Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . ries and foundries of smallsize and number. The others were still fewer andsmaller. The best that the Hand Book of 1855 couldsay was that the most important of the manufactureswas that of shipbuilding, the number of ships built inQuebec city, the chief seat of the industry, having been48 in 1853, valued at $2,500,000; that the St. MauriceRiver iron works employed 300 hands; that considerableprogress had been made in the development of manu-factures requiring iron and steel for their bases, such aslocomotives, carriages, edge tools, agri
Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . ries and foundries of smallsize and number. The others were still fewer andsmaller. The best that the Hand Book of 1855 couldsay was that the most important of the manufactureswas that of shipbuilding, the number of ships built inQuebec city, the chief seat of the industry, having been48 in 1853, valued at $2,500,000; that the St. MauriceRiver iron works employed 300 hands; that considerableprogress had been made in the development of manu-factures requiring iron and steel for their bases, such aslocomotives, carriages, edge tools, agricultural imple-ments, etc.; that cotton manufacture was very small;that woollens were made on a somewhat extensivescale; that i 631 saw mills were producing 722,600,000feet of lumber per annum, and that grist mills numberedunder 1,200 requiring a capital of $5,000,000. The whole industrial class numbered a little over71,000. By the year 1891 the 30 different manufactures of1851 had expanded into 300, and the number of the in-dustrial class into 370,
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