. Lands, fisheries and game, minerals . tifully supplied. It has been estimated that the total water-power in Canada amounts to over 16,600,000 This is equi-valent to a perpetual annual production of about 367,000,000 tons of last figure represents about 33 per cent, of the worlds production ofcoal in the year 1909. Although electrical energy will, where available, to agreat extent replace the use of coal for light and power purposes and forcertain metallurgical work, the necessary uses of coal will continue on alarge scale. Power, coal and iron are the main bases of th
. Lands, fisheries and game, minerals . tifully supplied. It has been estimated that the total water-power in Canada amounts to over 16,600,000 This is equi-valent to a perpetual annual production of about 367,000,000 tons of last figure represents about 33 per cent, of the worlds production ofcoal in the year 1909. Although electrical energy will, where available, to agreat extent replace the use of coal for light and power purposes and forcertain metallurgical work, the necessary uses of coal will continue on alarge scale. Power, coal and iron are the main bases of the greater portion ofmodern industries and Canada has large resources of all these coal deposits of Canada compare favorably with those of the greatestcoal mining countries of the world as to quality, quantity and accessibility ° The forthcoming Report on Water-Powers by the Commission of Conservatiom\\-ill contain an estimate based upon the latest available information, and -will, there-fore, be more accurate than CONSERVATION OF MINERAL RESOURCES 431 or mining purposes. According to estimates prepared by Mr. D. , of the Geological Survey of Canada, the known area underlain byworkable coal beds in Canada is 29,957 square miles. The coal fields maybe divided, for the sake of convenience in classification, into four maindivisions, as follows (See Plate XVI). (1) The eastern division, containing the bituminous coal fields ofNova Scotia and New Brunswick. (2) The central or interior division, containing the lignites of Mani-toba and Saskatchewan and the lignites, bituminous and anthracite coalfields of Alberta and the ea,stern Rocky Mountain region. (3) The Pacific Coast and the Western mountains division, containingthe semi-anthracite and bituminous fields of Vancouver Island; thebituminous coal fields of the interior of British Columbia and the lignitesof Yukon. (4) The northern division, containing the lignites of the Arctic-Mackenzie basin. The c
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