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Table 2. Wholesale Merchants Sales, Not Seasonally Adjusted, by Trade Group and Region

  Sales
Change from previous year
 
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millions $ millions $ millions $ millions $ millions $ % % % % %  
                     
Trade Group - Canada                      
Food products 5,842 5,963 5,514 5,852 60,913 6.4 4.4 6.7 5.3 4.8  
Beverage, drug and tobacco products 3,142 3,261 2,961 2,989 32,492 2.0 4.8 8.0 6.1 9.6  
Apparel and dry goods 617 735 795 875 7,128 13.7 6.7 14.5 0.1 6.8  
Household goods 1,266 1,228 1,088 1,062 10,896 13.1 16.2 24.5 17.4 13.0  
Motor vehicles, parts and accessories 7,496 8,210 7,016 6,931 77,861 22.2 37.2 13.4 10.0 17.5  
Metals, hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies 2,224 2,412 2,219 2,194 23,294 8.0 10.3 12.1 5.2 4.7  
Lumber and building materials 2,784 3,152 3,031 3,169 30,809 9.8 17.0 23.8 14.0 14.0  
Farm machinery, equipment and supplies 539 768 626 709 7,634 -1.1 -3.6 0.6 -11.1 5.1  
Industrial and other machinery, equipment and supplies 4,878 5,041 4,925 4,790 53,471 -3.4 -2.9 -0.2 -5.8 -3.8  
Computers, packaged software and other electronic machinery 2,852 2,777 2,763 2,423 29,152 5.5 9.5 -7.4 1.5 -1.1  
Other products 5,015 5,101 4,633 4,396 52,146 7.2 9.0 11.8 0.8 2.4  
Total, all trade groups 36,656 38,647 35,570 35,391 385,018 7.4 9.8 8.5 4.6 5.9  
                     
Regions                      
Newfoundland and Labrador 220 261 233 246 2,454 -5.9 9.2 5.4 4.3 3.9  
Prince Edward Island 53 57 55 56 600 -1.0 6.9 9.1 -0.3 -1.0  
Nova Scotia 614 633 571 603 6,621 6.6 9.0 -1.5 -2.1 4.4  
New Brunswick 457 491 438 460 4,834 -1.5 -4.9 -10.6 -3.5 -3.3  
Quebec 7,374 7,817 7,231 7,288 78,261 4.0 5.9 8.6 3.2 6.1  
Ontario 19,053 19,841 18,001 17,654 193,843 10.7 14.0 8.7 6.4 7.3  
Manitoba 955 1,131 1,064 1,007 11,366 -6.0 11.2 7.4 -0.8 6.1  
Saskatchewan 867 1,014 948 1,045 11,321 4.8 4.1 11.6 0.9 -2.4  
Alberta 3,573 3,822 3,555 3,550 38,590 1.6 1.9 7.6 -0.6 2.1  
British Columbia 3,460 3,552 3,441 3,427 36,741 10.4 9.6 12.5 8.6 7.2  
Yukon 11 10 11 11 110 12.9 -16.6 0.9 -5.8 -5.0  
Northwest Territories 17 16 22 39 255 25.3 13.1 50.4 170.0 43.8  
Nunavut 1 2 2 4 23 3.0 12.4 -24.6 30.3 2.3  
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