{"id":4001,"date":"1985-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1985-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/vol-66-no-3-may-june-1985-transportation-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:43:52","slug":"vol-66-no-3-may-june-1985-transportation-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"rbc_letter","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/vol-66-no-3-may-june-1985-transportation-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 66, No. 3 &#8211; May\/June 1985 &#8211; Transportation in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"layout-column-main\">\n<p class=\"boldtext\">The reliable movement of goods and people                     is crucial to Canadian life; it always has been. Here we consider                     the role played by the transportation industry in creating                     a nation and leading it on to greater things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> The most striking thing about Canada is its size. It takes                     up one-fifteenth of all the land on the planet. A child in                     a third world nation seeing a map of this country for the                     first time might naturally conclude that it must hold a large                     proportion of all the people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it has the lowest ratio of people to land of any                     developed nation. Moreover, as the child might note, the population                     is distributed very unevenly. Most of the circled dots on                     the map denoting cities appear along the water divisions marking                     our border with the United States in the East; the few in                     the West are spaced far apart from each other. The smaller                     dots for towns and villages are sprinkled like pepper over                     the empty spaces from the Yukon and Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, on closer examination, the child might discern a kind                     of pattern to them. Nearly all are next to water in one form                     or another &#8211; oceans, rivers, lakes. And nearly all are connected                     with lines representing roads and railways. In that pattern                     lies the answer to how a nation whose people are scattered                     so thinly is able to exist.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, in a word, transportation. No country has                     ever been more dependent on the means of moving people and                     goods. Canada is an interprovincial common market, and an                     interchange of products from one region to another goes on                     constantly. As a leading trading nation which exports one-fifth                     of its gross national product, Canada has a pressing requirement                     to move its produce to international markets. As individuals,                     Canadians rank next to Americans as the second most mobile                     people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The national need for transportation is matched only by                     the difficulty of providing it. Our geography is daunting                     in its composition as well as in its immense scale. The bulk                     of the country is flanked by large islands with no bridges                     to the mainland &#8211; Newfoundland, Prince Edward and Vancouver                     Islands. The continental mass itself is plagued with all kinds                     of adverse conditions &#8211; near-impassable mountains, treacherous                     muskeg bogs, innumerable rivers to be bridged, forests as                     dense as jungles and barren tundra.<\/p>\n<p>Another harsh fact of geography is that this is a northern                     land, with one of the world&#8217;s coldest and stormiest climates.                     Our long winters play havoc with the operation of ships, trains,                     trucks and planes. But nature can attack transportation in                     Canada in any season. Floods, landslides, forest fires and                     blinding thunderstorms are among the hazards Canadian transportation                     operators face.<\/p>\n<p>The distance and difficulties combine to make Canadian transportation                     among the most expensive in the world, eating up an estimated                     12 per cent of our gross national product. It is so costly                     that governments have seen fit to subsidize it ever since                     the early 1800s, when the first major public works expenditures                     in Canada were made on canals. Because great sums of public                     money must be lavished on it, transportation is a fundamental                     political issue. Some of the most memorable controversies                     in Canadian parliamentary history have erupted out of government                     support for transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The influence of transportation on our politics, economics                     and society has been such that it almost forms the framework                     of Canadian history. In fact, it played a dominant role in                     the lives of people here before the country&#8217;s history was                     ever recorded. In their way of life, the original inhabitants                     of Canada were at least as dependent on transportation as                     those who came after. Their need gave rise to a tradition                     of ingenuity in transportation that flourishes to this day.<\/p>\n<p>From the very outset of settlement in Acadia and New France,                     Indian transportation techniques were essential to the settlers&#8217;                     survival. Wheeled carts were useless in a land awash with                     lakes and rivers and covered with snow for much of the year.                     So the settlers adopted the canoe, the snowshoe, toboggan                     and dog team to move themselves and their provisions. New                     France had been in existence for a century and a half before                     the first crude road was built between Montreal and Quebec                     City. In the meantime, New Frenchmen had ranged across North                     America by canoe from Hudson&#8217;s Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<h3>The steam engine opened the road to Confederation<\/h3>\n<p>In a way, the birch bark canoe was responsible for the physical                     dimensions of the nation in which we now live. With its lightness                     and portability, it could be floated and carried to places                     where other boats could not go. Without these qualities, great                     expanses of the land would have been inaccessible to the men                     who drew our first maps.