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Summary statistics of manufactures of each province, classified by industrial groups, 1944

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Summary statistics of manufactures of each province, classified by industrial groups, 1944
	Establish-ments	Employees	Salaries and wages	Cost of materials	Net value of products	Gross value of products
	number		$
Canada
Vegetable products	5,941	130,679	183,943,948	763,606,750	485,551,491	1,270,518,297
Animal products	4,388	94,195	129,215,389	835,586,247	246,064,720	1,092,015,647
Textiles and textile products	2,481	153,122	195,805,681	419,988,642	351,186,488	781,771,688
Wood and paper products	10,452	189,674	284,436,559	497,656,158	550,826,986	1,093,725,822
Iron and its products	2,192	411,944	818,452,454	1,104,083,922	1,390,703,087	2,540,992,974
Non-ferrous metal products	635	104,314	182,909,292	549,317,062	399,498,519	992,345,975
Non-metallic mineral products	748	31,590	56,130,338	234,714,319	152,525,053	416,268,879
Chemicals and chemical products	981	81,822	137,422,977	360,412,749	355,260,598	733,569,232
Miscellaneous industries	665	25,542	41,304,732	66,967,507	84,159,068	152,484,005
Total	28,483	1,222,882	2,029,621,370	4,832,333,356	4,015,776,010	9,073,692,519
Prince Edward Island
Vegetable products	41	311	274,643	914,430	598,921	1 563,245
Animal Products	102	715	489,969	4,494,471	1,317,544	5,870,046
Wood and paper products	87	358	269,127	307,164	464,307	787,296
Iron and its products	7	324	571,397	505,842	707,393	1,233,249
All other groups¹	4	78	89,627	771,603	482,670	1,259 808
Totals	241	1,786	1,694,763	6,993,510	3,570,835	10,713,614
Nova Scotia
Vegetable products	172	3,361	3,913,268	11,083,465	9,085,197	20,728,350
Animal products	219	3,688	3,979,819	19,158,760	8,160,996	27,685,124
Textiles and textile products	25	2,422	2,687,130	5,274,926	5,663,789	11,133,460
Wood and paper products	746	6,110	6,654,671	12,926,854	12,266,000	26,368,549
Iron and its products	77	20,391	39,351,937	32,512,969	51,075,080	87,071,066
Non-metallic mineral products	22	1,395	2,686,106	19,920,559	5,619,951	27,226,677
Chemicals and chemical products	15	385	600,345	2,468,706	1,418,409	3,999,551
Miscellaneous industries²	5	60	67,135	116,884	87,216	208,887
Total	1,281	37,812	59,940,411	103,463,123	93,376,638	204,421,664
New Brunswick
Vegetable products	148	3,166	3,947,495	26,260,039	9,979,109	36,918,876
Animal products	184	2,853	2,694,235	14,560,503	5,012,496	19,890,034
Textiles and textile products	19	1,833	1,941,765	3,505,761	3,349,066	7,022,222
Wood and paper products	514	9,205	12,540,255	30,872,586	26,166,289	61,127,507
Iron and its products	39	4,743	9,207,032	4,504,534	14,218,964	19,073,167
Non-metallic mineral products	20	230	333,826	590,411	912,108	1,657,506
Chemicals and chemical products	7	286	420,975	2,785,490	1,054,709	3,872,447
Miscellaneous industries	6	848	1,259,497	914,275	1,565,737	2,544,818
Total	937	23,164	32,345,080	83,993,599	62,258,478	152,106,577
Quebec
Vegetable products	1,858	39,151	52,593,105	184,136,986	132,429,534	321,657,994
Animal products	1,757	30,318	37,194,525	179,992,694	63,904,516	246,217,640
Textiles and textile products	1,319	83,777	105,125,498	229,847,322	195,155,721	430,934,363
Wood and paper products	3,402	61,239	88,651,354	171,537,347	183,267,705	377,488,895
Iron and its products	453	114,673	226,419,694	274,554,737	363,187,996	648,480,258
Non-ferrous metal products	157	35,535	62,248,375	226,970,120	155,205,908	404,055,401
Non-metallic mineral products	176	7,730	13,413,869	62,562,018	35,313,827	106,627,256
Chemicals and chemical products	325	46,443	75,469,476	153,999,527	209,155,252	370,363,933
Miscellaneous industries	209	5,249	7,040,157	10,652,302	12,898,675	23,859,443
Total	9,656	424,115	668,156,053	1,494,253,053	1,350,519,134	2,929,685,183
Ontario
Vegetable products	2,509	65,121	95,979,079	386,677,531	253,517,977	651,705,186
Animal products	1,514	31,890	47,815,449	280,547,589	85,450,644	370,389,478
