PRODUCT Area in acres bushels Total Yalu* Spring wheat 64.1 1 960,000 81,786,000 Chita 24,411.000 18,796.000 Buckwheat 1,919m0 2,322,000 Mixed grains yl,,,. 1,843,000 1,825,000 Potatoes 112,000 14,672,000 14.232,000 Turnips 10,000 2,00.000 1.272,000 Ifayanddknmr 2,985,000 5,224,000 57,464,000 Fodder corn 31,000 248,000 1,476,000 Fisheries.— The total value of the fisheries of the province was in 1916 $2,076,851, and gave employment to nearly 9,000 men.
Trade and Commerce.— The value of the imports entered for home consumption by the province for the year ending 31 March 1917 was $270,024,440 and exports $551,111,934. Quebec has about 800 bank branches with clearing houses at Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke. Quebec has 7,158 manufacturing establishments, with capital of $549,000,000; 141,000 employees, and annual products worth $351,000,000. There are 2,064 vessels owned in the province of an aggregate tonnage of 123,052 tons. The annual receipts of the province are over $9,500,000.
Education.— Educational matters in the province of Quebec are under control of a superintendent of public instruction assisted by a council and divided into committees for the management of Roman Catholic and Protestant schools, respectively. Compulsory school age is from 5 to 16 years. The schools are maintained partly by local taxation and partly by govern ment grants and are individually controlled by local boards. There are in the province 5,988 elementary schools and 721 model schools. In the elementary schools there are 252,000 pupils. The total number of schools, universities and colleges in the province is given at 7,156, teachers 16,634, pupils 470,839. Chief among the higher institutions of learning are Laval Uni versity at Quebec and McGill University and the Presbyterian College at Montreal.
Government— The system of government established in Canada under the Union Act of 1867 is a federal union having a general or cen tral government controlling matters essential to the general development, the permanency and the union of the whole Dominion and a number of provincial organizations, each gov erned by a lieutenant governor, nominated and removable by the government of the Dominion and advised by a council responsible to the people's representatives and with a legislature composed in Quebec of two houses— a council of 24 members appointed by the Crown, each representing a special territorial division and an elective assembly of 81 members. The Parlia
ment of Canada consists of a Senate and a House of Commons. The Senate, as at present constituted, has 81 members, 24 of whom are from Quebec. The House of Commons consists at present of 234 members, the basis of repre sentation, fixed under the provisions of the Act of Confederation, being that the province of Quebec is always to have 65 representatives and each of the other provinces such a number as will give the same proportion of representa tives to its population as the number 65 bears to the population of Quebec as ascertained by a decennial census. In the province of (?uebec the qualifications for the electoral franchise are ownership or occupancy of real property; posi tion as teachers or clergymen after five months' domicile in electoral district; income or personal property of specified amount real, or real and personal valued at $300, $200 and $100 (fisher men). Income, renters, $100; others, $300. Ab sentees in the United States may vote if they have returned with their families and have re sided in an electoral district one month before election. Voting in elections is by ballot. No property qualification is demanded from a mem ber of the Commons, nor is he limited to a resi dence in the district for which he is elected. Hotel bars within the province were closed from 1 May 1918; and from 1 May 1919, no further licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquor were to be issued.
Municipal Institutions.— The municipal or ganization of the province comprises townships, counties, being rural districts of no definite area, parishes, villages with a population of over 40 families towns and cities erected by legisla tive authority. No definite figure of population is requested. The townships, parishes, towns and villages are administered by a mayor and councillors; the cities by a mayor, councillors and aldermen.