<\/p>\n<p>Using canoes, some of which could carry up to five tons,                     the North West Company in the early 1800s developed a sophisticated                     distribution system for furs and trade goods which ranged                     Clear across the continent and beyond the Arctic Circle. Wherever                     the company went in search of new trading areas, it claimed                     British &#8211; later Canadian &#8211; sovereignty over them. &#8220;While in                     the East pioneers had scarcely even occupied the fringes of                     Upper Canada, the North West Company was staking out the western                     borders of the future Dominion of Canada:&#8217; historian Donald                     Creighton wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This situation was not to last for long. As settlement spread                     in Upper Canada in the 1820s, a demand arose for a shipping                     route on British North American territory which would give                     the colony access to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence                     River. To provide this outlet and to connect the various parts                     of the province, canals were built.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, British North Americans were shaping Canada&#8217;s                     future as a global trading nation. A thriving ship-building                     industry grew up around the timber resources of the Maritime                     colonies. Merchants in the region opened a trade with the                     West Indies which eventually extended around the world.<\/p>\n<h3>The building of the CPR was more than an                   engineering achievement<\/h3>\n<p>By the 1850s the ship-building and sailing industries in                     the Maritimes and Lower Canada (Quebec) had grown to the point                     where British North America boasted one of the world&#8217;s largest                     merchant fleets. But the demise of the wooden sailing ship                     had long been on the horizon: in 1833 the <em>Royal William<\/em>,                     built in Quebec City and owned by Nova Scotia shipping magnate                     Samuel Cunard, became the first vessel to cross the Atlantic                     entirely under steam power.<\/p>\n<p>The application of the steam engine to long-distance ground                     transport set Canada on the road to its political destiny.                     Although the Maritime and Canadian provinces had been joined                     by a rough-and-ready road system for some years, there was                     little hope of fusing the scattered elements of British North                     America into a viable economic unit until the advent of railway.                     The rail-building boom of the 1850s marked a sharp dividing-line                     in our history. &#8220;Canada in the first half of the 19th century                     was a child of her waterways; in the second half she became                     no less truly a child of her railways:&#8217; as historian Arthur                     Lower wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The building of a railway as a bridge between the two settled                     parts of the country was the linchpin of the Confederation                     pact of 1867. Financed by the new Dominion government with                     British government aid, the 1,200-kilometre Intercolonial                     Railway between Halifax and Quebec City went into service                     in 1876.<\/p>\n<p>Having brought New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into Confederation                     with the promise of a railway, Prime Minister Sir John A.                     Macdonald did the same with British Columbia. The West Coast                     colony became a province in 1871 on the condition that a railway                     would be in place to give it an outlet to the rest of the                     country within 10 years. Canada then had a population of 4                     million and revenues of less than $20 million a year, yet                     the government promised $25 million in cash and 25 million                     acres in land to the private syndicate that would build the                     railway. Much of the country through which it would pass was                     unbelievably treacherous and rugged. &#8220;In 1871 the decision                     [to build the line] must seem magnificently bold or just plain                     silly:&#8217; in Arthur Lower&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>But the stakes were worth the gamble. The railway was considered                     crucial to preventing the Canadian West from being annexed                     to the United States. When the last spike on the Canadian                     Pacific Railway was driven 100 years ago this November 7 (the                     Pacific scandal which had temporarily thrown the Macdonald                     government out of office had set the project back almost 10                     years), it was hailed as the climax of a magnificent engineering                     achievement. It was an even greater political achievement.                     &#8220;In the view of those who thought of Canada as a real entity                     &#8211; and there were few scoffers now &#8211; the work of Confederation                     had been consummated:&#8217; W.S. McNutt wrote of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The railway virtually created the modern Canadian West.                     Trains brought in masses of settlers to form the nucleus of                     the present population. Once they were settled (often on land                     bought from the CPR) trains carried off their produce to the                     markets of the world. Towns and cities grew up practically                     overnight along the right-of-way. Branch lines were built                     to tap agricultural, mineral and forest resources.<\/p>\n<h3>Bush pilots raised a vision of an exciting new frontier<\/h3>\n<p>The domination of a single private company over a large                     part of the country in its formative years left a legacy which                     is still present in Canadian politics. Westerners began complaining                     early that the railway was an instrument of eastern exploitation.                     The railway benefited from high tariffs to carry Central Canadian                     manufactured goods to a captive western market. Its freight                     rates on goods moving in and out of the region were said to                     be designed to keep the West economically subservient to the                     East.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Pacific monopoly was breached by the construction                     of two more transcontinental rail lines early in this century,                     conferring on Canadians the distinction of having more trackage                     per capita than any other people. That distinction proved                     to be a costly one when both new railways sank into insolvency                     and had to be taken over by the federal government in 1919.                     The takeover gave us another Canadian institution: the commercial                     Crown corporation. Canadian National Railways was the first                     of many government-owned concerns to go into business in competition                     with private companies.<\/p>\n<p>Two strong challengers to the railways&#8217; supremacy in Canadian                     transportation affairs were about to make a tentative appearance.                     As the twenties unfolded, private automobiles began to syphon                     off short-range passenger traffic, and bush pilots were flying                     men and supplies into mining and forestry projects in the                     North.