Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta . connection to the PeaceRiver country by linking up with British Columbia lines. At thetown of McLennan a branch of the Central Canada Railway runsnorth to Peace River which it crosses by a modem railway and trafficbridge and opens out for settlement a vast agricultural area to thenorth and west. The Government of the province has followed a vigorouspolicy in the increasing of railway services by guaranteeing thebonds of developmental li
Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta . connection to the PeaceRiver country by linking up with British Columbia lines. At thetown of McLennan a branch of the Central Canada Railway runsnorth to Peace River which it crosses by a modem railway and trafficbridge and opens out for settlement a vast agricultural area to thenorth and west. The Government of the province has followed a vigorouspolicy in the increasing of railway services by guaranteeing thebonds of developmental lines within the province. This policyhas made possible the opening of the Peace River country and hashad a good deal to do with developing the mineral wealth in newfields, particularly in the centre and north of the province. Roads.—The province has always been active in the furnishingof means for the settler to market his products and get his childrento school. Alberta is not well supplied with road-making beds of gravel occur the material has to be hauled by railwayfor long distances and in some cases dredged from the river bottoms, 64. ••???^^?? Development of Transportation 65 but dirt roads of as good a kind as can be made are built throughoutall of the settlements. Some benefit is expected to be derived fromthe use of bitumen obtained from the tar sands of the Athabascacountry in surfacing roads, but this will probably apply only to cityroads which have a good concrete foundation. The rural survey provides for roads a mile apart running northand south and two miles apart running east and west, that is, the landunit regularly enclosed by roads is a mile wide from east to westand two miles long from north to south. In addition to providinglocal road services the Department of Public Works is developingmain traffic highways which are part of a Dominion highways and local feeders are developed from these. Four of these kf --^i^^
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