SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column floes not,nscessarily prectude 'subsequent review.]
Canada as a Field for British Branch Industries. By P. W. Cook. (Ottawa :• Department of Trade.)—This well-written and well-illustrated, pamphlet by one of the Canadian. Trade Com- missioners describes in some detail the Dominion's natural- resources in minerals, forest and farm products and water- power, her transport system, tariffs and taxes, and her labour organizations. The author's main contention- is that British manufacturers are. handicapped in. competing with Canadian and United_ States manufacturers in the Canadian market, but. that they might profitably establish branch factories in Canada. In 1918 the- capital of. the industrial companies at work in Canada was thus divide-d—Canadian. shareholders 58 per cent., American shareholders, 34 per cent., British shareholders 9' per cent., others 1 per cent. As America. is. overflowing with wealth, as a result of the War, it is probable that her investments in Canada have increased since 1918.
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