“Most people. are. fascinated. by scores -- points
won on the. sports field or at the bridge table,
| grades achieved. at. school or college, ‘other service firms, crown corpora-

people’s pay packets, the numbers game wherever
it’s played.- And we tend to be particularly
fascinated by comparative scores: the relative
totals of goals notched up by hockey stars, the top
twenty albums, the country’s ten wealthiest men,
the pecking order in general. It’s part and parcel 3B.C. jobs are provided by
of our competitive society and, among other
things, has made the Guinness Book of Records a Alcan

thriving business.

That’s why last week’s
special issue of Financial
Post Magazine has more
than a little significance for
tens of thousands of B.C.
wage-earners, as well as for
the -establishment and its
investment dealers. -

It’s the *Post’s . annual |
review of Canada’s top 300 |

companies which,’ between
them, generate something

like 75 per cent of all the 4
country’s wealth -- including, ||

very probably, your. pay
cheque. and mine, |
though we may not be ‘their
direct employees. ~

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powerhouses or the nation. .

Together they are the home.

of two-thirds of Canada’s

people, or more than six
times the population of
British Columbia. So
hardly surprising that ‘they

‘also have the lion’s share of: :
the country’s giant corpora- os

tions.

Even. so, it’ $a 2 whopping ae
Out. of
Canada’ Ss top 200° industrial -

big ‘lion’s «sare.

companies. ithose. that ‘abtain -

more than half their revenue
. from’ manufacturing) no few-

er than 167 -- or 84 per cent --
are based..on Ontario. or
. Quebec

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Of the remaining 33
industrial giants only 13.are
based on 8B.C., 11 on
Alberta, three each on
Saskatchewan and Nova Sco-
tia, two on Manitoba and one
on ‘New Brunswick. |

FOREST PRODUCTS

The pecking order on this
list goes according to annual
sales, ranging from $5.2
billion in the case of General
Motors of Canada Ltd. (No. 1

on the Hst) down tc $87”

million for Pilkington Broth-
ers Canada Ltd.,
(No. 200).

As. you “might ‘expect,

seven of B.C.'s 13. big boys

are forest product manufac-

turers, headed by MacMillan
Bloedel with sales of $1.5

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country’s. top 10 crown
billion and Ns. i2 on the corporations. |
ji-Canada parade. . Crown a Residential, commercial anu indusiriai paving.
‘Zellerbach Canada qrocks in In the resource. field .

followed by

_ Products (No. 59), Weldwood top 20 companies: Kaiser
‘it’s -

‘Transmission (No. 37), Cor-

Toronto’

- Fortunately for our current
living ‘standards, the Finan-
. ‘cial Post’s: **200 list’? is ‘not

the whole story. It does. not
‘include major: “B.C.-based
subsidiaries of’ national cor-
‘porations, major industrial

tions, . fesource companies,:
financial institutions and big
merchandisers.

PAYROLLS IN B.C.
Tens of thousands of other :

satellite firms like Aluminum -
Co. of Canada (owned by”
‘Aluminum), Kelly
Dougias and .B.C.. Packers -
(both owned by | George.
Weston Ltd.), Cominco and
CP Air (both owned by
Canadian Pacific Ltd.) and
B.C. Tel (owned by Anglo-
‘Canadian. Telephone Co.).
7 Their parents may be in
# Toronto or Montreal, but
their payrolis are in British —
Columbia. °

All of them -- plus our own
home-grown Finning Tractor
& Equipment Co. -- would
rank by sales within the first —
120 on the Post’s ‘‘200 list’’,
if they qualified for it.

a Elsewhere, B.C. Hydro
with over 12,000 employees
comes No.-7 among. the

way behind at. No. (mining, gas and: petroleum)

Roads, parking lots; driveways, etc.
B.C. Forest B.C. has three of Canada’s a

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‘of Canada (No. 71), Canada” Resources (No. 4), Placer.
Cellulose Co. (No.. 115), Development (No. 15) and

Rayonier Canada (No. 137). Cassiar Asbestos (No. 19):
and Scott ' Paper (No. 188). -

The Bank of British Co-
>... “tumbia ranks 31st.out of the.
The non-forest. industries country’s 35 leading financial
among the top. 200 with head institutions.

Gait 25

Woodwards, with 16,600
employees, and Neonex In-
ternational, with 3,400, claim.
lith and 22nd piaces respec-
tively among Canada’s 25 > top 7

are

Canada ‘Development. Cor-
“poration (No.. 36), Westcoast

nat...Industries (No. 149),
B.C. Sugar Refinery (No.

160), Cessco Holdings (No. merchandisers.
166) and Pacific Western Ad a ‘to “these famous

Airlines (No. 182)... ‘names _ the. ‘hiindreds |

smaller B.C. firms who,

Two other quick statistics, turn, do business with them
if you're still with me. B.C.’s and we begin to. get some
13. king-size manufacturers kind of a picture of how you
employ a total of roughly and i (hogefutiy ' Manage to
60,000 people -- around six Pay our rent and buy. our
per cent of a provincial labor Supper. -But one thing
force numbering more than €merges very clearly from
one million. Their combined the Financial Post study.
sales amount to $4.3 billion,
whiclr sounds quite a lot but
is actually a mere three ‘per
cent of Canada’s total manu-
facturing industry | sales of |
‘S151 billion.

In ‘mantfacturing --
.production of saleable items , a
from raw materials.-- B.C. [os
stili lags woefully behind, Fa
and: this is the area capable
of providing the maximum

number of jobs. Taat’s why,

‘All of which confirms the with 10 per cent cf Canada’s
fact that, as far as manufac- population, . the province
turing goes, B.C. is still very cannot afford indefinitely to
small potatoes in the overall continue making only ‘three
national picture. In short, ‘per cent. of the products
we're simply not making it, “Canada needs.

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