The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

Imports and Exports

Imports and Exports.

The following table is compiled from the Canada Gazette:

Goods Entered for Consumption in the Dominion of Canada,

(Exclusive of British Columbia) for fiscal year ending June 30th, 1878.

Articles. Value, January to June, 1877. Value, July to Dec. 1877. Value, Jan. to June, 1878. Total for fiscal year.

The preceding Table compiled from the Canada Gazette is exclusive of British Columbia. The total value of Goods entered for Consumption according to the official return of the Commissioner of Customs for the whole Dominion is $91,199,597, against! a total of $88,871,301 as shown by the above Table.

Precisely the same remark may be made as respects the Table of Exports subjoined. For the whole Dominion, according to the Commissioner of Customs, the total amount for the Fiscal Year was $79,523,667, while, according to the Totals from the monthly publications in the Canada Gazette, the figures, excluding British Columbia, are $74,732,994.

It is right to observe that the monthly figures of the Gazette are subject to revision and correction, but they may be accepted as approximately correct.

Monthly Values of Exports From Canada

For fiscal year ending June 30th, 1878.

1877 $
July 6,085,801
August 7,571,669
September 9,886,927
October 13,933,272
November 9,225,765
December 3,544,713
50,248,147
December 30th, 1876 45,804,426
Increase 4,413,721
1878. $
January 2,553,079
February 2,282,625
March 1,972,401
April 2,358,049
May 6,250,612
June 9,068,081
24,484,847
June 30th, 1877 25,365,262
Decrease 880,415

Per Capita Per Centage of Duties.

The following statement shows the per capita per centage of duties paid in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, adding 50 per cent, of the duties collected in Montreal to the Ontario revenue, it having been ascertained, according to the Commissioner of Customs by careful enquiry, that about 50 per cent of the goods imported at Montreal, are sold to parties residing in Ontario.—
Ontario. Quebec.
$ cts. $ cts.
1868
1869 2 40 2 04
1870 2 76 2 35
1871 3 64 2 84
1872 4 04 2 93
1873 4 19 2 83
1874 4 43 3 19
1875 4 77 3 23
1876 4 04 2 49
1877 4 06 2 25