CANADIAN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1922, Page 6

CANADIAN NEWS

(From our own Correspondent.

Quebec. —A movement is on foot for the erection of a monument on the river front of the St. Lawrence, in commemoration of the first Scotchman and King’s pilot, Abraham Martin, to arrive and pilot ships up and down the river St. Lawrence between Quebec and the Gulf. The Canadian Pacific Steamships, Limited, in conjunction with the St. Andrew’s Society, are behind the project.

Ottawa, Ontario.—Canada in 1919, the latest date for which statistics are available, ranked second only to tho United States in the number of telephones per hundred of population. The United States had 13.6 telephones and Canada 9.8. The wire mileage in use was 2,105 101 and the average persons per mile af wire was 4.2.

Ottawa, Ontario.—Canada’s apple yield for 1921 was 3,337,200 barrels. British Columbia increased its production to 1,009.000 barrels, as compared with 504,540 barrels the previous year. The total value of the apple crop in all Canada is placed at 30,000,000 dollars.

Vancouver, British Columbia, lhe value of mineral production of British Columbia for 1921 was about 26,000,000 dollars, divided as follows: — Gold ,2,411,020 dollars; silver, 1,535,865 dollars ; copper, 3,720,000 dollars ; lead, 1,754,000 dollars; zinc, 1,7z3,500 dollars; coal, 11,432,644 dollars; miscellaneous material, 200,000 dollars , and building material, 1,776,440 dollars.

Ottawa, Ontario.—Canada’s potato yield for’ the year 1921 was 110,895.. 000 bushels, according to a statement issued by the Dominion Depaitment of Agriculture. The average yield per acre was IfeSJj bushels 011 701,9x2 acres, whiles the total value of the 1921 crop to farmers was 85,677,000 dollars.

Montreal, Quebec.—A recent compilation of the maximum rated capacity of the Canadian pulp and paper mills, inclusive only of those in actual operation in 1921, shows them to be equipped to produce a total of 2,319,464 tons annually, made up of 1,024,796 tons of pulp and 1,294,668 tons ol paper.

Quebec.-—lt is planned lo commence construction this year of what will eventually be the largest elevator in the world, with a capacity of 10,000,900 bushels. The enormous growth in the volume of grain in and out of the port of Montreal has made more elevator space absolutely essential as during the past year business was refused by the Harbour Commission owing to lack of accommodation.

Toronto, Canada. —The 1921 census returns give Toronto a population of 519,290, an increase of 137,390 over 1911, or 35.11 per cent. The above figures include all persons within the municipal boundaries of the city on June 1, 1921.

Vancouver, British Columbia. —In 25 years British Columbia has developed the three largest coppper mines in the British Empire ; the two largest smelters in the Empire, the only plant in the world refining five metais by hydro-electrical power, and the largest silver-lead-zinc mine so far discovered in the world. Plans are now in hand to provide for two of the world’s largest concentration plans, and for two new mills of total capacity of 40,000 tons a day.

Edmonton, Alberta. —For the purpose of stimulating u practical interest in tho development of the dairying industry on the farm and the production of the bacon type of hogs tho Provincial Department of Agriculture is sending a demonstration train on a i.w|-r over the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway until the beginning of March. The provincial live stock commissioner is in charge of the train, which contains a number of dairy cattle, bacon type and fat hogs and sheep. Ottawa, Ontario.—Tho Fiji Islands have granted a preference of 12g per cent, to Canadian products entering that country in the case of goods sub ject to ad valorem rates and a preference of 5 per cent: lower than the genral tariff in the case of near!,goods subject to specific duties. As tho free list in the Fiji Islands is very b mi ted, this is tantamount to a pi ference on nearly all commodities. Winnipeg, Manitoba.—Of the 300,000,000 acres fit for farming in Can-

ada, one-third is in farm holdings; only one-sixth is cultivated; 250,000,000 acres await the tractor and tho man, according to official figures. Of tho 178,000,000 acres known to be fit for farming in the 454,789,678 acres forming tho land area of the Prairie Provinces, only 35,847,000 acres were under cultivation in 1921.,

Montreal, Quebec. —A prize of 100, 000 dollars to the graduate or student of any recognised university who, within five years, is the first to discover a medicinal treatment for the effective cure of cancer, has been offered by Lord Atholstan, owner of the Montreal “Daily Star.” The decision is to be left to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London, England.

Calgary, Alberta. —For the first time the Canadian Pacific Railway carried snow as commercial freight when it transported several cars of this commodity from Lake Louise to Calgary to be used in tho ski tournament here. For these events a huge permanent slide has been built on the top of the grandstand at the exhibtion grounds.

Quebec. —Six husky Objibway Indian bucks, all standing over six feet high, from tbo Nottoway River and Riviere Belle, came into Quebec during tho week with packs containing 25,000 dollars worth of furs, consisting of beaver, marten, fisher, otter and other pelts. After months in the back country, and days of following the trail on a diet of beans, tea and bacon the braves are enjoying to full measure the movie and vaudeville houses of the city, and their appetie proving the alternate joy and despair of restaurants.

Ottawa, Ontario.—The total immigration to Canada for the month of November, 1921, was 4,560, 1,404 being from the British Isles, 1747 from tho United States and 1409 from other countries. Immigration to the Dominion for the first eight months of the fiscal year, April to Noveaib r, totals 76,575, of whom 35,941 are British 23,279 from the United States and 17,355 from other countries.