Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Profitable Pockets

Tourism looked better & better. Into the Dominion last year flocked some 5,250,000 tourists (plus uncounted millions of transients who stayed less than 24 hours). Most traveled by car, but 715,000 came by train, 340,000 by boat, 310,-ooo by bus, 100,000 by plane. Last week, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics totted up the year's take: $212 million (7% over the previous high in 1929), and all but $5 million from the pockets of U.S. tourists.

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