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Less than 1 per cent of the raw material was purchased outside of Canada 

 and over 75 per cent was purchased in the province of Quebec. 



The form of the raw material received at the factory is generally one-inch 

 board or plank, which is worked at the factory to a suitable thickness. Spanish 

 cedar and" butternut are mostly used in the form of veneer, varying in thickness 

 from f to 1/95 in. 



The province of Quebec consumes a good proportion of the box and crating 

 material, while the remainder is for the most part exported to the British Isles 

 and Bermuda in the form of box shocks and veneer bales. 



TABLE 5 CAR CONSTRUCTION 



*Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



In the list of industries car construction comes fourth, immediately after 

 boxes and crating, with a consumption of 64,736,000 feet board measure, 9-2 per 

 cent of the total. This industry uses wood for the manufacture and repairing 

 of passenger, freight, baggage, mail, and refrigerator cars, electric cars, snow- 

 ploughs, etc. 



Fourteen kinds of wood are used, with hard pine leading. Coniferous wood 

 material forms 89-8 per cent and hardwood 10-2 per cent. 



This industry depends largely on importations from the United States 

 which furnish 48 per cent of the total wood used. The province of Quebec 

 furnishes only 16 per cent and the remainder, 36 per cent, is mainly purchased 

 in British Columbia and Ontario. 



The car construction industry used 93 per cent of all the Douglas fir pur- 

 chased from British Columbia, and 51 per cent of the hard pine imported for all 

 industries. Hard pine and Douglas fir are especially valuable for car construction 

 work, both on account of physical qualities and the fact that these materials 



