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Supplement to THE PORT PERRY STAR | > -- TARIO JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD § GREATNESS | Shown in a Series of Facts, Compiled by Frank Yegh, To EDWARD BLAKE Ontario's V::t Area. Ontario is 750 miles long by 1.000 miles broad, with area of 200,000 square miles. Ontario is as large as four Englands, and but little less than France and Germany. Ontario is 78,000 square miles larg- er than the United Kingdom. Ontario is only 4,000 square miles less than France, and 8,000 less than Germany. Ontario is larger than New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Ohio combined. Only 20 per cont. is thickly settled, or-a part as large as Wales. Ontario comprises 7 per cent. of Canada's area. Ontario is the half-way province between Nova Scotia and British Col- umbia. Ontario's Aericultural Wealth. Agriculture is Ontario's chief in- dustry, representing (1¢01) one billion of invested capital and yearly pro- duction of 200 millions. Seventy per cent. of Ontario's popu- lation is engaged in agriculture. Ontario's total grain crop, 1506, 170 million bushels, viz., wheat, 22 mil- lions; barley, 25 millions; oats, 111 millions; peas and beans, 10 millions; ! hay and clever, 4,862,830 tons. Ontario's fall wheat average, 1£06, 23.9 bushels per acre; spring wheat, 19; barley, 23.4; oats, 39.9; peas, 18. Average of fall wheat per acre, 24 years, 1882-1005, 20.4 bushels; spring wheat, 15.8. Value "of Ontario's fall and spring wheat production, 24 years, 1852-1905, $456 ,000,000. Average price ner bushel wheat, 24 years, 132-1€05, 78.5 cents; spring, 80.8; barley, 47.0; oats, 31.6. Enrollment in Guelph Agricultural College, 1906, 1,100. Ontario has 13 million acres under cultivation. Ontario's farming industry output has doubled in the last two decades, without much increase in acreage. Over 5,000 farmers conduct experi- ments on their own farms annually. Ontario has 24,184,640 acres of as- sessed land. Ontario has 3,349,100 acres of clear- ed pasture land. Ontario had, 1906, 43,560 acres in rape, 6,902 in flax, 1,732 in hops. Ontario's annual value of field and live stock produce, 1901, 197 millions. Ontario has 20,000 members of Farmers' Tnstitutes and 8500 mem- bers of 208 Women's Institutes. Ontario's total value (1905) of farm lands, buildings, implemer-'s and live stock, $1,154,699,184. Market value of Ontario's field "erops, 1905, $142 800.000. Canada's Agricultural Wealth. Canada produccd, 1606, 363 milion bishels of grain of all kinds, including wheat. 45 per cent. of Canadians -are en- gaged in husbandry. 63 million acres occupied in 1601; now, 80 million acres. 87 per cent. of Canada's own their holdings. farmers Canada exported, 1906, 54 millions 4 of agricultural préducts, Canada exported 1€06, 68 millions of animal products, a total -of 120; in- crease of 27 millions over i Canada exported, 1896-1908, 833 mil- lions of agricultural products. Canada had 1 billion, 737 millions, invested in agriculture, (1901). . Of this, 1 billion was in land, 275 millions in live stock. Estimated capital now invested in agriculture, two billions. Canada has invested 4 times as much in agriculture as in, manufac- ture. Annpal value of farm crops and pro- doce Tn Canada, 363 'millions. (1901). Estimated value of products now, 450 millions. Total value of farm property, lands di - and implements, 1} billions. (1901). | Ontario's Dairy and Live Stock Industries. ' Ontario's cheese exports are now worth 23 millions, butter, nine mil- lions; bacon, 15 millions; 46 in all, in addition to 50 millions for home consumption. ES Cheese 'factories in- operation in 1905, 1,198. Output, 