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Principal statistics of the 40 leading industries of Canada, ranked according to gross value of products, 1945

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Principal statistics of the 40 leading industries of Canada, ranked according to gross value of products, 1945
					Value of products
	Establish-ments	Employees	Salaries and wages	Cost of materials	Net	Gross
	number		$
Slaughtering and meat packing	152	23,215	40,009,888	427,168,114	74,765,206	504,849,123
Pulp and paper	109	39,996	80,462,644	179,369,499	180,401,885	398,804,516
Non-ferrous metal smelting and refining	17	16,771	33,853,120	238,940,486	89,898,878	38,676,786
Aircraft	38	37,812	84,230,503	11,509,326	161,746,300	278,652,880
Sawmills	5,295	44,040	54,017,500	126,006,754	103,153,766	331,108,031
Electrical apparatus and supplies	247	44,129	76,468,795	92,041,030	135,919,899	230,531,874
Automobiles	6	17,915	43,623,220	164,963,785	61,987,025	228,696,119
Flour and feed mills	1,023	7,511	11,322,915	192,270,945	30,014,438	224,259,380
Butter and cheese	2,241	19,435	26,864,454	171,011,216	49,110,376	224,174,572
Shipbuilding	89	48,118	99,470,593	60,294,253	141,646,420	204,594,330
Petroleum	46	6,775	13,891,310	151,153,429	41,423,861	201,633,679
Primary iron and steel	63	29,378	57,862,486	86,417,375	89,859,343	192,279,111
Rubber goods	55	23,490	39,111,477	78,500,892	98,836,225	181,413,226
Railway rolling-stock	37	30,515	61,793,939	84,264,315	92,804,283	181,249,842
Miscellaneous chemical products	232	29,214	50,197,271	83,754,686	89,660,775	177,661,547
Clothing, women's, factory	989	27,975	39,485,827	78,385,455	70,099,770	148,837,882
Iron and steel products, n.e.s.	186	20,663	41,768,204	71,221,217	72,293,317	145,872,244
Clothing, men's, factory	453	27,423	36,933,900	78,554,206	60,928,679	139,920,218
Machinery	267	26,285	46,982,376	44,817,319	91,624,455	138,192,010
Bread and other bakery products	2,860	29,045	38,328,474	62,829,434	65,580,825	132,518,212
Automobile supplies	108	17,390	33,115,867	65,897,750	58,727,677	126,562,829
Cotton yarn and cloth	41	21,646	28,020,333	66,528,980	45,126,175	114,682,803
Miscellaneous foods (coffee, tea, etc.)	267	7,106	9,652,137	79,653,381	29,682,189	109,631,490
Sheet metal products	196	17,121	27,736,555	58,242,909	46,632,971	106,257,719
Brass and copper products	161	13,267	25,680,949	53,655,695	49,403,675	105,150,750
Fruit and vegetable preparations	470	14,440	16,117,172	59,712,161	37,958,248	99,371,391
Breweries	60	7,593	15,323,200	20,493,465	71,952,408	93,872,904
Fish curing and packing	540	10,219	11,268,019	62,064,331	30,529,102	93,567,214
Printing and publishing	769	19,498	35,027,002	19,151,982	69,949,912	90,054,021
Hosiery and knitted goods	216	23,654	26,640,343	40,423,407	46,368,918	88,035,002
Biscuits, confectionery, cocoa, etc.	231	13,952	17,428,577	41,715,991	41,773,487	84,687,083
Boots and shoes, leather	263	20,096	24,668,874	45,685,629	38,419,106	84,528,521
Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes	72	10,619	13,844,074	43,839,561	37,981,339	82,111,234
Castings, iron	205	15,726	29,316,949	29,478,446	44,687,679	76,581,974
Scientific and professional equipment	49	7,226	13,964,073	52,605,810	17,404,946	70,323,031
Feeds, stock and poultry	222	3,486	5,563,756	57,914,289	11,703,901	70,323,034
Hardware and tools	244	14,901	26,025,726	20,238,543	47,410,504	68,945,881
Coke and gas products	34	4,757	9,013,108	37,746,482	24,213,270	68,483,309
Acids, alkalies and salts	35	7,022	14,527,508	22,351,361	36,517,138	67,467,062
Printing and bookbinding	1,331	16,847	25,279,944	23,702,464	39,520,894	63,881,768
Total, forty leading industries	19,919	816,271	1,384,839,065	3,488,160,315	2,627,719,571	626,516,966
Total, all industries	29,050	1,119,372	1,845,773,449	4,473,668,847	3,564,315,899	825,785,836
Percentage to all industries	68.6	72.8	75	78	73.4	76.2
Primary textiles¹	645	78,644	99,410,231	198,796,381	179,061,740	386,475
Note: The figures for capital have not been collected since 1944.
1. On a broader classification basis, the primary textile industry, which includes the production of cottons, woollens, silk, hosiery and knitted goods, and the dyeing and finishing of textiles, ranks first in number of employees, second in salaries and wages paid and third in gross value of production.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.