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LURE OF CANADA'S
ACATION LANDS
n DOMINION OFFERS A WIDE ing beyond the usual aevnues for
RANGE OF ATTRACTIONS TO travel. In keeping with the desire
TOURISTS — SCENIC RESOUR. of many who wish to visit newer
CES WIDELY RECOGNIZED, fields and in order to provide facilit-
ies for easy and convenient travel,
Much has been said in recent years motor highways have been construct-
relative
onstructrelative to the variety and extent of ed which now enable the tourist to
Canada's recreational resources. The reach beautiful lakeland country, in
• annual national income derived tram some instances, rarely explored,
such resources,. although hard to esti- There are now over 150,000 miles of
•mate accurately, is one which com- improved route in Canada. In ad -
pares favourably with the annual ditiun to this vast mileage, which is
values of the products of her forests, kept in good condition throughout
of her mines, fisheries or any other the touring season and ki soma dis-
- industry. In addliton to keeping a- tel is available to the motorist dur-
breaet with other progressive coon- ing the whole year, there are many
tries in the field of commercial act- thoueemI:. of miles of other roads
ivities, Canada has established a quite '-:citable for general motor tra-
world-wide reputation as 'being a.
charming holiday land where practi-
cally all forms of recreation are
available to moderate cost to the
- visitor. There are few reeorde. in the
annals of Canadian development
more intere. ting or more remarkable e'uh magnificient and diversified net -
than those of the manner in which tial scenery or such inviting summer
the economic importance of the and winter vacation areas as Canada.
Dominion's recreational fe:tures has Fortunately for the inhabitants of
grown in recent years. the large cities of America nature
Not the least among the many hes bounteously provided immense
changes in the conditions of modern plawwrounds in her wide expanses of
mountain, Mk -eland, forest and river.
National and Provincial parks cov-
ering an aiea in the neighborhood of
;:5,000 square miles and ranging
from the Atlantic seaboard to the
Pa.eific coast, are all easily accessible
tither by rail or motor road or both
and provide the tourist with except-
ional opportunities for varied re-
creation. The huntsman, fisherman,
fie. Lading to practically all places
of i,.., est in the populated areaa of
t}' _ Ieominion these motor roads con-
tribute largely toward the develop-
ment of her recreational resources.
Pew countries in the world possess
life are those reeultina from the dew-
elopment of the automobile as a
means of transportation. An amazing
increase in the volume of holiday
movement has been witnessed during
the last few years and the automo-
bile has played a large part in the.-
regard; it is no longer considered a
luxury of the rich but is rapidly be-
coming a necessity for the man in
moderate circumstances, camper or canoeist will find in Can -
Some idea of the extroardinary ada's hinterland great stretches of
growth of the holiday traffic may be Primeval forest, rolling plain, and
mountain range, the natural haunt
of moose, deer„ caribou, bear, big-
horn cheep, mountain goat and other
native game animals; beautiful lakes
and countlues swift -flowing rivers af-
rording an opportunity for some of
the very best fishing to be found any
where in the world.
From a historical viewpoint Can-
ada occupies a unique position a-
mong the countries of the world.
Some of the most romantic and in-
teresting episodes in the history of
North America afford an extensive
gained from a comparison of the
records of touring automobiles enter-
ing Canada over a period of years.
Between 1919 and 1926 the number
of cars receiving permits to enter
the Dominion for a period of 30 days
rose from 69,000 to 550,000 and
those entering for twenty four hours
increased from 177,000 to over 1,-
500,000. The number entering for
a period of from one to six months
also shows a substantial increase. A-
side from the remarkable increase
of motor tourists, railway and steam-
ship lines each year acid enormous field for study to those interested In
numbers to the thousands who hall- the early history of the continent.
day in Canada. Including an even There still remain, in many districts,
wider field than the automobile these , throughout Canada, visible evidences
organizations have spread'lthe Dom- of early conflict in ruins which have
inion's fame as an ideal vacation teen preserved; and there may be
land far and wide, ' feand original forte, block -houses,
The vast numbers who annually powder magazines, guard houses and
visit Canada by automobile can find 1i: tening pests a:- well as other evi-
an opportunity to spend part or all dances of early important events
-of their vacation in territory extend- . which have direct bearing on the
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political, econoinh and industrial
progress of the country.
Taking into account the scope and
sariety of the attractions fou•ul from
coast to coast and from the !uterna-
tioual Botutdary to beyond the Ar-
etie circle, there is every reason for
the view that the natural assets
which have been indicated above will
prove to be one of the enaJor forces
of Canadian development in the
future.
