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Canada's leading domestic exports, fiscal years 1890, 1900, 1910,1920, 1930, and 1936

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Canada's leading domestic exports, fiscal years 1890, 1900, 1910,1920, 1930, and 1936
  1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1936
  $
Wheat 388,861 11,995,488 52,609,351 185,044,806 215,753,475 148,576,975
Newsprint paper - - 2,612,243 53,640,122 145,610,519 90,761,379
Gold bullion, non-monetary - - - - - 83,414,854
Nickel - 1,040,498 3,320,054 9,039,221 25,034,975 41,644,380
Wood pulp 168,180 1,816,016 5,204,597 41,383,482 44,704,958 28,103,970
Planks and boards 17,637,308 22,015,990 33,100,387 75,216,193 49,446,887 27,605,281
Fish 8,099,674 10,564,688 15,179,015 40,687,172 34,767,739 24,435,248
Meats 895,767 13,615,621 8,013,680 96,161,234 15,030,671 24,220,802
Automobiles - - 405,011 14,883,607 35,607,645 23,883,030
Copper in forms - - - 541,338 48,181 23,697,792
Wheat flour 521,383 2,791,885 14,859,854 94,262,922 45,457,195 19,382,617
Whisky 25,383 396,671 1,010,657 1,504,132 25,856,136 16,388,585
Furs, raw 1,874,327 2,264,580 3,749,005 20,628,109 18,706,311 15,738,166
Silver ore and bullion 201,615 1,354,053 15,009,937 14,255,601 11,569,855 12,473,960
Fruits, chiefly apples 1,073,890 3,305,662 5,492,197 8,347,549 9,593,484 11,258,853
Aluminium in bars, etc. - - 1,202,723 5,680,871 13,828,010 9,358,074
Zinc - - - 950,082 8,366,712 8,418,199
Lead 2,000 688,891 529,422 1,193,144 10,637,887 8,286,782
Shingles, wood 340,872 1,131,506 2,331,443 10,848,602 6,704,494 7,692,956
Asbestos, raw 444,159 490,909 1,886,613 8,767,856 12,074,065 7,611,844
Cattle 6,949,417 8,704,523 10,792,156 46,064,631 13,119,462 7,360,179
Rubber tires - - - 7,395,172 18,153,225 7,218,197
Pulpwood 80,005 902,772 6,076,628 8,454,803 13,860,209 6,943,102
Cheese 9,372,212 19,856,324 21,607,692 36,336,863 18,278,004 6,789,588
Farm implements and machinery 367,198 1,692,155 4,319,385 11,614,400 18,396,688 6,344,437
Copper ore and blister 133,251 1,387,388 6,023,925 11,871,039 37,735,413 6,198,407
Machinery, except farm 143,815 446,391 924,510 6,416,591 7,154,706 5,803,925
Platinum and other metals of the platinum group in concentrates or other forms - - 61,717 39,058 357,748 5,286,260
Vegetables 597,074 503,993 1,534,228 11,656,483 11,240,747 4,860,294
Gold, raw 657,022 14,148,543 6,016,126 5,974,334 34,375,003 4,802,029
Oats 256,156 2,143,179 1,566,612 9,349,455 4,055,855 4,520,822
Leather, unmanufactured 727.087 1,535,440 1,296,480 11,742,268 6,496,951 4,312,861
Fertilizers 4,291 51,410 371,315 6,694,037 7,990,313 4,282,833
Abrasives, artificial, crude - - - 1,355,084 3,775,924 4,121,292
Paper board - - - 4,568,066 2,506,496 4,020,789
Sodium compounds - - - - 4,208,518 4,019,629
Films - - 7,746 1,486,079 4,790,619 3,768,115
Rubber footwear - - 129,618 1,750,967 9,986,392 3,685,860
Barley 4,600,409 1,010,425 1,107,732 20,206,972 10,388,735 3,674,119
Cereal foods - - 1,689,648 1,087,901 2,431,137 3,554,774
Hides and skins, raw 506,402 1,396,907 5,508,185 19,762,646 7,730,914 3,454,341
Automobile parts - - - 3,097,466 2,298,742 3,224,008
Electrical energy - - - - 4,028,154 3,160,817
Logs, wood 682,572 760,416 999,681 1,819,083 3,677,917 3,114,397
Bran and shorts 86,225 145,206 1,842,620 2,983,843 2,582,484 2,988,324
Electric apparatus - - 27,743 424,474 2,521,045 2,941,348
Malt 150,380 10,939 11,328 1,320,773 64,736 2,919,996
Settlers' effects 818,001 1,095,536 2,274,005 7,631,498 6,304,199 2,911,546
Pigs, ingots and blooms, iron - 137,651 228,183 6,595,688 4,727,137 2,739,748
Oatmeal and rolled oats 254,857 474.991 1,123,861 4,283,772 2,440,968 2,670,864
Tobacco, raw 234 3,661 76,564 130,264 1,504,264 2,664,681
Acids 5,545 67 - 901,397 5,096,529 2,585,325
Doors, sashes, blinds (wood) 69,474 299,354 29,169 81,654 37,098 2,239,547
Milk, processed - - 541,372 8,517,771 3,262,101 2,215,410
Hardware and cutlery 84,109 278,054 100.085 7,730,826 1,743,096 2,108,350
Coal 2,447,936 4,599,602 5,013,221 13,183,666 3,998,692 1,970,367
Butter 340,131 5,122,156 1,010,274 9,844,359 543,851 1,795,784
Cotton products 108,822 471,439 442,493 6,148,697 842,588 1,736,169
Wool, raw 235,669 418,119 538,077 5,472,236 1,576,342 1,645,767
Sugar and products 18,101 100,108 153,357 30,695,005 4,798,712 1,481,776
Timber, square 4,353,870 2,013,746 934,723 2,148,162 4,235,309 1,477,822
Scrap iron and steel 26,172 273,840 324,516 4,300,663 1,424,071 1,163,261
Soap 3,733 15,959 29,224 1,000,722 731,614 1,152,439
Binder twine - - - 5,530,908 1,502,921 1,077,961
Sausage casings - - - 564,222 955,933 1,070,660
Petroleum products 15,812 1,653 1,155 1,176,644 2,527,178 986,735
Brass products - - - 1,644,157 2,332,962 984,324
Tubes and pipe, iron - - - 2,325,369 2,202,769 917,938
Wrapping paper - - 9,098 2,917,197 1,655,568 751,887
Laths, wood 392,500 749,301 1,882,950 3,668,511 3,095,417 743,847
Stationery - - 23,380 276,224 602,170 716,550
Seeds 182,200 322,652 4,602,797 9,915,391 3,237,774 681,103
Hay 1,068,554 1,414,109 1,805,849 4,087,670 2,007,944 613,215
Poles, telegraph and telephone 92,326 36,891 56,177 206,834 3,917,536 565,018
Rye 220,761 279,286 84,658 3,475,834 1,451,640 291,643
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937.