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

CHAPTER 11 The Land and the People UEBEC is a quaint, old, yet new, province. Its modern cities, (Dora in character and bustling with the energy of commerce, are in striking contrast to the quiet, thrifty existence of the habitant on his ancestral acres; and the new pioneer agricultural areas of the north and west stand out in relief against the older rural districts adjacent to the St. Lawrence, settled and tilled since the time of the early French explorers. With its immense wealth in natural resources, its thrifty law- and-order-loving people and its laws respectful of individual liberty and initiative, it appeals to the capitalist and the business man, as well as to the agriculturist and artisan of other countries, venturing into new and more prolific fields of endeavour. PHYSICAL FEATURES The Largest Province.—The largest of all the Canadian provinces,* it extends from the frigid sub-arctic regions of Ungava to the more temper- ate area of the Ottawa. a distance of 1.200 miles. On the west, the prov- Chateau Frontenac, Quebec * The estimated landYand water area of Quebec, exclusive of the territory under jurisdiction of New- foundland by decision of the Judical Committee of the Privy Council, March 1, 1927, is 594,434 square miles.

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