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Principal statistics of the manufacturing industries of Canada, classified by main groups, by significant years 1922 to 1944 and classified in detail, 1944

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Principal statistics of the manufacturing industries of Canada, classified by main groups, by significant years 1922 to 1944 and classified in detail, 1944
	Establish-ments	Capital	Employees	Salaries and wages	Cost of materials	Gross value of products
	number	$	number	$
Classified in detail, 1944
Food	8,435	136,747	183,795,031	1,271,356,037	408,862,849	1,702,330,839
Breadstuffs	4,287	51,139	66,417,828	307,841,619	142,471,000	458,155,933
Fish	535	9,664	10,327,695	45,906,542	22,066,801	63,383
Fruit and vegetable preparations	458	15,368	16,411,188	63,223,982	42,302,840	107,335,254
Meats	226	24,349	39,336,208	461,804,219	82,877,140	547,560,545
Milk products	2,418	21,677	29,516,005	209,889,807	59,280,875	273,908,131
Oils and fats	8	117	216,711	538,711	410,974	1,015,317
Sugar	11	2,590	4,576,060	48,033,547	14,364,944	63,874,36
Miscellaneous	492	11,843	16,992,536	134,117,610	45,088,275	181,507,847
Drink and tobacco	635	28,566	44,140,376	118,406,602	159,387,626	281,731,695
Beverages, alcoholic	78	10,305	19,565,573	38,554,779	87,912,695	129,111,351
Beverages, non-alcoholic	475	6,481	10,033,946	19,742,497	32,961,862	53,547,712
Tobacco	82	11,780	14,540,857	60,109,326	38,513,069	98,972,552
Clothing	2,713	117,056	146,623,855	284,018,437	242,324,720	529,230,834
Boots and shoes, leather	228	186,383	22,636,194	42,657,644	33,247,109	76,397,886
Fur goods	535	6,190	9,430,191	28,076,572	15,728,926	43,985,177
Garments and personal furnishings	1,461	59,435	77,202,237	154,361,193	130,838,220	286,964,470
Gloves and mittens	83	3,474	3,389,806	6,070,925	5,379,819	11,499,596
Hats and caps	193	5,787	7,601,651	11,397,689	11,879,077	23.451.2J9
Knitted goods	200	22,939	25,535,277	39,132,779	43,882,156	84,317,935
Waterproofs	13	593	828,499	2,321,635	1,369,413	3,714,531
Personal utilities	758	18,922	26,130,683	54,417,448	59,949,718	115,502,040
Jewellery and time-pieces	143	4,813	7,304,277	13,884,974	13,282,712	27,348,161
Recreational supplies	109	2,927	3,401,397	4,119,763	7,347,858	11,695,148
Personal utilities	506	11,182	15,425,009	36,412,711	39,319,148	76,548,739
House furnishings	908	38,940	58,426,100	83,231,172	100,932,323	187,175,054
Books and stationery	2,468	47,319	76,542,070	75,882,848	141,795,037	219,966,613
Vehicles and vessels	413	222,604	454,419,952	637,341 589	771,461,866	1,425,858,778
Producers Materials	8,990	343,035	567,699,762	1,369,160,212	1,142,646,292	2,646,303,770
Farm material	26	2,226	4,610,420	17,690,683	12,335,270	31,188,945
Manufacturers materials	1,244	202,766	355,265,433	925,635,866	743,755,333	1,785,424,719
Building materials	7,204	113,770	176,106,257	345,948,484	327,089,255	587,661,659
General materials	516	24,273	31,717,652	79,885,179	59,466,434	142,028,446
Industrial equipment	2,889	216,279	385,434,071	697,897,961	781,329,304	1,512,623,216
Farming equipment	49	14,124	25,543,041	25,280,473	35,146,013	61,520,411
Manufacturing equipment	275	27,411	51,252,544	51,438,181	96,354,344	149,559,350
Trading equipment	142	1,969	3,184,715	1,798,435	6,825,736	9,011,766
Service equipment	370	19,993	35,103,322	60,655,039	82,030,274	143,508,141
Light, heat and power equipment	376	65,530	115,632,169	326,180,193	252,771,276	597,478,469
General equipment	1,677	87,252	154,718,280	232,545,640	308,201,661	551,554,079
Miscellaneous	274	53,414	86,379,470	240,621,050	207,086,275	452,969,680
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.