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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC

of United States’ dollars as well as British capital, have been invested
in the pulp and paper industry of Canada. Notable examples are Shawinigan
 Falls, La Tuque and Grand’Mére on the St. Maurice, Chicoutimi
and Kenogami on the Saguenay, Windsor Mills and Bromptonville in
the Eastern Townships, Kipawa on lake Timiskaming, and the Gatineau
river.

Manufactured in Canada.—A strong factor in this industrial
development has been the legislative enactment of the Quebec Government
 in 1910, under which all pulpwood cut on Crown lands in the province
 must be manufactured within the Canadian boundary. The result
has been that, whereas the proportion between the raw pulpwood exported

Pulp and paper mill at Riverbend, Quebec

and the manufactured in Quebec mills was as 69 per cent to 31 per cent
in 1910, in 1925 the figures were reversed—28 per cent to 72 per. cent.
It is the private forests, mainly in the Allegheny zone, that furnish most
of the pulpwood exported to the United States.

Allied Industries.—A group of important industries has grown up
based on the pulp and paper-making industry. The materials made by
these industries include building, sheathing and roofing papers, stationery
goods, waxed and oiled papers, wall paper, fly paper, paper patterns and
various other products. There were 36 such establishments in Quebec