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CANADA.
latter country in the year ending June 30, 18G8. Previous to 1862 Canada took from the United States an average of ten millions of goods ; since then the average did not exceed half that amount. The reverse was the case with Great Britain, the imports of which were less than 16 millions in ten years previous to 1868.
The subjoined tabular statement exhibits the commercial inter- course of the North American Colonies with the United Kingdom, giving the total value of the colonial exports to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manu- factures into the colonies, in each of the ten years I860 to 1869 : —
Tears
Exports from the North American Colonies to Great Britain
Imports of British Home Produce
into the North American
Colonies
1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
£ 6,826,962 8,667,920 8,499,393 8,165,613 6,850,744 6,350,178 6,867,563 6,767,512 6,772,253 7,734,531
£
■ 3,727,350 3,689,953
• 3,991,010 4,813,482 5,611,276 4,77,7280 6,862,402 5,862,402 4,847,688 6,157,083
The imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures were divided as follows, during the five years 1865-69, among the diffe- rent North American Colonies : —
Colonies
1865
. 1866
. 1867
1868
1869
£
£
£
£
£
British Columbia
161,446
152,069
62,609
74,051
103,206
Hudson's Bay Company
Settlements
67,146
. 50,379
. 49,187
. 38,648
49,720
Newfoundland .
382,817
487,984
. 385,998
261,723
354,450
Canada .
2,448,077
3,926,307
3,729,528
3,054,669
3,144,901
New Brunswick
454,521
747,848
695,390
491,503
598,116
Prince Edward Island
129,439
169,156
103,742
107,352
129,725
Nova Scotia
Total of North American "1 Colonies • " • ' J
1,064,283
1,291,217
928,121
819,614
776,965
4^707,728 6,824,960
5,862,402
4,847,560
5,157,083
As regards the exports 'to the United Kingdom, those of Canada form a much larger proportion of the whole than those of British imports into the North American Colonies. The. exports from Canada, which varied, in the five years 1865-69, from 4^ to near 6 millions sterling, consist principally of the two great staple articles,
