PAGE EIGHTEEN NOTED MUSICIAN OF MONTREA Advises The Use Of "FRUIT The Famous Fruit ru A. MR. ROSENBURG B8Y Cas; 1 St., Montreal. ¥ fa my opinion, r In the world i tion and Indigesti 1wasasufferer(r Ss 86 cur five y six months I have I ady AD Y horrible trou "Fruil agreeably you will re Ke. a box, Atall deals a-tives Li JON M. PATRICK Sewing machines, Umbrellas, Suit Cases, Trunks repaired and refitted, | saws filled, Knives and scissors sharpeted; Razors honed; All makes of firearms repaired promptly. Lock repaired; Keys fitted, All makes of lawn mowers sharpened and repair- ed. 149 Sydenham Street Do as Mr. Gard Mr. Anson A. Gard, the well known Littérateur of Ottawa, called the Wan- dering Yankee, says in an unsolicited testimonial for ZUTOO Tablets : "Zutoo Tablets stop my head- aches so completely that I do not mind having them any more." 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DAILY BRITISH WHIG, ---- from 1867 to 1917 WW Op POR THE CANADIAN + Record of Remarkable Development in Every CONFEDERACY. Department. CANADA'S MARVELLOUS 30-YEAR STORY Paid up Bank Capital Popula P.O Bank Fire Life Post Ss bank deposits dep insurance insuran Off in force e in force oin and bu mmigration Government revenue dutie I duties .. $3 # Mfg. Capital (1867 and 1915) Employees Values of products Public net debt \gricult 1 exports Al ducts exports Cneos exports Butter export Wheat exported fineral export Mineral productic ; Pishery products Fishery exports | Forest products | |. , By TR o Forest exports | « Mfg. export | : h » Telephon: i 8: 4 Elevators i rr, 55 Water power development { Flectric R. R. Mileage viel crops, value | Civil government . Public works expenditure Subsidi prov 1stoms (hush. m (1871) (1870) to inces IMMIGRATION. Canada had little or no 'immigra- : tion in 1867 The modern move- ment Canadaward began in 1897, or 20 years ago. Since then, 3,294,797 | have entered Canada, British 1,- 211,541, or 38 per foreign, 9%, or per United States, 1,188,792, « To- tal arrivals in 1916-17, 75,395; larg- est number of arrivals in any one year were 402,432 in 1912-13. This 20-year inflow represents differ- ent nationalities, making Canada one of the world's human melting-pots A revival of arrivals after the war is expected. Homestead entries in the 20 years total half a million | | VIZ, cent. ; cent. 36 per cent »" SK8.2 THE CANADA OF THE FUTURE. Farewell address of Duke of Con- naught, Ottawa, Oct. 8, 1916: "Can- da has a great future before it. In| Canada the Empire has a portion | that is bound to take a leading part| in the activities of the future has taken her share in the war ih a most magnificent manner It will ever be written in the rec- ords of Canada that, in the time of the greatest need. unasked and un- 1. the best of Canada's sons ral-| to the colors." Canada - INSURANCE life and fire crease in 50 years, life force jumping from 3 680.682 to $1,311,616,677; and | fire, from $188,359,809 to §: 620,802, or nearly five billions, taken togethe: Today 44 life and S88 fire companies do business in Canada. Life premiums totalled $26,474,433 in 1915, and fire premiums $452 106,678 Insurance tremendous in i rance in | Toree tied AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION, da is. as she always has been, ricultural country, but the field 1867 were infinitesi- with the $500, 000,000 of 1916, and that a poor crop year | Agricultural exports have gone up {from $12,871,055 to $249.661,194 in and vet less than ten per cent tillable area is under Wh room r increas uction these figures reveal! wheat exports in 1867 of 2,284,- bushels grew t 157,745,469 15 in 1916, and the exports of 6,400,000 barrels in 1915- Over half of Canada's invested i per census of 1911, was in| arm values I ing, live stock and kindred int have had a oiresponding development. value of 1. compared rops GROWTH every right to be re- 3 three oceans surround- ing it, as a marine country has been growth in this department, 5.693 registered vessels in 1867 ow, representing a tonnage $30,000,000, and causing tenth among the maritime nations A marked revival in the ipbuilding industry ready manifest, over against a world need for increased tonnage it is d that ships to a value of $60, 060.000 are to be built in Canada this year. MARINE Canada has 11916 Canada's n 1 t o 8,7 ) y value of Canada to rank sts BANKING »nd banking have witnessed expansion since 1867 have, however, and amalgama- been reducel of late years to the bank branches have in- creased to over 3,200 Paid-up bank capital has increas- led from 10,289,048 in 1867 to $111.612.855, and 'bank deposits from $37,678,571 to $1 6,937,224 March, 1917, while sets total over two billions. Loans to the pub- lic have increased from $51,966,120 to $343,054 .466 . INDUSTRY. Canada produces practically all the known minerals. Production has leaped from $10,000,000 in 1871 to $170.000.000 in 1915, and yet Prof W. G. Miller says: "Only the fringe of our mineral resources have been MINING Bank a remarkable Chartered banks through absorption tion 21, bat $ : hr T ? Ontario's promising mineral area has been prospected. The same remark applies to most of the other