MINERAL DEPOSITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1938, Page 10

MINERAL DEPOSITS

VAST SUPPLIES IN CANADA. OTTAWA, Canada. Canada’s pre-eminent position in the mineral world, as a result of development of the vast mineral deposits in the pre-Cambrian Shield extending across most of Northern Canada has resulted in a realignment of the importance of the various industries in the Dominion. In the early history of modern Canada, fur trapping was the most important and remunerative form of employment. Agriculture soon

replaced fur trapping and flour milling held sway as the highest ranking industry for many years. In 1933, however, it was replaced by the pulp and paper industry. In 1935, the pulp and paper industry, while still leading all others in employment and in volume of salaries and wages paid, had to give way to the non-ferrous metal smelting and refining industry as Canada’s number one- industry. The non-ferrous metal smelting and refining industry in 1936, the last year for which detailed figures are available, had an output valued at 229,737,420 dollars. The production of the pulp and paper industry that year was valued at 185,144,603 dollars, slaughtering and meat-packing production was valued at 156,971,640 dollars, and that of the flour and feed mills 114,617,099 dollars. The fur dressing and dyeing industry had a gross output in 1937 valued at 1,516,762 dollars and the fur goods industry’s production , was 14,474,935 dollars.