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

3 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC of cities, populous towns and remote colonization districts, formed on January 31, 1928, a total length of 31,342 miles. For improvement pur- poses these roads are classified as follows — Ist Class, Main Trunk highways...... . 4,823 miles 2nd Class, County and Market roads................. 9,123 « 3rd Class, Local roads........ cee... 17,396 Total... 21.249 The Main Trunk Highways System, having a total length of 4,823 miles, ranks among the longest in Canada and has reached the most advanced stage of completion. These main highways are distrib- uted over an area of 16,000 square miles and extend throughout the inhabited area of the province from Chapeau, 100 miles west of Hull, to the Gaspé peninsula at the extreme eastern section of the province. Near Roxboro on the island of Montreal This class includes forty-six main highways providing a large number of connections between the neighbouring provinces and the United States. Arteries most travelled are paved with concrete, waterbound macadam or bituminous macadam. Other arteries are excellent gravel roads main- tained in first class condition and second to none of the hardest pavements for comfort and security. THE SECONDARY SvsTEM of roads covers a total length of 9,123 miles, of which about 3,200 miles are improved in the most populous

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