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roads throughout the province. Between 1911 and the spring of 1929 
more than $95,000,000 has been expended by Quebec for road improvement, 
not to mention $16,000,000 for opening new roads and the province is 
still spending $9,000,000 annually to maintain and extend its system of 
highways. Not only has it spent liberally, but it has spent wisely on 
colonization roads, and bridges, the latter, wherever possible, of steel and 
concrete construction. It has bought out turnpike roads and toll bridges, 
Gravel road at St. Nicholas on the Lévis-Huntington Highway 
and particular attention has been paid to farm and market roads, and 
these are classed among the best improved earth roads in Canada. The 
Quebec highway system is now considered one of the best and most com- 
nlete in Canada. 
Colonization Roads.—Between 1920 and the end of June, 1928, 
more than $12,000,000 were expended in opening new roads for incoming 
settlers and also in improving the existing colonization roads in the newly 
settled regions of the province. The length of new colonization roads 
built and of old roads repaired reached over 20,000 miles at the end of 
Tune, 1928 
Quebec Roads System.—Macadamized or gravel roads now cover 
the whole province, connecting towns and centres of any importance and 
forming an unbroken network. The rural roads of the province, exclusive 
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