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- Railroads: 80,095 km total; 79,917 km 1.435-meter standard
- gauge (includes 129 km electrified); 178 km 0.915-meter
- narrow gauge (mostly unused); two major transcontinental
- freight railway systems--Canadian National (government owned)
- and Canadian Pacific Railway; passenger service--VIA (government
- operated).
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- Highways: 884,272 km total; 712,936 km surfaced (250,023 km paved),
- 171,336 km earth.
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- Inland waterways: 3,000 km, including St. Lawrence Seaway.
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- Pipelines: oil, 23,564 km total crude and refined; natural gas,
- 74,980 km.
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- Ports: Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick),
- St. John's (Newfoundland), Toronto, Vancouver.
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- Merchant marine: 78 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 555,749
- GRT/774,914 DWT; includes 1 passenger, 5 short-sea passenger,
- 2 passenger-cargo, 12 cargo, 2 railcar carrier, 1 refrigerated
- cargo, 8 roll-on/roll-off, 1 container, 29 petroleum, oils,
- and lubricants (POL) tanker, 6 chemical tanker, 1 specialized
- tanker, 10 bulk; note--does not include ships used exclusively
- in the Great Lakes ships.
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- Civil air: 636 major transport aircraft; Air Canada is the
- major carrier.
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- Airports: 1,359 total, 1,117 usable; 442 with permanent-surface
- runways; 4 with runways over 3,659 m; 30 with runways 2,440-3,659
- m; 322 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: excellent service provided by modern
- media; 18.0 million telephones; stations--900 AM, 29 FM,
- 53 (1,400 repeaters) TV; 5 coaxial submarine cables; over
- 300 satellite earth stations operating in INTELSAT (including
- 4 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) and domestic systems.
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