Two-Way Rush

Canada's biggest tourist year set new records. Long-term visitors (48 hours or more) from the U.S. had rolled across the border in August in more than 400,000 automobiles, up 30% from August 1946. Province after province reported bulging tourist figures; only Saskatchewan, short of tourist attractions and long on bad " roads, was the exception. Squawked a Detroiter to the Regina Leader-Post: "Your roads are horrible ; absolutely terrible. We even got stuck."

Said Leo Dolan, boss of the Dominion's Travel Bureau, last week: An "abnormal season. . . . We ought to hit . ". . $230 to $240 million this year." That was less than the $300 million expected by some Canadians earlier this year (TIME, Aug. 4), but it would still easily top the peak of $214 million spent by 21,282,000 visitors from the U.S. in 1946.

For dollar-shy Canada, it was a windfall with a catch. Canadians, too, have the travel bug. In July, 35,336 Canadian cars visited the U.S. for 24 hours or more, a gain of 32% on July 1946. For the first seven, months of 1947, the total was 102,260, up 24%. How much money they left behind was still anyone's guess, but even with dollar restrictions it was likely to be more than last year's $126 million.

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