Identifier: canadianschoolge00corn (find matches)
Title: Canadian school geography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London Toronto : Dent
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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on account of the immensequantities of smoke from the chimneys of the factories of Birm-ingham and adjoining towns. This is the centre of the manufactureof iron and steel goods of all kinds (Map 41 in Atlas). An adjoiningcoal field supplies the fuel, and formerly there was an abundanceof iron ore near at hand, but now the iron ore is chiefly imported.Sheffield, farther north, a city about the size of Toronto is chieflynoted for the making of cutlery and fine cutting tools of all kinds(Fig. 181). Coal, iron, water-power, and rock material for themaking of grindstones are found in the neighbourhood, and un-doubtedly the latter, which is so necessary for putting edges ontools, is partly responsible for the special line of manufacturingdeveloped in this district. In Staffordshire, between Birminghamand Manchester, is a district called the potteries, which is notedfor the manufacture of earthenware and porcelain (Map 43 inAtlas). A great variety of clays is found there as well as coal, of
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324 CANADIAN SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY which large quantities are used in baking pottery. Stoke is thelargest town in the region. Crewe near by is an important railwaycentre. Derby, east of the potteries, and Worcester, south-west ofBirmingham, have long been famous for the manufacture ofporcelain, and the names of these cities will be found on the bottomsof many of the finest dishes. In South Wales great quantities ofcoal are used for the smelting of imported ores of iron, tin, zinc,and copper, and immense quantities of tin-plate are manufactured.Swansea and Cardiff are the most important cities of the region.Formerly along the Thames was the centre of the ship-building in-dustry in which the United Kingdom is supreme, but it has withinrecent years largely shifted to the north-east coast along the riversTyne, Wear, and Tees, where coal and iron are in close proximity. Sec. 423. Shipping.—The United Kingdom is the greatesttrading country in the world, and her exports and imports farsurpass t

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