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SILK-SCREEN PAINTING AND TIRE MANUFACTURE ARE TWO MORE EXAMPLES OF CANADA'S MARCH TO INDUSTRIAL MANHOOD
I . How much of Canada do we own?
TYPE OF INVESTMENT
U.S. OWNED
Canadian Govt, bonds
10.10%' (1951)
Total bonds, debentures
12.25% (1951)
Business (corporate)
Under 25% (1950)
Auto industry
most (1951)
Manufacturing as whole
37% (1949)
Mining & smelting industry
35% (1949)
Petroleum industry
54% (1950)
Railways
20% (1949)
Other utilities
13% (1949)
TOTAL U.S. INVESTMENTS (through 1951)
$7,235,000,000
% of total (estimate)
Under 15%
SOURCE: Canadian Dominion Bureau of Statistics
'Of $18,797,000,000 outstanding 20f $22,632,000,000 outstanding
•>• II hat does Canada bay from the I . S.
IMPORTS <'" millions)
1950
1951
V< RISE
Iron & its products
$811.0
$1,146.8
a. i
Non-metallic minerals & products
430.9
435.9
1.2
Agricultural & vegetable products
180.1
208.5
15.8
Fibres, textiles & textile products
151.8
221.0
15.6
Non-ferrous metals & products
135.7
192.8
42.1
Chemicals & allied products
134.6
165.1
22.7
Wood, wood products & paper
92.3
125.6
36.1
Animal & animal products
57.2
73.5
28.5
Misc. commodities
136.9
243.7
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TOTAL (unadjusted)*
$2,130.5
$2,812.9
32.0
SOURCE: Canadian 'Unadjusted for
Dominion Bureau of Statistics balance of payments purposes
tioWftaf are the retail sale
s by provinces?
PROVINCE
POPULATION
SALES (1951)
Maritimes1
1,618,126
$702,220,000
Quebec
4,055,681
$2,457,391,000
Ontario
4,597,542
$4,033,221,000
Manitoba
776,541
8600.701,000
Saskatchewan
831,728
$616,338,000
Alberta
939,501
$831,317,000
British Columbia
1,165,210
$1,137,867,000
TOTAL
14,009,429*
1 $10,445,061,000
SOURCE: Canadian Dom
nion Bureau of Statisti
:s
'Include Prince Edward 1 -Yukon and Northwest
stand. Nova Scotia, New erritories (population 2
Brunswick. Newfoundland 5,100) included in total
4 „ What are 10 biyyest metropolitan aretts?
CITY
1941 pop.
1951 pop.
% increase
Montreal, Quebec
1,145,282
J, 395,400
21.8
Toronto, Ontario
909.928
1,117.470
22.8
Vancouver, B. C.
377.447
530,728
40.6
Winnipeg, Manitoba
299,937
351.069
18.0
Ottawa, Ontario
226,2.90
28 f .908
24.6
Quebec, Quebec
224,756
274,827
22.3
Hamilton, Ontario
197,732
259,685
31.3
Edmonton, Alberta
97,842
173,075
76.9
Windsor, Ontario
123,973
157,672
27.2
Calgary, Alberta
93,021
J 39. 105
49.3
SOURCE: Canadian Dominion Bureau of Statistics
11 AUGUST 1952
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