Enormous Revenue from Foreign Tourists: Automobilist Traffic Trebled in Three Years Ottawa, Out, Aug. 14.
Canada has spent $191,000,000 in building good roads in the last five years, according to John B. Harkin, Dominion Commissioner of Parks.
"The Dominion has received {$118,000,000 in revenue from foreign tourist traffic in the same period," Mr. Harkin said, in an address before the Ottawa Rotary Club. This represented a large yield on the capital expenditure on roads, Automobile tourist traffic from the United States has trebled in the last three years. In 1921 American cars entering Canada numbered 617,987; in 1922 they totalled 966,- 329° and in 1923 they numbered 1,942,887.
"Improvement of highways has been a big factor in the development of Canada's tourist trade.
The Dominion knows that it is not spending money on roads, but merely investing it. It is am investment that will return a every cent put into it.
lans adopted by the provinees in ce-operation with the Federal Government, Canada will soon have a system of transcontinental highways second to none.
Road building activity has been especially pronounced in the prairie provinces of Western Canada where land settlement has been heavy in recent years, Farmers know that with good roads the market channels for crops will Th always be open. Good roads mean general prosperity. They save farmers millions of dollars in hauling costs annually—Reuter's American Service.
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