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The exports for the year ending Jnne 30, 1876, are thus classified : 



The number of coastwise arrivals during the 

 year was 31,302, tonnage 5,167,528; depart- 

 ures, 30,273, tonnage 5,133,411. The number 

 of vessels built during the year ending Decem- 

 ber 31, 1876, was as follows : 



The number of vessels on the registry books 

 of the Dominion on the last mentioned date 

 is shown in the following table : 



This is an increase over the preceding year 

 of 240 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 

 55,328. The subjoined table, showing the sea- 

 going tonnage, and tonnage of steamers over 

 100 tons register, of each of the maritime 

 states of the world, for 1876, is given for pur- 

 poses of comparison : 



The value of the fisheries for the season 

 1876 was $11.147,590, viz.: Nova Scotia, 

 $6,029,050; New Brunswick, $1,953,388; Que- 

 bec, $2,097,667; Ontario, $437,230; Prince 

 Edward Island, $494,967; British Columbia 

 and Manitoba, $135,288. The total product 

 exceeds that of 1875 by upward of $500,000.^ 



The Dominion Government has seven public 

 establishments devoted to the artificial repro- 

 duction of fish, as follows: at Newcastle, On- 

 tario ; Sandwich, Ontario ; Tadousac, Quebec ; 

 Gasp6 Basin, Quebec; Restigouche, Quebec; 

 Bedford, Nova Scotia ; Miramichi, New Bruns- 

 wick. These are employed chiefly in hatching 

 white-fish and salmon eggs. 



The number of applications for patents in 

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1876 was 1,548; patents granted, 1,382; cave- 

 ats, 185 ; transfers of patents registered, 761 ; 

 designs registered, 47; trade marks registered, 

 238; copyrights registered, 178; timber marks 

 registered, 17. Of the patentees, 575 were Cana- 

 dians, and 736 residents of the United States. 



The immigrants who enter Canada are di- 

 vided into two classes those who come with 

 intention to settle, and those who simply 

 make use of the Canadian route for the pur- 

 pose of proceeding to the Western States. 

 They may, therefore, be properly described as 

 immigrants and immigrant passengers. The 

 following table shows the relative numbers of 

 these, as they have been reported, from 186 

 to 1876, inclusive : 



