CANADA'S WAR WORK
«• As an indication of the marked impetus Riven by the war to industrial production throughout Canada a report just isHied bv His .Majesty's Trade Commissioner at Toronto quotes figures of the work done in the Douinion during llio four vears ended 1918 in llio production of munitions of war under British contracts. The total number of shells produced was GS,tHH),OOO, and the approximato number of components for which the Imperial Munitions Board let separate contracts was 800,000,000, lit tho Droductijm of this materia! 1,800.000 tons of steel wuh used, of which about 75 per cent, was of Canadian production. The unnroximale number of cominctors in Canada was 1000 and the number of workers engaged in war contracts, includinz thoso employed handling stores, about 1150.0011. Spruce for aeroplanes, timber for shipbuilding, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, silica, carbides, asbestos, and other materials were produced. At this close of the report attention is called to the fact; that between 1915 and 11)18 Canadian imuorts from the United King■doin decreased by 10 per cent., wliilo those from the United States aim Japan increased by 100 por cent, and 340 per cent, respectively.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 9
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191CANADA'S WAR WORK Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 9
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