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 / OUR INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE. 
 
 A HISTORY OF CANADA'S PROGRESS. 
 
 The V:ist DeveloDment of Commerce Between the Provinces of Canada— A Comparison 
 of the Figures Prior to Confederation and at the Present Time Shows AmaiinR 
 Results— What Is Yet Needed is Faith In Our Country and United Worit tor Its Prosress. 
 
 [Prom The Empire, December 28th. 1889.} 
 
 pjurly in the twentifcs a trio of remarkable 
 men — Chief .(uHtice Sowell, Rev. John 
 Strachau cud Hon. J. B. Robinaon — pre- 
 pared and presented to the Colonial Minister 
 a plan for the union of tlie Tiritiah commu- 
 uities in North America. The Under-Sec- 
 retary of State for the Colonies referred tiiat 
 plan to James Stuart, another remarkaole 
 son of Canada, afterwards created the first 
 Canadian Imronot in recognition of his labors 
 in the pieparatioii of the Union Act of 1841. 
 Mr. Stuart reported against tiie idea of a 
 generfkl union, ciiiefiy on the ground that 
 there was scarcely any trade between tlie 
 Canadas and the Maritime Provinces. In 
 describing tiie condition of things then ex- 
 isting he says : " There is absohuely .'no 
 intercourse whatever l)et\veen ^he Canadas 
 and New Brunswick. An iiniucnse wild- 
 erness separates the inhabite<i ^j-.rts ol both, 
 and they have no intercliangeable commodities 
 admitting of any trade between tliem by sea. 
 Nova Scotia is remote, is only acce.ssible from 
 the Canadaaby land through New Brunswick, 
 and keeps up a small trade with Lower Can- 
 ada by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in produc- 
 tions of the West Indies. Between Lower 
 'Canada and Prince Edward Island there is 
 hardly any communication vhatever. " 
 
 The First Effort at Trade. 
 This was in lf-V24 The very next year, 
 probably at the instance of Chief Justice 
 Sewell. the legislature of Lower Canada made 
 the first legislative effort to promote inter- 
 provincial trade. It authorized the (ioveru- 
 nu'ut to offer the sun) "' 'vl.oOO a year as a 
 subsidy for a steam sci ..:<' to develop trade 
 between Cjuebec and Halita.x. The Nova 
 iScotiau Legi.dature piomptly iosponded hv 
 voting £750 a year " as a ptttuium forasteamer 
 ' ot notless than oUU toils burthen. Stiuiidatedhy 
 rluse olfeis, a joint st»)ck company at once 
 laid the keel of a steamer of 1,.'J70 tons bur- 
 then, wliich when completed (by the way, 
 hull built in Quebec ; inacliinery all made in 
 Montreal), cost f 1(5,000. Siie was called the 
 Royal William, and was placed upon the 
 route in 183'2, idying l.etween the ports dur- 
 ing that and the fcdlowine season of 18.33, but 
 then withdrawn "because of insulficiency of 
 business." 
 
 It may be of interflst to note that imme- 
 diately unon being withdrawn she coaled at 
 Pictou, Ji^oya Scotia, wkpd was seat to Eng- 
 
 land.tb as becoming the first steam-driven ves- 
 sel'that ever crossed the Atlantic. She made 
 the voyage in 23 days. It was from this 
 steamer's success in crossing the Atlantic 
 that Samuel Cunard first had lodged in his 
 busy brain the idea of the ocean steamship 
 service, which became an accomplished fact 
 in 1840. 
 
 ^ The grant of the Canadian and Nova 
 Scotian . legislatures produced great results, 
 but not in the special direction intended. The 
 ex))fcrience of the owners of the Royal Wil- 
 liam proves that 'nterprovincial trade m 
 1833 was a very small affair. Thus discour- 
 aged the promoters made no further at- 
 tempts. 
 
 The LIhoral Idea of 1859. 
 
