00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.842985 CaOODSP 20221107152435 cr ||||||||||| 170905s1944 onc |o f|0| 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- CS63-D-96/1944E-PDF Summary of monthly indexes of country general store sales in Canada, 1937-1943 [electronic resource] : average, 1935-1939 = 100. Ottawa : Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1944. 16 p. Digitized edition from print [produced by Statistics Canada]. Cover title. "Series, 1943, no. 6." "The country general store continues to occupy an important place in the retail marketing structure of Canada. Defined as stores selling a general line of merchandise usually including a substantial volume of groceries and located in places of less than 2,000 population these retail outlets fill a large part of the requirements for convenience goods of persons living in the smaller towns and rural areas of the country. Results of the 1941 Census of Merchandising Establishments show that in that year there were 11917 country general stores in Canada with annual sales of 214,747,600, an amount which formed 6.2 per cent of the total retail trade"--Introduction. gccst Retail trade gccst Indexes gccst Census data Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Merchandising and Services Branch. Canada. Department of Trade and Commerce. Summary of monthly indexes of country general store sales in Canada, 1936-1940 (CaOODSP)9.842984 PDF 2.84 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS63-D-96-1944-eng.pdf 63-D-96