318 TlMEHRI. 
during recent years. The export trade of cattle from 
Canada during 1883 shows a large increase over the pre- 
vious year, being 55,625 head of cattle against 35,378 in 
1882, and the increase in the number of sheep exported 
is very striking, viz. 114,352 against 75,905 in the pre- 
ceding year. The cattle trade of Canada has grown to 
be one of the greatest lines of trade of the country, and 
hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in 
it by shrewd and practical men. It is an established fa6l 
too that Canada is destined to become one of the most 
important cattle raising countries of the world, possessing 
as it does every facility for the condu6t of an enormous 
trade. The grazing lands are ample and rich, fodder is 
comparatively cheap, labour is reasonable and the means 
of transport are unsurpassed. Within the last two years 
the value of the exports of live stock has been not less 
than $3,500,000 annually, while the total value of the 
cattle shipped from Canada, six years ago, was little more 
than $36,000." 
The fisheries of the Dominion including those of the 
Pacific Coast and of the lakes in the interior are con- 
fessedly the most valuable in the world, and have mainly 
aided in developing that important marine which now 
places Canada in so high a position amongst maritime 
powers. Her maritime interest alone, that is to say, her 
fisheries and ships, had an estimated value of fifty mil- 
lions of dollars in 1881. 
The forests continue to supply superior pine timber 
to Great Britain and to the United States, the annual 
export being worth about' twenty millions of dollars. 
Canada has also large mineral resources ; on the Atlantic 
and Pacific are very extensive coal areas sufficient to 
