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Title: Canada : its history, productions and natural resources
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Canada. Dept. of Agriculture Fisher, Sydney Arthur, 1850-1920 Liége. Exposition universelle et internationale, 1905
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Publisher: Ottawa
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n part ofthe Dominion. Smelting works have been erected at alarge cost in Sydney, Cape Breton, in close proximity tothe famous coal areas and to the great limestone depositsof the same island. The active works in Canada are the Nova Scotia SteelCompanys blast furnace of Ferrona, Ndva Scotia; TheHamilton Steel and Iron Company; The Canada IronFurnace Company, Midland; The Dominion Iron andSteel Companys works at Sydney, Cape Breton; TheCanada Iron Furnace Company, Radnor; Deseronto IronCompanys works; The Drummondville Furnaces; TheLondonderry Nova Scotia Iron Works; The Consolid-ated Lake Superior Company at Sault Ste. Marie. Theunited investment at these works amounts to above fiftymillion dollars. The Dominion, in 1900, made and imported 167,169tons of pig iron, iron kentledge and scrap. Of thisamount, 101,839 tons, or 61 per cent., were made in Can-ada. In 1902, the total quantity was 384,718 tons, ofv/hich 89 per cent, was home made. When Canada began seriously to develop the iron
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CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 87 wealth, she offered a bounty of $1.50 per ton upon all pigiron manufactured in Canada. This was in 1883. Sincethen various changes have been made in the amount ofbounty and the method of its application. The result,however, is the gradual development of the iron industry.In 1884 the imported pig iron was 64 per cent, of thewhole consumed. In 1902 the imported pig iron was onlyII per cent, of the whole consumption. Magnetic ores occur abundantly through-out the several counties of Ontario; and the IronLegislature of the province has set aside the Deposits.sum of $125,000 as an Iron Mining Fund, outof which the Provincial Treasurer is authorized to pay$1.00 per ton of pig metal product of iron ores raised,mined or smelted in Ontario. Hematite iron ores are found in all parts of Canada.Geologically, Canadas hematites have a wide range intime. They are found in the Laurentian, Huronian,Lower and Upper Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous andLias formations. In New Bruns

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