Canada’s forest industry drives national prosperity
Canada's biggest business remains the forest sector. It accounts for about 20 percent of exports, employs many, and fuels growth in transportation, electricity, and capital spending. In British Columbia, which supplies most lumber and pulpwood, forests produce vast timber, enabling worldwide shipments of lumber, plywood, newsprint, and wood products. Continuous reforestation, fire control, and disease management sustain this renewable resource as technology expands wood applications and global demand grows.
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Canadian postal service history and current reach
During the French regime some private mail was carried by government couriers between Quebec and Montreal. Canada's first post office in the modern sense was at Halifax in 1755. By 1962 Canada operated about 11 500 post offices with 7 300 urban letter carriers and 6 575 rural routes serving over 500 000 rural mail bores. Government employees exceed 25 000 with 10 100 land-mail contract couriers. Revenue 180 million and expenditure 186 million in 1962. 192 million projected for 1963.
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Textile employment climbs in Canada in 1962
Canadian textile mills added 4000 jobs in 1962 bringing total employment to 77000, a record for the year though the industry’s peak was 102000 in 1951.
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Population up 1.8 Percent to 18.77 Million in 1963
Canada’s population reached an estimated 18 million seven hundred sixty seven thousand on January 1 1963, up 353 thousand from a year earlier reflecting a 1.8 percent gain.
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Canada’s early postage stamps and currency history
The first postage stamps in what is now Canada appeared in 1851 from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada province, followed by Newfoundland in 1857 and other colonies in 1861. The red threepenny beaver led the initial issue, with scarce stamps like the 12 pence black valued at $7,000 unused. Dominion stamps began in 1868, featuring Queen Victoria, with notable designs such as the 1897 Victoria Jubilee and 1898 map stamp. Stamps later shifted to broader Canadian themes beyond monarch portraits.
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Quiz Corner Answers Reveal Heaviest Metal and Rivers
A vintage quiz lists platinum as the heaviest metal among gold, platinum, lead and copper. It names Burma's Irrawaddy, Sittang and Salween as the three Gulf of Martaban rivers. It notes sunspots prove solar rotation and explains tele means far. It calculates one gross as twelve dozen.
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