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

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 11 northeast of Quebec city including the Gaspé peninsula and that portion south of the city of Quebec known as the Eastern Townships. The Gaspé peninsula is a picturesque, mountainous country into which the Appala- chian mountains thrust a spur from the United States. Its chief indus- tries are lumbering, fishing and, to a certain extent, agriculture, where the nature of the country permits. It is rich in game and its streams abound in game fish. Many wealthy Americans and Canadians have fish and game preserves in this district. The Eastern Townships are one of the oldest settled areas of the province and were largely settled by English- speaking people after the British occupation in 1763 and by Loyalists from the United States in 1784. There are proportionately more English- speaking people in this part of Quebec to-day than in any other part of the province. The land is fertile and well suited to farming, and some of the finest farms in Canada are to be found there. Scattered through the View of Cape Trinity, Saguenay River. from Eternity, Quebec Eastern Townships are a number of small but thriving manufacturing towns, supplied with hydro-electric power from the great Shawinigan Falls developments on the St. Maurice river and from smaller local water- power plants, Cheap power and a plentiful labour supply make this one of the most inviting districts in the province to the prospective manufac- turer, The north shore of the St. Lawrence river from the Saguenay east- ward is for the most part a ‘‘stern and rock-bound coast,” but from the

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