it is now announced that the pioneer English 

 motor car concern is to establish a branch factory 

 in Canada to compete with the United States 

 cars. 



Canada's export trade in automobiles is an 

 important and growing one. In the fiscal year 

 1921, 15,620 passenger automobiles valued at 

 $11,376,268 and 4,290 freight automobiles valued 

 at $2,602,853 were exported. The growth of 

 this trade within quite recent times can be 

 gauged from a comparison with the 1919 figures, 

 when 11,613 passenger automobiles valued at 

 $5,989,908 and 2,567 freight cars worth $1,313,- 

 770 left the country. Canada's markets for this 

 kind of manufacture cover the greater part of 

 the globe. The United Kingdom, Australia, New 

 Zealand, India and the United States provide 

 the most valuable markets, but the product also 

 goes in substantial volume to the Argentine, 

 Brazil, Africa, Chile, China, Egypt, Japan, 

 Mexico, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden 

 and other countries. Canada is continually 

 ranking higher as a source of purchase of motor 

 cars, especially by Great Britain. During the 

 first quarter of 1922 the Dominion ranked first 

 as a source for the number of finished cars and 

 fourth with respect to chassis in the British 

 motor car imports. The United States was 

 fourth in cars and third in chassis 



The Export Markets 



When one analyses Canada's export markets 

 in the automobile trade, it becomes evident just 

 what attraction Canada has for United States 

 and foreign firms engaging in this manufacture. 

 The most extensive and profitable markets have 

 been found and developed in the countries of 

 the British Empire where Canada, as a unit of 

 the Empire, receives the benefits of many 

 preferential tariffs. The regular tariff on motor 

 cars from foreign countries to the United King- 

 dom, for instance, is 33 1-3 per cent. From 

 countries within the Empire there is a preferen- 

 tial tariff one-third less, or 29 2-9 per cent. The 

 New Zealand tariff provides for a regular duty 

 of 25 per cent and a preferential one within the 

 Empire of 15 per cent. This latter also applies 

 to Samoa. Southern and Northern Rhodesia 

 have a regular tariff of 20 per cent on motor cars 

 coming into the country and a preferential rate 

 to British countries of 17 per cent. Australia 

 follows the British preferential tariff in giving a 

 rate 15 per cent lower than the general one on 

 British Empire automobile products. 



The growing use of the car both in Canada 

 and in the countries with which she has developed 

 her greatest export automobile trade, all being 

 countries of expanding population and increasing 

 prosperity, makes the Dominion a peculiarly 

 suitable one for the location of automobile plants, 

 and manufacturers are coming in an ever greater 

 degree to realize this. 



Textile and Industrial Centre 



Already that territory known as the Eastern Town- 

 ships of Quebec has two claims to world distinction which 

 will never be wrested from it. It leads the world in the 

 production of asbestos, accounting for 85 per cent, of the 

 globe's entire supply, and likewise, with a production of 

 eight million pounds annually, has the leadership of the 

 world in maple sugar output. Now the Eastern Townships 

 are making a new bid for fame and seem to be destined to 

 become one of the principal, if not the leading centre of 

 the textile industry in Canada. 



Within the past few weeks the Dominion Silk Dyeing 

 and Finishing Company, a branch of the National Silk 

 Dyeing and Finishing Company of Patterson, New 

 Jersey, has located at Drummondville, Quebec; the 

 Premier Silk Mills, capitalized at $250,000, has established 

 at Cowansville, Quebec; and the Franco-American 

 Company, engaging in the dyeing and finishing of all 

 textiles, is erecting a commodious plant at St. Johns. 

 This makes a total of fourteen textile industries which 

 have located within the past three years in the Eastern 

 Townships, expending about twelve million dollars on 

 plants and equipment. Among them are manufacturers 

 of tire fabrics, corsets, silk hosiery, gloves, silk dyeing and 

 finishing, cottons, furs, and silks. 



Developments would indicate that this territory will 

 be the home of all the silk manufacturing industries of 

 Canada. Already practically all the textile plants of 

 Canada manufacturing tire fabrics are to be found there 

 and the manufacture of cottons and woollens is continually 

 growing in importance throughout the territory. Sher- 

 brooke has woolen and cotton mills and manufactures 

 clothing, silk gloves, hosiery, underwear, cotton fibre and 

 auto-tire fibre. At Drummondville there are silk and 

 cotton mills and plants for the manufacture of hosiery 

 and tire fabric as well as silk dyeing. Cowansville has a 

 silk mill. Coaticook is engaged in the manufacture of 

 fabrics and fire hose and has woollen and knitting mills. 

 Lennoxville has important hosiery manufactures and 

 Magog textile prints, whilst Richmond, Victoriaville, 

 Farnham and Waterloo are occupied on a smaller scale 

 with the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods. St. 

 Hyacinthe has woollen, cotton, and clothing establishments. 



A Wide Range of Products 



The textile industry, it must be realized, is only a 

 phase of an industrial activity which is general throughout 

 the area, but which has come in a peculiar manner to 

 centre about the growing cities and towns of the Townships. 

 Practically every line of manufacture necessary to the 

 maintenance of the economic life of the province and the 

 Dominion is followed there, whilst the export trade is 

 growing substantially. In addition to the above, and to 

 asbestos and maple sugar, stone products, copper milling, 

 rubber goods, machinery, biscuit making and matches are 

 all important, whilst the principal centres of the Canadian 

 tobacco industry are to be found within the area. At St. 

 Johns are located felt establishments, insulated wire 

 factory, clay and pottery works, collar and shirt factories, 

 and an immense sewing machine establishment, whilst 

 St. Hyacinthe possesses the largest pipe organ factory on 

 the continent, which has had the distinction of exporting 

 its manufactures to Europe. 



Nature poured her gifts lavishly upon this section of 

 the Dominion, and in developing the area industrially, 

 man has merely begun to take adequate advantage of 

 what nature provided. The territory is situated in the 

 heart of one of the richest farming areas of Quebec and 

 maintains in a gratifying manner an equable balance 

 between rural and urban population. The labor situation 

 is peculiarly favorable, the province being regarded with 

 envy all over the American continent for its freedom from 

 strikes and labor disorders. Transportation facilities are 

 unsurpassed, the Eastern Townships being served by no 

 fewer than eleven Canadian and United States railroads. 



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