DISTANCES BETWEEN PRINCIPAL POINTS IN CANADA*
Nora:*—Generally Ilia distances given nrc the shortest by railway.
A knowledge of distances in miles between principal points constitutes very useful information in these days of wide travel, but when an attempt is made to
compile such data difficulties are at onco encountered. Railway distances are the logical choice, even though road distances arc of increasing interest to a vast body of
travellers by automobile and are a useful alternative. Railway distances represent usually the shortest practicable land distances between two points and oven to-day
trip bulk of freight and passenger traffic is by rail. "Again, distances by air (sometimes called "bee-line" distances) are only useful in practice to those who travel by air.
This is a growing phase of transportation, of course, but has not yet assumed such proportions that its tabulation should displace the more usual one. Again, it is
not a difficult matter to estimate air-line distances from a map made to convenient scale, whereas the ordinary reader is not easily able to obtain railway distances.
.' Even though it be decided to adopt railway distances as most useful, it is necessary to decide whether the most travelled route between two places or the shortest
railway route should govern. In the tables given below, the distances between points are the shortest distances by railway and not necessarily the most travelled routes
or the routes by which main trains travel. They are compiled principally from the railway time tables. The main table includes the capital of each province and some
of the main shipping points chosen principally, but not altogether, by population; tho subsidiary tables include distances of local importance. Included in the distances
from Charlottctown is the distance from ltorden to Capo Tormcntinc, over which the trains arc transported by ferry; similarly, the train ferry distance between Mulgrave
and Point Tupper is included in the distance from Halifax to Sydney. In the main table all the distances from Victoria include the distance travelled by boat from
Victoria to Vancouver. However, wherever possible, railway distances only were used. In certain distances from Three Rivers and from Quebec it is possible, by the
use of ferries, to travel by shorter routes than those given in the tables, the rail route only being taken in these coses.
Where boat routes are given, the best approximation of the distance travelled is used.
The air-line distances used are not necessarily the straight line distances between points, but are the distances over the routes usually travelled by aeroplanes
in good weather.
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