Production and Manufacturing

In 1928 agriculture accounted for 35-4 per cent of the net production-value, forestry for 13-6 per cent, and manufacturing (exclusive of dairy products, etc., see note above) for 19-9 percent. If the products of dairy factories, etc., are included among manufactures, manufactur- ing contributed 28-9 per cent.

The following table gives the value of the output of all industries in each of the Maritimes

during 1928:—

Estab- . Value of _ lishments Capital products No. $ $ Prince Edward istered: 277 , 121,568 4,445,160 Nova Scotia.............- 1,167 133° 809, 331 84,948,608 New Brunswick......-.... 794 | 114,660,886) 67,413,742 Maritimes. ...... 2,238 | 256,591,785) 156,807,510

From the point of view of the value of output the five leading industries in 1928 were slaugh- tering and meat packing, tobacco and cigars, coffins and caskets, aerated waters, and butter and cheese in Prince Edward Island; sugar refining, petroleum refining, pulp-making, iron and steel, and fish curing and packing in Nova Scotia; sugar refining, bread and other bakery products, saw-mills, pulp and paper, and cotton yarn and cloth in New Brunswick.

The four leading industrial centres were Saint John, Moncton, Edmundston, and St. Stephen in New Brunswick; Sydney, Dart- mouth, Halifax, and Trenton in Nova Scotia; Charlottetown, Summerside, Montague, and Kensington in Prince Edward Island.

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