TOURISTS IN CANADA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 8

TOURISTS IN CANADA

Quintuplets Riva! Niagara Falls

Canada’s tourist trade for 1935 glowed a remarkable gain over 1934, according to an estimate by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Totffl expenditures by tourists to Canada amounted to £40,200,000, compared with £26,000,000 in the previous year. Canadian tourists to other countries spent £18,200,000, compared with £12,200,000. Credit is due to five little girls for a certain amount of this increase—tho Donne quintuplets, who were two years old on May 28. Tho quintuplets now rival Niagara Falls as a tourist attraction, and the babies’ visitors aru estimated to have spent £270,000 in the province of Ontario last year. Naturally most of Canada’s tourists eome across the border from the United States. Last year 3,605,086 automobiles entered Canada from the United Stalos for touring purposes, compared with 3,261,848 in 1934. Most of these tourists were admitted for a period not exceeding 48 hours. In addition 872,641 Americans came to Canada by rail and steamship, compared with 778,630 for the previous year. The total expenditure of United States visitors is estimated at £38,182, ■ 000. Overseas tourists to Canada totalled 12,227 and they spent more than £2,000,000, both figures being an increase over the previous year. A total of 659,259 Canadian nutomobiles entered the United States for touring purposes and the occupants spent more than £10,000,600. Another 392,844 peresons went to the United States by rail and steamer and spent £4,918,400.

Canadians who went overseas totalled 28,152 and are estimated to have spent £3,297,200.