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 17 roads throughout the province. Between 1911 and the spring of 1929 more than $95,000,000 has been expended by Quebec for road improvement, not to mention $16,000,000 for opening new roads and the province is still spending $9,000,000 annually to maintain and extend its system of highways. Not only has it spent liberally, but it has spent wisely on colonization roads, and bridges, the latter, wherever possible, of steel and concrete construction. It has bought out turnpike roads and toll bridges, Gravel road at St. Nicholas on the Lévis-Huntington Highway and particular attention has been paid to farm and market roads, and these are classed among the best improved earth roads in Canada. The Quebec highway system is now considered one of the best and most com- nlete in Canada. Colonization Roads.—Between 1920 and the end of June, 1928, more than $12,000,000 were expended in opening new roads for incoming settlers and also in improving the existing colonization roads in the newly settled regions of the province. The length of new colonization roads built and of old roads repaired reached over 20,000 miles at the end of Tune, 1928 Quebec Roads System.—Macadamized or gravel roads now cover the whole province, connecting towns and centres of any importance and forming an unbroken network. The rural roads of the province, exclusive RR115..-9

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