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

2 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC Saguenay westward extends a narrow strip of fertile and well-settled agricultural territory. The valley of the Ottawa is also a productive agricultural area. To the north of this strip, bordering the northern shores of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, lies the. extensive and picturesque Laurentian plateau, with its forest-clad mountains and its clear sparkling lakes and rivers. THE BEAUTIFUL LAURENTIAN PLATEAU— *““The striking features of the Laurentian Plateau are innumerable lakes, large and small, with intervening rounded rocky elevations, wooded, in their natural conditions to the south, rising above the tree line to the northward, while in the far north, on both sides of Hudson Bay, hills and valleys become eventually characterized by grasses, mosses and lichens alone, constituting the great ‘‘barren lands” of North America. The rivers and lakes are everywhere well stocked with fish, while deer and moose in the southern parts, and to the north the caribou, abound wherever the Indian hunters have not followed them too closely. Thus, where the region can be entered without undue difficulty, it has already become a much favoured resort of the sportsman. “Although it is appropriate to describe this region as a plateau or table-land, such terms, it must be understood, are applicable only in a very general way. Its average elevation of about 1,500 feet is notably greater than that of the adjacent lands, and is maintained with consider- able regularity, but its surface is nearly everywhere hummocky or undu- lating. Away from its borders, the streams draining it are, as a rule, extremely irregular and tortuous, flowing from lake to lake in almost every direction; but assuming more direct and rapid courses in deeply cut valleys as they eventually leave it. “It contributes little to the fertile areas of the country in proportion to its size . . . In its southern parts, ‘it carries forests of great value, and its mineral resources are already known in some places to be very important. = It constitutes moreover a gathering ground for many large and almost innumerable small rivers and streams, which, in the sources of power they offer in their descent to the lower adjacent levels, are likely to prove in the near future of greater and more permanent value to the industries of the country than an extensive coal field. Particularly notable from this point of view is the long series of available water-powers which runs from the strait of Belle Isle nearly to the head of lake Superior. coin- cident with the southern border of the plateau.” x George M. Dawson. C.M.G.. F.R.S.. in The Physical Geography and Geology of Canada.

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