Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Manufactures

Collection:: Economics Books

MANUFACTURES 11 province. Pulp and paper production in the province in 1926 was valued at $141,068,104.* The production of allied wood industries, such as furni- ture planing-mills, saw mills, etc., was valued at almost equal amount. Undoubtedly it is because of the supply of dependable and cheap labour that Quebec has become the leading province in the manufacture of textiles. The textile industry production of Quebec including cotton, woolen, silk production, was valued at $144,680,183 in 1925 and the capital invested in these industries was $133,560,460. Cottons, woolens, knitted goods, and ready-made apparel are manufactured on a large scale. No doubt favourable labour conditions are largely responsible for the development of manufacturing industries in boots and shoes, rubber goods, cigars and tobacco. Other important industries are milling, meat packing, tanning, brewing and malting, and the manufacture of paints and varnishes, machinery, electric apparatus, engines and boilers, iron and steel goods, and foundry and machine shop products. Sugar refining, brick-making, cement-making, ship-building and the manufacture of asbestos products and agricultural implements are important industries. Statistics of Manufacture.—The capital invested in all industries in 1925 was $1,136,033,133. Later figures have not yet been issued but during the past year the capital invested has been greatly increased by the addition of several large industrial enterprises and others are now under construction. The gross value of manufactured products in 1925 was $820,563,757, and the number of industrial establishments was 6,995. These statistics relate only to industries employing five persons or more. 7 i Foreign Markets.—In addition to the natural advantages which the province offers to the manufacturer, the preferential tariff has induced many United States companies to build branch factories in Quebec to serve not only the Canadian market but foreign fields as well. This movement has been particularly marked during the last few years, many large companies whose head offices are in the United States, supplying their whole foreign demand from branch factories in Canada. Excellent railway facilities and communication with the Atlantic through the St. Lawrence waterway give the province a favoured location for these branch factories. Tr Including figures for New Brunswick productions

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