1905, 164,866,223 Sounds, milk used, 1,741,534,876 pounds. Gross value of same, $17,417,757. Of sum $15,599,602 was paid to 56,- 0 patrons. lie in operation in 1905, Butter made, 1905, 10,142,289 pounds; value, $2,131,554. Average number of patrons 19,184; average price of butter per pound, 21.02; amount paid to patrons, $1, 827,235. Ontario has 1,130,000 milch cows. Ontario had, 1903, 638,147 horses; 2,963,518 cattle; 1,304,809 sheep; 1,819,- 773 swine; 10,254,334 poultry. Ontario is the breeding ground of thorough-bred stock for the American continent. At Chicago Fair, 1893, Ontario breeders won 932 live stock awards; all of U. 8. 1,494. At St. Louis Fair, 1504, one-half of total awards in cattle and horses were won by Ontario stock. In six years, from 1896 to 1902, the production of beef increased by near- ly 100 per cent. Bacon production increased from 10 millions in 1896 to 22 millions in 1905. In cheese the corresponding rate of increase was 70 per cent. The production of butter has in- creased at an even greater rate for the past seven years, since an ade- quate system of cold storage transpor- tation has been in operation. . Ontario sold, or slaughtered, 1906 of fall 741,476 cattle; 64,761 horses; 574.416 sheep; 2,222,758 swine; 3,473,708 poul- try. Value of live stock sold or killed, 1905, $59,378,046. Ontario has 75 | horseflesh. . Ontario's wool clip, 1906, 4,543,981 pounds (834,808 fleeces). Ontario had (1906) 196,387 colonies of bees. millions" worth of Ontario's Climate. Southern Ontario is in the same latitud> as Southern France and Northern Italy. COntario's mean annual tempera- ture. (1905) 42.3 degrees; for 24 years, (1352-1905) 43.2, Ontario's mean temnorature for the six growing months (April-September, 1 , 67.6 degrees. n above horizon, (1€05) 4,463.3 rage of svnshine, (1905) 1,045.6 ; April-September, 1,279.7. Rainfall, Nowv>mber-March, 1905-6, 2.14 in. snow, 66.2in.; rainfall, April- Soptembar, 1006, 16.35 in. O:torio's Educational System. (Stati tics for 1905.) Ortario spent 5'f millions on pub- lie schools. Ci this stm. $3,422,024 teachers' salaries. Ontario had 5793 public with 507,170 pupils. Cost por pupil, enrollnd attend- arce, $13.01. : Average daily attendanc: at pub- lie schools, 252,077. Number of teachers schools, 8;679. Of these, 6,840 are women; 1£39 men. 4,442 schoc!s, Average annval salary teachers, £514; female, $343. Senzrate Schools. Roman Catholic separate schools, 23, were for schools, in public teachers attended Normal for male Number of teachers, 970. Number of enrolled pupils, 49,524. Total sum expended. $637.134. | Kindergarten and Night Schools. Kindergartens, 133; 12,480 pupils; 269 teachers. + Night schools, 10; 620 pupils; 17 teachers. High Schools and Collegiate Institutes High schools, 140, (including 42 Collegiate Institutes); 23,661. pupils; 639 teachers. ' 'Total sum expended on high schools, $1,004,493; 'cost per pupil, enrolled at- tendance, .05. . 5,224 pupils attended 429 continua- ; tion classes. ) C bined El +. © Schools. 5 Pupils * enrolled, 488,256 (21.92 of population); average cost per pupil, SHB EF Miscellaneous (Education). Total number of teachers in On- tario, 9,649. (Of these, 8,058 belong to 80 Teachers' Institutes.) ; Percentage of total population en- rolled in Ontario Schools, 21.92; U. 8,, 20.01. 