 In 1859 the Liberal party of Upper Canada 
 held a convention in Toronto to do some 
 Cabinet work in the way of manufacturing a 
 platform upon which all sections of that 
 party could stand together with comfort to 
 their political consciences. The union of the 
 British provinces of " the greater half of the 
 continent " had been adopted by the Conser- 
 vativis party as their policy and Mr. (now 
 Sir) A. T Gait taken into the Cabinet as the 
 exponent of thit idea. In dealing with the 
 question thus forced upon them, the 
 Liberals, as the result of their 
 deliberations, concluded to oppose the 
 union policy of their political opponents, 
 and did so chiefly on the old Stuart ground 
 of 1824 ; viz., that the trade between the 
 Canadas and the Maritime Provinces was so 
 small that union, frtin an Upper Canadian 
 point of view, was not worth having. 
 
 An Effect of ReciDrocltv. 
 
 During the remaining years of the Reci- 
 procity Treaty of 1854, we may be sure that 
 tiie trade of an interprovincial character did 
 not grow any larger ; for the great and over- 
 fbndowing fact of that treaty is, as the late 
 \V. J. Patterson, of Montreal, abundantly 
 proved, that it transferred to the nyerchant's 
 and traders of the United States a large pro- 
 portion of a'I'growing direct trade be- 
 tween the provinces, which had existed 
 prior to 1854— the value of the I 
 trade in 18G5 being less by half 
 a million of dollars tlinn the value of the 
 trade in 1853 -a fact that should be borne in 
 mind, in all efforts to make freer than they 
 are the trade relations of the Dominion with 
 
the United States. In our iliscuasiona about 
 <.haui,'C!a in the trade relations of the country, 
 too much in»portanoc cannot b*^ attached to 
 the fact tliat duriutr the twelve ycara of the 
 continuance of the treaty of 1854 inter- 
 provincial trade went swiftly "to the dogs.'' 
 
 From the trade retu Ills of 1861^ and U,l.) 
 we can ascertain the inierprovincial exchange 
 that took jjla'je after tlie t'.eaty of 18.51: had 
 had for several years a stfanfrling hand upon 
 it. Without ,!j;oini.' into details (for which 
 Thk KiMPiBfc on the piesent occaaion doi.vs not 
 allow nie space), I find that this tjade aver- 
 agetl for tiie two years, in round numliers, 
 i!I,900,0{M> - rcpresendi!;^ the total trade in 
 products of the provinces,and in imports from 
 other countries lenhipped. Aiakint,' allowance 
 for goods, tile pro. luceof the pro* incas, shipped 
 tiirouirh the United States, and entered in 
 the trade returns of the several provinces as 
 imi^orted or exjiortid by the United States — 
 thoutrh really bclongini; to tiie trade of the 
 pr()vince8 wiili eiich oth'>t — the total trade 
 between the Maritime Provinces and tlie 
 (.'anadas averaged not more than two nullioa 
 dollars a year. 
 
 The Crnnd Trunk's Effort. 
 
 During the sunuiier of 186G— after tiie 
 rtpeal of the Recipr<.city Treaty by the 
 United States — the Grand Trunk Railway 
 Company, with commendable enierpii^t;. 
 nought to develop inierprovincial trade l>y 
 means of 8teamei» ;)lying between St. John 
 and Halifiix and Portland in connection with 
 their railway, havinj^ its terminus at the 
 latter pert. 
 
 A considerable trade rewarde.! their ener- 
 getic action, the trade in flour alone increas- 
 iuR from 80,000 barrels (the average of 18t)4 
 and ISOo) to 1.52,000 barrels in 18<5H. 
 
 The couiedoracy, hov ever, was formed in 
 18t»7 with what, after all these etl'orta, was 
 but a small inierprovincial trade in exis- 
 tence : not enough, as one laading opponent 
 of ttie Union said, to pay for axle grease for 
 the Intercolonial. Moreover that little was 
 largely done through a channel by no means 
 satisfactory, the l>ulk of it lieing done via 
 United States seaports under the bonding 
 Hvstem, which imp.ised expenses uddivig to 
 the cost of transport. 
 
 trade at ConfedeM»tion. 
 
