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Legislative Assembly","@language":"en"}],"DateAvailable":[{"@value":"2016","@language":"en"}],"DateIssued":[{"@value":"[1949]","@language":"en"}],"DigitalResourceOriginalRecord":[{"@value":"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/bcsessional\/items\/1.0340583\/source.json","@language":"en"}],"FileFormat":[{"@value":"application\/pdf","@language":"en"}],"FullText":[{"@value":" PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nDepartment of Trade\nand Industry\nREPORT\nFor the Year ended December 31st\n1948\nVICTORIA, B.C. :\nPrinted by Don McDiarmid, Printer to the Kind's Most Excellent Majesty.\n1940. To His Honour C. A. Banks, C.M.G.,\nLieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia.\nMay it please Your Honour:\nI beg to submit herewith the Report of the Department of Trade and Industry for\nthe year ended December 31st, 1948.\nLESLIE HARVEY EYRES,\nMinister of Trade and Industry.\nOffice of the Minister,\nDepartment of Trade and Industry,\nVictoria, British Columbia. Honourable Leslie Harvey Eyres,\nMinister of Trade and Industry, Victoria, B.C.\nSIR,\u2014I have the honour to submit herewith the Report of the Department of Trade\nand Industry for the year ended December 31st, 1948.\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\nEDWIN G. ROWEBOTTOM,\nDeputy Minister of Trade and Industry. Report of the Department of Trade and Industry\nFor the Year ended December 31st, 1948.\nThe year 1948 was marked by very satisfactory gains in industrial development\nand by increased business activity in practically all branches of trade. A total of 1,242\nnew companies were incorporated, with a total capitalization of $67,913,212. Industrial pay-rolls for 1948 are estimated to total $625,000,000, reflecting increased production values. The gross value of manufacturing production is estimated at $832,000,000\nfor 1948.\nThe construction industry particularly has been active, and many projects are\nnow at the survey stage, in addition to warehouses, mills, and plants on which construction has started. Contracts granted for new structures are estimated to total\n$71,000,000 in 1948, setting a new record.\nAn important contributor to this impressive total is the pulp and paper industry.\nThe growth of this industry indicates a definite trend in the utilization of our natural\nresources, and it is worthy of note that in addition to mills now in operation, three new\npulp and paper mills are assured, with a combined capital investment in plant and\nequipment of around $65,000,000.\nHydro-power is an important factor in these new developments. Unlike other sections of Canada, handicapped by a shortage of electrical energy, British Columbia has\npower in abundance for existing industry and ample reserve for new industries. The\ntotal potential hydro-power capacity of this Province is estimated at 13,000,000 horsepower. Recent developments at Bridge River by the British Columbia Electric Company, Limited, and at Campbell River and Whatshan Lake by the British Columbia\nPower Commission will provide ample power for requirements of the immediate future.\nThis power potential is attracting attention. Recent surveys indicate there is\na strong possibility that an aluminium plant will be established in British Columbia.\nAnother large Canadian company is considering the prospects for a chemicals plant.\nA number of new manufacturing industries were started during the year, and\nseveral new British Columbia products are on the market for the first time. These\nnew enterprises are outlined in more detail in the body of this Report. British Columbia continued to forge ahead in manufacturing, due not only to an abundance of many\nraw materials and ideal living conditions, but to its strategic position for export trade.\nMuch interest is being shown in the prospects for steel-manufacture. It is apparent that all the essentials for successful production are at hand in quantities to justify\nat least a small operation.\nDuring the year the Department has carried out an extensive programme of\nindustrial and tourist promotion advertising in media enjoying world-wide circulation.\nAs a result, many inquiries have been received, indicating interest in business, industry,\ntravel, and settlement.\nIn the primary industries\u2014forestry, agriculture, mining, and fishing\u2014substantial\ngains in production have occurred. Higher prices have contributed in some measure\nto the increase in dollar values, but actual production has increased, particularly in\nforestry and mining.\nThe body of this Report outlines the activities of the various divisions of the\nDepartment of Trade and Industry\u2014namely, the Bureau of Economics and Statistics,\nthe Office of Trade Commissioner, the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau,\nand the Regional Development Division.\n5 DD 6\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nIncreased activity is noted in all these branches, statistical services have been\naugmented by the publication of a monthly business activity report, industrial and\ntrade surveys were in demand by interests outside the Province, and important legislation concerning tourist accommodation was implemented.\nAn index of pertinent information from an industrial, social, and trade point of\nview was compiled on the more important rural communities throughout British\nColumbia; this index is now ready for distribution and will be of great assistance to\nthose desiring economic information on the centres concerned.\n700\n675\n650\n625\n600\n575\n550\n525\n<\/J\n*o\nQ\n500\n475\n~o\n\u2022450\nc\no\n425\n400\nc\nc\no\no\na.\n375\n350\n325\n300\n275\n250\n225\n200\n175\n125\nJOO\n\t\nGraph Showing\nINDUSTRIES IN\n1\nTR\nENC\n) C\nF F\n>RI\/\nAA\nsY\nBF\n,ITI\nSH\nCO\nLU\nv\\B\nA\n\/\n1\nVI\n-1\nj<4tf\n\/\n\/\n1\nj\n1925\n1930 1935 1940 1945\nPrepared by British Columbia Bureau of Economics and Statistics.\nSPECIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT.\nInterdepartmental Industrial Advisory Committee.\nThis Committee meets at the call of the Chair to consider industrial problems\nwhich affect various departments of the Government service. The Committee has been\nextremely helpful in furthering industrial development throughout the Province.\nThe following is the personnel of this Committee:-\u2014\nE. G. Rowebottom, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry (Chairman).\nJ. V. Fisher, Deputy Minister of Finance (Vice-Chairman). DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 7\nH. Anderson, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department.\nDr. J. F. Walker, Deputy Minister of Mines.\nJ. T. Gawthrop, Director, Regional Development Division, Department of\nTrade and Industry.\nC. Hopper, Superintendent of Lands.\nR. Bowering, Public Health Engineer, Branch of Public Health.\nJames Thomson, Deputy Minister of Labour.\nJ. E. Lane, Deputy Comptroller of Water Rights, Water Rights Branch.\nDr. C. D. Orchard, Deputy Minister of Forests.\nG. Melrose, Deputy Minister of Lands.\nDr. J. B. Munro, Deputy Minister of Agriculture.\nW. H. Robertson, Provincial Horticulturist, Department of Agriculture.\nE. MacGinnis, Marketing Commissioner, Department of Agriculture.\nR. S. O'Meara, Trade Commissioner, Department of Trade and Industry.\nT. L. Sturgess, Administrative Assistant, Department of Trade and Industry.\nW. A. Carrothers, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission.\nG. T. Hatcher, Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Department of Trade and\nIndustry.\nH. Sargent, Chief Mining Engineer, Department of Mines.\nG. Alexander, Deputy Minister of Fisheries.\nA. G. Graham, Director, Regional Planning Division.\nCol. F. T. Fairey, Deputy Minister of Education.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA RESEARCH COUNCIL.\nUnder the chairmanship of the Minister of Trade and Industry the Research\nCouncil held monthly meetings at which were considered many scientific problems of\nvital interest to industrial advancement within the Province.\nDr. S. E. Maddigan, honour graduate in physics of the University of British\nColumbia, is Director of the Research Council.\nIndustrial advancement is contingent upon scientific research, and it is the hope\nof the Government and the Council that industry will take full advantage of the services\nwhich the Council can render and which are available to all branches of industry\nwithin the Province.\nThe Council was organized in order to perform the following functions:\u2014\n(1) To co-ordinate the work of existing and prospective research units within\nthe Province of British Columbia.\n(2) To initiate and undertake research-work in any field of particular interest\nto the Province; to apply the results of research toward the development\nof new products, the improvement of industrial processes, and the establishment of new industries based on the resources of the Province.\n(3) To assist in the development of the technical status of the industries in\nthe Province of British Columbia through a fuller utilization of scientific\nmethods and technical personnel.\n(4) To provide fellowships, scholarships, bursaries, and rewards and pecuniary and other aids in order to facilitate and encourage original scientific\nand industrial research.\n(5) To provide for the publication of the results of the research-work and to\nenter into such arrangements as may be necessary with regard to patents\narising out of the work done by or for the Council.\nThe present board of management consists of the following personnel:\u2014\nChairman\u2014Hon. L. H. Eyres, Minister of Railways, Trade and Industry, and\nFisheries of the Province of British Columbia. DD 8 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nProvincial Government\u2014\nG. Melrose, Deputy Minister of Lands.\nE. G. Rowebottom, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry.\nC. D. Orchard, Deputy Minister of Forests.\nDominion Government\u2014\nDr. W. E. Cockfield, Bureau of Geology and Topography.\nDr. Neal Carter, Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, B.C.\nNational Research Council\u2014Dr. G. M. Shrum, University of British Columbia.\nUniversity of British Columbia\u2014\nDr. R. H. Clark, professor and head of Department of Chemistry.\nDr. B. Eagles, head of Department of Dairying.\nProf. F. A. Forward, Department of Metallurgy.\nIndustry\u2014\nG. A. Barrat, British Columbia Fruit Board.\nS. H. Hammitt, manager, Morrison Steel & Wire Company, Limited, Vancouver, B.C.\nPrentice Bloedel, president, Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, Limited, Vancouver, B.C.\nLabour\u2014Birt Showier, president, Vancouver, New Westminster, and District\nTrades and Labour Council.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA BUYERS' DELEGATION TO UNITED KINGDOM,\nAPRIL 27th TO JUNE 2ND, 1948.\nThe delegates, comprising twenty-five prominent British Columbia business-men,\nwere most enthusiastic regarding the success of the trip, and actual purchases exceeded\nall expectations; a check-up has revealed that orders placed in the United Kingdom by\nmembers of the delegation totalled the sum of $8,310,000.\nThe delegation made 763 business contacts, and many of these contacts will produce a large volume of business in the future.\nThe Minister of Trade and Industry and his deputy were successful in making\nmany valuable contacts with various textile plants, metal-trade industries, leather-\ntanning plants, carpet-manufacturers, pulp and paper plants, and steel-manufacturers,\nwith a view to establishing branch plants in British Columbia.\nSeveral of these contacts have already been responsible for personal surveys\u2014these\ninclude the Birmingham Small Arms, Bradford Woollen and Worsted Mills, Bradford\nGarment Factory, and Leeds Leather Tannery\u2014and from results of these surveys it is\nexpected that several new industries will be established in the Province in the near\nfuture.\nThe Government representatives were also able to contact a number of British\nindustrialists regarding possibilities of manufacturing British products under\n\" licence \" in British Columbia and are pleased to report progress in this connection.\nThrough contacts made in the United Kingdom, a twelve-man delegation representing United Kingdom engineering groups arrived in British Columbia on September\n26th, 1948. Their objective in securing information regarding the development of the\nengineering trade with Canada in general and the Province of British Columbia in\nparticular was highly successful.\nIn October, 1948, a seven-man delegation representing the United Kingdom wool\nindustry arrived in British Columbia to study the changing features of the Canadian\nwool markets. This survey was made following representations made by the Government delegates.\nOn returning from the United Kingdom, the delegates attended the splendid\nInternational Trade Fair in Toronto, and the Government representatives were able DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 9\nto meet and further negotiations with several firms who were interested in opening\nmanufacturing plants in British Columbia.\nAmong the many expressions of good-will extended to the delegates was the following statement made by R. F. Hanks, managing director of the Morris Motors, Limited,\nof Cowley:\u2014\n\" It is heartening and encouraging to know that your Government saw fit to send\na Buyers Mission to this country. We feel that we have a strong bond of affection\nfor you as representatives of British Columbia. It is everybody's sincere wish that\nyour visit will lead not only to increased business between Britain and British Columbia, but will also result in giving a much needed impetus to reciprocal trade between\nBritain and the whole of Canada, in this way you are making a notable contribution\ntowards Britain's economic recovery and at the same time enhancing your own\nprosperity.\"\nEvery delegate expressed himself with a feeling that, based on the splendid\nco-operation received from British Government officials, civic bodies, Chambers of Commerce, and industrial leaders throughout the United Kingdom, the British Columbia\nbuyers' mission had been a huge success in actual results and a real effort to increase\ntrade between the United Kingdom and British Columbia.\nAll members of the buyers' delegation were most appreciative of the excellent\nco-operation extended to them by W. A. McAdam, C.M.G., Agent-General for British\nColumbia in London, and his splendid staff.\nINDUSTRIAL ADVERTISING.\nAs in 1947 the Department continued to advertise the opportunities for new\nindustrial enterprise in the Province. This advertising stressed the natural resources\nof the Province and their relation to secondary production.\nThe advertisements were placed by our advertising counsellors in selected publications in Britain, Canada, and United States.\nThis advertising was supported by an industrial brochure illustrating the possibilities for new industries in British Columbia. The results of this campaign have\nbeen most gratifying, and from the thousands of inquiries received, it is evident that\nworld-wide attention was drawn to the advantages of British Columbia.\nNEW INDUSTRIES.\nDuring 1948 a consistent effort has been made by the Department to encourage\nand foster new industries in the Province. That this effort has borne fruit is evidenced\nby the fact that several new industries have been established through the direct\nassistance of the Department.\nContinued effort is being made to increase the range of textile products manufactured in this Province. The manufacture of common glassware is a possibility,\nin which keen interest is now being shown.\nThere is definite interest in the possibilities for the expansion of the steel industry\nin British Columbia, and the Department is co-operating with interests who are now\nexploring the feasibility of producing iron and steel from British Columbia ores.\nAdequate supplies of steel would make possible many new items of production and\nassure prosperity of existing industries now handicapped by the over-all steel shortage.\nAmong the many important new industries started in British Columbia in the\nperiod covered by this Report is the plant of Felt and Textiles of Canada, Limited, at\nVictoria, manufacturing for the first time in Canada a high-quality all-wool floor-\ncovering. DD 10 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nAnother major industry is the plant of the Vancouver Rolling Mills, Ltd., producing rods and bars from scrap. The billets for this mill's operation are supplied by\nthe new Vancouver Steel, Limited, Burnaby.\nThis year saw the start of construction of the $25,000,000 plant at Port Edward,\nnear Prince Rupert, of the Columbia Cellulose Co., Ltd.; this plant will produce cellulose acetate.\nAt Duncan Bay, 8 miles north of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, the Canadian Western Timber Co., Ltd., has made definite arrangements for the building of a\npulp-mill at a reported cost of $25,000,000. Still another mill, Nanaimo Sulphate Pulp\nCompany, Ltd., is now being erected on Northumberland Strait, a few miles south of\nNanaimo, at a cost of $12,000,000. All these are in addition to the pulp and paper mills\nnow operating and the new mill of Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, Ltd., which commenced\nproduction this year. A further development in pulp products is the new cellulose-\nsponge plant in Vancouver producing artificial sponges from first-grade white pulp.