International exhibition Glasgow 1901
Official catalogue

178 The Dominion of Canada, light blue on plan. 1'00 doll, per acre, payable in four equal annual instalments. The soil of this district is a deep loam, and for an area of nearly a million acres is very fertile. Outside of the free grant townships uncleared land varies in price from two shillings to forty shillings an acre, according to situation and soil. Cleared and improved farms can be bought at prices ranging from £4 to £10 an acre, and the money can nearly always be paid in instalments covering several years. In the Province of Quebec the Government have surveyed about seven million acres of Crown lands. These lands can be purchased at from Is. 5d. to 2s. 5d. per acre, on the following easy terms, viz.: One-fifth of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, and the remainder in four equal annual instalments, bearing interest at 6 per cent. In addition, the settler is required to build a habitable house, 16 feet by 20 feet. New Brunswick possesses 7,000,000 acres of ungranted land. One hundred acres are given to any settler not owning other land, for 20 dollars cash, or he must perforin 10 dollars work per annum for three years, on the public roads. Nova Scotia and the Province of British Columbia also grant land on similar conditions to the above. From this brief summary it will be seen that Canada offers exceptional facilities to the farmer. The soil is fertile, the climate good, and the methods of transportation easy, and year by year improving. Apart from the growth of cereals and hay, cattle and sheep are easily reared, and find a ready market not only in the principal towns of the Dominion, but, thanks to the ever-increasing carrying facilities offered by the large shipping companies in Europe, and especially the Mother Country, huge quantities of meat are annually canned, packed, or frozen for the European markets. Fruit and dairy produce are also being exported in large quantities. Tobacco forms a very important crop in the Province of Quebec, which has an area of 222,000,000 of acres, one half of which is in forest and woodland. Next to agriculture, one of the most attractive industries is the fisheries. These are the largest in the world, embracing over 5600 miles of the sea coast, in addition to the inland seas, innumerable lakes, and a great number of rivers. With regard to their value, statistics prove that the home consumption last year was 15,000,000 dollars alone, and when the supply shipped to the foreign markets is taken into account, it probably totalled thirty-seven to thirty-eight million dollars. The third great industry of Canada is timbering, for the Dominion possesses a wealth of forests, which annually yield upwards of 33,538,000 standard logs, each having 100 feet board measure. The total value of the raw products of the forests in tho census year was over 80,000,000 dollars, or about 16 dollars per head of the population. Lately there has been a great demand for wood pulp, and mills are now in full operation turning out over 1200 tons per day. The pulp is crushed from the spruce trees, which cover a vast area. Pine, hemlock, oak, elm, maple, beech, birch, butternut, hickory, basswood, and cherry are also found in the forests, which occupy 38 per cent, of tho whole area of Canada. The fourth great industry is mining, and so vast is the value of the mineral wealth of the Dominion, that every year there is witnessed a substantial increase in the mining population. We have already referred to tho enormous fields of coal that await the miner, and it will be sufficient to add that the annual return shows an output of no less in value than 9,040,000 dollars. Gold exceeds 22,000,000 dollars, Silver 1,834,371 dollars; Copper 2,655,319 dollars; Lead, 1,200,000 dollars; Nickel 2 500.000 dollars. It would be difficult in a brief summary of Canada’s natural resources to adequately particularise her mineral wealth, but even a cursory inspection of the many specimens displayed in the Canadian Section will convince the visitor that the miner need have no fear;—that he will find at once lucrative employment ou his arrival. Numerous Companies have been formed to develop the Iron industry.