Salisbury, New Brunswick, and one with $50,000 at 

 Sackville in the same province. Another Eastern estab- 

 lishment was a muskrat ranch at Newboro, Ontario. 



Industry Extending in Western Canada 



One of the first Western establishments of the year wa 

 a fox ranch at Medicine Hat, Alberta, with $50,000 capital- 

 ization. In the same province the ranch established at 

 Camrose some years previously shipped furs to London 

 and New York. Within the past month 264 silver-black 

 foxes were shipped from New Brunswick to become the 

 nucleus of the ranching enterprise of the Calgary Fox 

 Ranch Company, recently organized. A fox ranch wa 

 established during the year near Winnipeg and ranches at 

 Saanich and Merritt, British Columbia, all of which are 

 prospering. 



In making a review for 1922 of the domestication of 

 Canadian fauna, the important significance of a new 

 innovation should not be lost sight of. This was the 

 uccessfully getting under way of the first reindeer-raising; 

 enterprise, that of the Hudson's Bay Reindeer Company, 

 headed by the explorer Stefansson, which introduced six 

 hundred of these animals from Norway and turned them 

 out on their expansive lease on Baffin Island. This may 

 be the commencement of a new industry for Canada of 

 great possibilities. 



During the fall of the year, Canadian big game has been 

 found numerous in all sections and proved the same potent 

 attraction. Nearly all migratory game fowl, according to 

 reports, have increased during the year to a marked degree. 

 Fur-bearing animals in the Northland are stated to be 

 plentiful and in good condition and trappers face a profit- 

 able season. Canadian national fur sales are more firmly 

 established than ever, and each successive auction provei 

 to a greater degree the ability of the quality and quantity 

 of the Canadian pack to attract buyers from every corner 

 of the globe. 



Across Canada Nelson 



Nelson occupies an important place among 

 Canadian cities and towns of the first rank 

 because it is the capital, in every respect, of the 

 Kootenay district of British Columbia, an 

 expansive area possessed of diversified natural 

 wealth which stretches from the International 

 boundary northward to the Okanagan Valley. 

 Because this valley, in view of its tremendous 

 possibilities, is only yet very partially developed, 

 Nelson appeals to the imagination rather as 

 a city of the future than the present not unim- 

 portant little town. An attribute which can 

 never be taken from it is its engaging beauty, 

 unsurpassed elsewhere in Canada, due to its 

 ideal site perched perilously on the edge of 

 Kootenay Lake, over which tall mountains, 

 which form the sides of the azure bowl, tower. 



The Kootenay district is continuously at- 

 tracting greater and more widespread attention, 

 though this is insignificant in view of its vast 

 potentialities, its wealth of cultivable land, 

 minerals, lumber and fishing grounds. Already, 

 however, it is the scene of a wide variety of 

 activities, a region of fruit farms, mining and 

 lumber camps, a holiday resort and sportsman's 

 mecca. To cap its ideal qualities, the Kootenays 

 have a fine and equable climate, where extremes 

 of temperature are unknown, making them 

 excellent for residence and permitting industries 

 to be followed with a minimum of handicap. 



The West Kootenay district contains over 

 one and a half million acres of land suitable for 

 fruit growing, and 150 varieties have been grown 

 in the district, many of which have taken premier 

 awards at the world's greatest exhibitions. 

 Kootenay fruit is generally grown without 

 irrigation, the annual precipitation being usually 

 sufficient to bring the crop to the highest per- 

 fection. Development of fruit growing in the 

 area is yet infinitesimal, in view of what can be 

 undertaken, and the opportunities existing for 

 horticulture are exceeded by few other localities. 



Rich in Commercial Possibilities 



The area is rich in commercial lumber, the 

 most valuable trees being fir, cedar, tamarack, 

 white pine, hemlock and spruce. Nelson ha 

 become the centre of an extensive lumbering 

 district with about one hundred sawmills in the 

 neighborhood with a capacity of about 500,000,- 

 000 feet. Roughly about one-third of the pro- 

 vincial lumber cut is attributable to the Koo- 

 tenay district, and the district has by no means 

 reached the limits of its possibilities of pro- 

 duction. There is little doubt but that in time 

 Nelson will develop into a centre for the pulp 

 and paper industry as well. 



The region about Nelson constitutes one of 

 the first mineral producing areas of Canada and 

 has produced some of the Dominion's most 

 famous mining camps. Gold, silver, copper, 

 lead, coal and zinc are found there, and as far 

 back as ten years ago the claims tributary to 

 Nelson were producing at the rate of about 

 $14,000,000 annually. More than 90 per cent 

 of the lode gold and of the silver of British Col- 

 umbia originates in the Kootenay area. It 

 coal deposits are of enormous value and the 

 smelting industry has made great headway. 



Though primarily the supply and shipping 

 point for the Kootenays, distributing over a 

 wide area, Nelson is making remarkable progress 

 with its own manufactures, and industrialists 

 are coming to give it more attention. Factories 

 exist there for the manufacture of cigars, boxes, 

 saw and shingles; there are brickyards, brew- 

 eries, a jam factory, mattress and soda water 

 factories, boat and launch building yards, sash 

 and door factory, match factory and plant for the 

 manufacture of beekeepers' supplies. A recent 

 establishment was that of a soap manufacturing 

 concern. Twenty wholesale houses distribute 

 over a wide area, which is also served by four 

 banks. 



Hot Springs and Glaciers 



In the neighborhood of Nelson are hot springs, 

 glaciers, great cataracts, and the town gives 

 entry to an excellent holiday, fishing and sport 

 centre, where comfortable lodges have been 

 established with boat liveries, and fine fishing, 

 fowling and big game hunting are possible. 

 In the waters of nearby lakes the Rainbow 



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