CANADA'S RAPID PROGRESS.

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1910, Page 1

CANADA'S RAPID PROGRESS.

40 PER CENT INCREASE IN TRADE FOR DECEMBER.

Striking testimony to Canada's rapid progress! is contained in a cablegram recfedvexT by- Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada, from the Canadian Minister of the anterior. The message stated that': The December returns of Canada's trade show an increase of over 40 per cent as compared with December 1908. During' the lkst ninej months exports of, agricultural produce increased by £4,600,000 over the same period of the year/ and exports of forest products by £1,400,000. t 'The immigration into Canada in December was 8,600, as against 4,900 in December 1908. The Canadian Customs revenue in 1909 N increased by £200/000 per month, as compared wJfch 1908. The Canadian Northern Railway Company will' construct- 600 miies of hew track this week, and f>he line be--1 tween Edmonton, Alberta, and Van- 1 couver will be completed within tout ' years. It is stated that the directors of the Canadian Pacific Company have decde4 to expend the enormous^ sum of £6,000/000 during ~the ooming' year in carrying out extensions and' improvements of their system.