Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 5-5a
Top Canadian Domestic Freight Area Pairsby Mode: 1996

(Thousands of U.S. short tons)

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Mode of transportation Total
Air  
N N
Pipeline  
N N
Rail  
N N
Road  
Hamilton, Ont. to Toronto, Ont. 2,994
Toronto, Ont. to Montréal, Que. 2,272
Montréal, Que. to Toronto, Ont. 1,789
Toronto, Ont. to Hamilton, Ont. 1,063
Montréal, Que. to Québec, Que. 1,013
Water transport  
Sept-Îles/Pte-Noire, Que. to Hamilton, Ont. 3,631
Havre-St-Pierre, Que. to Sorel, Que. 2,697
Port-Cartier, Que. to Hamilton, Ont. 2,277
Colborne, Ont. to Clarkson, Ont. 2,010
Fraser River, B.C. to East Coast  
Vancouver Island, B.C. 1,791
Intermodal  
N N

KEY: N = Data are nonexistent.

NOTES:Data represent one-way flows.

Water data represent port to port pairs rather than metropolitan area pairs.

SOURCES:Road: Statistics Canada. Transportation Division. Special for-hire trucking tabulations for Transport Canada. (Ottawa, Ont.:1998).

Water transport: Transport Canada. Economic Analysis Directorate. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998). (Tabulations derived from Statistics Canada'sMarine Database.)



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