. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. about fifty years ago that someof Canadas natural resources first beganto be discovered. Oil was discovered inLampton in 1862, and Petrolia in 1876was tanking 3,000 barrels a day. Theonly difficulty confronting this new dis-covery was to make the demand for itequal the supply. About half the amountwas used in Canada. Efforts were madeto ship it to Liverpool, but the port au-thorities there refused to give the evil,smelling product storage room so therewas no incentive to develop this greatindustry for some years, until in fact, manufacturies had develo
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. about fifty years ago that someof Canadas natural resources first beganto be discovered. Oil was discovered inLampton in 1862, and Petrolia in 1876was tanking 3,000 barrels a day. Theonly difficulty confronting this new dis-covery was to make the demand for itequal the supply. About half the amountwas used in Canada. Efforts were madeto ship it to Liverpool, but the port au-thorities there refused to give the evil,smelling product storage room so therewas no incentive to develop this greatindustry for some years, until in fact, manufacturies had developed in Canada,and until the wider knowledge of themany uses of the product led to an al-most limitless demand. In 1866 salt wasdiscovered near Goderich, Ontario, andits 90 barrels a day constituted the wholeoutput of Canadas salt industry. There was very little manufacturing inthose days. One sugar factory in Mon-treal provided one of the first instancesof industries based on foreign supplies. Old Houses at PointLevis. From an old ^ i This Company The Canada Sugar Refin-ing Company is still doing business inMontreal. The great chemical industrywas also in its infancy at the time ofConfederation. Drugs, soap, starch andpotash were practically the only pro-ducts in this field. Of Canadas greatdairying resources there was hardly atrace at this time. There were in fact
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