RADIO OWNERSHIP IN CANADA
Radio receiving equipment has come to be regarded as an almost essential part of Canadian home furnishings. With a population of about eleven million people, there were about 850,000 licenses issued last year (writes Reuter’s News Service). Production of radio receiving sets in
Canada last year numbered 190,000 with a factory price of $12,400,000. Of these 2022 were radios to be installed in automobiles. ' In a country like Canada in which the population is scattered over wide areas, the benefits of the radio are very marked. Not only has the country been drawn together, and closer also to the other nations of the British Commonwealth, but great benefits have been received in other ways. The isolation of the farm, the lumber camp, the northern trading posts and the scattered fishing villages has been largely banished. The popularity of “all-wave” sets means that many Canadians are now “tuning-in” to various parts of' the world, as well as to the stations on the North American continent. _____
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 June 1936, Page 8
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168RADIO OWNERSHIP IN CANADA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 June 1936, Page 8
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