Report of A.H. Blackeby on the state of the manufacturing industries of Ontario and Quebec .: Z1-1884/2E-PDF

"I have the honor to report that, in accordance with instructions Order contained in an in Council dated 6th May, 1884, a large number of manufacturing industries of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec have been visited by me, and statistics obtained as to their progress and general development since the change was made in the fiscal policy of the Dominion. That the general result of that change has proved decidedly beneficial to manufacturing industries there is now no dispute, and is fully borne out by the figures herewith submitted. It is true that, in some industries, the privileges of supplying the Canadian market for manufactured goods with the produce of our own mills has been too largely taken advantage of by capitalists anxious to put their money to a profitable use, and in this way the market (which, although a growing one, has its limits) was, for a time, unduly stocked with these classes of goods. This was but natural, when it is considered how limited knowledge manufacturers had of the wants of the Canadian public"--p. 4.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Privy Council Office.
Canada. Commission on the State of the Manufacturing Industries of Ontario and Quebec.
Title Report of A.H. Blackeby on the state of the manufacturing industries of Ontario and Quebec .
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Rapport de A.H. Blackeby, sur l'état des industries manufactières d'Ontario et Québec.
Historical publication digitized by the Privy Council Office of Canada.
Caption title.
"48 Victoria.; Sessional Papers (no. 37.); A. 1885."
Commissioner: A.H. Blackeby.
Printed in: Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, 1885, vol. 10, no. 13, p. 4-35.
Issued also in print format.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : [Printed by McLean, Roger & Co.], [1885]
Author / Contributor Blackeby, A. H.
Description [32] p.
Catalogue number
  • Z1-1884/2E-PDF
Subject terms Commissions of inquiry
Manufacturing industry
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