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