The Car Debate: Roads, Growth, and Civic Change
A Canada focused excerpt discusses highways and motor traffic as a normal modern condition. It argues cars are valuable tools for living and commerce while noting roads are stretched and city growth will rise. a cautions quote questions whether car benevolence is offset by malevolence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Washington
Cape Town
Stanley W. Deane
Toronto
Montreal
Imperia Oi Review
Cialist
Canada
Los Angeles
Canada’s Highways Through Time And Tremendous Change
A compact history of Canada’s roads from Champlain’s 1606 military road to the 1901 highway acts and the Queen Elizabeth Highway. It traces plank roads, damascus paving, the Cariboo Road, and the shift toward modern multi-lane corridors while noting urban transit roles and congestion debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
Toronto
Kingston
Napanee
Prince Edward Island
Ontario
Canada
Queen Elizabeth
Ham
Canada Faces Highway Financing Crisis and Growth Strain
The article notes over six million vehicles on Canadian roads and a fragmented highway pattern. It cites lack of federal highway authority, divided provincial responsibility, and rising costs. In 1961 expenditures reached 989 million with 54 dollars per person, and 624 million in related revenues. Ontario in 1963 reportedly spent more on urban than rural roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Commission On
Canada
R. A. Draper
Canadian Good Roads Association
Ontario
Committee On Uniform Traffic Control Devices For
Institute of ‘Traffic Engineers
Quebec
Ohio
Kansas
Automobile origins spark North American boom
The text notes Karl Benz built the first practical gasoline car and that a Benz display at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair helped start the U S auto industry. It cites 1907 Canada vehicle registrations by province: Ontario 1530, Quebec 234, Nova Scotia 63, British Columbia 175, Saskatchewan 54, Alberta 55, with mention that other provinces followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Benz
Germany
United States
Canada
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Traffic and urban planning for Canada’s cities
A Royal Bank Monthly Letter essay argues cities must separate traffic from pedestrians, expand arterial capacity, and reduce curbside parking. It discusses urban freeways, parking strategies, signs standardization, and the need to educate drivers while preserving downtown vitality and economic growth.
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F. W. Rowe
Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Our Transportation Services
Champlain
Annapolis County
New France
de Courcelles
Chambly
Upper Canada
Red River
Pacific
Cariboo
Great North Road
Royal Engineers
Labert St. Clair
Queen Victoria
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Hadrian
Victor Gruen
Horizon
Montreal Star
Royal Bank Monthly
Binet Geers
Nenciis
Lichty
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