Manufacturing and business opportunities in western Canada
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subject: Canadian Pacific Railway
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Business
is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Industrial Department
issued: 2017-10-10
created: 1911
description: Book listing C.P.R. stations and business opportunities in western Canadian towns. Second edition.
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note: / ' '"''" : - fj^Sm^^^f^imjieia^^Mi^ /I — *.... _ j — t !,.!.;.• ■ — ■■*■ —, ■-■" -X / - ■' '"- .;':.a.^-^"i„r^--'--^---- ■'■■■■ anufacturing and Business Opportunities in Western Canada ALONG THE LINES OP THE Canadian Pacific Railway SECOND EDITION 1911 ISSUED BY THE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT, WESTERN LINES r CONTENTS Pages INDEX TO STATIONS 7 to 19 INDEX TO INDUSTRIAL REQUIREMENTS— Western Ontario 21 Manitoba 21 to 23 Saskatchewan 23 to 26 Alberta 26 to 28 British Columbia—Main Land 28 to 29 British Columbia—Vancouver Island 28 to 29 FACTS IN RELATION TO Western Ontario 31 to 33 Manitoba 34 to 59 Saskatchewan 60 to 93 Alberta 94 to 116 British Columbia—Main Land 117 to 130 British Columbia—Vancouver Island 131 to 132 WATER POWERS 133 to 136 PREFACE The Industrial Department of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Western Lines, offers every facility at its command in the locating of Settlers, development of enterprises and manufactories at all points, and desiring to increase the industries along its lines invites particular attention to the superior advantages offered at numerous stations for additional manufacturing plants and to the many desirable business openings in this territory, as indicated in the following detailed information, showing population, industries located in each town, manufacturing and business opportunities, and such other information as would be of value to the prospective settler, manufacturer, or business man looking for a new location. It will be of interest to note a few figures, which will show some of the enormous wealth producing powers of the Great Canadian West. For instance the Grain Crop of the four Western Provinces, according to the Official Return for the Fiscal Year ending 31st March, 1909, was 355,042,449 bushels, which included, wheat, 144,700,231 bushels, oats 178,610,406 bushels, barley 28,841,108 bushels, flax 4,784,786 bushels, rye 68,891 bushels, peas 37,027 bushels. The wheat crop of the three Prairie Provinces in 1909 produced …
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0356977
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
current location: Box 194
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