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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC

rial.’ Chief among them are the sash, door and planing mill industries.
These, comprising 312 establishments, manufacture dressed lumber, house
finish, sash, doors, blinds, and other building materials. The value of
the products made by these industries in Quebec in 1925 was $8,380,570.
and the capital employed was $10,812,583.
Under the same general classification are the industries manufacturing
 furniture, boxes and box shooks, vehicles and vehicle supplies,
lasts and pegs, coffins and caskets, boats and canoes, spools and bobbins,
woodenware, cooperage, handles, clothes-pins, patterns, show-cases, spinning
 wheels, baskets, wooden pumps and other similar products.
Two artificial silk factories have been established at Drummondville
and Cowansville. The Celanese industry at Drummondville it is thought,

Aerial view at the outlet of lake St. John, Quebec. Town of St. Joseph d’Alma at Petite Décharge

will employ several hundred men and women and will be rated a major
industry. Openings exist in the province for the establishment of industries
 utilizing hardwood. of which the province has abundant supplies.

FOREST ADMINISTRATION

Provincial Jurisdiction.—The Department of Lands and Forests
of the Provincial Government administers the timber resources of the
province. Timber lands are leased to license holders, the Crown retaining
title to the land. In the districts where the timber is to a large extent