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Principal statistics of the forty leading industries of Canada, ranked according to gross value of products, 1944

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Principal statistics of the forty leading industries of Canada, ranked according to gross value of products, 1944
					Value of products
	Establi-shments	Employees	Salaries and wages	Cost of materials	Net	Gross
	number		$
Slaughtering and meat packing	153	23,867	38,697,789	458,484,382	81,738,368	643,034,100
Non-ferrous metal smelting and refining	10	23,927	44,536,991	313,996,140	123,303,038	474,208,801
Miscellaneous chemical products	228	50,437	82,008,829	227,608,024	198,943,420	431,494,036
Aircraft	45	79,572	161,055,010	137,734,065	286,653,701	426,981,558
Pulp and paper	104	37,896	75,833,408	157,995,141	174,492,103	360,848,086
Shipbuilding and repairs	94	67,076	138,967,246	101,056,440	224,632,290	329,299,643
Automobiles	5	22,499	53,879,982	234,578,288	87,185,302	324,090,768
Electrical apparatus and supplies	234	48,834	82,304,460	120,413,034	160,169,974	283,071,440
Iron and steel products, n.e.s.	170	36,963	75,076,875	126,539,119	126,852,257	256,407,290
Butter and cheese	2,282	18,622	25,358,470	168,490,247	45,836,735	218,143,356
Sawmills	5,506	43,516	51,516,085	118,167,020	96,528,955	216,556,623
Flour and feed mills	1,087	7,289	10,511,975	187,116,957	26,780,541	215,790,282
Primary iron and steel	64	30,763	60,837,031	92,214,866	103,018,391	212,509,681
Petroleum products	48	6,809	14,317,939	153,558,664	47,986,185	210,547,416
Rubber goods	56	21,421	35,978,717	82,187,888	82,813,307	160,511,036
Railway rolling-stock	37	29,911	61,355,214	78,432,377	85,513,150	167,806.61
Automobile supplies	104	20,366	38,671,730	84,155,653	73,868,168	190,195,390
Brass and copper products	162	17,633	33,490,354	72,460,196	74,656,771	149,851,354
Machinery	258	26,692	50,452,569	50,665,344	95,131,051	117,519,776
Clothing, men's, factory	418	27,016	35,367,534	78,316,230	59,295,540	138,055,755
Clothing, women's, factory	835	25,810	34,669,358	72,815,459	60,839,942	133,969,487
Bread and other bakery products	2,917	27,530	35,164,136	59,824,616	61,474,839	125,261,098
Cotton yarn and cloth	41	21,900	27,865,543	66,948,167	46,599,735	116,707,311
Sheet metal products	194	16,852	27,140,973	57,624,118	51,027,176	109,928,858
Fruit and vegetable preparations	458	15,368	16,411,988	63,223,982	42,302,840	107,335,254
Miscellaneous food industries	269	6,885	8,893,913	68,580,203	28,293,696	97,434,861
Biscuits, confectionery, cocoa, etc.	219	14,260	17,325,577	42,475,278	42,433,072	86,011,499
Hosiery and knitted goods	200	22,939	25,535,277	39,132,779	43,882,156	84,217,935
Breweries	61	7,125	14,188,533	18,021,526	63,118,812	82,491,793
Printing and publishing	766	18,328	31,621,654	17,455,960	63,588,253	81,950,271
Acids, alkalies and salts	37	7,964	15,752,782	29,540,390	42,801,806	31,323,151
Hardware, tools and cutlery	242	16,359	29,790,676	20,610,853	56,847,740	78,860,180
Scientific and professional equipment	48	9,844	19,734,303	34,592,256	43,578,970	78,534,489
Boots and shoes, leather	228	18,638	22,636,194	42,657,644	33,247,109	76,297,888
Castings, iron	196	15,559	28,952,121	27,810,836	43,688,126	73,967,421
Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes	69	10,587	13,105,796	36,864,416	34,303,711	71,442,389
Coke and gas products	34	4,747	8,940,613	37,809,253	25,287,651	69,575,715
Fish curing and packing	535	9,664	10,327,695	45,906,542	22,066,801	68,882,879
Feeds, stock and poultry	206	3,239	5,160,729	55,812,112	11,113,161	67,497,152
Sugar refineries	11	2,590	4,576,060	48,033,547	14,364,944	63,874,868
Total, forty leading industries	18,637	917,297	1,568,012,129	3,929,910,012	7,200,481,476	7,200,481,476
Total, all industries	28,483	1,222,882	2,029,621,370	1,832,333,356	9,073,692,519	9,073,692,519
	%
Percentage of all industries	65.4	75	77.2	81.3	76.8	79.3
	number		$
Primary textiles	613	77,816	96,743,445	194,509,683	378,075,214	378,075,214
Note: Statistics of "Capital invested" were discontinued in 1944.
1. On a broader classification basis, the primary textile industry, which includes the production of cottons, woollens, silk, hosiery and knitted goods, and the dyeing and finishing of textiles, ranks second in number of employees third in salaries and wages paid and fifth in gross value of production.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book 1947.