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PAGE FOUR ONTARIO THE UNENDING SEARCH > Since the down of civil- ization man has been engaged in a continuing search for new sources of energy. The quest never stops. Somewhere in the mists of the past, men discov- ered fire. He probably discovered it about the same time he gained the power of speech. Half po million or more vyeors went by before he grasp- ed the idea of harness- ing steam -- and more centuries before he could put steam to effic- ient use, With steam came the in- dustrial revolution, the end of human slavery, and the beginning of the new wealth of nation, Man developed fuels and sources of engrgy for his needs: wood, water power, then coal, gas, oil, electricity, gas- oline, and finally, as we enter a new age of yet uncharted frontiers --- uranium, Next, perhaps the harnessing of the hydrogen atom, So vast is this range of fuel and energy sources that within the boundar- ies of this modern nation of ours there are the Eskimos of the Arctic who still derive heat from burning the blub- ber of seals, settlers who depend on raw cord- wood, and engineers dev- eloping atomic powered stations for the genera- tion of electricity, | So complex is this age of power, so varied the #¥eeds, so boundless the scope that Ontario now has a Department of Energy Resources to co- ordinate sources of en- ergy and power to pro- tect the interests of its people, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RESOURCES Minister Hon. R. W, Macaulay Deputy Migister S. W, Clafkson ONTARIO TODAY Ontario's Drive For Industry BY JAMES MONTAGNES NTARIO trade officials are beat- ing the bushes throughout the United States, Great Britain, West- ern Europe and even Ontario to find new business for Ontario factories, A "crash program" is now underway to provide more employ- ment, to cut down on imports, to boost exports and to utilize manu- facturing facilities throughout the province to full capacity. At the opening of the Ontario legislature last November, Lieute- nant-Governor J. Keiller Mackay outlined in the Speech from the Throne plans to "reconstruct from our department of planning and development a new department of commerce and development to pro- vide more direct collaboration with federal departments with a view to stimulating business, increasing pro- duction, and extending trade ... A products research division will be set up to complement the govern- ment's present commercial and in- dustrial development activities , . . New products will be sought out L. S. Campbell, senior industrial officer, trade and industry, and defined which can be manu. factured by Ontario companies." Work began immediately to im- plement these plans. Two days later a conference had been called to find "increased employment through accelerated industrial ex- pansion," Government officials and industrial employers met at Toronto to study why "our economy is not developing fast enough to absorb an increasing percentage of the citizens who desire to work." Bluntly F, J. Lyle, director of trade and industry in the renamed Department of Commerce and De- velopment, said that "the problem of unemployment is with us today... In Ontario alone we will have to absorb some 600,000 people into our labor force during the next 10 years; that is to say, 60,000 addi- tional, potential workers per year," R, Lyle later told your reporter that the manufacturing industry' is the major factor in Ontario's economy, Manufacturing employs more people than all other indus- SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1961 Industry, population require more roads, F. J]. Lyle, director of trade-industry branch, tries in Ontario together, Ontario manufacturers produce half of Can- ada's total industrial output, Manu- facturing accounts for two-thirds of the net value of all congrodity production in Ontario, In the past decade 1,200 new manufacturing industries were open- ed in Ontario, In 1959, last year for which complete figures are available, Ontario gained 146 new manufacturing industries, 55 On. tario manufacturers expanded to new locations with branch plants, and 573 Ontario firms undertook major expansions of their factories, Ontario absorbed about 45 per cent of Canadian manufacturing invest- ment that year, The rate of expansion of the manufacturing industry as a whole has been slowing up since 1957 when 644,000 people were em- ployed,