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Statistics of industries, 1901

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Statistics of industries, 1901
  Establishments Wage earners Capital Wages for labour Cost of materials Value of products
  number $
Timber and lumber and their re-manufactures 3,034 75,704 89,959,336 18,966,763 39,087,761 80,341,204
Artificial limbs and trusses 3 23 34,634 7,039 8,516 27,847
Baskets 15 323 147,106 59,457 39,366 152,842
Billiard tables and materials 3 30 77,635 14,143 37,445 91,793
Boxes, cigar 8 308 271,787 89,722 112,860 283,000
Boxes, wooden 84 1,826 1,631,028 478,252 974,129 1,927,720
Coffins and caskets 16 525 644,222 184,917 306,832 683,177
Cooperage 64 827 559,595 277,794 364,136 867,796
Corks 5 107 173,421 32,024 104,135 176,172
Furniture and upholstered goods 169 6,583 7,399,540 2,068,376 2,668,937 6,949,384
Lasts and pegs 8 128 122,300 41,499 15,866 132,506
Log products 2,075 51,549 55,605,666 11,133,666 26,313,059 50,805,084
Lumber products 467 7,353 9,143,276 2,689,864 5,242,054 10,754,959
Matches 5 471 240,064 68,501 174,507 312,655
Picture frames 15 542 447,792 169,020 291,577 623,025
Pumps and windmills 17 478 739,737 171,164 292,431 733,150
Refrigerators 5 112 128,617 27,480 58,040 149,974
Shooks, box 9 206 107,416 52,605 165,085 293,225
Woodworking and turning 34 853 633,986 244,419 296,992 777,722
Wood pulp, chemical and mechanical 25 3,177 11,558,560 1,065,248 1,464,087 4,246,781
All other industries 7 283 292,954 91,573 157,707 352,392
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1907.