Note: Real GDP is plotted here on a logarithmic scale. On such a scale, equal distances on the vertical axis represent equal percentage changes. Thus, the distance between $5,000 and $10,000 is the same as the distance between $10,000 and $20,000.

Source: Reproduced and adapted by authority of the Minister of Industry, 2006. Statistics Canada CANSIM Series 1992044, 1992067 and 1; also Canadian Economic Observer Catalogue 11-210, (Historical Statistical Supplement 1991/92): 7, 98 and Catalogue 11-010 (Statistical Summary, March 1994); 4, 12; Morris Altman, “Revised Real GNP Estimates and Canadian Economic Growth, 1870–1926,” Review of Income and Wealth, Series 38, No. 4 (December 1992): 458–59; and Canada 1930: A Handbook of Present Conditions and Recent Progress in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (Ottawa: Dominion Bureau of Statistics): 40.