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West Indies in Canada.] * The EDITH tfWLORNE PIERCE COLLECTION of CANADIANA Queens University at Kingston ilture FOK THti VVJUST liMJlJtLS The 'West Indian Bulletin'. A Quarterly Scientific Journal, containing, together with other papers, full reports of the Agricultural Conference of the representatives of all the Scientific and Educational Institutions - and Agricultural Societies in the West Indies, held under the auspices of the Imperial Department of Agriculture. Price per copy 6& Post free 8d. The ' Agricultural News'. A fortnightly illustrated review of a popular character devoted to tropical agriculture and education, indicating what is going on, and the progress being made in agricultural matters throughout the West Indies. Price Id. per number. Post free 2d. The Pamphlet Series. Simply-written booklets, issued as occasion demands, giving information especially adapted to West Indian conditions. For full list of those still available see page 3 of cover. WEST INDIAN BULLETIN. Volume I : —Full reports of the Agricultural Conferences of 1899 and 1900. Only a very limited number of copies of the parts of Volume I are available and these cannot be sold separately. Volume I, complete in original paper covers as issued, post free, 5s. Volumes II, III, IV, V, VI and VII :—Price 2s. each. Post free 2s. 8rf. : Volume VIII, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 —West Indian Agricultural Conference, 1907 ; Abstract of Proceedings and Reprint of Papers. No. 4 : Agricultural Conference, 1908 ; Presidential Address and Abstract of Proceedings. Price 6d each number. Post free 8d. Volume IX. Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 : —Reprints of Papers read at Agricultural Conference, 1908, with summaries of discussions following. Price Qd. each number. Post free Sd. Volume X. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 : —Papers on General Subjects. Antigua Agricul- tural Conference. Volume XI. Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 : —Papers on General Subjects. Account of Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West Indies. Volume XII. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 : —West Indian Agricultural Conference, 1912 ; Papers and Abstracts. Volume XIII. No. 1, No. 2 :—West Indian Agricultural Conference, 1912 ; Papers read on Cotton, Agricultural Education, Sugar-cane Experiments in British Guiana. PREFACE. This booklet, which is revised and published annually for distribution at the Toronto National Exhibition, is designed to place in the possession of manufacturers and merchants in Canada, in a reliable and compact form, information concerning the British West Indies and British Guiana, with a view to developing trade between the two countries. In the present edition an attempt has been made to strengthen the interest of the statistics by including in certain cases, the returns for 1911 as well as those for 1912. The tables on pages 6 and 7 show that the value of Canadian imports into the British West Indies and British Guiana amounted in the year ending March 31, 1912, to $4,617,961, while the value of the exports from the West Indies to Canada was $10,550,431. The total volume of the trade carried on between the two countries during that period was therefore $15,168,452 (£3,160,094). In the year 1912, British Guiana exported to Canada, produce, mostly sugar, to the value of $3,472,531, while the imports of Canadian goods were worth $583,536. From Barbados, in 1912, sugar to the value of $ 1,256,261, and molasses to the value of $1,264,651 were sent to Canada, and imports of the value of $882,240 received. The value of the imports from Canada into Jamaica in 1911 was $1,169,143 or 8'5 per cent, of the total imports, and the value of the exports to Canada from Jamaica was 86 per cent, of the total exports, as compared with 8*4 in 1910 and 4*7 in 1909. Trinidad in 1911 sent exports to the value of $989,438 to British North America, and received imports of the value of $913,378. These figures show that a very considerable trade has already been established between Canada and the West Indies and British Guiana. During the past two seasons, however, the quantity of ox ports of certain commodities has been much below what it might have been, owing to the unfor- tunate occurrence of periods of severe drought. With a view to increasing the volume of trade between the two countries, Canadian Reciprocity Conferences have from time to time been held, and in 1910 the Royal Commission on Trade Relations between Canada and the West Indies issued a report which contained valuable suggestions for more effectually carrying out the object in view. In April 1912, a final Conference was held at Ottawa, and an agreement drawn up which was subsequently accepted b}^ the several Governments of the West Indian