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Pole-line and wire mileage and number of telephones in use, 1956 to 1965

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Pole-line and wire mileage and number of telephones in use, 1956 to 1965
				Telephones in use
	Systems	Route mileage	Length of wire	Business	Residential	Total	Per 100 population
	number	miles		number
1956	2,661	269,303	16,410,897	1,334,403	3,164,922	4,499,325	28.0
1957	2,637	274,334	18,161,444	1,409,446	3,417,689	4,827,135	29.1
1958	2,619	280,884	20,250,410	1,486,393	3,631,900	5,118,293	30.0
1959	2,605	267,737	22,791,129	1,568,735	3,870,288	5,439,023	31.2
1960	2,558	274,855	25,333,802	1,673,915	4,054,252	5,728,167	32.2
1961	2,509	306,167	26,986,478	1,729,599	4,284,416	6,014,015	32.6
1962	2,430	314,523	28,930,413	1,816,895	4,512,553	6,329,448	33.7
1963	2,296	284,202¹	31,267,977	1,910,178	4,746,435	6,656,613	34.9
1964	2,421	281,036¹	33,731,622	2,016,182	5,003,192	7,019,374	36.1
1965	2,330	283,478¹	35,666,557	2,142,256	5,302,815	7,445,071	38.1
Note: Figures from 1911 are given in the corresponding table of previous Canada Year Books beginning with the 1938 edition.
1. Excludes channel mileages sometimes included in previous years; also, in 1963 to 1965 data were collected for underground cable rather than for underground conduit, as previously.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1967.