One of the greatest advantages the area possesses lies 

 in the fact that it is served by one of the largest and most 

 efficient power concerns in Canada, the Southern Canada 

 Power Company, Ltd., ensuring an adequate supply of 

 power for the operation of any industry on any scale at 

 terms which are attractive to the manufacturer. About 

 sixty cities and towns in a territory of five thousand square 

 miles are supplied by the company with power, two 

 hundred and fifty miles of high transmission line distribut- 

 ing this to the various municipalities and urban centres. 



Possesses Distinct Advantages 



The many advantages held out by the Eastern Town- 

 ships, some of which are peculiar to that area, have not only 

 brought industrial concerns from the Eastern United 

 States to locate there, but induced manufacturers from as 

 far west as Chicago and beyond, convinced of the wisdom 

 of establishing a branch factory in Canada, to settle in the 

 Quebec area. Industries to be found operating at the 

 present time represent many states of the Union. 



Whilst the Eastern Townships of Quebec are largely 

 drawing their industries, in the shape of branch factories, 

 from the Eastern United States, they are without doubt 

 drawing a supply of their labor from the same source. 

 The industrial prosperity of the New England states and 

 Quebec's lack of development in this regard drew away, 

 years ago, a considerable volume of the French-Canadian 

 population, and Quebec's present remarkable expansion 

 in industrial manufacturing is luring them back to the 

 home land they have never forgotten. In the province's 

 assurance of continued industrial progress there is no 

 reason to doubt but that there will be available a supply 

 of experienced labor, of the kind that has made Quebec 

 the envy of industrial America, in greater numbers. 



Of recent years the United States has come to realize, 

 to an ever greater degree, that the only effective manner 

 of overcoming the Canadian tariffs against United States 

 goods and securing Canadian trade, as well as obtaining 

 the advantages of British preference and entering the 

 Dominion's export trade, is by locating a branch manufac- 

 turing plant in Canada. British manufacturers, in the 

 brightening of trade prospects in the British Isles, are 

 also keenly alive to the new method of trade warfare, and 

 the vanguard of what will probably be many British 

 branch industries has recently been announced as locating. 

 The Eastern Townships have been securing their share, 

 and, with the peculiar advantages they hold for industrial 

 development, will undoubtedly continue to attract manu- 

 facturers from both countries. 



The Confectionery Industry 



The confectionery and chocolate industry of 

 Canada constitutes an important activity, absorb- 

 ing $80,000,000 of industrial capital. Last year 

 total sales of candy in Canada are reported by 

 the Confectionery Association to have approxi- 

 mated $80,000,000, and it is expected that the 

 sales this season will amount to nearer the $100,- 

 000,000 mark. Such makes of Canadian con- 

 fection as Betty Brown, Patterson, Laura Secord, 

 Ganongs, Page & Shaw, Neilson, Cowan, Lowney, 

 Willard and Moir are not only familiar from 

 coast to coast, but the high quality of the product 

 has extended their fame into many countries. 

 In the manufacture of chocolate and confection- 

 ery of all kinds, Canada is in the gratifying 

 position of being not only able to supply her own 

 requirements but engage in a substantial export 

 trade. 



In 1920 the chocolate and cocoa industry of 

 Canada was carried on in nine plants, capitalized 



at $5,553,571, with 1,400 employees receiving 

 $1,245,693 in wages and accounting for a 

 production of $8,908,277. The kinds of products 

 comprised chocolate, cocoa, cocoa butter, con- 

 fectionery and spices, of which chocolate account- 

 ed for more than half the value of production. 

 Quebec and Ontario are the centres of the trade, 

 there being five plants in the former province 

 and three in the latter, with one plant in Nova 

 Scotia. 



There are four hundred individual plants in 

 Canada engaged in the manufacture of biscuits 

 and confectionery, of which 225 are located in 

 Ontario, 49 in British Coloumbia, 47 in Quebec, 

 28 in Alberta, 17 in Manitoba, 13 in Saskat- 

 chewan, 10 in Nova Scotia, 9 in New Brunswick, 

 and 2 in Prince Edward Island. The total 

 capital invested in these plants is $31,217,581, 

 Ontario leading with $19,253,822. They employ 

 12,722 persons at salaries and wages aggregating 

 $10,538,291. The production for 1920 was in 

 value $54,658,833, covering buns and pastry, 

 biscuits, puddings, confectionery of all kinds, 

 ice cream and other products. There is a small 

 importation of certain products, amounting to 

 $924,363. which is effected almost equally between 

 the United Kingdom and the United States. 



Exports of Manufactured Confectionery 



Canada's exports of manufactured confec- 

 tionery amount in value to more than $2,700,000 

 annually, going to practically every country of 

 the globe. Listed in Canadian trade under 

 confectionery, but not manufactured, there is a 

 voluminous export trade in other products 

 amounting to over $15,500,000. This is made up 

 of glucose and glucose syrup, maple sugar, 

 maple syrup, molasses and syrups of all kinds 

 and sugar of all kinds. 



From the manner in which the trade returns 

 are compiled it is not possible to determine what 

 proportion of the exports is accounted for by 

 chocolates, but there is reason to believe that 

 they are substantial and on the upgrade. There 

 are reports from many countries of the growing 

 popularity of the Canadian confection, and 

 manufacturers record the export trade as being 

 healthy. The Canadian army overseas had a 

 good deal to do with popularizing Canadian 

 chocolate in the British Isles, France and other 

 countries, and in the comparison created by the 

 sending of large quantities of Canadian chocolate 

 to Europe during the war years the Dominion 

 product did not suffer. According to the British 

 Trade Commissioner at Bristol, Canadian choco- 

 lates are finding a ready market in the British 

 Isles on account of superiority, being larger and 

 retaining moisture better. 



Canada's confectionery industry, whilst not 

 relatively a great one, is important in so far as it 

 is adequately meeting Canadian domestic needs 

 and aiding in augmenting the Dominion's 



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