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Principal statistics of the manufacturing industries of Canada, classified by main groups, by significant years 1922 to 1944 and classified in detail, 1944

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Principal statistics of the manufacturing industries of Canada, classified by main groups, by significant years 1922 to 1944 and classified in detail, 1944
	Establish-ments	Capital	Employees	Salaries and wages	Cost of materials	Gross value of products
	number	$	number	$
1922
Food	8,256	343,867,673	66,815	67,738,707	490,31,438	673,794,031
Drink and tobacco	496	104,047,461	13,402	13,777,986	33,027,203	99,529,819
Clothing	659	166,336,319	63,441	59,056,687	117,015,780	221,903,467
Personal utilities	936	56,060,262	16,904	17,080,049	21,879,031	57,258,476
House furnishings	600	75,16S,053	18,032	19,861,883	24,956,960	62,961,050
Books and stationery	1,557	82,240,691	28,103	36,920,804	27,190,071	99,118,969
Vehicles and vessels	1,154	191,257,804	30,067	37,237,412	87,840,814	160,624,079
Producers materials	5,588	1,086,692,015	143,354	147,581,011	316,400,400	666,241,271
Industrial equipment	1,740	556,862,578	75,269	89,081,303	160,035,399	338,882,958
Miscellaneous	30	4,960,434	869	1,061,388	2,964,354	4,916,418
Total, 1922	21,016	2,667,493,290	456,256	489,397,230	1,382,041,450¹	2,385,230,538¹
1929
Food	8,351	463,984,558	94,707	87,960,036	597,396,238	837,986,384
Drink and tobacco	599	201,365,785	18,976	21,670,376	65,440,053	208,968,998
Clothing	1,680	223,376,104	93,935	88,914,849	172,726,557	336,452,685
Personal utilities	380	56,155,234	11,148	13,595,331	29,389,246	61,191,750
House furnishings	600	76,185,921	20,857	23,248,775	34,293,465	77,811,331
Books and stationery	1,917	144,222,275	38,141	56,003,183	45,384,362	155,947,960
Vehicles and vessels	781	310,942,038	61,835	91,239,185	243,258,350	407,947,648
Producers materials	6,227	1,776,758,115	223,071	258,255,079	524,193,104	1,154,908,260
Industrial equipment	1,576	719,112,914	99,922	131,820,142	304,581,449	614,827,756
Miscellaneous	105	32,789,065	3,939	4,584,261	13,007,989	27,403,344
Total, 1929	22,216	4,004,892,009	666,531	777,291,217	2,029,670,813	3,883,446,116
1933
Food	8,759	408,995,499	75,434	68,652,798	313,760,942	492,729,174
Drink and tobacco	670	185,612,678	18,289	17,620,141	40,454,300	98,409,638
Clothing	1,922	143,382,092	75,363	56,001,234	103,209,050	194,627,734
Personal utilities	601	39,681,900	8,938	8,616,372	15,323,848	35,589,961
House furnishings	654	66,047,002	15,587	12,887,200	16,022,584	38,684,649
Books and stationery	2,170	132,507,101	34,300	42,830,661	28,818,380	103,477,707
Vehicles and vessels	479	232,153,543	37,618	35,725,625	56,917,292	120,992,781
Producers materials	6,564	1,459,569,284	139,734	126,208,238	252,383,314	573,991,467
Industrial equipment	1,819	588,147,285	60,061	64,155,426	133,382,392	277,075,032
Miscellaneous	142	23,163,454	3,334	3,544,129	7,516,826	18,497,642
Total, 1933	23,780	3,279,259,838	468,658	436,247,824	967,788,928	1,954,075,785
1937
Food	8,696	441,611,585	96,740	94,656,930	558,118,480	792,271,852
Drink and tobacco	668	187,487,631	21,646	24,398,981	68,935,399	152,152,105
Clothing	2,158	173,474,299	95,274	79,547,935	148,901,374	271,690.92
Personal utilities	634	43,476,516	12,420	12,729,626	28,185,411	55,289,473
