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