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machinery and machine tools places like Dundas, Gait, Brantford 

 and Preston have attained considerable prominence. Steel ship- 

 building is becoming an important industry in Collingwood, Port 

 Arthur and Toronto. 



Heating Apparatus. 



>ves and heating apparatus form another big line that is manu- 

 factured in all part< of tlu- province. From the small gas cooker 

 t the largest hotel range, and from the old style box stove to 

 the modern furnace with hot water radiators, Ontario manufac- 

 tures all and has a surplus every year for export. 



Pulp and Paper. 



The enormous areas of spruce and balsam in Northern Ontario 

 interspersed as they are with navigable rivers and frequent water 

 ers constitute the basis of a pulp and paper industry that is 

 steadily growing in importance. Every year witnesses some addition 

 to the producing capacity of Ontario's numerous plants which, in 

 addition to pulp and news paper, are making a varied line of high 

 da *x l)ook and coated papers. An increasingly large percentage of 

 the former product is finding a market in the United States. 



Furniture. 



Lumbering is of course one of the great basie industries, hut 

 ( Mitario has not stopped there, for in the further manufacture of 

 1 into articles of commerce the province has made rapid strides. 

 In church, school, office and household furniture it is practically 

 Mipreme so far as tHe Canadian market is concerned. The industry 

 radiates from the thrifty German settlement in Waterloo County as 

 a centre, thinning out rapidly cast and west of that point. In the 

 cheaper lines, as well as in office and bentwood furniture, Ontario 

 does a large export business. 



Pianos. 



an- another product of which the province is justly proud, 

 and in which it predominates. Quality rather than quantity seems 

 t. have been the aim of the manufacturers in this line, and there 

 are at least six make* that have fully as high an average in finish 

 and in tonal effect as anything on the continent. 



