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 IX. Settlement areas

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER IX Settlement Areas® I the estimated area of the province of Quebec (594,434 square 0 miles) only a comparatively small portion has been organized into municipalities. The area of the lands subdivided into avail- able lots by June 30, 1927, was 8,361,458 acres, and the available farm lots, not granted, covered an area of 8,192,092 acres. As the land is cleared the Provincial Government surveys new town- ships and sells lots at 60 cents an acre. The settler pays one-sixth of the price of sale on taking out a location ticket and the remainder in five equal annual instalments, and after having fulfilled certain conditions, he receives full title of ownership. The number of acres of Crown lands alienated bv sales and free grants since 1920 is as follows: — 920, July 1st, to 1921, June 30. 1921 1922 “ 1922 - 1923 5 1923 1004 1924 25 925 26 026 1027 178,626 acres 221,362 « 217,761 « 177,580 « .66,598 179,292 ¢ 169.366 The Government of the province strongly encourages the work of colonization as essential to the progress of the country. Not only does it concede lands on especially favourable conditions, but it has expended, during the past five years, more than ten million dollars in extending necessary aid to colonists, by building and improving roads representing in length twice the distance from Halifax to Vancouver. During late years, the Colonization Department has opened and improved 5,000 miles of road, so that practically all colonization districts have been connected with the centres of the province. In general, agriculture and industry facilitate colonization, the settler obtaining employment in the winter season in the lumber camps or the nearby industrial development. For instance, settlers in the Témisca- mingue and Abitibi districts may obtain temporary employment and also find a ready market for farm produce in the gold and copper mining opera- tions of Rouyn and Boischatel. The most important of the districts open for settlement are Témis- camingue, Abitibi, Lake St. John, Témiscouata, Matapédia, and Chaleur bay. The regions that appear to be preferred by settlers are Abitibi, Témiscamingue and Matapédia. TT Revised bv the Department of Colonization, Mines and Fisheries, Quebec. {7

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