House furnishings	800	89,293,123	27,446	27,169,931	41,836,387	90,102.40
Books and stationery	2,349	137,392,420	40,348	53,453,842	44,257,314	138,673,644
Vehicles and vessels	376	248,949,257	55,141	71,890,706	186,070,917	319,280,634
Producers materials	6,892	1,482,194,043	208,930	232,733,013	634,232,482	1,221,670,588
Industrial equipment	2,086	629,908,231	97,250	119,070,287	280,546,886	551,891,976
Miscellaneous	175	31,440,726	5,256	6,075,786	15,842,137	32,436,014
Total, 1937	24,831	3,465,227,831	660,151	721,727,037	2,006,926,787	3,035,161,500
1939
Food	8,529	451,298,489	99,983	101,904,518	526,619,353	784,072,722
Drink and tobacco	657	190,313,279	23,489	27,051,038	74,295,571	164,812,439
Clothing	2,178	187,495,826	97,220	83,762,588	146,201,614	275.567,762
Personal utilities	623	46,866,657	12,623	13,771,704	26,408,179	57,043,684
House furnishings	767	93,773,837	27,647	28,417,336	40,528,394	88.800,804
Books and stationery	2,452	143,293,147	41,8,04	56,466,921	47,916,777	144,283,052
Vehicles and vessels	364	269,734,181	54,673	72,238,590	141,704,269	266,089,493
Producers materials	7,095	1,580,602,852	201,849	229,381,185	559,816,486	1,130,510,177
Industrial equipment	1,957	650,305,878	93,235	117,754,260	257,416,596	528,678,421
Miscellaneous	183	33,340,303	5,591	7,063,013	15,252,136	34,919,974
Total, 1939	24,805	3,647,024,419	658,114	737,811,153	1,836,159,375	3,471,783,538
1943
Food	8,421	592,585,732	123,531	159,966,391	1,094,856,728	1,464,737.99
Drink and tobacco	647	242,927,173	28,044	40,435,534	99,602,633	238,506,471
Clothing	2,592	244,217,485	119,715	141,914,240	292,357,250	523,922,505
Personal utilities	730	68,356,782	18,059	24,516,425	50,345,687	104.512,662
House furnishings	881	121,791,799	38,472	54,067,442	80,661,310	178,461,622
Books and stationery	2,476	159,733,494	45,647	71,581,405	72,022,230	204,779,758
Vehicles and vessels	385	816,203,889	217,970	425,756,663	587,491,411	1,272,121,963
Producers materials	8,554	2,503,815,480	361,570	582,769,064	1,449,892,836	2,748,227,057
Industrial equipment	2,724	1,051,234,389	223,783	387,609,582	707,744,312	1,492,541,620
Miscellaneous	242	516,300,504	64,277	98,675,638	255,518,686	605,049,448
Total, 1943	27,652	6,317,166,727	1,241,068	1,987,292,384	4,690,493,083	8,732,860,999
1944
Food	8,435	*	136,747	183,795,031	1,271,356,037	1,702,330,839
Drink and tobacco	635	*	28,566	44,140,376	118,406,602	281,731,695
Clothing	2,713	*	117,056	146,623,855	284,018,437	529.230,834
Personal utilities	758	*	18,922	26,130,683	54,417,448	115,502,040
House furnishings	908	*	38,940	58,426,100	83,231,172	187,175,054
Books and stationery	2,468	*	47,319	76,542,070	75,882,848	219,966,613
Vehicles and vessels	413	*	222,604	454,449,952	637,341,589	1,425,858,778
Producers materials	8,990	*	343,035	567,699,762	1,369,160,212	2,646,303,770
Industrial equipment	2,889	*	216,279	385,434,071	697,897,961	1,512,623,216
Miscellaneous	274	*	53,414	86,379,470	240,621,050	462,969,680
Total, 1944	28,483	-	1,222,882	2,029,621,370	4,832,333,356	4,073,692,619
* Not collected.
1. For the year 1922 the figures for "Cost of Materials" and "Gross Value of Products" include the value placed on intermediate products used in further processes in the chemical group of industries, this reason these figures differ slightly from those contained m the other tables of this Chapter.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.