PRAIRIE PROVINCES
“BREADBASKET OF EMPIRE.” ; EXPANSION OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES. .1 WINNIPEG. The Canadian Prairie Provinces, ■ I which have boon named "The BrcadI ■ basket of the Empire" because of their ; I extensive wheat growing, are also ex--1 panding their industrial activities to a degree undreamed of by early pioneers. According to most recent figtiros published, there were 2,267 in- ■ dustrics in active operation in the Prairie Provinces with a capital in- : vestment of 229.4-16.146 dollars. These plants furnished employment to 42.337 persons with an aggregate pay roll of nearly 50.000,000 dollars. Slaughtering and meat packing, flour and feed, and butler and cheese were naturally the most important industries, centred as they are in such a vast agricultural district. Other principal industries ; not dependent on agricultural pro- ; ducts for raw material, included petroleum production and refineries, railway rolling stock, printing ' and publishing and breweries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 6
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142PRAIRIE PROVINCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 6
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