manufactured forest products last year amounted 

 to $75,832,487, which speaks well for the in- 

 creasing importance of this industry in the 

 Dominion. 



The Period of Readjustment 



The termination of the Great War disclosed 

 a serious world shortage of building, those 

 countries over whose areas hostilities had ac- 

 tually been waged suffering from wanton de- 

 truction, whilst in practically all other countries 

 construction operations ceased with the first 

 clash of arms. In the period of readjustment 

 nearly every nation faced an urgent need of im- 

 mediate building on a large scale, and Canada, 

 as the possessor of one of the largest supplies of 

 raw material still left in the world, was looked 

 to, to largely meet this demand. It has been in 

 striving to effect this that Canada has so sub- 

 stantially increased her lumber export trade. 



Very noticeable and distinctly significant 

 has been the further expansion of the lumber 

 trade in the past year, particularly the aggressive 

 manner in which Pacific coast exporters have 

 penetrated the foreign markets and found new 

 outlets for their products in all parts of the 

 globe. 



Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, 

 China, India and Egypt are only a few of the 

 countries importing heavily of Canadian lumber. 

 Scarcely a month passed but representatives of 

 lumber companies have left for new fields to 

 drum up business, whilst every boat leaving 

 from Pacific coast ports has its timber freight 

 bound for all parts of the world. 



With growing markets for Canadian lum- 

 ber have grown the outlets for manufactured 

 wood products. This is evidenced in a perusal 

 of the export list for the past year. Included 

 in these are: barrels to the United Kingdom, 

 United States, Newfoundland, St. Pierre and 

 Miquelon; pails and woodenware to the United 

 Kingdom, France and Newfoundland; staves and 

 headings to United Kingdom, United States, 

 Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad; furniture 

 to the United States, United Kingdom, |Trini- 

 dad, Cuba, Newfoundland, New Zealand; 

 matches to United Kingdom, United States, 

 Barbadoes, British Guiana, Jamaica, South 

 Africa and Trinidad. 



Canadian Ticket Agents Convention 



Canadian railroad ticket agents to the num- 

 ber of 150 gathered at Ottawa recently on the 

 occasion of their annual convention, listened to 

 addresses on all phases of railroad transportation 

 and inspected moving picture films descriptive 

 of Canadian scenery and industry. 



Amongst the speakers was Mr. Arthur 

 Calder, of the Executive Staff of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, who, in part, said; 



Some of my audience remember much of the story 

 that I will sketch for you to-day. Many more of lesser 



age, will not. It is an old story to some, but real romance 

 to this generation. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. was incorporated 

 in 1881. At that time it consisted of a few miles of ac- 

 quired lines in Ontario a little in Quebec and some odd 

 stretches north of Lake Superior, starting at one rock 

 cut and ending at another. It also inherited a bit of 

 partially built line in British Columbia, extending from 

 Port Moody East to about where Gladwyn or Drynoch 

 now is. There was also sixty-six miles of prairie railway, 

 between Emerson on the Minnesota boundary and St. 

 Boniface on the opposite side of the Red River from 

 Winnipeg. 



The Canadian Pacific was almost invariably referred 

 to in those days as the " Syndicate, " and the " Syndicate " 

 was given ten years to piece those fragments of railroad 

 together and join Eastern Canada with the tide water of 

 the Pacific at Port Moody, British Columbia. This ap- 

 pointed and seemingly impossible task was accomplished 

 in four years and six months. 



Now remember that in June, 1886, when the Cana- 

 dian Pacific was opened for transcontinental traffic, it 

 was a new and rather desolate path across a country with 

 little population, other than Indians and a few whites, 

 and not many of either. Three thousand miles of un- 

 developed wilderness, but with the potentials of an em- 

 pire. The railway was as crude as the country was: 

 fifty six pound rails on the prairies and seventy pounds in 

 the mountains, wooden bridges, poor little stations and 

 none too many of them; the equipment and power very 

 ordinary, even for the time. 



No steamships on the ocean, lakes or rivers, just two 

 ribbons of light steel without branch lines but, behind 

 it a band of enthusiasts determined to make it a success 

 if faith and work could accomplish it. And these enthu- 

 siasts were not all on its directorate not at all. Every 

 man from section hand up the scale of importance in rail- 

 way management, operation and solicitation, was as en-, 

 thusiastic as its officers, and put his head and heart and 

 hand into its development. 



A Great Factor in Upbuilding Canada 



The Canadian Pacific ranks 90% in the forces which 

 have made Canada. It took abstract Canada into the 

 populous centres of the earth and by its efforts made 

 it something more than a name that conjured up snow, 

 ice and discomfort. It made Canada a nation, proud of 

 itself; proud of its history. It gase it attainment instead 

 of promise. It made its people courageous, assertive, am- 

 bitious, confident, and what it did in the days of the 

 eighties and the nineties it is doing to-day, and remains 

 itself, the backbone, the arteries, the very vitality of 

 Canadian commerce as well as patriotism and, incidentally, 

 the institution that Canadians boast most freely of when 

 away from home. 



In 1881 and later, three-fourths of Canada was un- 

 known to Canadians. The rest of the world was ignorant 

 of it and indifferent to it. This is no longer a reproach. 

 The Canadian Pacific now has splendidly equipped office* 

 in twenty-five cities in the United States offices that are 

 a credit to Canada all spreading the gospel of Canada 

 and the Canadian Pacific. It is similarly equipped in 

 the British Isles and on the Continent of Europe, likewise 

 in Asia and Australia and I hope will soon be as well, 

 represented in South America and South Africa. 



It bestrides the narrow world from East to West, like 

 a colossus, and is growing in influence every day. It it 

 the great Canadian Missionary and asks the faith and 

 support of every man interested in making this nation 

 what all want it to be, progressive, prosperous, contented, 

 a home for the industrious, honest and ambitious of less 

 favored lands. 



Outlook in Western Canada 



By John F. Sweeting, Industrial Agent, Western 

 Lines, C. P. R., Winnipeg 



A fair trading business continues to be 

 carried on with a hopeful outlook for bettering 



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