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Leading domestic exports, 1939, 1946 and 1953 to 1956

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Leading domestic exports, 1939, 1946 and 1953 to 1956
	1939	1946	1953	1954	1955	1956
	$ thousands
Newsprint	115,687	265,865	619,033	635,670	665,877	708,385
Wheat	109,051	250,306	567,907	375,339	338,216	523,081
Planks and boards	48,829	125,391	282,736	324,724	385,313	326,445
Wood pulp	31,000	114,021	248,675	271,418	297,304	304,536
Aluminum, primary and semi-fabricated	25,950	51,390	173,378	182,392	210,971	234,806
Nickel, primary and semi-fabricated	57,934	55,205	162,542	182,154	215,169	222,909
Copper, primary and semi-fabricated	52,396	34,940	117,351	127,334	163,924	194,206
Iron ore	43	4,353	30,843	39,719	99,814	144,143
Petroleum, crude and partly refined	*	-	6,228	6,318	36,253	103,923
Asbestos, unmanufactured	2,902	23,839	83,973	82,566	94,804	99,895
Barley	7,882	9,688	136,729	89,363	76,461	94,977
Zinc, primary and semi-fabricated	9,922	27,659	57,572	58,392	70,558	74,011
Wheat flour	16,378	126,733	102,160	88,029	74,442	71,549
Whisky	7,914	29,650	63,086	59,156	60,682	68,660
Farm implements and machinery (except tractors) and parts	6,975	28,662	67,821	70,819	72,206	63,937
Fish, fresh and frozen	10,212	31,110	51,219	56,650	55,263	59,594
Pulpwood	10,901	28,731	45,859	45,766	48,655	49,794
Aircraft and parts (except engines)	347	9,507	40,247	28,442	19,906	49,545
Fertilizers, chemical	9,179	32,108	42,633	42,342	56,296	49,211
Machinery (non-farm) and parts	11,668¹	16,675¹	38,618¹	38,172¹	35,789	47,130
Uranium ores and concentrates	-	-	-	8,056	26,533	45,777
Flaxseed (chiefly for crushing)	1	11	11,546	13,717	31,279	43,624
Platinum metals, unmanufactured	6,178	15,450	26,290	27,640	26,315	35,656
Lead, primary and semi-fabricated	9,850	16,715	37,835	40,530	37,194	35,025
Non-commercial items	2,402	39,951	20,295	21,054	25,227	34,000
Scrap iron and steel	1,021	166	15,877	15,868	20,936	30,427
Plywoods and veneers	1,608	12,026	19,025	21,555	30,104	29,020
Abrasives, artificial, crude	4,380	11,727	28,976	27,222	26,942	28,389
Synthetic plastics, primary forms	351	1,540	9,456	19,994	27,365	28,577
Fur skins, undressed	14,130	30,928	21,070	22,997	28,287	25,893
Rolling-mill products (iron and steel)	3,864	7,528	16,863	5,393	20,313	25,719
Shingles	8,225	11,211	20,913	24,182	29,146	24,546
Fish, cured	3,884	13,808	22,271	23,341	23,939	22,835
Electrical apparatus, n.o.p	3,229	20,939	37,705	22,913	20,700	21,497
Ferro-alloys	2,477	9,485	17,207	6,648	13,165	21,177
Oil seed cake and meal	279	58	8,222	7,746	15,431	20,891
Pigs, ingots, blooms and billets (iron and steel)	2,691	3,328	29,508	11,212	33,695	20,749
Molluscs and crustaceans	3,542	14,162	17,588	17,322	20,246	20,554
Non-ferrous ores, n.o.p	1,049	1,107	13,306	11,604	14,667	20,406
Automobile parts (except engines)	2,992	21,110	16,999	15,375	20,333	19,969
* Less than $500.
Notes: - Commodities are arranged in order of value in 1956. - Many terms used in the Canada Year Books are no longer used today for reasons such as their offensive connotations, changes in place name or organization name, or terms becoming obsolete. These terms have been left as they appear in the original yearbooks.
1. Revised to include exports of machine needles.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1957/1958.