Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . chthat every 10,000 of the people had taken 40,000 pas-sages. In addition to this use of the steam drivenElectric railway car the people of Canada have J^JLines. miles in all of electric railway, and this methodof transport they utilized in 1904 to such anextent that 181,689,998 passengers were carried, which isequal to thirty-one passages for every man, woman andchild in Canada. Thus every person in Canada aver-ages thirty-five passages a year by steam or electricalcar. The railway system of Canada consists of 191 rail-ways. By process
Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . chthat every 10,000 of the people had taken 40,000 pas-sages. In addition to this use of the steam drivenElectric railway car the people of Canada have J^JLines. miles in all of electric railway, and this methodof transport they utilized in 1904 to such anextent that 181,689,998 passengers were carried, which isequal to thirty-one passages for every man, woman andchild in Canada. Thus every person in Canada aver-ages thirty-five passages a year by steam or electricalcar. The railway system of Canada consists of 191 rail-ways. By process of absorption and assimilation, twenty-five of these have been amalgamated and form the GrandTrunk Railway System. The consolidation of twenty-seven railways has produced the Canadian Pacific Rail-way System. Thirty-six railways, not included in the above, em-ploy electricity as the motive power. These are usedchieflv in the cities and towns, though in some instancesin Western Ontario they are employed in transportingpassengers through rural CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 147 The Canadian Pacific Railway has a mile-age of 8,332 miles; the Grand Trunk, 4,177; the LengthIntercolonial Railway of 1,315 miles, and the of theothers of over 7,000 miles. Lines. The Canadian Governments railways, gen-erally called the Intercolonial, are the only railwaysowned and operated by Government, the others beingcompany-managed railways. The Government railwayscost $80,000,000 for construction and equipment, andhave been run at a net expenditure greater than receiptsamounting to $12,330,000, equivalent to an average lossof $342,500 a year. Their value, however, has more than compensatedfor this charge upon the revenue. Like a river, theyhave developed the regions through which they pass, andhave been a great factor in the increase of internal trade,which hardly existed before the Union in 1867, and isnow, taking Ontario and Quebec Provinces as one, over$150,000,000 a year. Ontario and Quebec hav
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