NEW ERA
IN RAILWAY
BUILDING 1 S
AT HAND
Dominion Is Planning Vast Expan-
sion of Lines — Leads World Now
—5,000 Miles to be Constructed
Within Next 10 or 15 Years,
Boston, April 20—Writing to the
Boston Transcript from Toronto,
John R. Bone says:
Sounds Fantastic.
Is Canada on the eve of an era of
new railway construction? At first
blush the suggestion sounds fantast-
ic. It was but yesterday that Can-
ada was said to be on the verge of
bankruptcy because of her enormous
and unproductive railway debt and
John R. Bone, is an old Bast Wa-
wanosh boy, who for a number of
sears has been connected with The
Toronto Star staff.
all the solemn economists wagged
their heads. Even to the layman it
seemed that 41,000 miles of railway
for 10,000,000 people, a record not
approached elsewhere in the world,
was discounting a long future. Some
divisions never paid for axle grease
and long stretchess of rails rusted or
were torn up. When the motor car
began filching railway revenue on a
grand scale it seemed the last straw.
New railways appeared to be the last
thing Canada wanted.
Yet today we have E. W. Beatty,
president of the Canadian Pacific
Railway announcing: "During the
ten years, if Canada progresses as
we anticipate, there will be more
money expended on railway expan-
sion than hi any other single indus-
try"; and S. J. Hungerford, vice -
President of the Canadian National,
declaring: "Beyond question, the
railway mileage of Canada will have
to be greatly added to."
Despite enormous existing mile-
age, despite the huge national debt,
despite the threat of the motor car,
it is predicted in responsible quarters
that Canada will build probably five
thousand miles of new railway with-
in
ithin the next ten or fifteen years. In-
cluding in this projected mileage is a
new transcontinental line, the short-
t:st north of Mexico, which will con-
nect Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay
with a new Pacific port, probably at
Portland, British Columbia, at the
southern tip of the Alaska Pan-
handle. The C. P. R. is said to be
flirting with the project, When the
C. P. R. first invaded the West it was
predicted by the engineers that habi
itable and productive Western Cana-
da would not extend more than 50
utiles from the United States bound-
ary. A Churchill -Portland railway
would at no point be as close to the
boundary as 500 miles.
Building oes Ob.
At the moment actual railway eon-
struction is thrusting towards Hud-
son Bay at two points. The Domin-
ion government is rushing to com-
pletion the extension of its system
known as the Hudson Bay Railway
running from La Pas in northern
Manitoba to Fort -Churchill. It will
be completed next year or the year
after. The Hudson Bay rail and that Canada's population and immi- .i 1890 . + :. • • • • " ' ,
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steam route to Europe, which it will
complete, will be inaugurated in
1930. At the same time the Ontario
government has appropriate $6,000,-
000 to be expended this year on
pushing its railway, the Tcmiskam-
gration problem is inextricably link-
) ed up with the further railway con-
struction. Lands suitable for settle-
ment, Owe to the railways are no
longer available 'except at advanced
prices. Therefore, it is argued, new
ing & Northern Ontario Railway, to- railways and new settlers must come.
wards Moose Factory.
From the Hudson Bay Railway
main line an important branch, 150
miles long. is being extended north-
ward to the new mining area at Flin
Fion, recently acquired by New York
interests. Branch lines, spurs, and
feeders of this kind will account for
the most of the immediate new mile-
age. The demand comes from two
main sources—isolated communities
of settlers and newly discovered
mining areas.
There is, for example, in northern
Saskatchewan an area known as the
Paddockwood district which probably
not one Canadian in 50 has ever
heard of, though it was settled after habilitating railway finances so that , Under the almost cloudless skies
the war by returned soldiers who
went 40 or 50 miles from the railway further extensions are possible. The of the upper Nile valley in Egypt,
mines are now the greatest individ- the depth of water evaporated a-
te acquire the rich land there avail- nal producers of freight in the coun- ,mounts to 19 feet.
able. They will have to be given try. Of 105,000,000 tons of freight '
railway access and a great fertile in 1920 36,000,000 tons of 35 per 1
band in hand.
A dozen new mining areas are cry-
ing out for railways. Flin Mon is
getting its branch at once. Rouyn
in northern Quebec, isolated for sev-
eral years, now has two railways..
