The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-15

product that is not also made in
Canada under the same trade-name.
Scattered over all southern On
tariO you see factories making farm
and other machines, motor cars and
parts, chemicals, electrical goods,
foods, items of rubber and glass.
Familiar advertisements run in the
papers; window displays are the
same as one might see in Pitts
burgh or Minneapolis.
The reasons for this migration of
American industries are plain prox-
unity. common language, similar
tastes and living standards, and
particularly the import tariff; also,
many AmeriQRn firms too small to
finance factory in far-away Eu-
rope or the Orient have here only
to move across the line.
"What share of all the things
you sell is made in Canada?" one
asks at a sporting goods shop.
about so per cent now," says
the clerk; land it's growing each
year. All these bicycles. sweaters,
fishing tackle, bats and balls, boots
and sOcks-they are all Canada
made"
You think of Bret Harte's Roar
ing Camp" when you see Kirkland
lakes gold camp on Saturday night.
In crowded, crooked streets a dOz-
en- men to every woman; stores
open till midnight-even the hard
ware and furniture Etores. Films
and Chinese wearing 20-dollar gold
pieces as watch charms; crowded
movie showing Ten Nights in a
BarrOom"; brawny Russian miners
sprawled' in barber chairs. getting
an Over-Sunday polish; the smell
of fresh-cut pine and the noise of
saws and hammers, as bOhunks
work by fiOOdlight on a new "ho-
tel"
Outside a killed bagpipe band
goes whining by, on its way to a
Legion party; motor cars file past,
bringing a shift of miners, tin lunch
boxes in hand, from a mine which
some days yielded $4,000 worth
of gold.
For. be it known, rs per cent of
Canada's gold is found in the 30
odd fields of Ontario. And this
boom town of Kirkland Lake-with
it's Teck- Hughes. its Lake Shore,
Kirkland and Wright-Hargreaves
mines, where men bore holes 1000
feet deep-is one of the greatest
gold centers.
Ontario's Nickel.
Go to Sudbury. home of the great
international Nickel company and
of the FrOOd mine, and the rush
and roar is the same. Here still
more Firms. a "Finnlandia" cafe.
and Films buying talking machine
records of Finnish songs, and Firms
squatting about shoe shops and ci-
gar stands. playing more Finnish
tunes on mandOlins and singing
boisterous Finnish songs in ''bev-
erage bar"
How dramatic the story of On
tariO nickel, first found by acci-
dent! Some Odd-looking "red mud"
drew the attention of a worker, in
building the Canadian Pacific rail
way, during 1888. The red mud
was nickel ore. Then the world
used only 200 or 800 tons year.
However, Glasgow engineer,
James Riley, in 1889, found how
to harden steel with nickel. Soon
the United States navy began to
use nickel-steel in armOr plates, and
other navies quickly followed. The
World war kept Canada digging
nickel day and night.
After peace, when the Washing
ton disarmament conference reduced
battleship building and cut the de-
mand for nickel. the international
and the MOnd Nickel companies,
now consolidated. acted with conr-
age and resourcefulness. "By tech
nical research they found new uses
for nickel" says Thomas W. Glib
son, deputy minister of mines.
Now it is shown to be as useful
in the arts of peace as in the shock
of war, and the mines of Sudbury
supply So to 90 per cent of the
worlds consumption"
In 1911 Ontario mined only about
$4,000 worth of gold.
In 1881 more than S43,000,000
worth was recovered. From only
about $2,5OO000 in 1900, Ontario's
output of all metals has increased
enormously. In 1881 it was nearly
100000.