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

116 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC settlers already located, seven or eight hundred more families could be placed, and when these parishes are filled new ones will be ready for settle- ment. In the last ten years great inroads have been made into the forests of the Matapédia valley as a result of the high prices that have prevailed for all forest and farm products and many industries have been established affording a ready market for the farmer. Among the regions where settlement has made great progress must be mentioned Sayabec, St. Zénon d’Amqui, St. Viennay, St. Léon le Grand, Lac au Saumon, Albertville and Ste. Florence de Beaurivage. Crown lands agent:—G. L. DIONNE, Amqui. LAKE ST. TOHN The picturesque valley of lake St. John comprises at least 4,000,000 acres, a large percentage of which is favourable to agriculture on account of the fertility of the soil and agreeable climate. Slightly over 1,000,000 acres are at present occupied by settlers. Fifty years ago lake St. John region was almost uninhabited; now it is interspersed with villages and clearings and traversed by convenient roads. The population of the colonization parishes in the counties of lake St. John and Chicoutimi numbers about 28,000, exclusive of the population of towns and industrial centres. Settlements surround the lake and are expanding towards the north and west. Among the principal townships offering the greatest opportunities for increased settlement at the present time are Dalmas, Dufferin, Girard, Delisle, Garnier, Taillor, Labreque, Bégin and Dalbeau. The soil for the most part is a clay loam of great depth that is covered in most places with a layer of sand which when mixed with the under- lying clay gives a soil very fertile and easy to plough. A few swamps are to be found here and there but they can be made productive without much difficulty by surface drainage. This is a fine agricultural country where almost everything that the Canadian soil produces is cultivated with success, including tobacco. The great richness of the pastures has given a strong impulse to dairying. This rapidly growing industry already provides a livelihood for hundreds of farmers. There still remain over 2,500,000 acres untouched by the plough. The temperature of the lake St. John valley is almost identical with that of Montreal. A chain of hills shelters it from unfavourable winds, especially the northeast wind which blows so severely in the lower regions of the St. Lawrence. Rain is not excessive and snowfalls are lighter than in Quebec and Montreal. The great forest wealth of the lake St. John and Chicoutimi districts gave rise to the establishment of a number of prosperous pulp and paper industries of which those at Chicoutimi, Jonquiére, River Bend, Dolbeau, Port Alfred and Petite Péribonka are important examples.

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