during the first seven months of this year 

 amounted to $26,667,400, which included all 

 classes of work, with actual factories, public 

 buildings and residences amounting to $19,829,- 

 300. There are undoubtedly sounder prospects 

 ahead for development with an absence of 

 speculative methods, showing a return to normal 

 business conditions with possibilities of great 

 increase in trade and development. 



Lack of confidence in Western Canada hardly 

 appears to be justified in view of the known 

 wealth of its natural resources, its large unculti- 

 vated areas of arable lands, its immense northern 

 country only sparsely explored, and its recog- 

 nized fuel, power, timber and mineral assets. 

 Colonization by people and capital will soon 

 turn dormant wealth into actively progressive 

 prosperity. The time appears to be at hand 

 when the first stage of this new development 

 should take place. 



Expansion of Manufacturing Industries 



Since the beginning of the new year Canada has given 

 various indications of a return to more normal and pros- 

 perous conditions, and there is no longer any doubt but 

 that these indications will be borne out in substantially 

 increased figures of production at the end of the year in 

 practically every resource and manufacture. This re- 

 awakening to activity has been evidenced in nearly all the 

 Dominion's lines of industry, and in none has it been so 

 pronounced as in the expansion and new establishment 

 of manufacturing. Industry is striding apace with agricul- 

 ture and manufacturing assuming a more important 

 place each year in Dominion life. The annual production 

 of Canadian manufacturing industries now amounts to 

 approximately $400 per head of population, whilst the 

 country's exports equal $150 per head, or the highest in 

 the world. 



The present year has seen focussed upon Canada and 

 her opportunity a more than usual attention from trade 

 interests, not alone to the Canadian domestic market, 

 which is small, but to the export market, which, by virtue 

 of Canada's strategic position, is expanding rapidly. One 

 of _the outstanding traits of the year has been the desire 

 evinced by the United Kingdom to increase trade with 

 Canada, which came happily at a time when certain 

 Canadian products were barred from the United States 

 market by the tariff and when Canada was finding it 

 necessary to find other markets and to stir herself to 

 develop trade within the Empire. This new interest has 

 not only had the effect of bringing manufacturers from 

 the British Isles to establish in the Dominion, but has 

 stimulated the expansion of American interests in Canada 

 to meet the competition. 



Many New Incorporations 



In the year 1921 a total of 1,081 charters were granted 

 new companies commencing operations in Canada, the 

 whole representing a capitalization of $824,000,000. This 

 year, during the first six months, new incorporations have 

 approximated $20,000,000 a week, and it would seem as if 

 1922 were going to create a record in this regard. At the 

 end of the year it was estimated there were about eight 

 hundred branch plants of American industries operating 

 in Canada and about one-third of this number branches 

 of English industries. Since the beginning of the year the 

 British Isles, through the visits of various trades interests 

 and manufacturers representatives, has been brought to 

 realize the expediency of following United States trade 



methods in Canada, and there seems reason to expect in 

 the near future the establishment of many British branch 

 industries. Meanwhile the locating of fresh United States 

 industries goes on unabated as more American houses 

 come to realize that this is the ablest manner of capturing 

 and holding the Canadian market and trading with the 

 British Empire. 



Among the many United States branch plants to be 

 established this year is a copper and brass concern at 

 Toronto, cutlery manufactures at Hamilton and Welland, 

 electric bulbs at Oshawa, hosiery at Guelph, automobile 

 manufactures at Sarnia, silk mills at Cowansville, auto 

 tire plant at Hamilton, silk dyeing and finishing at Drum- 

 mondville, and textile dyeing at St. John's. 



The industrial boom which has hit Canada has favored 

 all sections of the Dominion and covers practically all 

 phases of industrial activity. This is a tribute to the 

 country as a whole as possessing those qualities which 

 prove attractive to manufacturers and show that the 

 wide diversity of Canadian natural resources, profusely 

 scattered, makes the establishment of industries in any 

 section profitable. 



The Automobile Industry Expands 



The Border cities, always regarded in great favor by 

 American manufacturers, have recently experienced a 

 substantial expansion to their automobile industries 

 through the doubling of the capacity of the Ford plant and 

 the location in that area of the Dodge Company. The 

 Eastern Townships of Quebec are developing as the 

 premier textile centre of Canada almost solely through 

 the establishment there of United States concerns, many 

 of which have located since the beginning of the year. 



As the result of the campaign waged by the Canadian 

 Government with the object of educating British manu- 

 facturers, half a dozen branch plants of English manufac- 

 turing concerns are announced as locating. In addition 

 an English automobile manufacturing industry is to enter 

 into competition with United States firms manufacturing 

 in Canada, and there is a possibility of an English firm 

 establishing a lace-making industry in the near future. 

 The firm of Dent, Allcroft, has located a subsidiary 

 company at St. Catharines, Ontario, to manufacture the 

 gloves which have made the parent house famous, and a 

 representative of Vickers, Ltd., of Lonaon, England, has 

 been in British Columbia with the object of establishing 

 manufacturing and distributing branches in the province. 



An Optimistic Outlook 



The virtual ban existing in the United States against 

 the introduction of Canadian agricultural produce has 

 brought home to Canada the wisdom of becoming inde- 

 pendent in this regard. The full result of this will only 

 develop in the course of time, but already Canada has in 

 sight the manufacture of her wool into a state ready for 

 her textile mills, a work previously performed in the 

 United States. The same desire has to some extent 

 expanded the manufacture of asbestos products in Canada, 

 the extension of the existing industry in the Eastern 

 Townships of Quebec now being in a position to supply 

 all Canadian requirements in this regard. 



Altogether Canada has reason to be exceedingly 

 gratified at the manner in which the Dominion has been 

 favored this year by manufacturers in other countries, 

 which would indicate a remarkable expansion in the 

 country's industrial output within a very short period. 

 Just how important Canadian industry looms up in the 

 national life can only be estimated from a consideration 

 of the fact that whilst in 1921 the agricultural production 

 of Canada was valued at $1,396,223,000, the industrial 

 output in 1919 was worth $3,520,724.039. Its growth is 

 seen in a comparison with the figures of 1870, $221,617,773, 

 and 1900, $481,053,375. 



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