Editing Transportation in Canada (section)

===Evolution===
{{Blockquote|Different parts of the country are shut off from each other by [[Cabot Strait]], the [[Strait of Belle Isle]], by areas of rough, rocky forest terrain, such as the region lying between New Brunswick and Quebec, the areas north of Lakes [[Lake Huron|Huron]] and [[Lake Superior|Superior]], dividing the industrial region of Ontario and Quebec from the agricultural areas of the [[Canadian Prairies|prairies]], and the barriers interposed by the mountains of British Columbia|The Canada Year Book 1956<ref name="Year">{{Cite journal |last=Howe |first=C.D. |author-link=C. D. Howe |journal=Canada Year Book – Information Services Division – Dominion Bureau of Statistics | title=The Official Handbook of Present Conditions and Recent Progress |place=Ottawa, Ontario |publisher=Kings Printer and Controller of Stationery |year=1956 |pages=713 to 791}}</ref>}}

The Federal Department of Transport (established November 2, 1936) supervised railways, canals, harbours, marine and shipping, civil aviation, radio and meteorology. The Transportation Act of 1938 and the amended Railway Act, placed control and regulation of carriers in the hands of the Board of Transport commissioners for Canada. The Royal Commission on Transportation was formed December 29, 1948, to examine transportation services to all areas of Canada to eliminate economic or geographic disadvantages. The commission also reviewed the Railway Act to provide uniform yet competitive freight-rates.<ref name="Year"/>