3 School expenditure, per capita of total population, Ontario $3.31, U. B. 36. y and 8 dary Ontario has 83 school inspectors. Ontario has 423 free and public librarieo. : Torovto University had JULY 1, 1867-===JULY 1, 1907. (COPYRIGHT--ALL RIGHTS ReSERVED). OLIVER MOWsT ral'ment of 3000. second lare~t Empire (Edinburgh havine 35000 Toronto and Cambridee En vorsit: are about the srme size Torento Medical School envollizent 650; Johns Hopkins, 159 Government erant to Univer it Toronto will be £359,000 in 1007 in of Ontario's Fruit Incustr. Though the fruit industry i: enls in its infancy, there are over ten ml lion apple trees in the proviics. The productign of apples irerea cd from 1391 to 191 by nearly 30) pa cont. that of pears and plums be 1.000 per cent. The production of small fronts and vegetables is relatively as important and no less successful. Ontario's apple crop (1906), 35 mi! lion bushels, from 6,898,810 trees. 5.07 per tree as compared wit) in 1905. Ontario had (1906). 352 306 acres in orchards and gardens and 12,725 acres in vineyards. Ontario's bearine fro't trees of nll kind; (1906), estimat-d at 11'; mil. lions. ON C47 Ontario's Finances and. Bankin-~. Government reesipts, 1906, 37.140. 478; expenditure, $6.720,179; surph - $429,299. Some items of revenue: Dominion subsidy and special grant $1,339,247. Department of Lands, Forests and Mines, $2.253,199. (Of above item, sale of Crown lands. $202,090; leare and rents, $49,091: bo- nus, timber dues, ground rents, ete, $1,900,914; mining licenses and fees, $70,256; royalty on mines, $15,00).) Liquor licenscs, $579,207. Fisheries, $63 . Supplementary revenue act, $C44.- 201. Succession duty, $1,015,713. ($86,000 of above duty was paid to University of Toronto.) Earnings T. & N. O. Railway, $15+- 154. Ontario will now receive increased subsidy of $780,000 from the Domin- ion. Ontario's cash and debenture sets, Dec. 31, 1906, $3,701,523. Ontario's trust funds held by Dom inion, $3 382,847.564. Ontario's direct liabilities 986.01 (against which is asset of Gov- ernment Railway). Estimated Government 1907, $7,612,237.23. Estimated expenditure, $6,519,131.22 Ontario's Government has spent over 256 millions since 1857 on roads, bridges and buildings. Paid-up capital of banks doing business in Ontario, (Sept., 1906) 87 millions; deposits 539 millions, assets 852 millions, Ontario's banking capital has more than doubled in 10 years. Of nine millions of Ontario' bonds issued, 1906, Canada took about three millions; Great Britain, six millions. Canada has 36 chartered banks, with nearly 1,700 branches. 123 bran- ches in 1863. Seven new banks organized in last six years. Canadian banks had (Dec. 31, 1506) 95); millions of paid-up capital; 73 millions of notes in circulation. Sixty years ago 17 banks with six millions in circulation. Bank assets, 954 millions; liabili- ties, 782 millions. Assets have Increased over 800 mil- lions since 1863; trebled in last ten years. . Bank discounts, 559 millions. Current loans in Canada, 543 mil- lions. Bank deposits in Canada. 550 mil- lions; trebled in ten years; doubled in four years. Canada has over 1,000 postoffice and Government savings banks; 212.- 000 depositors have 62 millions on do- it. + : Twenty-seven = millions" more "in special savings banks, 40 millions in private banks, loan companies. ete. Grand total savings of 72) millions ~over $109 per head, the highest re- eord of any country in the world. Ontario's and Canads's , Wealth. Ontario hos 5,274 engazed is fish: as receipts, Fishery ery dinduztry; capital invested, $1,- 130.000; value 'of 'catch; 195, $1,703, i Ontario's revente froma fisheries, 1908, $62,593. PE Canada has the most extensive fizh- ies e world, including 12,73) g coast lina, Ey $15,041, | o] ARTHUR S. HARDY Canada's fishery season of 1905 was a record breaker Canada's fishery industry produce cd. in 1965, 29%; millions, merease of nearly six millions over 1004 Fishery produeetion almost equalled combined gold and coal production. Canada exported, in 1906, over 