90 The Commercial Apple Industry 



Ontario. 



Ontario still produces considerably over 50 per cent of 

 the crop of apples in Canada, but only in limited areas is 

 the industry specialized as it is in Nova Scotia and British 

 Columbia. The exports in the past ten years have not 

 been nearly so great as those of Nova Scotia, but this is 

 due to the many large markets within the province, to the 

 greater ease with which the Ontario shippers can reach the 

 markets of the Northwest, which have been tremendously 

 developed during the past decade, to the fact that the ports 

 of export are not as convenient to Ontario shippers as to 

 those of Nova Scotia and, particularly in the past four or 

 five years, to the great risk and uncertainty attending ocean 

 transportation. In the eastern part of the province, along 

 the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, are some very fine 

 orchards of the Duchess, Wealthy, Mclntosh Red and 

 Fameuse type. The Mclntosh Red, which for some years 

 has been the highest priced apple on the Canadian markets, 

 was originated at the town of Dundela in the County of 

 Dundas in this district in 1830. 



The largest orchards of Ontario are between Kingston 

 and Toronto in what is commonly known as the Lake 

 Ontario district. Prince Edward County, the southern 

 part of Hastings, Northumberland, Durham and the south- 

 ern part of the County of Ontario, grow all the standard 

 varieties, and ship thousands of cars of apples annually to 

 the large eastern markets and to the markets of Canadian 

 Northwest. In addition, this section does a large export 

 trade with Great Britain. The leading varieties for export 

 are the Baldwin, Spy, King, Russet, Ontario, Pewaukee, 

 Stark and Ben Davis, but large quantities of Duchess, 



