$2,360. In 1919 the corresponding production was 54, 246,- 

 000 feet of lumber worth $962,416; 60,000 shingles worth 

 $120 and 3,235,000 lath worth $9,707. 



Extensive Inland Water 



Manitoba contains an area of 19,894 square miles in 

 inland lakes, three being of gigantic size, Lake Winnipeg, 

 9,457 square miles, Lake Winnipegosis 2,086 square miles 

 and Lake Manitoba 9,457 square miles. All of these 

 abound in edible fish including the whitefish, pickerel, 

 trout, pike, tullibee, perch, and sturgeon. Both winter 

 and summer fishing is carried on and though it is only 

 within the past couple of years that any attempt has been 

 made to engage in this pursuit on a commercial basis, a 

 most gratifying success has been met with and Manitoba 

 fish are now to be encountered in all the large centres of 

 the American continent. 



In 1909 the value of the fish caught in the province was 

 $600,396; by 1913 this had risen to $1,103,385; and in 1920 

 the annual catch aggregated a value of $1,249,607. Merely 

 the minutest of beginning has been made on the com- 

 mercialization of Manitoba's inland waters which is 

 capable of developing into an industry of large proportions. 



The centre of greatest attraction in Manitoba at the 

 present time, is the mineral belt of her northern area where 

 preliminary prospecting and developing have disclosed 

 illimitable possibilities in a variety of mineral resources. 

 Work in this field is of too recent origin (merely initial 

 development), to have yet shown appreciable results and 

 it is only in the years to come that the exploitation of this 

 area will effect a revolution in the mineral statistics of the 

 province. 



A very healthy progress in the mineral industry has 

 however been exhibited in the past twenty years and 

 whereas the production in 1900 was worth $216,830, it 

 was valued at $2,928,316 in 1910, and at $3,900,207 in 1920. 



Progress in agriculture always has its reflection in an 

 expansion in manufacturing industry and this is shown in 

 a marked degree in the case of Manitoba where industrial 

 development in the past twenty years has been most 

 startling. Increasing industrial establishment has taken 

 place to meet the needs of greater settlement whilst 

 Manitoba has gone a great way towards supplying the 

 needs of the prairies to the west of her . The remarkable 

 growth of the two decades just passed can be most clearly 

 realized from a comparison. 



1905 



1910 



1919 



ESTABLISHMENTS. 

 CAPITAL . 

 EMPLOYEES. 

 WAGES. 

 PRODUCTION. 



354 439 1,622 



$27,517,297 $47,941,540 $111,535,665 



10,333 17,325 27,353 



5,909,791 10,912,866 30,988,152 



28,155,732 53,673,609 153,003,614 



Another provincial resource which takes a lower though 

 important place in provincial revenue is fur. The northern 

 tracts of the prairie province each year yield to trappers 

 many valuable pelts of a high grade and value. In the 

 season 1920-21 these amounted to 499,313 skins which had 

 a value of $1,046,000. 



An increasing interest is also being taken in the domes- 

 tication of live fur-bearers and it has been estimated that 

 beaver farming in the province can alone be promoted to 

 a source of revenue yielding $500,000 annually. The 

 province now has its own fur sales held periodically at 

 Winnipeg at each of which peltry to the value of approxi- 

 mately half a million dollars changes hands. 



Manitoba contains a great diversity of natural resources 

 the development of many of which is merely in the prelimi- 

 nary stages. When it is considered that agricultural 

 settlement, industrial establishment and exploitation of all 

 kinds have at present only been accomplished over a 

 relatively small portion of the province, it must readily be 

 conceded that a great f urtue awaits it when men and capital 

 in greater number and volume can bring about more 

 adequate and justified development. 



The Personally Conducted Party 



Recently there arrived on board the Canadian 

 Pacific liner "Montcalm" a group of fifteen 

 families, aggregating one hundred and seven 

 persons, selected from various parts of the Brit- 

 ish Isles, personally conducted by a representa- 

 tive of the London staff of the Department of 

 Colonization and Development, and constituting 

 the largest party of land seekers the Canadian 

 Pacific has yet brought out. The average wealth 

 per family in the party was in excess of $10,000 

 and all this was to be invested in farming enter- 

 prises in Western Canada for various points in 

 which the members of the group were bound. 



The arrival of this party, and the knowledge 

 that it was merely the precursor from the 

 British Isles this summer of other C.P.R. 

 parties to be conducted periodically, form 

 striking tribute to the persistency of faith in the 

 Dominion existing in the British Isles in the face 

 of what during the psat two years has amounted 

 to virtual discouragement. The dimensions of 

 this first party is also indicative of the success 

 which has attended the efforts in making up 

 land parties in the British Isles, in which work 

 the Canadian Pacific has been the pioneer. 



The advantage and benefits of the personally 

 conducted party will be self evident. Emi- 

 gration is a serious matter, a movement of a 

 lifetime, a decision to be arrived at only after 

 long deliberation and much weighing of the pros 

 and cons. The contemplating settler is at all 

 times in need of advise, encouragement and 

 stimulation. Through the Canadian Pacific's 

 conducted party the land seekers are gathered 

 together in a central point and from their 

 departure from their old homes untill they are 

 settled in their new ones, they are under the 

 personal guidance and supervision of an experi- 

 enced conductor. Advice and information are 

 at their disposal, and through expert travelling 

 knowledge, the petty inconveniences and trials 

 of journeying are obviated. Emigrants travell- 

 ing in this guise arrive in Canada under the best 

 auspices, in the most comfortable circumstances 

 and receiving the best impressions. 



The personally conducted party has proved 

 a complete success in stocking the Dominion 

 with the best of citizen-building material from 

 the British Isles. Immigrants are selected with 

 due regard to the Dominion's immediate and 

 most urgent needs and located in areas in which 

 they will give the best account of themselves 

 and where the Dominion most wants them. In 

 1921, which was a most discouraging year from 

 the standpoint of immigration, and one in which 

 the introduction of new peoples was effected 

 only in the face of great difficulties and the 

 overcoming of numerous obstacles, five such 

 conducted parties from the British Isles gave 

 Canada two hundred and twenty-eight new 

 families of altogether four hundred and sixty 

 souls and added to the wealth of the country by 



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