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Statistics of manufactures, by type of industry, 1915

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Statistics of manufactures, by type of industry, 1915
  Establish-ments Capital Employees on wages Wages paid Cost of materials Value of products
  number $ number $
Timber, lumber and their re-manufactures            
Artificial limbs and trusses 9 97,402 50 32,171 33,918 112,401
Baskets 19 253,695 220 109,944 110,405 313,830
Billiard tables and materials 5 567,025 68 39,509 123,365 255,011
Boxes, cigar 6 531,536 302 97,302 244,570 918,276
Boxes, wooden 85 4,336,427 2,158 892,812 2,126,479 3,949,389
Coffins and caskets 11 1,864,002 419 220,302 432,453 1,073,734
Cooperage 117 2,522,888 1,129 480,737 1,076,210 1,989,564
Corks 11 1,653,749 152 82,513 186,509 365,691
Furniture and upholstered goods 175 18,067,929 6,905 3,113,168 3,955,786 9,765,339
Hay presses 3 13,350 19 4,329 61,255 80,500
Lasts and pegs 8 646,815 210 102,774 60,011 250,823
Log products 1,887 144,758,399 34,964 15,586,915 33,365,810 68,815,472
Lumber products 661 32,075,883 9,272 4,242,627 9,176,512 18,370,604
Matches 3 508,599 241 79,793 150,045 413,144
Picture frames 25 1,132,606 517 240,270 337,556 831,652
Pumps and windmills 36 2,328,237 551 289,271 363,888 1,223,710
Refrigerators 10 468,745 138 81,330 131,541 326,639
Shocks, box 8 791,001 482 211,725 406,479 935,387
Showcases 14 625,590 233 114,258 185,346 438,272
Wicker ware 8 286,508 208 92,579 96,611 301,651
Wooden piping 3 293,390 30 8,090 45,429 76,476
Woodpulp, chemical and mechanical 32 47,626,237 4,456 2,412,037 5,821,997 10,952,466
Woodworking and turning 41 1,481,458 719 326,432 554,680 1,254,923
All other industries 10 657,411 220 103,667 165,494 381,732
Total 3,187 263,588,882 63,663 28,964,555 59,212,349 123,396,686
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1916-17.