4 THE DAILY BRITISH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1923. 24 YOUNGER GENERATION -- by H C North 7 A.H. Palmer "Merry 4 i / ristmas #% % submit snap-shots of > adapted from the most attractive will be used Send your best snap-shots this paper. on this page. to illustrate this feature. to "The Younger Generation" in care of Watch for a sketch of yourself to appear bers of the y "Such spoiled children--never happy unless they are in everybody's way!" ROGRESS BY CANADA'S CORNER 140 INDUSTRY the Land of the Maple | Leaf Accomplished in "Twenty Years. J. E. Dalrymple, vice-president f the C. N. R. La . - Canada, like all other countries, felt the effects of post-war de- | sion. But Canada, unlike some | er countries has not given way #0 melancholia in business or in in- DIRPICPR TIRE 7% Rin. Canada has set herself this try. Unity of effort and a faith the national future alone can » a8 the compass with which a Btry can steer its way clean of Wreckage of wartime aftermath ito the unhampered channels of na- prosperity. Painful measures often most necessary to cure » &and by mastering it the Do- fon is to-day once more upon the pad highway of success. The figures which broke the re- irkable strides made by the Do- Oh In the last twenty years make interesting reading and illus- te vividly the position which Can- is gaining rapidly among the na- of the world, © last official census (1921) Wed the population of the Domin- Bas 8,788,483. Between 1901 and the population of Canada has 1 d by 65 per cent., as against | Increase in the United States of per cent. in the closely corre- pading years of 1900 to 1920. 8 In the past twenty years Can- 8 Bas outstripped in radius of wth the country which for a cen. OF more the world has been ac- d to regard as the great er in the matter of national striking manner in which has come to the front in b of population increase emm phasized by the fact that in the last twenty years of the nineteenth cen- tury that is, between 1880 and 1900 --the population of the United States has grown by 50 per cent. while that of Canada had grown .by hardly 25 per cent. Expansion General. This same remarkable rate ot ex- | $195,000,000 in 1901 to $962,000, pansion is to be found in practically | 900 in 1922, an increase of nearly every phase of industrial, agricul- tural and commercial life in the Do- minion. The aggregate trade, represented by exports Canadian merchandisé and imports for domestic use, has risen from $342,000,000 in 1900 to $1,734. 000,000 in 1922-1923, an increase ot | bined, 407 per cent. Canadian exports of all classes of goods increased from $169,000,000 during the period 1900 to 1923. by over 1,300 per cent., and those of 'Wood, Wood Products and Paper" | lad never reached as high as 70,- by nearly 600 per cent. The exports of these two classes alone now amount to more than three times the value of Canada's total exports in 1900, Canada's total trade with Great Britain grew from about $141,000,- 000 in 1900 to $520,000,000 last year. Exports alone rose from $97, 000,000 In 1900 to $379,000,000 having practically quadrupled since the opening of the country. Exports Increased Sixfold. Canada's total trade with the United Statés increased from $160,- 000,000 in 1900 to $910,000,000 in the last fiscal year, an increase of about 470 per cent. Canada's ex- ports to the United States were six times as great last year as they were In 1800, increasing from $58,000,- 000 to $369,000,000. Twenty years ago "Canada's ex- ports of wood, wood products and paper were about $42,000,000 while for the last fiscal year they aggregat- "1 124,000 bushels of eats; 80,048,000 400 inhabitants, only seventeen oscapd death. Tae pieture open-air kitchens for the bomeless, " generation will sketches external | Tops in Canada has almost trebled ot | 8nd nearly 37,600,000 acres of new In less than 5,000,000 acres in 1901 that period exports of "Agricultural | t0 more than 22,000,000 acres in and Vegetable Products" increased | 1923. 3 () -- : af MN dl 9001 Flats, 196, by Phe Bell Srudicuse. fam) "Don't be afraid of it, Margie; it's the same stuff re've been getting right along." Z- Ly "It looks as if Lucy got a Victrola for Christmas,» ed $229,000,000, reflecting the enor- mous increase in the development of Canada's pulp end paper and other forest industries. Exports of wood- pulp and paper products alone have risen from less than $9,000,000 in 1912 to more than $105,000,000 in 1022, : The value of field crops rose from 400 per cent. Since 1900 the acreage of field land have been brought under cul- tivation, an area slightly larger than that of England and Wales com- Wheat Acreage Larger, The area sown to wheat rose from Before 1900 Canada's wheat crop 000,000 bushels, while the crop for the present year (1923) is estimated at 470,328,000 bushels, or nearly seven times as great as it was at any time up to the opening of the pre- sent century. Before 1900 Canada's exports of wheat had never totalled as much as 20,000,000 bushels, while exports for the twelve months ending July of this year aggregated nearly 230,- 000,000 bushels, and Canada has taken first place among the world's wheat exporting nations. Mineral production rose from $66,000,000 in 1901 to $183,000,000 In 1922, an increase of 177 per cent. The value of manufactured pro- ducts increased from $481,000,000 In 1900 to $4,019,000,000 in 1920, an increase of over 700 per cent. in the 20 year period. The number of persons employed in manufacturing more than doubled between" 1900 and 1920, increasing from 339,000 to 884,000. In the same period of twenty years. the capital invested in manufacturing Industries increased from $400,000, 000 to $3,400,000,000--that is by more than 700 per cent. Water Power Developed, | Dating from 1900, when the total installed horse power, was some 150,000 water power development in Canada has been very rapid, and to- day the Dominion possesses nearly 3,000,000 operating horse power and some 21,000 miles of transmission and distributing system. The total value of water power production for present installation is estimated at over $83,000,000 per year, ' Canada has just garnered the heaviest crop in her history, In ad- dition to 470,328,000 bushels of wheat, government reports estimate Canada his grown this year 535... bushels of barley; 28,159,000 bush- els of rye and 8,000,000 buckwheat. estimated nominal value of these field oo is $725,000,000. Railway traffic recei ts TO tota ed FHT 870 and for the year 1922 g442.- Jun 4a increase of about 536 - ay . Santa Claus makes homes happy by, the gifts and good my leer V Te J { i ir { J Bs oni | iil 1) : Everybody wants to give generously to welfare and gift funds at Xmas time, to make the Day brighter for those poor little kiddies whose Dad failed to provide for them. 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