Textiles and textile products	933	58,242	78,170,055	156,182,276	133,317,170	293,593,419
Wood and paper products	2,971	70,548	109,253,058	173,471,996	204,618,757	390,418,343
Iron and its products	1,189	212,310	422,897,114	701,823,124	759,663,915	1,489,172,929
Non-ferrous metal products	402	63,302	110,444,525	281,010,267	228,161,322	526,157,444
Non-metallic mineral products	366	17,053	30,857,282	98,498,229	86,872,343	199,293,850
Chemicals and chemical products	510	28,597	49,928,255	182,170,295	114,452,605	304,317,467
Miscellaneous industries	337	17,329	29,693,243	49,966,551	63,989,180	114,749,668
Total	10,731	564,392	975,038,060	2,310,317,858	1,930,043,913	4,339,797,784
Manitoba
Vegetable products	261	5,248	7,187,418	41,463,778	20,850,236	63,378,340
Animal products	198	7,936	12,016,571	117,819,948	28,222,136	146,813,111
Textiles and textile products	90	4,283	4,715,968	16,572,356	7,873,192	24,554,563
Wood and paper products	517	5,795	8,067,781	10,562,000	16,342,024	27,663,243
Iron and its products	89	12,286	22,268,527	17,537,270	32,041,393	50,769,829
Non-ferrous metal products	24	540	936,443	7,151,920	2,152,334	9,518,577
Non-metallic mineral products	37	984	1,468,767	4,703,135	3,838,989	9,529,409
Chemicals and chemical products	38	3,141	5,054,060	8,428,078	7,032,860	16,057,864
Miscellaneous industries	36	724	1,042,546	1,996,440	1,986,762	4,049,658
Total	1,290	40,937	62,758,081	226,231,925	120,339,926	352,334,594
Saskatchewan
Vegetable products	184	2,293	3,240,738	31,316,355	9,168,352	41,120,272
Animal products	97	3,818	5.564,898	58,588,091	13,404,220	72,520,869
Textiles and textile products	5	49	55,264	1,054,340	150,801	1,216,999
Wood and paper products	689	3,329	3,338,128	4,317,024	6,474,884	11,046,349
Iron and its products	36	1,506	2,850,787	5,610,084	5,214,535	10,972,572
Non-metallic mineral products	27	784	1,511,650	15,693,986	4,194,076	20,910,769
Chemicals and chemical products	9	118	160,927	312,073	290,354	613,380
Miscellaneous industries	7	464	980,711	14,323,064	1,926,111	16,948,024
Total	1,054	12,361	17,703,103	131,215,017	40,833,333	175,349,234
Alberta
Vegetable products	288	4,000	5,576,191	34,977,643	20,687,475	56,278,917
Animal products	149	6,307	9,308,449	104,371,431	20,499,061	125,506,481
Textiles and textile products	27	871	1,068,086	2,017,560	1,828,918	3,864,726
Wood and paper products	562	4,331	5,258,039	8,681,466	9,535,811	18,502,895
Iron and its products	63	4,001	7,708,715	5,377,379	10,340,747	16,038,988
Non-ferrous metal products	5	77	136,422	350,624	237,602	596,938
Non-metallic mineral products	42	1,890	2,939,297	14,916,622	10,163,179	26,089,057
Chemicals and chemical products	16	508	940,470	988,671	3,657,309	5,190,555
Miscellaneous industries	13	201	292,060	401,141	465,651	881,337
Totals	1,165	22,186	33,227,729	172,082,537	77,415,753	252,949,891
British Columbia
Vegetable products	479	8,026	11,230,956	46,773,228	29,232,442	77,160,941
Animal products	168	6,670	10,151,474	56,052,760	20,093,107	77,122,864
Textiles and textile products	61	1,602	2,003,779	5,035,705	3,657,085	8,769,609
Wood and paper products	957	28,742	50,390,218	84,961,610	91,655,128	180,264,855
Iron and its products	238	41,678	87,117,082	61,641,287	154,192,895	218,091,597
Non-ferrous metal products	43	3,986	7,505,395	19,276,828	11,085,684	34,066,668
Non-metallic mineral products	56	1,500	2,863,049	17.668,577	5,400,785	24,560,922
Chemicals and chemical products	60	2,318	4,812,650	8,997,975	17,928,539	28,620,166
Miscellaneous industries	54	1,540	2,564,515	3,152,046	3,891,532	7,187,067
Total	2,116	96,062	178,639,118	303,560,016	337,137,197	655,884,689
Yukon and North West Territories
Wood and paper products	7	17	13,928	18,111	36,081	57,890
All other groups	4	50	105,044	171,607	244,722	431,366
Totals	11	67	118,972	189,718	280,803	489,256
1. Includes textiles, non-metallic mineral and chemical products.
2. Includes non-ferrous metal products.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book 1947.