This article is about floriculture in Canada. In 2001, the Canadian

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industry was valued at $904 million CAD. To give a more recent figure, Canadian floricultural farm cash receipts in 2013 totalled $1.09 billion CAD. In 2011, there were 2,278 floricultural farms in Canada. Of the provinces,

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has the greatest share in this industry—nearly 45% in 2004.Reid, N., & Carroll, M. (2005). "Using Cluster-Based Economic Development to Enhance the Economic Competitiveness of Northwest Ohio's Greenhouse Nursery Industry". In ''Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences'' (Vol. 28, p. 309). p 1998. Correspondingly

dominates in exports to the U.S.Reid, N., Smith, B. W., Gatrell, J. D., & Carroll, M. C. (2009). "Importing Change: Canadian Competition and the US Floriculture Industry". ''The Industrial Geographer'', 6(1), 3-19. 9,500 people of mainly

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and Danish background were employed by Ontario's floriculture industry in 2004.

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's strategic location within 12 hours by road of half of the U.S. urban population is cited as one of the major sources of its success in floriculture.

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