252 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — CANADA
Principal exports for year ended March 31, 1912 : —
Articles
Value
Articles
Value
Dollars
Dollars
Cheese ....
20,888,818
Codfish ....
4,238,030
Cattle
4,098,179
Salmon ....
4,312,459
Sheep.
122,479
Lobsters ....
3,647,524
Eggs .
56,724
Coal
4,338,128
Bacon
7,520,362
Gold-bearing quartz
7,103,.392
Butter
2,077,916
Copper in ore, &o. .
5,646,206
"Wood pulp
5,094,305
Silver ,, ,,
15,908,409
Wood, lufs. of
41,821,186
Leather, mfs. of
1,850,462
Wheat
62,590,563
Furs. ....
3,841,513
Wheat flour
16,034,064
Hides and skins
5,064,472
Pease
593,907
Iron and mfs. of
2,224,079
Fruits
5,875,511
Agricultural Implements.
5,792.213
Oats .
3,819,642
Foreign produce
25,093,393
Hay
6,373,590
In 1910-11 sixty-two per cent, of the revenue of Canada was derived from Customs duties.
Progress of the leading classes of exports, in thousands of dollars : —
1906-7 1 26,190
1907-8
1908-9 37,256
1909-10
1910-11 42,784
1911-12
Produce of the Mines .
39,168
36,301
41,229
, , , , Fisheries
10,362
13,867 1 13,320
15,627
15,676
16,705
,, ,, Forest .
4,696
8,192 : 7,196
8,937
9,508
8,488
Animals & their produce
55,422
55,102 51,350
53,927
52,244
48,211
Agricultural produce .
35,857
66,070 71,997
90,434
82,601
107,143
Manufactures
47,870
64,495 ! 61,430
70,079
71,218
68,241
Miscellaneous
148
68
55
125
286
112
1 Nine months.
The share of the leading ports in the trade (imports and exports) for year ended March 31, 1912 (provisional), in dollars :—
1
■ i Montreal
Toronto Halifax Quebec
St. John, N.B.
8,590,197 21,895,953
Ottawa
Van- couver
Imports . i 138,291,851 Exportsi . 74,944,869
97,144,992 11,996,093 11,797,423 45,818 !15,857,184 6,641,512
i \
8,544,001 40,169
32,428,397
8,148,697
1 Under regulations commencing July 1st, 1900, all export entries are delivered at the ' frontier port of exit ' and the totals thereof are credited to the respective ports where the goods pass outwards from Canada.
Value of exports of Canadian and other produce, including bullion and specie, to, and imports for consumption Irom, Great Britain (Canadian returns) : —
Imports.
£14,529,272 19,599,783 22,598,051 24,030,888
Exports.
190S-9
. £27,492,105
1909-10 .
30,758,122
1910-11 .
28,153,940
1911-12 .
31,214,313
