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pamphlet published by the Board of Trade, entitled the 
" Dominion of Canada" stated that in 1878 Great Britain 
imported into Canada 44^67 of the whole sugar ; the 
United States 48*92 ; while the West Indies sent in 
6*13. Of course a great deal of the sugar that went 
from the West Indies to the United States went 
into Canada. In the year 1879 when a change 
took place in the Canadian tariff, there was a great 
alteration in the import sugar trade of Canada. The 
imports of sugar from Great Britain decreased to i6'83 
per cent. ; from the United States to 15*38 ; and the 
imports from the West Indies rose to 57*3 from 6*13. 
So the West Indies were then sending into Canada a 
large portion of their sugar, — sugars of a low class more 
especially for the use of the refiners. In 1882 he found 
the West Indies sent in 59*4 per cent, of the whole 
sugar that went to Canada ; from Brazil — also low class 
sugar — there was sent 21*7 per cent. Of course, this 
change did not much affect the sugar of Demerara, be- 
cause it was of too high a class to be admitted into 
Canada ; what the Canadians wanted was low class 
sugar and not sugar to compete with their refiners. It 
showed that the West Indies generally had been affected 
very largely by the Canadian tariff, though British 
Guiana had not been much affected by it. The change 
in the tariff that most affected us was in respect of 
molasses. The pamphlet gave the quantities of molasses 
that went from British Guiana. In 1877-78 British 
Guiana sent into Canada 6,440,193 lbs. of molasses, and 
the year 1878-79 during the latter half of which the 
change came into force, we sent in 3,379,000 or almost 
one-half. Then after that there was a change in the 
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