. Canadian forest industries January-June 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 86 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER June 1, 1915 The Export Trade of Canada in Wood Goods Written specially for the Canada Lumberman By Edward Harper Wade THE great importance of export trade is recog- nized alike by political economists and practical politicians. Every effort is made by all parties to develop and extend it, and however great the need for increased revenue may be, exports are seldom subject to customs duties. As imports must eventually be
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 86 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER June 1, 1915 The Export Trade of Canada in Wood Goods Written specially for the Canada Lumberman By Edward Harper Wade THE great importance of export trade is recog- nized alike by political economists and practical politicians. Every effort is made by all parties to develop and extend it, and however great the need for increased revenue may be, exports are seldom subject to customs duties. As imports must eventually be paid for by exports, and as the interest on borrowed capital can only be met in the same way, the ability to obtain goods from other countries, or induce the investment of outside capital, depends, in the last resolve, on the power to export such productions or manufactures as other countries require or can be induced to pur- chase. Early in the commercial development of the Can- adian Colonies the settlers looked for a market for the timber products of almost unbroken forests that then covered the country, and found it in competi- tion with the woods of Northern Europe in the United Kingdom. Beginnings of the Export Trade New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were early ex- porters, as there are old records of large white pine mast pieces being shipped for the British Navy. Somewhat later on shipments were made from the Saguenay, but as the timber trade of the St. Lawrence developed it centred at Quebec, then the head of navigation, and private enterprise provided piers, mooring blocks and cove shipping booms to facilitate the business. The export timber trade had great difficulties to overcome before it attained its later importance. The intrinsic merits of white pine, by far the most plentiful wood, were only slowly recognized. Baltic whitewood and redwood, the equivalents of our spruce and red pine, were the building woods of England, commonly specified by archi- tects in their est
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