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Statistics of industries, 1881
  Establish­ments Wage earners Capital Wages for labour Cost of materials Value of products
  number $
Miscellaneous industries 1,541 13,205 15,298,090 3,819,051 7,339,387 15,860,759
Agricultural implements 234 3,656 3,995,782 1,241,279 1,839,197 4,405,397
Blacking 3 23 32,900 3,679 16,900 26,000
Brooms and brushes 91 957 353,325 189,922 404,967 762,884
Buttons 8 470 117,800 61,620 82,050 173,630
Church decorations 4 48 43,700 16,100 62,200 160,300
Corsets and supplies 5 320 38,200 43,140 141,365 229,000
Gas, lighting and heating 36 512 5,358,490 239,270 319,037 1,173,181
Gloves and mittens 24 532 133,580 103,962 265,895 434,864
Glue 11 83 169,200 17,247 95,250 164,097
Hairwork 27 76 72,597 13,961 16,659 52,770
Ink 2 2 900 700 760 2,150
Mattresses and spring beds 19 59 29,850 16,960 24,165 57,074
Musical instruments 44 941 669,379 417,823 412,848 1,220,195
Optical goods 3 22 27,500 8,700 3,500 21,000
Painting and glazing 189 759 198,562 219,513 290,699 728,067
Photography 182 422 492,469 143,426 101,333 409,427
Railway supplies 1 41 38,000 11,000 75,000 144,000
Roofing and roofing materials 10 124 115,000 39,160 197,120 284,600
Rubber and elastic goods 4 525 851,500 177,362 478,104 771,000
Soap 78 479 916,025 188,099 1,275,548 1,956,653
Wax candles 9 27 5,073 2,230 10,040 15,140
Window blinds and shades 11 53 68,045 12,158 22,160 59,450
All other industries 546 3,074 1,570,213 651,740 1,204,590 2,609,880
  number $
Hand trades 10,563 18,551 4,497,992 4,023,394 4,232,416 11,379,250
Blacksmithing 7,986 12,451 3,056,653 2,597,539 2,486,568 7,172,469
Dyeing and cleaning 44 164 82,558 36,665 32,918 118,516
Interior decorations (carpentering) 2,494 5,702 1,242,531 1,307,513 1,656,395 3,893,910
Lock and gunsmithing 39 234 116,250 81,677 56,535 194,355
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1907.