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Statistics of industries, 1881

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Statistics of industries, 1881
  Establish­ments Wage earners Capital Wages for labour Cost of materials Value of products
  number $
Timber and lumber and their re-manufactures 9,838 61,220 35,305,926 12,734,425 28,428,695 55,407,543
Baskets 68 227 88,612 26,783 12,388 55,651
Billiard tables and materials 3 20 22,500 10,400 25,417 44,827
Boxes, wooden 50 626 383,578 127,227 314,137 677,877
Cooperage 1,430 3,277 759,311 648,462 723,146 1,808,929
Corks 4 31 54,600 7,928 42,560 73,100
Furniture and upholstered goods 1,169 5,857 3,943,419 1,723,604 2,051,979 5,471,742
Lasts and pegs 11 118 52,700 30,245 20,416 77,900
Log products 6,222 44,739 26,059,680 8,406,955 21,207,178 39,477,270
Lumber products 422 3,511 2,444,488 1,193,965 3,302,530 5,864,563
Matches 22 1,062 564,847 145,640 222,497 511,250
Picture frames 1 2 3,500 800 2,500 5,000
Pumps and windmills 237 470 197,517 120,884 117,733 377,975
Shooks, box 35 268 111,570 54,820 141,978 228,785
Woodworking and turning 80 604 190,382 157,170 137,068 431,797
Wood pulp, chemical and mechanical 5 68 92,000 15,720 9,400 63,300
All other industries 79 340 337,222 63,822 97,768 237,577
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1907.