Recreational Resources

From those natural features, the intrinsic worth of which is as yet much underestimated, that appeal to the hunter and angler, the camper and canoeist, and all lovers of forest, stream, and ocean, the Maritimes derive a revenue which is yearly increasing and now constitutes a prominent item in their annual wealth. Against this item in the balance sheet the expenditures necessary for development and replacement are comparatively trifling. Of the estimated three hundred million dollars spent by tourists in the Dominion in 1929 the Maritimes received, it is claimed, some thirty- five to forty millions.

These increasing revenues are largely a result of the extensive system of improved roads, comprising 3,244 miles of main trunk lines and 26,650 miles of secondary and by-road feeders, placing w.thin the motorist’s reach all districts except those heavily forested areas in the interior of northern New Brunswick and Cape Breton island. Uncongested highways follow- ing the course of the larger rivers present many a charming scene, or skirting the coast discover delightful glimpses of blue waters which lap cliffs or yellow sands, whence kindly breezes blow to temper the mid-summer heat and usher in pleasant coolness for the night. In Prince Edward Island a traveller making his way over the undulating country dotted with picturesque copses is never more than a few miles from the sea or its inlets with their jagged walls of deep red sandstone.

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