prov- inces. Mining production in the Domin- ion has doubled in 11 years, and the total production since Confederation is nearly two billion dollars. Canada supplies over 80 per cent. lof the world's nickle output, as wel as of asbestos. Estimated coal areas 109,000 square miles. in FLECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT. was an undiscovered force in 1867, and electrical develop ment unknown Today the mystic | power is transforming the country. T Hydro-Electrie - Power Trans- mission Line of Ontarle is one of the Western Canada was '"'the Great longest in thé world, extending 240, sine Land" in 1867, with but a miles Moet cities and towns are sup- handful of settlers. Winnipeg, Sas- I 1 with electrical energy . and its | yatoon, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, latest application on He BB were unborn. Not a single mile of Great as Qas been elecirical develoD-| 45 way afforded transportation fac- ment in the last few years, it IS DIe-| iq and there' was no sense of dicted that it is only in its infancy. | nin or interest with the Camadian Bast, though Western Canada holds {two-thirds of Canada's total area. | Now it is one of the greatest wheat- growing countries in the world, and | with land to yield millions of bushels re. Population increase in ten rs, 1901-1911, was 174 per cent. Electricity i i WESTERN CANADA is GOVERNMENT FINANCES, Canada's growth in 50 years is strikingly illustrated in the Govern- ment revenue, which has jumped | MO! from $13,687,928 in 1867-8, to yea $222.000,000 in 1916-17. The thir-| teen millions would not go far today MANUFACTURNG GROWTH. in running the country. Expendi-| (Canada's industrial life was a tures have increased in proportion. small factor in 1867. There were Customs dues form a large item in gow gactories and artisans, with lit- the national receipts, the $8,901,446 | je or no production other,than for of 1367 having grown to $134,000, nome use; but per a postal census of 000. | manufacturers taken in 1915, Can- 'ada has 21,291 industrial establish- i ments, employing 511.859, with FISHERIES WEALTH. | wages and salaries of $60,143,704. Canada has the richest commercial | But even more significant are the fishing waters in the world, employ- | capital figures of $1,984.991,427, and ing 100.000. The products value! production value of $1,392.516,593. soon after Confederation, was only | Canada now makes 300 kinds of $6.577.381. whereas it is now $35.- manufactures, and among the indus- $60,708. The total production ¥alue| thal plants are over 500 'branch since 1870 is a billion dollars, and | United States industries. With rich yet Jt is said that we are only be- | natural resources and cheap power, ginning to catch the rich harvest of ' Canada promises to become increas- the sea. iugly strong industrially. show a) There' is al-! touched": and only ten per cent. of | 1867-8 30,289,048 809 5,680,082 lion 000,000 060,000 0600 391, 000 G00 194 9.861 oon 708 7.977 000 io Wes tn ! THINGS SINCE ERATION. you realized how many have come into IR. i Such as airships, auto mobiles, apartment houses, civic playgrounds, consolidated schools consumptive hospitals, dynamos, de | partmental stores, elect al develop- ment, electric street - cars, fireless cookers, fish hatcheries, farm trac tors, gas, natural and manufactured, gasoline engines, garden planning. grain elevators, hydro-electric power lines, incubators, insurance compan- ies on a large scale, ice breakers, mo- tor-boats, munition plants, medical appliances, and X-rays, nickel-min- ing, natural gas, oyster cultivation, oil-propelled locomotives and steam- ers, parcel post and rural mail de- | livery, stee! rail mills, summer ho- tels, technical schools, transmission power Hnes, typewriters, temperance legislation in nine-tenths of Canada, | woman suffrage in some provinces war, western cities, United States in- dustries in Canada--over 500 of them NEW CONVED- Have thin 18¢ new since 'POPULATION. Cana s population has, in 50 years, jumped from 3,371,594 to 7.206.643 in 1911, or more than dou- bled (now estimated at 8,000,000) Increase in 1901-1911, 34 per cent In 1911 rural population was 3,349 - 516, and urban 2,021,799 Increase of rural population in 10 years was 17.16 per cent.; of urban 62.25 per cent., thns emphasizing the marked modern tendency from country to city Three-fourths of Canada's pop- ulation is British-born. Of total, 13,821,995 are male, 3,384,648 fe male. Men of military age (18-45) 1.700.079 Over 400,000 (See also under Immigration.) POST CFFICE DEVELOPMENT {| The growth of a country is evidenc- ed by its postal service. The 3,638 post offices in 1867 have increased to 13.348 in 1916, covering an ever- widening area of territory, until the little red box is seen all the way | from Louisbourg to the Yukon; from ithe international boundary to the | Arctic Circle. Free rural mail de- livery and parcel post service are {modern improvements. The eighteen | million letters mailed in 1868 have {increased to 700 million. Post Office {savings banks are new since Confed | eration, holding $40,000,000 in de- | posits. | me | PROVINCIAL - EXPANSION, Four Provinces at the birth of Con- federation: nine now. And yet the nine take up only half of Canada's {total area. There is room for nine more. In 1868, the area of the 4 Prov- inces forming Confederation was only 662,148 square miles; now Parlia- ment exercises jurisdiction over 3. 