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Province of Quebec, but as a general thing wages for factory workers
 will be found almost on a par with those in the United States.
In regard to the investment of foreign capital in Canadian industries
it will be found that while a large amount of British capital is invested
 in Canadian industries much American capital is also invested,
 and that the tendency in recent years is toward the investment
 of an reversing amount of American capital. In recent years,
also, the number of American firms establishing branches in Canada
has become considerable; an impartial survey of the field would go
to show that American capital and American industrial establishments
 not only have a big stake in Canada’s industrial life, but that
this tendency is increasing year by year. In a great many instances,
and particularly in the mining industry, American engineers and
managers are being employed to a very noticeable extent, one reason
for this being the advantage which Americans possess in a better
knowledge of the conditions and requirements of the country over
men from Great Britain and Europe. The large railways in
Canada number among their high executive officers many Americans.
Where British or European experts are employed they are usually
men with technical knowledge in chemical or process work, but there
is little or no tendency in Canada to bring in men from Great Britain
or the Continent for duties involving business and executive ability.
Activities of Government in fostering foreign trade.—Canada
maintains trade agents in the principal countries of the world, and
where not represented by agents from Canada secures the assistance
of British consuls and trade agents. In addition to these agents, at
various times, where the conditions warrant it, special agents are
sent out in an endeavor to open up new markets op stimulate old
ones. Members of the administration, also, have made trips to various
 countries in efforts to spread the commerce of the country, and
at the present time the Canadian Government has a special representative
 in New Zealand and Australia who will also visit other
3 rts of the world in the interests of Canada’s export lumber trade.
his action was taken largely on representations from the Province
of British Columbia in which Province the lumbering industry has
been recently much depressed. A number of large orders were
reported to have been received as the result of this special work.
In connection with the lumbering industry in British Columbia, also,
the provincial government removed some time ago the export duty
on logs, with the result that large quantities of logs, mostly cedar,
were shipped to mills in Washington. The British Columbia government
 has also issued recently a booklet for foreign distribution,
setting forth British Columbia’s resources in timber.
Recently both the Federal Government ahd the British Columbia
government have taken steps to aid the refining of zinc in Canada,
and already a number of companies have been incorporated for the
purpose of carrying on this industry. The Federal 2 indi has
nade an arrangement whereby refiners of zinc will be paid a bounty
and secured against loss in the event of the price of zinc falling to
a low level after the war. The British Columbia government has
extended financial assistance to the French Complex Ore Reduction
Co. (Ltd.), of Victoria, British Columbia, which company has secured
 the patent rights of the French process for the electrolytic