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 WATERWAYS#* The St. Lawrence System —The province is particularly favoured in its waterways. Foremost in this regard is the St. Lawrence river, navigable for large ocean liners as far up as Montreal, approximately 1,000 miles from the ocean, during seven and a half months in the year. It furnishes an outlet for the commerce of central Canada. Quebec is a port of call for ocean liners going to Montreal and the port of debarkation for emigrants from Great Britain and Europe. Montreal is one of the great ports of the world, standing first as a grain handling port and in point of foreign trade being second on the American continent only to New York. Approximately one-third of Canada’s exports and imports pass through it yearly It has the most modern facilities for handling grain and other cargoes, such as nine 100-ton electric freight locomotives and eleven car unloading machines, and it provides 16 miles of waterfront on each side of the St. Lawrence with dockage capable of accommodating over 100 ocean vessels. An electric belt-line railway nearly 70 miles in length connected with the large steam railway lines serves the entire waterfront. The development of the port has been carried out at a cost of $50,000,000, and is in charge of a Board of Harbour Commissioners appointed by the Dominion Government. Plans for additional facilities involving a capital expenditure of $12,000,000 are in hand. Four large fireproof terminal grain elevators, with a combined capacity of 15,000,000 bushels, are operated by the Harbour Commissioners. The Harbour facilities include also a cold storage warehouse of 4,628,000 cubic feet capacity, equipped and constructed on the most modern and hygienic principles. From 1850 to 1888 the dredging of the Ship channel was under the jurisdiction of the Harbour Commissioners, and during this period the depth of the channel was increased from 12 feet to 271 feet. Since 1888, when the Government took charge of the deepening of the St. Lawrence, the depth of the waterway leading to Montreal has been in- creased from 273% feet to 30 feet and a 35-foot channel is now being dredged. The new Montreal Harbour bridge, in course of building, crosses the St. Lawrence river from north to south shore. It is a highway and tramway structure two miles long and will be one of the world’s longest and most useful bridges. Lumber-Driving Rivers.—Many of the tributaries of the St. Law- rence flowing south from the Laurentian plateau are of great service in floating logs, lumber and pulpwood to the mills. The more important of these lumber-driving rivers are the Ottawa, which forms a large portion of the boundary between Quebec and Ontario, the St. Maurice which taps a country rich in lumber and pulpwood, and the Saguenay with its tributaries. The Ottawa is a large river navigable by river steamers TF fis He the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal.

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