Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-24
Cafrada Adds
New Facilities
FOrTOuristS

OTTAWA. April 23.-Company's
coming to Canada this year. and
the Canadian brand Of hospitality
is being extended to many millions
OF United States visitors. Just
no. many. no one can say as yet,
but in 1948 there we're more than
Is" 30, 900 individual entries into
the Dominion. All indications
point to an even bigger influx dur
ing 1919.
Canada welcomes them, for
there's plenty of room in the
worlds third largest country and
its magnificent scenery Is a re-
source that never wears out. Each
year more and more Americans
discover Canada as vacationland.
It is a country that gives the fun
of foreign travel; still Americans
feel at home.
In the Offices of all the provin-
cial tourist bureaus and at the
Canadian Government Travel Blu
reau at Ottawa. the opinions OF
American visitors are carefully
studied as guides to better service.
Information is cleaned from re-
plies to thousands Of question
naires, and many visitors take the
trouble to write individual letters
that are even more helpful.
New Park, Highways.
Real tourist benefits are result
ing. Millions of dollars are being
spent on Canada's parks this year,
and new national park is soon to
open IN New Brunswick. New high
ways are being built and old roads
improved in all parts OF Canada.
Hundreds of wayside picnic
grounds, free tourist camps and
trailer-parks offer a welcome to the
travellers, who take to the high
ways In vacation time.
Canada has more than 127 900
miles of hard-surfaced highways.
and an even greater mileage OF
improved roads. They place near
~ all the Dominion's playground
areas within a days drive OF the
border.
One of Canada's major attrac-
lions, good fishing. isn't left to-
chance. From provincial govern
ment i1atcheries and from others
in the national parks. millions OF
fingerlings restock Canadian lakes
and streams to maintain Canada S
reputation with sportsmen.
Tourist Bureaus Established.
Higher standards of service and
sanitation are being established in
summer hotels, tourist homes and
cabins and facilities for courteous
handling of crowds at border eros
sing points are being expanded.
Tourist bureaus have been set up
in hundreds of towns and cities.
But the visitors themselves de-
clare the most important asset
of all is the warm friendliness OF
the Canadian people.
With more than half OF the
worlds fresh water, a wealth OF
game and fish, and an endless va
riety of scenic grandeur, Canada
is singularly we'll equipped to at
tract the United States vacation
er. Areas of wilderness are SO
placed In relation to rich indus
trial and agricultural areas that
in a matter of hours the tourist
may get closer to the -primeval
than anywhere else in the world.
From Newfoundland and the
picturesque Maritimes, through
the Gaspe Peninsula: historic
Quebec and It's ancient Lauren
tian Mountains, Ontario with It's
vast inland waterways and wood
lands on to the broad stretches OF
the prairies and the Rocky Noun
tains, to the gaint frs OF British
Columbia. there is little the tour
list cannot find. Each OF the 10
provinces has it's distinctive coun-
tryside.
Varied Range of Climate.
The late Ernie Pyle had his own
choice of North Americas most
outstanding bit of scenery. In his
book, Home Country" he wrote,
1.-THE most beautiful single scene
on this continent is Lake Louise,
in Canada."
For years those stories about the
frozen northlands have been cir
culating, and the legend has been
more than a little exaggerated. In
actually, about rs per cent Of the
Canadian people live within 200
miles of the United States-Canada
boundary line, and practically all
concentrated areas OF population
are within that continent-wide
belt. There are sections of On
tario which are farther south than
parts of Northern California, and
the range of the Canadian climate
is as varied as the country's geo.