employees from the City of LaSalle and vice versa, and 

 assurance is given of further facilities to plant workers 

 when developments warrant an augmented service. With 

 the development of the area industrially, too, there is little 

 doubt but that a fine residential section will be available 

 to factory workers and others in the vicinity of the north 

 bank of the St. Lawrence River, a location which possesses 

 peculiarly ideal living conditions, set as it is in a charming 

 countryside with the broad vista of the river uninterrupted. 

 Arrangements are now under way for the construction of 

 working men's houses. 



Already Several Industries Located 



LaSalle has been merely waiting the provision of a 

 railroad to open it up as a peculiarly desirable industrial 

 area, and it should not be long before other industries 

 come to join those already there, such as the Montreal 

 Light, Heat & Power Company, the immense gas works 

 of the same company, N. K. Fairbanks Company, Ltd., 

 Standard Paint Company of Canada, Ltd., G. & J. Weir 

 Pump Company, Ltd., and the Dominion Tar Products, 

 Limited, Canada Tube & Iron Company, Ltd., Canada 

 Tube & Steel Products, Limited, etc. In the area on the 

 other side of the Lachine Canal, no more desirable than 

 LaSalle with its railroad, such titanic industries have 

 found suitable locations as the Canadian Car & Foundry 

 Company, the Dominion Bridge Company, the St. Law- 

 rence Bridge Company, Canadian Allis-Chalmers, Limited, 

 Dominion Wire Manufacturing Co., etc. 



In view of the favor with which Canada, and particular- 

 ly Quebec Province, is being regarded by foreign manufac- 

 turers seeking locations for branch factories to engage in 

 the Dominion domestic and export trade, there can be 

 little question as to the real need of the new addition to 

 Industrial Montreal. The Canadian metropolis has in 

 recent years made phenomenal progress in manufacturing 

 importance and is continuing to ascend in this regard by 

 heavy annual increments. The city's value of industrial 

 production in 1905 was $718,352,603. Ten years later it 

 was 51,165,975,637. In 1918 its industrial output was 

 valued at $2,182,440,759. Between 1905 and 1918 there 

 was an increase of 343 per cent in the value of the city's 

 manufacturing output. Since 1918 there has been a 

 further substantial growth, and this is increasing at, if 

 anything, a more rapid rate. LaSalle in achieving an 

 industrial development for itself must add to the com- 

 mercial prestige of the first Canadian city. 



Outlook in Western Canada 



By John F. Sweeting, Industrial Agent, C.P.R., 

 Winnipeg, Man., 



Western business is broadening out the 

 promise of the sumn.er has been fulfilled to a 

 great extent showing that the past tightening 

 of credits and restrictions on trading have been 

 beneficial in turning public attention to the 

 necessity of such action, it has resulted in 

 efforts being made to put the house in order and 

 thus develop a prospect for taking care of 

 outstanding claims and debts from the abundant 

 yield of the 1922 prairie grain crop. There is 

 much yet to be done, but confidence has been 

 restored, and with it people are again alive to the 

 possibilities of Western development. 



It would appear that more enlightened ideas 

 are to prevail in connection with the settlement 

 of Canadian lands, as well as in fostering in- 

 dustrial growth and dealing with valuable 

 natural resources, three very vital factors, the 

 neglect of which has very considerably hampered 



expansion in the past. It is difficult indeed to 

 say to what extent action is belated, but progress 

 now should be sufficiently active to enable 

 results to be of a noticeable nature. 



During the past months all classes of agricul- 

 ture have been actively employed in getting in 

 grain, fruit, roots, hay and other crops. There 

 has been some increase in construction activities 

 and general contracting business. Merchandise 

 is beginning to move more freely with a tendency 

 of the consumer to take care of winter require- 

 ments. There is yet room, however, for more 

 active business, with a promising outlook. 



A great deal of activity has been shown 

 during the year in oil exploration work in 

 Southern and other parts of Alberta. The 

 construction of an oil refinery by the Imperial 

 Oil Co. at Calgary is indicative of expansion in 

 consumption of this product, bringing with it 

 the added advantage of refining the crude oil in 

 the West as against importation of refined oil. 

 The results of drilling operations are as yet of 

 little importance, but investigation will continue. 

 The Governments, Dominion and Provincial, 

 are continuing exploration work, and valuable 

 reports on various natural resources have been 

 and are being prepared. The situation in this 

 regard has advanced with very satisfactory 

 results in the last few years, giving the investor 

 data of value on which it is possible to gauge 

 prospects for development and investment of 

 capital. 



The pulp and paper industry in the interior 

 is rapidly increasing its capacity by construction 

 of the new mills at Port Arthur and Fort Wil- 

 liam, the enlargement of capacity at Dryden and 

 the new mill at Kenora. Prospects are for the 

 construction of large capacity mill near Elko, 

 B.C., while the Coast mills have been shoving 

 good results. 



Many other manufacturing industries are 

 showing good business. Flour mills are active; 

 iron foundries and metal works to capacity; 

 glass works show increase, and garment factories 

 of all kinds have had a good season. Wholesale 

 trade is improving, collections slightly better 

 and the retail trade prospects good. This 

 being the present situation, one is justified in 

 expecti ng a good fall and winter trade. 



Fur Auction More Firmly Established 



The seventh periodic Canadian fur sale was 

 held at Montreal in the middle of September, at 

 which half a million raw pelts were disposed of 

 for an amount totalling $1,500,000, making the 

 total receipts of the sales since their inauguration 

 in 1920 in excess of $13,000,000. In its every 

 trait this last Canadian sale has given further 

 and more convincing evidence of the definite 

 and permanent establishment of the national 

 fur auctions, their ability to assemble what is 

 undoubtedly one of the finest aggregations of 



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