\nDevelopment is not confined to the Coastal areas, as evidenced by new plywood\ndevelopments at Quesnel. Dispersal of secondary production from the crowded centres\nto outlying areas is steadily proceeding.\nAn encouraging development is the preliminary survey of the Aluminum Company\nof Canada, Ltd., to determine power potential necessary for the establishment of a\n$300,000,000 plant for the production of aluminium. Recently two other aluminium\ncompanies have signified interest in the facilities for manufacture here. Canadian\nIndustries, Limited, with two producing plants in British Columbia, is considering the\nvalue of a third plant to produce chemicals.\nNot only Canadian capital is interested in the vast resources of this Province.\nEuropean interests have recently entered the lumber industry, and others have signified\nmore than passing interest in the possibilities here for textile production in all its\nbranches.\nThe same is true of United Kingdom industrialists seeking to establish branch\nfactories in the Province. In this category, a factory producing men's outer wear is\nassured, while production of textile, pulp and paper, leather, and metal manufactures\nare pending final decisions.\nNew additions to our range of manufactured articles include hard-board building\nmaterial, mechanical pencils, and electrical fixtures.\nInterest continues to be shown by Eastern Canadian and United Kingdom industrialists in the possibilities for investment in British Columbia.\nThe Department has revised a condensed pamphlet containing data on the primary\nand secondary industrial production of British Columbia. This pamphlet points out\nthe advantages of this Province for industrial development.\nCO-OPERATIVE CONTACTS.\nThe Department has consistently co-operated with the Boards of Trade, Chambers\nof Commerce, and the British Columbia Division of the Canadian Manufacturers'\nAssociation, and is grateful for the assistance which these organizations have so\nwillingly and cheerfully provided.\nAll branches of the Department have continued their constructive contact with the\nAgent-General for British Columbia in London, England.\nINDUSTRIAL AND TRADE REPRESENTATIVE, LONDON.\nThe Department of Trade and Industry's representative in British Columbia House\nhas interviewed many United Kingdom business-men on the possibility of establishing\nbranch plants in British Columbia during the year. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 11\nIt is to be borne in mind that the difficulty of sterling transfer and the dollar crisis\nmitigates against many of the branch-plant inquiries being brought to fruition. However, in some cases exploratory parties have made surveys by visits to the Province.\nThe Department in Victoria rendered every assistance possible to further these surveys.\nThere have been many inquiries from the smaller type of business-man, tradesman,\ncraftsman, engineer, research chemist, etc. Many of these cases have proceeded beyond\nthe inquiry stage and are either making arrangements to emigrate or have already\narrived in the Province.\nMany inquiries have been received of a diverse nature, for information on not only\ntrade and industry, but on other aspects of life in British Columbia.\nTo immigrants or visitors, letters of introduction have been supplied, not only to\nDepartment of Trade and Industry officials, but to Boards of Trade, business associations, etc.\nIt has been found that these introductions are very much appreciated by the\nrecipients and have had the result of saving them time and assuring them of the best\npossible contacts.\nContact with the commercial counsellors at Canada House, Ontario House, and\nwith other Canadian Government offices in London has been well established.\nRelations have been well established with British Government ministeries, and\nthe assistance given by the Export Trade Promotion Department of the Board of\nTrade is most appreciated.\nThe co-operation of the London Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of British\nIndustries, the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Trade Commissioners in\nLiverpool, Glasgow, and Belfast has been a great help in furthering the interests of\nour Province.\nMany exhibitions or fairs held in London or in other centres, such as Birmingham,\nManchester, Lincoln, were attended by the Industrial and Trade Representative.\nOne of the most pleasant duties falling to the lot of the office has been the assistance rendered to British Columbia business-men. Visits to trade fairs, introductions\nto Canada House and United Kingdom Government departments, itineraries suggested,\nand in some cases hotel accommodation and transportation space have been secured.\nThe office is now well organized to cater to the requirements of any British Columbia buyers, salesmen, etc., who might visit Great Britain or the adjacent Continent.\nSince many people in this country wish to emigrate, it will be realized that it is\ncomparatively easy to convince them that they should settle in British Columbia.\nHowever, the system adopted, not only by the Industrial and Trade Representative, but\nby others concerned at British Columbia House, is to tell such applicants that they must\nmake up their own minds, and when they do, assistance in the way of advice and letters\nof introduction will be given to help them become established in their new environment.\nIt has been established that the majority of business and trade inquiries stem from\nan individual's desire to emigrate to British Columbia. For this reason the line of\ndemarcation between an emigration inquiry and an industrial or trade inquiry is sometimes hard to define.\nThis office assisted the Agent-General in arranging the itinerary, accommodation,\nand transportation for the British Columbia buyers' delegation in the United Kingdom.\nMany interviews were arranged at British Columbia House during the delegation's\nstay in London. The Department's representative accompanied the delegation throughout their tour of industrial centres and assisted in every way possible to further their\ninterests.\nTo sum up, it is the pleasure of the Industrial and Trade Representative to report\nthat this office is now firmly established and is known as an integral part of official\nCanadian life in the United Kingdom. DD 12\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe volume of inquiries and the sometimes overwhelming amount of work entailed\nhave fully justified the need for this office.\nSTATEMENT OF LOANS OUTSTANDING, DECEMBER 31ST, 1948,\nDEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nLoans. Interest.\nB.C. Livestock Producers Co-operative Association $6,000.00 $137.84\nCharles Cormack 178.47 13.34 DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 13\nOFFICE OF TRADE COMMISSIONER.\nHISTORY OF OFFICE.\nThis Report covers the third full year of operation of the Office, which was created\nby amendment to the \" Department of Trade and Industry Act,\" effective April 1st,\n1945.\nThe new unit replaced the Bureau of Industrial and Trade Extension, and is\ncharged with the administrative functions formerly allotted to that Bureau. It carried\ninto a peace-time pattern the Ottawa liaison responsibilities of the war years for\neffective use of local administrative machinery to serve the industries of the Province.\nREGIONAL DEVELOPMENT.\nFor the outlying areas the industrial development functions of the Office have now\nbeen co-ordinated to the work of the Regional Development Division of the Department\nfor surveys and directives to the field representatives in the Interior and northern\nareas. Increasingly effective use has been made of this liaison for contacts with\nindustry, market problems, import surveys, itineraries, and related public relations\nendeavours, referred to elsewhere in this report.\nPATTERN OF CONTACTS.\nThe Office continued its direct contact with industrial organizations and production\nunits in the Province. It has been a clearing-house for industrial application of\nresearch results.\nIt co-ordinates the work of the Federal Foreign Trade Service and Federal Trade\nCommissioners abroad, so that special emphasis can be placed on selected problems\naffecting British Columbia. To this end it undertakes to collect and present factual\ndata after intimate surveys of the local situation. In this phase of the work, close and\neffective liaison is maintained with the Vancouver representative of the Foreign Trade\nService. His office was established April 1st, 1947.\nDOMINION DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE.\nLiaison has been maintained, direct and through the clearing-house of the Vancouver office, Foreign Trade Service, to accomplish these main objectives:\u2014\n(1) Local planning in production and industrial surveys.\n(2) Surveys of plant capacities.\n(3) Surveys of overseas markets, in direct co-operation with the firms or\nindustries concerned and the Federal Trade Commissioner service.\n(4) Co-ordinated effort with commodity divisions at Ottawa to indicate\nsources of supply in British Columbia.\n(5) Co-ordinated planning in two-way trade, in co-operation with Import\nDivision, Foreign Trade Service; United Kingdom Trade Commissioner\nservice; consulates; banks; transportation companies; and importers in\nthe Province.\n(6) Intimate assistance for procurement and routing problems of the foreign\npurchasing missions, direct and through the Canadian Commercial Corporation.\n(7) Surveys and interpretative assistance to the import control units at\nOttawa. Their relation to the Department of Trade and Commerce is\nreferred to elsewhere in this Report. DD 14 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nOther Ottawa Contacts.\nEffective liaison has been maintained with:\u2014\n(1) Industrial Development Bank, direct and through its regional organization in the Province.\n(2) Export Credits Insurance Corporation.\n(3) War Assets Corporation.\n(4) Canadian Standards Association.\n(5) Residual timber and steel controls.\n(6) National Research Council and Federal departments concerned with\nindustrial research.\n(7) British Food Mission and purchasing agencies of foreign governments,\nto which reference is made elsewhere in this Report.\nThe Trade Commissioner has organized and maintained this liaison by personal\ncontacts in Eastern Canada, and by assistance to officials and representatives who have\nbeen encouraged to visit the Province.\nIn visits to Ottawa, March and September, 1948, the Trade Commissioner renewed\ncontacts and established new points of liaison and planned co-operation with the reorganized Department of Trade and Commerce. In particular, he studied the methods\nunder which the residual commodity controls and import controls have been passed\nto the administrative jurisdiction of Trade and Commerce from Reconstruction and\nSupply.\nSpecial developments in the United Kingdom are dealt with elsewhere in the\nreport. These have been co-ordinated to over-all planning and policy at Ottawa.\nIMPORT RESTRICTIONS.\nThe last Annual Report noted that the imposition of these controls had placed a\nnew responsibility on the Trade Commissioner's Office. It was felt from the outset\nthat local assistance to Ottawa and local interpretation and help to firms in the Province\nwould be increasingly necessary. That has proved true. The sweeping changes in\nproduction and tariff policy have had a serious impact in the Province. The Office of\nTrade Commissioner has:\u2014\n(1) Given assistance to Ottawa in public relations phases.\n(2) Helped small firms to secure urgently needed supplies of restricted\nmaterials and parts.\n(3) Surveyed assembly and new production plans directly related to the new\ncontrols.\nUNITED KINGDOM SURVEY.\nThe office of Industrial and Trade Representative was established at British\nColumbia House in London, February, 1947. The work of the office has fully justified\nthe decision that a liaison would be effective in London to place emphasis on the\nproblems of the Province in its United Kingdom trading structure.\nDuring 1948 effective use was made of this liaison in the troubled trade conditions\nreferred to elsewhere in this Report.\nThe overseas office has been increasingly useful in planning for itineraries of\nvisitors from British Columbia and in arranging for visits of United Kingdom industrialists and missions.\nThe Industrial and Trade Representative is attached to the executive staff of the\nAgent-General. He reports directly to the Trade Commissioner in many phases of\nhis work.\nThe surveys and contacts in London are co-ordinated to the over-all planning at\nCanada House. The work of the Trade Commissioner at Victoria is welded to the over-all '\nDEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 15\nplanning at Ottawa. Effective plans of co-operation have also been worked out with\nthe Commercial Relations and Exports Department of the British Board of Trade and\nthe United Kingdom Trade Commissioner service in Canada.\nFurther outline of London activities is contained in the general section of this\nReport. Following is a summary of those activities directly related to the Office of\nTrade Commissioner:\u2014\n(1) United Kingdom furtherance of production and other surveys initiated\nin British Columbia under wood products, foodstuffs, metals, and other\nheadings. In particular, this called for active liaison with agricultural\nand timber specialists at Canada House.\n(2) Licence manufacture where contacts are initiated in the United Kingdom,\nentailing surveys in the engineering industry there and placement surveys\nin British Columbia.\n(3) Licence manufacture in the United Kingdom of British Columbia products.\n(4) Furtherance of exports from British Columbia for world markets through\nUnited Kingdom export houses.\n(5) Itineraries and survey contacts for visiting representatives from British\nColumbia.\n(6) Itineraries, introductions, and survey plans for industrial visitors from\nthe United Kingdom.\n(7) Inquiries for export from the United Kingdom.\nThe directive calls for close association in the related work of transportation companies, Canadian and overseas banks, and trade organizations here and in the United\nKingdom. This effective formula has prevented duplication, has resulted in exchange\nof information, and has strengthened the Department's position with the organizations concerned.\nEXPORT SURVEYS.\nWhile there was a decline in total export movement through British Columbia\nports in 1948, as compared with the all-time high recorded for the previous year, the\ncharting of the total does not tell the whole story.\nThe large-value movement does reflect increased prices of commodities. It does\nreflect the larger increased movement of primary agricultural and other products to\nthe United States. It does not reflect the difficulties faced by the average exporting\nfirm.\nThe dollar crisis has overshadowed all export movement, with particular reference\nto secondary-industry production. It has closed out traditional overseas markets one\nby one to a point of serious impact on the trading economy of the Province.\nBalked at almost every turn in its exploration of new overseas outlets, the Trade\nCommissioner's Office has, however, served a useful function in the collection of factual\ndata and in organized effort to meet a series of crises during the year.\nIt has helped in the interpretation of new restrictions. It has made surveys\nunder selected headings when the European Recovery Plan presented possibility for\nfinancial formula that would aid our industries. These surveys have included lumber,\nties, shooks, poles, handles, fruits, canned salmon, metals, fertilizers, and industrial\nmachinery items.\nFurther attention and survey has also been directed to the Japanese trade structure\nand to the uncertain Far Eastern position referred to in last year's Report. Co-ordinated effort with Vancouver interests has resulted in some volume movements to\nVenezuela, one of the few Central or South American markets left with dollars to pay\nfor anything but essential items. DD 16\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\n400\noo\nc2\nO\nCl\nX\n1X1 U)\nIt?\nI- x-\nZ o\nO <2\n5 J\nLU ~\nh- C\n< -\n_l\nU\n360\n320\n280\n240\n200\n160\n120\n80\n40\nO\nCUMULATIVE MONTHLY EXPORTS\n..iy i\n194\n5, 19\n46, 19\n47, 19\n>48\nJ947\n1946\n1948\n1945\nJAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AU6. SEPT. OCT NOV. DEC.\nSource: British Columbia Bureau of Economics and Statistics. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 17\n350\nEXPORTS\nPassing Through British Columbia Customs Ports\n1930-1948\n300\nDollars\nrs>\no\nH-\n0\nII ions\n8\n5\n150\n100\n50\n1930\n1932\n1934\n1936\n1930 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948\nSource: British Columbia Bureau of Economics and Statistics.