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Railway Nationalization in Canada: The Problem of the Canadian National Railways. By Leslie T. Fournier. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. 1935. Pp. ix, 358. ($3.50)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

John L. McDougall
John L. McDougall*
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Queen's University
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , May 1935 , pp. 299 - 302
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1935

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References

1 Report for the Royal Commission on Railways and Transportation on the Transportation Situation in the Dominion of Canada, prepared by George H. Parker.

2 E.g., on p. 173, in dealing with supervision costs of certain major United States systems taken from Parker report, vol. I, p. 158.

3 It should be noted that the Canadian National made greater increases in its passenger train mileage between 1923 and 1929 than did the Canadian Pacific.

4 Parker report, vol. II, appendix O, sheets 23-31.

5 See Moulton, H. G. and associates, The American Transportation Problem (Washington, 1933), pp. 88–91 Google Scholar, where it is concluded that not over 30 per cent, of the passenger traffic lost to American railways in the years 1926-30 could be attributed to bus competition.