16 millions" worth of fishery products-- increaze of five millions over 1605. Salmon comes first in value, lob- eter, second; cod, third; herring, fourth. Salmon value, 9 4; cod, 32-3. Canada has 100 000 men employed in the fishing industry. Canada's fishery equipment is worth 13 millions, with seven million fathoms of nets. British Columbia comes first in fich- ing industry for first time; Nova Sco tin. second; New Brunswick, third Canaan has 18 fish-breeding estab. lishments. Nine thousand, three hundred and sixty-six sailors manned 1,334 fishing craft. and 73,500 fishermen used 41, 463 boats Total value of fisheries of Canada 1869-1905, £25 millions. Cod first, 136; salmon, $0; lobsters, 79; herring, 72 and mackerel, 46. Fishing bonuties paid, 182.1905 $3.7¢0,6%5, divided amone 742.024 men Government fishery expenses, 1005 $963.722. Four tich culture, $209,376, protection service, $249.876; bounties $158,546. Product of sardines. $37R.372: eels $127,703; oysters, §174.306; clams $239.251; eavaire, 3.804 Value of bait used, 1905. Canada's lobter plant valued $1,426,309. 723 lobster cannerica. Ont-rio's Crown Lancs. millions; lobster. $455.97.0 at Ontario has a tertile 16 million acre clay belt in New Ontario The Grand Trunk Pacific will pa = throvgh ti clay bolt me and Northern Ons Railw l-o makes aceersble vast region, Ontario has cood aoriculiural land settlers in »odiztricts of Nips and Rainy soectinme td that Ontario vet has 2) million of rool land for cies [ settlement iv will sell these erown igri- lands for ranging as low az 50 cents an ace on easy term. Ontario has 126 million acres of land, 40 mi'hons surveyed Of the 120 million acres, 23 mills ns have been dizposed of, leaving 103 millions in the ercwn, 856 millions still vn . Ontario's perthern arable tend. to the Height of Lend. Ontzrio os a Fiald for Immigration. proces land ex- Ontario prescnts a most attractive field for immigration. Ontario offers special advantages to the British tenant farmer. Ontario's immigration (1906), 41.¢58 --ircrease of 25 per cent. over 1€05. Averrze rate of wages paid farm laborers, in 1905: Per year in yearly engagements, with board, $1€2; with- ort board, $266; per month for work- ing season, with board, $21.61; with- out board, $31.82; domestic servants, per month, $8.86. . 1906 was Canada's record year in immigration. Canada received 189,064 immigrants to June 30, 1906--increase of 42,798 over 1905, and 53,733 over 1904. Re- ' ceived calendar year, 1906, 216,000. Canada has received 710,000 immi- grants in six years, viz., 273,000 from i Great Britain, 240,000 from the Unit- ed States. Canada received, in 1906, 152,000 from Great Britain and Europe and 64,000 from the United States. Over 60 per cent. of the immigra- tion of 1906 was agricultural in its character. Seventy-five per cent. of the immi- grants of 1906 speak DIpglish. The 1906 immigration wra largely Anglo-Saxon. Increase in foreign immigration. to June, 30. 1906, 7,000; United States, 14,000; Great Britain, 21,000. Three hundred and four thousand Anglo-Saxon immigrants arrived . ia three years, 1903-5, as against 107,000 1 foreigners. , Canada will, it is estimated, re-- caived, 300,000 231.£21 Canada in past six years. immigrants in 1907, They bropght, in cash and settlers' clects, 8) millions at $350 per head. Iifty-four different national! cr ntries were represented in the im- sv 'gration of 1206, representing chief Ll mtineuts, ) "Hr Americans have come to ities and _ "CANADA'S 40TH BIRTHDAY GEORGE W. ROSS Ontario's Manufactures. Ontario had (1961) 214 mullions in vested as fixed and workine manufac turing capital---nearly 50 per cont figures for all Canada Salaries and vages (1791) 36 mil: lions; goods produced. 