WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 

 TABLE 8 COOPERAGE 



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Photo 9545. R. G. LEWIS. 

 Hat- and cap-blocks made of birch, beech, and maple. B. J. Hayes, Montreal. 



The cooperage industry comes fourteenth in the list. It includes tight 

 and slack cooperage. It is true that the province of Quebec has not developed 

 this industry to any great extent, particularly tight cooperage, on account 

 of the lack of suitable material. However, the figures given in the above table 

 hardly represent the value of the industry. This is largely due to the fact that 

 there is a good deal of slack cooperage work, and even some tight cooperage 

 work, carried on in the fishing centres, especially around the Gaspe peninsula 

 and below Quebec along the north shore of the St. Lawrence, where cooperage 

 articles are chiefly made in numerous small shops by individuals conducting 

 this trade during winter months, and it is difficult, almost impossible, to reach 

 them by correspondence. These cooperage products are sold to local fish 



