International exhibition Glasgow 1901
Official catalogue

light blue on plan. The Dominion of Canada. T79 And it has been found that the ore is particularly suitable for the manufacture of steel plates. Gold has been found in almost all the Provinces and Territories of Canada, but its working has, practically speaking, been confined to the Provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia and the new district of Yukon, better known as the Klondyke region. In the Province of Nova Scotia gold mining has been a very steady industry, the average annual output since its discovery in 1862 having grown from 366,000 dollars to 550,500 Hollars in 1900. In the Yukon District of the North-West Territories, the output in 1897 was 300,000 dollars, to-day it exceeds 20,000,000 dollars. Though manufactures do not occupy so important a place as in the mother country, there are, however, many great manufacturing firms in the Dominion, and the number is rapidly increasing. There are a dozen large factories making agricul- tural machinery of all sorts; the value of the annual exports of agricultural implements to Australia alone amounts to over half a million dollars, or one hundred thousand pounds sterling. There are important bicycle factories which do a large export business. The pulp and paper mills are rapidly increasing, and there are also a number of large cotton, woollen, and flour mills. Pianos and organs are extensively manufactured, and Canadian furniture has a wide sale on British markets. Other articles are manufactured of every description for home consumption. We cannot conclude this brief description better than by quoting the words of Sir John G. Bourinot, who, in his book “Canada under British Rule,” says “At the present time a population of probably five million four hundred thousand souls inhabit a Dominion of seven regularly organised provinces, and of an immense fertile territory, stretching from Manitoba to British Columbia. “No country in the world gives more conclusive evidences of substantial develop- ment and prosperity than the Dominion, under the beneficial influences of Federal Union and the progressive measures of Government for many years. The total trade of the country has grown from over 131,000,000 dollars in the first year of confederation, to over 321,000,000 dollars in 1899, while the national revenue has risen during the same period from 14,000,000 dollars to 47,000,000 dollars, and will probably be 60,000 000 dollars in 1901. “ The railways whose expansion so closely depends on the material conditions of the whole country, stretch for 17,250 miles compared with 2,278 miles in 1868; while the remarkable system of canals, which extend from the great lakes to Montreal, has been enlarged so as to give admirable facilities for the growing trade of the West. The natural resources of the country are inexhaustible, from the fisheries of Nova Scotia to the Wheatfields of Manitoba and the North-West, from the coal mines of Cape Breton to the gold deposits of the country through which the Yukon and its tributaries flow.”