 Our statistics vere then, and, for that 
 matter, are yet, lamentably dehcient in siicii 
 details as are necessary for an accurate btate- 
 ment of the dimensions of the interptovincial 
 tup.de carrieil on between the Mari- 
 time Provinces and the St. Law- 
 rence river provinces'. We know 
 that in 1867 a fortnightly steam service be- 
 tween Montreal and the gulf ports of New 
 lirunswick and Is ova Scotia was maintained, 
 the steamer, however, having a <,'ap;u'ity of 
 only 800 barrels. Besides i his, there were 
 tbo "coasters.' We have also to aid us the 
 transit^rade returns of the United States. I 
 have niiKle an analybisof tlie last named, iMid 
 
 find that in 1868 the interprovincial trade 
 done via the United States was equal in 
 value to !ii;.S..')00.000. Add to this the 
 value of the goodi* exch mged via the ;^ulf 
 steam and sail coaster^ - the goods from 
 Quebec (92 per cent, of which was liour) 
 amounting to half a million dollars, and the 
 return cargo to loss than §1 00,000-- ;ind tor 
 the first year of our confe<ierated life we 
 arrive at an internrovincial traile in this 
 direCvion equal in value to somewhat over 
 lour million dollars. 
 
 The trade between the North-west and the 
 two St. Lawrence river provinces was prac- 
 tically rdl. 
 
 The interprovincial traile between Ontario 
 and Quebec is very large, but it is iiot 
 brought into consideration, the two pro- 
 vinces, for the purposes of this investigation, 
 bei ig considered as one division of the Do- 
 minion. In the same way the interfiro- 
 vinoial trade between the Maritime Pro- 
 vinces themselves is very great, but in the 
 present paper those pi evinces have been 
 treated :»s one division. 
 
 What Has Been Done Since. 
 
 What has bcf.n done since 1867 in the way 
 of developing interprovincial tiade ? 
 
 1. As to the etioris made to overcome 
 the difhculties h) the way of interprovincial 
 trade. 
 
 Mouc 1876 we have had -m addition to the 
 channels of intercomu.anication in the inter- 
 colonial railway opened that year. Tlu.re have 
 also been during the present year additional 
 cliannels iu the Canadian Pacific railway, 
 whose cars ent<!red Halifax for the first time 
 early in June last, ami in the Temiscoiiata 
 railway, opjcning direct comnouiication be- 
 tween tlie St. Lawrence river ami the north- 
 western counties 4)f New Brunswick. We 
 have hail the conqdetion of the {,'anadian 
 Pacific wcstwanl, liidving Manitoba, the 
 North-wesi and l>ritisli Columbia with llie 
 other provinces. Desides these great arteries 
 we have had the National Policy. We have 
 had a special coMiinitree of the House of 
 Commons (1883) lo assist, by its suggestioiiK, 
 in the de\elo))meiit of interprovincial trade. 
 We have ha^il Montreal maue ])racticalij' a 
 free port through the assiim]Kioa of tire 
 Lake St. Peter's channel debt by the Central 
 Government, nnd ihrough the removal of 
 wharf dues on steamers and sailing vessels. 
 Finally, we have had toe al)ro<.'ation (188,5) 
 by the United States of the fisheries clauses 
 of thf" Washiimton treaty, the etl'ect of which 
 abrogatioii iuis been largely to increase the 
 direct business in fisli from the Maritime 
 Provinces wcMtward. 
 
 Tha results. 
 
 2. As to results : What have these eflorta 
 accomplished ? 
 
 Well, iu the first place, we may attempt- 
 to obtain a general view. Before coiife<tera- 
 tion, as all the provinces stood to each other 
 in tne relation of outside countries, ^he re- 
 