Similar demands come from Red
Lake in northern Ontario, Lake Mis-
tassini, north of Lake St, John in
Quebec. the Gaspe Peninsula, where
Jacques Cartier first saw Canada, a
Netepedia mining area in New
Brunswick and many others,
1900
1910
1920
1925
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THIRTEEN
MEMBERS ARE
UNDEFEATED
Members of Commons With Pre -War
Parliamentary Records.
Ottawa, April 26—Members of
Parliament may come and elections
may go, but the fact remains that
there are only 13 pre-war commen-
t ers sitting in the House today who
have been legislating continuously
since they entered public life and
who have neither withdrawn noel
been defeated in a general election.
Here they are with the date of their
first election:
Hon. Itodolph Lemieux, Liberal
the Speaker, 1896.
Don .Hugh Guthrie. Conservative,
'Wellington, 1900.
Hon. J. A. Robb, Minister of Fin-
ance, 1900.
Hon, Charles Marcel, Liberal, Bon-
avertture, 1900.
E. W. Tobin, Liberal, Richmond -
Wolfe, 1900.
M. S. Delisle, Liberal, Portncuf,
1000.
Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of
Justice, 1901.
Roch Lanetot. Liberal, Laprairie-
i',apierville, 1904.
Lt. -Col. James Arthurs, Conserva-
tive, Parry Sound, 1903.
Paul A. Seguin, Liberal, L'Assomp
tion, 1908.
Hon. Ii• II. Stephens, Conservative
Centre Vancouver, 1011.
W. F. Kay, Liberal, Brome-Missis-
quoi, 1911.
Hon. Arthur Cardin, Minister of
Marine and F}sherk , 1911.
The largest picture ever painted
If Canada has and d
her con -000 by the oltl roasters is the "Paradise"
miles to railway and can now con- of Tintoretto, wh]ch hangs in the
template further extension, much of by
of the Doges of Venice.
the credit must be given to Sir Henry ,
Thornton's administration of the -
Canadian Railevay system, conipris-
ing• more than hall the total mileage
which only hall a dozen years ago
was described as a millstone threat-
ening the solvency of the country.
There are about 20,000,000 chil-
dren in the public schools of the
United States.
Nearly four tines as many houses
I will be constructed in England in
Mining Development. ! 1928 as in 1913.
Indeed it is unusual mining devel- A movement has been started in
opment now proceeding in Canada the Philippines for letting down the
that has been a large factor in re- bars on immigration into the islands.
area beyond will be opened up. cont. were provided by mines as com- ;
Classic Example pared with 23,000,000 tons of agri-
The classic example of an innde- cultural products. Many of these I
mining spurs have to be constructed
through difficult country, much dif-
ferent from the open country of the
plains whet° it was not unusual in
the early days to construct a railway
by laying wooden ties on the bald
headed prairie and spiking down on
them the rails.
That the productivity of Canada
has greatly increased and justifies
further railway construction it shown
by, the fact that in 1907 the revenue
ton -miles per head of population was
1836; in 1926 it was 3,638. Freight
produced per person had thus doub-
gnatoly served area is the Peace
River district in northern Alberta.
Here is an area whose fertility can
scarcely be over-estimated capable,
it is said, of supporting millions of
population. It is the "last great
West." Before the war there was
into it a rush of settlement, antici-
pating early railway transport, but
hope deferred has sickened the
heart and hundreds of pioneers have
been forced to abandon their rich
rolling acres. Colonization roads, the
Edmonton, Dunvogan & British Col-
umbia Railway, now offered for sale
by the Alberta Government, and the, led in 20 years.
Alberta and Great Waterways, pro The first great railway era in Can -
vide apartial service to northern Al -oda came in the 1850's when the
berta, but the failure of either gover-
nments or private capital to grapple
seriously with the problem of provid=
Mg real service has been a crying
grievance for ten years. What the
"Peace River" wants is direct access
Whentc. ' hies
Grand Trunk was being constructed.
The building of the Canadian Pacific
in the early '80's was the second im-
portant period, and then came the
greatest period of all, just after the
turn of the century. At this period
ed
the new
era is ac i loo several years in succession one
development
a new era in northern Canadian thousand miles of new railway were
development will to ushered" in, I- completed each year. The measure
ealso proo Ra w push this north- of railway progress since Confodera-
ern AlbertanRailway system north- ,Len may be found in the following
ward into he unorganized North- table of mileage in operation:
west Territories at Great Slave Lake 2,617
an inland sea as big as Lake Ontario. 1 1870 . , ....... , ` .. • 7,194
The view is frequently expressed I 1880 . _ • • .... , ' , ` , 12194
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