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Minimum weekly rates for experienced workers in the principal cities, December, 1946

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Minimum weekly rates for experienced workers in the principal cities, December, 1946
	Halifax¹	Montreal	Toronto¹	Winnipeg²	Regina	Edmonton³	Vancouver¹
	number
Hours per week	44 to 48⁴	48 to 60⁵	48	48	48	48	44⁶
	$	cts. per hour	$	cts. per hour	$
Factories	13.00	35	12.50	30	18.50	15.00	0.35^7,8
Laundries, etc.	13.00	26⁹	12.50	30	18.50	15.00	0.40⁷
Shops	13.00	35	12.50	30	18.50	15.00	17.00
Hotels, restaurants, etc.	13.00	30¹⁰	0.26⁷	30	18.50	15.00	18.00⁸
Beauty parlours	13.00	35	12.50	30	18.50	15.00	17.10
Theatres and amusement places	13.00	25	12.50	30	0.50⁷	15.00	17.10
Offices	13.00	35	12.50	30	18.50	15.00	18.00
1. Females only.
2. Females; 35 cents for men.
3. Females; $20 for men 19 years of age or older.
4. Except in theatres and amusement places where they apply to a 48-hour week only and in offices to 48 hours or the usual number if less.
5. Forty-eight hours for factories, except in specified cases, and for offices; 54 hours for shops, beauty parlours, theatres and for women in laundries; 60 hours for hotels.
6. In hotels, beauty parlours, theatres and amusement places rates apply to 40 hours or more; in shops to 39 hours or more; and for offices to 36 hours or more.
7. Per hour.
8. Both men and women.
9. Females; this rate applies to three-quarters of the workers, lower rates to others.
10. Kitchen, help, 35 cents; cooks, 40 cents.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book 1947.