729.665 square miles in the nine Provinces and three Territories. GREAT CANADIAN UNDER- TAKINGS. Canada has carriel out many tion: the building of three transcon- tinental railwgys; the canal sy big harbor im- provements in the chief seaport cities; the building of a great eleva- tor system across the continent; the development of our waterpower re sources; and the opening of vast new areas pf country. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Wireless telegraphy was also un- known at Confederation. Today, Canada has a chain of 'wireless tele- graph stations extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrence aad inland up the Great Lakes to the head of Lake Superior, constituting a marine tele- graphic service under direct govern- ment control not equalled by any other country in the world. _ SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1917. enlisted | The | have increased to $84 great undertakings since Confedera- the 'extension of The Stirring 50-Year Story of the Dominion GOVERNORS-GENERAL ADA FOR 1 OF CAN FIFTY YEARS, Vis 1867 ount 1869 Lord Lisgar Young The , G.C.M i The Marquis o 4 N Lorne 1904 "he Earl of Grey G.C MG t Oct. 13, 1%11---Field-Marshal H. the Duke of Connaught, K.G 1917 The Duke of Devonshire G.C MG, GCN.O, et R K G., RAILWAYS. What a "wonderful d ment has taken place in railway construc- tion since 1867 Only 2.27 miles then served limited part of the east, with not a single of steel north of Lake Superior and over the Rockies the I™ The only manner of transportation in the west was by water, pony or R River cart. The Canadian Pacific Railway was unplanned in detail; there was only the pledge of cross-continent line. The Grand Tr { System was only 15 years old. and therefore in its infancy Now three transcontin al lines link and west with nches in every direction. Canada owns and miles railway governme it Confed $34, which m more railway thar any that 1 vel 8 to east operates miles country in x world; has given $800,000 000 toward this end she AND was 1867 world's TELEPHONES Unknow TELEGRAPHS The telephon med of lay Canad the greate , with 1 for e 548 ana und in tele- 14.6 of in all have a 15 7 20,314 of capital 12 has reached profits $7,852 nizations ar is « of phone user the population, 1 or wire mile are employed; 0.000: , a rn of the or rative Canada has and 206.55 CO-0Ope 40.251 pole mileaze 51 wire mileage of tele graph lines 10,835,936 land mes sages were sent in 1916 11 operat ing telegraph today capital $75,000,000, y offices compan es TUBER WEALTLL There is no record of forest duction values Confederation, bat the sum of $172880,000 in 1916 strikingly illustrates its present-day value Canada's present supply commercial timber has been estimat ed as high as S06 billion feet, board which does not include of which Canada is now the world's chief sup pro of measure pulpwood, said to have ply Canada sold, in'1916, of pulpwood, wooed pulp paper chiefiy to the United State ) pulp and paper mills are in operation. $40,000,000 1 TRADE GROWTH IN 50 YEARS Canada's foreign trade grown with the country the $131.027.532 of 1867-8 appear when compared with the enormous total of $2.249.170,171 in 1516-17. imports then of ' $73 459.644 5.330.903, and the exports -of $57.567.888 to §1.- 151,375.768. Canada, in 1867, did | business within a limited area, and a few countries; today her trade routgs make a world map, reaching 45 countries. Canada has latterly ichanged from an importing t6 an exporting country, the difference of | exports over imports in 1916-17 be ing $306.044.665. Canadas foreign jcommerce is two and a hall times as imuch as the . United States, pe: capita. has also How small i WAR ITEMS. { Canada was happily at peace at the birth of Confederation; today ishe ir in the greatest war in the {world's history. Over 400,000 have { enlisted; war expenditure up to Ap- iril, 1917. $600.000.000. Domestic | war loans, $359.000,900. Munition | orders total = $850.000,000. 650 {plants, in 144 towns, employ over 256,000, including thousands of wo- men. Canada's Half-Century of Confederation Monck, | | { commercial vehicles using the Toronto-Hamilton highway tat the Western end). It was found that in ore month there was more such traffic than in the whole year of 1914 Since the concrete road was built, the highway is carrying a large amount of the traffic that formerly used parallel routes. This is a striking illustration of an important fact, namely that "good roads concentrate traffic on a few of them." This makes it easier for a community to build a connected sytem of Permanent Highways of Concrete Tt is estimated that 17°, of Canada's highways carry 80°, of all Ganate's traffic. A relatively small mileage will serve --and that mileage should be built of the most durable i hat mileag 4 material-- CONCRETE. 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