\nIn co-operation with the Canadian Commercial Counsellor in Stockholm, the office\nwas able to secure resumption of import quotas for battery separators to Sweden.\nThe loss or curtailment of United Kingdom markets has been one of the most\nserious trading developments in the Province during the year. At Ottawa, and from\nVictoria, the Trade Commissioner has been intimately concerned in presenting the\nfactual position to the authorities. He has also assisted local organizations and\nselected industries to prepare material under the same heading.\nINDUSTRIAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS.\nThe Office continued its active association with the work of the British Columbia\nResearch Council, to which reference is made elsewhere in this Report.\nThe Trade Commissioner has continued as member ex officio of the board of\nmanagement of the Council. He is chairman of the Industries Advisory Committee.\nThe Administrative Assistant, Office of Trade Commissioner, is secretary of the\nIndustries Advisory Committee.\nIndustries Advisory Committee.\nSecondary industry has again been provided with clearly defined channels to\npresent its research problems. The Industries Advisory Committee itself was reor- DD 18 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nganized and strengthened in personnel as from April 1st, 1947, with addition of\nrepresentatives from transportation companies, power companies, banks, and other\norganizations interested in industrial development. Heretofore they had not been\ndirectly represented in the application phases of the work of the Council.\nThe Committee now presents an effective cross-section of industrial advice to\nassist in passing on results of industrial research which can be applied to industrial\ndevelopment. It serves as a public relations advisory unit for the Council. It provides\nmachinery to refer secondary-industry research problems to the Council, in supplement\nto contacts of Council staff themselves.\nWith representation from the Regional Development Division of the Department,\nit helps to give all parts of the Province access to the facilities provided by the Council.\nIt encourages the closest contact between industry itself and the staff of the Council\nby personal plant visits and by personal contacts with production units in the Province.\nThe five chairmen of the primary-industry advisory committees of the Council\nhave continued as members of the Trade Commissioner's Committee. The Director\nof the Council is ex officio a member of the Committee. In addition, as in previous\nyears, Committee members have been nominated by the Canadian Manufacturers'\nAssociation, principal Boards of Trade, and the Regional Committee of the Canadian\nChamber of Commerce.\nWell-known industrial men have accepted nominations to the Industries Committee.\nIn addition to the five chairmen of the primary-industries committee and Council staff\nor ex officio members, the Committee personnel at December 31st, 1948, was as\nfollows:\u2014\nChairman\u2014R. S. O'Meara, Trade Commissioner.\nSecretary\u2014T. L. Sturgess, Administrative Assistant, Office of Trade Commissioner.\nR. E. Strain (Alliance Ware, Ltd.).\nA. E. Bell-Irving (Western Bridge and Steel Fabricators).\nJ. Buchanan (B.C. Packers, Ltd.).\nA. C. Findlay (Nelson Bros. Fisheries, Ltd.).\nJ. K. Melville (Home Oil Distributors, Ltd.).\nJ. Malkin (W. H. Malkin Co., Ltd.).\nL. V. Clegg (Canadian Industries, Ltd., New Westminster).\nA. W. Mclntyre (B.C. Paint, Ltd., Victoria).\nA. Saunders (Sidney Roofing, Ltd., Victoria).\nG. F. Harkness (Industrial Agent, Canadian National Railways).\nJ. E. Underhill (Director of Industrial Development, B.C. Electric, Ltd.).\nH. A. Francis (Industrial Agent, Canadian Pacific Railway).\nN. C. Tompkins (Industrial Development Bank).\nD. F. Manders (National Research Council).\nJ. T. Gawthrop (Regional Development Division, Department of Trade and\nIndustry).\nJohn Kerr (British Ropes, Ltd.).\nW. G. Lambert (Mohawk Handle Co.).\nN. Terry (Canadian Sumner Iron Works).\nF. W. Smelts (Department of Labour).\nEverard Clarke (Shuswap Okanagan Dairy Industries Co-operative Association, Vernon).\nProf. Ellis Morrow (Department of Commerce, University of British\nColumbia).\nE. M. Herb (Westminster Paper Co., New Westminster).\nW. M. Sellens (Chairman, Pacific Subsection, Bankers' Association).\nDr. S. E. Maddigan (ex officio). DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 19\nFOREIGN TRADE BUREAU, VANCOUVER BOARD OF TRADE.\nThe Trade Commissioner is a member of the executive of the Bureau. Co-ordinated effort here has been a feature of the period under review:\u2014\n(1) World Trade Week, June, 1948.\n(2) Joint efforts in connection with Educational Luncheon Series during the\nyear\u2014documentation, export practice, import and foreign exchange regulations, Geneva Trade Agreements, marine insurance, ships and shipping.\n(3) United efforts in particular with Latin-American Committee for surveys\nof South American trade.\n(4) Co-operation with the University in regard to fellowships for foreign\nstudents, and arrangement for plant visits, etc., for students from foreign\ncountries.\n(5) Co-ordinated efforts in connection with International Trade Fair for 1948\nand 1949.\n(6) Co-operation in visits of Federal Trade Commissioners, and introductions,\nsurveys, etc., for visiting foreign representatives and buyers.\n(7) Leadership by Vancouver Board of Trade, which helped the Department\nto give outlying areas adequate access to information and regulations.\n(8) Co-operation in arrangements for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce\nAnnual Convention, Vancouver, October 26th, 27th, and 28th.\nWORLD TRADE WEEK.\nThe Trade Commissioner was chairman of the Provincial Committee for World\nTrade Week, May 30th to June 5th, 1948. There was active co-operation from industrial organizations in the Province, with local committees in charge of arrangements\nin the urban centres. The Regional Development Division assisted in covering the\nInterior and northern areas for the Province.\nWith the slogan \" More trade, more jobs,\" World Trade Week was an effort to\nbring to the attention of every Canadian the necessity of maintaining and increasing\nour trade with other countries. The Provincial observance was welded to the work\nof the National Committee in Toronto. Sponsoring organizations included the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Manufacturers' Association, Canadian Exporters'\nAssociation, Canadian Section of the International Chamber of Commerce, and the\nCanadian Importers' and Traders' Association.\nThe Foreign Trade Service at Ottawa co-operated through its Trade Publicity\nDivision. Provincial Department of Trade and Industry assistance included advertising in the daily and weekly papers of the Province.\nThe British Columbia Committee for World Trade Week is as follows: Chairman,\nR. S. O'Meara (Trade Commissioner) ; M. W. Berridge; W. J. Barrie; H. W. Brighton; E. A. G. Colls; F. W. Dodson; J. T. Gawthrop; Roger Hager; H. C. Holmes;\nF. D. Mathers; H. P. Menzies; A. E. McMaster; R. V. Robinson; R. M. Winslow;\nL. T. Wood; secretary, T. L. Sturgess; associate secretary, E. T. Orr.\nINTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR.\nThe Office co-operated effectively with local organizations and with the National\nCommittee in arrangements for the First International Trade Fair at Toronto, June,\n1948.\nIn co-operation with all the plywood manufacturers, arrangements were made to\npanel the interior of the directors' room at Toronto with material from British\nColumbia. A plaque suitably inscribed bears witness to the co-operation, and the\nroom is a permanent feature at the Exhibition Grounds. DD 20\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nFor 1949 the Trade Commissioner's Office has set up a co-ordinating committee\nin Vancouver to survey the position for adequate representation of buyers and exhibitors from British Columbia at the Second International Trade Fair scheduled May 30th\nto June 10th, 1949.\nIn this the Trade Commissioner is working in direct co-operation with the office\nof the Foreign Trade Service, Vancouver; the Boards of Trade; and the British\nColumbia Division of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association.\nSPECIAL PRODUCTS BOARD.\nThe Trade Commissioner has continued as agent of the Special Products Board,\nOttawa, for movement of fruit-pulps and S02 fruits to the United Kingdom Ministry\nof Food.\nThe Office has handled all local procurement, contractual, warehousing, shipping,\nand payment arrangements covering more than 10,000 net tons of S02 fruits and\nfruit-pulps.\nThe dollar crisis precluded United Kingdom contracts during the year under\nreview.\nA record total of 18,956 barrels was shipped during 1947 in all processed-fruit\nvarieties, compared with 13,512 barrels in 1946, 7,721 barrels in 1945, and 4,050 barrels\nin 1944.\nA comparative net fruit tonnage (short tons, 2,000 lb. net fruit content) for the\nfour years is as follows:\u2014\n1945.\n1947.\nSO2 raspberries...\nSO2 strawberries\nGreengage-pulp...\nTons.\n700\n100\nTons.\n1,345\nTons.\n2,341\n374\nTons.\n2,910\n450\n403\nSurplus Inventory.\nIn spite of flood loss, the suppliers found themselves with surplus small-fruit\ninventory at the close of the 1948 processing season. Raspberries presented the main\nproblem. The suppliers were warned early in the year that United Kingdom orders\nmight not be forthcoming. There was a move to limit S02 stocks by throwing more\ninto custom freezing, in line with the industry's desire to reduce to a minimum the\nimpact effect of losing the United Kingdom market. Unsold frozen stocks have added\nto the inventory problem.\nA very complex position was created for the co-operative managements, their\ngrowers, and the banks concerned. Departmental responsibility centered in phases\naffecting or affected by the United Kingdom contracts.\nSpecial S02 Fruit Surveys.\nUnfortunately, the United Kingdom market has presented the main outlet for\noverseas volume sales of S02 fruits. However, the Trade Commissioner has made\nintensive surveys to find alternate overseas markets. Trial shipment was made to\nSouth Africa, and special surveys were made for possibilities in Venezuela, Newfoundland, and Palestine.\nAt the close of the year a new and promising opportunity was presented in Ireland.\nIt is hoped that European Recovery Plan funds may be made available for considerable\ntonnage movement to that country. Every effort will be made to direct this business\nto British Columbia, to ease the present inventory position. A special survey has been DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 21\nundertaken by the Trade Commissioner's Office in co-operation with the Food Section,\nDepartment of Trade and Commerce, Ottawa, and the Canadian Commercial Secretary\nin Dublin.\nOPEN HOUSE WEEK.\nA special committee for Open House Week, May 16th to 22nd, was set up in\nVancouver under the chairmanship of Alex Eastwood. The Trade Commissioner was\nDepartmental representative on this committee, which arranged Province-wide observance of \" open house for industries.\"\nThe Vancouver Board of Trade enlisted the co-operation of the Board of Trade\nmovement in British Columbia and of various industrial organizations in the Province.\nThe Regional Development Division of the Department of Trade and Industry gave\neffective assistance for the outlying areas. Departmental co-operation included advertising in weekly and daily newspapers throughout the Province.\nThe immediate objective was a timed observance to give to employees' relatives\nand interested people an opportunity of viewing the industries in their localities. By\nconducted tours they were able to obtain an appreciation of what industry is doing in\nsupport of the community and living standards in British Columbia. The long-term\nobjective was a principle of public relations to co-ordinate all interests in the operations\nand problems of industry.\nThe response from industry was gratifying; this concept and timed planning has\nroused interest in other parts of Canada and overseas.\nTRANSPORTATION.\nMention must be made of the effective basis of co-operation maintained in transportation problems:\u2014\n(1) With the Transportation and Customs Bureau of the Vancouver Board of\nTrade, including financial assistance for Provincial cover in car-loading\nregulations, rate structures, and other problems.\n(2) With industry in the preparation of briefs and data for freight-rate hearings. As in 1947, the main Departmental burden under this heading was\ncarried by the Bureau of Economics and Statistics.\n(3) With steamship companies, railroad companies, and air lines on routing\nand other matters.\n(4) With industrial departments of the railways, through head offices and\nregional organizations.\n(5) With the air lines in the development of air cargo movement, domestic\nand overseas.\n(6) With the newly created Canadian Maritime Commission, Ottawa.\nPUBLIC RELATIONS, ITINERARIES AND INTRODUCTIONS.\nThis important field of work has developed greatly during the year. The Trade\nCommissioner has been able to give assistance under six main headings:\u2014\n(1) Itineraries and other arrangements for business visitors from Eastern\nCanada and overseas.\n(2) Arrangements for visits of officials from Ottawa, and for tours of Federal\nTrade Commissioners.\n(3) Co-operation in connection with United Kingdom and other trade missions. Outstanding among these items was the visit during the year of\nthe United Kingdom engineering mission.\n(4) Arrangements for visits of diplomatic representatives and High Commissioners of Commonwealth countries. DD 22 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n(5) Co-operation with local consular corps and with offices of commonwealth\nand foreign governments. Special reference is made to the happy and\neffective basis of co-operation maintained with the Vancouver office of the\nUnited Kingdom Trade Commissioner and the Vancouver office of the\nAustralian Government Trade Commissioner.\n(6) Attendance at annual and special meetings of Provincial and National\ntrade organizations. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 23\nREPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ECONOMICS AND\nSTATISTICS.\nBefore proceeding to review the work accomplished by the Bureau of Economics\nand Statistics during 1948, it may be useful to explain that the Bureau is, as its name\nimplies, a fact-finding and advisory body. It has two primary functions: the first is\nto provide economic counsel and, when necessary, to conduct investigations into\neconomic questions affecting the Province; the second function is to collect and compile economic statistics of interest to the Province.\nIn order to carry out these objectives, the Bureau is divided into several sections\ndealing with statistical services and one section dealing with economic research. To\nensure technical proficiency, the Bureau has endeavoured to follow the policy of building\nup a small corps of professionally trained persons who could be relied upon to perform\na variety of difficult economic analyses. It has also been the policy to make the services\nof the technical personnel continuously available to all other departments of the\nGovernment.\nSince other Governmental agencies are also concerned with the collection of statistics, a series of working agreements designed to prevent overlapping or duplication\nhas been arranged in recent years between this Bureau and the Dominion Bureau of\nStatistics, Ottawa, as well as with the Provincial Departments of Mines, Labour, and\nProvincial Secretary. During 1948 the essential statistical services performed for the\nother Provincial departments, as well as for the Department of Trade and Industry,\nwere maintained. A brief description of the research and statistical services performed\nduring the year has been provided under the appropriate divisions which follow. DD 24\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nEconomic Activity in British Columbia, 1938-48.\nproduction\n(in Millions of Dollars)\nAGRICULTURE FORESTRY\n.\n200\n100\n0\nRETAIL PRICES\n1936 1940 19.42 1944 1946\nCONTRACTS AWARDED\n1938 1940\n1942 1944\nYEARS\n400\nioo\n0\n1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948\n1938 J940 1942 1944 1946 1948\n400\n500\nMINING\n0\nPRODUCTION\n(in Millions of Dollars)\nFISHERIES\n1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948\n-too\n500\n100\n0\n1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948\nPRICES\nINDEX Nos.\nWHOLESALE PRICES\n1935\n1939\n\u25a0100\n1926\n-100\n1948 1938 1940 I94Z 1944 1946 1948\nCONSTRUCTION\n(in Millions of Dollars)\nVALUE OF WORK PERFORMED\n1946 1948\n60\n60\n20\n1938 1940\n1942 1944\nYEARS\n1946 1948\n1948 statistics subject to revision. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 25\nEconomic Activity in British Columbia, 1938-48\u2014Continued.