. Scotch tenant-farmers on the agricultural resources of Canada [microform] : the reports of Mr. John Steven, Purroch Farm, Hurlford, Ayrshire; and Mr. Alex. Fraser, Balloch of Culloden, Inverness, on their visit to Canada in 1893. Agriculture; Farmers; Scots; Agriculture; Agriculteurs; Ecossais. 96 The Canadtan Exhibits at Chicago. In this department Canada obtained 30 medals and Transportation, diplomas. The Canadian Pacific Railway train was referred to as the finest and most complete on exhi- bition,, which reflects great credit on the position manufacturing enterprise has reached in Canad
. Scotch tenant-farmers on the agricultural resources of Canada [microform] : the reports of Mr. John Steven, Purroch Farm, Hurlford, Ayrshire; and Mr. Alex. Fraser, Balloch of Culloden, Inverness, on their visit to Canada in 1893. Agriculture; Farmers; Scots; Agriculture; Agriculteurs; Ecossais. 96 The Canadtan Exhibits at Chicago. In this department Canada obtained 30 medals and Transportation, diplomas. The Canadian Pacific Railway train was referred to as the finest and most complete on exhi- bition,, which reflects great credit on the position manufacturing enterprise has reached in Canada. The great development in the industries of the Manufactures. Dominion is illustrated very aptly by the following return, taken from the census of 1891 :— 1881. 1801. Increase. Per Cent. Number of establishments ... 49,923 75,768 25,846 51-8 Capital invested $165,302,623 $353,836,817 $188,534,194 114-0 N umbor of employes 254,935 367,865 112,930 44-43 Wages paid $59,429,002 $99,762,441 $40,333,43!) 07-86 Cost of raw n<aterial $17\,,918,593 $255,983,219 $70,064,626 42-3 , Value of products $309,676,068 $475,445,705 $165,769 637 63-5 Canada had a most interesting exhibit of manufactures, which secured 124 awards, and drew an appreciative statement from the president of the jurors on textiles—a member of the Austrian Commission, and him- self a manufacturer of high-grade cloths in Austria- to the effect that the progress made by textile manufacturers in Canada had been more rapid during the last five years than that of any other country show- ing industrial products. It will be remembered by many readers of these pamphlets that Canada's display of manufactured articles at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886 attracted much attention. The educational system of the Dominion has a world-wide reputa- tion, and the exhibits in that department were Tiaturally, therefore, an object of sustained interest throughout the course of the Exhibition. 191 awards were obtained by C
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