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

18 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC In the township of Percé the land is exceptionally good, a deep, red soil. free of stones; stretching back from the coast for a considerable distance. [n the interior of the peninsula mineral discoveries have been made that are believed to be important. LARELLE The Labelle colonization district lies northwest of Montreal. It is rocky and hilly but the land is good and well suited to dairy farming and the raising of cattle. It is well watered by the Liévre and other rivers whose valleys shelter a number of prosperous farmers. Other colonization regions similar in character to the Labelle territory are, the Gatineau region west of Labelle county and the Mattawinie district north of Joliette. Additional information and full particulars respecting any locality can be obtained by writing the Department of Colonization. Mines and Fisheries, Quebec. EASTERN TOWNSHIPS The name Eastern Townships has been applied for years to the aggregation of townships in the counties of Brome, Compton, Drummond, Arthabaska, Mégantic, Missisquoi, Richmond, Wolfe, Shefford, Sherbrooke, and Stanstead. The area of this district, which is one of the most fertile of the Dominion of Canada, comprises 4,444,668 acres, with a population of about 264,000. As early as 1784 a settlement was established on the shore of Missisquoi bay by a hardy band of pioneers, chiefly United Empire Loyalists, who had served on the British side in the American revolution. They purchased land at 50 cents an acre. Yearly newcomers arrived attracted by the productivity of the soil, so that to-day this district has become a well-settled and prosperous dairy farming country. Everything that a rich soil and a temperate climate can produce is grown in the Eastern Townships. It is an ideal stock-raising and mixed farming country. The typical farm consists of 250 acres and is divided into three sections, cultivated land, pasturage, and timbered land.

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