CANADIAN FOOTWEAR
BIG INDUSTRY ESTABLISHED. OTTAWA. Every Canadian buys more than two pair of shoes a year according to calculations made by Government statisticians and in 1937 the consumption was 2.22 pair for every man, woman and child in the Dominion or a total of 24,649,521 pairs. Of. this number, Cana dian factories supplied approximately 24,000.000 at the same time manufacturing 355,300 pairs for export purposes.
The production of leather footwear in Canada constitutes one of the principal manufacturing industries of Canada and one of the oldest. Tire first census of what was then “New France" was taken in 1667 and. enumerated 20 persons as shoemakers out of a population of 3,215; In those days the handicraft system prevailed while today there are 221 establishments employing 16,773 persons and capitalised at 27,374,704 dollars.
While production in 1937 reached a new high level of 24,325,355 pairs, the output in 1938 was lower. Production figures for the months of January and February of this year, however, already show a marked increase indicating that the reduction in 1938 would be more than made up during the next ten months of 1939. -
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1939, Page 6
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