deposit of great commercial value has un- 

 doubtedly been discovered. 



Mr. Butterfield is confident that the deposit 

 is of very vast extent, claiming to have es- 

 timated 154,000,000 tons. This tonnage, if 

 verified by subsequent systematic blocking out, 

 should not be difficult to transport to suitable 

 reduction points accessible to markets. The 

 deposit has direct water communication with 

 existing railhead on the Alberta and Great 

 Waterways Railway, and is sufficiently near to 

 the vast coal fields of Alberta to make the re- 

 ported discovery of peculiar interest to the steel 

 and iron industries. 



Both in Eastern and Western Canada there 

 are known to be large deposits of low grade iron 

 ores, but all require more or less costly treat- 

 ment to enable them to be mined and smelted. 



Canada imports 95 per cent of the ore smelted 

 in its blast furnaces and also imports over $125,- 

 000,000 worth of steel and iron products. 



Hence it is of the first importance that this 

 new discovery, which indicates possibilities of 

 a high grade hematite ore body, should be given 

 the closest investigation either by official de- 

 partments or private enterprise, through the 

 agency of fully qualified mining engineers, next 

 season, and it is to be hoped that such investi- 

 gation will be undertaken. 



The Value of Canada's Fisheries 



As a land surrounded on three sides by water, 

 its area profusely dotted with lakes of varying 

 dimensions from the small crystal depression 

 of a few acres to the mighty bodies of square 

 miles of surface, and a veritable network of 

 rivers and streams, the fish naturally plays a 

 somewhat important r61e in Canadian economic 

 life. These waters contain a wide diversity of 

 species, and the yearly toll of the seas and 

 inland waters accounts for a handsome sum in 

 the nation's revenue each year. On either coast 

 the sea fisheries give continuous employment 

 to thousands of men each year, and dependent 

 industries such as canning, drying, salting, and 

 smoking, to other thousands. The commercial 

 exploitation of the inland lakes is increasing 

 each year and swelling the revenue derived 

 from the fish traffic. 



Every section of the Dominion shares in the 

 wealth of fisheries, though some are producing 

 in a greater extent than others, and each prov- 

 ince has a substantial amount each year 

 derived from this source. The total values 

 of commercial fisheries production in 1920, 

 according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 

 was $49,321,217. British Columbia accounted 

 for $22,139,161; Nova Scotia, $12,742,659; New 

 Brunswick, $4,423, 745 ; Ontario, $3,410,750 ; Que- 

 bec, $2,591,982; Prince Edward Island, $1,714,- 

 663; Manitoba, $1,249,607; Alberta, $529,078; 

 Saskatchewan, $296,472;and the Yukon, $33, 100. 

 These amounts do not, however, by any means 



represent the value of the fisheries to the prov- 

 inces, and in her possession of one of the world's 

 greatest and most prolific fisheries, Canada has 

 an asset of inestimable value. 



Inland Waters Great Source of Revenue 



It would be difficult, for instance, to estimate 

 the worth of the inland waters of the Dominion 

 in the power they possess to draw sportsmen 

 from all over the world year after year. Prac- 

 tically every province of Canada has its favore " 

 waters, which each year are the holiday destina- 

 tions of tourists and fishermen who never mis 

 this annual pilgrimage to fish their favorite 

 pools and whip their seductive streams. Their 

 lure never fades because they never become 

 understocked or depleted, an ever-watchfu 

 government department guarding religiously 

 against this danger by an aggressive campaign 

 of fish culture. 



Again, the figures published by the Govern- 

 ment do not include the great quantities 

 fish caught by Indians, lumbermen, trapper 

 settlers, etc., of which it is not possible to ke 

 record, but which constitutes one of the most 

 valuable phases of the bountiful natural gift 

 So diffuse are Canadian lakes, so interwoven 

 her rivers and streams, that there is no farming 

 settlement far from a fish supply in the shape of 

 some body of water or waterway, and each 

 farming settler has at his command a source 

 of food as well as a means of pleasing diversion, 

 whilst often this becomes a commercial business 

 with profitable revenue. The amount of white- 

 fish, pike, pickerel, perch and trout consumed 

 in this way is very large and quite untraceable 

 for purposes of record. 



The inland lakes of the North-West are 

 fished extensively by the Indians, to whom their 

 product forms a main source of sustenance. 

 Lumber camps, survey gangs and exploring 

 parties all count on the giant water ways to 

 provide them with a portion of their fresh food, 

 whilst the fish is to the trapper both food for 

 himself and his dog team. 



The figures of revenue from commercial 

 fishing in Canada do not by any means repre- 

 sent the value of her fisheries to the Dominion, 

 and should every utilization of their product 

 be taken into account, they would be found to 

 be amongst the first of the country's natural 

 resources. 



Going to the Prairie for Trees 



One does not go to the Arctic for fruit nor 

 seek furs in the Tropics, and the last place on 

 earth the average individual would think of 

 securing trees would be the Canadian prairies. 

 The very word conjures up a picture of vast 

 stretches of interminable treeless plains, for a 

 great section of the people of the continent are 

 unaware of what a misnomer the term is, and 



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