GOLD COINAGE IN CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 209 
error were so great as to make the estimate of little value and unfit for 
publication. It was decided to attempt an estimate on the basis of 
the gold of dates 1904-6 in circulation, and for the purpose of calcu- 
lating this to obtain a fuller knowledge of the composition by date of 
British gold coin exported. Sy the kindness of the Governor of the 
Bank of England five bags of gold coin destined for export were opened 
in February, 1909, and the coins of different dates counted. ‘The result 
shows an unexpected variety in different bags, and they can hardly be 
taken as a true sample of the whole coinage exported. An estimate of 
the exports based on the composition of these bags gives a figure for the 
total coinage differing very widely from the previous estimate. 
Agricultural Development in the North-West of Canada, 
1905 wntil 1909. By Professor James Mavor. 
[Ordered by the General Committee to be printed in extenso.] 
In the end of the year 1903 the then President of the Board of Trade, 
the Right Hon. Gerald Balfour, did me the honour of asking me to 
make a confidential report upon Agricultural Production in the North- 
West of Canada, with special reference to the production of wheat for 
export. This report, which was the result of study of the subject since 
1896, was prepared in 1904, the narrative and statistical portions being 
brought down to December 31 of that year. The report was published 
in 1905.2 The Chairman of the Sub-section of Agriculture of the 
British Association has invited me to contribute a paper bringing down 
the data to the present time. 
The region which was the subject of inquiry consisted of the pro- 
vince of Manitoba and the territories of Alberta, Assiniboia, and Sas- 
katchewan. It comprised in effect the great plains from the Red River 
valley to the Rocky Mountains and from the international boundary 
to the valley of the North Saskatchewan. In September 1905 the 
political structure of the region was altered. The area of the terri- 
tories above mentioned, together with additional areas towards the 
north, was divided into two provinces—Saskatchewan and Alberta. 
The Legislatures of these new provinces were endowed with the 
same powers as those of the other provinces of the Dominion, 
excepting that the control of the unalienated public lands and the 
control of the North-West Mounted Police were retained in the 
hands of the Dominion authorities. Regina was selected as the 
capital of Saskatchewan, and Edmonton of Alberta. Some time 
elapsed before the various departments of the new Governments were 
fully organised. New statistical districts had to be determined in 
the two new provinces, and thus comparison of their data with 
those of the former districts came to be somewhat difficult. The 
’ Report to the Board of Trade on the North-West of Canada, with special 
reference to Wheat Production for Export, by James Mavor, Professor of 
Political Economy in the University of Toronto, Canada, 1904 (Parliamentary 
Paper) (Cd. 2628), London (1905). 
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