands to profit by, is moved by 

 anxiety to intelligently conserve her possessions 

 in a manner consistent with the necessary ex- 

 ploitation to supply world needs. The heavy 

 drains put upon the timber supplies of the East- 

 ern Provinces have led to a commencement upon 

 those of British Columbia, after which nothing 

 remains but the limited resources of the Prairie 

 Provinces. 



It has been estimated that there are 500,000,- 

 000 acres of forest land in Canada, about half of 

 which is covered with merchantable timber. On 

 this there should remain, deducting the amount 

 cleared and cut by lumbermen, according to 

 estimate at 3,000 board feet per acre, a total of 

 3,279 billion feet. Owing to destructive fires 

 this has been lessened considerably. Just exactly 

 how much pulpwood is available it is impos- 

 sible to state. A statement put out under gov- 

 ernmental authority in 191 5, estimated Canada's 

 supply of pulpwood at 1,033,370,000 cords. A 

 more recent estimate made by the Canadian 

 Commission of Conservation gives the total 

 pulpwood resources of Canada at the present 

 time as 901,000,000 cords of coniferous pulpwood 

 species.and adds that there are also large amounts 



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