Caption
Massive wheat exports of more than three-quarters of a billion dollars last year (a 30 per cent increase over 1962), are likely to be increased again in 1964. Above, trading floor of Winnipeg Grain Exchange.
Date
April 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-2511
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Jackie Eon, 18, of Ottawa, above, is customer for some of $5,000,000-worth of jewelry imported from 35 different countries each year.
Date
July 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-4594
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Caption
Pickles worth a million dollars are exported to about 40 countries around the world including Egypt, Malaysia, Australia, Denmark and Ireland
Date
May 1, 1963
Accession Number
NFB63-4996
Materials
Colour negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Swimsuits for Canada come from 16 countries.
Date
July 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-4892
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Steel mill in Sydney, N.S., above, makes quality steel for West Germany. Other nations buying steel totalling more than $150,000,000 a year are Sweden, Britain, Finland, Chile and scores of other countries.
Date
July 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-5127
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Photostory #371: Per-Capita Leader of Heavyweight Exporters-Importers: Canada Among World's Top Six Trading Nations
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
August 25, 1964
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Leading the world's top half-dozen trading nations on a per-capita basis (last year's imports of $6,600,000,000 were balanced by exports of $6,800,000,000), Canada's vigorous dealings in the field of international supply and demand portray an array of fascinating facts. Bikinis from France, bicycles from Poland and bubblegum from Israel are traded for fruit pies for Britain, spaghetti for Trinidad and pickles for Denmark. Autos from England, oil from Arabia and sporting rifles from Red China are paid for by steel to Germany, electronic instruments to Switzerland, locomotives to the Argentine. With less than 20 million Canadians sharing this enormous amount of world trade, the per-capita figure for the nation leads the next best - among the world's heavyweight trading nations - by 50 per cent, most other big-volume trading nations by 100 per cent. Such a growing mass of imports and exports makes Canada increasingly important to the buyers and sellers who trade and do business in the market places of the modern world.