turns of importH and exports from and to 
 each other were noted in the lUstomB 
 statistics. An aniilysis of these returns 
 shows that in 186t) the Maritime Provinces of 
 Is'ew I'runswiek, Nova Scotia and P. E. 
 Island imported i,'ood9 r,o the value of $10 per 
 head cf then- population. Allowing for the 
 incroasoof wealth in tho.se provinccssince 18(56, 
 and })laciiig tiie value of their importations at 
 !$4l pyr head, we have an import which would 
 be now equal to $4(.',000,000 if those com- 
 munities li id continued in tlieir pre-confed- 
 eration status. (Per parenthcHis, 1 may re- 
 mark that in England tiio value of imports is 
 placed at .§.")() per head, in Belgium at SG2 
 and in Australia at §100.) A.s, however, the 
 actual imports of tlio .Maiitime Pi'ovinces 
 now are only isJiS.'JnOjOOO, there remains the 
 sum of ,«!27,00(),0()O to represent : first, the 
 extent to whitli thoy provide tor their t)wn 
 wants ihrcugli the growtli of their manufac- 
 turing indu.-3ti ie«, and second, the amount 
 they procure from tl:e St. Lawrence river 
 provinces in the way of interprovincial 
 trade. (Jne detail will hav.' to sutfice in 
 respect to this cast-bcnuid interprovin- 
 cial trade. If we take the annual 
 consuniption of flour, meal and coarse grains 
 in the three .Maritime J'rovinces at two 
 barrels per heaci ot the population — and this 
 is iiOt too i'ligh au average, because tlic fisher- 
 men con::<ume moie flour than any other 
 class — we have an annual oon.snni))tion of 
 two million barrels. Tlie imports of these 
 articles avei'age 0.5,000 barrels a year, leaving 
 l,9Hi5,000 barrels to be supplied by the mill- 
 era of Ontario. One witness before the Com- 
 mons' iutcrpiovincia! trade committee esti- 
 mated ti>e consumption at 2,.")00,0()0 barrels, 
 liut includi.'<l iii that estimate Newfoundland, 
 which province imports ;sr)0,000 barrch an- 
 nually. Anmlier wiines.s, Robert Stark, of 
 'I'oronto, said : " To-ilay we have ovei 1,^ <) 
 mills in oi)eration in Ontario, and they ».'! 
 look to the Maritime Provinces for their 
 tra.le.'' 
 
 The VoiuMQ of Trade. 
 
 The interprovincial trade from east to 
 wjsr is larger tiian most persons have any 
 idea of. I olitamed, as fir as possible, the 
 (|.ianlities of the articles carrioil by the Inter- 
 eoUmial railway for 1S87, and, by apnlying 
 the prices eitlier of tiie Montreal wholesale 
 market or ot the customs ilepartment, was 
 alile in that way \o make up a lis*- of articles 
 sent from the Alaritiine I'rovincca, which, 
 though necessarily inconifiKte, tooted 
 up the very respcctal)le ligure of over JjlO,- 
 (•00.000, iniduiling in that amount the total 
 c.oai saics of Nova Scotia to (.Quebec, wliether 
 of coal transported Ijy land or l>y watiu-. The 
 increase in 1887 over 1880 a-, marked l.'y tlie 
 tons of westlxpund freight billed from stations 
 on the iniercoionial in New Brunsw ick and 
 Nova Scotia wai eciual to ,S'2() jjcr cent. 
 
 'J'lie reports from individual firnis and 
 trading corporations foi- 1888 were to the 
 eiiecC that theie had beon a stead v increase 
 
 over 1887 in the trade with the St. Law- 
 rence I iver provinces, as well as with the 
 provinces of the west. 
 
 Goods Carried bv the Gulf Route. 
 
 In further examining this "vestbound in- 
 terprovincial trade wo have to find out the 
 amount of goods carried by the gulf water 
 rou'te, and also that carried by the United 
 States railways. Thi latter amounts to 
 close upon |!l,500,0(X> a year. As regards 
 the former we have no means of obtaining 
 the value. That the amount is large there 
 can be no question. In 1888 the shipping 
 em\)loyed in the coasting trade of 
 the four provinces amounted to 10,- 
 8():^,:W0 tons. This is more by 1,7(X),000 
 tons than the tonnage in and out 
 connected with our ocean-borne connnerce. 
 It is irreater by 2,.'J00,(X)0 tons than ciie ton- 
 nage passing throng., the Suez canal, that 
 great world-path between Vivo densely-peo- 
 pled continents. It is greater by ">,730,()00 
 tons than tiie tonnage passmg throutjh the 
 " Soo " canal. 
 
 D.uing the past ten years the external 
 comi>!erce of the whole Dominion (exports 
 and imports) has called for an increase in the 
 tonnage cciinecied with that branch, of 47 
 per cen^ The internal trade of the Gulf and 
 Atlantic division alone in the same period 
 has shown an increa.se in tonnage engaged of 
 9.'^ per cent. During the past few years the 
 tonnage of vessels fro.n the Maritime Pro- 
 viiiceo to the port of Quebec has greatly in- 
 creased, that of 1887 being 33 per cent, of an 
 increase over 1S86 and 47 per cent, over 1885. 
 In Montreal the increase in 1888 over 1887 
 was 18 per cent. 
 