\nEMPLOYMENT\n<\no\n2\nz\no\n240\n220\n200\nin\n180\ncr\nin\n160\nDO\n>\n(40\n>\nz\n120\nX\n100\nIII\na\nflO\nz\n1926\n-100\n1942 1944\nYEARS\n1948\nINTERNAL TRADE\nBANK\nDEBITS\n7\n6\n5\n0\nRETAIL\nSALES\n1\/1 3\u00b0\u00b0\nUJ\n5\n2 200\nX\na\nz\n100\n1935\n1939\n-100\n0\n1942 1944\nYEARS\nWHOLESALE SALES\nr>\n-r zoo\na\nz\n1936 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948\nYEARS\nCONSUMPTION OF ELECTRICAL POWER\n1935\n\u25a01939\n-100\n1938 1940 1942 1944\nYEARS\nSALES OF LIFE INSURANCE\nH\nI 3\nu.\nO 2\nin\nZ\no\n_l\n_J\nCQ '\n_i\no\na\nz\no\n1942 1944\nYEARS\n1942 1944\nYEARS\nZ\nO\nh-\nz\no\nFREIGHT\nLOADED\n0\n1940 1942 1944 194\nYEARS\n1948 statistics subject to revision. DD 26\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nREVIEW OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nWhile final statistics are not yet available, preliminary statistics indicate that\nBritish Columbia's economy is running at a new all-time high. Business activity in\nall phases of British Columbia industry has shown increases, with the value of production in all four basic industries expected to reach new highs in 1948. Pressure of\nproduction continues to dominate the British Columbia scene and productive capacity\nis attempting to meet this demand occasioned by a high level of purchasing-power.\nIncomplete returns indicate that the net value of production in the primary and\nsecondary industries amounted to $785,000,000* in 1947, as compared with $591,475,-\n855f in 1946 and $535,488,648f in 1945. Practically all of the major business indicators\nsuggest that the net value of production for 1948 will surpass that recorded in 1947.\n* Preliminary estimate, Bureau of Economics and Statistics.\nt Dominion Bureau of Statistics.\nTable 1-\n-Economic Activity in British Columbia, 1946 and 19 U7, with\nPreliminary Estimates for 194-8.\n'\nUnit or\nBase\nPeriod.\n1948\nPreliminary\nEstimates. 9\n1947.\n1946.\nMining\u2014\nTotal value of production1\t\n$\nFineoz.\n$\n$\n$\n$\nLong ton\n$\nMB.M.\nTon\n$\nCases\n$\nBoxes\nBoxes\nBoxes\nCwt.\nMFt.\nSq.\n1935-39=100\n1935-39 = 100\n1935-39=100\n1935-39=100\nBarrels*\nTons\n000 kwh.\n000 $\n000$\n000 $\n000 $\n000 $\n150,000,000\n113,221,254\n249,013\n4,109,538\n8,519,741\n41,884,977\n30,147,039\n1,717,476\n282,288,388\n4,187,816\n410,994\n58,764,950\n1,527.135\n134,508,400\n6,792,906\n4,838,249\n1,954,657\n368,143\n877,600\n2,024,442\n314.6\n250.6\n264.3\n229.7\n3,389,929\n9,904,060\n3,011,763\n103,104\n39,460\n148,813\n59,070\n6.539,916\n71,807,951\n134,747\n5,324,959\n2,240,070\n23,489,335\n21,143,086\n1,463,640\nForestry\u2014\n360,000,000\n4,300,000\n173,471,370\n3,193,665\n342,754\nFisheries\u2014\u2022\n70,000,000\n1,313,909\n145,000,000\n43,817,147\n1,348,137\nAgriculture\u2014\n118,588,777\nApple3\u2014\n8,500,790\n4,634,424\n3,866,366\nExternal trade\u2014\n479,021\n574,649\n1,744,158\nInternal trade\u2014\n338.0\n280.0\n300.0\n258.0\n3,765,000\n10,000,000\n3,430,000\n104,200\n71,000\nNot available\n85,000\n7,043,620\n271.9\n221.8\n228.3\n202.8\n2,863,578\n8,171,456\n2,820,118\n92,064\nConstruction\u2014\n58,708\nValue of work performed in construction industry^....\n54,211\n61,233\n5,367,594\n1 British Columbia Department of Mines.\n2 British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests, Forest Service.\n3 British Columbia Department of Fisheries.\n4 British Columbia Department of Agriculture.\n5 British Columbia Tree Fruit Board.\n6 Dominion Bureau of Statistics.\n* Thirty-five imperial gallons per barrel. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 27\nTable 1.\u2014Economic Activity\nin British Columbia\u2014Continued.\nUnit or\nBase\nPeriod.\n1948\nPreliminary\nEstimates.9\n1947.\n1946.\nTourist trade\u2014-\nNumber\n$\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926 = 100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n1926=100\n$\n191,572\n34,000,000\n203.0\n205,216\n32,389,000\n193.7\n217.0\n309.4\n172.5\n202.6\n231.3\n233.0\n106.1\n199.1\n168.2\n180.8\n158.9\n247.1\n238.1\n557,000,000\n178,595\nEstimated expenditure of the United States tourist\n34,576,000\nEmployment\u20146\n166.6\n195.7\n338.2\n128.5\n181.0\n210.6\n219.0\n89.9\n143.0\n130.7\n161.9\n139.0\n210.9\nTrade .... \t\n209.8\n625,000,000\n403,161,610\n6 Dominion Bureau of Statistics.\n7 Bureau of Economics and Statistics, preliminary estimate ; 1945, 1946, and 1947, Dominion Bureau of Statistics\nestimates.\n8 Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Labour Division.\n9 Subject to revision.\nTHE RESEARCH DIVISION.\nExternal Trade of British Columbia.\nThe agreement between this Bureau and the External Trade Branch, Dominion\nBureau of Statistics, consummated in the fall of 1938, has continued in force. Under\nthis agreement the Bureau receives monthly a duplicate set of punch-cards showing in\ndetail the importation and exportation of every commodity normally listed in the\nFederal trade reports which has been recorded at customs ports located in this\nProvince. While these records do not distinguish the exported merchandise originating\nin British Columbia, nor the imports destined for consumption in this Province, from\nthe other goods passing through these customs ports, the records do provide the basis\nfor a very comprehensive annual report on the foreign trade of British Columbia.\nPreliminary statements showing the external trade through British Columbia\ncustoms ports covering commodities with an aggregate value of $50,000 and over are\nnow published annually. In addition, statements showing the trade through British\nColumbia customs ports are prepared monthly. These reports cover all exports valued\nat $25,000 and over and all imports valued at $15,000 and over. A brief insight into\nthe foreign trade of British Columbia for the period 1939 to 1947 can be secured from\nTables 2 and 3. Only the main commodity groups have been shown in these tables. ^\nDD 28\nBRITISH COLUMBIA\ntCOOOt-NCOMMCO\nCT\nCMtOCS-HeOtOeOCGCOO\u00bbtf\n0\n0)HIOW**0'-fNt-\n00\nCi\n-\u25a0]*\u25a0 tM H t* V H CO O\n-fl<\n1-1\nIO i-H CO IO CO rH CQ\nC!\neo\nHH)\nOi CQ OO *=f rf CO -o M\nIC\ni-H tM O CM rH rH\nrr>\nrO\n\u00ab*\u00a3- rH\nri\nrHQOC-OiCOCOCOCO-*\n^\no\nO\nt-t-mtONCOOlM^\nOC\nO ** c- t*.**? \u2022* io eft w\nc-\nIO\nOOrHCOtOMOilOOOOO\ntDMCO!OC!IONH\neo\n3\n0\n(MOOOOlOOlOlOrHrH\nUrSrHOiOOCOCOrHQOlO\nCO\n0\n\u2022H. CS\nCO\nOCOtMOOCllOOOOOOi\nCC\nX\nIO 00 Ci CM O i-H -* IO\nOi\nOi\nto OS IO to 00 -* to\nt-\n\u25a0Ja\n\u00b0> -3\n*-*\nIO 00* CO\" O* N Oi CO\n;-:\n'E\nfi\u00a9- rH tO IN fc-\nCi\nn\n*. s\ntH\n.2 \"8\nO\ntOCOlMCgCNrHOOM't-\n\\Cl\nD\nrd\nr\u00bbi *\nlOrHtOCOiOCOrHOOOi\nC.\nTS x_\nO CO H CO **t-:H N O\n10\nO\nhh\nCM\nCOrHt-rHOirHOOQCiO\nH\n**\n\u00a7 Jl=\nca s,\nhH- '\u00ab*\n\u2022\u00ab*\nlONrHOOO03\nOi\nIO t- O\nCO 0 to CO\nL-\n1\nso V\n\u2022-,\nIO CO o\nCO H HI\nOI\nt& rH C-\n(M\nC>\nw\nSJ, co\n3 H5S\n*y-\nO\ncy\nCj -\u00bb\nOOtOi-hQO-rftOt-t-OO\ncc\nM^MttiCOCOHaiO\nir\n03\nlO^MfllfflOt-NiO\n-3-\na\nOi\nOJlOoi^NOOCOO)\nir\n>\n-3\n4:\n1\na\nc\n\u2022\n1.\nC\nt-\nr\nft u :\nXf 3\n3 2 r^\na\nH-\nt\n\u20221\n0\n\u00bbH\n|\no\na R r_\n*\nh m a \u25a0+-> ?:\n-J5\ns\n8\nE\ns\no\no\n^ %*a-o5 cs o K\ne>1\"Ooi.,\"\u00bbl\u00bb\n0 * HI -e \" \"71 9 3 \"3\nJh\nO\nft\nS\n1\n*~H\n3\n0\nc\n#\n<\nc\nc\n1\nC\nc\nc\nr?\nI\nO\ns DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 29\no\nCJ\nso\n.g\n\u00a3\n\u00bb\nCj\n'\u25a0\u00bb\nCi\nS\nCJ\nco\n8\nO\nT3\nTh\nc^\nS\nH\nti\nw\ncsj\n.V\n~j\n\u00ab,\n'rH\ns\n^\n\u2022\u00abs>\ni^\nH*\nj>\n|\nPq\nCi\naj\nCiJ\nOi\nJS\nHH\nHo\nCO\nS\no\n>H\nA\na,\n\u00bb\u00abs\n5\n!>\ntH.\no\nCJ\n5S)\n^5\no\nO\nr-C)\n5-\nc\no\nOOOOtDCOCO-rftDtDC\u2014\nCi>OOOOOOrHrHCMHH\nOOilOCiCCt-OOCOlO\nrH IO 00 IO -rf tO \u00ab;\n\u25a0hi 00 tO OO O CI CO\n00 ffl t- W O C- hi\nIO CO co to \u25a0\noo to to\nCO Oi co to o CO o \u25a0\nOi tO CO -hi Oi CO C-\nlO Oi O oo ** to CO\nO CO O GO\nOi Ci -f Oi\nC- CO CO 00 hi\nhi N -J tj\nto Cr- IO O\nN Ci CO Oi io\nrH C- O Oi CM\nIO CO IO 00 IO\nto O \"^ c\u2014\nrH O rH IO CO CO\n_ CO Q CO tf O) O\nOOlOOCOOC-tOlO\nio co o h. to co Oi\nCM rH (M\nC-00l0OrH-HiC0C)O00\naCiCO-rFCOrHrHCOSCiZD\nM!COilO**!Ot-vMHM\nCO HI\nIO\nCM rH\nr\u2014\nO 00\nT-H 00\nIO HI\n<-v|\nCM r-H\nCO 00\nr-l CO\nCi\nto CO\nCO N tM t\n\u25a0HtcOCOOiOCii-H-HitDCO\n-MtOtOOtOC-lOCOCMt\u2014\ntCtPHMNtO-ft-X-Ji\nIO\nfc-\nCO\nnn\nCO\non\nCO\n00\n\u2022H\"\nCO\noo\n\nlO\nCO\nto\nCM\nCM\nHI\nCO\nrr.\nto\n>o\n\u00ab\"*\nco\nnn\n00\n00\nIO\no\n(M\non\nCO\nIO\nCM\nOi\nOi\no\nCM\nCO CO CO (M 00\nOi rH rH\n(M CO CO rH Ci O 00\n00 CM rH CO 00 00 fc-\nH tf eg N N O C-\nQOCiCO>C5tDfc-'-J-lOCOC-\n(MCO-tfC-CiC-tOlOtr-lO\nOOOlO^OOCiCOCitOC-\nM CM N C\" H H CO H M 1-*\nOOCMrHlOtOlOlOOOCOtO\nOCOMHC-HCOt-MlO\nt-Olt-lOMQHjONO\nfc-ft-fc-CStO-Ht^oj\nCOtOOOOCiCOtOCOO\ntOoiCMtOOOOOiO-Hi\n' M H W N IO M N M **\nCO tM C- CO (M CM C-\nt- o o \u25a0* H, oj io \u25a0\nO -rt< qo i-h C- CO IO\na ft\nu y cn fn\n.\u00a3 \"5\nE ra *h\nU. (H\na s.\n\u25a0Si ='s\n-H. m HJ fc '\nU HH r? 0\nrS-5\n<*\n<\n.5 *h o c c a\n1 n o r e r\nii^ZZog DD 30\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nFrom Table 2 it may be seen that exports in 1947 reached an all-time high of\n$319,480,789, an increase of 185.26 per cent, since 1939. From Table 3 it may be seen\nthat imports also reached a new high of $189,864,002, an increase of 222.94 per cent,\nsince 1939.\nBritish Columbia products were exported to ninety-nine different countries during\n1947. The principal markets were United States, $118,462,213; United Kingdom,\n$93,071,545; Australia, $14,510,895; Union of South Africa, $11,125,521; France,\n$11,001,157; China, $9,267,046; Netherlands, $9,071,523; and Palestine, $5,827,339.\nIn point of value the most important British Columbia products exported during\n1947 were planks and boards, lead, newsprint paper, fertilizers, red-cedar shingles,\nplywoods, canned salmon, canned herring, apples, copper, and zinc.\nImports were brought into British Columbia from seventy-four different countries\nduring 1947. The leading sources of supply for British Columbia importers during\n1947 were United States, $142,531,526; United Kingdom, $13,413,460; British India,\n$6,140,042; Philippine Islands, $5,782,529; Fiji Islands, $4,171,881; Colombia, $2,597,-\n748; Cuba, $2,534,766; and Australia, $1,543,684.\nIn point of value the most important products imported for consumption in British\nColumbia during 1947 were gasoline, crude petroleum, sugar, coffee, copra, logging\nmachinery, jute fabrics, gasoline traction engines, tin-coated sheets, and tea.\nPreliminary 1948 statistics indicate there will be a decrease in the value of exports,\nwith the value of imports through British Columbia customs ports remaining about the\nsame as 1947.\nCOST OF LIVING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nIn August of 1947 the Bureau of Economics and Statistics discontinued the collection of material used in, and the compilation of, the cost-of-living index. It was decided\nat this time that the cost-of-food index, being a useful measurement, should be maintained.\nThere were two major reasons for discontinuing the cost-of-living index. Primarily, the index was no longer fulfilling the function for which it was organized\u2014\na basis for relief payments. Also, it was being used as a measure of costs in various\nlabour arbitrations and adjustments in salaries and wages, for which it was not\ndesigned.\nSecondly, the index would not stand up under strong statistical analysis, nor could\nit be considered to satisfy the standards of economists. The index was based on\nnutrition standards, which have not a direct relationship to actual expenditures. For\nits originally designed purpose, the index was adequate. When this purpose no longer\nexisted, it was decided that the measure should be discontinued and the cost-of-living\nfigures published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa, be the official reference.\nThe cost-of-food index was continued, and the information is published in the\nquarterly report on cost of food in British Columbia.\nTable U.\u2014Dominion Bureau of Statistics Index Numbers of the Cost of Living\nin Canada, 19S9-U8.\nAdjusted\nto Base\n100.0 for\nAuerust,\n1939.\nOn Base of Average Prices 1935-39 as 100.\nMonth.\nTotal.\nFood.\nRent.\nLifrht and\nFuel.\nClothing.\nHome\nFurnishings and\nServices.\nMiscellaneous.\n1939, yearly average\nJanuary\t\n| 101.5\n100.3 101.1\n99.9 : 1 100.7\n100.6\n99.9\n9R.7\n103.8\n103.4\n103.4\n103.4\n103.4\n1\n101.2 100.7\n101.0 100.2\nmi 0 100 9.\ni\n101.4 101.4\n101.7 101.1\nMarch\t\n99.8 j 100.6 98.5\n99.8 i 100.fi 1 98. 3\n100.4 99.9 101.2 101.1\n--\u2014- DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 31\nTable 4.\u2014Dominion Bureau of Statistics Index Numbers of the Cost of Living\nin Canada, 1939-48\u2014Continued.\nMonth.\nAdjusted\nto Base\n100.0 for\nAugust,\n1939.\nOn Base op Average Prices 1935-39 as 100.\nTotal.\nRent.\nLight and\nFuel.\nClothing.\nHome\nFurnishings and\nServices.\nMiscellaneous.\n1939\u2014Continued.\nMay\t\nJune\t\nJuly\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nOctober\t\nNovember\t\nDecember\t\n1940, yearly average...\nJanuary\t\nFebruary\t\nMarch\t\nApril\t\nMay\t\nJune\t\nJuly\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nOctober\t\nNovember\t\nDecember\t\n1941, yearly average...\nJanuary \t\nFebruary\t\nMarch\t\nApril\t\nMay \u2014\nJune\t\nJuly\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nOctober\t\nNovember\t\nDecember\t\n1942, yearly average..\nJanuary...\t\nFebruary\t\nMarch\t\nApril... .....\nMay\t\nJune\t\nJuly\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nOctober\t\nNovember\t\nDecember\t\n1943, yearly average..\nJanuary\t\nFebruary\t\nMarch\t\nApril\t\nMay\t\nJune\t\nJuly\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nOctober\t\nNovember\t\nDecember\t\n99.8\n99.7\n100.0\n100.0\n100.0\n102.7\n103.0\n103.0\n103.0\n103.0\n103.8\n103.8\n104.1\n104.1\n104.8\n105.1\n105.8\n106.2\n106.9\n107.1\n107.4\n107.3\n107.3\n107.7\n108.5\n109.6\n111.0\n112.8\n113.8\n114.6\n115.4\n114.9\n114.5\n114.8\n115.0\n115.0\n115.2\n115.8\n117.0\n116.8\n116.5\n116.9\n117.7\n117.9\n116.2\n116.0\n116.3\n116.7\n117.2\n117.6\n117.9\n118.3\n118.5\n118.4\n118.5\n118.4\n100.6\n100.5\n100.8\n100.8\n100.8\n103.5\n103.8\n103.8\n105.6\n103.8\n103.8\n104.6\n104.6\n104.9\n104.9\n105.6\n105.9\n106.6\n107.0\n107.8\n108.0\n111.7\n108.3\n108.2\n108.2\n108.6\n109.4\n110.5\n111.9\n113.7\n114.7\n115.5\n116.3\n115.8\n117.0\n115.4\n115.7\n115.9\n115.9\n116.1\n116.7\n117.9\n117.7\n117.4\n117.8\n118.6\n118.8\n118.4\n117.1\n116.9\n117.2\n117.6\n118.1\n118.5\n118.8\n119.2\n119.4\n119.3\n119.4\n119.3\n98.2\n98.1\n99.0\n99.3\n99.4\n106.3\n107.1\n104.7\n105.6\n104.5\n104.5\n104.8\n104.8\n104.4\n103.8\n105.3\n105.4\n105.4\n106.1\n108.7\n109.1\n116.1\n109.7\n108.8\n109.0\n110.1\n109.7\n112.5\n116.6\n121.3\n123.3\n123.2\n125.4\n123.8\n127.2\n122.3\n123.1\n123.7\n123.7\n124.3\n126.2\n130.3\n129.6\n128.5\n129.8\n132.4\n132.8\n130.7\n127.3\n126.7\n127.7\n128.7\n129.9\n130.9\n131.8\n133.2\n133.5\n132.9\n133.1\n132.7\n103.8\n103.8\n103.8\n103.8\n103.8\n104.4\n104.4\n104.4\n106.3\n104.4\n104.4\n104.4\n104.4\n106.9\n106.9\n106.9\n106.9\n106.9\n107.7\n107.7\n107.7\n109.4\n107.7\n107.7\n107.7\n107.7\n109.7\n109.7\n109.7\n109.7\n109.7\n111.2\n111.2\n111.2\n111.3\n111.2\n111.2\n111.2\n111.2\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.5\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.3\n111.5\n111.5\n111.5\n111.5\n111.5\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n99.3\n99.0\n98.9\n104.4\n105.3\n105.4\n107.1\n105.5\n105.8\n105.7\n105.9\n106.1\n106.0\n107.9\n108.4\n108.5\n108.0\n108.5\n108.5\n110.3\n108.6\n108.7\n108.9\n108.9\n109.2\n110.2\n110.5\n110.5\n110.9\n112.1\n112.7\n112.7\n112.8\n112.9\n112.9\n112.9\n112.9\n112.9\n112.6\n112.5\n112.5\n112.5\n112.8\n112.8\n112.8\n112.9\n112.8\n112.7\n112.7\n112.7\n112.7\n113.0\n113.4\n113.4\n113.4\n113.3\n113.3\n111.9\n99.9\n100.1\n100.1\n100.1\n99.6\n99.6\n99.6\n103.3\n109.2\n103.3\n103.3\n107.8\n107.8\n107.8\n109.1\n109.1\n109.1\n113.1\n113.5\n113.5\n113.5\n116.1\n113.7\n114.1\n114.2\n114.3\n114.5\n114.9\n115.1\n115.7\n117.4\n119.6\n120.0\n119.9\n120.0\n119.9\n119.8\n119.8\n119.8\n119.9\n119.9\n120.0\n120.1\n120.1\n120.1\n120.1\n120.2\n120.5\n120.2\n120.1\n120.1\n120.2\n120.2\n120.4\n120.5\n120.6\n120.6\n121.1\n121.1\n121.1\n101.1\n101.0\n100.9\n100.9\n100.8\n101.0\n101.0\n104.1\n107.2\n104.3\n104.3\n105.9\n106.1\n106.2\n106.5\n106.9\n106.9\n109.4\n109.7\n110.0\n110.7\n113.8\n110.8\n111.5\n111.6\n111.7\n111.8\n112.1\n113.0\n114.3\n115.8\n117.3\n117.9\n117.9\n117.9\n118.0\n118.0\n118.0\n118.1\n118.0\n117.9\n117.9\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n118.0\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.9\n118.2\n118.2\n118.2\n118.8\n101.4\n101.3\n101.3\n101.3\n101.3\n101.7\n101.9\n102.0\n102.3\n101.8\n101.9\n101.9\n101.8\n101.8\n101.8\n102.2\n103.0\n102.8\n102.8\n102.8\n102.8\n105.1\n103.1\n103.1\n102.9\n102.9\n105.1\n105.6\n105.6\n106.1\n106.4\n106.5\n106.7\n106.7\n107.1\n106.8\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.1\n107.2\n108.0\n107.5\n107.5\n107.5\n107.7\n108.0\n108.2\n108.2\n108.2\n108.3\n108.3\n108.3\n108.6 DD 32\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nTable U.\u2014Dominion Bureau of Statistics Index Numbers of the Cost of Living\nin Canada, 1939-U8\u2014Continued.\nAdjusted\nto Base\n100.0 for\nAugust,\n1939.\nOn\nBase of Average Prices 1935-39 as\n100.\nMonth.\nTotal.\nFood.\nRent.\nLight and\nFuel.\nClothing.