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Summary of principal statistics of the mineral industries of Canada, by groups, 1929 to 1935, and by provinces, 1935

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Summary of principal statistics of the mineral industries of Canada, by groups, 1929 to 1935, and by provinces, 1935
	Plants or mines	Capital employed	Employees	Salaries and wages	Fuel and electricity for heat and power¹	Net sales³
	number	$	number	$
Metallic minerals
1929	528	427,498,173	31,125	50,279,511	11,221,987	163,050,366
1930	352	427,439,265	30,623	48,851,303	11,323,313	137,015,892
1931	327	390,908,034	25,434	41,829,288	10,340,523	132,382,514
1932	330	269,180,464	21,931	34,983,704	8,551,463	119,790,072
1933	402	406,998,952	25,443	37,937,871	7,084,253	150,145,926
1934	636	465,583,818	34,143	50,818,448	9,144,600	186,785,532
1935	619	437,471,769	38,603	59,528,350	10,199,214	217,353,515
Non-metallic minerals
1929	5,494	317,302,496	40,080	55,602,313	6,033,773	93,596,188
1930	5,191	328,776,596	38,355	47,852,675	5,785,483	80,063,355
1931	5,374	325,168,359	34,075	36,031,233	4,870,674	61,629,210
1932	5,246	302,294,837	31,654	29,918,319	4,497,602	54,389,856
1933	5,327	283,796,783	30,532	27,309,607	4,695,254	54,912,205
1934	5,605	263,120,280	32,195	31,763,492	5,219,565	60,580,554
1935	6,181	244,237,709	32,755	33,150,704	5,152,971	62,407,314
Clay products and other structural materials
1929	3,126	122,220,364	23,897	18,608,687	9,495,825	58,534,834
1930	3,562	131,204,998	20,222	17,271,354	7,957,397	53,727,465
1931	3,877	125,983,627	13,300	14,108,778	6,298,151	44,158,295
1932	4,804	113,736,272	7,885	6,870,026	3,427,419	22,398,283
1933	5,144	109,496,612	7,359	4,784,327	2,245,397	16,696,687
1934	5,411	102,319,089	7,167	5,544,246	2,838,327	19,286,761
1935	6,098	95,790,621	8,898	7,401,505	3,004,647	23,215,400
Grand total, mineral industries
1939	9,148	867,021,033	95,102	124,490,511	26,751,585	315,181,388
1930	9,105	887,420,859	89,200	113,975,332	25,066,193	270,806,712
1931	9,578	842,060,020	72,809	91,969,299	21,509,348	238,170,019
1933	10,380	685,211,573	61,470	71,772,049	16,476,484	196,578,211
1933	10,873	800,292,347	63,334	70,031,805	14,024,904	221,754,818
1934	11,652	831,023,187	73,505	88,126,186	17,202,492	266,652,847
1935	12,898	777,500,099	80,256	100,080,559	18,356,832	302,976,229
1935 Canada
Metallic minerals	-	-	-	-	-	173,588,815³
Non-metallic minerals	-	-	-	-	-	45,739,144³
Clay products and other structural materials	-	-	-	-	-	19,253,309³
Grand total, mineral industries	-	-	-	-	-	238,581,268³
Nova Scotia	267	53,569,182	14,550	14,301,510	2,527,171	14,207,064³
New Brunswick	520	4,522,963	2,390	1,865,407	98,089	2,467,339³
Quebec	3,850	117,534,858	11,811	12,794,600	3,690,498	33,679,150³
Ontario	6,273	322,300,162	25,264	38,152,140	6,581,080	130,220,051³
Manitoba	119	40,944,700	2,346	3,403,649	492,234	9,040,591³
Saskatchewan	223	11,390,801	1,457	1,343,041	233,532	2,869,351³
Alberta	585	102,656,116	9,706	10,862,198	926,994	16,738,472³
British Columbia	1,048	118,291,187	12,352	16,479,606	3,731,131	28,172,657³
Yukon and Northwest Territories	13	6,290,130	380	878,408	76,103	1,186,593³
Note : Note: For the years 1921 to 1928, see the Canada Year Book, pp. 355 to 356.
1. Exclusive of fuel and electricity used in metallurgical processes.
2. See headnote. This is "not income from sales".
3. In the past, the net value of production, called "net sales," in these industries has been gross value less freight and treatment charges in the case of mines, and less the value of ores charged in the case of smelters. According to a recommendation adopted by the Conference of Commonwealth Statisticians in Ottawa, 1935, the net figure, called the "net income from sales," is now obtained from net sales as defined above by deducting of the costs of fuel, electricity and consumable supplies used in the production process. In the table below, however, to facilitate comparison with previous years, both figures are shown for 1935.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1937.