241 millions 50 per cent. of total amount for all Canada Ontario's manufacturing establish- ments, 6,543; owners or cmployes, 15.53%; salaries, $11,862,254; waves. $44 032. Ontario's Municipal Statistics (For 06.) ol Ontario hes 1.242 municipalitis-- 038 townships; 254 cities, towns and villages, ete. Acres of assessed land in Ontario, 1905, 24,184,540; acres cleared, 13,931 ,- 437; acres of woodland, 5,594,673; acres of slashland, 1,311 wamp, marsh or waste lands, 6,434. Pei cent cleared 57.2. Value of farm lands, 1905, $649,201 ,- 364, buildings, $264.334.514, imple- ments, $63,629,646, live stock, $172,- 443,760 total of $1.154,699, 124. Aveiage value per acee of farm land occupied, 1005, $26.24; of building, $10.92, implements, $2.84, live stock, $7.14--total $47 74. Total of 16, 451 chattel mortgages, Deel 31,1905, $18,372,358; of this, 7,432 were against farmers for $2,763,390 Ontario's population (1905). per Bu- reau of Industries, 2.101.260 rural, 1.061.018; urban, 482.254; cities, 557,- 034. Assessment, $1.036,91.).130 Taxation (including schools) 549,522. Rate of taxation. per head, $7.00 Taxes for schools, £5,439,498 Ontario's deb nture debt (1904) $68,- 145.775 ($32.83 per head) Sevoenty-six villages and towns own- ed and operated (1504), clectrie or gas treet licht plants aggregate valve, $2,651,907, Ontario's Mi. 1 Ontario has a greoten virlety mineral deposits in proportion population than any country in the world. Ontario has one of the richest pros- pective silver fields in the world in Cobalt. Ontario's annual mineral tron, 1995, 16", millions, or including steel, 20) millions, (1506 227, millions) Ontario has the richest nickel mines mn the world. These mines supply 57 per cent. of the world's output. Ontario's nickel mines have pro- dveed 4) millions" worth since 1882, Ontario has been paid $1,085,000 for part of bad of Cobalt Lake. Cobalt shipmen.s: 1904, 153 tons ore, value $136,217; 1905, 2,144 tons ore, value, $1,473,196; 1906, value 5 mil- lions. 22 Cobalt mines are producing; five have paid dividends. Helen ison ain» produced one mil- lion tons in six years. Lake Superior Corporation assets at Sault Ste. Marie, June 30, 1906, 54 millions. Steel rails are made at Sault Ste. Marie, at rate of 500 tons a day. The iron and steel plant at Sault Ste. Marie has capacity of 200,000 tons of ingots, and 180,000 tons of finished products n year. In 1905-06 the Algoma Steel Co. turned out 222,891 tors of steel, the ingredients of which were 180,472 tons of Canadian pig iron, 21,219 tons of foreign pig iron and 46,821 other ingredients. Hamilton Steel and Iron Co., has 4 furnaces, and a rolling mill in opera- ion. Iron and steel inrnaces are also in operation at Midland, Collingwood and Deseronto. Ontario's total pig iron production, ; 1905, 256,704 tons, valved at $3,509,- an and 133,337 tons of steel, $3,321,- $16,- Kiches. of th produc Ontario crude oil output, 1906, 19,- 923,322 gallons; bounty paid thereon, $298,024. : Ontario's Population (Based On Do- | minion Census of 1901.) Population 1812, 80,000; 1837, 397,- 500; 1871, 1,620,851; 1881, 1,923,288; 1801, 2,114,321; 1001, 2,132,947; now, estimated at 2,500,000. Ontario contains 40 per cent. ~of Canada's population. Ontario first settled 120 years ago by 10,000 United 'Empire Loyalists and others. Ontario's urban population, 1890- 1900, increased by 14% per cent.; rural decreased by 3% per cent: Ontario's rural population, 1900- 1904 declined 27,000, while cities and THE SISTERHOOD OF PROVINCES ronto, Illustrative of its Area, Commerce, Resources and Wea'th, With Portraits of Its Premiers. J. P. WHITNEY towns increased from 794.000 to 887 - 000 Tn 1901, 121 451 Ontario prople had gone to the Canadian west. Ontario has 150,000 paple of Frenchy descent Ontario had. 1001, 1,036.307 females, married, 771,445, divorced, £29 LH53.787 of Ontario's population, or per cent. Canadian born: 11 por cnt. British Isles and possessions; 2 peroeont. United States. Religions. Methodist, 656,383, byterian, 477.326, Ronn 590.304. Anelican, 567.057 116.520 (1201) Nomber of families, 456 264. Number of houses, 439.742 Ontario's representation. 