\nHome\nFurnishings and\nServices.\nMiscellaneous.\n1944, yearly average.. .\nJanuary\t\n118.1\n118.0\n118.1\n118.2\n118.3\n118.1\n118.1\n118.0\n117.9\n117.7\n118.0\n117.6\n117.7\n117.7\n117.8\n117.8\n118.1\n118.7\n119.3\n119.5\n118.9\n118.8\n118.9\n119.1\n118.9\n118.9\n119.1\n119.8\n121.0\n122.6\n124.1\n124.6\n124.5\n125.8\n126.1\n126.1\n126.0\n127.9\n127.9\n129.6\n132.1\n133.8\n134.8\n135.5\n138.3\n141.1\n142.5\n144.8\n147.1\n148.9\n149.6\n150.4\n152.1\n153.1\n155.7\n156.3\n157.6\n158.3\n158.3\n157.6\n118.9\n119.0\n118.9\n119.0\n119.1\n119.2\n119.0\n119.0\n118.9\n118.8\n118.6\n118.9\n118.5\n119.5\n118.6\n118.6\n118.7\n118.7\n119.0\n119.6\n120.3\n120.5 .\n119.9\n119.7\n119.9\n120.1\n123.6\n119.9\n119.9\n120.1\n120.8\n122.0\n123.6\n125.1\n125.6\n125.5\n126.8\n127.1\n127.1\n135.5\n127.0\n128.9\n128.9\n130.6\n133.1\n134.9\n135.9\n136.6\n139.4\n142.2\n143.6\n146.0\n155.0\n148.3\n150.1\n150.8\n151.6\n153.3\n154.3\n156.9\n157.5\n158.9\n159.6\n159.6\n158.9\n131.3\n131.5\n130.9\n131.1\n131.5\n131.7\n131.1\n132.0\n131.5\n131.2\n130.8\n131.6\n130.3\n133.0\n130.2\n130.6\n131.0\n131.0\n131.7\n133.4\n135.6\n136.2\n134.2\n133.3\n134.0\n134.3\n140.4\n132.8\n132.5\n133.1\n135.1\n137.7\n142.1\n144.2\n144.7\n143.2\n146.5\n146.6\n146.4\n159.6\n145.5\n148.7\n148.7\n151.6\n154.9\n157.7\n159.8\n160.6\n165.3\n171.3\n173.6\n178.7\n195.5\n182.2\n186.1\n185.9\n186.8\n191.2\n193.9\n201.3\n202.6\n203.9\n205.4\n204.7\n202.0\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n111.9\n112.0\n112.0\n112.0\n112.1\n112.0\n112.0\n112.0\n112.0\n112.1\n112.1\n112.1\n112.1\n112.1\n112.3\n112.3\n112.3\n112.7\n112.3\n112.3\n112.3\n112.3\n112.6\n112.6\n112.6\n112.6\n112.6\n113.4\n113.4\n113.4\n116.7\n113.4\n113.4\n113.4\n113.4\n115.4\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n117.8\n119.9\n119.9\n119.9\n120.7\n119.9\n119.9\n119.9\n119.9\n120.9\n120.9\n120.9\n120.9\n121.0\n121.0\n121.0\n121.7\n110.6\n112.7\n113.0\n113.0\n113.0\n112.5\n112.5\n108.9\n108.7\n108.7\n108.7\n108.1\n108.1\n107.0\n109.1\n107.4\n107.3\n106.7\n106.6\n106.6\n106.5\n106.5\n106.7\n106.7\n106.6\n107.1\n107.4\n107.1\n107.1\n107.2\n107.2\n107.2\n107.2\n107.2\n107.2\n107.2\n107.3\n108.6\n109.2\n115.9\n109.0\n109.1\n109.1\n109.1\n116.2\n116.7\n117.3\n118.6\n121.1\n121.9\n122.6\n120.3\n124.8\n120.4\n120.1\n121.0\n121.3\n122.7\n124.3\n124.5\n127.7\n128.5\n128.8\n129.0\n129.1\n121.5\n121.1\n121.3\n121.3\n121.4\n121.5\n121.5\n121.5\n121.5\n121.5\n121.6\n121.6\n121.6\n122.1\n121.8\n121.7\n121.7\n121.8\n122.0\n122.1\n122.2\n122.1\n122.2\n122.4\n122.5\n122.5\n126.3\n122.6\n122.7\n123.1\n123.2\n123.7\n124.3\n126.4\n127.6\n129.6\n130.2\n131.1\n131.2\n143.9\n131.5\n131.9.\n133.1\n136.9\n140.0\n142.4\n143.2\n145.5\n152.0\n154.2\n157.0\n159.3\n174.4\n161.2\n165.1\n169.9\n172.9\n173.6\n174.8\n175.4\n175.9\n179.9\n181.0\n181.5\n181.5\n118.4\n118.4\n118.4\n118.4\n118.4\n118.5\n118.4\n118.3\n118.5\n118.4\n118.4\n118.4\n118.4\n119.0\n118.3\n118.4\n118.5\n118.5\n118.9\n118.9\n119.2\n119.3\n119.4\n119.4\n119.4\n119.5\n124.4\n119.5\n120.1\n120.4\n120.7\n122.1\n122.4\n125.1\n127.0\n128.4\n128.8\n129.2\n129.4\n141.6\n129.8\n130.9\n133.6\n137.2\n138.6\n139.8\n142.5\n143.7\n147.4\n149.9\n151.4\n154.9\n162.6\n158.4\n159.9\n161.2\n161.9\n161.9\n162.0\n162.8\n161.4\n164.2\n165.1\n166.0\n166.2\n108.9\n108.9\n109.1\nMarch\t\n109.0\n109.0\n109.0\nJune\t\n109.0\n109.0\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\n109.0\n109.0\n108.9\nNovember\t\n108.9\n108.9\n1945, yearly average....\nJanuary\t\n109.4\n109.2\n109.2\nMarch\t\n109.2\n109.2\n109.4\nJune\t\n109.4\n109.4\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\n109.5\n109.5\n109.6\n109.6\n109.6\n1946, yearly average\t\n112.6\n110.9\n110.9\n110.9\n111.0\n111.5\nJune\t\n112.1\n113.7\nAugust\t\n113.8\n113.9\n113.9\n114.1\n114.1\n1947, yearly average\n117.0\n114.7\nFebruary\t\n115.5\n116.0\n116.3\n116.8\n117.1\nJuly\t\n117.2\n117.2\n117.5\n117.6\n118.2\n119.8\n1948, yearly average\n123.4\n122.6\n122.8\n122.8\n122.9\n122.9\n122.7\n123.1\n123.4\n124.4\n124.4\n124.6\n124.6 DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 33\nTable 5.\u2014Comparative Food Indexes.\nThe Dominion Bureau of Statistics food index is given below, adjusted to the base\n1936=100, with comparative figures for British Columbia prepared by the Bureau of\nEconomics and Statistics.\nMonth.\nCanada.*\nBritish\nColumbia.\nMonth.\nCanada.*\nBritish\nColumbia.\n1939\u2014\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nFirst\nof Month.\n101.53\n101.64\n108.69\n111.15\n111.55\n106.85\n106.85\n107.16\n107.16\n106.75\n106.13\n107.67\n107.78\n107.77\n108.49\n111.15\n111.55\n112.17\n111.25\n111.45\n112.58\n112.17\n115.03\n119.22\n124.03\n126.07\n125.97\n128.22\n126.58\n125.05\n125.87\n126.48\n126.48\n127.10\n129.04\n133.23\n132.52\n131.39\n132.72\n135.38\n135.79\n130.16\n129.55\n130.57\n131.60\n132.82\n133.84\n134.76\n136.20\n136.50\n135.90\n136.09\n135.69\n134.46\n133.84\n134.05\nFifteenth\nof Month.\n94.48\n103.90\n104.38\n104.74\n101.51\n100.43\n100.97\n101.22\n102.53\n101.77\n101.51\n103.47\n103.84\n103.33\n104.92\n106.30\n107.39\n107.03\n108.93\n109.02\n111.42\n111.81\n116.09\n117.07\n120.55\n121.10\n121.24\n123.93\n121.57\n120.99\n122.55\n123.71\n1944\u2014Continued.\nApril\t\nMay\t\nJune\t\nFirst I\nof Month, j\n134.46 [\n134.66 |\n134.05\n134.97\n134.46 |\n134.15\n133.74 |\n134.56\n133.23 |\n133.13 |\n133.54 j\n133.95\n133.95\n134.66\n136.40\n138.65\n139.26\n137.22\n136.30\n137.01\n137.32\n135.79\n135.48\n136.09\n138.14\n140.80\n145.30\n147.44\n147.96\n146.42\n149.80\n149.90\n144.69\n148.77\n150.31\n152.04\n155.01\n158.38\n161.25\n163.39\n164.21\n169.02\n175.15\n177.51\n182.72\n186.30\n190.29\n190.08\n191.00\n195.50\n198.26\n205.83\n207.16\n208.49\n210.02\n209.30\n206.50\nFifteenth\nof Month.\n128.42\nJuly.\t\nAugust\t\n128.06\nOctober\t\nNovember\t\n127.95\n1945\u2014\nJanuary\t\nFebruary\t\n128.82\nJuly\nMarch\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\n129.33\n130.96\nSeptember\t\nNovember\t\n130.17\nDecember\t\n1946\u2014\nJanuary\t\nJune\t\n127.87\nMarch\t\nAugust\t\nSeptember\t\nOctober\t\n134.98\n138.43\n1942\u2014\nNovember\t\n144.64\n1947\u2014\n125.12\nJune\nFebruary\t\n152.43\nMarch\t\n128.39\nApril\t\n159.38\nJune\t\n134.63\nAugust\t\n166.07\n1943\u2014\nNovember\t\n182.36\n134.19\nDecember\t\n1948\u2014\nJanuary\t\nj\n135.46\nFebruary\t\n189.10\nT 1\nMarch\t\nA\n132.45\n198.97\n132.05\n207.49\n1944\u2014\n128.28\n* Adjusted to base 1936=100. DD 34\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nTable 6.\u2014Comparisons of a Minimum Food Budget* based on the Respective Average\nPrices collected in Seattle, Wash., and Vancouver, B.C., November, 1947; May,\n1948; and November, 1948.\nDate.\nTotal Monthly\nBudget*\nCost\nin Dollars.\nIndex of\nAverage\nPrices, f\nComparison of\nBudget* Costs\nin Dollars.\nComparison of\nBudget*\nCosts by\nPercentages.\nSeattle.\nVancouver.\nSeattle.\nVancouver.\nSeattle.\nVancouver.\nSeattle.\nVancouver.\n$67.42\n67.67\n69.90\n$50.62\n51.94\n62.22\n100.00\n100.37\n103.68\n100.00\n102.61\n122.92\n+$16.80\n+ 15.73\n+7.68\n+33.19\n+30.28\n+ 12.34\nMay, 1948\t\n* Budget based on monthly \" basket of food \" used in British Columbia cost-of-food report.\nt November, 1947=100.\nSource: Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Victoria, B.C.\nTHE TOURIST TRADE.\nThe Dominion Bureau of Statistics, in its publication \" Canada's International\nTourist Trade, 1946,\" has presented its latest estimate of the expenditures in Canada\nof travellers from the United States as follows: 1941, $107,000,000; 1942, $79,000,000;\n1943, $87,000,000; 1944, $116,600,000; 1945, $163,300,000; and 1946, $214,200,000.\nIn 1941 this Bureau, after a careful investigation, estimated that United States travellers had expended $12,769,000 in British Columbia, and assuming the all-Canada\ntrend\u2014as shown by the Dominion Bureau figures above\u2014to be also true of British\nColumbia, purely tentative estimates have been found for 1942, 1943, and 1944 as\nfollows: 1942, $9,430,000; 1943, $10,400,000; 1944, $13,026,000. The International\nPayments Branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics has estimated that United\nStates travellers expended $22,000,000 in British Columbia during 1945, $34,576,000\nin 1946, and $32,389,000 in 1947. This Bureau estimates the comparable 1948 figure\nwill be approximately $34,000,000.\nIt is planned in 1949 that this Bureau, in co-operation with the British Columbia\nTravel Bureau, and the Department of Trade and Industry, Government of the Province\nof Alberta, will undertake a study of tourist traffic through British Columbia-Alberta\nports where information is not now being collected. It is known that there is a considerable movement of tourist traffic through the British Columbia-Alberta Border, but\nat present no accurate statistics are available. The measurement of this traffic would,\nno doubt, add a considerable amount to the tourist expenditures in British Columbia.\nTable 7 shows that during 1948 most types of traffic showed declines from. 1947,\nthe exception being aeroplane, local and commercial automobile traffic.\nFollowing the practice established in earlier years, American tourists visiting the\nProvince by automobile in 1947, according to their State origin in the United States,\nhave been listed in Chart 1. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 35\nCC rH\nQj -H\n\u00ab e\n&Q o\no\ncc oS\n-jSj. tM)\noi a\nh- Jh\nCO OS\n.2 c\u00ab\no\nEh\n5j\no\n\u2022V-\no\nfc\ns\nCJ\n\u25a08?\nCD\na\n\"HJHJ\nJs\n~h-H\n0\nIS)\n.a\nTrt\nUl\nca\na\nHH.\no\ns\nb\n,5?\nT3\nl-l\nCS\nrr!\ns\n\u2022 .h\nS-\nO\nH-,\n8\nTr;\nE\n3\ns\nO\ns\n( )\n3\nCJ DD 36\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\n>\n\u00abJ\n03\nSf$\nU\nHHJ\ns.\nEh\n\no\nr\u00ab\ntso\na\nSi\ns\na\nbs\n01\nH-J\nSs\n03\n.0\nTi\nT3\nOJ\na\nCC\n'-\"i\n*hS>\nn\n00\ne\nCH\ncc!\nO\nHH.\n\u00abH\na>\nO\n5\nI\u00ab\nCQ\na\n>,\nTS\nH-J\nV.J\n!h\nCD\nS?\nr=J\nrS\nO\nca\n\u2014J\n-5\nccS\n\"ri\ng\n!>,\n*i\na\n\u25a0*\u00bb,\n0\n00\nrfl\nHH\n<1J\nJ\u00bb\nrO\na\nO\n0\n&H\nO\n0\n+H\n3\ncc!\na\nCM\nrO\n0\n\u00a7\nrH\n^\nrQ\nO\nN\n3\nO\nrig\na\n00\nHH\ncc.\ns.\nCJ\nCQ\nT3\nO\na\n8\nfcJ\n5E\n03\nfH\n+H\nCD\n3\n*- *\u00a7\na\n<\nm\nc\nr-i\nO\n0\nO\na\nO t-\nC\nOOOO\n0 tr.\nOOOO\nOi\nO lH\non\niO O t- \"HI\nOi a\n\u2022* m co w\nrH\n1-1\nto CO\nIO\nffi rl CO N\nt-\nI-\nCO CN\nrH\nIO rH CO IO\nCO\nOi CM 00 CM\ntr- 0\nCM\nTf Tf M N\nCO IO\ntp\nto CO O CO\n*H\"\nt- 10\n00\nCO hi c_ Ifl\nOi 00\nCO tr- Oi to\nrH\nIO c-\nIO OI -tf rH\n\u00a9d CO\nnn\nt- Oi O hi\n0 c\nm\nCO -hi hi O\n\u25a0S\nrH IO\n(M\nOi OI t- CO\nrH tr-\nin\nO CD rH CM\nHl O\nrH\nCO tr- GO rH\nt- O\nr-\nTf IO CD ft\n<*\n\"HI\nOi\nOi OC\nO\nCO (M CO IO\ni-H CvJ\nCO\n00 CO IO O\nrH rH\nCO\nfc- CO CO t-\nH\nC- hi\n0\nHI C<\nH\nCM CO O O\nt- OC\n**J\nrH rH i-H CD\nrH\n(M \u00ab\nC- CO CM\nCO t-\nCT\nO rH IO f\n(M \u00ab\u00abj\nr-\ntO CS HJ H\nTH\nCM O*\nCO O -H. ^\nCO Ifi\nCO CD 00 TJ\"\nrH\neo 10\nCO tr- rH\nCO CO iH CO\nOi hi\nOJ c\n00 CN\nIO c\nCM CM i-C\nrH\nOi OC\nIO CO CO\nt- t-\ni-H W\n1- \u00b0i \u00b0i *! 1-\nCO CN\nt- 00 rH\n\u25a0-* O*\nOi rH\nrH (M\nt- OC\nJ_ t- \"^ *_ *1\nto CC\nCD tr-\nrH\nH\u00ab r-\nI\u2014\nco H.\nO CO\nN tr-\nIO CM\nrH\nH< ,-\nCO O\n0\n3\n03\n\u00a3\n1\n* ft\n\u25a0a P\nOC\n(-\n03 ,~. >\nfn CO C3\nO rl h\n0 t\ntraffic (number of trava\nt traffic (number of trave\ntraffic (number of travel\noplane traffic (number of\na\n7 *\nI\nca\nJh\n\n'c\nt-\na\nB\noj ft a\n^ e >\nJh \u00a3 n\nm 0 s-\n.\u00a7&\u00a3\n0 ^ --\n_. H C\\\nTJ w v_\nfl\n03\nfc\nc\nC\nEd 0 0 tu\n<\nm w m >\nfc\"\nH-\ng CO\n> s\ng g\n3 c\nIs '\nDEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 37\nRAILWAY FREIGHT INVESTIGATION.\nOver the years the mountain differential of Pacific scale of freight rates has been\ngradually reduced. Prior to 1914 the ratio of rates was as high as 2 miles Prairie for\n1 mile Pacific scale. In 1914 this ratio was reduced to 1% to 1 and in 1922 it was\nonce more reduced to lx4 to 1. Since then twenty-six years have elapsed, and in spite\nof tremendous population and economic growth no further reduction in the basic rates\nhas been made. The Provincial Government, therefore, backed by the Boards of Trade\nand other interested parties, applied to the Board of Transport Commissioners for\nequalization with the Prairie scale\u2014that is, it applied for the removal of what it felt\nto be an unjust discrimination against the people and industries of British Columbia.\nConsequently, the Board of Transport Commissioners held hearings in Vancouver\non November 1st to 5th, in Kelowna on November 8th, and in Nelson on November 10th.\nAs much preparation and organization was necessary, this Bureau was called upon by\nthe Attorney-General and his legal counsel to assist in this work.\nIn Vancouver the case was directly assisted by the services of the Director, the\nAssistant Director, a senior research assistant, a research assistant, and a secretary.\nDuring the course of the hearings the Director appeared and was cross-examined as a\nwitness. In Kelowna the Assistant Director and in Nelson the research assistant aided\nmaterially in the organization and preparation of those areas' submissions. The\nresearch assistant accompanied legal counsel in the hearings at Calgary, Edmonton,\nand Winnipeg. For the final argument in Ottawa the services of the Assistant\nDirector and a secretary were made available to the legal counsel.\nThe considerable time expended on the mountain differential case has been possible\nonly at the expense of a certain amount of the routine work of the Bureau and through\nmany hours of overtime by the staff.\nFollowing is a list of the briefs and submissions presented in British Columbia:\u2014\nVancouver.\n1. Premier's Speech.\n2. Historical Submission.\n3. Statistical Submission.\n4. Vancouver Board of Trade.\n5. Associated Boards of Trade.\n6. Vancouver Island Boards of Trade.\n7. Chilliwack Board of Trade.\n8. Paper Industry.\n9. Furniture Industry.\n10. United Distillers, Ltd.\n1. Kelowna Board of Trade.\n2. Revelstoke Board of Trade.\n3. Vernon Board of Trade.\n4. Kamloops Board of Trade.\n5. Interior Feed Dealers' Association\n11. Coast Breweries, Ltd.\n12. Petroleum Industry.\n13. New Westminster Board of Trade.\nWholesale Bureau of Vancouver Board\nof Trade.\nPaint Industry.\nAutomobile Dealers' Association.\nTariff Analysis. (There were also a\nnumber of charts and statistical submissions made.)\n14.\n15.\n16.\n17.\nKelowna.\n6. B.C. Fruit Growers' Association.\n7. Interior Canning Industry.\n8. Interior Vegetable Marketing Board.\n9. B.C. Tree Fruits.\n1. Nelson Board of Trade.\n2. Associated Boards of Trade.\n3. McDonald Jam Co., Ltd.\n4. Hardware and Building Supply\nDealers.\n5. Automobile Dealers' Association.\n6. B.C. Chamber of Mines.\nNelson.\n7.\n9.\n10.\n11.\n12.\nTrail Board of Trade.\nTrail Board of Trade, Young Men's\nSection.\nRossland Board of Trade.\nCreston Board of Trade.\nFlour and Feed Dealers.\nWholesale and Retail Grocers. DD 38 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nNEW PUBLICATIONS.\nBusiness Activity in British Columbia.\nIn order that business-men would have a comprehensive current report of British\nColumbia business activity under one cover, the Bureau now issues a monthly publication entitled \" Business Activity in British Columbia.\" The first issue was released\nin July of 1947. While the first issues have been mostly a tabulation of existing statistics, some articles relating to various phases of business activity have been included.\nIt is planned to include more articles of current general interest.\nBritish Columbia Trade Index.\nA revised edition of the British Columbia Trade Index has been in preparation\nduring the last few months, and it is expected that the new edition will be published\nearly in 1949. In addition to providing an alphabetical list of products manufactured\nin the Province, the new Trade Index will contain an alphabetical list of firm names\nfor cross-reference.\nBritish Columbia Facts and Statistics.\nThis publication was issued for the first time in 1948 and is to be issued annually\nhenceforth. It provides statistics and facts relating to British Columbia under the\nfollowing headings: Population, education, government, banking, transportation, communication, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining, manufacturing, tourist, and economic activity.\nADVISORY SERVICES.\nIn addition to the projects previously outlined, the Bureau has prepared numerous\nreports and memoranda for officials of other Provincial Government departments.\nMembers of the research staff were again loaned to many other branches of the\nGovernment, namely: Department of Railways, Freight-rate Mountain Differential\nCommission, Regional Development Division, Hospital Insurance Service, and Dominion\nGovernment Regional Statistics Office.\nIn addition, numerous tabulations and reports have been prepared for corporations, Boards of Trade, and private individuals, covering a wide range of topics.\nCO-OPERATIVE STATISTICAL AGREEMENTS.\nThe two co-operative statistical agreements negotiated in 1945 are now in operation. The Bureau has received most of the 1947 Census of Industry Schedules from\nthe Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The monthly reports covering sawmills' statistics\nfor the Province are received regularly.