Agricultural and Industrial 

 Progress in Canada 



A monthly review of Agricultural and Industrial progress in Canada, 

 published by the Department of Colonization and Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, Canada. 



VOL. 4 No. 7 



MONTREAL 



July, 1922 



Canada's Fifty-Fifth Birthday 



CANADA, on arrival at her fifty-fifth birth- 

 day, is yet a land of small and sparse 

 population, and, taking account of this 

 aspect alone, people in other lands frequently 

 ascribe to the Dominion attributes and qualities 

 of insignificance in other phases of her national 

 life. 



But with her population this atomic element 

 ceases. In all her aspects Canada is to be 

 thought of in terms of immensity. A land 

 created on a Titan plan, of towering mountains, 

 sweeping forests, horizon-bound plain, fertile 

 valleys, expansive lakes and mighty rivers; all 

 enterprise is conceived on a mammoth scale, and 

 so in bringing these magnificent natural assets 

 under human con- 

 trol, undertakings 

 have in many in- 

 stances surpassed in 

 magnitude any- 

 thing previously un- 

 dertaken. The oc- 

 casion of another 

 birthday to the Do- 

 minion is sufficient 

 excuse to make a 

 rough survey of 

 some of these. 



Canada's coast- 

 line totals in length nearly one-half of the cir- 

 cumference of the globe, with 12,000 miles of sea 

 coast and 220,000 square miles of freshwater 

 fisheries; she possesses most expansive and 

 potentially wealthy fishing grounds, and in Lake 

 Superior shares with the United States the largest 

 body of freshwater in the world and its most 

 extensive inland fishery. 



Her forest resources are second to none and 

 she is the world's first fur producer. She is 

 surpassed by only one country in the production 

 of pulp and paper and by one only in her wealth 

 of water powers. 



Canada has a great reserve of virgin agricul- 

 tural land with more than 200,000,000 acres of 

 arable land in the Western provinces as yet 



DOMINION GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE 

 1922 Crop Acreage 



1922 



Wheat 22,464,000 



Oats 16,933,500 



Barley 2,747,000 



Rye 2,079,660 



Peas 189,300 



Mixed Grains 872,700 



Hay and Clover 11,106,800 



1921 



23,261,224 

 16,949,029 

 2,795,665 

 1,842,498 

 192,749 

 861,136 

 10,880,843 



untouched by the plough and many attractive 

 fertile farms available for immediate settlement 

 in the East. Yet, with what she has under 

 cultivation, she has already assumed second 

 place amongst the wheat-growing nations of the 

 world, with a 1921 production of over 300,000,- 

 000 bushels of such quality that uninterruptedly 

 for ten years the Dominion has carried off the 

 world's first honors for that crop. 



This country, to which are ascribed such 

 inappreciable qualities, has a virtual monopoly 

 of certain valuable mineral deposits. With but 

 one-half of one per cent of the world's popula- 

 tion she produces 90% of its cobalt, 88% of its 

 asbestos, 85% of its nickel, 12% of its silver 

 and 4% of its gold. She possesses 17% of the 

 coal resources of the globe and 71% of those 

 of the British Em- 

 pire. 



Canadian enter- 

 prise has of necessi- 

 ty been planned and 

 carried out on a 

 scale compatible 

 with these extensive 

 resources. At Nia- 

 gara Falls, Canada 

 has great develop- 

 ment of electrical 

 energy, while the 

 Queenston- power 



plant features the world's largest water-wheel- 

 driven generators. At Bassano, watering the 

 Canadian Pacific's vast eastern irrigation tract, 

 is the continent's greatest irrigation dam, and at 

 Gouin, at the head of the St. Maurice River, 

 P.Q., is the world's biggest dam with a capacity 

 double that of the Assouan on the Nile. 



Among other features in which Canada leads 

 is in possession of a vast game preserve in the 

 Rocky Mountains, Alberta. This national park 

 has an extent of 4,400 square miles and gives 

 protection to 10,000 Rocky Mountain sheep 

 alone. 



These are but some few of the many big 

 things Canada possesses natural, agricultural, 

 commercial and engineering features of which 