 Lne of tiie witnesses befoi-e tiie interpro- 
 vincial trade committee (18S3) in his evidence 
 said : " The trade of Prince Edward Island 
 with Montreal has more tiiau doubled in ten 
 ye:irs." 
 
 Thus we have nearly eleven million tons of 
 shipping moving, like a giant weaver's shut- 
 tle, to aiul fro along the magnificent eastern 
 water front of thisl-'anada of ours, playing an 
 important part in the manufacture of homo- 
 geneity of septiment. 
 
 It is plain from tliese statements that, con- 
 currently with the development of inter- 
 provincial ti'ade by the railway channel, there 
 has been an equal, if not greater, develop- 
 ment by the guif water route. 
 
 fin Estimate. 
 
 It, now, we set off all that portion of this 
 eastern water front tra<le wJiich is ii;tei"pro- 
 viimial as <liatinguished from provincial ; 
 all the trade in articles carried by the Inter- 
 lonial, the value of which <'i<,nnot lie 
 asi-ertained, again.st the development of 
 mar.ufacturea in the Maritime Provinces 
 uiidnr (he National Policy — the effect of 
 which has been, possibly, to reduce the per 
 head consumption of articles that would have 
 been obtained outside of the Maritime 
 division below the $41 I have taken a 
 
th(i Htandurd— wc hIihII havn ii)a<Ie the 
 tiiiiplest allowance. Then, we have, in 
 »3is{ht. - ^28,000,000 eastward • carried } 
 .<;; 10,000,000 westwanl cuiticd W our 
 own railways, ami Sl,^>,000 carried 
 l>y United States railways -in nil, an ascer- 
 tdisied iiiterproviiK'ial trade of ■'iii>5,600.000, 
 or nenily sixteen times tho tiado of thin 
 character done in the rirsi/ ; nr of confedera- 
 tion, and tweuty-Boren tiiji< i the trade done 
 in tlie year previous to confederation. 
 
 Trnds in the Weat. 
 
 What is the value of the interprovincial 
 trade between the 8t. Lawrence river divi- 
 sion (Ontario and Qiieljec) and Afanitoba and 
 the Prairie an«l Mountain division?: ; 
 
 Ueforo the C P.R. becaiiio a channel of 
 comnmnication the interchange? of prorlucta 
 between the provinces east of Lake Superior 
 and those v/eat, hud largely to be done via 
 Urdted .States rf-ilwaya. My analybis, already 
 referred to. shows that the total inter- 
 piovincial exchange through the United 
 States channel amounted in 1883 t(» 19^ 
 ndllioi! dollars. Deductint; from this the 
 value of goode composing thu interprovincial 
 trade of the St. Lawrence river and the 
 maritime divisions with each other, we have 
 over sixteen million dollars .^o represent the 
 interprovincial tiado of Ontario and Quebec 
 with the Prairie division in 1889. That this 
 value has been increased since is Ijovonil 
 doubt. Tiie increase in tons of interprovin- 
 cial exchange carried east and west from 
 Port Arthur in 1888 over 1887 was 173 per 
 cent. It w ill be seen at oiice thai there has 
 l»een a veiy i^reat eMpansion of interprovin- 
 cial traile in this iiire<;tiou since 1883. 
 
 The Grand Total. 
 
 Taking the whole interprovincial trade in 
 sight, and making an alowance of only oO 
 per cent, for the great develojjment that has 
 taken place since the completion of the 
 C P. R. westward, we have an interpro- 
 vincial exchange ot 1§80,000,OUO, not counting 
 that between t>utario and Quebec, or tliat 
 between tlie several provinces in the Mari- 
 time division of the east. 
 
 The totcil export tradeof tlie whole Dominion 
 with the United States barelj' reaches half" 
 that sum. 
 
 This business has sprung from the paltry 
 .^2,000,000 which the provinces di<l with each 
 other in the last year of the treaty of 18o4, 
 abrngrated by the United States ni 1800. 
 
 It is the most extraordinary fact in our 
 confederated life, crowded as the 22 years 
 have been with marvels. 
 
 The Causes. 
 
