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16,700 ; employee* in canneries, freezers, and fish houses, 6,700. The value of fisheries in 1915-16 was 4,737.145 dollars, and in 1916-17, 5,657,000 dollars.
The Government owns oTer 10,000 square miles of forests. The pro- duction of lumber in 1917-18 from Crown lands and granted lands was 700,000,000 feet board measure. The total value was 20,000,000 dollars. Spruce is the principal wood.
The Province is rich in minerals. Iron, gypsum, coal, building stone, antimony, copper, manganese are found, but the only active mining in the year 1920 was in coal and gypsum. Natural gas, with a small qnan; oil, are piodiKed near Moncton. Coal outuut, 1919, 156,000 long ton*.
In 1918 there were 1,363 industrial establishments, with a capital of r ,000 dollars, employing 19,642 wage-earners; salaries and w ,000 dollars ; cost of'nuterials, 34,450,000 dollars ; value of pro : 66,855,000 dollars.
Commerce and Communications.— The domestic and foreign ex- ports of the Province in 1916-17 amounted to 206,174,000 dollar; imports for consumption to 19, &94, 000 dollars.
The Province had 1,959 miles of railway in 1917, as compared with 1,503 miles in 1907. In 1917 there were 31,149 miles of ulephour
Books of Reference.
Reports of various Government Departments.
Bulletin V. Fifth Census of Canada (Agriculture). See also under Canada.
If OVA SCOTIA Constitntion and Government-— The first settlement »aa made by the French at the end of the sixteenth century, and the province was called Acadia until finaliy ceded to the British by the Treaty oi" Utrecht in 1713. The Constitution of the Dominion of Canada and of each separate Province thereof is contained in the il British North America Act, commonly called the "Act of Confederation." This Act passed the Imperial Parliament in and came into force on July 1st of that year. Under this Act the Legislature of Xova Scotia, along with that of each of the other Provinces, may exe'usively make laws in relation to local matters ; and more especially in regard to direct taxation within the Province in order to raise a revenue for provincial purposes, and the administration of justice in the Province, including the constitution, maintenance and organisation of provincial courts both of civil and of criminal jurisdiction, and including procedure of civil matters in those courts.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia consists of a Lieutenant-Governor, apj>ointed and paid by the Federal Government and holding office for five years ; a legislative Council appointed by the Crown, and holding office for life : and a House of Assembly, chosen by popular vote every five years. The Legis- lative Council consists of 21 members ; the House of Assembly of 43. The members of both Houses receive a sessional indemnity of 700 dollars.
The franchise and eligibility to the Legislature are granted to all persons,
whether male or female, and including married women, if of full age (21
, if a British subject, and a resident for one year in the place where
I the person vote*, and if not by law otherwise disqualified, or in receipt of
- a pauper.
House of Assembly (1920;, state of parties :— Liberals, 29 ; Farmers, 8 ;
