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Without extensive transportation facilities, the settlement and economic
exploitation of the far-flung regions of Canada would have been an impossi-
bility. More perhaps than in any other country, transportation in Canada is
the backbone of the nation, politically and economically. In this issue of
“This is Canada” we reproduce photographs showing how Canada’s great
distances are traversed.
During the war, Canadian locomotives travelled
an aggregate of well over 150,000,000 miles a year.
This picture shows the largest locomotive used
in Canada. It hauls ‘fast freight”? trains over
the rails at 70 miles per hour for hours at a time.
Pendant les années de guerre les locomotives
canadiennes ont parcouru toutes ensemble en
moyenne plus de 240,000,000 kilomètres par année.
La locomotive illustrée ci-contre, Vune des plus
puissantes en usage au Canada, tire de rapides
trains de *fret” au rythme moyen de 110 kilo-
mètres à Vheure.
Cover Photographs: FRONT: Bush pilots cover the trackless forests of northern Canada, braving
every kind of weather to supply scattered settlements with mail, food and equipment.
BACK: Morning mists at Colstream on the Malahat Drive north of Victoria, B.C., on Vancouver
Island. Roads like this penetrate Canada’s mountains and forests.
Sur notre couverture: AU RECTO: Les pilotes de la brousse survolent les foréts impraticables
du Nord canadien, bravant toutes les intempéries, pour apporter aux colons, ici et là, la poste, la
nourriture et l’outillage.
AU VERSO: La brume du matin à Colstream, sur la route de Malahat, au nord de Victoria,
capitale de la Colombie canadienne, dans Vile de Vancouver. De telles routes passent monts et
forêts pour maintenir le réseau routier du Canada.
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