the Panama, for Europe. Before the end of 1921 more 

 than two million bushels of wheat had left the Pacific 

 coast for England and approximately the same amount 

 was shipped to Oriental ports. By the first of June this 

 year, approximately seven million bushels had left Van- 

 couver, England and the Orient taking approximately 

 equal amounts. 



The same stimulus to trade was exhibited in other of 

 the province's lines of export activity after the war, and in 

 none was this new spirit so pronounced as in the lumber 

 trade. Greater realization was awakened in Pacific 

 coast lumbermen of the possibilities of the export trade, 

 and they not only made an endeavor to maintain those 

 fields which had been developed purely as a result of the 

 war, but penetrated into new directions and found new 

 outlets. Every month of the year saw representatives of 

 coast companies leaving to drum up business in other 

 countries, and their endeavors have been remarkably 

 successful, especially in the countries of the Orient, with 

 whom at the present time it is a difficult matter to supply 

 the demand. Ocean shipments of lumber from British 

 Columbia during 1921 to foreign countries totalled 164,- 

 000,000 feet; shipments to Japan and China accounting for 

 93,000,000 feet; Australia and New Zealand 27,000,000 

 feet; the United States 13,500,000 feet; United Kingdom 

 9,000,000 feet; and other countries 21,500,000 feet. 



Increasing Lumber Shipments 



This does not include large quantities of box shocks 

 and shingles, nor the export by rail to the United States. 

 Approximately 2,000,000 shingles were cut by mills in 

 British Columbia in 1921, of which ninety-five per cent 

 went to the United States. A total of 700,000 bundles of 

 shingles were shipped in that year to United States Atlan- 

 tic ports and 24,600 tons of box shooks went to Australia 

 and Singapore. The total shipments to the United States 

 of British Columbia showed a remarkable increase in 1921, 

 amounting in all to 26,712,000 board feet, of which 20,000,- 

 000 went to California and the remainder to Atlantic coast 

 ports. Previous shipments to the, United States were in 

 1916, 3,565,000 feet; in 1919, 5259,000 feet; and in 1920, 

 4,162,000 feet. The whole situation is extremely gratifying 

 when it is noted that total shipments to all countries in 

 1920 amounted to only 146,000,000 feet and that in 1919 

 they were only 108,000,000 feet. A year still farther back 

 they amounted to only 93,000,000 feet and in 1917 to 

 44,000,000 feet. 



Vancouver has, in fact, undergone a truly remarkable 

 expansion in the past few years, due almost entirely to the 

 new importance of the export trade of her port. Customs 

 returns at the port of Vancouver during the last fiscal 

 year amounted to $12,986,875, an increase of $3,400,000 

 over the returns of the previous year. The number of 

 deep-sea ships entering the port in 1921 was 389 as against 

 336 in the previous year, and 11,485 coastwise vessels, 

 local and foreign, found harbor there. During the past 

 two years new direct steamship connections have been 

 opened up at Vancouver, and thirty-four regular lines of 

 steamships use the port as a terminal in addition to many 

 irregular tramp steamers and sailing vessels. These reach 

 every country of the world in their activities. 



The Erection of New Elevators 



Vancouver's new status as a port of grain export has 

 naturally caused certain congestion with the duty of ship- 

 ping such a volume of the season's crop, and it is stated 

 that a yet greater proportion of the harvest would have 

 come down to the Pacific had the facilities been at hand to 

 accommodate it. The storage capacity of Vancouver 

 port has been only 1,266,000 bushels, totally inadequate 

 to the present traffic, and the first step in remedying this 

 situation is the erection of a 150,000 bushels elevator, the 

 capacity of which can be increased to one million bushels. 

 A further development of Vancouver's grain trade has been 

 the establishment of a full-fledged grain exchange in the 

 city which transacts all grain business and sets the price 

 for Western grains. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway has duly recognized 

 the new importance Vancouver is assuming and is making 

 preparations for the handling of a much greater volume 

 of both freight and passenger traffic. A large ocean pier 

 is being constructed at Vancouver port by the company, 

 800 feet long (with provision for extension later), 328 feet 

 wide, to have four railway tracks and be equipped with the 

 most modern facilities for handling passengers and freight. 



There is not a cloud on the horizon of Vancouver's 

 future. It is often predicted that it will become the 

 Pacific coast's first port, and this is no wild fancy when the 

 phenomenal development of the Canadian West is taken 

 into account and allowance made for a future expansion. 

 British Columbia is itself a province of immense potential 

 wealth whose resources, in their barely scratched present 

 state, are worth about $410,000,000 annually in production. 

 Just as the whole future of the Canadian West is assured, 

 so it is inevitable that its principal port, Vancouver, shall 

 expand and prosper in proportion. 



Industrial Outlook in Western Canada 



By John Sweeting, Industrial Agent, 

 Western Lines, C.P.R. 



Business is improving. Each week now 

 there are more definite gains in volume of trading, 

 a much better feeling throughout the West on 

 future trading and prospects, with, at the time 

 of writing, a very excellent condition of crops. 



Construction work is bidding for a fair 

 average year, better than 1921, with possibilities 

 of late summer development of contracts now 

 held up. There is noticeable extension of some 

 existing plants, where proposals are on foot to 

 increase capacity. Lumbering conditions are 

 better, export trade fair and prairie market 

 increasing its demands. Mining operations are 

 gaining in number and output. The proposals 

 of the Consolidated to build a concentrator at 

 the Sullivan Mine, Kimberley, B.C., will largely 

 increase capacity at Tadanac for taking care 

 of ores; the market appears to be able to absorb 

 output, with even better conditions in the near 

 future. 



With the bringing in of the second well in 

 Montana, just south of the Alberta boundary, 

 an impetus has been given to oil prospects in 

 the "Foothills Province," and there are likely 

 to be many outfits working during the summer, 

 testing the prospective field on this side of the 

 line. 



Pulp and paper plants in the West are doing 

 good business. The plant at Dryden is spending 

 half a million dollars on improvements, while 

 in addition to the Provincial's large paper plant 

 at Port Arthur, now under construction, the 

 other pulp mill at that point is likely to build 

 an additional 50-ton unit. The Fort William 

 Company may start on its paper mill this year. 

 On the Coast, conditions in this industry are 

 quite good. 



Steadily Improving Business 



Other industries are steadily showing im- 

 provement, orders coming in well and demand- 

 ing enlargement of premises. Several additional 



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