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 15 from Montreal to the city of Ottawa by the aid of locks at Ste. Anne, Grenville and Carillon. The country which it drains was once very thickly forested but the best has now been cut off. The St. Maurice, whose waters are impounded and regulated by the great Gouin dam, produces a large amount of water-power and as a result there are thriving manufacturing centres at Shawinigan Falls and at Three Rivers. The Montreal. Largest cold storage warehouse in British Empire Saguenay, an important lumber-driving river, is very deep and is navig- able for large ocean steamers for 60 miles from its mouth. Its high fiord- like banks of rock and its deep dark waters add to the grandeur of the imposing scenery for which it is noted. The Richelieu Waterway.—The Richelieu river waterway passes through the Eastern Townships to lake Champlain in the state of New York. This system, commencing at Sorel on the St. Lawrence, extends by the Richelieu river, through the St. Ours lock, to Chambly basin, thence by the Chambly canal to St. Johns and up the Richelieu river to lake Champlain. From there, connection is made by the Hudson river system with the city of New York. This waterway, which has a minimum depth of 6% feet. is of local importance only. RAILWAYS New Areas Opened.—The Canadian National System of railways traverses the southern portion of the Laurentian plateau and has given

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