Total 1,829 Fixed capital in 185,857 dwelling-houses, Estimated value of arable land, &c. £23,142,131 0 0 Fixed capital, in mills, stores, and other property required for carrying forward the timber trade, estimated, viz. In New Brunswick £1,178,750 00 Lower Canada 2,057,600 00 Upper Canada 1,114,000 00 Nova Scotia 463,925 00 47,000 0 0 1,688 £2,368,760 00 4,632,440 00 779,214 00 619,825 00 14,741,892 00 9,292,850 00 4,861,275 00 £37,306,256 00 Brought over Fixed capital, connected with the cod and seal fisheries at Newfoundland and Labrador, at least Fixed capital in the fishing establishments at Gaspè, Perce, Bonaventure, &c. £37,306,256 0 0 1,435,000 00 165,000 00 Fixed capital in the fisheries of New Fixed capital in the cod, herring, seal, 84,000 0 0 220,000 0 0 15,000,000 00 Shubenectady Canal, at least 6,000 0 0 75,000 0.0 Sums expended and fixed as capital in the iron forges of St. Maurice, the iron Marmora works, the coal and iron mines of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, aggregate estimate at least Total fixed capital 230,000 0 0 £56,102,39700 The foregoing statement may be considered the lowest estimate of fixed capital in British America, exclusive of shipping (value, 1,600,000l.) and the cost of Government buildings, dock-yards, and the extensive fortifications in Canada and the maritime colonies. The estimated value of British and Irish manufactures exported from the United Kingdom to the British colonies (in the year ending 5th January, 1833,) will be found by the customs' returns to amount, exclusive of freight to British ships, to about The official value of British manufactures for the year ending 5th January, 1832, is stated at 2,315,7651., and of foreign and colonial 303,7971. £1,532,582 19 0 The official value of imports to the United Of Foreign and Colonial merchandize Total 2,858,514 19 0 271,975 90 - £3,130,490 80 The following statement of ships, tonnage, and seamen employed between the United Kingdom and the British North American dominions, is computed by taking the average of the five years preceding the 5th of January, 1833. The difference of 62 ships on the average inwards greater than outwards, arises from that number, besides new ships, proceeding to Newfoundland with naval stores, and loading with fish, either for the continent of Europe or the West Indies; and the difference of tonnage from others, entered from the United Kingdom, being large ships, which load with lumber in the ports of New Brunswick for the West Indies. The following statement, computed from the customs' returns, shows the number of vessels, tonnage, and men employed between the Northern colonies and the West Indies, and other countries. Total 1,842 144,791 8,812 1,387 148,613 8,280 It is difficult to ascertain the tonnage and seamen employed in the northern intercolonial trade. The official returns for the year ending 5th January, 1832, give the following statement, which does not include the vessels employed in the fishery : 594 STATISTICS OF BRITISH AMERICA. Inwards, 3,068 vessels, 211,471 tons, 9,991 men. The tonnage, &c. employed between British North America and all other countries, for the year ending 5th January, 1832, is computed to be Total inwards, 6,239 ships, 814,380 tons, Total outwards, 6,366 ships, 836,668 tons, 39,584 men. 40,070 men. Total imports to all countries, per official returns, £4,810,039. Total exports to all countries, per ditto, 3,671,891. The value of imports from the United States by way of the rivers, sea coasts, and the numerous roads, cannot be ascertained; but the Customs' returns make them appear about eight times the amount of exports; the balance being paid for in specie, and in a great quantity of British manufactures smuggled, along the frontier, into the United States, the amount of which cannot be obtained. In the particular statistical accounts of Upper Canada, an error in the table requires correction. For 2,200, it should be 220,000 swine; and where the religious denominations are treated of, it is not distinctly stated that the Methodist Conference has now no connection whatever with that of the United States. There are three paper mills also omitted. The number of vessels employed in the sealing voyages from Newfoundland is wrong, by transposing some figures. For 159, p. 163. Vol. I., it should be 359; and for 345, it should be 534, and registering 42,720 tons. The value of furs annually exported from British America, taking the average of the five years ending 5th January, 1833, is about 210,000l. sterling. |