Mr. Browne (St. John's West):

How much money has been spent in the town of Bonavista, Newfoundland, since April 1, 1949, for (a) dredging; (b) breakwater construction; (c) wharves; (d) public buildings; (e) repairs to public buildings; (f) any other works for which the Department of Public Works is responsible?

Mr. Fournier (Hull):

(a) $596,450.63; (b) $132,117.44; (c) $232,589.82; (d) $106,469.33;

(e) $397.67; (f) nil.

1. What quantity of vegetable oil was imported into Canada for each of the years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1951?

2. How much vegetable oil was produced in Canada in the same period?

3. What quantity of vegetable oil produced in Canada during the above period was exported?

1. Imports of Vegetable Oil into Canada

Pounds

1946 71,605,700

1947 89,954,300

1948 82,602,400

1949 ______ 141,354,000

1950 ______ 190,697,200

1951 158,391,500

2.

Oil produced by crushing plants in Canada Flaxseed Soybean OthersPounds Pounds Pounds

Totals

Pounds

1946

100,157,699 18,201,473 69,163,1790) 187,522,3511947

88,733,909 27,052,473 54,159,0400) 169,945,4221948

122,670,596 26,863,917 73,256,4870) 222,791,0001949

95,419,004 45,963,471 70,014,7520) 211,397,2271950

85,238,580 56,931,185 39,704,0120) 181,873,7771951

60,387,253 73,513,281 42,239,6190) 176,140,153

0) Includes sunflower seed, rapeseed, copra and peanut.

0) Includes sunflower seed, rapeseed, copra, peanut and mustard seed.

0) Includes sunflower seed, rapeseed, copra, mustard seed and weed seed. 0) Includes sunflower seed, rapeseed and copra.

3. Information not available. Not separately classified in export statistics.

1. Has any department of the government of Newfoundland made application for the admission to Canada of German nationals to work in New-

2. 103 for temporary admission and 35 for permanent landing.

3. As of January 21, 1952, temporary

admission had been granted to 79 and permanent landing to 19.

4. No.

5. Not applicable. See answer to No. 4.

1. Yes, such applications were made on behalf of the government and of private industries.

ANIMAL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Mr. Charlton:

What precautionary measures were taken by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration during the year 1951 with regard to the clothes and other personal effects of immigrants entering Canada from Europe?

Mr. Harris (Grey-Bruce):

The prevention of introduction into Canada of infectious or contagious animal diseases comes under the Animal Contagious Diseases Act and regulations established thereunder, administered by the Department of Agriculture.

Questions

1. Were plans to establish in Canada a branch of the Ernest Leitz Company Limited, of Wetzlar, West Germany, negotiated through the dominion government?

2. If so, was any attempt made to interest this industry in locating on the prairies in line with the government's announced policy of dispersing industry for defence purposes?

1. No, but some discussions were held with officials of the Department of Trade and Commerce.

Mr. Howe:

1(a). Exports of

Cords

Newfoundland*

Nova Scotia 15,095

Prince Edward Island

New Brunswick 571,164

Quebec 435,328

Ontario 947,615

Manitoba 39,220

Saskatchewan

Alberta

British Columbia 179,216

Totals 2,187,638

1(b). Exports of

Cwt.

Newfoundland*

Nova Scotia 1,070,615

Prince Edward Island

New Brunswick 4,062,708

Quebec 10,180,364

Ontario 16,072,266

Manitoba 1,389,058

Saskatchewan 638,329

Alberta

British Columbia 2,546,624

Totals 35,959,964

2. The Leitz Company expressed no interest in locating in the prairies provinces. Their representatives came to Canada with the definite intention of locating either in Ontario, Quebec, or the maritime provinces.

1. What quantities of (a) pulpwood; (b) raw pulp, were exported from each province of Canada for each of the years 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1951?

2. Was any pulpwood or raw pulp imported into Canada during the same period? If so, how much?

3. What was the amount of pulpwood processed

and manufactured province during the into paper in same period? each Canadian

pulpwood

1949 1950 1951Cords Cords Cords27,370 50,71816,514 11,197 71,7681,425 10,545418,090 425,724 749,881265,644 348,111 689,350621,491 569,240 930,73024,341 12,551 72,555277 62 2,152155,657 217,307 98,4011,503,439 1,611,562 2,676,100wood pulp 1949 1950 1951Cwt. Cwt. Cwt.636,446 765,999 982,919992,160 842,957 1,293,1833,837,431 4,296,870 4,235,7787,536,548 9,212,343 12,335,50914,278,697 17,543,842 18,944,653316,455 460,792 666,549862,681 1,377,836 1,803,8892,513,704 2,422,225 4,603,68130,974,122 36,922,864 44,866,161

*Newfoundland included from April 1, 1949.

Note: Above figures represent shipments cleared through customs ports in each province. Province of origin of the shipments is not recorded in trade statistics.

2. Yes.

Imports of pulpwood and wood pulp, 1948-51

Pulpwood Wood pulp cords cwt.

1948 67,528

1949 4,881

660,094

708,659

Pulpwood

cords

25,085

41,452

Wood pulp cwt.

731,663

728,329

1951

Questions

3. Information not available.

The amount of pulpwood processed into wood pulp was:

1948 1949 1950 1951Cords Cords Cords Quebec

5,157,027 4,800,347 5,160,181 Ontario

3,052,504 2,909,154 3,163,762 Not yetBritish Columbia ...

742,097 607,835 711,340 availableOther provincesC* 1 2 3) ..

1,304,921 1,926,131 2,131,515 Totals

10,256,549 10,243,467 11,166,798 The production of wood pulp was: 1948 1949 1950 1951Short tons Short tons Short tons Quebec

3,902,072 3,698,401 3,922,543 Ontario

2,226,124 2,138,444 2,297,518 Not yetBritish Columbia

688,209 666,542 776,896 availableOther provincesC) ...

858,674 1,349,611 1,476,057 Totals

7,675,079 7,852,998 8,473,014 The amount of wood pulp used by the paper industryC) was: 1948 1949 1950 1951Short tons Short tons Short tons Quebec

3,227,362 3,199,552 3,289,229 Ontario

1,638,655 1,611,119 1,683,108 Not yetBritish Columbia

433,664 479,961 509,880 availableOther provincesC) ...

553,619 1,048,375 1,109,789 Totals

5,853,300 6,339,007 6,592,006

C) Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba. It is necessary to group these provinces in order to avoid revealing the operations of certain companies. (Statistics Act, s. 15).

(*) These figures include a small percentage of imported wood pulp.