New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-20
Labor Stability Quebec's Boon
Manufacturers Take Advantage of Native Desire
to Remain Near Home; ALI Costs
More Uniform

foremost, place in the next phase of
Canadian industrial development, While
the language situation has afforded ad-
dltional home-market protection to
local French Canadian industries 1t
also undoubtedly has operated until
recent years to discourage the invest
ment Of outside capital for industrial
purposes.
Prefer English Sections
United States companies. in estab-
fishing branches in Canada, in the ma
jority of cases have preferred to locate
where English-speaking labor has been
available; up to 1900 only four indus
trial plants in Montreal were reported
as branches of United States manufac-
turing concerns, and at the present
time Montreal has only some eighty
such branches, while there are $50 in
Toronto, although the latter Is a con
siderably smaller city.
- some OF the most successful Of the
United States branch plants in Canada,
however, are those now operating at
points in the province Of Quebec. Sher-
brooke, for example, has some twelve
SUCH branch plants and approximately
one-half of the entire Industrial in
Iyestment in that city is controlled by
,, United States interests. The phenom-
email growth of the Canadian pulp and
tracted large United States invest
ments in Quebec. Then. TOO, water
power Development in that province
mas brought some outside capital and
united States investments in other
manufacturing industries in Quebec
province have indicated a growing roc !.
IGNITION of the advantage particula rlv
OF dependable and moderate cost
labor supply.
The Hon. Mr.. Mitchell, in his BUDGET
report, referred to the notable hydro.
He said: ~N'De''
To-day the province is being sup
piled with electric energy thrnnehop p
its length and breadth. 4 great reserD
Voir was constructed at La Loutre, on
the ST. Maurice River, for the purnos q
OF storing the water Of the watershed IL
OF the north. A lake of some 400
square miles has been formed. with a
storage capacity Of 100, 900 900 Gu
PIC feet, or twice the capacity of the
A AS dam of Egypt. As a result of
TINS undertaking 100000 permanent
horsepower can be developed on this
Tglyer, and the falls already deyeloped
have doubled their capacity. A dan,
was also constructed on the St. Fran.
cis hlver which has practically doubled
the horsepower already developed on
mat river. The. government has also
had under consideration for some t;nos
the development Of the Ste.s Anne de
BtIeaupre River, the Chandler River the
Harrlcana River, the Bell River and the
Jacques Cartier, kenogami and St. John
| lakes"
Position of Quebec
The important position Of Quebec in
man,ufacturing-in 1918 the province
produced SO per cent OF all Canadian
manufactured goods--wss attributed in
large measure by Mr.. Mitchell to "the
sac; that in the province of Quebec
Is looked Upon rs vested right. This
has become known not only here, but
throughoat the rest of the Dominion,
IN the United States and even in Eu-
rope, which means that capital has
come and will continue to come hers
Tor investment, thu investor knowing
that his investment is safe and that
ms rights will bs protected under the
laws of this province"