 The changes which have maile this Uiarvel- 
 loiis development possible are (a) external and 
 (b) internal. Theexternal changes are : (1) Th« 
 repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty in 18G6 by 
 the United States : (2) the abrogation of the 
 ."^Hheries clauses of the Washington Treaty by 
 the United States ; (3) the Act of Congress 
 
 which emT'Owored the president of the United 
 States to proclaim at will non-intercourse 
 with Canada. 
 
 The internal changes are : (I) The estab- 
 lishment of free trade between the provinces 
 by the Union Act of 1807 ; (2) the completion 
 of the Intercolonial railway 1876 ; (3) the 
 improvement ot tiie navigation of the Gulf of 
 St. Lawrence, by the erection of lighthouses 
 and other navigation securities ; (4) the mak- 
 ing of Montreal practically a free port ; (5) 
 the completion of the C. PR to British Col- 
 umbia ; (6) the opening of the C.P.R. to St. 
 John, New Brunswick ; (7) the general de- 
 velopment of railways and canals. 
 
 What Is Needed. 
 
 What is still needed? 
 
 L An earnest deternnnation on the part of 
 the people to cultivate to its utmost this 
 interprovincial trade. The best market is 
 the near at home marke^^; the second best is 
 the interprovincial market ; wo benefit our- 
 selves in botli cases, whether we buy or sell. 
 The near home market and the interprovin- 
 cial market are like the cjuality of mercy, 
 which blessetli him that gives and him that 
 takes. 
 
 2. The fullest development of on water- 
 ways. 
 
 3. Settled conviction that the internal 
 trade it; the very best trade W3 can possibly 
 have, and that ic would be the greatest folly 
 in the world to sacrihce this trade for that 
 which might be gained by commercial union. 
 Past experience has shown u? that it is 
 letting out at the bung-hole and 
 pouring u. at the spigot to ob- 
 tain reciprocal trade relations with the 
 United States at the expense of our inter- 
 provincial traile. At any rate, till we have 
 thoroughly^ grasped our interprovincial traile 
 and are sure we can hold it against all 
 coiners, let o.s have nothing to do with com- 
 mercial union. 
 
 4. Reduction in the rates of freight. 
 This can best be accomplished by divert- 
 ing to our own railways the twenty or 
 twenty-five million dollars' worth of goods 
 still annually imported and exported by the 
 1 Nonunion via United States seaports. 
 Every dollar thus contributed to our own 
 railways will enable them to reduce tlio 
 cost of inteni'U transport. To this 
 may be added greater promptitude 
 on the part of the railways in the conveyance 
 of goods, a)\d greater promptitude on th^ 
 part of the consignee in removing them. 
 
 In a word, what is needed is: (1) faith ; 
 (2) faith ; (3) faith in our couutjy's future ; 
 (4) works ; (5) works ; (0) works. They are 
 the two oars by which we must propel our 
 country onward Faith removes mountains 
 of difficulties in national life. Works (pub- 
 lic works) cast up the highways and bring 
 comm\mities, otherwise jsulatfd and in danger 
 of foru ing "entangling alliances, " to feel a 
 common bond and a common interest. 
 
 (jIeorgk Johnson. 
 
 N 
 
14 
 
 3 United 
 urcuurse 
 
 le estab- 
 >roviucett 
 mplotioti 
 (3) the 
 B Gulf of 
 htliouaes 
 the muk- 
 porfc; (5) 
 tish Col- 
 R. to St. 
 eral de- 
 
 le part of 
 tioat this 
 larket ia 
 kI best is 
 iiefit our- 
 y or sell, 
 ei'provin- 
 f mercy, 
 him that 
 
 IX water- 
 
 iuternal 
 
 possibly 
 itest folly 
 
 for that 
 ial union, 
 hat it is 
 ole and 
 
 to ob- 
 with the 
 )ar inter- 
 
 I we have 
 jc'ial trade 
 against all 
 with coni- 
 
 'f freight. 
 I>y divert- 
 twenty or 
 
 II of goods 
 ted by the 
 
 seaports. 
 
 our own 
 •educe the 
 
 To this 
 romptitude 
 convey auee 
 ule on th^ 
 ihem. 
 
 : (]) faith ; 
 
 f'a future ; 
 
 They are 
 
 propel our 
 
 niouu tains 
 
 /^orks (pub- 
 
 1 and brinff 
 id in danger 
 ;, " to feel a 
 rest. 
 Johnson.