- Durable goods are manufactured for housing, transportation, communications, education, recreation, entertainment, personal and health care - ranging from refrigerators, automobiles, telephones, pianos, aircraft, windows and doors to tea kettles.

- Personal goods are manufactured for clothing, footwear, recreation, entertainment, health care; for example, dresses, shoes, suits, boots, bandages, books, video displays, toys and games, etc.

- Manufactured edible goods include beverages, butter, bread, cheese, milk, processed fruits, fish, meats and vegetables.

- Manufacturing also includes machinery and equipment to package, handle, distribute, store and record all other manufactured goods.

- Manufacturing is a purchaser of raw materials and services; Statistics Canada data show that, for every 3 new jobs created in manufacturing, about 3 more jobs are created.

- Manufacturing in Canada began with flour mills. The first grist

Between 1945 and the 1980s, manufacturing has accounted for 22-24% of Canada's total real output of goods and services. Employment has roughly doubled, from 1 to 2 million, but this represents a decline in the proportion of total employment because output per worker in manufacturing has risen about two-thirds again as fast as national productivity. Manufacturing productivity gains have, in fact, contributed about one-third of the gains in real per capita income since WWII. In this period Canada's manufacturing industry has been strongly affected by developments in ELECTRONICS, energy-price escalation (especially in the mid-1970s) and trade liberalization resulting from renegotiation of parts of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and from the drastic changes in the state of international competition.

Trade Four developments in trade policies and practices in this period affected Canadian manufacturers substantially: the Canada-US Autopact; the GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT); the world competitive environment, particularly the emergence of lesser developed countries; and the bilateral FREE TRADE agreement with the US reached(though not yet ratified) in late 1987. The 1965 CANADA-US AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS AGREEMENT (known as the Autopact) between Canada and the US created a conditional, duty-free environment which has allowed the Canadian and US industries to rationalize according to appropriate economies of scale, resulting in efficient industries that serve an integrated Canada-US market. The Autopact benefited both countries at different times. Canada did gain substantially more production, an increase in trade and productivity, a greater share of N American automotive employment and lower consumer prices.

- The first steamboat was made in Canada, the accommodation, was built in 1809 by the Eagle Foundry of Montreal, which made all of the more than 100 parts for its engines.

Electronics The first industrial computer was introduced in Canada in 1957, and since then computer TECHNOLOGY has found widespread use in manufacturing - for production and sales planning, inventory control, accounting and payroll, personnel records, market analysis, business planning, evaluating strategies, etc. The use of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and ROBOTICS technologies has increased rapidly. Electronics spurred the explosive growth o

Some common words found in the essay are:
Autopact Canada, Canadian Shield, Canada Durable, TECHNOLOGY Energy, Postwar Developments, INDUSTRY Resource-based, NATIONAL POLICY, QUALITY CONTROL, Trade GATT, Manufacturing Canada, canadian manufacturers, import penetration, canada's manufacturing, machinery equipment, tariffs trade gatt, agreement tariffs trade, created manufacturing, canada flour, international competition, trade gatt, tariffs trade, 3 jobs, 3 jobs created, manufacturing directly employed, jobs created manufacturing,
Approximate Word count = 1623
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)