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Table 5-5a Top Canadian Domestic Freight Area Pairs by Mode: 1996

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Table 5-5a
Top Canadian Domestic Freight Area Pairs by Mode: 1996

(Thousands of metric tons)

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Mode of transportation Total
Air  
N N
Pipeline  
N N
Rail  
N N
Road  
Hamilton, Ont. to Toronto, Ont. 2,716
Toronto, Ont. to Montréal, Que. 2,061
Montréal, Que. to Toronto, Ont. 1,623
Toronto, Ont. to Hamilton, Ont. 964
Montréal, Que. to Québec, Que. 919
Water transport  
Sept-Îles/Pte-Noire, Que. to Hamilton, Ont. 3,294
Havre-St-Pierre, Que. to Sorel, Que. 2,447
Port-Cartier, Que. to Hamilton, Ont. 2,065
Colborne, Ont. to Clarkson, Ont. 1,824
Fraser River, B.C. to East Coast  
Vancouver Island, B.C. 1,625
Intermodal  
N N

KEY: N = Data are nonexistent.

NOTE: 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's Marine Database.)