Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The land and the people

Collection:: Economics Books

6 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC access to a number of settlement areas. The opening of this new country by railway is expected to produce considerable mining activity. This portion of the province is timbered principally with spruce and balsam, the two most valuable pulpwood species, and the settler in this region possesses the advantage of being able to sell as pulpwood the trees felled in clearing his land. Important settlements are now growing up in the Abitibi and Timiskaming districts near the Ontario border, and also in the vicinity of Lake St. John. A Network of Railways.—The older settled portions of the province are well supplied with railways. At Confederation in 1867, Quebec had less than 600 miles of steam railway; on December 31, 1925, the total railway mileage of the province was 5,267 miles. Additional mileage was constructed in 1926 and 1927. The railways are almost all comprised under the two large systems, the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific. The map of the Eastern Townships shows a network of railways. The St. Lawrence valley is also particularly well served. A principal line of the Canadian National railways from Halifax, entering the province in the Gaspé district, extends the whole length of the St. Lawrence valley to Montreal, passing through Lévis, opposite Quebec. Another principal line of the Canadian National runs eastward from Montreal through the Eastern Townships on its way to Portland, Maine, on the Atlantic coast. Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific have lines connecting Quebec with Montreal, and the latter with Ottawa. The Laurentian plateau is traversed by the main line of the Canadian National system running from Quebec city westward to the Pacific coast. A branch of the same railway extends from Quebec to the lake St. John district and a branch connects the main line at Taschereau with the recently opened gold and copper mines at Rouyn and Noranda. The Canadian Pacific sends several branches from the St. Lawrence and Ottawa valleys up into the picturesque Laurentian country; one extends from Montreal to Mont Laurier, another from Ottawa up the Gatineau valley to Maniwaki, and another from Ottawa to Waltham. The Canadian Pacific also sends a branch from the main line at Mattawa north into the heart of the Temis- kaming district. ROADS* A Good Roads Policy.—Quebec holds a leading place among the provinces of Canada for good roads. This is due to the policy of the Provincial Government inaugurated in 1912. Since then, by grants and subsidies, it has encouraged and promoted the making, improvement and maintenance of municipal roads and highways. By Act of Legislature, 1927, the Government is authorized to maintain at its expense all improved " * Revised by the Department of Roads, Quebec.

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