Canada Yearbook - 1897

360 S TA TIS TWA L YEA R-BOOK.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Registered sea-going tonnage carrying cargo into and out of the
province, by five-year periods, with yearly averages and percentages of
increase or decrease:
PERIOD.
Total
Tonnage.
Yearly
Average.
Per cent.
1874-78 '
1879-83
1884-88
1889-93
1894
1895
1896
1897. .. .
1,439,817
2,358,885
4,089,788
8,927,979
287,963
471,777
817,958
1,785,596
1,979,969
2,228,047
2,167,797
2,135,443
+ 63'8
+ 73-4
+ 118-3
+ 109
+ 125
— 2'7
— 15
Registered sea-going tonnage carrying cargo into the province, &c.:
PEEIOD.
Total
Tonnage.
Yearly
Average.
Per cent.
1874-78 735,936
1879-83
1,058,566
1884-88
1,935,085
1889-93
3,928,138
1894
1896
1897 ...
147,187
211,713
387,017
785,628
830,408
914,531
953,301
913,886
+ 43-8
+ 828
+ 1030
+ 5'7
+ 101
+ 4'2
— 41
Registered sea-going tonnage carrying cargo out of the province, &c.
PERIOD.
Total
Tonnage.
Yearly
Average.
Per cent.
1874-78 .
1879-83 .
1884-88...
1889-93 ..
1894
1895
1896
1897
703,881
1,300,319
2,154,703
4,999,841
140,776
260,064
430,940
999,968
1,149,561
1,313,516
1,214,496
1,221,557
+ 85 0
+ 65 7
4 132 0
+ 15 0
+ 14 3
+ t 5
+ 0 6