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480 new vessels of 151.012 tons
were built in the Dominion.
The value of the fish exported from Canada in the same
year amounted to £1.000.000. year
and from Newfoundland to
£1340.000.
It is stated in
the Innual. Report of Governor Hill for 1872. that I about 10.000 men are engaged
in the seal fishery of Newfound.
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land and that this number
includes almost every
available
able bodied man on the island,
? amounting to about 1/5,000 men.
The rigorous climate
climate of
Canada and Newfoundland.
throughout their
long
winter season,
makes it impossible for fishermen
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Is of 151.012 tons
the Dominion.
I the fish exported
in être same Ed to £1.000. 000.
enfoundland to
It is stated in
Report of
e for 1872. that
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ren are engaged
" shery of Newfound.
at this number
at every
available
n on the island,
bout 15,000 men.
:s climate of ewfoundland,
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winter season,
long ssible for fishermen