RAILWAYS AND SETTLEMENT
(To the Editor.) Sir, —In to-night's issue of "The Post" a correspondent, Mr. J. Miller, defends our railways as a medium Cor opening up for cultivation and settlement lands that must otherwise remain in a virgin state through lack of access. Your correspondent, then quotes some interesting figures relative to tho number of miles of track per 100,000 of population, but he is surely grossly misinformed when he states that Canada has only 63 miles to every 100,000 of her population. ' • The writer has in his possession a booklet entitled ,"GOOQ Facts About Canada," in which it is clearly shown that there are over 40,000 miles of railway lines being operated in Canada. The population of that Dominion is approximately 10,000,000,- so that the number of miles of track to avery 100,000 people is 400 not 63, Canada leading the1 world in railway miles per head of population. . The Canadian Railways have, in common with our own, done a vast amount of good in opening up new country, and ib is to this fact that many ' thousands of successful settlers and farmers in Canada owe their prosperity.—l am, etc., FACTS. 20th April.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 10
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195RAILWAYS AND SETTLEMENT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 10
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