six months of the current fiscal year, there is a favorable 

 trade balance of approximately $32,000,000 as compared 

 with an adverse trade balance of about $36,000,000 last 

 year. 



Fresh capital for development has come into Canada 

 at a very pleasing rate during 1922 and industrial estab- 

 lishment has progressed on a substantial scale. The 

 outstanding feature has been the resumption of the flow 

 of British capital and the first move in the further estab- 

 lishment of branch houses by British manufacturers. 

 There is in sight, as evidenced in the expressed desire of 

 both countries no less than economic necessity, a great 

 trade development between the Motherland and Canada. 



The Canadian crop has been a bumper one, uniformly 

 heavy in all grains and roots and falling in volume little 

 behind the sensational yield of 1915. This being marketed, 

 for the main part, overseas on account of the barriers 

 raised by the United States tariff, is resulting in great 

 railway activity and increased business at Canadian ter- 

 minal ports. 



There are to be substantial increments over the figures 

 of 1921 in practically all Canadian minerals. Gold is 

 expected to reach a new production record in Ontario and 

 Biitish Columbia. The mining year has been featured 

 with many new discoveries, some of which are important, 

 and development has been initiated in the neglected fields 

 of Quebec. 



Timber, Fishing, Construction and Trapping 



The timber season has been a busy one. In shipments 

 of lumber Montreal has doubled its last year's figures and 

 Quebec exceeded 1921 exports by fifty per cent. On the 

 Pacific coast there is a considerable increase, and likewise 

 in the Maritime ports, in which provinces the cut this 

 winter will be trebled. A record for Canada has been 

 achieved in newsprint output, and with a ten per cent 

 increase anticipated next year the Dominion production 

 will be equal to that of the United States in 1921. 



The fishing industry has had a banner producing year, 

 there being substantial increases in the catch in every 

 section Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 

 wick, Quebec, British Columbia and the inland waters of 

 the Prairie Provinces. 



The building trades have been more active than for 

 some time and a greater volume of construction has been 

 achieved than in any year since 1914. Even the tourist 

 traffic to Canada was this year greater than ever before, 

 and this should be listed, as it is coming each year to assume 

 a more important place in Canada's sources of revenue. 



The big game and fur industry has been eminently 

 satisfactory, and the Dominion was host to a goodly volume 

 of visitors during the hunting season in the fall. There 

 has been a considerable increase in the establishment of fur 

 farms, and the trapping season at present in progress is 

 stated to be one of the best Canada has had for some time. 



In view of the many rigors of the immediately pre- 

 ceding years and the many obstacles she has had to sur- 

 mount in her national progress, Canada has every 

 reason to feel satisfied with what she has accomplished in 

 1922, and every justification to regard her future without 

 apprehension. Canada still has her problems, some of 

 sufficient seriousness, but the difficulties arising from her 

 economic position after the war have been largely over- 

 come, and Canada has in a spirit of equality taken her 

 place among the nations of the world, striding out with 

 them. 



A Loaf of Bread a Day 



How large is Canada's wheat crop this year? 

 To the man on the street the fact that Canada 

 has a crop of over 340,000,000 bushels means 

 little more than a mere jumble of figures. But, 

 if you were to tell him that if Canada's crop of 

 wheat this year was ground into flour and made 

 into bread, there would be enough to supply 



every man, woman and child in England with 

 a loaf of bread weighing twenty-four ounces 

 every day for a whole year, or a similar nation 

 of the entire population of the United States for 

 four months, he would gain a clearer idea of the 

 enormous crop of wheat that Canada produced. 

 With a minimum wheat yield of 343,000,000 

 bushels, statistics show that this quantity is 

 equivalent to 20,580,000,000 pounds of wheat, 

 or 10,290,000 tons, or 73,500,000 barrels of flour, 

 which could be made into 12,862,500,000 loaves 

 of bread, weighing 24 ounces each. 



Nearly everybody has read of the march of 

 the German soldiers through Brussels and how 

 it took several hours for the troops to pass a 

 given point. This event was said to be unique 

 in the annals of military history, but can you 

 imagine 7,350 trains running at intervals of five 

 minutes apart, taking 252 days to pass a given 

 point? That is just how long it would take 

 257,250 (40-ton) grain cars loaded to capacity 

 to move this year's wheat crop. Placed end to 

 end these cars would make a train 1,946 miles 

 long, or one extending from Montreal to a point 

 26 miles west of Swift Current, Sask., or from 

 New York to Denver, Colorado. Allowing 

 thirty-five cars to a locomotive, it would require 

 7,350 to haul 257,250 cars, which would make a 

 total length of cars and locomotives combined 

 of 2,060 miles. 



The largest trans-Atlantic freight carrier of 

 the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., is the 

 S.S. Bosworth, with a capacity of 352,000 bushels 

 of wheat. It would take 974 steamships of the 

 Bosworth's capacity to carry the wheat crop of 

 the Prairie Provinces across the ocean. Taking 

 the Bosworth's gross tonnage at about 6,000, 

 this would mean a fleet of 5,844,000 gross tons, 

 or the largest mercantile fleet in the world with 

 the exception of the United States and the 

 United Kingdom. 



Women and Beekeeping 



Women are breaking into every line of endeavor in 

 Canada, even to invading fields previously considered to be 

 peculiarly man's. Last summer a taxi-cab company, not 

 only the directors and officials but also the employees of 

 which were women, was organized at Vancouver. The 

 same province saw the elevation of the first Canadian 

 woman to cabinet rank in the provincial government. 

 This year the first woman to be elected in a Federal riding 

 took her seat in the House at Ottawa. The first Western 

 Canadian woman to set out on the practice of law opened 

 an office in an Alberta city a short while ago, and in the 

 fall term McGill University registered its first woman 

 dental student. Pioneer women are to be found in 

 practically every line of activity in Canada, and the women 

 who have achieved success and prosperity in the various 

 phases of farming are numerous in every section of the 

 country. 



Another laurel must be added to the honors gained by 

 Canadian women as pioneers in all professions in the 

 announcement that the newly established course of bee 

 husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan is to be 

 presided over by a lady of the province, Miss Ethel May 

 Brayford. It is only of recent years that the Canadian 

 Prairie Provinces have come to pay any serious attention 



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