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shipping firms, eight or nine dry goods establishments (some with wholesale departments) seven drug stores, two furniture factories and warerooms, five tailoring establishments, and several stores each in the lines of groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, etc. Summerside, too, possesses excellent business establish- ments. The Charlottetown Board of Trade is an influential body and is accomplishing good work for the city and province.

Manufactures are limited but are steadily developing. They include butter, cheese, starch, and soap factories, tanneries, grist, saw, and woolen mills, furniture factories, lobster and other canning establishments, carriage factories, etc.

By the census of 1891, the figures of Island industries

were as follows :——

Number of Industrial Establishments, 2,679 Capital invested $2,911,963 Number of hands employed, 7,910 Yearly wages about, $1.101,620 Value of products, 5546451910

An increase compared with the census of 1881 of over 25 per cent. in the number of establishments, nearly 40 per cent. in capital invested, 38 per cent. in the number of hands

employed, and 27 per cent. in the value of products. INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS

The number of Industrial Establishments in each County in 1891 (according to the census returns, the latest available

figures) was as follows :—

Total

Classification of Trade King's Prince Queen’s

Aerated water making 1 2 3 Agricultural implements 1 9 IO Bakeries , 2 6 8 Basket making 12 12 Blacksmithing 94 136 145 375 Boat building 5 8 IO 23 Book-binding 3 3 Boots and Shoes 41 50 82 173 Breweries 1 1 Brick and Tile making 1 6 , IO 17

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