is a very gratifying and encouraging feature of 

 the work which has been done on behalf of 

 Canadian wool by the governments and various 

 organizations, particularly the Canadian Co- 

 operative Wool Growers, which is the growers' 

 own association. The campaigns for more and 

 better sheep, the better grading of wool, the 

 sale and featuring of Canadian wool, are now 

 bearing fruit in increased production and sales 

 and in the higher qualities of the product. 



Canadian wools go to England in the op- 

 timistic conviction that they will he favorably 

 received and can compete on an equal basis with 

 the product of the Antipodes and South Am- 

 erica. Systematic efforts of breeding and grad- 

 ing has'e so improved the Canadian product that 

 wool growers of the Dominion are now con- 

 vinced that it is second to none on the market. 



Grain Shipments from the Pacific 



After years of controversy, with on the one 

 hand ingrained conviction that Canadian grain 

 would never leave from the Pacific coast, and 

 on the other a sanguine assurance that ultimately 

 this would come to pass, Vancouver is coming 

 into its own as a port of outlet for part of the 

 crop of the Prairie Provinces. Though the 

 first shipment was made only last year, develop- 

 ments since that time, and the volume of grain 

 in prospect for export from the Pacific, leave 

 no doubt as to the future status of Vancouver 

 as a grain shipping port for the product of the 

 prairies. 



The movement of the first big shipment of 

 Canadian wheat to Europe by way of the 

 Pacific was watched with considerable interest, 

 and attention from many quarters was directed 

 to its reception at the English port. There 

 was general apprehension that the grain would 

 suffer passing through the tropical region of 

 the Panama zone, but, when unloaded in Eng- 

 land, grain experts stated that grain had never 

 been received there in better condition. Pacific 

 coast exporters breathed easily, and saw a 

 wonderful future opened up for the Pacific 

 coast in sharing with the East the business of 

 carrying the grain product of the West to 

 Europe. Other shipments followed immediately 

 upon the first, and by the end of the season 

 sixteen thousand tons of grain, mostly wheat, 

 had left Vancouver for Europe via the Panama 

 canal. 



This year shipments from the Pacific coast 

 to Europe began just as soon as the move- 

 ment of the threshed crops from the prairies 

 got under way and the export business has been 

 busy since that time. Grain dealers at the 

 coast estimate that during the present season, 

 approximately ten times as much grain will 

 pass through Vancouver for Europe as left last 

 season. This will amount, according to es- 

 timate, to at least 160,000 tons. There will be, 

 it is considered, about forty cargoes. 



Shipments to England and Japan 



Another departure in the export of grain 

 this year has been the shipment of t sacked wheat 

 frofii Vancouver to Japan. Hitherto Japan has 

 been contented with the softer grains of the 

 United States, but that the Canadian product 

 is now held in high favor is evidenced in the 

 extensive demand, November consignments to 

 the Orient from the Pacific coast port totalling 

 seven thousand tons. In the same month a 

 shipment of two thousand tons will leave for 

 England, whilst shipments commenced last 

 year to San Francisco mills are continuing. 



The success of initial export shipments of 

 Canadian grain from Vancouver to all parts 

 of the world leaves no shadow of doubt as to 

 the great future of this port, lying so convenient 

 to the Western granaries, as an outlet for a por- 

 tion of their annual crop, and the success of 

 shipment through the Panama canal to Europe 

 is fraught with significance to the Dominion 

 grain export movement. Every year a certain 

 amount of congestion occurs with the enor- 

 mous product of the Prairie Provinces flooding 

 the terminal elevators and export shipping 

 points at the same time. The heavy increases 

 in annual production which will probably 

 continue in greater proportion in the future, will 

 tax the eastern ports of outlet to a yet greater 

 extent, and the success of Vancouver shipments 

 will considerably relieve the situation as well as 

 substantially augment the importance of the 

 British Columbia port. 



Industrial Manitoba 



As a rule we are prone to think of the Prairie 

 Provinces agriculturally only, yet industry is 

 developing apace with agriculture, and the manu- 

 facturing centres which spring up in the wake 

 of land settlement are fast arriving at a posi- 

 tion where they will be able to provide for all 

 the needs of the farming communities. In its 

 brief history the province of Manitoba has al- 

 ready outstripped in industrial importance t the 

 older Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and 

 Prince Edward Island, and in Winnipeg, its capi- 

 tal ,possesses the fourth most important industrial 

 hub of the Dominion. Manitoba accounts for the 

 sum of $105,983,159 out of the total Dominion 

 capitalization in industry of $3,034,301,915. A 

 total of 23,887 persons receiving $23,389,681 are 

 employed in its industries which have an annual 

 production valued at $145,031,510. 



Manitoba has primarily been a wheat rais- 

 ing province and has made the name of "Num- 

 ber One Hard" famous all over the world. 

 Though she is making a strong bid for promi- 

 nence in other directions, her industries are 

 largely based on her grain fields and the mixed 

 farms of the West to which the city of Winnipeg 

 acts much as a pivotal point. The chief in- 

 dustries of Manitoba, according to the last 



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