\nThe pay-roll statistics co-operative project is awaiting final arrangements with\nOttawa. It is hoped that this project will be well under way in 1949.\nLABOUR STATISTICS DIVISION.\nThe annual collection of labour statistics was again conducted for the Department\nof Labour by the Labour Division of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics. In\nconformance with the co-operative agreement concluded some years ago with the Provincial Department of Labour, the annual survey of wage-earners in British Columbia\ntrades and industries was completed and summarized for the year 1947 in the statistical\nsections of the Annual Report of the Department of Labour for that year.\nNew projects undertaken by this Division include a series of occupational wage-\nrate surveys being conducted with the co-operation of the inspection staff of the\nDepartment of Labour. Valuable data are in this way regularly obtained, dealing with\nwage-rates currently in effect in selected occupations in the various industries, and the DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.\nDD 39\nresults of the surveys made available to the Department of Labour and other Provincial departments requiring this type of information.\nMaterial collected and compiled by the Division continued to prove of valuable\nassistance to the Bureau in dealing with inquiries relative to labour problems and in\nthe work of maintaining the British Columbia Trade Index. While the greater part\nof the work in this section concerns the Department of Labour Report, many special\ncompilations are prepared for private industry, Boards of Trade, banking institutions,\nand various Provincial Government departments.\nA regional breakdown of the Provincial industrial pay-roll has again been set out\nfor comparative years in the attached Table 8, which shows the distribution of the\nProvincial industrial pay-roll through the ten census divisions for the years 1943 to\n1947. While the industrial totals serve to show the interesting changes occurring from\nyear to year in the different parts of the Province, as explained in the Department of\nLabour Report, they do not, however, represent the total of all salaries and wages paid\nin British Columbia, inasmuch as the industrial survey is not inclusive of such pay-roll\nsections as Governmental workers, railways, wholesale and retail firms, financial houses,\nprofessional and service trades.\nTable 8.\u2014British Columbia Industrial Pay-rolls by Statistical Areas for the\nComparative Years 1943 to 1947.\nRegional Area.\nTotal Pay-rolls (Salaries\n\\nd Wages).\n1943.\n1944.\n1945.\n1946.\n1947.\nNo. 1\t\n$7,151,250\n15,561,173\n6,763,085\n185,947,943\n55,800,769\n2,517,767\n8,527,530\n7,453,342\n12,096,884\n8,193,263\n1,393,314\n$8,374,558\n14,346,342\n7,463,090\n182,191,571\n50,899,508\n2,611,208\n8,645,994\n3,297,207\n10,439,557\n1,070,361\n460,300\n$8,234,954\n13,664,192\n8,729,129\n169,595,070\n52,450,178\n2,711,859\n9,351,432\n3,128,665\n7,148,057\n551,210\n772,126\n$8,792,650\n15,409,997\n11,047,243\n158,098,206\n52,609,451\n4,477,339\n10,680,963\n4,132,464\n5,592,647\n1,279,858\n835,686\n$13,089,910\nNo. 2\t\n20,065,572\nNo. 3\t\n15,407,310\nNo. 4\t\n196,814,172\nNo. 5\t\n73,305,625\nNo. 6\t\n7,068,034\nNo. 7\t\n14,091,695\nNo. 8\t\n7,287,683\nNo. 9\t\n8,260,298\nNo. 10\t\n8,385,552\n2,421,303\nTotals\t\n$311,406,320\n$289,799,678\n$276,336,872\n$272,956,504\n$366,197,154\nMINING AND METALLURGICAL DIVISION.\nIn accordance with the agreement concluded in 1938 between the Provincial\nDepartment of Mines, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, and the Bureau of Economics\nand Statistics, all mining production statistics, with the exception of coal, are collected\nand compiled by this Division. Under this agreement, uniform statistics are compiled\nfrom the one set of returns prepared by operators, and thereby avoids overlapping or\nduplication of effort involved on the part of the above-mentioned agencies, which\nco-operate in the collection and use of mining statistics. The information, when\ncollected, is made available for general use in a form which preserves the confidential\naspects of individual company's or operator's returns. Mining statistics in detail will\nbe found in the Annual Report of the Minister of Mines. Numerous special compilations, covering data not readily available in other departmental reports, were compiled\nduring the period under review by this Division for Governmental departments, banking\nand other institutions. Continued close contact with the Department of Mines has\nbeen maintained, and special statistical reports prepared for the internal use of that\nDepartment. Because of the continued interest in regional questions, the Division\nhas prepared a tabulation of the value of mine production by census divisions covering DD 40\nBRITISH COLUMBIA.\nthe 1946 and 1947 calendar years (see Table 10). In addition, Table 1 of the Annual\nReport of the Minister of Mines for 1947 is also included in this report (see Table 9).\nThis gives the Provincial quantities and value of the various classes of commodities\nproduced by the industry.\nIt should be kept in mind that this Division, in order to maintain continuity of\nrecords in the Department of Mines publications, compiles production statistics according to mining divisions, which in general follow closely the alignment as set forth for\ncensus divisions, but there are a few deviations and difficulty is found in accurately\nplacing minor quantities or values in the correct location in the approximate census\ndivision; however, no large amount is involved.\nTable 9.\u2014British Columbia Mine Production, 1946 and 1947.\nQuantity\n1946.\nQuantity,\n1947.\nValue,\n1946.\nValue,\n1947.\nMetallics.\n$\n96,322\n327,628\n771,698\n2,240,070\n4,322,241\n475,361\n23,489,335\n$\n384,255\n560,183\n941,266\n lb.\n17,500,638\n117,612\n15,729\n347,990,146\n41,783,921\n243,282\n6,969\n306,400,709\n8,519,741\n8,514,870\n200,585\n lb.\n41,884,977\n59\n , oz.\n6,365,761\n5,707,691\n5,324,959\n480,802\n4,109,538\nlb.\n517,794\n680,792\n lb.\n270,718,128\n268,450,926\n21,143,086\n30,147,039\n58,671,502\n96,461,099\nFuels.\nCoal \t\n1,463,640\n1,717,476\n6,220,470\n43,447\n71,351\n19,917\n318,500\n2,135\n2,310\n1,258,576\n8,587,380\nNON-METALLICS.\n52,362\n55,372\n1,116\n102,918\n1,156\n174,655\n19,686\n523,298\n464\n210\n126,622\n163\n157,161\n1,793\nSulphur* \t\n tons\nMaterials.\n No.\n No.\n1,503,714\nTotals\t\n1,716,416\n2,275,972\nClay Products and other Structural\nClay Products.\nBrick\u2014\nCommon \t\nFace, paving, sewer-brick\t\n3,300,000\n2,077,683\n4,318,000\n1,232,812\n94,000\n84,353\n283,317\n8,241\n105,194\n263,864\n2,811\n3,611\n122,660\n64,849\n389,899\n9,675\n158,276\n361,975\nDrain-tile, sewer-pine\t\n No.\n2,068,424\n1,962,583\n3,476\n9,332\nTotals\t\n845,391\n1,120,142\nOther Structural Materials.\n1,739,966\n642,912\n1,713,138\n99,710\n158,446\n1,896,772\n159,493\n151,671\n714,126\n1,828,919\n119,971\n216,873\n4,354\n154,164\n19,835\n222,044\nTotals\t\n4,354,172\n4,776,661\n71,807,951\n113,221,254\n* Sulphur content of pyrites shipped, estimated sulphur contained in sulphuric acid made from waste smelter\ngases, and elemental sulphur. 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DD 42 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nMECHANICAL TABULATION DIVISION.\nThe year 1948 has been the most progressive year since the establishment of the\nMechanical Tabulation Division of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics in 1938.\nDuring this year the staff has been increased from thirteen to ninety-eight, and\nthe number of mechanical units from seventeen to forty-two. This abnormal growth\nhas been mainly due to work undertaken for the British Columbia Hospital Insurance\nService, British Columbia Forest Service, Surveyor of Taxes, and Civil Service\nCommission.\nConsiderable difficulty is being experienced at present due to the lack of space, but\nthis should be eliminated by the move to the new building early in the new year.\nBritish Columbia Hospital Insurance Service.\nThe work undertaken for the British Columbia Hospital Insurance Service required\nthe coding and punching of some 475,000 registration forms, representing over\n2,000,000 punch-cards in the period from October 1st to December 15th. Once this\ninitial step was completed, 2,000,000 cards had to be processed to print the 475,000\nhospital registration cards for issuance to the public. Plans are now progressing to\nfacilitate the mechanical monthly billing of all firms on pay-roll deduction. At the\nsame time, punch-card files are being prepared to cover hospital payments and sundry\nstatistics. To meet our dead-lines on this job, it has been necessary to work the staff\nin two shifts continuously from October 1st, 1948.\nBritish Columbia Forest Service.\nIn July, 1948, a plan was put into operation whereby the mechanical equipment in\nthis Division was used to prepare the material for entries in the species and scalers\nledgers for the Vancouver Forest District. Approximately 40,000 cards were punched\nper month from copies of scaling and royalty accounts. From these cards, daily listings\nwere run and supplied to the District Forester in Vancouver. The Vancouver office was\nequipped with a transfer posting-machine, which permitted the mechanical posting of\nthese entries into species and scalers ledgers. At the end of each month the 40,000\ncards were summarized and monthly totals supplied for posting into the ledgers.\nAs the year closes, we are in the process of summarizing these files for the preparation\nof annual figures.\nSurveyor of Taxes.\nThe 1948 Session of the Legislature passed an amendment to the \" Taxation Act \"\nrequiring that an assessment notice be issued to the taxpayer prior to the issuance of\nthe tax bill. This billing covers all property taxes levied under the Taxation, Public\nSchools, and Water Acts, as well as school property taxes in villages and municipalities\nthroughout the Province.\nApproximately 150,000 assessment notices and 150,000 taxation notices and\nsummaries are involved. Each procedure requires the processing of about 1,500,000\npunched cards.\nThe initial run of the assessment notices was tabulated during the month of\nDecember, and the corresponding tax bills will be prepared during the month of April.\nCivil Service Records.\nDuring 1948 the work of placing Civil Service records on punched cards was\ncompleted. All notices of appointment and change notices are being prepared mechanically for the Commission from the card files maintained in this office. The cards are\nalso available for any statistical studies required by the Commission. Figures for the\nAnnual Report of the Commission will be tabulated from these files. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 43\nIn addition to the above new work, our regular jobs for other departments and\nour own statistical reports were maintained. Included in this work were the Annual\nReports for the Departments of Labour and Education, personnel records for the Public\nWorks Department, and monthly motor-accident reports for the Motor-vehicle Branch.\nFor our own Department, work was done on the trade index and import-export\nstatistics.\nTraining Programme.\nTo meet these additional commitments taken on during 1948, it was necessary to\ncarry out an extensive training programme. Commencing in July, classes for prospective key-punch operators were established. Due to the lack of available equipment,\nthese classes had to be held at night, and during the three-month period well over fifty\nkey-punch operators were trained.\nDuring the year both supervisors were given a two weeks' training course with\nthe International Business Machines Company at Endicott, New York.\nFuture Commitments.\nThe most outstanding future commitment is the preparation of the pay-roll for\nthe Department of Finance. Early in the year a plan was formulated and several test\nruns made to the satisfaction of the officials of the Finance Department. However,\nthis job has been held in abeyance pending the passing of the peak load created by the\nnew work covered in this report.\nCommencing April 1st, we have been requested to prepare the pay-roll for the\nBritish Columbia Liquor Control Board; it is proposed to use the same plan as\ndeveloped for the Civil Service pay-roll.\nAlso starting in April, we have been asked to present a plan for mechanical\npurchase-order control for the Purchasing Commission. Discussions are also being\nheld of the possibility of establishing a furniture inventory for the same department.\nPreliminary discussions have been held with the officials of the Superannuation\nCommission, who are interested in utilizing the equipment in this Division for maintaining superannuation records.\nIn closing, we would like to express our appreciation of the co-operation we have\nreceived from the officials of the various departments for which we have undertaken\nnew work. In establishing any new system., there are always many obstacles to be\novercome, and due to the patience and perseverance of these officials, we have been able\nto succeed in establishing a faster and more accurate record system for them. DD 44 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nREPORT OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION.\nThe last Annual Report contained a brief announcement of the creation of this new\nDivision established by Order in Council in October, 1947, to take over all those activities of the former Bureau of Reconstruction related to Trade and Industry.\nIt will be the purpose of this report to cover the activities of the Division during\nthe current year, under the Division's general directive of aiding industrial development\nand expansion of the Provincial economy, carrying out area surveys, and the preparation\nof a Regional Industrial Index to record and make available a flow of current and\neconomic information of general use to industry in the Province and elsewhere.\nESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD OFFICES.\nDivisional field offices have been established at key points strategically located\nthroughout the Province at the following locations:\u2014\nNelson: Region 1\u2014East Kootenay; Region 2\u2014West Kootenay.\nKelowna: Region 3\u2014Okanagan; Region 6\u2014Kamloops and South Central\nBritish Columbia.\nPrince George: Region 8\u2014Central British Columbia; Region 9\u2014North\nCoastal Area (Prince Rupert and Queen Charlottes); Region 10\u2014Peace\nRiver.\nVictoria: Region 4\u2014Lower Mainland; Region 5\u2014Vancouver Island and Gulf\nIslands.\nField representatives have been appointed in charge of these field offices, whose\nduties are to thoroughly familiarize themselves with the industrial requirements of\neach region, to maintain contacts with industrial concerns in their area (both large and\nsmall), to give particular attention to the smaller industrial operations in need of\nassistance and advice in regard to their specific problems and future expansion, to\ninvestigate and report on specific industrial problems of their region, to maintain a\nclose liaison with the Regional Advisory Committees, Boards of Trade, municipal governments, and all other agencies in their territory.\nSURVEYS UNDERTAKEN BY FIELD REPRESENTATIVES.\nDuring the current year the following is a summarization, in brief, of special\nsurveys undertaken by the field offices of the Division:\u2014\nRegion One (East Kootenay) and Region Two (West Kootenay).\nA survey of raw materials required for the establishment of a pulp-mill in the\nKootenay District.\nA survey in connection with the possible establishment of an iron-foundry, utilizing\nthe Sullivan iron-ore residue pile at Kimberley and iron-ore (hematite) deposits in the\nCreston and Kingsgate areas.\nAssisting in the cancellation of a township plan, concerning the acquisition of a\ntownsite for a new mine in the West Kootenay District.\nAssistance in obtaining surplus materials, machinery, and equipment through War\nAssets Corporation for mining companies in the region.\nArranging contacts for local industries with Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation concerning \" industrial housing.\"\nAssisting in arranging contacts for several smaller secondary industries with the\nlarger industries in the area.\nProviding marketing information for a boat-building industry in West Kootenay.\nNumerous other inquiries of a similar nature have been undertaken during\nthe year. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 45\nRegion Three (Okanagan).\nUnder direction of the Regional Advisory Committee, our field representative has\nbeen actively engaged in an area survey of the Okanagan District in relation to the\nincrease in population, during and since the war, of this section of the Province.\nChapter One of the regional brief, under the heading of \" Population,\" has been\ncompleted. The conclusions reached by the Regional Advisory Committee may be\nbriefly summarized as follows:\u2014\n(1) During and since the war the Okanagan region has experienced a considerable influx of new population (stated to be upwards of 17,000 persons)\nand private capital (approximately $14,000,000).