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Forestry.— The fore.st area is officially estimated at about 568,500,000 acres : —
Acres Acres
182,000,000 Quebec 20,000,000
New Brunswick .... 11,000,000
180,000,000 Nova Scotia 5,500,000
70,000,000
British Columbia . . .
Manitoba, Sask, Alberta,
and territories . . . .
Ontario
The forest products exported to the United Kingdom in 1911 amounted in value to $11,965,131, out of a total of $45,439,057. The exportable surplus of the wood pulp industry was $5,715,532 in 1911, chiefly to Great Britain and the United States. The Crown forests belong to the Provincial Governments, except in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Rail- way Belt (forty miles wide) in British Columbia, where they belong to the Dominion.
Fisheries. —The total value of the produce of the fisheries of Canada in 1910-11 was $29,965,433, and in 1911-12, $34,667,872. The values of the principal catches in 1910-11 were: cod, $5,921,248; salmon, $7,205,871; herring, $1,551,814; lobsters, $3,784,099; mackerel, $400,182. In 1910-11, according to provinces, the values were : Nova Scotia, $10,119,243; British Columbia, $9,163,235; New Brunswick, $4,134,144; Quebec, $1,692,475; Ontaiao, $2,026,121; Prince Edward Island, $1,153,708; Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, $1,676,507.
Mining. — Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Quebec, N. and W. Ontario, Alberta, and Yukon Territory are the chief mining districts. The total value of the mineral produce was in 1911, $102,291,686; in 1910, $106,823,623. The princijml metals and minerals produced in 1910 and 1911 were as follows : —
1910
Product
Quantity-
Copper
Gold
Pig-iron from Canadian ore>^
r>ead
Nickel
Silver
Asbestos ....
Coal
Gypsum ....
Natural gas .... Petroleum ....
Salt
Cement, Portland . Clay products—
Brick ....
Sewer pipe, fireclay, drain tile,
Lime
Limestone ....
Lbs. Ozs.
Tonsi Lbs.
Ozs Tonsl
Brls.
Tonsl
Bils.
&c. .
Bush.
55,692,369
493,707
104,900
.S2,9S7,508
37,271, 0.S3
32,Se.0,2"i4
77,508
12,909,152
525,246
315,R95
84,092
4.753,975
5,848,146
Values
Dels.
7,094.094
10,205,835
1,650,849
1,216 249
11,181,310
17..^80,455
2..55.5,974
30,909,779
934,446
1,346,471
38S,550
409.624
6,41;', 215
6,007.710 1,622,246 1,137,079 2,249 576
1911
Quantity Value 2
55,848,665
42,186 23,525,050 34,098,744 32,740,748
100,893 11,291,553
505,457
291,092
91,582
5,635,950
7,227,310
Dols.
6,911,831
9,762,096
613,404
818.672
10,229,623
17,452,128
2,922,062
26,378,477
97s, 863
1,820,923
357,073
443,004
7,571,299
6,521,558 1,790,151 1,493,119
2.282,146
1 Tiie ton used throughout is that of 2,000 lbs.
2 The metals copper, lead, nickel, and silver, are, for statistical and comparative purposes, valued at the final average value of the refined metal. Pig-iron is valued at the tnrnace, non-metallic products at the mine or point of shipment, and structural material and clay products at the point of shipmeTit.
3 The total production of pig-iron in Canada in 1910 was 800,797 tons, valued at 11,245,630 dols. , of which it is estimated that 695,851 tons, valuea at 9.594,773 dois., should be credited to imported ores. The total production in 1911 was 917,535 tons valued at 12,306,860 dols., of which it is estimated that 875,349 tons valued at 11,693 456 dols should be credited to imported ores.
