Canadian Manufacturing

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mills. The first gristmills were built in New France in the 17th century and, by 1840, there were 400 in Upper Canada and Lower Canada making flour
for domestic and foreign sale.
- Iron smelting began in the 1730s, by the mid-1740s, this foundry supplied some of New France's requirements such as stoves and household utensils.
- The first steamboat was made in Canada, the accommodation, was built in 1809 by the Eagle Foundry of Montréal, which made all of the more than 100 parts for its engines.
- Several events in the last half of the 19th century stimulated substantial growth in Canada's manufacturing industries. The first was CONFEDERATION in 1867. With political unification and self-government came geographic expansion, construction of the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, and new settlement bringing population increases, skills and capital. In 1871 a group of businessmen founded the CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS' ASSN (CMA) dedicated to promoting the growth of manufacturing. Eight ...

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in aluminum, electrical apparatus, communications equipment, toolmaking and chemicals. By the end of the war, manufacturing directly employed over 1 million workers, more than 25% of the labour force.
Postwar Developments
Between 1945 and the 1980s, manufacturing has accounted for 22-24% of Canada's total real output of goods and services. Employment has roughly doubled, from 1 to 2 million, but this represents a decline in the proportion of total employment because output per worker in manufacturing has risen about two-thirds again as fast as national productivity. Manufacturing productivity gains have, in fact, contributed about one-third of the gains in real per capita income ...

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