. Canada, an encyclopaedia of the country [microform] : the Canadian Dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development. Agriculture; Canadian literature; Finance; Natural history; Natural resources; Agriculture; Littérature canadienne; Finances; Sciences naturelles; Ressources naturelles. |r 520 CANADA: AN ENCYCLOIVKDIA. :^' accurate cstiinatc can be funned of tlie volue of the laif,'i' amount of timber retained during this period for home consumption. In tl\3 year 1^95-96 our total exports of foicst prodiuts amounted to $2
. Canada, an encyclopaedia of the country [microform] : the Canadian Dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development. Agriculture; Canadian literature; Finance; Natural history; Natural resources; Agriculture; Littérature canadienne; Finances; Sciences naturelles; Ressources naturelles. |r 520 CANADA: AN ENCYCLOIVKDIA. :^' accurate cstiinatc can be funned of tlie volue of the laif,'i' amount of timber retained during this period for home consumption. In tl\3 year 1^95-96 our total exports of foicst prodiuts amounted to $27, Aecordint; to the Census of 1891, tlie exports are but 30% of tlie total amiual cut, so that an approximate value of the cut for that jear would be §90,585,229. A depression has existed in tlie lumber trade ilurinj^ the past few years, but there has been a widening of European markets for our forest products and a steady growth of demand for them. When these markets have disposed of some of their over-stock Canadian trade will doubtless experienre a strong revival. The trade with South America has increased very much, and in Australasia, Canada wid fmd an excellent market for her wood exports An official rcpo of British Columbia states that in 1890 Australia imported 300,000,000 feet of lumber from the North Pacific Coast of America, and only 15,000- 000 feet of this were shipped from that Province, There is room -here fo*- ,, owtli in Canadian trade. In view of their past and present value, and of what we may reasonably expect from them in the future, our forests cannot, in the interests of national .".dvancement, be too highly prized or too carefully guanieil. When vessels, built of Canadian lumber and freighted with the forest- protlucts of this strong, young nation, shall have anchored in every foreign port of note, and on all the high seas of commerce be recognized as the Canadian lumber fleet, our forests will still have fulfilled their destiny only in p
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