<\/p>\n<h3>Transportation was an outlet for the new                   Canadian spirit<\/h3>\n<p>If the Canadian West could never have been opened up without                     the railway, the Canadian North could never have opened up                     without the airplane. With the appearance of the bush pilot                     as a national symbol, Canadians were suddenly faced with the                     exciting vision of a rich new frontier.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of inexpensive mass-produced cars saw the                     birth of our present mobile society. The number of private                     cars shot up during the 1920s from 409,000 to more than 1                     million. Provincial good roads associations promoted a flurry                     of highway construction. Commercial trucking was also born,                     although it was not yet a threat to the railways. In 1930                     trucks accounted for only 2 per cent of Canada&#8217;s total freight                     revenue.<\/p>\n<p>As a follow-up to its direct participation in the transportation                     industry through CN, the federal government founded Trans-Canada                     Air Lines (now Air Canada) in 1937. In the meantime, both                     the federal and provincial governments had been active in                     developing a strong infrastructure for the industry, improving                     roads, airfields and ports.<\/p>\n<p>World War II left Canada with a highly-developed infrastructure,                     particularly in military airports which were later given over                     to civil aviation. It also strengthened the transportation                     equipment industry as shipyards, aircraft and automotive plants                     were sharply expanded during the war.<\/p>\n<p>The optimistic nation-building spirit which had inspired                     the construction of the CPR was revived in the post-war era.                     Canada once again became the land of the future, striking                     out in all directions to push back frontiers. Railways were                     punched through the wilderness of Labrador and northern British                     Columbia. New roads and highways were laid down everywhere,                     creating the suburbs and changing the character of our society.<\/p>\n<p>Cargo planes roared back and forth from the North, while                     Canada&#8217;s technically-advanced international airlines &#8211; CP                     and Trans-Canada &#8211; spread their wings across the oceans. An                     agreement was reached with the U.S. to build the St. Lawrence                     Seaway, allowing deep-water shipping into the heart of the                     continent. In 1950 a start was made on the Trans-Canada Highway,                     a project of historic dimensions which ushered in the era                     of federal-provincial cost-sharing schemes.<\/p>\n<h3>It is un-Canadian to be satisfied with the system<\/h3>\n<p>The transportation system of Canada today is to a considerable                     extent a product of the long-distance highway construction.                     Truckers have taken over from the railways as the principal                     carriers of goods. The private car is by far the largest medium                     of passenger transportation. Canada&#8217;s railways have responded                     to these changes by adopting &#8220;inter-modal&#8221; services combining                     road, rail, highway and marine carriage &#8211; and by going into                     the trucking business on their own account.<\/p>\n<p>Having turned the threat from other forms of transportation                     to their advantage, Canada&#8217;s railways today are the most productive                     in the world by most statistical measures, despite the operating                     problems posed by the terrain and climate. But then, the challenges                     of the Canadian environment have always served as a spur to                     excellence in the transportation field. They have stimulated                     such technological developments as the short take-off and                     landing aircraft, and (perhaps the best-known of all Canadian                     inventions) the snowmobile. So expert have Canadians become                     in all facets of transportation that Canadian consultants                     in railroading, airport and port construction are now at work                     in many different countries, while Canadian-made transportation                     and avionics equipment is sold around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nor has Canadian expertise been confined to conventional                     methods. Canada is a leader in research into the transmission                     of solid materials through pipelines, and in long-distance                     electricity transmission over high-voltage lines. Communications                     and transportation have gone together since telegraph wires                     were strung within hours of laying the track in pioneer railway                     construction.<\/p>\n<p>Given Canada&#8217;s record in these fields, it is more than appropriate                     that Expo 86, the world exposition to be held in Vancouver                     next year, will be devoted to transportation and communications.                     Vancouver is a city which was practically built on the movement                     of goods, and is now one of the largest ports in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, transportation will no doubt continue to                     he a brimming source of political controversy in Canada. Never                     a week goes by without some reference to transportation costs,                     subsidies or service shortcomings in news reports. Canadians                     display a rare fascination with the subject, as well they                     might, considering its importance to their personal and collective                     well-being. It would be un-Canadian to be satisfied with our                     transportation system. This is not a bad thing, since the                     public insistence on good service keeps the industry alert.<\/p>\n<p>National Transportation Week, held every year in the last                     week of May, is an attempt by the industry to draw public                     attention to the positive side of the picture. Aside from                     any technical considerations, transportation serves as a force                     for breaking down the barriers of regionalism and bringing                     Canadians together from sea to sea. The sophistication and                     efficiency of our system today would be the envy of many other                     countries. It is a dynamic system which keeps expanding and                     improving &#8211; and in doing so improves the economic prospects                     for us all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"rbc_letter_theme":[],"rbc_letter_year":[72],"class_list":["post-4001","rbc_letter","type-rbc_letter","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","rbc_letter_year-72"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vol. 66, No. 3 - May\/June 1985 - Transportation in Canada - RBC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/vol-66-no-3-may-june-1985-transportation-in-canada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vol. 66, No. 3 - May\/June 1985 - Transportation in Canada - RBC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The reliable movement of goods and people is crucial to Canadian life; it always has been. 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