In progress Photostory 1/5 : Backing Canada's favorable position among the top ten heavyweight trading nations of the modern world is a $45,500,000,000 manufacturing industry employing close to two million Canadians. Their output of fabricated and finished products - ranging from cowboy shirts (a big seller in Japan) to ponderous, tracked land-ships (destined for Russia) - make up about three quarters of Canada's total exports of $16,500,000,000. _x000B__x000B_In the last 10 years the value of manufactured exports has soared, earning the nation $12,500,000,000 in 1970 - an increase of 125 per cent since 1960. _x000B__x000B_Catalogue No. 65-004 for 1970, published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics tells the story of Canadian manufactured exports. _x000B__x000B_235,264 snowmobiles went to 23 different countries (including Surinam and Indonesia) for a value of $160 million. _x000B__x000B_Television sets, radios, record players and combinations earned Canada $32 million on the export market; furniture: $32 million; razors and blades: $2 million, outdoor jackets, $5 million; overcoats $16 million; perfumes and cosmetics $1,600,000; hockey sticks and ice skates, $12 million; newspapers, magazines and periodicals, $10 million; books and pamphlets $7 million; printed matter (not elsewhere specified) $10 million; turbine engines, $42 million; rock drilling machinery (a real Canadian specialty) $17 million; chain saws, $5.5 million (doubled by chain saw parts, $12 million); automobiles, trucks, trailers and parts, $3,400 million; aircraft, engines and parts, $379 million; tires and tubes, $20 million; telephone equipment $66 million; military weapons $60 million; electricity (to the United States) $34 million; and whisky $183 million. _x000B__x000B_Heavy equipment, ornaments, underwear, machinery and thousands of other items in daily use around today's busy world carry the tag Made in Canada - in ever-increasing variety and quantity.