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Historical summary of statistics of manufactures, by provinces, 1870 to 1925, all establishments irrespective of the number of employees

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Historical summary of statistics of manufactures, by provinces, 1870 to 1925, all establishments irrespective of the number of employees
	Canada	Nova Scotia	New Brunswick	Quebec	Ontario	Prince Edward Island
	number
1870
Establishments	41,259	4,912	3,479	13,818	19,050	-
Employees	187,942	15,595	18,352	66,714	87,281	-
	$
Capital	77,964,020	6,041,966	5,976,176	28,071,868	37,874,010	-
Salaries and wages	40,851,009	3,176,266	3,869,360	12,389,673	21,415,710	-
Cost of materials	124,907,846	5,806,257	9,431,760	44,555,025	65,114,804	-
Net value of products	96,709,927	6,531,848	7,935,927	32,650,157	49,591,995	-
Gross value of products	221,617,773	12,338,105	17,367,687	77,205,182	114,706,799	-
	number
1880
Establishments	49,722	5,493	3,005	15,754	23,070	1,617
Employees	254,935	20,390	19,922	85,673	118,308	5,767
	$
Capital	165,302,623	10,183,060	8,425,282	59,216,992	80,950,847	2,085,776
Salaries and wages	59,429,002	4,098,445	3,866,011	18,333,162	30,604,031	807,208
Cost of materials	179,918,593	10,022,030	11,060,842	62,563,967	91,164,156	1,829,210
Net value of products	129,757,475	8,553,296	7,451,816	42,098,291	66,825,714	1,570,998
Gross value of products	309,676,068	18,575,326	18,512,658	104,662,258	157,989,870	3,400,208
	number
1890
Establishments	75,964	10,495	5,429	23,034	32,151	2,679
Employees	369,595	34,944	26,675	116,753	166,322	7,910
	$
Capital	353,213,000	19,730,736	15,821,855	116,974,615	175,972,021	2,911,963
Salaries and wages	100,415,350	7,233,111	5,970,914	30,461,315	49,730,359	1,101,620
Cost of materials	250,759,292	16,062,479	12,501,453	80,712,496	127,737,371	2,092,067
Net value of products	219,088,594	14,905,913	11,348,202	66,747,087	111,504,555	2,253,843
Gross value of products	469,847,886	30,968,392	23,849,655	147,459,583	239,241,926	4,345,910
	number
1921
Establishments	23,235	1,208	867	7,173	9,328	339
Employees	456,076	14,521	12,441	146,763	228,943	893
	$
Capital	3,190,026,358	105,254,364	99,204,791	981,177,681	1,613,486,222	2,308,216
Salaries and wages	518,785,137	14,400,509	10,678,721	151,474,436	274,061,696	522,488
Cost of materials	1,366,893,685	41,099,835	32,151,631	390,119,293	704,814,433	2,516,415
Net value of products	1,209,143,344	36,384,726	23,193,562	361,964,897	625,170,507	1,356,940
Gross value of products	2,576,037,029	77,484,561	55,345,193	752,084,190	1,329,984,940	3,873,355
	number
1922
Establishments	22,541	1,163	897	7,410	9,388	352
Employees	474,430	14,286	14,351	147,952	243,297	1,127
	$
Capital	3,244,302,410	106,647,616	82,230,895	970,019,442	1,696,738,996	2,946,329
Salaries and wages	510,431,312	12,192,652	12,201,014	144,368,667	275,559,006	628,540
Cost of materials	1,283,774,723	38,003,168	38,059,376	337,752,977	678,746,675	2,621,443
Net value of products	1,198,434,407	29,985,794	26,821,281	370,276,067	617,752,828	1,787,569
Gross value of products	2,482,209,130	67,988,962	64,880,657	708,029,044	1,296,499,503	4,409,012
	number
1923
Establishments	22,642	1,193	872	7,142	9,549	368
Employees	525,267	17,179	16,221	163,622	262,770	2,745
	$
Capital	3,380,322,950	106,947,436	84,563,968	1,009,898,982	1,775,493,340	2,821,440
Salaries and wages	571,470,028	13,226,378	12,868,164	164,356,082	307,866,314	626,693
Cost of materials	1,470,140,139	50,103,942	40,181,251	396,714,471	779,943,613	2,766,092
Net value of products	1,311,025,375	31,880,906	29,932,755	414,388,925	671,939,695	1,696,729
Gross value of products	2,781,165,514	81,984,848	70,114,006	811,103,396	1,451,883,308	4,462,821
	number
1924
Establishments	22,178	1,166	846	6,847	9,453	313
Employees	508,503	16,093	15,805	161,652	252,596	2,271
	$
Capital	3,538,813,460	108,535,273	88,357,818	1,044,113,969	1,836,269,551	2,637,844
Salaries and wages	559,884,045	11,553,900	12,812,718	162,379,284	296,508,913	548,496
Cost of materials	1,438,409,681	38,930,734	40,503,685	385,880,826	754,469,838	2,281,398
Net value of products	1,256,643,901	25,642,358	26,952,341	390,351,418	643,403,906	1,439,476
Gross value of products	2,695,053,582	64,573,092	67,456,026	776,232,244	1,397,873,744	3,720,874
	number
1925
Establishments	22,331	1,184	861	6,995	9,386	318
Employees	544,225	16,568	17,275	168,245	262,483	2,317
	$
Capital	3,808,309,981	117,326,491	91,509,933	1,136,033,133	1,925,593,482	2,576,677
Salaries and wages	596,015,171	12,082,693	14,430,252	169,686,055	307,304,007	572,130
Cost of materials	1,587,665,408	37,854,196	44,886,292	412,460,003	828,939,668	2,805,665
Net value of products	1,360,879,907	27,179,505	28,488,368	408,103,754	698,214,992	1,484,484
Gross value of products	2,948,545,315	65,033,701	73,374,660	820,563,757	1,527,154,660	4,290,149
Notes: - Statistics of the construction, custom and repair industries have not been collected since 1921; the figures for these industries for 1917 to 1921 have consequently been deducted from the totals as previously published. The industries excluded comprise custom clothing, dyeing and laundry work, boot, jewelry, automobile and bicycle repairing, blacksmithing and custom and repair work by foundries. Statistics of the non-ferrous metal smelting industry are included in manufactures for the first time in 1925. - For preliminary figures for 1926, see p. 419.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928.