PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Department of Trade and Industry REPORT For the Year Ended December 31st 1950
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is part of: Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia
creator: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
issued: 2017
issued: [1951]
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note: PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Department of Trade and Industry REPORT For the Year Ended December 31st 1950 VICTORIA, B.C. Printed by Don McDiarmid, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1951 To His Honour Clarence Wallace, C.B.E., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia. May it please Your Honour: I beg to submit herewith the Report of the Department of Trade and Industry for the year ended December 31st, 1950. LESLIE HARVEY EYRES, Minister of Trade and Industry. Office of the Minister, Department of Trade and Industry, Victoria, British Columbia. Honourable Leslie Harvey Eyres, Minister of Trade and Industry, Victoria, B.C. Sir,—I have the honour to submit herewith the Report of the Department of Trade and Industry for the year ended December 31st, 1950. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, EDWIN G. ROWEBOTTOM, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry. Report of the Department of Trade and Industry For the Year Ended December 31st, 1950 The completion of the first half of the twentieth century marked a period of time outstanding in many ways, not the least of which was the spectacular growth in the commercial and industrial life of British Columbia. This Province has come a long way since the turn of the century. As proof of this, it is only necessary to compare the gross value of production total of $19,447,778 for 1900 with the estimated gross value of production of $1,100,000,000 for 1950. As a side-glance, it is interesting to note that British Columbia's production in 1880 amounted to $2,926,784, made up almost entirely of manufactures in their simplest forms. Where 392 firms employing five or more persons operated in 1900, the total of such firms manufacturing at the present time is numbered in the thousands and the range of production has increased in proportion. The year covered by this Report was one of increased production in most primary products and particularly in manufacturing. For the first time in the history of t…
has type: Legislative proceedings
identifier: J110.L5 S7
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language: English
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