Colonies and ratified by the Canadian Government. This agreement came into force on June 2, 1913, and enacts that the duties on all goods enumerated in a Schedule A, being the produce or manufacture of Canada, imported into any of the Colonies which are parties to the Agreement, shall not be more than four- fifths of the duties imposed on similar goods when imported from any foreign country ; provided that on Hour the preference in favour of Canada shall not at any time be less than 12 cents per 100 11). On all goods enumerated in a Schedule B, being the produce or manufacture of the contracting Colonies, imported into Canada, the duties of Customs shall not at any time be more than four-fifths of the duties on similar goods when imported from foreign country provided that on raw a ; sugar not above 16, Dutch standard, in colour, and molasses testing over 56° and not over 75°, the preference in favour of the Colony shall not at any time be less than 4^ cents per 100 lb. and for each additional degree over 75° the preference shall not be less than ^-cent. per 100 lb. Cacao beans, not roasted, crushed or ground, lime juice, raw and concentrated, not refined, and fresh limes, being the produce or manufacture of any of the contracting Colonies may be imported into Canada free of duty, but the like goods when imported from any foreign country shall pay duty not less than 75 cents per 100 tb. for cacao, 5 cents per gallon for lime juice and 10 per cent, ad valorem for fresh limes. These arrange- ments are likely to give a considerable impetus to trade between the Dominion and the Colonies concerned. On p. 41 of this booklet will be found a list of ^ books relating to the West Indies and British Guiana including a number of Handbooks, Directories, etc., which contain a large amount of interesting and useful information concerning these Colonies. On pages I to XIX are given short descriptions of some of the principal economic plants and trees growing in the West Indies. The advertisement section, which has this year greatly increased in size, has been edited in such a manner as to render it a more distinctive and arresting feature of the publication. It is hoped that this booklet will be useful as affording information concerning the present resources of the West Indies and British Guiana, and as to exhibits that have been sent from these Colonies. It is also hoped that it may be instru- mental in indicating ways in which mutual exchange of commodities may be increased and made more efficient between the two chief areas of the British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. J r^oj^t^^ AAfoJXi* X Commissioner of Agriculture * for the West Indies. Canadian exhibition 1913, > • < THE WEST INDIES AND BBITISH GUIANA. The British West Indies and British Guiana include the greater number of the chain of islands which fringe the northern and western sides of the Caribbean Sea, and a portion of the mainland of South America, is usually included in the term, and sometimes the Bahamas also. Politically they form six colonies. Counting from the south, these are (1) British Guiana, with its three counties of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. (2) Trinidad with its dependency of Tobago. (3) The Windward Islands— Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia, with numerous small islets, the Grenadines. (4) Barbados. (5) The Leeward Islands — Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua with (Bermuda and Redonda), St. Kitts-Nevis (including Anguilia) and the Virgin Islands (Tortola, Virgin Gorda and Anegada). The chain, which runs almost due north and south from Trinidad to Antigua, here makes a right angle, and it is not until after passing Porto Rico and San Domingo (Hayti) and traversing some 800 miles that the sixth colony, Jamaica, is reached, with its dependen- cies, the Turks Islands and the Cayman Islands, .ISLANDS J$V ANKG\I»A -j>- '~MKCI\ GOBDA «%ST JOHN tNQUllXA ->*n i ST MARTIN- „ SABA. $\ BARBUDA ^SANTA Cruz st s _ eistath V^STCHRISTOPUUJ YNTIGUA MuN I SiKRATO 4Y- -•1 UUE-GALANTC 16 MARTiMQIE -t> Carrucoikv ^ >% «N[\,U)A^7 ^ o^i> 10 10 J VENEZUELA o«i>oco I'M T OF 1IIK WEST INDIES AND OE liRlTHH GUIANA. 3 PRODUCTS OP THE WEST INDIES AND BRITISH GUIANA. The most important product of the West Indies is Sugar, with its by-products Molasses and Rum. Their total value is about $15,800,000 per annum. It is the main industry in British Guiana. Barbados, Antigua and St. Kitts-Nevis. Molascuit a cattle food prepared from molasses and the crushed fibre of the sugar-cane is exported from British Guiana. Many islands, formerly solely 'sugar islands', have now turned their attention to other products. Cacao ranks next in importance. It forms practically the sole crop of Grenada and in Trinidad is worth about double the value of sugar.
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