\n(2) Employment has so far been at a high level due to the increased\nconstruction and industrial development of the region, occasioned by the\nintroduction of this new population and capital into the area.\n(3) This period of stimulation is drawing to a close with the completion of\nthe building boom. It is stated that increased farm revenue will not\nalone take up the slack of reduced building construction.\n(4) The existing producing lands (irrigated) within the area show a net\nincrease of only 266 acres for the whole period during and since the war\n(eight years).\n(5) On the basis of the Committee's figures and computations, the development of additional irrigated acreage amounting to at least 8,000 acres is\nconsidered a minimum to adequately maintain this population increase in\nthe area.\n(6) Such new irrigation-development should be so timed to offset the effect\nof the decline of private capital expenditure as building-construction\nlevels off.\n(7) The alternative is increasing unemployment in the region or the draining-\noff and dissipation of the new population to more congested areas, particularly to the Coastal regions of the Province.\nThe next stage of area surveys in Region Three will deal with land use, necessitating personal interviews with farmers, cattlemen, growers, storekeepers, plant\nmanagers, irrigation district secretaries and managers, School Inspectors, District\nAgriculturists, Government Agents, loggers and mill operators, secretaries of Boards\nof Trade, and Cattle Associations. The whole area of Region Three (Okanagan) will\nbe covered in detail from Salmon River Valley and Grindrod on the north, Granby River\nand Grand Forks on the east, and to Princeton, including Otter Creek and Aspen Grove,\non the west.\nFor the purpose of this survey the regional area has been divided into four main\ndistricts, namely: (a) North Okanagan, (b) The Tree-fruit Area, (c) Grand Forks-\nBoundary Country, and (d) Princeton.\nOur field office at Kelowna has rendered assistance to industry as opportunity\noccurred, and the following items are listed:\u2014\n(a) Establishment of a bean-sprout operation, Kelowna; now in operation.\n(6) Assistance given manufacturer of sporting goods in obtaining certain\nrestricted raw material essential to his operation.\n(c) Assistance in re-establishing and securing raw-material supply for a\ndoughnut-maker, Penticton (veteran).\n(d) Conjointly with the Government Agent, establishing a box-shook plant in\nPrinceton.\n(e) Information and data secured for proposed branch of an American non-\ncorrosive pipe manufacturer in Kelowna; sales office now opened.\n(\/) Efforts to establish a cannery in Westbank; operation expected in 1949. DD 46 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n(g) Investigation regarding development of clay deposits, Vernon.\n(h) Investigation regarding development of coal deposits, White Lake,\nPenticton.\n(i) Assistance to group interested in establishing a winery and amalgamation\nwith other winery interests; introductions arranged.\n(\u25a0?') Surveys concerning a new laundry for the region.\n(k) Investigation of possibilities for development of the rock-wool industry.\n(0 Survey concerning \" gift containers \" for the fruit industry.\n(m) Various forms of assistance extended to Falkland Brick & Tile Company,\nLimited, Falkland.\nMany inquiries from outside sources have been given attention, covering general\ndata of the region and assistance in providing data concerning a proposed ceramic\nindustry and a housing project for an unincorporated area in this region.\nOur field office also arranged itineraries and other details in connection with the\nvisits of Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, British High Commissioner; Peter H. Bennett,\nDeputy Director, United Kingdom Information Office, Ottawa; Sir Francis Wright,\nBritish Columbia Research Council; Dr. R. H. Wright, British Columbia Research\nCouncil.\nRegion Four (Lower Mainland) and Region Five (Vancouver Island\nand Gulf Islands).\nIndustrial activity in Regions Four and Five during the current year was highlighted by:\u2014\n(1) Commencement of operation of additional generating units of the John\nHart Development hydro-electric plant at Campbell River with potential\nmaximum capacity of 168,000 horse-power.\n(2) Commencement of construction-work on the $12,000,000 sulphate pulp-mill\nnear Nanaimo.\n(3) Completion of surveys and plans, etc., for erection of a $25,000,000 pulp-\nmill at Duncan Bay, near Campbell River.\n(4) Commencement of a rolling-mill, capitalized at $150,000, manufacturing\nsteel bars, rods, etc.\n(5) Commencement of a pulp-products operation on Granville Island, capitalized at $100,000, manufacturing artificial sponges.\n(6) $500,000 addition to veneer and plywood division of mill at New Westminster, manufacturing hard-boards of walls, etc.\n(7) Commencement of a wool-carpet manufacturing plant in Victoria.\n(8) Commencement of operation of a match-factory at Mission.\nSpecial Projects.\nCompletion of an industrial housing project of 100 houses at Lake Cowichan.\nBusiness Inquiries.\nInquiries handled by the regional office were:\u2014\nInquiry from a veteran in Victoria who sold his cleaning and dyeing business\nand desired to locate a cleaning and dyeing business in the Interior.\nInquiry from the Director of Industrial Development, British Columbia Electric Railway, on economic development of Squamish area.\nInquiry from students at University of British Columbia for assistance in\nobtaining information on the economic development of regional areas.\nInquiry from a veteran on possibilities of successfully establishing a window-\ncleaning business in Chilliwack or Mission district. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 47\nPotential Industrial Expansion.\nThrough personal surveys and several interviews with officials of Boards of Trade\nand other agencies, the following potential industries in the region are indicated, and\nthat such industries are based primarily on the availability of raw material, labour,\nrail and water sites:\u2014\nVancouver Island.\u2014Raw material available would indicate that a sawmill, rayon,\nor wood-plastic industry could be successfully operated in the vicinity of Ladysmith.\nThis centre has approximately 40 acres of water-front sites and 10 acres of railway\nsites to support any efforts of this nature.\nNanaimo, with excellent water and rail sites available and one of the main shipping\ncentres on the Island, is ideally suited to support the establishment of a fish-cannery.\nBoat-building and a ship-chandler's industry would appear warranted. Due to the\nabundance of timber in the immediate vicinity of Parksville and the availability of\nimproved rail sites, indications are that a sawmill and furniture-factory could be successfully established.\nThe excellent water and rail sites in the Port Alberni area, combined with an\nabundance of raw material, would indicate that a cellulose or newsprint industry would\nbe a successful venture. Cumberland has the necessary raw material for the establishment of a coal-processing plant. Indications are that a dry-kiln and a lumber-finishing\nplant have potential possibilities.\nLower Fraser Valley.\u2014North Vancouver is an excellent deep-sea shipping centre\nwith a good supply of labour and the necessary machine-shops, welding-shops, etc., to\nsupport and service the establishment of new industries. It was indicated, therefore,\nthat an aircraft-manufacturing industry would be warranted. The establishment of\na woollen industry was recommended due to the fact that this area has perfect humidity.\nDue to its excellent transportation facilities and the Canadian Pacific Railway\nfreight terminal yards, Port Coquitlam would seem ideally located for expansion of\nsecondary industries. Among the potential industries mentioned was a cannery for\nsmall fruits.\nChilliwack with its abundance of raw material and very favourable rail and highway facilities, with excellent industrial sites available adjacent to the railway, would\nindicate the possibility of establishing- numerous potential industries. Among those\nindicated were a box-factory to accommodate the ever-growing fruit industry and a\nfurniture-factory.\nBecause of the available labour-supply and raw material, Hope appears to be\nideally located for the establishment of lath-mills, planer-mills, and lumber-finishing\nplants. With Hope being a terminus of the newly constructed Hope-Princeton Highway, industrial expansion seems most probable.\nIn the Mission City area, there are good deposits of clay, which might warrant\nthe establishment of a brick and tile industry. Indications are that a milk-cannery\nmight be successfully operated. There are improved industrial sites paralleling the\nrailway, which would naturally support any industrial expansion.\nRegion Six (Kamloops and South Central British Columbia).\n(Under Kelowna Office.)\nOur regional office has been working in conjunction with a special Industries\nCommittee in securing considerable data required by important financial interests\nlooking toward the establishment of a beet-sugar industry in the Kamloops district.\nAssistance has also been rendered by our regional office in the establishment of a\nmeat-handling plant in Kamloops. DD 48 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe Regional Advisory Committee of this area has held frequent meetings\nthroughout the current year and in conjunction with the Industries Committee has\nsubmitted reports on the following questions discussed by the Advisory Committee:\u2014\n(a) Fraser River high-water control.\n(6) North Thompson Valley\u2014power and dairying industry.\n(c) Development of Nisconlith Lake and other Veterans' Land Act projects.\n(d) Pacific Great Eastern Railway extension to the main lines of the Canadian\nPacific and Canadian National Railways.\n(e) Development of South Thompson Valley.\n(\/) Meat-processing plant, Kamloops.\n(g) Development of sugar-beet industry, Kamloops region.\nRegion Eight (North Central British Columbia).\nExtensive surveys have been carried out by our regional office on the subject of\nmill waste, which have determined that a source of raw waste material, approximating\n114 car-loads daily, is available in this area for processing. Utilization of this waste\nraw material is one of the problems of this region that is being subjected to further\nintensive investigation through the appropriate departments of the Government and\nthe British Columbia Research Council.\nInvestigation into the clay deposits of the Prince George area has been undertaken\nand brought to the attention of European interests who are interested in establishing\na ceramic industry in this Province.\nOur field office has carried out preliminary investigations for the purpose of interesting industry in the limestone and iron-ore deposits of the region.\nSurveys have also been carried out on the possibility of establishing a pyrethrum\nindustry, and these investigations are continuing.\nMany industrial inquiries have been handled by our Prince George office during\nthe current year. One of these has resulted in the introduction of considerable new\ncapital in a substantial tourist establishment to be located on the new Hart Highway.\nThe Advisory Committee in this region has reviewed a number of matters relating\nto the industrial expansion of the area, particularly in regard to coal deposits, rates of\nlumber products in transit, land settlement, ferry improvements, and many other\nmatters.\nRegion Nine (North Coastal Area\u2014Prince Rupert and Queen Charlottes).\nThe chief development in this region to be reported during the current year is the\nestablishment of a large rayon-pulp industry in the Prince Rupert district, preliminary\nconstruction of which is now under way.\nInvestigations are being carried out by several other large industrial corporations\nin the Coastal section of the region, and our regional office is keeping in close touch\nwith these developments.\nIn the Telkwa district, coal production is being substantially stepped up, and discussions have taken place through our regional office regarding increased housing for\nadditional employees required by this industry.\nClose liaison has been maintained by our regional office with the colonization and\nindustrial departments of the Canadian National Railways in the region, particularly\nwith regard to increasing land settlement in this section of the Province, which abounds\nin large tracts of good agricultural land.\nSome new land settlement has been noticeable in the area during the year under\nreview, and with the anticipated establishment of substantial industrial operations at\nkey points in Regions Eight and Nine, considerable increase in land settlement can be\nforecast in this area in the near future. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 49\nRegion Ten (Peace River Block).\nVery little industrial development has been reported from this region during the\ncurrent year, but it may safely be predicted that large-scale developments will ensue on\nthe completion of the projected road outlet from this section of the Province.\nNEW INDUSTRIES.\nThe following is a partial list of new industrial enterprises which have commenced\noperations during the year under review and will indicate the steady growth and\nexpansion of industry in the Interior centres of the Province:\u2014\nRegion One (East Kootenay) and Region Two (West Kootenay).\n(a) Silver, lead, and zinc mine located on the Pend d'Oreille River, 4% miles west\nof Nelway\u2014surface plant constructed; employs 110 men.\n(6) Gold mine located near Nelson\u2014average of 135 employees in construction\nstages and now 82 employees.\n(c) Custom concentrator mill at Whitewater, and an important factor in successful\noperation of several properties in Slocan District.\n(d) Work commenced on building of a 50-ton mill at Jack Pine.\n(e) Gypsum quarry on Windermere Creek; extensive deposits to be opened up.\n(\/) Refrigeration plant constructed at Wynndel\u2014capacity, 36,000 boxes.\n(g) Sash and door company\u2014installation of new $20,000 green chain in company's\nyard; capacity (eight hours), 100,000 board-feet; located at Cranbrook.\n(h) Boat-building concern\u2014employs average of six men; located at Nelson.\n(t) Freezer locker plant\u2014located at Nelson; capacity, 260 lockers.\nRegion Three (Okanagan) and Region Six (South Central British Columbia).\n(a) Construction company \u2014 investment, $20,000; ten employees; located at\nEnderby.\n(o) Sporting-goods manufacturer and repairs\u2014investment, $10,000; two employees; located at Vernon.\n(c) Packing-house\u2014six to twelve employees; located at Osoyoos.\n(d) Furniture-manufacturing concern\u2014investment, $2,000; one employee; located\nat Osoyoos.\n(e) Lumber-mill\u2014investment, $15,000; ten employees; located at Keremeos.\n(\/) Coal mine\u2014investment, $100,000; twenty to thirty employees; located at\nPrinceton.\n(fit) Coal-dredging concern\u2014investment, $1,250,000; twenty-five employees; located at Princeton.\n(h) Sawmill and logging concern\u2014investment, $100,000; twenty-five to fifty\nemployees; located at Princeton.\n(i) Sawmill and logging concern\u2014investment, $75,000; fifteen to twenty employees; located at Princeton.\n(?) Box-factory\u2014investment, $25,000; ten employees; located at Princeton.\n(fc) Lumber sawmill\u2014investment, $30,000; fifteen employees; located at Merritt.\n(0 Two portable mills\u2014investment, $10,000; twenty employees; located at Clearwater.\n(m) Lime production and lime-products concern\u2014investment, $20,000; located at\nClinton; forty-five employees.\n(n) Manufacturing beverages\u2014investment, $15,000; five employees; located at\nPenticton. DD 50 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n(o) Furniture-manufacturing concern\u2014investment, $10,000; five employees; located at Penticton.\n(p) Wholesale fruit-shippers\u2014investment, $100,000; total number of employees,\n1,500; located at Penticton.\n(q) Cannery\u2014investment, $200,000; 500 employees; located at Penticton.\n(r) Furniture-upholstery concern\u2014investment, $1,500; two employees; located\nat Kelowna.\n(s) Soft-drink concern\u2014investment, approximately, $60,000; four employees;\nlocated at Kelowna.\n(t) Utility-polishes concern\u2014investment, $500; located at Kelowna.\n(w) Bean sprouts\u2014investment, $1,500; located at Kelowna.\nRegion Four (Lower Mainland) and Region Five (Vancouver\nIsland and Gulf Islands).\n(a) Coal mine developed at Tsable River, near Cumberland.\n(b) Broom-handle manufacturer at Hope\u2014six employees.\n(c) Fruit and vegetable cannery at Chilliwack\u2014forty-five employees.\n(d) Dehydrated-grass production\u2014fifteen employees; located at Chilliwack.\n(e) Box-factory at Mission\u2014four employees.\n(\/) Manufacturing sand-cinder-concrete building blocks at Port Coquitlam\u2014four\nemployees.\n(g) Pole-yard at Port Moody\u2014sixteen employees.\n(h) Manufacture of cement products, tiles, etc., at Haney\u2014five employees.\n(i) Woodworking and cabinetmaking concern\u2014five employees; located at Haney.