1901, ia Hovee of Commons, £6, in Senate, 24, total 110. Ont-rio's Railways. Ontario has 8.000 cules of railway; nearly 40 per cent. of Canada's mile- age; 1.447 miles at Confederation. Temisknming and Northern Ontario Railway will--have cost 12- millions when it reaches the I. junction. 462 miles of railway treck were laid in Ontario in 1506 Ontario's Government Railway viclded aonet revenue, 1006, of $158,- 154. Mileage of railway built from North Jay to Englehart, 139 (with 33 miles additional for sidings.) Mileage under construction and contracted for, 126, a giand total of 203 miles Ontario's Timber 1.096.640 males; single, 1.310.402: widowed, 100,371, 6 Pres- Catholic, Baptist, Recources. Ontario has the richest pineiies left on the continent Ontario hns vast palp wood areas. Voor prlp nlants aie at Sault Ste. Sane and Stureeon Falls Tt is estimated that Opto milion covds of pulprocd Cotarto has six billion fect of nnsoll pines vorth 42 millions. (e~timate) Ontario's forest avea estnaated E2020 squire pales Ontario has 17.050 quae tiebo areca under Joos Ontario bad 247 sawm!! ton in 14 Ort: Ontario owners Hydvo-Eletrie corami-<ion repoits water pover capable of covaating 3- 200.000 hoop. Thiz is probably only Ortario's resources in Niccara power in osicht when doe velonodo will aggregate, 700.000 hop. 450 Gy) ho pois being devolon od on the Canadian side of th river Niagara power is row transmitted to Toronto. It 1s estimated thera ave ©0000 hese power available within 70 miles of Ottawa. All of northern Ontar'e is 1h water power resources. Wakrheka Falls copal sof dovelon- ng 30.000 horse power 19000 already dovelonod; a sceond 10.0 bing de- veloped, Bix Thin-s In Canaca. Canada has the larcest consceutive wheat field in the world 900 by 300 miles. Canada has the most prolific and extensive sea fisherie: in the world, as well as some of the groatest sal- mon rivers. The largest grain mill in the Bit- ish Empire is in Montreal--the Ogil- vie Flour Mill havin? a capacity of 4,400 barrels of flour in 24 hours. Canada has the larcest elevator in the world at Port Aithur--capacity seven million bushels. The G. T. P. will build a 10-milllon bushel elevator at Fort William. Canada has the larcest lift lock m the world--at Peterboro. . Canada will have the lorgest bridge span in the world at Quebec. Canada has one of the latgest single canal locks in the world, at Sault Ste. Marie. : : Canada has, in the Yukon, one of the richest gold fields in.the world. Canada has the largest nickel mines in the world, and the kircest single nickel producing mine in the Creig®h-, ton. : ' Canada has the richest .ilver-nickel- cobalt deposits in the world at Coba't. The "thickest known &oul seam in the world--47 feet--has been found at Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Canada's largest copper mine is the Granby in southern British Columbia. Canada's largest freight vessel, Tas Midland Prince, is 436 feet long. . One of Canada's largest industrial astablishments is the Massey-Hairis! works, with over 3,000 men. x \ 0 has 233 at miles of in opera- o's Wats: Do 15 sp cially oon ers. 1a water me-half of this direction. in