Editing Motel (section)

===Canada===
[[File:10536 01 RB.jpg|thumb|right|The Mid-Trail Motel & Inn in [[Pleasant Bay, Nova Scotia]], Canada, 2010]]
As in the U.S., the initial 1930s roadside accommodations were primitive tourist camps, with over a hundred campgrounds listed in Ontario alone on one 1930 provincial road map.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ontarioroadmaps.ca/index.php/official-ontario-maps/official-ontario-road-maps/29-official-ontario-road-maps/official-ontario-road-map/16-1930-1931-official-road-map-of-ontario | title=Official Government Road Map of Ontario | publisher=Ontario Department of Public Highways, Queen's Park, Toronto | year=1930 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609113202/http://www.ontarioroadmaps.ca/index.php/official-ontario-maps/official-ontario-road-maps/29-official-ontario-road-maps/official-ontario-road-map/16-1930-1931-official-road-map-of-ontario | archive-date=June 9, 2013 }}</ref> While most of these provided access to the most basic of amenities (like picnic tables, playgrounds, toilet facilities and supplies), fewer than a quarter offered cottages in the pre-Depression era, and the vast majority required travelers bring their own [[tent]]s. In Canada's climate, these sites were effectively unusable outside the high season.

Because cabins and camps were ill-suited to a Canadian winter, the number and variety of motels grew dramatically after World War II, peaking just before freeways such as [[Ontario Highway 401]] opened in the 1960s. Due to Canada's climate and short tourist season, which begins at [[Victoria Day]] and continued until [[Labour Day]] or [[Thanksgiving (Canada)|Thanksgiving]], any outdoor swimming pool would be usable for little more than two months of the year and independent motels would operate at a loss or close during the off-season.

By the 1980s, motels were losing ground rapidly to franchises such as [[Journey's End Corporation]] and the U.S.-based chains. The section of [[Ontario Highway 7|Highway 7]] between Modeland Road and Airport Road, known as the "Golden Mile" for its plethora of motels and restaurants was bypassed once [[Ontario Highway 402|Highway 402]] was completed in 1982, however the Golden Mile still retains points of interest such as the [[Sarnia Airport]] and Hiawatha Racetrack and Waterpark.<ref name="sarnia.ca"/>

Much of Canada's population is crowded into a few small southern regions. While the Windsor-Québec corridor was bypassed by motorways relatively early, in more sparsely populated regions (including much of [[Northern Ontario]]) thousands of kilometers of mostly two-lane [[Trans-Canada Highway]] remain undisturbed as the road makes its lengthy journey westward through tiny, distant and isolated communities.