Canada Yearbook - 1920

480 TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
resident may operate an unregistered motor for not more than 90
days. No male under 16 and no female under 18 years of age may
drive a motor. In cities, towns and villages the speed limit is 15 miles
an hour, or 10 miles an hour at street intersections.
25.—Number of Motor Vehicles registered in Canada by Provinces, 1914-1920.
Province. 1914. 1915. 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919. 1920.
P.E.Island....
Nova Scotia...
New Brunswick
Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan..
Alberta
British Colum-
Yukon Terri-
31
1,324
1,328
7,413
31,724
7,359
8,020
4,728
7,628
43
34
1,841
1,900
10,112
42,346
9,225
10,225
5,832
8,360
69
50
3,012
2,965
15,335
54,375
12,765
15,900
9,516
9,457
89
303
5,350
2,251
21,213
83,308
17,507
32,505
20,624
11,645
93
639
8,100
6,434
26,897
114,376
24,012
50,531
29,300
15,370
87
967
10,210
8,306
33,547
144,804
30,118
56,855
34,000
22,420
1,419
12,450
11,196
41,562
177,561
36,455
60,325
38,015
28,000
89 81
Total 69,598 89,914 123,464 197,799 275,746 341,316 407,064
!.—Speed Limits in miles per hour for Motor Vehicles by Provinces.
Province.
Quebec
Ontario :
Manitoba
Alberta
Yukon Territory
In cities,
towns or
villages.
miles
per hour.
' 2
15
12
16
20
15
20
15
15
At street
intersections,
bridges,
etc.
miles
per hour.
15
8
10
10
10
Where
closely
built up.
Open
country.
miles
miles
per hour.
per hour.
10
15
25
15
16
25
25
20 1
Wooded
country
or obstructed
view.
miles
per hour.
12
15
20
30 15
1 Limit in certain specified rural municipalities.
EXPRESS COMPANIES.
There are five distinctly Canadian express companies, viz., the
Canadian Express Co., the Canadian National Express Co., the
Central Canada Express Co., the Dominion Express Co. and the
British America Express Co. They are organized under powers
conferred by Acts of the Dominion Parliament, and their business
consists in the forwarding of parcels through the railway companies,
in the transfer of luggage and in the issue of money orders, travellers'
cheques, letters of credit and other forms of financial paper. Three
other express companies situated in the United States, but consolidated