\n(j) Additional plant machinery installed at original cannery to manufacture\nraspberry puree seedless pulp at Sardis.\n(fc) Sash and door factory at Abbotsford\u2014three employees.\n(I) Tile-manufacturer at Abbotsford\u2014three employees.\n(to) Banana-box manufacturer at Langley Prairie\u2014five employees.\n(n) Boat-building concern at North Vancouver\u2014seven employees.\n(o) Sash and door company located at North Vancouver\u2014thirteen employees.\n(p) Machinery-manufacturer at North Vancouver\u2014forty-eight employees.\n(q) Lumber concern located at North Vancouver\u2014eight employees.\n(r) Lumber-mill at North Vancouver\u2014eighteen employees.\n(s) Paint-manufacturer at North Vancouver\u2014eight employees.\n(t) Paint-manufacturer at North Vancouver\u2014ten employees.\n(u) Umbrella-manufacturer at North Vancouver\u2014thirty-two employees.\n(v) Sash and door company at Duncan\u2014three employees.\n(w) Ice plant at Port Alberni.\n(x) Sheet-metal works at Courtenay\u2014three employees.\n(y) Sheet-metal works at Courtenay (stove)\u2014three employees.\nRegion Eight (North Central British Columbia) .\n(in.) Cement-block plant at Prince George\u2014equipment includes a Morris block\nunit; capacity, 800 8- by 8- by 16-inch blocks or 4,800 bricks daily.\n(b) Steam laundry\u2014new equipment installed at cost of $14,000; eight employees;\nlocated at Prince George.\n(c) Ice-cream-making and pasteurization plant\u2014five employees; located at Prince\nGeorge.\n(d) Kiln-drying equipment installed at planing-mills at cost of $250,000; located\nat Prince George. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 51\n(e) Dry-kiln addition to mills, 30 miles east of Prince George\u2014capacity (seventy-\ntwo hours), three car-loads of lumber.\n(\/) New department store located at Prince George, employing thirty-five persons.\nRegion Nine (North Central Area).\nRayon-pulp plant located near Prince Rupert.\nREGIONAL INDUSTRIAL INDEX OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThe first annual edition of this publication was issued in December, 1948, and has\nbeen distributed to business interests in Canada and abroad, to Boards of Trade, to\ntransportation and banking officials, to Canadian consulates and trade offices throughout\nthe world, to schools and municipalities in the Province, and others. The Index has\nalready created considerable interest in the Interior sections of British Columbia as\npotential sites for new commercial and industrial enterprises.\nThe scope of this initial publication has been primarily confined to the non-metropolitan areas of the Province, it being felt that the activities of this Division should be\nfirst directed toward the fostering of industry in the outlying areas. It is the intention, however, to provide more comprehensive and broader coverage in subsequent\nissues.\nThe Regional Industrial Index has located the natural resources, industrial facilities, and pay-rolls by seventy-three districts. By this means, it is possible for potential\nindustrialists to familiarize themselves with the type and extent of economic activity\nprevailing in particular regions of the Province and to ascertain, in general terms,\nthe opportunities and facilities that are available for industrial expansion.\nANALYSIS OF INDEX.\nIt will be the task of the Division during the ensuing year to analyse the data\nbrought to the surface in the Regional Industrial Index as it relates to the respective\nareas of British Columbia\u2014to extract and brief information for industrialists seeking\nnew sites, to discuss with local Boards of Trade and other interested bodies the remedying of deficiencies in industrial facilities of any given area desiring and seeking\nindustrial expansion.\nLIAISON WITH BRITISH COLUMBIA RESEARCH COUNCIL.\nThe Division has co-operated closely with the Research Council. Through our\nfield representatives, information has been disseminated to outlying areas concerning\nthe Council's services and facilities available to industry. Inquiries have been channelled through our field offices to the Research Council during the year on many diversified industry problems.\nPUBLICATIONS.\nIn addition to the publication of the Regional Industrial Index of British Columbia\n(1948), the Division, in collaboration with the Departments of Agriculture and Lands,\nGeographic Branch, has arranged with the Meteorological Division of the Dominion\nDepartment of Transport to publish a brochure on frost data, covering all sections of\nthe Province. This publication will be released by the Dominion authorities and distributed by the Division early in 1949, and should be of special interest to fruit, vegetable, and hop growers and the food-processing industries, and fulfills a request\nreceived from many industries for up-to-date frost information of British Columbia. DD 52 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nREPORT OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT\nTRAVEL BUREAU.\nGENERAL.\nProbably never before in the recorded history of the tourist industry did a year\nopen more inauspiciously than the year 1948.\nThe motor-vehicle liability insurance card\u2014commonly known as the \" pink slip \"\u25a0\u2014\nhad just been introduced, and where it is now widely recognized as a wise and protective\nmeasure, there is no doubt that in the initial stages it did give rise to considerable\nconfusion and quite groundless apprehensions.\nThen came the flood conditions, when those two great rivers, the Fraser and the\nColumbia, swept aside all man-made barriers and inundated huge areas of British\nColumbia, Washington, and Oregon, isolating them, to all intents, for the greater part\nof May and June.\nTo add still further to our difficulties was the threatened railway strike, happily\naverted at the eleventh hour, but which caused a great many of our visitors to make\nhurried departures.\nThat this unfortunate combination of circumstances had widespread consequences\nand brought distress and ruin to many thousands of people throughout the stricken\nareas is fully recognized and deeply deplored, but we are dealing here exclusively with\nthe tourist industry, and the impact on that industry was heavy indeed.\nAt the same time the picture is not without its brighter side. Cancellations came\nthick and fast to all parts of the Interior, but these were to a great extent taken up by\nincreased travel from other parts of Canada and by a great many of our own people\nwho really saw British Columbia for the first time in 1948. On the whole the outcome\nfor the year was substantially better than we had reason to hope.\nIn 1947, 205,216 cars entered British Columbia through Border customs ports, as\nagainst 191,637 in 1948, a shrinkage of 13,579. But here it should be pointed out that,\nof an estimated expenditure by visitors to Canada in 1947 of $235,000,000, slightly less\nthan half was credited to travellers by automobile. The balance was spent by travellers\nby rail, steamship, bus, and aeroplane. What applies to Canada as a whole may be\ntaken to apply equally to British Columbia, so that when the final figures are available\nfor 1948, the results may not be so very disappointing.\nIt must always be remembered when considering the revenue from the tourist\nindustry that only a rough approximation is possible. The estimate of $40,000,000 is\nbased frankly on \" rule of thumb.\" There are too many imponderable factors for even\na close appraisal. Were it possible to follow the tourist dollar through all the intricate\nchannels of trade, the actual revenue, we know, would be far in excess of that figure\u2014\nso far in excess that $75,000,000 would be by no means a fantastic figure to offer.\nBritish Columbia prides itself on what it has to offer, and very properly. Unquestionably it is much the most spectacular of all the Provinces, with an atmosphere\npeculiarly its own. But, as pointed out, no single country has a monopoly of the\nthings that attract the tourist. Every country has them in greater or less degree, and\nevery country which feels that it has something to offer is out for the tourist dollar,\nand America's tourist dollar is prized above all. It has a new and vast significance,\nand the struggle for it will be intense and the competition ruthless. We are repeating\nourselves, we know, but we make no apology. We cannot emphasize too strongly that\nthe day is past for casual assumptions that the tourist dollar is \" pennies from heaven.\"\nIf we want that dollar, we must work for it. DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY. DD 53\nThe essence of the tourist industry is good roads and comfortable accommodations\nreasonably priced. Our scenery, our fish and game resources, splendid as they are,\ncannot be expected to play the sole sustaining roles. With the programme of public\nworks actually in hand and planned for the immediate future, we have every reason to\nbelieve that British Columbia will soon have a system of main highways to be counted\namong the best on the Pacific Coast. As for our accommodations, the efforts being\nmade by the Provincial Government to raise the general standards of comfort, cleanliness, and sanitation have already effected substantial improvements. With the\nco-operation of the operators, who have shown themselves to be warmly in sympathy\nwith the Government's aims and objects, it is hoped soon to establish a standard of\nexcellence which will place British Columbia in the forefront for its interest in the\ncomfort and convenience of its visitors.\nThe plan involves the careful inspection of all resorts catering to the tourist, and\nthe awarding of one-, two-, three-, or four-star grades according to the accommodation\nand service which the resort is able to offer.\nThe plan has been extremely well received, and is being carried out as rapidly as\ncircumstances will allow. To date, 61 per cent, of the 1,070 resorts in the Province have\nbeen inspected and graded.\nIt will be appreciated that the work of inspecting and grading tourist resorts must\ngo on indefinitely; that there can be no point where it can be said to be finished.\nResorts which have been placed in a lower category will naturally wish to improve their\naccommodations to qualify for a higher rating, and where such improvements are made,\nit is very necessary that the operator be given his higher rating without avoidable\ndelay. There is also the possibility that operators who are meantime in the higher\nbrackets may allow their accommodations to deteriorate to where a lower bracket would\nbe called for. And, of course, new resorts are continually being established, all of\nwhich must be inspected and graded without loss of time.\nIt is appropriate here to comment upon the excellent co-operation which has been\nreceived from the Health Branch of the Department of Health and Welfare.\nPUBLICITY.\nAdvertising.\nThe Bureau is pleased again to report an expansion of its newspaper and magazine\ncampaign in 1948 over 1947. Where, in 1947, $62,000 was at its disposal, in 1948 the\nsum was $65,000. As always, the main impact was on the eleven Western States,\nincluding again the State of Texas where the activities of our field representative have\nbeen distinctly productive. Besides the newspapers, a number of widely read national\npublications were used.\nThe policy was continued of placing colourful bulletin-boards at strategic points\non the highways of California, Oregon, and Washington. We were able, too, to conduct\na modest fall campaign in Eastern Canada, with a view to lengthening the season for\nour resort-owners.\nThis year we hope to revert to the practice of direct-mail advertising, with a small\nspecially prepared folder in full colour, extending a cordial invitation to \" Visit British\nColumbia.\" There is a personal flavour to this type of advertising which we believe\nhas a strong appeal to the recipient, and while the response to our previous efforts was\nsmall, we attribute this very largely, if not entirely, to the restrictions which were in\nforce at that time. Now that freedom of movement has been restored, the response,\nwe feel sure, will be commensurate.\nField-work.\nThis activity was vigorously maintained by our field representative, who has\ndisplayed a marked ability in cultivating the travel market of the Western States. DD 54 BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nThere is no doubt that his efforts have already been highly fruitful and that they will\ncontinue to produce substantial and lasting returns.\nMotion Pictures.\nThe Bureau's Photographic Branch continues to function in a highly satisfactory\nmanner. Its series of travelogues in sound and colour are increasingly popular, notably\nin the United States, where they are in steady circulation! The series has been augmented by the addition of films on Ernest Manning Park, the East and West Kootenays,\nand the Lower Fraser Valley. At present in hand are films on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, the Coastal trip from Vancouver to Ketchikan, and the highway from\nPrince George to Prince Rupert. New projects include a film on British Columbia's\nPeace River District and a series of industrial \" shorts.\" Already in circulation are\nfilms on the mining industry and egg production, on both of which the comments have\nbeen highly favourable, and a film on certified seed-potato production will be completed\nthis year. So excellent is the standard, that several of the Bureau's films have been\ntelevised by American telecasting companies. The Bureau's library now includes 140\nfilms on a wide variety of subjects and many hundreds of \" stills.\"\nLiterature.\nThe production of attractive and informative literature has always been one of the\nBureau's main preoccupations, and its booklets and folders are constantly being revised\nand brought completely up to date.\nCo-operative Activities.\nThe Bureau has several very successful co-operative efforts to record\u2014among them\nthe advertising campaign carried out in partnership with the States of Washington and\nOregon for pages in full colour in the popular publication \" Holiday.\" This is a\nremarkably well-conceived campaign in which the costs are apportioned on a very\nequitable basis, and where each participant is given precisely the same amount of space.\nThe results accruing from this unique example of international good-fellowship have\nbeen highly satisfactory.\nThe friendly relations between the Bureau and the Vancouver Tourist Association,\nthe Victoria and Island Publicity Bureau, and the Evergreen Playground Association\ncontinue to be of the best and a source of keen gratification. Mention must be made,\ntoo, of the co-operation given by the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner in\nLos Angeles and his staff, who have been extremely helpful.\nSETTLEMENT.\nWhile this report is essentially on the tourist industry, it would be incomplete\nwithout brief mention of the Bureau's Settlers' Information Branch. This is an activity\nwhich the Bureau has been at pains to develop over a number of years, to where it has\nmade itself the recognized authority to which all such inquiries are referred, at least\nin their initial stages, and the channel for the dissemination of information to all parts\nof the Englsh-speaking world. Unquestionably, of the many thousands of visitors who\nenter British Columbia annually, a substantial number come with the idea of making\ntheir homes here and remaining to take part in the development of a country whose\nyouth and vigour and abundant potentialities have a strong appeal. There is no thought\nthat its settlement activities will ever claim the leading place, but the Bureau is so\ndeeply involved in settlement and its competence so widely acknowledged that it must\ncontinue to take a keen and growing interest. Settlement is irrevocably associated\nwith the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau. VICTORIA, B.C. :\nPrinted by Don McDiarmid, Printer to tbe Kiug's Most Excellent Majesty.\n1949.\n1,795-349-8237 ","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Legislative proceedings","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"J110.L5 S7","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1949_V02_13_DD1_DD55","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0340583","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Victoria, BC : Government Printer","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy or otherwise distribute these images please contact the Legislative Library of British Columbia","@language":"en"}],"SortDate":[{"@value":"1949-12-31 AD","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1949-12-31 AD","@language":"en"}],"Source":[{"@value":"Original Format: Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Library. Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia","@language":"en"}],"Title":[{"@value":"PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Department of Trade and Industry REPORT For the Year ended December 31st 1948","@language":"en"}],"Type":[{"@value":"Text","@language":"en"}],"Translation":[{"@value":"","@language":"en"}],"@id":"doi:10.14288\/1.0340583"}